A Family Of Eight Forced To Live In A One-Bed Council Flat

A family of eight, including seven children all under the age of 16, have been forced to live in a cramped one-bed council flat.

Cheryl Shaw and her six children have been living in the mould and damp-ridden property in Oldham, Greater Manchester, since last year. The property was originally given to her when she was pregnant with her youngest child, Laila, who’s now two years old.

It was intended for just them, but due to circumstances beyond her control, last year Cheryl had to take in her other six children.

A newspaper outlet reported that each morning, Cheryl Shaw wakes up and clears her living room floor of the makeshift bed that she and three of her children are forced to sleep on so they can use the little space there is to play.

Behind the sofa is used as storage space for clothes because there’s nowhere else for it to go, and despite lodging multiple complaints about the cramped and mouldy conditions, Cheryl said that she’s never had anybody come out to see the flat.

Now Cheryl is at breaking point, fearing for the safety of her children and has been pleading with Oldham Council for more space.

Cheryl claims both she and her social worker have begged Oldham Council and First Choice Homes (FCHO), who manage the property, for more suitable accommodation, but their pleas have been denied.

She said that she’s trying to fight and that she’s doing everything everybody asks of her, but that her children can’t sleep properly and the situation is awful.

Then the council told the M.E.N that no five-bed socially rented properties have been available in the area since July 2021. Cheryl claims she’s been advised to move further out of Manchester for a better chance of successfully bidding on a bigger flat, but that would mean she would have to upheaval her children’s schooling because they would have to change schools, and would interrupt their education.

She also feels that moving away from her family and support network would be setting her up to fail.

She said that even if they gave her a three-bedroom she could make it work and that she just wants them to give her a property suitable for her and her children.

This mother is presently paying £389 per month for a mouldy property which is rented out to her by her council. They have a duty of care to put the property right, and if they can’t do this, then they should be rehousing her. They are refusing to do anything and therefore have failed their duty of care.

Cheryl continued that the children have always got coughs and colds and that the dampness worries her. That it’s just horrible and that she has to have clothes around the back of her settee because she doesn’t have anywhere else to put them, and that First Choice Homes knows all about the mould.

A social landlord is a housing association or council that provides social housing in the United Kingdom. They have a duty to keep the property in a good state of repair as well as an ongoing responsibility for the tenant’s welfare.

The Defective Premises Act 1972 says that your landlord owes you a certain duty of care that is set out in this Act. They include a duty to prevent personal injury or damage to the property caused by defects in your home. This duty is owed to anyone, members of your family, and also visitors to your home.

As a landlord, they must keep your rented property safe and free from health hazards.

So, what is considered an uninhabitable living situation for a tenant in the United Kingdom? A property is unfit for human occupancy if living there could cause you or anyone else in your household serious harm, for example, issues with dampness.

It’s true, we do have a serious problem with overcrowding, due to there being not enough housing stock and this isn’t just in Greater Manchester, it’s going on all over the country.

This problem is getting absurd, but councils are happy enough to have hotels closed down for illegals coming into the United Kingdom, but not our own who were born and bred here, and the situation is appalling.

Building more homes appears to be a concern as well because there are not enough places to build them and so they’re being built on every piece of green land we have, so the United Kingdom is becoming a concrete jungle.

Prefab housing was a wonderful idea after World War II. It would allow many British people the housing that they needed, and they could be built to house however big the family was, but again we have to have the space to put them.

There are numerous golf courses that we probably don’t need. It’s excellent for the golfers but needs must, and prefabs would fit perfectly on this land, and it’s the perfect solution for the British people, so Sir Keir Starmer, if you want to do something productive for the British people who are in this dire situation, please bring this matter up in the House of Commons because we have numerous people who are in dire need of housing, right now!

For Girls’ Safety, Students Call On Rishi Sunak To Keep Single-Sex Toilets In Schools

Five teenage lassies have written to the Prime Minister urging him to keep single-sex toilets in schools to ensure female pupils’ safety and dignity.

