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Thanks Tigerfan. I was completly unaware of the temporary bus stop near the library (and so too was the bus driver as I'd rung the bell before we got to that point). SYT need to act on this and either make the temp bus stop more prominent (incl. educating 1 / 1a bus drivers to the fact that it exists and they are supposed to stop there if asked) or install a full new bus stop sharpish.

I made the mistake of catching the 1 (Stagecoach) service to Firth Park earlier in the week only to find out that it actually doesn't stop in Firth Park centre. It runs down Hucklow Road and then turns left onto Stubbin Lane at the roundabout before heading up Barnsley Road. If you want to 'get off' at Firth Park, you either have to ensure you get off at the stop before the roundabout or the one on Stubbin Lane half way to Barnsley Road. Very poor planning in my opinion. Why can't one of the 1 / 1a services be routed along Firth Park Road or at least have them loop around the one way system in Firth Park Centre? Seems a no brainer to me. Currently 6 buses run along Hucklow Road to Firth Park as opposed to 3 running via Firth Park Road. 8 of the 9 buses service the Northern General Hospital before going to Firth Park with the bus stop opposite the Tesco Express in Fir Vale. If a bus service is advertised as running via a locality, then I'd expect it as a bare minimum to service the focal point of that community and interconnect with any other bus services too. The new 1/ 1a services fail to do that IMHO.

If you can get to Elsecar Heritage Centre, they have a sewing and dress making class / dropin session each Wednesday 6:30 - 8:30. Costs a fiver. My daughter has been going for past few weeks and really enjoys it.

It probably should have a Police escort to deter Google from hoovering up any unsecured WIFI data.

Google Maps are updating their Street View images of Sheffield again. I've just been captured by the Google car in Broomhall. Smile for the camera!

Stagecoach 88 service

As a kid growing up in the 80s, it has to be the Next Generation as my all time favourite. I agree, the producers did start to run out of interesting material towards the end, although the series finale was an exception. Deep Space Nine got off to a sluggish start, however it really picked up when the writers started to develop the massive Dominion War story arc. Voyager was similar in that it got better as the series progressed especially after the introduction of Seven of Nine. Enterprise was ok, although as with DS9 the writers started to introduce more story arcs in seasons two and three. Shame it got cancelled as it was just starting to get interesting. 1. Next Generation 2. Deep Space 9 3. Voyager 4. Original Series 5. Enterprise 6. Animated Series

Mr Turner - 9/10 Watched it on DVD the other night. Fascinating insight into the complex personality of JMW Turner during the latter years of his life. DVD had an excellent featurette on how they made the film. Timothy Spall was absolutely fantasic as the painter in question and I'm surprised he wasn't nominated for an Oscar. He aparently took a crash course in learning to paint from an art historian in the style of JMW Turner. Interesting to note that the scenes in the Royal Academy of Arts were filmed at Wentworth Woodhouse, which is not far from Sheffield. Next time I'm in London I'm tempted to visit the National Gallery just to see JMW Turners most famous paintings - The Fighting Temeraire and Rain, Wind and Speed.

I've read on Geek.com that New Horizons currently has a 1 kilobit per second download rate. For a 1024x1024 pixel picture (300k uncompressed size), it would usually take 42 minutes to stream. In reality given the distance of Pluto at 30 astronomical units it takes around 4.5 hours for New Horizons to stream the data back to Earth.

Latest high resolution view of Pluto has been made available: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-33524589

Quite true. It wouldn't surprise me in the least if FIFA perpetuates this farce and decides to 'reject' his resignation. Blatter is the only one that can sort out this mess . . . .

About time. Why did he put himself up for election only to resign four days later? Is he about to be arrested by the Swiss or Yanks? Have they found that smoking gun? Hope so. Good riddance to him.

Does that include the Tory prime minister Anthony Eden who took Britain into an illegal war in Suez? Nothing like a bit of balance

I used to live in Germany in the 1980s. As someone has already mentioned, it's a compulary part of the German national curriculaum to visit a Nazi concentration camp. My school took us to visit the Natzweiler-Struthof Concentration Camp located in Alsace, France. It's one of the smaller camps perched high up on a mountain top. Not much is left now, but a few of the barrack huts have been preserved as well as the punishment block, admin block and the crematorium. Nazweiller wasn't a death camp, however, many inmates died through disease, overwork and Nazi cruelty. An utterly hainting experience as on the day we visited, a dense fog had developed over the mountains. On the drive up to the camp the teachers turned the radio off explaining that the road had been paved with Jewish gravestones. An experience I won't forget. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natzweiler-Struthof

Notre Dame starting school at 11:00. Buses running 2 hours later than normal.