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During a lull in the constant bombardment that had started a few days earlier and whilst a dense fog covered No Man’s Land, both sides sent out stretcher bearers to retrieve what was left of the dead and wounded. The stench from the bodies strewn across the divide rose up from the ground to assault the senses of the living. Two British stretcher bearers scrambled from place to place, availing themselves of every shell hole, clinging to whatever cover they could find, calling out to the wounded. The work of the stretcher bearers went on day and night and even under fire these brave men went out to rescue their wounded comrades. The two stretcher bearers came across yet another body, a member of the 10th Battalion, Sherwood Foresters, lying alongside the bodies of his dead opponents. ‘Oh, bloody hell look at this poor bugger, is that who I think it is? I was wondering what had happened to him, at least his body is complete, not like the rest of them.’ A second soldier, a Corporal, knelt down to see if there was any sign of life. ‘It looks like he died quickly, a shot to the head, unlike the rest of them.’ Most soldiers died from such dreadful injuries that it was more or less impossible to identify them or find complete bodies to provide a proper burial. Some died slowly, alone and helpless in No Man’s Land. Their cries for help would go on for hours, gradually weakening until they were no more. ‘What’s that he’s holding in his hand Corporal?’ The Corporal prised open the hand of the dead soldier. ‘It’s some sort of locket I think.’ The corporal opened the locket to reveal a photograph of a beautiful smiling young girl. ‘Look at that Fred, such a bloody shame, look at her. She’s got some bad news coming her way.’ ‘Come on, let’s head back, this is the last one for today, the rest will have to wait. The fog is starting to lift, we don’t want to join them do we.’ The two soldiers lifted the body onto the stretcher and headed for the safety of their own lines. TRENCH 31 By Clive Ward, Veteran clivewardauthor.com UK Kindle price £2.96 UK Paperback £6.96 amazon.co.uk/Trench-31-Cliv…

ONE MAN CRUSHES COUNCIL IN POTHOLE WAR USING FORGOTTEN LAW! Retired 68-year-old Derek Bennett took on lazy Hertfordshire County Council after they ignored dangerous potholes ruining roads in Berkhamsted and Hemel Hempstead. Using obscure Section 56 of the Highways Act 1980, he served legal notices, then dragged them to court when they failed to act. Judge at St Albans Crown Court ordered the council to fix THREE major roads within 20 days and awarded Bennett £1,650 costs. “If everyone did this, we’d have lovely roads within six months,” he said. Absolute legend just exposed how useless councils really are! Derek Bennett, 68, pictured outside St Albans Crown Court, took action after becoming fed up with the potholes in streets in his home village of Berkhamsted in Hertfordshire and nearby Hemel Hempstead

Harrison Ford has done press interviews for 50 years and almost never looks like he’s enjoying himself. Then a British TV host who hadn’t even seen his film made him laugh harder than anyone ever has on camera. In 2017, Ford and Ryan Gosling sat down on ITV’s This Morning to promote Blade Runner 2049. Interviewer Alison Hammond opened with a straight face: “Bleak. Dystopian. An absolute nightmare to be honest with you.” Both actors braced. Then she added, “that’s just my interviewing techniques.” Ford cracked. Gosling broke completely. Within a minute, Gosling had opened a miniature bottle of whisky and poured himself a glass. Hammond then admitted she’d never seen the original Blade Runner. She asked Gosling if he’d brought his knitting needles to set. He looked down at his sweater and said, “Yeah, this is what I did on set. I knitted this.” Ford tried to give a serious answer about the film. Hammond poured herself a drink. Ford grabbed Gosling’s glass and took a sip. The whole thing lasted four minutes. Almost none of it was about the film. Hammond left thinking she was going to be sacked. The clip passed 19 million views on YouTube. Ford walked up to her afterward and said she’d made his day. When they did a follow-up Zoom days later, he didn’t recognise her. He later requested her by name for his next press tour.

Leaving fresh water for a family of foxes in the scorching heat of the desert.

Meanwhile it's business as usual for the filthy business that is the water industry. Yesterday Yorkshire water was fined £733,000 for illegally dumping sewage that the 92nd time the company has been found guilty. Will any executive go to jail, will any executive even be prosecuted, the answer is no, they never are. Remember, last year YW were fined £40,000,000. It never for paid, the fine was waived, they were let off.

Ammonia is highly toxic to fish. Anything about 0.05 ppm can cause gill damage and anything above 0.25ppm can be fatal. A reading of 27.10 ppm in the River Roding. How in God's name is that ever acceptable?

