Submitted by Captain Qalypso on
"The 1,000-year-old village was requisitioned in the 1960s, first in a reforestation plan and then as an army training ground. The Castilla-La Mancha regional government accuses Fraguas Revive of illegally occupying the site, which lies within a natural park."
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'Current Activity'
Submitted by Captain Qalypso on
"Although the northern lights, or aurora borealis as they are technically known, originate in solar activity, they have occasionally been seen beyond the polar regions for thousands of years. Even the Ancient Greeks and Romans knew of them from appearances over their native lands."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpZ5STahhPE
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-64754879
"So it was all an illusion. Schrödinger’s Brexit, yet again. Fantasy heaped on fantasy. It was also about the only sensible piece of politicking the government had done in the last eight years."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wgid1me8POs
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/feb/27/city-northern-ligh...
"New space rules will need to come fast to support commercial space stations and moon settlements, and guard against swiftly-growing space debris."
https://www.space.com/national-space-council-moon-bases-space-junk-regul...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFYFxyMgdZM
Tolerance.
'Landscape Gardening'
Submitted by Captain Qahn on
“Doing some physical activity is better than doing none. This is also a good starting position – if you find that 75 minutes a week is manageable, then you could try stepping it up gradually to the full recommended amount.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gC0eBiw6lg8
"A tiny portion of England is open to the public, and many people feel excluded or alienated from even that silver."
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/feb/28/magic-the-gathering-card...
"Magic: the Gathering, now owned by the Hasbro subsidy Wizards of the Coast, released its first cards in 1993. Thirty years later, the nerdy hobby has become a pop-culture phenomenon."
Spring has Sprung.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-64811223
"Reading from the standard-issue old folk’s script here, have you heard the music they listen to? What a racket! Stick those great big headphones on, will you? Why do they have it on so loud? It’s not as if you can hear any of the words!"
https://www.thisisthecoast.co.uk/news/local-news/scarborough-fair-needs-...
California Dreaming.
"... placing daffodils and spring onions next to each other sparked concerns that customers could mistakenly eat the poisonous flowers."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UO5fmX65QXk
Dallas, Moi?
https://www.thisisthecoast.co.uk/news/local-news/whitby-councillors-conc...
pmsl
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZsRFHJuBdII
'Wax & Wayne'
Submitted by Captain Qalypso on
"Pillar 1: Enterprise: is the central pillar of this strategy, focused on supporting the growth of businesses in North Yorkshire building on our existing and emerging sectoral strengths, and increasing innovation and productivity throughout the economy."
"Councillors had been expected to approve the scheme, but instead they recommended Levelling Up Secretary Michael Gove dismiss the plans. The need for food production must not be ignored in the pursuit of green power, they urged."
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-york-north-yorkshire-67054731
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVRunwyoTMA
"Pillar 2: Infrastructure: equipping our town centres and places to thrive in the 21st century, and realising the vast potential that our strategic development sites offer with investment in transport, housing, digital and energy infrastructure to enable sustainable growth."
https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2023/oct/10/a-wild-walk-on-hadrians-w...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWpKg_qXDLI&list=RDfWpKg_qXDLI&start_rad...
"He said some of the chunky chocolate pieces, each of which carry Rowntree's name on them, were visible due to tears in the silver foil covering them."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ab_iMq06xEw
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c62750x7dd6o
The 'Fifth' Element
Submitted by Captain Qalypso on
"The authority’s leader Councillor Carl Les said the panel’s recommendations had been generated from the evidence provided by 23 elected members about their workload following the launch of the unitary authority in April."
https://www.thisisthecoast.co.uk/news/local-news/north-yorkshire-council...
https://www.northyorks.gov.uk/your-council/parish-and-town-councils
"The 80/20 rule states that 80% of results come from 20% of efforts, customers or another unit of measurement. When applied to inventory, the rule suggests that companies earn roughly 80% of their profits from 20% of their products."
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-york-north-yorkshire-67428310
"“We do see people leaving low wage jobs,” she says. “They are going and starting businesses, and the businesses are doing great because there’s money around.” This unexpected wave of entrepreneurship has also had a positive impact on those taking jobs that pay wages, as a shrinking of the available workforce has led to an increase in salaries."
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2023/nov/16/ai-is-coming-...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psuRGfAaju4
"The distinction between a machine and a robot or between a computer program and AI is still not clear.”"
Never Surrender your 'Toys'...
https://www.artshub.co.uk/news/features/how-to-pitch-your-work-to-a-fest...
"‘So we engage younger curators, and that certainly has physical theatre, if not circus, within that. But it’s on a scale that can happen in these kind of interstitial moments and smaller pieces that can move around quite quickly, which our other works don’t really have at the moment – that capacity.’"
So, Erm ... is the Leader of NYC suggesting that only One Fifth of the 'Elected' actually do Anything?
And, Why does he have to talk in Riddles all the Time?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yivLt9cTaio
'Social Historians'
Submitted by Captain Qalypso on
"David Skaith has been shortlisted to the final two Labour candidates for York and North Yorkshire Mayor. Labour is expected to announce its candidate in the coming weeks.