In an open letter, the students, who are aged between 13 and 15, called on Rishi Sunak to attack the problem head-on when the Government issues its long-awaited transgender guidance to schools.

The girls, who used just their first names to sign their letter for fear of a backlash from trans activists, said single-sex facilities were an important safeguarding feature of schools. But they warned that numerous schools had begun introducing mixed toilets without consultation to appease transgender and Left-wing activists.

The five pupils, who identified themselves as Cynthia, Marilyn, Sonja, Olivia and Ellie, said many female pupils found mixed-sex toilets ‘intimidating, humiliating and downright dangerous’.

They called on Rishi Sunak, who’s the father of two daughters, to uphold their rights.

They said that there was no justifiable reason to introduce dangerous and uncomfortable spaces into schools, and the Government had a duty to ensure that toilets in schools were safe and dignified.

The letter warns that in many schools, girls are so uncomfortable with having to use the toilets that they just don’t go to the toilet at school, risking a urinary tract infection.

They decided to write to Rishi Sunak after nearly 12,000 people signed an online petition launched by one of the girls calling for single-sex spaces to be protected in schools.

The letter cites a school in Southampton where there were recent demonstrations against the introduction of ‘gender neutral’ toilets amid assertions that boys were photoing girls in the gaps above or below toilet stalls.

A teenage boy was arrested after police investigated a report that a number of girls were being sexually assaulted in mixed-sex toilets at another school in Essex.

The girls said being forced to share toilets with boys was unpleasant for female students who were menstruating, adding that girls must have private spaces where they can sort this out with dignity, away from potential shaming from boys and the humiliation of having everyone know they’re on their period.

Cynthia, 15, said her secondary school had as many mixed-sex toilets as well as single-sex ones. She told a newspaper outlet that the mixed-sex toilets were so disgusting and unhygienic, and that very few people used them apart from the boys, so really they’re just another set of boys’ toilets.

It’s a sad time indeed when you have to appeal to a Prime Minister to keep single-sex toilets to keep young people safe, and it’s an abdication of care on an unparalleled scale to our young children and should have never happened at any price.

It’s not even about safety, although that is undoubtedly essential and should be for the protection of all, girls as well as boys, and also transgender. What it’s actually about is providing dignity and a private space for personal activity, and these mixed toilets only motivate others to corner these vulnerable girls with the goal of bullying or sexual behaviour on their minds.

Young girls shouldn’t have to beg for privacy and protection, and this matter shouldn’t have even seen the light of day because it shouldn’t have occurred, and the Government needs its head testing.

These girls are very brave indeed, they spoke their minds, and perhaps more of us should be doing that, not just about this matter, but other matters as well. The trouble is most people air their opinions behind their closed doors, screaming with frustration and anger – it’s time to come out from behind your sofas, open your front door and scream as loud as you want without persecution.

People fought much bigger wars than his, and yes, many died. People need to fight for what they believe in because we as human beings are worth more than this. I believe it’s called ‘Power to the People’, the trouble is we don’t seem to have much of that anymore.

All you people out there know what you have to do, so do it!

In Three Years’ Time, Australia May Be Cashless

A finance expert has warned Australia could become a cashless society in as little as three years with thousands of people to be left worse off because of it.

Among those who could suffer in a cashless society are people in regional areas, those caught in emergencies, indigenous Australians, new immigrants, sex workers, the elderly and even children.

Young people will suffer, according to finance commentator Sarah Wells, because they won’t learn the true value of money and lose valuable social interactions when all transactions are digital.

Sarah Wells told a newspaper outlet that she believes it’s better for children to use cash, and that giving a child $20 and taking them to a shopping centre, or the movies helps them to learn to budget and helps them to make decisions by thinking more carefully.

She said that there’s a responsibility in handing over money and such valuable social interaction, they learn to say ‘please’ and ‘thank you’ and look people in the eye.

