Dave Calderwood
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Barry Sheene wasn't just a great racer; he was a clever operator. Fluent in multiple languages, he secured top tires and garages by connecting with people directly. All this, after being kicked out of school at 15 and teaching himself. #BarrySheene #MotorsportHistory
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Was it really 50 years ago Barry Sheene won his first 500cc World title.
It certainly was and Racing Back remembers the great man with his great mate Steve Parrish.
So many wonderful memories
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Airport sale collapses - The FLYER Show - 19 March 2026 youtu.be/kObVbvXxj0U?si… via @YouTube
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If this doesn’t make you furious, nothing will. Imagine what could have been done with that money. Anyone who has ever driven down the A303 knew that all that was needed was a cut, and they spent ONE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY NINE MILLION POUNDS of YOUR money doing eff all!
Moving Home with Charlie@moving_charlie
This is deeply symbolic of the British Bureaucracy sickness we are suffering from. £179m spent, for literally nothing. World class waste.
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That's gone straight on to my next birthday list.
Tom Isitt 🐝@masaccio60
As a map and nautical chart nerd, this is ticking many of my boxes. What a remarkable chap Collins was.
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340 movements & 75 flights!☀️✈️
We’ve had a fantastic mix of activity at the airfield today. We’re looking forward to many more days like this with spring approaching!
#halfpennygreen #GeneralAviation #AircraftMovements #aviationphotography #wolverhamptonairport
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You want the NATO allies to join you in a war you started without ever consulting these allies about the war or explaining your war aims. We’re meant just to meekly fall in line.
You recently supported a US invasion of a NATO ally (Denmark/Greenland) but now you want these same allies to join your war.
Your president disparaged and misrepresented the role of NATO allies in Afghanistan. But now you want them to join with you again in a war of your making.
You went to war with Iran without a thought of how to keep the Strait of Hormuz open and without involving your allies in the matter. But now you want the NATO allies to bail you out, even though there’s still no plan for Hormuz.
You want the NATO allies to join you in a war in which you still cannot articulate the endgame. Or what victory would look like.
You went to war thinking the Iranian regime would quickly topple, that Tehran would not attack the Gulf States or close Hormuz. Why would we align with such Epic Stupidity?
You and other know-nothing blowhards started this war all on your own. You can finish it on your own. If you’re able to …
Lindsey Graham@LindseyGrahamSC
Just spoke to @POTUS about our European allies’ unwillingness to provide assets to keep the Strait of Hormuz functioning, which benefits Europe far more than America. I have never heard him so angry in my life. I share that anger given what’s at stake. The arrogance of our allies to suggest that Iran with a nuclear weapon is of little concern and that military action to stop the ayatollah from acquiring a nuclear bomb is our problem not theirs is beyond offensive. The European approach to containing the ayatollah’s nuclear ambitions have proven to be a miserable failure. The repercussions of providing little assistance to keep the Strait of Hormuz functioning are going to be wide and deep for Europe and America. I consider myself very forward-leaning on supporting alliances, however at a time of real testing like this, it makes me second guess the value of these alliances. I am certain I am not the only senator who feels this way.
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I love the Spring. That first feeling of the warmth from the sun, the smell of cut grass and people just, generally, seem happier!
Not only does the wildlife come out to play but these two aeroplanes do too. Looking forward to seeing them flying again soon... and the birds as well! @HurricaneR4118 @Ultimate_Aeros
#aviationphotography #aviation
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If you want Baroness Michelle Mone removed from the House of Lords and to repay the £136,000,000 owed to taxpayers, please RT!
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@gilescoren @michaelwhite Chill Giles. He's just a silly old man.
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@michaelwhite No. I said the (stupid but I was very angry) paedo thing *after* you used my dead father’s name to insult me. And you’ve just done the same thing to Hodges. I don’t want to drag it all up. Nobody behaved well. It just triggered me seeing you use the same unpleasant tactic on him.
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Actually it was the other way around, Gilo. You claimed that your dear old dad told you I was a paedophile and I replied that he said no such thing. Not even when you threatened to stab me I decided not to complain to the editor. You later told other lies about me. I forgave you
Giles Coren@gilescoren
@DreyfusJames @michaelwhite He’s been doing it to me for years. Exhuming my dead father and waving his memory in my face, on fucking Twitter, for literally decades…. Worst man I’ve encountered in all U.K. journalism.
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Book a private tour at Croydon Airport ~ What's included?
Access to the original airport terminal
90-minute guided tour with our experts
Entry to our visitor centre and museum with on-site café & parking available.
✉️ Enquire at bookings@historiccroydonairport.org.uk
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@brianofarabia To cross qualify your SE IR (from your multi rating, assuming the aircraft is IFR rated), you only need to fly three instrument approaches including one RNAV (Doesn’t have to be with an examiner) and then ask an IRE to sign your SE IR rating. It’s fairly straightforward.
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@gilescoren @Telegraph I’ve been a sub for more than 40 years, so I can say: two things can be true. Yes, it’s a compound adjective, but no, it looks ugly. There doesn’t need to be a hyphen. Punctuation is about making language comprehensible; there’s no confusion in the headline without the hyphen
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He wants to deploy UK forces we don’t have to keep oil and gas flowing 3,000 miles away but forbids any new investment in our sector of the North Sea. Bonkers.
BBC Politics@BBCPolitics
“It is very important that we get the Strait of Hormuz reopened” Energy Secretary Ed Miliband says “it is something we’re looking at” when #BBCLauraK asks whether the UK might send ships and drones to the Persian Gulf bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…
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“It’ll be sad when all this is gone."
~ Jeremy Clarkson
No Farmers, No Food.
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Bloody hell… 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼😡😡😡🤬🤬🤬🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
Joe Rich@joerichlaw
As Ambassador, Lord Mandelson arranged secret ‘unrecorded meeting’ between Keir Starmer and Palantir CEO Alex Karp, resulting in a £241m deal ‘without competition’. Mandelson owned 21 per cent stake of Palantir’s lobbyist Global Counsel but that was omitted from due diligence.
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Why? Where's the evidence that this will a) improve anything and b) is wanted by residents?
Punchline-Gloucester.com@PunchlineGlos
Gloucestershire's £6m drive to reduce dozens of roads to 20mph punchline-gloucester.com/articles/aanew…
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