They will join Conservative candidate Keane Duncan, Green candidate Kevin Foster and Independent Keith Tordoff. The Liberal Democrats are yet to announce a candidate for the election on May 2, 2024."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BC19kwABFwc
"Witchcraft became a listed profession in Romania in 2011, when the Ministry of Labor decided to include it in the Official Profession Registry and oblige fortune tellers, astrologers, witches and healers to register their businesses and pay taxes. Several bills to regulate their activity failed to pass in the previous year, after groups of self-proclaimed witches, fortune tellers and healers protested at the Parliament, cursing the MPs who had submitted the bills."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMLk_T0PPbk
“This job is not to be done with receipts,” Queen Campina told the media in 2010. "
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/nov/25/wordpress-preserve...
"“Nothing’s wrong,” he replied. “I’m just wondering how we can ensure that these scans will be available to readers in 400 years’ time when Google is no longer around. Because it won’t be.”"
Big Ears.
'Titles on Steam'
Submitted by Captain Qalypso on
"The former Conservative deputy prime minister told the BBC's Politics North he had "great sympathy" for mining communities, many of which were devastated by unemployment. But he insisted the closures were economically necessary."
https://www.theguardian.com/games/2024/feb/28/in-a-toxic-online-world-wa...
"Not only were they not particularly famous, but they weren’t even the most famous band with way too many instruments."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEPfM3jSoBw&ab_channel=OwlKitty
"In fact, Women’s Day has been observed since the early 1900s – a time when women were starting to campaign for equal rights."
https://www.fixradio.co.uk/features/international-womens-day-2024/
lol
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-Z7CczgXgI&ab_channel=OwlKitty
"As previously happened with football, where managers have become main characters, the F1 money guys have realised that the actual sport only happens for about 90 minutes, while big bits of its aspired-to global audience are asleep."
https://www.thisisthecoast.co.uk/news/local-news/bridlington-veterans-co...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3rQ3328Tok&ab_channel=OwlKitty
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-derbyshire-68472142
"The American author Washington Irving became aware of the tales and was the first person to link Gotham in England with New York in the US."
'You Can’t Uneat the Apple ...'
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2024/mar/05/why-barbie-should-win-the-b...
""Mr Cawkwell was clearly not one of those."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdA82prVlAw
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-24760791
"Woodsmith, the UK potash mining project formerly known as Sirius Minerals, has a rare gift for irritating absolutely everyone. Anglo’s £504mn buyout of Sirius 2020 was hated by shareholders on both sides. The need for a new owner was because its previous rescue attempt was scuppered first by an indifferent government, then by spooked bond investors."
https://ftalphaville.ft.com/content/df500658-27db-490e-b249-ab2f10eb5ba7
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWzRKxhpPA0
"The NYC portal is located on the Flatiron South Public Plaza at Broadway, Fifth Avenue, and 23rd Street, one of the Big Apple's most dynamic intersections."
Pirates of the Penzance.
""Portals are an invitation to meet people above borders and differences and to experience our world as it really is - united and one.""
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crrj4v9wre8o
Golden Balls.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn0zg5xrrnqo
'Signs of Life'
Submitted by Captain Qalypso on
"A French online petition urging Macron to demand Watson’s release has garnered almost 670,000 signatures in eight days."
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/article/2024/jul/30/arts-rescue-labo...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSx8Jobx-Gs
"A spokesperson for the ministry stressed these punishments are general information and do not refer to any specific case, adding they may apply to both principals and accomplices."
"The event will take place this weekend, on Sunday 4th August 2024, from 11am to 3pm, at the shelter on Marine Drive.
Experts from the Sea Watch Foundation, Scarborough Porpoise, and Citizen Fins will be on hand to help everyone identify and learn about these magnificent creatures. Equipped with binoculars, the experts will share information about spotting wildlife along the coast."
https://www.thisisthecoast.co.uk/news/local-news/national-whale-and-dolp...
"It’s a little win to set you up for the day, a few minutes of frictionless fun."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xF2F7hiOsuc
https://www.theguardian.com/games/article/2024/aug/01/crushing-it-why-mi...
Well that was Fun...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fn7iqDIBzSc
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/c7202851dg8o
'Flower Power'
Submitted by Captain Qalypso on
"My last couple of trips involved so many late-night sessions in front of Booking.com, so many hours browsing Instagram recommendations and Lonely Planet listicles, that by the time I was squirting shampoo and conditioner into 100ml containers, I was not so much eagerly anticipating a getaway as anxiously wondering whether I’d optimised the itinerary. Then, if I did have a disappointing experience abroad, I felt like it was my own fault: I must not have done enough research."
https://www.theguardian.com/travel/article/2024/aug/03/im-off-on-holiday...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtkI-PcS2As
https://www.theguardian.com/science/article/2024/aug/03/astrobiologist-n...
""Usually you think of icebergs as being transient things; they fragment and melt away. But not this one," observed polar expert Prof Mark Brandon."
