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*The following is on the assumption the lorry was being used in relation to NR works* Your comments are missing the fundamental point that if the lorry was delivering/collecting plant to/for NR then there appears to have been a breakdown in the process outlined in NRA19-07. The risk of the...

I'd suggest that injury or death may not be necessary for RAIB to be taking a look. There are clear parallels with the Mucking (Essex) incident from 2019. https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/5dea69ff40f0b6088d2cd1bf/R162019_191209_Mucking.pdf For those who feel the railway/NR have...

Something like this might be more useful then - http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1980/66/section/154 Subsection 2 covers the situation where the tree doesn't necessarily overhang or obstruct, but that the condition of the tree poses a risk it might fall onto the road. The danger doesn't have...

Do Network Rail have a legal power to require adjacent landowners to manage their trees? There is a specific section of the Highways Act 1980 that allows an authority to take action against the owners of overgrowing or dangerous trees - not used often enough - but a power NR might want to seek...

I'm not sure the former is such an issue. Most children come out of school quite confident in measuring temperatures in either celsius or kelvin and to know which to use when, as well as converting between them. They should also be ok with measuring angles in radians instead of degrees, even if...

Schools start by teaching using cm because at that age children are also learning the basics of counting and measuring 100mm is quite difficult if you are only confident using numbers up to (say) 20. If you are measuring something arbitrary for learning purposes - like the span of your hand -...

The highway authorities have a convenient scapegoat in climate change. A road floods locally and they claim it is due to climate change and we should start getting used to it. Nothing else they can do.... Especially not the possibility of reinstating the quarterly cleansing of every road gully...

Which of course is exactly the kind of dismissive response that led more-or-less directly to 17 million ****-offs in 2016. (in case you didn't recognise the guy with the posh voice)

It makes no sense though. Let's pretend Brexit is not a success. In 10 years time there is a referendum on rejoining the EU. The 'Keep out' side campaign on the basis rejoining the EU means adopting the Euro, the majority of the UK population (now that Scotland has left) is still skeptical...

https://southeastessex.greenparty.org.uk/news/2018/11/17/green-party-against-lower-thames-crossing/ The difference between this scheme and HS2 is that the objectives have been clearly and consistently stated, and even those who might object in principle can comprehend the argument that...

Which is why people questioning our continued membership were sensible people, not the mad swivel eyed loons they were portrayed as by certain sections of the media and establishment. If you don't like the rules of a club (and they don't want to change them) then leave. If you can't leave then...

You've highlighted one of my pet hates about the EU project. We'll make some rules. Some rules can be ignored as and when convenient. Other rules must be complied with absolutely. I live in the real world. I understand that sometimes one-size rules don't work and you have to be pragmatic about...

The thing that surprises me about this story is how 17,410,742 people managed to fit inside one block of flats.

Facts are a good thing. So we really ought to talk about the plastic windows that didn't have intumescent sealing around the frames - or apparently any sealing in some cases, leading to residents complaining about the draught. Or we could talk about the fire doors that weren't really fire doors...

I think in some cases referring to the lane nearest the middle as 'outside' is a misunderstanding of the use of nearside/offside. I've heard people using nearside/outside - and often wondered if they'd once heard 'outside' when someone actually said 'offside'. As for the origin of 'outside' I...