The use of banknotes and coins sharply diminished during the pandemic, partly due to fears the virus could survive on real money and spread to humans.

Current data shows Australians have never used less cash with more and more opting for digital payments.

The Reserve Bank of Australia said in its recent Cash Use and Attitudes bulletin that the share of in-person transactions made with cash halved, from 32 per cent to 16 per cent, over the three years to 2022.

Banks have increasingly put more emphasis on digital transactions with Commonwealth Bank, Westpac, NAB and ANZ opening cashless branches.

According to the Financial Services Union, in Australia, more than 1,600 bank branches permanently shut their doors between June 2017 and July 2022, with a ‘disproportionate number’ in regional communities that are more significantly affected.

Westpac has embarked on a ‘co-locating’ strategy in which it’s closing some separate locations of brands it owns like St George and moving them inside a Westpack branch.

The remaining big four banks, Commonwealth, ANZ and NAB have all opened cashless branches where customers are directed to ATMs for ‘everyday banking’.

Ms Wells predicted Australia is on track to stop using physical money within three to five years.

She says we can slow the disappearance of cash from society by using it when it still makes sense to do so.

The arguments for more and more transactions occurring online are generally convenience and safety.

These banks want cashless so that they can make more money on every single transaction, and governments should do their job and legislate to make sure currency will always be there.

It’s simple, if you don’t like the idea, which many don’t, then stop tapping your phone and card and start using cash again, and of course, if there was a power outage, or if the internet infrastructure got hacked then we would be screwed – we need alternatives. USE IT OR LOOSE IT!

Everyone must start using cash because our way of life as we know it is gradually slipping away.

This has nothing to do with convenience or security, it has to do with control.

What will happen if the government believes that you’ve not been paying enough tax? What will happen if they think you’ve not been eating enough fruit and vegetables, or that you’ve been purchasing too much alcohol, or socialising with the wrong people? They will be able to freeze your account and then you starve. Far fetched? Not really.

Programmable digital currency plus digital ID equals total control and we should be using cash as often as possible, and don’t frequent businesses that won’t accept it.

More Than 1,000 Tonnes Of Rotting Seaweed Swamp Kent’s Beaches

A potentially lethal health warning has been issued in the United Kingdom as a surge of decaying seaweed sweeps across holiday beaches.

More than 1,000 tonnes of seaweed has been removed from Kent’s holiday beaches between Minnis Bay and Broadstairs in just five weeks due to the surge in toxic sludge.

It’s said to have cost Thanet district council £65,000, but they’re still unable to clear the seaweed from some areas due to marine conservation zones.

The reason behind the toxic invaders coming to our beaches has been put down to ideal growing conditions in the North Sea with warming seas and strong winds.

Amy Cook, founder of the community initiative Rise Up Clean Up Margate, said while it’s typical to get seaweed blooms in hotter temperatures, this year has been unusual.

She told a newspaper outlet that this year the smell of seaweed has hung over the whole town, which doesn’t usually happen.

Seaweed is a macroalgae that can only grow in seawater. As it decays it can emit a gas called hydrogen sulphide, which can impact fish and be deadly.

UK government guidelines also explain how prolonged exposure to the seaweed can cause headaches, eye irritation and respiratory problems.

However, while the seaweed continues to cause problems, Thanet district council can’t remove it from some locations due to the presence of a chalk reef which is a marine conservation zone.

Earlier this year it was revealed that beaches in Weymouth, Dorset experienced the same problems.

One of Britain’s most popular seaside resorts, Weymouth reported signs that the beaches were gradually being reclaimed by nature thanks to a mass of pungent seaweed.

Swimmers complained of having to wade through the carpet of kelp to get to the sea.

Children have also found themselves draped in its slimy strands as they came out of the water, leading to locals calling for the ‘smelly’ stuff to be removed.

But council officials in the Dorset town said they have no plan to clear away the seaweed, which helps ‘preserve the integrity of the ecosystem’ and is an important food source for sea creatures.

