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A police officer was mowed down apparently last night. They can keep the road closed for as long as it takes for all I care if it means catching the vermin that did this. I'd rather be stuck in gridlocked traffic than have a loved one being seriously injured doing their job!

When bricklayers retire, Do they throw in the trowel ?

It’s nothing to do with Sheffield. It’s all about Izzard being in the limelight, winning a safe seat.

1 - it's a crime scene 2 - no I wouldn't because there's no comparison between being stuck in traffic and a loved one being seriously hurt

I think there is an expectation of posters who are struggling financially, that other members won't use that information to gloat or twist the knife.

You make it sound like I made that up. A forum post all in capital letters is deemed to be shouting, it may be new info to you but its generally accepted on t'Internet.

Hmmm... Not even that long... ... he was apparently kicked out after a year for being a disruptive influence! Although the Uni seem to like to say that he decided Uni life wasn't for him... ... sounds a bit better when you've awarded him an honorary doctorate for dropping out of an Accounting and Financial Management course! Thinking about it, that probably makes him an ideal person to represent Sheffield...

Rosie Duffield told a Labour fringe meeting at conference that she’ll quit as a party MP if Labour allows Eddie Izzard to stand for a seat on an all-woman shortlist. A tweet reporting as much was covered by PinkNews, though Guido’s now managed to dig out said clip. “I’m absolutely not the only Labour woman MP who will leave the party if Eddie Izzard gets a place on an all women’s shortlist.” She also emphatically told the audience that Eddie Izzard is not a woman, and Labour MPs agree with her on that. Surprisingly, PinkNews didn’t report the massive round of applause Duffield received…

OUTRAGE as trans comedian Eddie Izzard to stand in all-female MP shortlist

He's not agreeing with his own comments - he's agreeing with MY comments. He's right about the jabbed too. I'm one of the jabbed.... and I bitterly regret having it

Apparently Zelensky just bought his parents an 8 million quid house in Israel .

It's beginning to look that way..........

I disagree. Putin has no intention of stopping at Ukraine if he’s allowed to get away with it. He’s motivated by a quasi mythological BS theory very like the original nazis. He believes there is “Land power “(Russia) and “Sea power “(The west). He thinks Land power should rule the whole of Europe before a final battle with Sea power leaves only one victor. I know that sounds crazy but that’s the sort of crap he’s been listening to from the likes of his Rasputin lookalike advisor and others. So yeah it is our war already whether we chose it or not.

Want to see how much Truss and Kwarteng’s disastrous 'mini-budget' is going to cost us? https://kamikwasi.tax/

If you haven't already, you can hear excerpts of Liz Truss' disastrous round of radio interviews this morning here: Painful and awkward.

Id rather have slightly lower intelligence but have a bit more common sense which is attributed to people with conservative values Liberals mostly live in a world full of rainbows, unicorns and irrational narcissistic rage

Clun Road, Pitsmore 1- 5 yrs, we lived with grandma on a very hilly cobbled road. Our neighbour had stuffed animals in his front room he was a magician and liked cactii. His daughter wore very pretty dresses. My brother made nail varnish remover for girls, he had blown eggs in his bedroom. I wet my pants at school and ran home my brother washed them. Helping mum push a wooden barrow with slack in it. Studfield Hill Wisewood, 5-7yrs my mum putting me outside school at 6.30 in the morning so she could catch the bus to work, scrumping for apples with friends and nearly being caught by the farmer, roller skating my absolute love, building a raft to use on the local pond, listening to the radio and thinking little people lived inside of it. North Street Sheffield, our toilet was in the yard and we had newspaper hung on a nail on the door, a tin bath hung on our wall outside, we had no garden, I used to play outside on the pavement with the other children, in the winter we had ice on the inside of the windows. we had a open fire downstairs which I used to make before mum came home from work. Going on holiday and mum ran out of money and a lady gave her some so we could get home. Mum buying me a second hand treadle sewing machine and making my own clothes using patterns. I have masses of memories of my early years and the struggle my mother had bringing my brother and me up, she worked two jobs to make ends meet, Monday to Friday in a factory and Saturday washing glasses at a pub. Worked all her life never went out without me and lived for us. My father who I do not know decided he wanted the single life when she was pregnant with me. so left. My mother was born in 1907 very slim 4 foot 11 inch, before she married was a under house maid in a doctors, my father was born in 1895.

