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@AlAviram Great article although I'd disagree with "H₂S is a toxic gas that, in high concentrations, can be lethal." - it's toxic at pretty low concentrations (500ppm) and often knocks out your ability to smell it before it kills you. Its risks are not to be diminished

Read the full story: bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

🧵Wessex Water is one of the UK’s largest water companies. Four years ago, an explosion at its Avonmouth site—where our waste was being processed—killed four people, including 16-year-old apprentice Luke Wheaton. The official investigation is still ongoing.

@char1iewatts So just regurgitating Reddit threads is what you're calling journalism these days then?

Worst date idea in Bristol

@ASPRoadSafety @ASPolice @ASPNorthSom Could you do with some valuable education about what hay is? ;)

@DrJenGunter I laughed like a drain, a marvellous bit of writing

IMPORTANT PLS SHARE. It's rumoured the English £9,250 tuition fee cap may be raised this pm for the 1st time in 8yrs, as University's finances are strained. As student finance misunderstandings abound, I've bashed out a few notes to help... 1. Higher tuition fees WON'T change what most pay each year. For most, they're paid for you by the student loans company and you repay afterwards only if you earn over the threshold. The amount you repay each year (9% over the threshold) solely depends on what you earn not on what you borrow. 2. Increasing tuition fees will only see those who clear the loan in full over the 40yrs pay more. That is generally mid-high to higher earning university leavers only, so the cost of increasing them will generally be born by the more affluent. Most lower and middle earning university leavers will simply pay 9% extra tax above the threshold for 40yrs (and higher tuition fees won't change that) 3. The rise is tuition fees is likely to be trivial compared to the changes the last govt made for 2023 starters. 2023 starters had their repayment thresholds dropped to £25,000 (from £27,295/yr) and had the time they had to keep repaying for (unless cleared) extended to 40years from 30years. So these higher annual repayments for longer, increased by over 50% the amount many graduates will eventually have to pay back for going to university. Yet they were almost stealth changes because people can't intuitively feel the seismic impact. Changing tuition fees is a more obvious rise, but in reality has far less of an impact on the amount most will repay (though combined with the 2023 changes it does certainly up the cost). 4. The biggest practical problem for students isnt tution fees (even if raised) its the fact maintenace loans aren't big enough. English maintenance loans have not kept pace with inflation. I'd urge the govt to couple the tuition fee loans with bigger living loans - if not it is a real risk to social mobility, with those from the poorest backgrounds likely to be worse affected. I could write more, but will stop here, hopefully this gives an idea the issues are less straightforward than many feel.

@FreePBX Hah, I'm still on 15, should probably get round to upgrading at some point

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@Hayleystevens @PapaJohnsUK @UberEats en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Schn… tbh he seems like a prize arse hole

@Hayleystevens @PapaJohnsUK @UberEats Ah, I'd remembered wrong it was racism and it looks like they eventually sacked him wfla.com/news/national/…

@Hayleystevens @PapaJohnsUK @UberEats Aren't Papa John's run by a horrible homophobe, too?

@Edgecliffe @FT boisterous? That's the word you chose?

Trump show returns to New York with boisterous Madison Square Garden rally - report with Siona Jenkins via @FT on.ft.com/40i3nbv

@NeilHoldforth @lepubpattaya @BBCSteveR @BBCNewsPR @LizaShuvalova Don't we? I'd say it's probably the second most beloved institution after the NHS! Regularly tops lists of most trusted news sources

@lepubpattaya @BBCSteveR @BBCNewsPR @LizaShuvalova I don't know why the brits have so much distain for the bbc...its held in such high regard around the world

My first opportunity to ask Vladimir Putin a question since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. It came at the end of the BRICS summit in Kazan. Producer @LizaShuvalova

“Sure, it would extend and improve millions of lives, succeeding where decades of other efforts have failed, but this would be bad because people would still be enjoying themselves. We must not forget that the goal is ending pleasure, not ending cancer.”

@MisanthropeGirl I occasionally dip back into Veterinary Parasitology to show people gross critters

@GeorgeMonbiot even if it were "just the beginning" it'd still be the storm of the century, until a bigger storm came along within 100 years

Hurricane Milton is not "the storm of the century". It is just the beginning. Unless we stop pouring greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, such devastating events will become commonplace - and ever more horrific.

@BBCTomEdwards No need to sign up to anything, realtimetrains.co.uk has all the info

At Euston, the operators know which platform they will be using before the station announcements. Avanti Club text you so you can avoid the rush. More — bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

@H_H_Gray @northernassist @AndyBurnhamGM @LouHaigh This should be better publicised but hasn't this always been the case? I remember being annoyed at not being able to use my 16-25 card on my rail commute and it's been a long long time since I was eligible for that!

You can park a very large car on a busy pavement in the centre of Bristol and simply get away with it This guy is often parked here, because there is zero enforcement

@curlewcalls @CurlewAction Who is this Statistica that you're citing as a source?

@Pai_Kage Ugh, I feel you. I had a multi drug resistant staph infection after surgery in my knee that put me in hospital for 9 weeks. Bulbosaur looks great! Look after yourself, pet