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd168081wxvo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cnIf37xym8
"“But the thing to do in a situation like this is not to, I won’t say hide anything because they’re not doing that, but to be much more open, especially with the media, because the media is going to make this out to be as dramatic as possible.”"
https://www.theguardian.com/science/article/2024/aug/04/nasa-boeing-astr...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zx1_6F-nCaw
"I don't recall the late Queen making statements in times of rioting?"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVqR2PwX428
Good Old Mum's Net.
"Looking at the footage on telly, last thing it needs is elderly bloke in an ermine frock and a crown wagging his pudgy fingers at folk."
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2024/aug/05/democrats-...
The Wrong Ear.
'Tangentially'
Submitted by Captain Qalypso on
"With bellends like these, who needs frenemies?"
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/nov/24/flat-cap-jeremy-cl...
I'm all for Assisted Living mesen ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFNcBB3nZok
'Mini Possibilities'
Submitted by Captain Qalypso on
"No big deal, I decided, I can sort it out after the break. I’m not some nomophobic sheep who can’t go a week without checking their notifications. But anxiety rises like the tide. Soon I was frantically clicking “buy” and realising for once it’s not that simple."
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cjdn10yk0k1o
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEauWw9ZGrA
Hmmm...
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2025/jan/01/my-phone-was-taken-...
'Hybridisation'
Submitted by Captain Qalypso on
"When it comes to the senses, there could not be a greater difference between Friday night chips and juicy Mediterranean tomatoes. However, scientists have discovered that these two foods are not so far from each other after all. Landmark research has found the potato evolved from a tomato ancestor nearly 9 million years ago."
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn43x9042kwo
"Jellyfish are a foundational element of the aquatic food web, as they are types of plankton that form the bases of many food chains. Compass jellyfish, identified by dark stripes on their bells and long tentacles which cause a painful sting, are a particular favourite source of food for turtles, said Abigail McQuatters-Gollop, a marine conservation specialist at the University of Plymouth."
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cjwngn293pvo
"In opposition to STG's plans, BP's team wrote in a letter that H2Teesside was of "national significance" and would provide a "significant contribution" to the UK's net zero targets."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqNcyFNMfLM&list=RDvqNcyFNMfLM&start_rad...
lol
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cglzl1ez283o
"Know they are going to be in bed..."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzLT6_TQmq8&list=RDyzLT6_TQmq8&start_rad...
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/ng-interactive/2025/aug/04/th...
The Unexpected Visit... ;-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPBdX-efYQ8&list=RDBPBdX-efYQ8&start_rad...
Planet Park.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/08/japan-two-hour-smartphone-...
Keep Busy.
'Walking in the Air'
Submitted by Captain Qalypso on
"Cllr George Jabbour is undertaking the gruelling challenge from St Bees in Cumbria to Robin Hood's Bay in North Yorkshire in the first major fundraising drive in his role as the council’s chair. He will be raising funds for Yorkshire Air Ambulance, which is his charity of the year. He has also bought a Coast-to-Coast Passport, which was launched earlier this year to inspire walkers and boost trade for businesses on the route."
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/aug/06/spaceships-design-stars-...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7hq8D2FSTo
"The 140-page booklet encourages hikers to collect stamps at 29 locations along the path, including shops, pubs and visitor attractions. It includes useful local information as well as special offers from businesses along the route."
https://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/25370904.north-yorkshire-council-chair-...
"No amount of handheld phone-camera or grainy news footage can disguise how terrible the alien ships look. They wouldn’t pass muster on a whimsical Snickers ad."
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/aug/06/war-of-the-worlds-remake-am...
"The tradition of undertaking the walk means walkers carry in their pocket or rucksack a pebble taken from the Irish Sea at St Bees to drop in the North Sea at Robin Hood’s Bay."
It's about time someone did somin useful..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIVDxL2lgN4&list=PLZppASF5tn2ljmp168sWVs...
The leader of North Yorkshire Council, Cllr Carl Les, said; "that's another one conveniently out of the way..."
Whatdyamean it's to be done in Stages?
https://www.thisisthecoast.co.uk/news/local-news/former-army-reserve-cen...
Reinventing the Wheel.
Other than that ... exactly what the Hill needs.
""International law says you cannot simply take something that is important to the heritage of a country - be it a cultural item, a physical item, a natural item, an extraterrestrial item - out of the country. You know we've moved on from colonial times when all this was okay," Prof Sereno says."
Though must not Assume.
'True Nature'
Submitted by Captain Qalypso on
""These are not the actions of a legitimate protest group," Cooper said."
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4gj93j2r2go
"Cooper also referenced a so-called "Underground Manual" from the group, which she said "encourages the creation of cells, provides practical guidance on how to identify targets to attack and how to evade law enforcement"."
Well that took all of two seconds...
https://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/25395573.langdale-moor-blaze-fire-crews...
Hmmm ...
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/aug/15/post-your-questions-for-rid...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rervZv8C1yU&list=RDrervZv8C1yU&start_rad...
"So how on earth did famously rainswept England, notorious the world over for being green and wet with our national symbol pretty much a furled umbrella, come to this?"
Never, Mind.