@lner power socket between seats 28 and 29 coach 818103 is broken. Potential hazard as no protection cover on live and neutral sockets.
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craigdashonline
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Also @GNRailUK as you're now rejecting delay claims on the basis that I've made too many, what am I meant to do with any new claims due to your half arsed service, just forget them?! 6:15 cancelled & 6:45 terminated early means at least an hour delay to London. @TransportFocus
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@GNRailUK you literally cannot make this shit up. Why is the 6:45 from King's Lynn to London only going as far as Cambridge? This is now week four of disruption on this route. @jamesowild @TransportFocus
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@greateranglia Is the delayed 1653 to Cambridge now terminating at Bishops Stortford ?
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@craigdashonline Apologies for this. Services are delayed/ cancelled due to issues with our signalling systems which has resulted in lines being blocked. We will try our best to get you on the move as soon as possible. - Mus
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@greateranglia this is the biggest screw up I’ve experienced at LST. I’m on the 1653 to Cambridge that is now nearly 1hr late. You aren’t even telling people that other Cambridge trains are leaving. What is going on ?
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@greateranglia You could at least communicate on the platform. Trains have already left that would get a high percentage of people home.
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Good morning! With temperatures rising already across Scotland, we wanted to share some information on how hot weather can affect the railway, and what we're doing to keep services moving.
Here's Ross, our route director, to tell you more.
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@TLRailUK what is the severe weather causing many commuter trains to be cancelled this morning ? Last year you ran trains in similar weather
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@spectator A stat of how many people went to venues would be useful. I dismissed this story as bullshit (how many people on benefits visiting Tower of London) until I read the article in the magazine!!
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Has Britain become a freeloader’s paradise?
A working family of four will pay £111 for a trip to the Tower of London, or £108 to visit London Zoo. But with one parent on Universal Credit (UC) that drops to just £4 and £26 respectively.
Michael Simmons says that on its own, UC is not particularly generous by international standards, but health-related top-ups transform the picture, while it is Britain's failure to incentivise people back to work that makes us stand out. @Simmons__
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@NetworkRailSCOT Now that actually is impressive. The team who drove this should all get a hefty bonus.
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👷 Maintenance to the maze of tracks approaching Glasgow Central is normally limited to a few hours overnight.
While the station was closed, our teams seized on the chance to carry out extensive maintenance that'd normally take us 10 months to complete.
networkrailmediacentre.co.uk/news/major-eng…
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@spectator The product is very good to be fair. My gripe is more the queue to order. Cambridge is a disaster- I know many impatient people who don’t go there as they get frustrated with how slow it is.
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Before you know it, you’ve dropped the best part of £20 on a bun-lunch that lasts you ten minutes, maybe 12, before you’ve been guilted out of your wooden seat by the all people standing around waiting for one of the nicely sanded tables.
Perish the thought you could take your children to Gail’s — the bottled soft drinks are more expensive than the coffee – because a family of four would munch their way through £80 quicker than a hungry HS2 bat.
✍️ Alec Marsh
Article | spectator.com/article/gails-…
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@pbw15204825 @PhilRodgers Absolutely shocking. I almost feel like printing this off and posting through letterboxes so people can see the garbage the have representing them.
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@PhilRodgers "a city of sanctuary, divestment, and flying the Palestinian flag"
Laser-focused on local problems then.
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Agenda for next week's budget-setting city council meeting. Motions include making Cambridge a city of sanctuary, divestment, and flying the Palestinian flag (Greens); unfair business rate increases (Lib Dems); holiday meal vouchers and potholes (Labour). democracy.cambridge.gov.uk/ieListDocument…
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@elonmusk Owning multiple products you have delivered I am also assured that the customer experience will be game changing (for the better). I currently do not fly with them due to the attitude to customers.
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@PhilRodgers I’d recommend a train tour through Europe. Works really well. Strasbourg has some amazing food.
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So I have a sabbatical month off work next year. I already have some plans, but I'm thinking about including visits to some interesting places I've never been to before, such as Istanbul or Tromsø. Any suggestions?
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Very excited to be joining Robert and the brilliant @itvpeston team this autumn 🎉
I’ll be continuing in my role at @guardian but will look forward to bringing my analysis and insights to the show!
