@autocar Looks nice enough apart from the "cut and paste" cheap looking interior. Would much prefer an ICE version.
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Robert Marsh
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Robert Marsh
@marsh_rj
Professional in IoT Industry & enthusiast for all things transport, music & countryside/nature related.
Katılım Mayıs 2012
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The new electric VW Polo is finally HERE - and it'll cost the same as the petrol one 👀 buff.ly/AZkJvfn
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@Official_STFC Utterly embarrassing. Sorry, but hang your heads in shame.
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@SamMorshead_ Sadly I really believe that the dream.has gone now. A tiny bit of consistency would have seen us in the top three yet here we are unlikely to even make a playoff spot and outsiders to win through even if we do secure top 7. Sad. Such a waste of opportunity.
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I *think* Swindon Town have not been out of the League Two top seven since August 30.
They have been, technically, perhaps the most consistent promotion candidate.
Yet, at the same time, there is nothing consistent about them.
Weird club. Weird league. Get us to summer.
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@afneil The bigger question is lack of frigates, submarines and the total absence from the government of any political will to take decisive action in defence of the country as opposed to just talking about it.
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The is arse-covering nonsense. The idea we couldn’t send warships to the Mediterranean because they were busy shadowing Russian subs closer by, is ridiculous on so many levels. But let’s just settle for this — Type 45s don’t hunt subs.
Kate Ferguson@kateferguson4
John Healey says UK ships not rushed to Middle East as they were seeing off the Russian threat in UK waters. "When a crisis erupts noisily as it has in the Middle East I understand why there are calls to send assets there. "But the greatest threats are often unseen and silent."
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@RachelReevesMP You're making working people who can't afford children pay for others choices to have many. What's worse is that many haven't ever been UK taxpayers.
GIF
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Today we are lifting 450,000 children out of poverty with the end of the two-child limit.
This Labour Government is achieving the biggest reduction in child poverty over a Parliament since records began.
Change promised. Change delivered.
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The Jackdaw gas field in the North Sea could be up and running in just a few months.
Enough gas to heat 1.6 million homes.
Every single drop will go into our pipes.
Ed Miliband is blocking it.
Madness.
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@SamMorshead_ Well said.
It's very sad that the recent run of results has made the top 3 unlikely but we have to keep trying, and perhaps believing.
I really worry about our ability to make it through the playoffs and I'm not sure my nerves would stand it!
6/8 wins could still see us 3rd. 🤞
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Isn't winning ugly just beautiful.
These are pig-in-lipstick points, but that's the way it often has to be in League Two.
Better to be scrappy and successful, than pretty and purposeless.
The dream remains intact. Unlikely. But intact.
#stfc
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@Heidi_Labour What's happening with East West Rail though? How many more years must we wait whilst the ToC and unions argue?
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Fast and frequent rail services will arrive at five new stations across Birmingham and the Black Country next month for the first time in decades.
We're building a railway you can be proud of and rely on.🇬🇧🚄
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…
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@AndyRoden1 It's a shame this isn't investigated and called out more often. I heard about some of this first hand from a manager in a big contract supplier (now gone bust) many years ago.
It keeps costs stupidly high and also stifles innovation.
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The railway is not immune to this. Staff are perfectly capable of, say, changing a light bulb, but not allowed to do so, so a contractor charges something like £80 to do so. It adds to our industry costs and multiplied across the railway is likely to be significant.
Rebecca Ryder 💙@rebecca_ryder21
NHS hospital: I noticed the clock on the wall showed the wrong time. A nurse told me they knew, but they wouldn’t report it because replacing the battery through the NHS would cost £70. A £2 battery... £70. How? Why? That's when I began to dig further. 🧵
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@rebecca_ryder21 Badly negotiated contracts. Many suppliers are guaranteed business irrespective of performance and cost. Apparently it happened a lot alongside PFI, and likely continues.
