The BBC are just reporting the sound stage used for Casino Royale has been completely destroyed in a fire. But is this the work of SMERSH or SPECTRE?
A replica of Venice before the fire, according to the BBC report the set was being dismantled. Fire crews were called at 11.38 this morning, and at least 8 engines attended.
Why do they have to put them on at once?
Yesterday we had…
England v. Portugal
Murray v. Roddick
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…and they all overlapped. Thankfully, I was able to use my time machine to propel the Doctor into the future, and the BBC’s live, online Wimbledon coverage to watch the Murray’s tense first set during extra time.
Well, the football was a bit disappointing all round, really. But the tennis? Probably the match of this tournament – Murray is brilliant. Straight sets, I couldn’t believe it! Some incredible rallies… And the last clash – well, I’m on the edge of my seat. (Unfortunatly, next Saturday, my cousin has decided to get married… on the day of the Ladies’ Singles Final, the semi-final losers and Doomsday!)
Hull council, now under the control of the Lib Dems, have announced they will resume charging for the healthy school meals that were introduced as free in a pilot under the previous Labour administration in 2004.
95% of children are eating school meals in Hull and 24,000 pieces of fresh and veg are served up daily. The scheme is being phased out before the pilot stage is completed on the grounds of cost.
This is exactly what schools should be doing nationwide. Teachers have, unsurprisingly, remarked on the increase in concentration; also Hull has one of the highest rates of obesity in Britain. If the political will was there, this would be continuing, and reflected in other cities across the UK.
Yes, £3.8m is a lot of money, but can anyone think of something better to spend it than on putting fresh healthy food into our kids?
5 days ago the Universities and Colleges Union was formed, from the Association of University Teachers and the National Association of Teachers in Further and Higher Education. Today they ended their strike over pay in Universities with a deal worth 13.1% over three years (so about 4.3% a year?) Quick work!
As reported recently in the Guardian, the beach at Lyme Regis is being rebuilt. This is the last stage of work to prevent parts of the town slipping down the hill and into the sea.
Not only are there diggers along the entire beach, but up the hillside behind.
These photos show low tide on Wednesday, when shingle from the shore line was being moved up the beach.
This morning we headed over there for breakfast to see the sand and shingle being landed. High tide was at 1109 but at 9.00 the first load had been transfered from the large ship moored in the bay onto one of the two smaller ships being used to land the materials on the beach.
You can see, in the centre of the picture above, a small ship alongside the larger ship, being loaded.
The first load brought in was sand from France.
The ships were brought right into the beach, with the bow held aground by constant propultion.
By the time the first ship had unloaded, a the second ship had loaded and was ready to nose into the beach.
This time the load was Isle of Wight shingle.
The end of the shingle banks, and the low tide line, are marked by a traffic cone on a very long pole…
A piano has been “discovered” on top of Ben Nevis. The Guardian is reporting it’s a mystery how it got there over 20 years ago. They link to the John Muir Trust press release stating it’s a mystery how it got there.
They obviously didn’t Google “Ben Nevis Piano” or they’d have found the John Muir Trust press release from 2000 stating a piano had been pushed up the mountain. Or indeed the claim on moutainwalks.co.uk that it was Kenneth Campbell of Ardgay, Ross-shire that did it, to raise money for charity.
It’s an amazing what the internet as a medium can do for journalism. But it doesn’t seem to be being used for research.
The pictures are breathtaking though.
On the Five News before House last night, I saw the story of the pregnant 63 year old. Tonight at the pub I found I was drinking with someone who knows Rashbrook, and then at supper I found one of my companions knows Farrant. Small world, eh? But what really seems strange is on the news, a pro-life lady was against this pregnancy. That’s not very pro-life, is it?
I see from Wikipedia that I missed several more opportunities to be fooled yesterday. I must have been in the shower when Today announced that the UK Theme had been partially reprieved by replacing it with a new euro theme. Google Rooms beta was rumoured.
And by not visiting Macrumors yesterday I missed out on the utterly brilliant Page 3 where it was revealed the next OS after panther will be OS X Felix, that iTMS would switch to WMA and merge its Country and Classical Genres (“to save disk space”) and that Apple and Disney are to “aquire each other”. Read every detail – from the delightful ratings, to references to products such as the µMac and the odour sensitive trackpad.
David McKie surveys the greatest April Fools for the Guardian, loyally disagreeing with the Museum of Hoaxes putting the BBC’s Spaghetti harvest Panorama above the Guardian’s own Sans Seriffe (which only makes number 5).
Meanwhile, get some Google Romance and post your profile to see the best of previous years (I love PigeonRank).