This is probably because councils have no money to collect because all of it is being spent on illegals coming across on small vessels.

However, it’s not the only thing that’s being washed up on our beaches. Raw sewage is being washed up onto our shores thanks to the Tories.

Seaweed is washed up onto the shores every year, and this year is no different to previous years. The main problem is the sewage that’s being dumped because of neglected infrastructure, and then they blame it on this so-called climate change, and all because it fits the unproven climate agenda.

Sewage being dumped into the sea has caused this. This has nothing to do with global warming.

It used to be collected and used in gardens, but they’d now rather spend the money on whatever is vogue and tell us they have no money to do this. If this had washed up in London, Sadiq Khan would be getting money from the rest of the country to clean it up.

When seaweed washed up on the shore it was given to the local farmers for free for fertiliser on the basis that they collected it. In recent years the council will only sell the seaweed to the farmers, hence why it’s not collected.

This is just local authority greed and farmers could have it if they paid Kent Council money for it, and whilst Kent Council would actually benefit from the farmers removing it free of charge, it won’t happen because the Council begrudge the fact that fertiliser might be free to farmers.

Infestations Of Flies, Wasps, Ants And Bed Bugs Have Forced Britons To Flee Their Homes

Britons are being forced to flee their homes due to a serial insect infestation fuelled by the humid weather.

Experts have warned that this year has been especially bad as the wet warm weather has become a fertile breeding ground for insects, including wasps, ladybirds, bed bugs and many more.

Bin strikes across many counties in the United Kingdom have created perfect conditions for an outbreak of flies, as they feed on food waste and are drawn to the smell of decaying food.

The crafty nuisances are also being imported from other countries, such as in plants to garden centres, while deadly Asian hornets are being increasingly sighted in the south of England for the first time.

Meanwhile, Britain’s wasp population is set to have skyrocketed by 150 per cent this summer to reach 235 billion.

As there are about 67 million people living in the United Kingdom, it means wasps could end up outnumbering humans by 3,500 to one.

As a result, Britons are dealing with a wave of annoying critters in their homes, and are increasingly struggling to get rid of them.

Alarming photographs show an out-of-control ant infestation covering the whole ground floor of a home in south London.

Elsewhere properties have seen sprawling numbers of bed bugs in just a few examples of the bug-steria sweeping the United Kingdom.

In one image, a mattress had turned black with the sheer number of disgusting bed bugs. 

Penelope Banton, 26, had just moved into her first flat on her own when she became the target of a horrible insect infestation.

The PR lead was renting a flat in Didsbury, Manchester after a dream move for her new position.

But after only three weeks she was forced to vacate her new home when she discovered an army of bed bugs and fleas. 

She was forced to move in with a friend back home in Leeds for three weeks while the flat was heat-treated and fumigated. 

Penelope told a newspaper outlet that there were these three big shaggy rugs and when she put them in the bath to shampoo them, out came fleas, carpet beetles and loads of flying things that she couldn’t identify.

She said that they were all crawling out of the bath and that it was just horrific and she was getting covered in bites.

Wasps aren’t pests, neither are ladybirds, they’re simply insects – bed bugs however could be defined as pests, and bin collections in the United Kingdom are abysmal, and alternate weeks for domestic and recycling just isn’t good enough and encourages not only more insects but rats as well – this is 2023, not 1823 folks!

Rats can literally chew through anything, and day-to-day collections should be made because it’s not rocket science. As a first-world country, we should be more sanitary than this, and it’s definitely not GREEN if our rubbish collection is not collected enough.

Some places still have weekly bin collections, but recycling is usually fortnightly. In the summer months when it’s hot and humid, they should be collected every day.

Some areas only have recycling every two weeks, and refuse every three, it’s a complete disgrace.

It’s just not good enough, but the council won’t increase collections as then the council tax would have to rise also. I mean, what do they do with all the money they’re raking in from us?

The problem is that Brexit has given tremendous power to private companies and councils. That means they don’t have to follow any health or safety regulations and yet they still charge the taxpayers, and we now live in a broken Brexit Britain.

