https://www.thisisthecoast.co.uk/news/local-news/debate-reopens-over-tou...

"... in future years we are going to have to be more competitive with other destinations..."

https://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/culture/music/news/19358658.harrison-f...

Baldrick !!!

https://www.thesun.co.uk/tvandshowbiz/8251102/harrison-ford-reveals-bulg...

I have a cunning plan ..

"An excellent example of the old expression one should never meet one's heroes,.."

lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DeURx3mYck

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jun/09/covid-contract-for-firm-ru...

Oh.

" If ever we needed further proof that the emotional development of politicians stops somewhere around the mid-teens, then the last few days have provided it.

This has become like one of those splendid over-the-top neighbours' disputes in which cats are poisoned, night soil tipped over the fence, and communications reduced to the hurling of insults from a window which is immediately banged shut. The impression these past few days – aided by the gleeful jeering of the red-tops – is that here are two countries which may be adjacent but which live in total isolation and in perpetual ignorance of each others' virtues.

Au contraire, as the bilingual Derek Trotter might say. France and Britain have had their fates entwined for more than 1,000 years, and, certainly since 1815 (when we stopped trying to kill Johnny Frenchman), we have been ententing with a certain amount of cordiale, and enriching each other's lives in ways all too rarely recognised. And what have the French ever done for us – apart from laying down the foundations of parliamentary democracy (Simon de Montfort, French born and speaking), the modern Olympics, all those talented Huguenots, art, Braille, brie, crêpes, camembert, croutons, denim, fetching fashions, art, roulette, croque monsieur, and bras?

First stop on the road exploring French contributions is house-numbering. Introduced in Paris in 1463, only 300 years later, London saw the advantages. France was first with driving tests, too, introducing them in 1893, 42 years ahead of us, which was why Miss Vera Hedges Butler crossed the Channel in 1900, and so became the first British woman to take her test. She passed; first time. And the French also gave us the bus (1662, with coaches carrying a maximum of eight passengers, and all the idea of Blaise Pascal), motor caravans, ambulances (conceived by Dominique-Jean Larrey while serving as a surgeon with Napoleon's army), and neon signs. These, demonstrated in 1910 and soon called "liquid fire", were the brainchild of Georges Claude, subsequently a Nazi collaborator – proof that his brilliance did not translate to other fields.

French ingenuities have penetrated our lives in more ways than we shall ever know. Some of us owe our lives to them: antibiotics, the baby incubator (1891, courtesy of Alexandre Lion), blood transfusions (1667, by Jean-Baptiste Denys who used sheep's blood on a boy who, amazingly, recovered), and stethoscopes (1816). Among the triumphs of French foodies are clementines (bred by a missionary in 1902), margarine (1869, a mixture of beef tallow and skimmed milk), and canned food (1795, as a way of preserving meals for the army). They gave us the raincoat (in 1747), dry cleaning, IQ tests, reinforced concrete (the invention of a gardener, of all people), and the hairdryer.

And then are all those French artists and writers. For every Oscar Wilde, Somerset Maugham and Sylvia Pankhurst who went there, we have hosted Victor Hugo (Guernsey), Claude Monet (The Savoy), Camille Pissarro (Penge), and Emile Zola (Upper Norwood). The last-named I know of because I once went to the Queen's Hotel and saw the wall plaque proclaiming his residence The then manager told me proudly: "We had that Emily Zola here. She stayed for years" – words that somehow synthesise a certain sort of British response to anything French."

https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/commentators/david-randall-what-did...

Chivalry..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMLk_T0PPbk

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2021/jun/09/vertigo-the-game-movie-tie-ins

Group F.

https://www.falmouthpacket.co.uk/news/19356495.car-cliff-cornwall-beauty...

"If it was hanging, would not the ropes be tight instead of slack ?"

https://www.cornwalllive.com/

lol

https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/celebs-tv/kirstie-allsopp-tells-boris-...

Well said.

"Or try the particularly joyful A303 which they've promised to widen for the last 25 years so we don't have to sit looking at Stonehenge for hours."

OOh ...

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2021/jun/09/loki-episode-one-re...

"Let’s start at the beginning, which makes the most sense at this point. Loki is all about time – time management, alternative timelines, time travel, time looping – so things might get complicated if we did it any other way."

pmsl

"On 10 June 2021, those viewing from the UK will be able to see a partial solar eclipse. This is because viewers will be thousands of miles south of the path of annularity enjoyed by eclipse-watchers further north."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98W9QuMq-2k

“There weren’t any breakthroughs. There aren’t any breakdowns either and we’re going to carry on talking."

https://newsthump.com/2021/06/09/zero-outcry-as-oxford-university-replac...