@bbcemt Was the car driving itself or did a driver crash their car into the lights?
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Andrew Curd
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Andrew Curd
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Football, food, beer and wine.
Derby, UK Katılım Eylül 2011
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Car crashes into new lights at accident hotspot bbc.in/3Qtmbld
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@SettleCarlisle Virtually all the crude oil we import comes from America, Norway and North Africa
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You couldn't make this up. How long before the shortage of fuel (red diesel in the case of trains) has a detrimental effect on rail, as it is starting to now with aviation...
Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡@shanaka86
The New York Times reported on April 10, citing US officials, that Iran has been unable to fully reopen the Strait of Hormuz because it cannot locate all of the naval mines it laid in the waterway and lacks the capability to remove them. The IRGC used small boats to plant mines haphazardly during the early weeks of the war. Many locations were never recorded. Some mines have drifted from their original positions. Iran does not have a complete map of what it put in its own water. When Foreign Minister Araghchi said on April 8 that safe passage through Hormuz would be possible “with due consideration of technical limitations,” US officials now confirm he was not being diplomatic. He was being literal. The technical limitation is that Iran mined its own strait and lost track of where the mines are. Iran published a chart on April 9 through Tasnim and ISNA showing a large circle marked “danger zone” covering the standard shipping lanes, with two alternative IRGC-controlled routes around Larak Island. This is the chart of a country directing traffic around its own weapons because it cannot guarantee the weapons will not detonate under the traffic it is trying to collect tolls from. The toll system, the IRGC coordination, the escort protocol, the VHF passcode, all the infrastructure built to monetize the chokepoint exists because Iran cannot simply reopen the chokepoint. The tollbooth is not leverage. The tollbooth is a workaround for a self-inflicted minefield. Richard Meade, editor-in-chief of Lloyd’s List, described the situation during an April 10 webinar: “As of this morning, the Strait of Hormuz remains both open and closed, depending on your position, both geographically and geopolitically. It is, if you like, Schrödinger’s Strait.” Traffic on April 10 stood at 7 to 18 ships per day, with only 2 to 4 tankers, against a pre-war baseline of roughly 140 daily. Over 1,000 vessels are queued outside the strait, including 187 tankers carrying an estimated 172 million barrels of stalled crude. The backlog alone would take weeks to clear even if every mine vanished overnight. And the capacity to clear mines does not exist on either side. The US Navy decommissioned its last dedicated Avenger-class minesweepers before the war. It now relies on Littoral Combat Ship mine countermeasures modules that have never been tested at this scale. The Royal Navy withdrew its last mine countermeasures vessel, HMS Middleton, from the Gulf in early 2026 and transported it home on a heavy-lift ship because it could not make the voyage under its own power. The West dismantled its mine-clearing capability months before the war that required it. Trump demanded “complete, immediate, and safe opening” of the strait as the ceasefire condition. Vance is flying to Islamabad to negotiate terms that require a physical outcome neither side can deliver. Iran cannot find the mines. The US cannot sweep them. The UK sent its last minesweeper home on a cargo ship. And the ceasefire that was supposed to reopen 20 percent of the world’s oil supply is hostage to weapons that are drifting silently through a strait that nobody fully controls. The most honest phrase in the entire ceasefire was “technical limitations.” It just took the New York Times to decode what it meant. The mines are still there. The talks start tomorrow. And 20 percent of the world’s oil is waiting on a map that does not exist. open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…
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Roy Hodgson back on the touchline today at 78 years old wearing a pair of sunglasses.. 😭
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@CrossCountryUK booked tickets for 2 people Dby-Edb yesterday via Trainpal and it has allocated seats that are not together, is there any way to change this?
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@bbcemt Where is the crash? A driver has hit and killed a pedestrian, it's not a crash 🙄
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Safety plea after man killed in crash near prison bbc.in/3XSpjri
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@bbcemt How about a correct headline 'Van driver hits and kills mobility scooter rider'?
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Good luck to everyone who is doing fitness test this weekend and hope you all pass
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Dear @IcelandFoods please stop your staff from asking customers if they are eligible for the over 60s discount. Believe me when I am over 60 I will ask for the discount myself!
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Turned away from @fathippofood Birmingham today despite the restaurant being only a third full as they were not taking walk in's, went elsewhere and walked back past 40 mins later and still only half full 🤷🏻♂️
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Andrew Curd retweetledi
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First person to guess exactly how many bottles on the pallet wins a HolyFuck + ChristOnABike Special 😇❤️
mark gevaux@theribman
Pallet of bottles arrived so we can now crack on with the Holyfuck + ChristOnABike Special 🙏
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Andrew Curd retweetledi
Five people are killed on the UK's road every day and more than 60 suffer serious injuries.
In this film, RoadPeace members explain how road crashes have affected them, and how RoadPeace has helped.
Watch it here: buff.ly/3CcqkmP
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Costco must have the biggest parking spaces in the UK but still too small for this @Wankpanzer driver 🙄
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Andrew Curd retweetledi
Here’s the piece on road crime reporting on BBC RadioWM at 10.12am. 90% of all reports to @WMPolice result in action against reckless drivers. 150,000 reports a year from drivers, cyclists and pedestrians about reckless driving nationally every year.
bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/li…
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