Also In The News - part 3

[urban.spaceman]

3 hours ago, FoyleFox said:

In local news. 

BBC News - Major revamp of Leicester Market paused for review after demolition

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leicestershire-69045503

Sympathetic to the market traders and while I'm not a massive fan of Soulsby, I do like the idea of creating a large open space in that area. I don't like the idea of moving the market to Cank Street.

 

I'd be supportive if they demolish the buildings between the current market area and Horsefair street and maybe a couple of buildings at the top of Gallowtree Gate; then licence bars, restaurants and cafes for the surrounding buildings and put the market in the space between the Town Hall square and the old market area. Create a new, huge and attractive open space bang in the centre of the city where people can come to use the market, sit in a green space or outside a cafe or pub. 

 

Probably unpopular and I don't like how Soulsby has gone about it, but I do think it would be a nice change for the city.

[kenny]

49 minutes ago, urban.spaceman said:

Sympathetic to the market traders and while I'm not a massive fan of Soulsby, I do like the idea of creating a large open space in that area. I don't like the idea of moving the market to Cank Street.

 

I'd be supportive if they demolish the buildings between the current market area and Horsefair street and maybe a couple of buildings at the top of Gallowtree Gate; then licence bars, restaurants and cafes for the surrounding buildings and put the market in the space between the Town Hall square and the old market area. Create a new, huge and attractive open space bang in the centre of the city where people can come to use the market, sit in a green space or outside a cafe or pub. 

 

Probably unpopular and I don't like how Soulsby has gone about it, but I do think it would be a nice change for the city.

Green Dragon Square has been a flop and it has been suggested that the market goes there.

[Super_horns]

That ideal has got to pot then !

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-69058303

 

[FoxesDeb]

My next door neighbour when we lived in Wigston was the owner of a very popular and successful cafe in the market. They moved the business to Wigston when the market closed as they couldn't afford the loss in trade while they waited for the refurbishment.

 

I wonder how many other traders have left and won't be returning?

[MPH]

2 hours ago, Super_horns said:

That ideal has got to pot then !

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-69058303

 

 

Haha i see what you did there..

[purpleronnie]

Michael gove actually wrote this in his resignation letter.

 

"I have always tried to be a voice for the overlooked and undervalued," - Michael Gove.

[Wymsey]

Hopefully he, finally, stops with the posts now..

 

https://www.theguardian.com/society/article/2024/may/24/joey-barton-calling-jeremy-vine-a-bike-nonce-was-defamatory-judge-rules

 

[Daggers]

I've unblocked Barton just so I can watch the inevitable implosion and renewed grift following defeat in the courts.

 

What goes through the head of someone to send Barton money to his gofundme? He's raised £16,241 ffs! Hopefully this is just added on to the top of the final judgement so he's left sorely out of pocket.

 

The decent thing is that he's too stupid to settle so he's going to be landed with Vine's full costs.

 

[Zear0]

13 minutes ago, Wymsey said:

Hopefully he, finally, stops with the posts now..

 

https://www.theguardian.com/society/article/2024/may/24/joey-barton-calling-jeremy-vine-a-bike-nonce-was-defamatory-judge-rules

 

He's been suspiciously quiet on the result. Quel supris. 

[Daggers]

In other news:

 

[urban.spaceman]

32 minutes ago, Daggers said:

In other news:

 

When the cinema staff gave you salted popcorn instead of sweet like you asked.

[CrazyKopCorner]

38 minutes ago, Daggers said:

In other news:

 

What a fuching charlatan. Start chucking some of these lying bu@@ers in the clink

[urban.spaceman]

 

 

[Dunge]

1 hour ago, Daggers said:

In other news:

 

Ian Hislop just went to town on her on HIGNFY. So much so that I wondered whether the slander lawyers would be rubbing their hands together.

[st albans fox]

40 minutes ago, Dunge said:

Ian Hislop just went to town on her on HIGNFY. So much so that I wondered whether the slander lawyers would be rubbing their hands together.

Private eye were on this for more than a decade 

hislop will know what he can and can’t say

[katieakita]

2 minutes ago, st albans fox said:

Private eye were on this for more than a decade 

hislop will know what he can and can’t say

Slander is only if not the truth, PE have been so supportive and so much more to come out. Wait for the tosspot from the NFSP and Tim Parker to go before the inquiry

[davieG]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3ggn9v1z7jo

 

Pour a proper pint, Trading Standards tells pubs
A bartender pours a pint from a beer tap in a bar.
IMAGE SOURCE,GETTY IMAGES
Image caption,
Beer and wine drinkers are likely missing out on full glasses, according to a "snapshot" study

Aleks Phillips
BBC News
Published
1 hour ago
More than two thirds of pints of beer and glasses of wine being poured in pubs and bars in the UK contain less drink than they should, new research suggests.

A report published on Friday by the Chartered Trading Standards Institute (CTSI) found 70% of the beer and wine it sampled across the country was being short measured.

It calculated that this meant an average beer drinker was losing around £88.40 a year, while a wine drinker was losing around £114.40 per year.

Trading Standards urged pubs and bars to make sure they are correctly measuring their drinks.

The research comes as alcoholic drink prices have risen rapidly in the past few years.

According to the Office for National Statistics, alcohol prices have increased 6.1% in the past year. However, as inflation has slowed recently, in the last month they only rose by 0.3%.

