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The driver "managed to contact the control centre at Network Rail and get the train diverted onto the slow line", Calder says. "That was absolutely crucial because this train was scheduled to be travelling through Huntingdon station on the tracks with no platform at 125mph." "It didn't stop in the middle of nowhere, which would have been very difficult." Calder thinks this was handled in the "safest possible way" thanks to the "incredible professionalism from the driver and the police". Train drivers are trained on how to take appropriate action, he adds,

Next time someone tells you that train drivers "just push buttons" show them this from the BBC

Sean in Classic Corrie explains Eurovision to the Rovers crowd.

Bonsoir, fans!

Fascinating thesis here by Chris Brady looking at the phenomenon of the 'Northern Fun Pub' 1973-1993 and its mainstreaming of queer culture. It seems that Disco Tango, the 1979 Danish Eurovision entry by Tommy Seebach, was apparently the most popular 'tambourine song' in the pubs all over the North.

Milei looks like all the cast of Are You Being Served in one

Today I played my students, most of whom were born in around 2005, a Cissie and Ada sketch. I felt very old.

Teddy on her pouffe throne, surrounded by her favourite cardboard boxes.

Conservatives would scrap stamp duty, Kemi Badenoch says - follow live The party says it would scrap the

Reaction to Badenoch's speech is everything wrong with Britain's policymaking community. Mostly couched in terms of the politics and her survival. Nothing on the utter garbage of policies that would leave us in an even bigger mess. UK policymaking may be irredeemable.
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YouTube video by Nigel Hess - Topic Hetty Wainthropp Investigates (BBC)

The full, extended Hetty Wainthropp theme. Never mentioned when iconic TV music is mentioned, but for me it's up there with the Suchet Poirot theme for best ever TV theme.

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In memoriam...

Please join me in congratulating Woman on her appointment

The fascinating thing about this is that it demonstrates that the quality journalists in the BBC don't work for the flagship Westminster operation. If she'd said this on the Today programme, I doubt it would have been challenged as the presenter wouldn't have been across the facts either.

Dame Patricia Routlege - what a life well-lived. 96 years of bringing nothing but joy to millions of people all over the world.

When I first heard this line as a kid, it made me laugh so much that the fizzy drink I had just ingested exited through my nose.

Keeping Up Appearances actor Patricia Routledge dies aged 96 The actor was best known for her role as the pretentious housewife Hyacinth Bucket, and for the series Hetty Wainthropp Investigates

The lady of the house has left her residence :(

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A thing that we didn't know we didn't need.

This is the same kind of journalist who would write, with great surprise, that a council house was immaculately clean with a 'neat' garden when on a safari interviewing some 'ordinary people'.

I started watching a low budget Christmas film on tv, but I got distracted and when I got back a new one had started and I didn’t notice because they all have exactly the same plot

Today I learned that Frédéric Etherlinck, singer of the very unsuccessful 1995 Belgian Eurovision entry, is the host of the Belgian 'Traitors' franchise.

Friends fear he's replying to clikcbait threads on the Channel 5 Jeremy Vine Show Facebook page.

People are assuming that Andy Burnham would be looking for a seat in Greater Manchester. A much more realistic possibility would be St Helens South and Whiston, where the incumbent MP, Marie Rimmer, is 78. Burnham went to school in St Helens Borough and lives very close to the borough boundary.

This remarkable therapy uses an approach the Trump administration just cancelled funding for.

"She's no Beyoncé, but she did play bongos for Milli Vanilli" #CoronationStreet

YouTube video by Omar Vilata MOI, TOUT SIMPLEMENT - Switzerland at ESC 1993 - solo piano cover

No, I absolutely did not get caught by security singing along to this in my office when I thought the corridor was completely empty

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I love the fact that the 'ATV Studios' were actually the old Pilkington Glass HQ in my home town.

Just found an academic account of the iconic 'PALS?!! PALS?!!' scene on Coronation Street and it's delicious.

Social worker and book dealer?

Vox pops are the lowest form of journalism because they allow news organisations to editorialise through selective interviews without even the spurious science of polling data. This is leading the website of the BBC which must think it’s the most important news happening today.

I think the sector could do worse than do a sincere 'mea culpa' about keeping pay down in the times of plenty and offer to work for a long-term restoration of pay. The gaslighting about the history of pay does a lot to radicalise members.