blackfive
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blackfive
@blackfive5407
Former BR train driver,lover of rail,natural world,Nemophilist,gardens,GYOfoodie,happy fella,a manc moved south to sussex,no time for twats
Beigetreten Temmuz 2023
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Another #CAF unit #caf195125 @northernassist bound for York. A @DownOnTheStour favourite right?
@alexhornbyrail

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@LePapillonBlu2 @PeterDilworth1 I’m More interested in the train in the background lol
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🇨🇳 China:
America cannot prevent us from importing Iranian oil. U.S. sanctions do not concern us.
We are an independent, sovereign state, and our decisions are not dictated to us by Washington. Let everyone know: China does what serves its interests... at any cost and regardless of America's anger.

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@eyed_loon I know I remember those days and why I held off getting a modern car lol enjoy your evening. We’ve had a dollop of wet stuff ☔️
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@blackfive5407 It's also pissing down here at the minute now. Miserable bloody weather. Hope it stops before dog walk time 🙄. Good luck getting everything connected. I remember the days when you got in a car and drove it. Have to be a computer boffin now 🤣🤣🤣
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@blackfive5407 @northernassist Engineering blockade
Higher Penwortham, England 🇬🇧 English

As the WCML is still shut. The work content on my favourite job is a bit different. Especially the last trip of the day. All my @northernassist services are running and the last one is 2 coaches instead of 4

Wigan, England 🇬🇧 English

Green party leader Zack Polanski and his deputy, Rachel Millward, will announce a slate of policies today aimed at tackling Britain's cost-of-living crisis.
The proposed measures include rent controls, winter energy bill support, universal free school meals, and a rule that would make it illegal for the highest-paid executives to earn more than ten times what their workers do.
The policy announcements, which come after the party moved into joint first place in a national poll for the first time ever, echo those of New York City’s socialist mayor Zohran Mamdani.
Mamdani’s relentless focus on making life less expensive for ordinary New Yorkers is seen as a key reason for his stunning upset victory last year.
Polanski and Millward are due to announce the policies during a visit to a community fridge in Sussex.
“The affordability crisis is something affecting nearly everyone, from the most vulnerable to people in work and comfortable, where any change in circumstance can push people over the edge into requiring a foodbank,” Polanski said in a statement.
“This crisis is totally avoidable and down to choices made by this Labour government and previous Tory governments. The Greens have a plan which would make different choices, taking on corporate power and vested interests to give ordinary people a way out of this crisis.”
Millward added: “The UK is the sixth largest economy in the world, where the 50 richest families hold more wealth than the poorest 50% of the population. Yet millions face food insecurity, food poverty and turn to food banks to prevent them going hungry. A high proportion of these are people from working households.”
Also among the policies being announced today is a joint customs union with the EU aimed at reducing costs for businesses.

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A row has broken out in Thames Ditton over fears from businesses that an initiative aimed at cutting food waste could put their High Street shops at risk.
More here:
bbc.in/4tcpiMG

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Trump warns that UK trade deal 'can always be changed' bbc.in/41Du7mb
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