Nobody’s fooled.

We all will in the form of higher mortgage payments, increased inflation and cost of living (and associated increase in VAT payments) - so yes, I am... as are you... Lizzie and Kami are ephemeral, the crisis they have created in a week isn't. They want to be able to leave a note in the drawers of No 10 saying - "This time there REALLY isn't any money left" After which Labour will have to do the cost cutting and austerity and then the Tories will bray and haw from the opposition benches saying "you're in charge, sort it..."

Almost anyone but Dumb and Dumber who we have now... (except Boris of course...)

Untargeted, uncosted, unsustainable - we will pay for it in the long run. This government is a shambles, they are bankrupting the UK and its citizens. I really don't see how anyone with any sense can support Dizzy Lizzy and KamiKwazi's actions. Let's get some real politicians in to run the country.

Whilst I have every sympathy for the injured police officer I too am mystified at the need to keep roads closed hours after the incident. If he was knocked down by a car that has not stopped just what are they expecting to find? Passed Arundel gate this afternoon police had closed off the road and pavements BUT there was sign of any police looking on the road or pavement for evidence. There were two policemen on each side of the road presumably to stop pedestrians walking (police car had blocked the road) at the Castle Sq. end no idea how many at the other end . Why was it necessary to post two highly trained police officers on each side of the road surely one on each side would been enough or even better use cheaper community support officers rather than chucking abuse about why not concentrate on the issue of how police resources are being used and the need for police to be held to account for unnecessary disruption to the public.

I think it's a mixed bag. There are some areas where automation, AI systems, etc, enhance life, increase efficiency and improve things for us all. Some areas where they don't. I think driverless cars for example; probably will drastically reduce number of deaths we have on our roads. What's not to like? On the flip side, will such automation make us even more lazy and inept than we typically are right now? (as we become ever more dependent on technology)

Trickle Down economics has been tried and doesn't work. It requires massive government spending to make it look as if it's working and we are in no position to do that, the UK currently owes £ 2 . 3 Trillion. National debt is acceptable providing that it's being used to fund growth and improvements that will eventually provide a return to enable the debt to be serviced. Making the rich richer will not achieve that. https://www.thebalancemoney.com/trickle-down-economics-theory-effect-does-it-work-3305572 https://www.faireconomy.org/trickle_down_economics_four_reasons

If Eddie Izzard can be a woman then I suppose text on a screen can be called shouting. 😆

You arent familiar with forum etiquette then are you. Online posts in capital letters are deemed to be shouting. https://www.skillsyouneed.com/write/capital-letters.html Rule 6.

It's the least convenient of the main terminals for the West End, if that's what you're getting at, but the differences are all pretty negligible when you're talking about a place like London. All the main terminals are on the 'periphery' of central London and it's rare - since London is a big place - that you don't need to (or wouldn't choose to) catch at least one tube train to get to them. Liverpool St is served by Central, Circle, Hammersmith, Metropolitan lines, not to mention the new Elizabeth line. It's hardly as if you're being dropped off in a retail park on the M25.

No, you just made a generalisation. People on UC work various hours for lots of different reasons, often involving childcare (which is horribly expensive due to it being left to the market). And you have no evidence that GPs work part time for tax reasons. They are also leaving the profession in droves, maybe you think that's for tax reasons as well, you thick twàt.

My thoughts are with the officer and his family, I’m sure that the police will release a statement when they have something to say.

Some on here will know that due to the rank incompetence/medical negligence of hospital staff, some years ago I almost lost my son. For the next 6 almost 7 years his life has consisted of tests, invasive procedures, more tests, enough medication to bring down a horse and make him rattle when he walked, daily excruciating pain which stopped him finishing college and reduced his quality of life to zero. Well, I'm delighted to say that my son returned to college today. Watching him hobble into college made me almost burst with pride and I'm not embarrassed to admit I had a good cry. It's very early days, he's still in a fair amount of pain, he's still limited as to what he can do and he is still on more meds than I've taken in my entire life but today, finally he's back in college. This is a wonderful day and I couldn't be happier 🙏

You have said what the majority of posters are thinking.

I’ve just found this link Padders. It might be better if you lined your house with extra thick cardboard instead of your shed. https://www.ready.gov/nuclear-explosion .

Why are you shouting?

An apology for what? A police officer being run over in the carrying out of his or her duties for something that hasnt actually affected you? You really are an awful piece of work.