Robert Peston@Peston
Exciting @itvpeston news ITV today announces that Guardian Political Editor, Pippa Crerar will be joining the PESTON programme as co-presenter this Autumn. Pippa will bring her formidable reputation as someone who knows what is going on at the heart of British politics to the team and will get to grips with the data that best explains what is happening at home and abroad on ‘Screeny’. She will continue in her role at The Guardian, where she has been Political Editor since 2022 having previously held the same position at The Daily Mirror. Her award-winning reporting has included breaking major stories such as the government’s recent winter fuel payment u-turn, the election betting scandal and Partygate. Vicky Flind, Head of Current Affairs at MultiStory Media said: “We are all delighted to be able to work with Pippa. At a time when it’s increasingly complicated to make sense of politics her experience and insight will be of huge value to our audience.” Pippa Crerar said: “I’m excited to be joining PESTON, working alongside Robert and his brilliant team on such a lively and impactful show. Together, we will continue to hold the powerful to account and make politics accessible to everyone.” Robert Peston said: “Pippa Crerar is an outstanding political journalist. It is so exciting that viewers of the PESTON show will be able to benefit from her brilliant analysis and insights.”
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@IainDale @CoreyFroggatt Not really taking up local customs though - it is 0630 and a pint of lager is customary before a flight regardless of departure time !
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Good morning from @CoreyFroggatt and me from Glasgow airport. We thought it would be rude not to.
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@greateranglia FYI currently there is no way to drive to Dullingham station as the road on both sides is closed.
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Received an email from a friend. It seems he's on holiday, lost his passport and wallet and to top it all he's lost his voice and can't talk on the phone. Could i bail him out with a bank transfer?
He's having a rough time, with all this coming on top of his having died in 2024.
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@satnam6502 Sorry I intended to reply to the original post, got distracted. Having had every Mac form factor and screen size, I find 14” the best form factor for portability and usability. On Linux, why not build a machine ? I did recently and the good news is that nothing has changed!
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So what I plan to order tomorrow is a 14-inch MacBook Pro with a M4 Pro processor, 48GB of RAM and a 1 TB disk. Considerations that made me pick the Macbook Pro rather than the Air include Thunderbolt 5 ports (e.g. for multiple high-spec monitors), built-in HDMI (I give a lot of talks), 48GB RAM (Airs max out at 32GB, theorem provers and other tools I use are very memory hungry), brighter screen for my old eyes and a fan to keep things chugging along while cracking on heavy duty jobs and proofs. Thank you everyone for your kind advice. Still one day left to make me change my mind! Next choice to be made... a desktop Linux machine.
Satnam Singh@satnam6502
I find myself without a laptop and I am torn between a 13" MacBook Air M4 32GB 1TB vs. 14" MacBook Pro M4 Pro 32GB 1TB. It will be my main development machine (with external monitor), running SystemVerilog simulations, theorem provers like Lean4, Agda, SVA formal verification jobs using Tabby CAD from YosysHQ, ML frameworks like MLIR and OpenXLA, and some large Haskell programs. So all this points to the MacBook Pro (and the extra HDMI etc. ports are nice) but if the whole point of a laptop is to be light and portable perhaps I should get the MacBook Air and hope it has enough juice to keep me productive. In that case it might make sense to pair it with a beefy Linux machine which I can use via VS Code's remote feature (my typical mode of use recently anyway). Any advice very welcome, esp. from theorem prover and hardware CAD users. apple.com/shop/buy-mac/m…
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@PhilRodgers Thanks for the overview. Only source of truth I could find.
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Here's the current situation with everywhere except Cambridge declared.
Lib Dem: 26
Con: 10
Reform: 10
Ind: 2
Labour: 1
The Lib Dems need five more to take overall control, which now looks entirely possible - but not certain.
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@PhilRodgers @CambsPboroCA Power of cooking a chicken on an Aga. Knew that would pull a few votes.
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Quite a shift in the odds for @CambsPboroCA Mayor in the last few days, with Lib Dem Lorna Dupré moving into second place in the betting. Here are the chances of winning implied by the odds (*not* the vote shares) - Conservative Paul Bristow remains clear favourite.
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