Roger Pakeman
30.6K posts
Roger Pakeman
@RPakeman
Local govt worker and follower of Rochdale, East Fife and my beloved Fort William FC. Dad, husband and now rabbit lover.
Oldham Katılım Nisan 2014
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Why are we building ‘new towns’ on England’s fields when there are blight-ridden brownfield sites all over our urban centres ??? ???
YIMBY Alliance@yimbyalliance
🚨Tempsford has been confirmed as a new town! 40,000 homes are set to be built around a new station at the intersection of the East Coast Mainline and East West Rail – linking Tempsford’s new residents to good jobs in London, Cambridge, Oxford and Milton Keynes 🚆 Tempsford’s excellent transport potential is massively underutilised: the site is almost entirely covered by empty fields. But Tempsford’s proximity to so many big cities means that the new town stands a great chance of becoming a huge economic success! 🗺️ The other new towns are: - Crews Hill and Chase Park, Enfield - Leeds South Bank, West Yorkshire - Manchester Victoria North, Greater Manchester - Thamesmead, Greenwich - Brabazon and the West Innovation Arc, South Gloucestershire - Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire. 🏘️ To make the most out of Tempsford, it is important to tackle one key bottleneck. The Digswell Viaduct, located just south of the proposed new town, is where the East Coast Main Line narrows from four tracks to just two. 🛤️ The viaduct limits how many trains can run on that line, a line currently used by over 20 million people every year. We need to fix that bottleneck to ensure that a new station at Tempsford doesn't slow down services. You can read @KaneEmerson's paper, where Tempsford new town was first proposed, here: britishprogress.org/briefings/new-… And you can read and support the Government’s in-depth consultation on the New Towns here: gov.uk/government/con…
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@alexmassie A couple of years ago he was going to sort out Rochdale’s problems. Just a bloke in a daft hat.
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In 2014, Galloway opposed Scottish independence because he "feared" the country would not have "the courage" to be an Albania or a Cuba.
Perhaps he now thinks we do.
The National@ScotNational
George Galloway has U-turned on his opposition to Scottish independence, saying the 'British state is financially, politically, and morally bankrupt'
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@Classicbritcom Brilliant programme running 7 series with a largely unknown cast apart from Patsy Byrne. A lot of filming on location and covers the 7 years from Malcolm and Brenda meeting to marriage. Extremely funny.
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Emma Wray is 61 today, Happy Birthday Emma 🎁🎂
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Are the wealthy ranchers in the room with us right now?
spencer 🦈@Unpop_Science
crazy how they point to the UK, a temperate rainforest archipelago clearcut for wealthy ranchers, among the most nature-depleted countries in the world, as the paragon of sustainable animal farming Also 1kg of beef consumes 1451L of freshwater withdrawals, not rain. (Poore 2018)
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@RightToLifeUK @TracyEdwardsMBE @Tanni_GT Tanni you understand our situation. When we are gone it terrifies us what could happen to our daughter
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Baroness @Tanni_GT quotes actress Bethany Asher, a woman living with Down Syndrome, who fears that when her parents are no longer around, she could be pressured into assisted suicide for being seen as a burden on the health service.
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@RMGLUCK2017 I had forgotten about this. It could do with repeating.
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So many wonderful Tom Georgeson performances, not least his turn as coach Eddie Johnson in The Manageress opposite Cherie Lunghi. #tomgeorgeson
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The port boss gave me a ticking off for being on his precious scaffolding so enjoy 😉 #Plymouth
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NEW 🚨 Celebrity Traitors star Mark
Bonnar set to reprise his character Mike Dryden in BBC’s Line of Duty Series 7!
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@JamieMagill5 Saw them bowl 41 overs in the afternoon session v Australia at Old Trafford
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Afternoon session at Lords: Emburey (Pavilion End) and Edmonds (Nursery End) bowling in tandem; often unbroken until tea.
Whatever happened?
Martin Chandler@fredfertang
England's mercurial left arm spinner of the 1970s/1980s, Philippe Henri Edmonds, gazes skywards - looks to me like one of those moments when you turn away and count to ten before telling management exactly what you think of their latest quixotic idea
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Remembering the late Actor, Maurice Roëves (19 March 1937 – 14 July 2020)
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@NEWA69 I listened to that game on the radio and Newport threw everything but the kitchen sink at them
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45 years ago today I was at Somerton Park with my dad as Newport County played Carl Zeiss Jena from East Germany in the European Cup Winners Cup Quarter Final 2nd leg. County lost 1-0 but what a night that was and another lovely memory of being with my Dad! 🖤💛
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@JohnSwinney Reopen the railway to Hawick so the visitors can get there by train
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Big news for the Scottish Borders!🌲
A new Center Parcs near Hawick, Scotland's first, will bring up to 1,200 permanent new jobs – with opportunities for young people at its heart.
Under the SNP, Scotland is attracting major investment and we will make sure that continues.
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@DMac1876_ Merthyr are in the English Pyramid. TNS play in Oswestry in Shropshire. Gretna used to play in the Northern League. Not a unique situation.
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Berwick shouldn't be forced to close because they play in England.
They've played in our leagues for decades now so why now is it a problem.
Welsh clubs play in the efl, English clubs play in the Welsh league and it's not a problem. SFA and The FA are idiots for this.
The National@ScotNational
Berwick Rangers has blamed both the Scottish and English football associations for its potential closure because of its unique geographical quirk ⚽
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@WelsbyElton Came up the hard way starting at Winsford United. One goalkeeper I know in Scotland worships Big Nev.
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Underrated ??????
He was widely regarded as the best in the world from the mid 80s and then Peter Schmeichel took over about '92/'93.
90s Football@90sfootball
Neville Southall was such an underrated goalie! 🧤
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@RyanceyReturns Sorry, old chap. But it absolutely IS some other country's tech. We developed this nearly 60 years ago.
GIF
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🇺🇸 WAIT — YOU’RE TELLING ME A $100 MILLION STEALTH JET CAN LAND LIKE A HELICOPTER?! 😱🔥
America’s F-35B Lightning II just dropped out of the sky and hovered to a perfect vertical landing — no runway, no joke. Vertical takeoff & landing. Full stealth mode. Built by American hands, flown by United States Marines, and straight-up terrifying to anyone who even thinks about messing with us.
This isn’t CGI. This isn’t some other country’s tech. This is pure U.S. dominance redefining air combat while the rest of the world watches in awe.
No other nation touches it.
Proud to be American yet? Or does this make you want to stand up and cheer even louder?
Drop your 🔥 in the comments — let’s hear it for the greatest fighting force the world has ever seen! 💪✈️🇺🇸
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@HJB_News__ Junior school kids wear uniforms. Back in the early 70s we didn’t as that is what you wore in the grammar school
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@iain_00 Recently rewatched the Gregor Fisher version on iPlayer, lovely
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PARA HANDY SPECIAL OPS:
A nautical acquaintance from The Broch sent me a message.
'Spotted leaving Inveraray bound for the Strait of Hormuz, to commence mine sweeping duties for the Royal Navy 🇬🇧! 😂'
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@AdamRamsay Deeply misogynistic about women’s sport and I read The Grauniad
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Jonathan Liew was a student journalist at Edinburgh when I was there, and he’s been producing sizzling, sometimes beautiful, often hilarious copy for twenty years. “By Jonathan Liew” has long been a reason I’ve read something.
Stephen Daisley@JournoStephen
“Nothing good has ever followed the words ‘we need to talk’, ‘terms of service update’, or ‘by Jonathan Liew’.” I’ve written about Gail’s and THAT Guardian column for the @spectator. spectator.com/article/the-re…
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