Labour MP Jess Phillips said the ongoing cost of living crisis meant being served short measures "adds insult to injury".

"Being able to afford to go out for a drink is not easy and you should get what you pay for," she added.

CTSI found that if beer was short measured, it was on average 4% less than a full pint, while for wine it was on average 5% lower than the 175ml standard glass.

The consumer body said that among the 137 drinks it sampled across 77 pubs and bars, the most under-poured drink was bought in Walsall, in the West Midlands, which was short by 15%, or 26ml.

Large deficits were also found in Belfast and Havering in east London.

Duncan Stephenson, a spokesman for CTSI, told the BBC it would not identify individual locations or chains it had found were under-pouring drinks "because we don't want to do that".

He also said it was "difficult for us to say" whether there were particular parts of the UK where short measures were likely to be more commonplace as the study was a "snapshot" with "a small sample size".

CTSI has called for broader research to be undertaken into the issue.

John Herriman, chief executive of CTSI, said it was "calling on the hospitality sector to ensure that consumers get value for money by making sure they are correctly measuring the drinks they are serving to customers".

But Emma McClarkin, chief executive of industry body the British Beer and Pub Association and a former Conservative MEP, told the Mirror that landlords "in no way want to be accused of short-serving the millions of customers who enjoy visiting our nation's pubs each week".

Off with their heads?
CTSI researchers measured the sample beers based on a pint being completely liquid - though there is an ongoing debate about whether the head should be counted as part of the pint.

When a 5% head - the industry standard for beer - was discounted, CTSI found around a third of the beers it sampled were still short measured.

The Campaign for Real Ale says that consumers should have a legal right to an entirely liquid pint.

Its chairman, Nik Antona, said punters were "well within [their] rights" to ask for a top-up if short measured by more than 5%.

He added: "Consumers shouldn’t have to feel short changed when they support their favourite pubs, social clubs, and taprooms."

Ms McClarkin said industry guidance reflected a requirement for a 95% liquid pint and affirmed that consumers who wanted a smaller head on their beer "should always feel free to ask for a top-up and should never be refused".

Polling conducted on behalf of CTSI by Censuswide found more people thought a head should not be counted as part of a pint than those who do - 35% compared to 26% - though there was no clear majority on the issue.

The survey of 2,001 UK adults also found a generational divide over whether pubs and bars should be allowed to pour spirits without a measuring device: around half of those aged under 45 said they should, while 59% of those aged 45 or older said they should not.

[CrazyKopCorner]

8 hours ago, Dunge said:

Ian Hislop just went to town on her on HIGNFY. So much so that I wondered whether the slander lawyers would be rubbing their hands together.

Not seen it and a big fan of Ian’s so assume 100% justification which is non actionable - she’d be a feeble witness in a court of law as well. 

[katieakita]

Watched HIGNFY and replayed Vennells pathetic apperance before the Horizon inquiry, nothing Ian Hislop said was untrue Vennells has lied time and time again. So many untruths it beggars belief and remember she has had 3 years being coached by the most expensive lawyers the tax payer can afford'. Post Office ltd was and still is run by crooks and incompetents still beleiving they are victim in this scandal. So much more can come out like just how many tens of millions of pounds where sat in suspense accounts which POL could not explain 

[Bordersfox]

48 minutes ago, katieakita said:

Watched HIGNFY and replayed Vennells pathetic apperance before the Horizon inquiry, nothing Ian Hislop said was untrue Vennells has lied time and time again. So many untruths it beggars belief and remember she has had 3 years being coached by the most expensive lawyers the tax payer can afford'. Post Office ltd was and still is run by crooks and incompetents still beleiving they are victim in this scandal. So much more can come out like just how many tens of millions of pounds where sat in suspense accounts which POL could not explain 

Hislop is a legend.  Private Eye were first reporting on this sh1t show back in 2011 I think, certainly a good while ago anyway.

 

I hope Hislop is right and that a new government will mean criminal prosecutions against the people who have destroyed the lives of innocent people - and tried to cover it up.  

[westernpark]

Hislop is excellent- well my opinion until I saw his play at the curve. Very boring and I come from an acting dynasty (not my words but the words of IMDB). Wipers times it was called.

[Foxdiamond]

1 hour ago, westernpark said:

Hislop is excellent- well my opinion until I saw his play at the curve. Very boring and I come from an acting dynasty (not my words but the words of IMDB). Wipers times it was called.

The 2013 TV version with Michael Palin and Ben Chaplin was good. Based on true story

[westernpark]

41 minutes ago, Foxdiamond said:

The 2013 TV version with Michael Palin and Ben Chaplin was good. Based on true story

I’m sure it was but I imagine you’re not from acting dynasty! Joke, I’ll give that a look.

[Footballwipe]

Confirmation that Sunak is desperate to lose this election by saying he'll bring back national service, as he prioritises the thought and wishes of old white men and women who, of course, never did national service and would never have to do it themselves. 

 

Absolutely incredible that he's so desperate to crack the Reform UK vote so help candidates in marginal seats where the vote might be split. Would be very interested to know how he'll fund the army in enforcing this, and if there are enough prison places for non compliance.

[Foxdiamond]

43 minutes ago, westernpark said:

I’m sure it was but I imagine you’re not from acting dynasty! Joke, I’ll give that a look.

It is one of those stories that would be ridiculous if not true