Recent content by SteveM70

The gov.uk page you linked to is headed "PM speech on security" so perhaps that's hardly surprising

Is the answer Is the right name, but the wrong loco. The plates were moved a few months later To @Ashley Hill to name the next question

I’m sure this won’t detain you for long….. There was a near ten year hiatus in the naming of locomotives by British Rail, from the mid-1960s to the mid-1970s What was the first loco to be named once namings resumed?

Basildon?

….followed by Rees-Mogg making a series about railway journeys. Except his would be on GB News, be wholly conducted in first class, and involve nanny coming along for the trip

An open return (or anytime short distance return as Northern call them now) is valid on day of issue only outbound and up to a month for the return leg Have you been buying a return from both ends of your journey, to give you a month of validity in each direction? If so, that’s surely raising...

The man who made Rooney look good at Derby. But Hull are another of those teams with impatient, unrealistic and irrational owners it seems

Interesting. My dad (retired company secretary) was telling me a few weeks ago he'd bought a new carpet there and the whole feel of the place was a company in its death throes

Gedge moved to Middleton at a tender age and went to school there, which probably explains his support for Manchester United

From a purely practical perspective, setting aside individual desire and motivation to vote, and cold weather elections tend to favour the Tories, surely? More represented amongst the retired, who can vote in daylight More represented amongst car owners, who can minimise time outdoors...

Harper did say “this year” in his Kuenssberg interview, although that may just have been a lazy choice of words

Which is basically how Houchen ran his campaign

44% of households in London don’t own a car. There’s a big difference between the scale of anti-ULEZ feeling and the relatively small number that are very vocal about it

Sorry to be blunt, but unless you think the first statement is wrong, the second can’t be true. Perhaps you mean “first time getting caught”, which is quite different?

I had problems in Calderdale - requested a postal vote as I was going away for 10 days from Friday 26/4, got an acknowledgment saying the postal votes will arrive by 26/4 and only to get in touch if they didn’t arrive by then. Mine didn’t, so rang the council and was told as I was going away...