I'm no fan of the polis, and they could've just tasered the fella and caused him to fall, but only once a full investigation has been carried out can fingers be pointed....Just the same as all the politician ****ers waiting on hearings and reviews that just get kicked down the road, eh?
16 year olds already get to vote up here (local and Scottish government elections), not sure what the level of engagement is from the 16-18 yo group though. My brother-in-law is Portuguese and he gets to vote as well, didn't even think that wasn't allowed down there.
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Clinging on by his fingernails tonight....looks like.it's gonna be close, maybe run to a second round in a couple of weeks
But hasn’t this happened before ? And by some way, fair or foul, he has always seemed to turn out in the winning side
He needs over 50% to win outright - last I saw he had about 48%, his main rival 46%....if it stsys like that there'll be a round two in 2 weeks
Confirmed - Harbour Energy to axe 350 jobs with north-east losses expected The loss of 350 onshore jobs would help the company make an estimated saving of £40 million per year from 2024. Staff at its base in Aberdeen are expected to bear the brunt of these cuts. Bookmark Comments2 NEWS By Thomas DurhamTrainee Reporter 16:36, 11 MAY 2023 please log in to view this image Enter your postcode for local news and info please log in to view this image Harbour Energy has confirmed hundreds of job cuts The North Sea’s largest oil and gas producer says it expects to cut hundreds of UK jobs. The loss of 350 onshore jobs would help the company make an estimated saving of £40 million per year from 2024. Staff at its base in Aberdeen are expected to bear the brunt of these cuts, which would inflict a one-off £12 million charge in the first half of 2023. The cuts also include reducing 20 per cent of its Aberdeenshire-based workforce as Harbour Energy says the windfall tax has eaten into profits. READ MORE: Hero Aberdeen medics to star in new series of Channel 4 documentary The levy was introduced in May by then-chancellor Rishi Sunak and has since been tightened by Jeremy Hunt. Harbour Energy says the tax saw its profits drop from £2.1 billion to £7 million last year. The firm added that, as a result, it did not bid for new projects in the North Sea and was continuing to downsize its UK operations. With over 80 per cent of its assets located in British waters, Harbour says it is keen to diversify internationally. The plans to cut jobs were announced as the company revealed it had delivered a ‘strong’ first quarter ahead of its annual general meeting.
Latimer Alder @latimeralder China INCREASED their CO2 emissions in the first quarter by MORE than the whole of UK produced in total. In just 3 months they wiped out any 'benefits' UK's entire #NetZero programme to 2050 would bring
Heat pumps are starting to look like a conspiracy against the public British Gas has just thrown a large spanner into a policy that seems increasingly unworkable, costly and embarrassing for the Government ROSS CLARK12 May 2023 • 1:45pm please log in to view this image please log in to view this image So, you want to do your bit for the environment, and you took the Government at its word when it told you that ditching your perfectly well-functioning gas boiler for a heat pump is the way to go. But what do you do if you can’t find an engineer prepared to install one of the devices in your home because, in all honesty, they know it wouldn’t actually keep you warm? British Gas has come out this week and stated what has doubtless been obvious for a long time to some homeowners who did take the plunge: that a standard heat pump runs at water temperatures which are too low to heat many properties. From now on, says the company, it will only agree to install a heat pump if it is convinced that it will succeed in getting the property up to a target temperature on the coldest days. If any of the heat pumps it installs fail this test, it says it will refund the money. Fair enough, but that will mean millions of homes cannot have a heat pump installed by British Gas. There are eight million homes in Britain which have solid walls and which, as a result, are hard to bring up to required insulation standards at a reasonable cost. If other companies follow British Gas’ example, the Government will have no hope of achieving its target of retro-fitting 600,000 homes a year with a heat pump by the end of this decade. British Gas has just thrown a very large spanner into the Government’s net zero ambitions. I don’t want to sound negative. I would much rather heat my house with an electric heat pump than its existing, smelly oil-fired boiler, and I would have made the switch years ago if I could be convinced it would keep the property warm. But to judge by the experience of many people, the air-source heat pumps being marketed en masse at the moment simply aren’t up to the job. They are an effective way of raising the temperature in your home when you don’t really need it to be heated, but if you live in an old property, and you have no other form of heating, you are likely to find yourself shivering on the coldest days. There isn’t a lot of heat to extract from the air when it is minus 10C outside. There is more heat to be found underground, but to tap into that requires a far more expensive and space-consuming ground source heat pump. To spend £10,000 on a heat pump which turns out only to be effective as background heating seems a poor deal when you can buy a gas boiler which will do the whole job for a fifth of the price. True, experiences vary, as indeed do people’s assessment of the work achieved by their heat pump – one of the biggest enthusiasts for heat pumps that I know also has a great oil-fired Aga in his home. But it seems to me that if heat pumps really are going to heat our homes in future the technology still has some way to develop. It is possible, even now, to buy a heat pump which chucks out water at similar temperatures to a gas boiler – but there is a big price to pay in terms of cost and efficiency. Maybe the technology will improve and costs will fall, but British Gas’ intervention this week should sound a warning to the Government – it is never a good idea to set targets before you are sure that technology is sufficiently advanced to allow them to be met.
nzherald.co.nz Sign In Premium: Auckland-based modular housing building company fails, 11 buyers hit Voyager 2022 media awards WEBSITE OF THE YEAR APP OF THE YEAR Home / New Zealand Police Ten 7 cancelled: Winston Peter blasts ‘sociological loonies’, blames decision on ‘woke cancel culture’ NZ Herald 13 May, 2023 01:55 PM 2 mins to read Save Share Winston Peters has blamed 'cancel culture' for TVNBZ's decision to can Police Ten 7. Photo / TVNZ Winston Peters has blamed 'cancel culture' for TVNBZ's decision to can Police Ten 7. Photo / TVNZ Winston Peters has blasted the axing of Police Ten 7 and called “cancel culture” the “social cancer on our country.” Earlier this week, former Detective Inspector Graham Bell, who narrated Police Ten 7 for 12 years, said he was sad but not surprised the show had been axed by TVNZ and political figures should be doing more to help identify and solve causes of crime, rather than criticising a television show. “Wokeness and political correctness have just killed it in the end,” said Bell. “You can’t hide from reality.” Bell said the “allegation” that Māori and Pasifika communities were a focus was “nonsense”. ADVERTISEMENT Advertise with NZME. “All it focused on was the people who were committing crimes or getting into trouble with the police from day to day. The police have never picked the colour of the people they deal with.” Many people had argued the show emphasised negative cultural stereotypes and marginalised specific communities. In March 2021, then-Auckland councillor Efeso Collins and Race Relations Commissioner Meng Foon said the show over-represented the Māori and Pasifika communities. New Zealand First leader Winston Peters. Photo / Alex Burton New Zealand First leader Winston Peters. Photo / Alex Burton Following Bell’s comments, former Deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters took to Facebook to say the show was cancelled this week because “woke cancel culture has now overtaken any sense of reality”. ADVERTISEMENT Advertise with NZME. He said Bell’s take on the show’s demise was right. “The complaints from the criminal thug apologists is that there were ‘too many Māori and Pacific’ being shown on camera being arrested - and the media swallowed their ideological rage. “Most level-headed Kiwis, including frontline police and people like Graham Bell, know that it’s only those sociological loonies who think that way - and would rather believe their feel-good lies than accept the harsher truth like the rest of us do.” TVNZ announced in February Ten 7 Aotearoa, formerly known as Police Ten 7, would be axed after 20 years and 750 episodes. The show would end with three one-hour finale specials.
