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First motorway in the UK! I have the opening brochure for it somewhere, though I didn't drive it myself until '75 when I passed my test! Dad used it all the time, though, he was a commercial traveller in the 50s and 60s and his various Austin Cambridges went up and down it lots of times as we lived SW of Preston and his patch went up to Carlisle. Over Shap in convoy with other reps and lorries on Sunday nights on the A6 in the snow pre the M6!
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totallyconfused.com!
Thanks for trying, chaps!
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29 minutes ago, Nearholmer said:
b) The figures on it are expressed as rates per 100 000 population in the given age band, whereas the quotation given is talking about absolute numbers;
Is it, though? By coincidence I was just listening to R5 in the car a few minutes ago and the "500" quotation came up in that with, it seams no proper reference to what it relates to. According to the latest figures 972 people died last week because of Covid, so are they then saying that over 500 of them were over 75? Or is it that over 500 over 75s were dying each week but not necessarily of Covid? You and John seem to have a better handle on this than I so can you please explain?
Incidentally this is where the quote came from and at first read it would indicate that it is 500 over 75s with full vaccine protection.
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Mmm, both from the Beeb and saying two totally different things! I think some reporters need to speak to each other!!
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4 hours ago, PhilJ W said:
There was a pick-up truck that stopped in front of the second coach that made it stop on the crossing and triggered what followed.
Only because they didn't obey the rule that says not to enter the crossing until the way out is clear...
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Sort of, he stopped reversed very slightly and the barrier came down on top of the coach!
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I couldn't find the original report done by a local news media. They were leaving a campsite and the road crossed the railway. They were not local but were German. If its the section I think it is its one of the fast sections and the train would have been up around its top speed of around 45kph before braking. The railway runs a regular service every day so I'd be surprised if they weren't aware of it especially as it came to a stop next to the halt that serves the campsite. We shall probably never know why he did it, suffice to say that a narrow gauge loco is just as dangerous as its bigger cousins.
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Narrow Gauge getting in on the act, the Molli in North East Germany, I thought I'd posted it but can't see it. Tragic outcome for the driver of the campervan.
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That phrase has haunted them ever since someone coined it...
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10 hours ago, john new said:
Why?
10 hours ago, njee20 said:As above; why? There used to be a European Grand Prix, held variously at Brands Hatch, Jerez, Valencia, Nurburgring among others; alongside other races in those countries. Bizarre logic.
It's supposed to be the pinnacle of motorsport and one race per country would reflect that, having two or more in one country devalues the championship, in my view (I am fully aware that many of you may not agree!). Maybe when we were short of venues it was needed but even back in the day there only tended to be one GP per country where drivers scored points for the championship. The exception was the "European" GP from what I remember? I know last season was an exception and I could live with that, just, but it did look like they were desperate at times, even two races on the same circuit but they've already started it again for 2022. I agree with Seb (as I said) and in my view it would be better to just drop the race or find another country that doesn't hold it to race in.
10 hours ago, RJS1977 said:I can see Hobby's point - if there are more countries wanting to host races than there are GPs in a season (and for once I agree with Seb that the season probably is too long now) - then in the interest of fairness I would agree that it's better for countries to have one race each than for some countries to have two and others to have none. (With the possible exception of the USA which, being a large country, used to have an "East" race and a "West" race - not two races tucked down in the SE corner). Which isn't to say I disagree with the recent 'temporary' arrangements of holding more than one race in some countries during the pandemic.
I am assuming that the reason they have to have so many races is because of some "deal" they've done with the broadcasters? Otherwise it would seem easy enough to have an annual max number of races, no more than one per country, and let them just drop some out or have bi-annual races if too many countries apply.
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It's more the pont there should just be one GP per country. I know we've had covid and that changed things but this was going on before.
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Not often I agree with him, but on this I do... I also notice that the Chinese GP in 2022 is replaced by a race in some obscure part of Italy... Looking back at the 1950s there were lots of "non championship" GPs dotted around the world that drivers used to attend to get start and prize money, especially the small British teams, it seems we are going back to those days expect they have now become p[art of the Championship...
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Yes, I was thinking British prototypes!
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It's certainly not worldwide, as I said if you do a search it shows one that was sold in the USA at a Bonhams auction. I can't believe that more aren't around, though!
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17 minutes ago, RJS1977 said:
Intriguingly, the only BB truck now known to survive is the one driven by Corporal Jones in Dad's Army!
In the UK? Certainly there are others around as a quick search reveals!
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If they do i hope that they'll choose the right scale and not Triang's hybrid version. There's no excuse to build to a larger scale these days unless to appease a small home market.
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50 minutes ago, APOLLO said:
I suppose the current lot are micro biologists !!!!!!!!!!!!!
Two Chemical Engineers (!) and the rest studied Economics or Politics.
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Except for pulling large heavy field guns!
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37 minutes ago, Nearholmer said:
Interestingly, Angela Merkel has talked about having her own ‘lightbulb moment’ when she herself ran the numbers, which to me shows the value of having leaders who have at least some basic ability in science and maths ….. it equips them to have sensible conversations with their advisers.
If that's a veiled dig at Johnson then I'd suggest you check up his background. Whilst he comes across as a buffoon at times his academic record suggests otherwise...
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28 minutes ago, EddieB said:
However (as much as you can ever know accurately) it does seem that the spread was contained within China.
Or figures suppressed! But to be fair it's one time when a totalitarianism regime comes into it's own, the masses are kept in the dark and they have no choice in what they are allowed to do...
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9 minutes ago, EddieB said:
As far as I'm aware, ours was the only country in Europe who tried to implement a strategy aimed at "herd immunity", until the truth dawned that it would result in hundreds of thousands of excess deaths (and overwhelm the NHS).
In truth we will perhaps never know the extent to which China played down their own incidents and obfuscated attempts to discover the source - but we do know that they implemented a severe and total city lockdown which was largely successful at containing the spread within their country.
Several other countries tried t, Sweden and Switzerland for starters, but at the time it was a valid response, only later when it became clear that the effects of Covid was very different to what they thought would happen was it ruled out, for the reason you mention. That's not to say in the early days that it wasn't a valid response, just the wrong one in this case.
I suspect we'll never know the full extent of how the virus spread in China but I suspect it was far worse than you think it was. By the time they did full lockdown in Wuhan it had already got out and had even reached Europe, so hardly successful at all!
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They did throughout the war, photos of the retreats also showed horses still being used, that was the big difference with the Allies at D-Day in that they were a properly mechanised army and as such could act much quicker and more efficiently.
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17 minutes ago, hayfield said:
So are you saying the headlines were inaccurate?
To me this virus acted differently to anything our public health advisers had experienced and differently to what was expected and planned for.
To be fair I feel Nearholmers summary quite accurate of what was going on in January-March 2020, it was a complete mess, caused, as you say, that people didn't think it would become the major pandemic it did.
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I'm sure they are taking advice from other experts, this is just one opinion, and one with a vested interest and will obviously plug that view in view of who they are. That's not saying he's right or wrong, just that it's one view and the Government will have other experts and will also be taking their advice and we don't know what their advice is, do we?!!