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From the following article on the BBC here.

Halloween stock probably, just over 6 months to go.

It's a 'best before' not a 'use by' date and it's next month. Whether that is a problem depends on how many dozen you bought!

I've had a few from Tesco and Sainsbury's. Half normal price, a bit less than half-price if they were on offer for part of the period leading up to Easter. For example Sainsbury's Swiss chocolate mini eggs: full price £4.75, on/off offer £4.25, now £2.37. In the past I'm sure Tesco just cleared...

To ease identification (at least for those who have bought the latest Rail Atlas of Great Britain and Ireland founded by SK Baker, now edited by Joe Brown) I have added a column to the table at #1 showing the relevant page number and grid reference.

Modern Railways reports a further 8 power cars and 10 trailers being exported to Mexico. Details here.

Hence the widespread use of the phrase 'hustle alarm' and not 'stand clear' alarm.

'Tis the way of the world. A totally anonymous blog too. Watch me pick my nose and scratch my ear, live streaming, daily at 1500.

590/1/2 timetable from May attached (Monday to Friday). Data extracted as is from BODS. That is rather a large gap arriving into Rochdale in the morning peak. My hope is that there is a data error.

The Lancashire County Council 'bus service changes' page for April/May confirms that so far as Burnley to Todmorden is concerned. Approx every 40 minutes at peak times, approx 60 minutes other times. Timetables are available online via bustimes.org and the link from there to BODS. Link: overall...

The Right of Way, on foot, to the platform has been acknowledged. The case reported recently covers this point but then Howe and or Appleby then dispute the exact location of said Right of Way. @miami kindly provided a copy of the court transcript in post 667. The following are a series of...

Well you could if providing a certain service was felt to be sufficiently important, enough to outweigh the costs incurred. The rent an operator would be prepared to pay would be reflected in those unprofitable hours they are 'forced' to open which they otherwise wouldn't. It may be that those...

Before that he ran a private school, closed down with charges of applying 'excessive discipline'. Yes it was Glencoe. Now under new ownership with planning permission to demolish and rebuild.

First Potteries introduce a reduced service 40 from Monday, just Mount Pleasant to Newstead, hourly daytime. Replacing the withdrawn D & G service.

As people do with rail station barriers I suppose. I say bring back the long counter with racks of items displayed behind that you request and an assistant retrieves. You know it makes sense. It is, after all, simply an extension of click and collect. Perhaps those stores with a serious...