Nice of you to offer your best to the police officer who got run over. Instead we get a moan about how its impacted you. Classy.

If your sexuality is subjective, can your age also be changed? Can I legally say that I am 21 again?

Saw him play for Brum against the Owls in a 4th round cup tie as a 17 year old in 1969 - 2-2 draw in front of 52,000 people. He looked like he had pipe cleaners for legs. A few weeks after we'd won a 3rd round replay at Leeds 3 -1 - as a teenager I was sure the cup was nailed on after that..............

"Intellectual" and "honesty" are not words that can sensibly associated with Tucker Carlson.

The same Tucker Carlson who states "I lie"? https://www.theguardian.com/media/2021/sep/14/fox-news-host-tucker-carlson-i-lie “I guess I would ask myself, like, I mean I lie if I’m really cornered or something. I lie. I really try not to. I try never to lie on TV. I just don’t – I don’t like lying. I certainly do it, you know, out of weakness or whatever."

Good for him. I wish him good luck learning a useful trade 👍

Our solar battery can only charge or discharge at 2.99kwh max, so if you've got a few power-hungry appliances running you can't run a house off grid, even if there's enough power in the battery. I realise different batteries may not have that limit, but ours does.

We seem to have reached that familiar stage in the political cycle when people have had enough of the incumbent government and have decided it's time for a change so Labour will probably win next time. The problem with our electoral system is that we have 2 parties who take it in turns, every 10-15 years to mess things up. Labour messed things up last time so now it's the Tories' turn to mess things up and in a couple of years, it will be Labour's turn again. Everything will seem fine for a couple of years; we'll have a newly nationalised energy company, the 45% income tax band will have been restored and the minimum wage will be £15 per hour. A few years later when the population has reached 80 million, the national debt has reached £4 trillion to pay for the extra demand on the welfare state and the NHS and half the tax intake is spent on debt interest payments, people will decide Labour have messed things up and it's time for the Tories to have a few years to mess things up. The problem may be that instead of looking at things objectively and thinking we need a mix of left wing and right wing policies, both parties follow their own political dogma so we get first one and then the other. It would be interesting if the voters decided they'd had enough of both of them and switched to the smaller parties but every time an election comes round, they stick with their tribal loyalties and vote for the 2 main ones so on and on we go, decade after decade as we continue to slide down to the state of a 3rd world country which is what we'll soon be.

It was off what was Park Lane - now Finchwell Road. Next one on the left after Hall Road. At the time of Harry Johnson's death, it was just a short stretch of road, but by the 1930s it had been lengthened and renamed Halesworth Road - which is what it is still called. So very close to Handsworth Quarries. See this map, published 1923: https://maps.nls.uk/view/125651425 I presume you've found the local newspaper coverage. But for others interest, here's a clipping I found that I can share from the Leicester Mail, 22 August: https://www.newspapers.com/clip/110341983/quarry/ The quarries were a death trap. In May 1907 16-year old crane driver Henry Abdey was killed when stone fell on him (the report about this notes that George Buxton owned the quarry). In 1914, crane driver Leonard Outram escaped serious injury when his clothing got caught in machinery. Ernest Battams' body was found by boys in early February 1927. He had fallen 60ft into the quarry (not the pool); the verdict in that case was accidental death. In September 1928, John Buxton narrowly avoided injury when a crane collapsed and fell onto the roof of the quarry office. Glady's Batty drowned at Buxton's Quarry in 1931. The inquest concluded she had taken her own life.

The way way this Goverment has performed there will be no if about it, a foregone conclusion, Starmer will be the next PM.

Always the scapegoat the players do the biz he just picks the side .. Can any of us do any better...nope...

“ installed “ 😂😂😂

The Dirty Dozen

Having worked in social housing my experience is that a minority of tenants take up the majority of housing officers’ time. Evicting anti social tenants requires a lot of evidence from a variety of sources to present to a court which can take months/years during which affected neighbours give up recording incidents as they perceive nothing is being done. If cases do reach court appointed lawyers will plead mitigating circumstances such as substance misuse etc and request another chance for the tenant. I now live in social housing, pay my rent on time, get on with my neighbours and, hopefully don’t cause them any aggravation. On the odd occasion I’ve needed to contact Housing Services I might have had a bit of a wait on the phone but their response has been good. In comparison to some friends in private rented accommodation I’ve received a far better service