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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

Artwork by Pamela Grace, contemporary artist and printmaker living and working in Galloway, Scotland #womensart

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“You will be home before the leaves have fallen from the trees.” Kaiser Wilhelm August 1914

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Happy birthday to Sister Rosetta Tharpe, born on this day in 1915! A true pioneer, playing rock ’n’ roll before it even had a name.

Please retweet to help Louie who was taken to the vets and told to pts. He had no valid reason other than he didn’t want him anymore #WALES #UK Luckily for him they contacted us and asked if we’d help…how could we say no! He’s underweight, has sores where it looks like he’s been sat in his own urine but other than that he looks a happy, friendly boy! He’s only a year old bless him and has his whole life in front of him but unbeknown to him that was very nearly cut short So thank you to everyone involved with getting him to safety, he’ll now be assessed and neutered before looking for a new home. Onwards and upwards now little Louie, you are a very lucky boy x - West Wales Poundies, registered British Charity Details, apply , donations welcomed 👇 westwalespoundies.org.uk Original post on facebook 👇 facebook.com/lianne.marie.e… #dogs #Carmarthenshire #adoptdontshop @BBCWales @BBCWalesNews @NickDixonITV @thismorning @PatrickChristys @GBNEWS @GMB @itvnews @BBCPanorama @BritishVets @DavidBowles21 @KatieAmess Louie, saved from being pts by his owner because he just didn't want him anymore, March 2026 UK

This is not incompetence. This is intentional. They don't want to fix the catastrophe they've created. They want chaos. They want crashes. They want unprecedented social unrest. The Epstein class has plans. Plans so horrific they use child rape and cannibalism as a cover story.

Oh my God. Look at what Bill Gates has done… We were called Conspiracy Theorists for speaking about ‘white amyloid structures’ that were found in the ‘Covid Vaccinated’…and now…a Coroner proves that they’ve been found in 30-40% of all corpses.

Was told outright in a BBC training session that Jenni Murray ‘had been silenced’. A travesty. She was terrific.

MAGPIE is a 14 year old female who enjoys human company and attention. She is looking for a foreverhome after her previous owner sadly passed away. Could you offer her a #foreverhome? #adoptdontshop

Bureaucrats say “to save fuel stop flying.”But one single U.S. bomber uses as much fuel per hour as 4 passenger planes that fly you to Spain. So the better way to save fuel is to stop bombing the hell out of the Middle-East

Everyone knows Thomas Edison invented the lightbulb. 💡 Everyone is wrong. His name was Joseph Swan. Born in Pallion, Sunderland. Son of a failed entrepreneur. No university. No laboratory. No backing. Just a chemist's apprentice in his home town who couldn't stop thinking about light. He worked on it for twenty years. Along the way he invented bromide photographic paper. Artificial fibre, the process that led to rayon. Over seventy patents. And still nobody had made a lightbulb that worked. Then on the 18th of December 1878, in a lecture hall in Newcastle, he switched it on. It burned bright. Then it broke. But the idea was proven. ⚡ Six weeks later, 3rd February 1879, he demonstrated it again. This time it worked. Seven hundred people watched the room light up. Eight months before Thomas Edison. Edison heard about it. Filed a patent. Then sued Swan in America. The US Patent Office found against Edison. ✅ Edison sued Swan in Britain. The British courts found against Edison again. ✅✅ As part of the settlement, Edison was forced into a partnership with Swan. The company was called Ediswan. Swan's patents. Swan's filament design. Edison's name first. Eventually Edison bought him out. Swan was knighted in 1904. The Savoy Theatre, the first building in the world lit entirely by electricity, used his bulbs. Edison got the credit. Swan got a knighthood nobody remembers. And history forgot Sunderland. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Did they teach you his name? Together we keep our history alive. proudofus.co.uk/support Be part of us. 🙏 Be Proud Of Us. 🇬🇧

Forton Services bridge & Pennine Tower Restaurant. T. P. Bennett & Son. 1965.

One storm. One fallen tree. One field in the Lake District. ✏️ The entire global pencil industry. There is a field in the Lake District. Nothing remarkable about it. Fell sheep, grey sky, Cumbrian rain. Until one day a storm came through. It uprooted a tree and underneath the roots was something nobody had ever seen before. A black substance. Soft, dark, left a mark on everything it touched. The shepherds didn't know what it was, but they used it to mark their sheep. That was 1565. It was the purest deposit of graphite ever found on earth. The only one like it. Ever. 🌍 Word spread fast. The Crown seized the mine, put armed guards on the fell and flooded it between diggings to keep the price high. Stealing graphite became a criminal offence. Punishable by transportation to Australia. Because this wasn't just for marking sheep. It was perfect for lining cannonball moulds. It made England's cannonballs rounder. Faster. More deadly. ⚔️ England had a pencil monopoly for nearly a century. Every artist, every cartographer, every engineer in Europe. All of them wanted what was in that one Cumbrian field. Slowly, workshops appeared in nearby Keswick. Cottage industries. Families cutting graphite into sticks. Wrapping them in string. Then sheepskin. Then wood. The pencil was born. ✏️ In a Cumbrian field. Because a storm uprooted a tree. There is still a pencil factory in Keswick today. On the same site it has always been. Did you know that? These islands have thousands of stories the world has forgotten. We find them. We tell them. We put them in front of millions. You help us make that possible. Be Part Of Us. Be Proud Of Us. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧 proudofus.co.uk

Starmer put us all at risk - in order to participate in an illegal war Sánchez of Spain refused

Exactly as many of us warned, Trump is dragging our country into this war & Keir Starmer has made this decision to participate without any vote in Parliament despite his past promises. Gone are the commitments that there would only be defensive action. bbc.co.uk/news/live/ce84…

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This is a reckless act of escalation that endangers us all. No discussion. No debate. What a disgrace. How on earth can the Prime Minister still pretend we are not involved? It doesn't matter how he dresses it up. Britain is participating in an illegal war of aggression.

One of the few things that makes the utter penury of archaeology worthwhile is the privileged access to private areas of buildings. I was recently allowed into the 1430s arch-braced roof space which was once visible from the hall of the George Inn at Norton St Philip (Somerset).