Incompetence or something more sinister? Either way, we're all paying..
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NHS hospital: I noticed the clock on the wall showed the wrong time.
A nurse told me they knew, but they wouldn’t report it because replacing the battery through the NHS would cost £70.
A £2 battery... £70. How? Why?
That's when I began to dig further.
🧵
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@UKLabour Good news. Yet Emergency Department waits hit record highs. 🤔
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Despite the busiest winter on record, NHS waiting lists have continued to fall with this Labour Government.
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@SamMorshead_ It feels like we're letting this season slip away. Hopefully the earlier good form will return 🤞
I still think it's an auto promotion place or we're staying down given our results against top teams.
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Draw probably fair on balance but if you're chasing promotion and you get ahead in stoppage time, kill the game.
So frantic. So unnecessarily frantic.
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@SamMorshead_ Too early perhaps, but I honestly think the only way the Town will go up is if they're in the top 3. 24 points more would be good. That's definitely within their grasp, though.
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What do we think...
12pts for playoffs, 21 for autos?
And is this question way too premature in any case?
#stfc
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@ColinKi24316607 @nymr Where, though? There's no access.
In any case, the big attraction for many travellers is services to Whitby.
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@nymr Could a temporary platform be erected on the other side of bridge 42? It might enable a continuation of rail traffic from Grosmont to Pickering, while funds are raised and restoration works are carried out. I know it's an extra cost but it will enable rail services to continue!
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Help to save a crucial link in the NYMR's story 🚂
We are launching the Bridge 42 Appeal - a vital fundraising campaign to repair one of our busiest and most historic bridges.
Please donate if you can to help us save Bridge 42.
nymr.co.uk/bridge42
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@PaulCottle @EFL_Comms Yet again @Official_STFC punished. Yes, it was a mistake, but what were the EFL officials doing? What sanction is the EFL giving itself?
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@EFL_Comms Are none of the efl officials going to be held accountable for allowing the players to get on the pitch in the first place or we closing ranks and protecting the precious officials
Yes we were in the wrong to massively but these 2 players should never been allowed on the pitch
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EFL Statement: Swindon Town Football Club
An Independent Disciplinary Commission has determined that Swindon Town Football Club is to be removed from this season’s Vertu Trophy competition for breaches of EFL Regulations and EFL Trophy Rules.
Read more here: efl.com/news/2026/febr…
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@autocar Come on guys, please employ or at least consult someone with a little knowledge of engineering or mathematics. Notwithstanding the exaggeration, given the limitations of the grid & most charging stations supply how will it charge at this rate unless it's the only EV there?
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Quicker than a petrol stop? I plugged in the Nyobolt EV at 30% – three minutes later it hit 80% 👀 buff.ly/cbPnWiS
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@RAIL_NEWS_UK We've had the infrastructure to Bletchley and MK for almost a year. When will services finally start?
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East West Rail meets ministers to discuss accelerating infrastructure delivery dlvr.it/TQdT6b #Government #Infrastructure #RailNews #TrainOperatingCompanies
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@TrisOsborneMP Isn't this because of your government's taxes on it? 🤔
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Natural gas sets our energy price 98% of the time.
Gas that is 40% more expensive than wind.
It’s critical we move away from this volatile market that puts at risk from geopolitical events.
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You do understand this only happening because your government has guaranteed a price £214/MWh based on 2024 prices and index linked for 20 years. Just about the most expensive electricity anywhere in the world — and you’ve locked it in for two decades. Do you have any idea what you’re doing …
Torsten Bell@TorstenBell
Huge news for South West Wales. The first Celtic Sea floating offshore wind project (Erebus) has been confirmed as part of a record breaking auction for wind power. This matters for jobs from Port Talbot right across to Pembrokeshire. gov.uk/government/new…
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@bo66ie29 The red Cortina MK1 shown in the initial shot (there's another dark blue one too) was launched in September 1962.
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