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Finnegan

Finnegan

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Posted
2 minutes ago, Miquel The Work Geordie said:

I personally won't rest until Longslade is knocked down, call it "Cheddars Academy" all you like a tip is a tip

 

It almost has been to be honest. 

 

Most of what was Longslade to us has been bulldozed. 

 

Finnegan

Finnegan

Posted
Posted
6 minutes ago, Miquel The Work Geordie said:

 

Yeah man I know the old science and maths block has gone - BUT ITS NOT ENOUGH

 

You want it lasered off the map from orbit? 

 

Fair. 

 

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Parafox

Parafox

Posted
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6 hours ago, kenny said:

 

 

Change your wifi password so your fridge doesn't turn itself off or its warm champers for you!

Thanks. I'll change it from *****fridge to *****fridgidaire. Those models are so outdated that no bot would make a link.

 

 

Parafox

Parafox

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9 hours ago, Super_horns said:

Sounds like not only was the execution a mess the emergency phone calls were too .

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/cqpvgrkp0xpyo

 

Maybe unsurprisingly the emergency services thought it was a hoax .

When you listen to/read the transcript this is entirely possible. The information the caller was giving was pretty vague and the call handler was struggling to make sense of it.

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Robo61

Robo61

Posted
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2 hours ago, kenny said:

Many of those are offered scholarships to get them in as it's boosts the profile of the school.

 

There are more than 10 lcfc youth players at Radcliffe and at least 2 at repton paid for by the club.

I doubt they are scholarships, King Power will be paying.

kenny

kenny

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5 minutes ago, Robo61 said:

I doubt they are scholarships, King Power will be paying.

Yes, the others will be, the athletics, cricketers etc.

 

There was concern that the relegation was going to cost the local private schools, I'm not sure if it has or not.

Parafox

Parafox

Posted
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9 hours ago, davieG said:

Is that because they have smaller classes, the best paid, so probably better teachers, better facilities. I'm sure that must have an impact on the level of success.

 

Not necessarily. We have close friends who have two adopted daughters, sisters by birth, now grown adults, who both went to Princethorpe private school. One is now a successful high end property negotiator in London, engaged to a trainee London banker, making his way in the section. The other was an unmarried mother to a child that she struggled to care for and has been on benefits. Fortunately she married the child's father and it seems to be going well and they live a pretty mundane but normal life, as most of us do.

 

Not everything is as you'd expect.

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Trav Le Bleu

Trav Le Bleu

Posted
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2 hours ago, Parafox said:

Not necessarily. We have close friends who have two adopted daughters, sisters by birth, now grown adults, who both went to Princethorpe private school. One is now a successful high end property negotiator in London, engaged to a trainee London banker, making his way in the section. The other was an unmarried mother to a child that she struggled to care for and has been on benefits. Fortunately she married the child's father and it seems to be going well and they live a pretty mundane but normal life, as most of us do.

 

Not everything is as you'd expect.

No, but everyone is an individual. You still get people with extremely privileged backgrounds who still manage to make a pig's ear of it.

fox_favourite

fox_favourite

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11 hours ago, Zear0 said:

As a fellow survivor of that s**thole I'd forgotten about that weird gravel pitch.

Ha #metoo! Playing football on there was always interesting. Don't be a goalkeeper. 

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ClaphamFox

ClaphamFox

Posted
Posted
1 hour ago, fox_favourite said:

Wonder if the 'ice house' is still there?

I think it’s listed so very likely. Wasn’t there a rumour of a tunnel running from there all the way to the church in Wanlip with the remains of a WWII German soldier stuck down there?

 

I discovered a few years ago that Longslade was built on the site of an Anglo Saxon burial ground. Which explains a lot I reckon. 

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fox_favourite

fox_favourite

Posted
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13 hours ago, Finnegan said:

 

It almost has been to be honest. 

 

Most of what was Longslade to us has been bulldozed. 

 

Even when I was there it needed doing so better late than never I guess

 

Fellow Longsladers, I salute you in surviving there for at least 2 years of your life. Some of my mates were sad and stayed for 6th form, I got out as soon as I could. 

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Zear0

Zear0

Posted
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1 minute ago, Trav Le Bleu said:

Oh, it's a school?

 

Had to Google that.

 

Anyway, back to actual news...

 

Trump posts video of British man killed by tiger

 

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2026/10/13/donald-trump-tiger-video/

 

"Don't ever mess with nature!'

 

Wise words, Don, wise words.

 

Maybe he doesn't realise the climate is part of nature.

Perish the thought…

 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/12/order-halt-tree-removal-washington-dc-golf-course-trump

Robo61

Robo61

Posted
Posted
17 minutes ago, Trav Le Bleu said:

Oh, it's a school?

 

Had to Google that.

 

Anyway, back to actual news...

 

Trump posts video of British man killed by tiger

 

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2026/10/13/donald-trump-tiger-video/

 

"Don't ever mess with nature!'

 

Wise words, Don, wise words.

 

Maybe he doesn't realise the climate is part of nature.

You could said "maybe he doesnt realise" and left it at that🤣

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Bellend Sebastian

Bellend Sebastian

Posted
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13 hours ago, Finnegan said:

 

It almost has been to be honest. 

 

Most of what was Longslade to us has been bulldozed. 

 

Ah dammit. I had a good opportunity to do some light trespassing when my kid was at an event a couple of years ago at the Tara Palmer-Tompkinson centre as I so hilariously refer to it, which I didn't take. 

 

It all looked a lot smaller than I remembered

leicsmac

leicsmac

Posted
Posted
47 minutes ago, Trav Le Bleu said:

Oh, it's a school?

 

Had to Google that.

 

Anyway, back to actual news...

 

Trump posts video of British man killed by tiger

 

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2026/10/13/donald-trump-tiger-video/

 

"Don't ever mess with nature!'

 

Wise words, Don, wise words.

 

Maybe he doesn't realise the climate is part of nature.

 

On 06/10/2026 at 12:04, leicsmac said:

Oh, look, he's said something else that is as ridiculous as it is maliciously sociopathic. 

 

Must be a day ending in "y".

 

ClaphamFox

ClaphamFox

Posted
Posted
2 hours ago, fox_favourite said:

Even when I was there it needed doing so better late than never I guess

 

Fellow Longsladers, I salute you in surviving there for at least 2 years of your life. Some of my mates were sad and stayed for 6th form, I got out as soon as I could. 

To be fair I rather enjoyed my two years at the sixth form. Just as well really as the two prior to that were probably the most unenjoyable of my life.

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