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No - but that's because NHS funding hasn't kept pace with inflation / higher demand due to an ageing populattion.
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Sheffield Homelessness At All-Time High
Longcol replied to SheffieldForum's topic in Sheffield News & Discussions
And there are still over 1 million unoccupied homes in the UK - although often in areas of high unemployment eg the North East, Country needs to do some serious building of affordable social housing, especially in cities. -
Sheffield Homelessness At All-Time High
Longcol replied to SheffieldForum's topic in Sheffield News & Discussions
In 1901 the population of Sheffield was 450k and yet the city occupied a very small area - approx Hillsborough Corner north to south, Broomhill to the city end of Attercliffe west to east. None of the existing council estates or vast tracts of private housing existed. -
Sheffield Homelessness At All-Time High
Longcol replied to SheffieldForum's topic in Sheffield News & Discussions
No. "Immigrants" may well have bought their own house by now, or living in private rented accommodation, or social housing. Some will be homeless, due largely to similar problems to "indigenous people" eg mental health, poverty, drugs, alcohol and combinations of the aforementioned. -
Farmers Fear Food Shortages Caused By Green Schemes
Longcol replied to Chekhov's topic in General Discussions
Yes - like I've said, some ends up as cooking oil. -
Farmers Fear Food Shortages Caused By Green Schemes
Longcol replied to Chekhov's topic in General Discussions
Margarine is as likely to contain palm oil or sunflower oil. Rapeseed is also made into cooking oil, biodiesel and cattle cake. Not really a food like peas. -
Farmers Fear Food Shortages Caused By Green Schemes
Longcol replied to Chekhov's topic in General Discussions
Who eats oil seed rape? -
Farmers Fear Food Shortages Caused By Green Schemes
Longcol replied to Chekhov's topic in General Discussions
How does growing a legume crop eg peas, instead of oil seed rape, constitute not growing food? -
Meadowhead New Football/Rugby Ground Plus More
Longcol replied to bassett one's topic in Sheffield News & Discussions
Makes you wonder how the roundabout copes with rush hour 5 days a week when half the population of Dronfield is commuting to or from Sheffield. -
https://www.extremeweatherwatch.com/cities/sheffield/year-1995 Inch of rain 16 May and 24 - 29 May was reasonably damp. Thought he disappeared early June,
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Best part of an inch of rain in 7 September would have shifted a lot of stuff downstream pretty sharpish.
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Meadowhead New Football/Rugby Ground Plus More
Longcol replied to bassett one's topic in Sheffield News & Discussions
They won't all happen on the same day and not thousands every weekend - and not at the same time as all the commuter traffic from Dronfield etc goes through Meadowhead. 450 parking spaces is way more than many football grounds, even in the Premier League. -
Make John Birkhill A Sir Do You Agree?
Longcol replied to bassett one's topic in Sheffield News & Discussions
The older you get the more chance you'll die - and often of multiple causes eg my mum had heart trouble, dementia and cancer when she died. She was also worn out caring for my dad who had Alzheimers for some years and died a year before she did. Ain't no silver bullet for cancer or for many of the other diseases / conditions that will see us off in our old age. -
Make John Birkhill A Sir Do You Agree?
Longcol replied to bassett one's topic in Sheffield News & Discussions
The immunotherapy you quoted doesn't "cure" cancer - merely extends life expectancy for a few months, We all die of summat. Anyone found a cure for old age? -
Potentially only one moderately heavy rain event needed to move a body that far given the Sheaf is largely in culverts from roundabout at bottom of Granville Road through to confluence with the Don.
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Make John Birkhill A Sir Do You Agree?
Longcol replied to bassett one's topic in Sheffield News & Discussions
Given the cost and the small gain in life expectancy, probablu not. https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/apr/11/gamechanging-cancer-drug-rejected-for-use-on-nhs#:~:text=A gamechanging immunotherapy drug that,system to fight the cancer. although nivolumab can give people with advanced head and neck cancers an extra three months of life – when survival expectancy at present is around six months – the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (Nice) has rejected it. “The committee heard that treatment options for patients in this area are limited, and it’s important to patients that treatment extends their life and improves the quality of life. But the additional costs of nivolumab were considered to be very high in relation to its benefit to be recommended for routine NHS use at present,” said Prof Carole Longson, director of the health technology evaluation centre at Nice. Nice will not approve drugs that cost more than its threshold of £20,000 to £30,000 per year of quality life, except for an end-of-life treatment – as this drug is – in which case the threshold rises to £50,000. But Nice believes nivolumab would cost between £66,000 to £75,000 per year of quality life. -
Make John Birkhill A Sir Do You Agree?
Longcol replied to bassett one's topic in Sheffield News & Discussions
So thousands of cancer specialists the world over are having the wool pulled over their eyes by "big pharma" 😎 -
Meadowhead New Football/Rugby Ground Plus More
Longcol replied to bassett one's topic in Sheffield News & Discussions
Far more vehicles turn up near Hillsborough or Bramall Lane on match days and in the same time frame. Those areas manage. Realistically, how many vehicles will turn up for Sheffield FC or Eagles games on a regular basis? -
What distande was he carried and over how long? AFAIK the rivers down that end - Porter Brook and Sheaf - are both largely underground which would have greatly reduced the possibility of a body being spotted.
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SUFC supporters--remember " The Mighty Carlin "?
Longcol replied to echo beach's topic in Sheffield Football
Probably only played against then twice though = both in 67/68. Blades got relegated that season and next time I remember local derbies was in Div 2 when Ritchie had gone back to Stoke. -
Easy to drown in a couple of feet of water if you fall in and bang your head,
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SUFC supporters--remember " The Mighty Carlin "?
Longcol replied to echo beach's topic in Sheffield Football
If 1967 that's what I remember - off the underside of the bar as well.