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    Rishi Sunak and the Conservative Party.

    Quite, compain about immigrants when you are technically one yourself and you wish the natives weren't there is ludicrous.
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    Rishi Sunak and the Conservative Party.

    And given back to work quotas.
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    Do you think that the UK switching to electric vehicles is realistic?

    Our electric vans at work will still creep forward if the brake is not depressed if it's in drive, it's designed for when you are in traffic so that you only need to lift off the brake to creep forward. Bit of a strange feeling when I got one of the drivers to try it out and we were going slowly...
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    Double third rail query

    I suppose a simple way to isolate shoes on a unit would be to stick diodes on them, as they would prevent any DC current flowing back. Though whilst this would be simple there would be some voltage drop (so said diodes would probably need cooling, and efficiency would be further more reduced) on...
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    Electrical interference from railway - solutions?

    Also try to keep power cables away from audio cables, if the noise is being induced in the power cabling then keeping power and audio separate naturally keeps some of the noise away from where signals can be more vulnerable.
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    Michael Portillo's railway programme Geat British Railway journeys.

    Did find it midly amusing on a recent episode where he went to Axminster Station and preceded to immediately leave the town and go to Lyme Regis!
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    Potential up to 2,000 job losses at Alstom Derby

    And given how well Derby was doing with Aventra production who would have wanted to order more?
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    South Pennine Community Transport

    At least all buses these days seem to have CCTV so unless you're covered from head to toe they should get good footage of the culprits.
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    Electrical interference from railway - solutions?

    Use of star quad cable and Neutrik EMC XLR's can also help.
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    Donald Trump and the aftermath of his presidency

    I don't want used bog roll!
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    Donald Trump and the aftermath of his presidency

    I assume Truss' book will be in the fiction section with all the fantasy novels. So Trump now has the endorsement of a failed leader, who next Prince Andrew?
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    Do you think that the UK switching to electric vehicles is realistic?

    They did, vibrates the seat when you crossed the white line.
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    Shortest UK car number plate you've seen

    There is a vehicle with the numberplate FK02YES, was on the Freelander Matt of Furious Driving acquired but he sold the plate.
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    Potential up to 2,000 job losses at Alstom Derby

    And you end up with a British Leyland situation where quality isn't cared about because you know you've got guaranteed orders whatever.
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    Donald Trump and the aftermath of his presidency

    The fundamentalist Christians that have come to a realisation that true happiness is a healthy bank balance, I doubt most of them really believe in God and just see religion as a way to justify their views and fleece gullible people out of money. The old "TV evangelist", where their followers...
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    Malaysia Airlines MH370 10 years on

    Personally I doubt they would have survived, water is very good at wicking it's way into things no matter how well sealed and sea water can do a lot of damage once it gets somewhere. Plus if it's deep in the ocean you've got high pressure to deal with as well. Wouldn't be surprised if the black...
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    No trains to call at Altnabreac for the foreseeable future

    I suppose one thing they could do is do as much work as possible whilst the antagonists are in court, take everything up by rail and hopefully you'd get at least some work done. Or just send in army engineers to do the work, when they say "you and whose army?" point and say "this one!". (That's...
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    Local radio stations

    To add to my previous post, on our new van at work DAB reception even on the BBC stations is ropey, and Weymouth does have a relay, FM (which also has a relay but is closer) works much better. What was wave 105 is very difficult to pick up.
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    Local radio stations

    GHR is only successful because in some places it's the only option that's not a BBC station on FM, if there was any competition they wouldn't still exist.
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    Hoover cleaner Lithium battery longevity

    Not to answer your question, but buy a vacuum with a decent length power cable (Numatic or Sebo) and your battery issues are gone, you'll also find a corded cleaner does a much better job. A Numatic or Sebo will also be bagged, so no messy bagless container to empty or filters to constantly...

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