England water company bosses raked in £15m+ in pay/perks last yr. £900m dividends paid. Customer bills up 26%. Companies have 1200 criminal convictions. Fines not collected. Sewage dumping killing people. No exec prosecuted. End the scam. Nationalise. mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/w…

“Ed Miliband will fail to meet his net zero targets unless he spends an extra £75bn on renewables.” It’s time to stop this utter nonsense now. Ed Miliband is wrecking British energy and economic security on the altar of his net zero lunacy.

“Let’s ban new oil and gas drilling in the North Sea but pay Norway £40 billion to import oil and gas from the North Sea. Let’s plaster solar panels on thousands of acres of farmland but have sun dimming experiments in a country that has the fifth least sun hours on the planet.”

‼️This is utterly damning. An energy boss has warned that by 2030, UK electricity prices will be HIGHER than the PEAK PRICES during the Ukraine energy crisis. This is because the fixed costs of Ed Miliband’s policies will dwarf the wholesale costs on bills. If gas went to zero, bills would still rise because Ed is building a system that is incredibly expensive. Remember, despite having an undeniably radical policy, he has never forecast the impact of his plans on your bills. He cannot tell you what his plans will cost you because he doesn’t want to be held to account. We need to make electricity CHEAP. Sign up here. CheapPowerPlan.com

The government quango, ⁦@NationalHways⁩ is given over £5 BILLION of taxpayers money every year. They have no excuses for leaving the motorway network looking so rundown.

@DM_1986_ @Jackie00007649 @DrKent1977 @JamesMelville And how do they make sure the tens of thousands who work in aviation globally keep it secret? I’ve never understood the contrails conspiracy, it’s one that just doesn’t work at any angle whatsoever

@Jackie00007649 @DrKent1977 @JamesMelville Explain how it isn’t contrails… Where do the planes store the chemicals they allegedly spray? Where is your evidence?

It’s the same thing every day. Endless days of grey skies, damp and cold weather. It doesn’t get properly light all day. Apart from the very occasional day of sunshine, this has been going on for months. I know it’s winter, but this consistent pattern of consistently grey, dreary, dreich weather is unlike anything I’ve ever known. And it’s having an effect on people. The incessant gloomy weather is mirroring the gloomy mood of the nation - caused by a number of things like rotting infrastructures, cost of living crisis and high taxes. Britain is engulfed in gloom.

It’s time we talked about local government pensions. Almost no one in the private sector benefits from these gold plated schemes – which are mostly funded by the taxpayer.

🚨: Voyager 1 just said Hello from interstellar space. That's 15.8 billion miles away

The Great British net zero con-trick of Drax: The Labour government are pushing through an extension that would give Drax an estimated £1.8bn in taxpayer funded subsidies on top of the £11bn it has already received when the Tory government were in power. Drax has burned an amount of wood equivalent to 300 million trees. Burning wood creates 18% more CO2 emissions than coal. And here’s the con trick: Drax is a sneaky way of exporting our CO2 emissions. We pay billions of pounds to cut down ancient forests in the US and Canada, ship the wood across the Atlantic in diesel tankers, then burn it in a Yorkshire-based power station. And here’s the kicker - the CO2 emissions tally is not counted against the country that burns it, but the country that grows it. So Drax emissions are counted against the countries who grow and export the wood for Drax - like Canada and USA…not UK who burn it. So the UK can reduce CO2 figures by importing the burning wood grown elsewhere. A gigantic net zero con-trick and yet more public money being wasted.

“Britain will spend £4.5 trillion on road to net zero.” Net zero should be axed. It’s economic and energy security vandalism.

You'll want to be sitting down for this bit. Water companies are currently £82.7 billion in debt, have paid themselves £85 billion in dividends, leak over a trillion of litres of water per year, dump sewage for almost 4 million hours per year, have been convicted of over 1,200 criminal acts since 1989 and an average of 35% of your bill goes on nothing but paying more interest and yet more dividends. And not a single company has ever lost their operating licence. 👇

The "Curiosity rover" took a rare nighttime shot of Mars' surface For this, the device used LED lighting on its robotic arm. The photo was taken on the 4740th day of Curiosity's stay on the Red Planet, NASA reported. The shot shows an illuminated area of Martian soil with a hole in the center. In the bright light of the LEDs, small stones, sand, and the texture of the hole itself are clearly visible. The surrounding space is plunged into absolute darkness