After His Surrender, Donald Trump’s First Mugshot Has Been Released

A historic first has ensued as ex-President Donald Trump surrenders at a Georgia jail on election fraud charges, and he was expected to have his mugshot taken.

The former president headed down to Atlanta, Georgia, from his Bedminster, New Jersey residence. He was officially booked and fingerprinted at the Fulton County jail.

He was then expected to have a mugshot taken as authorities in Fulton County said he could expect no special treatment.

The FAA issued a temporary flight restriction for the airspace around the Fulton County Jail in Atlanta due to a ‘VIP moment’ from 6.45 p.m. to 9.00 p.m. ET.

According to CNN, the ex-president is shaking up the legal team handling his defence in the Georgia case.

He replaced attorney Drew Findling with Steven Sadow only hours before he headed down to Georgia to surrender. The remainder of his team including Jennifer Little and Marissa Goldberg were expected to remain.

A flurry of nine of Donald Trump allies who turned themselves into the Georgia jail so far and their mugshots have been released by the Fulton County Sheriff’s Office.

Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis gave Donald Trump and his co-defendants until noon on Friday, August 25, to voluntarily turn themselves over for booking and arraignment. 

They’re accused of ‘knowingly and willfully joined in a conspiracy to unlawfully alter the outcome of the election in favour of Donald Trump.

The 41-count charge against Donald Trump and his 18 co-defendants marks the fourth and latest indictment against the ex-President. Donald Trump hasn’t had to take a mugshot for his last three charges.

Donald Trump was charged with RICO, Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organisations, a count which is often used to try mafia figures, cartel bosses and gangland leaders.

He’s also charged with solicitation of violation of oath by a public officer, conspiracy to commit forgery in the first degree, perjury, and a host of other counts.

If sentenced on all charges, he faces 71 years in prison, and state charges, unlike federal, cannot be pardoned by a president.

‘America’s Mayor’ Rudy Giuliani faced the embarrassment of having his mugshot taken after getting booked at an Atlanta jail on Wednesday.

In the pictures released by the Fulton County Sheriff’s office, Rudy Giuliani can be seen looking directly ahead, showing a slight frown with industrial lighting shining on his forehead and a sheriff’s badge on his right.

Donald Trump’s mugshot will boost his poll numbers and in the end, we will see him in a Kangaroo court.

However, he did break the law, and now he has no option but to obey the law when it comes to charges against him, and now, he’s going on trial because he violated the law.

Donald Trump has never sacrificed anything for anyone. He cares for no one but himself. However, he is a genius at getting simpletons to pay him to tell them what they want to hear.

So, Donald Trump’s prison cell might await him, on the other hand, it might not, and I love that everyone thinks that somehow this mugshot is going to be something special, but it’s not, it’s just a mugshot, period, but even so, people will capitalise on it and keep this memorabilia to recall this time in history.

This has been years of political intrigue led by democrats and billions of tax dollars squandered to destroy just one man, Donald Trump, and the US is no longer a normal nation.

As GCSE Marks Fall by 4.3 Per Cent, Passes Return To Pre-Covid Levels

The proportion of GCSE entries awarded top grades has dropped from last year but is higher than before the pandemic, while students in England were left worse off than those in Wales and Northern Ireland where grade inflation was retained.

Hundreds of thousands of teenagers received their GCSE results today in a year when steps have been made in England to return grading to pre-pandemic levels.

More than a fifth (22.0 per cent) of UK GCSE entries were awarded the top grades, at least a 7 or an A grade, this year, down by 4.3 percentage points on last year when 26.3 per cent of entries achieved the top grades. However, this remains higher than the equivalent figure for 2019, before the pandemic, of 20.8 per cent.

According to figures published by the Joint Council for Qualifications (JCQ) for England, Wales and Northern Ireland, overall, there were 203,000 fewer top grades (7/A) compared to last year, but there were 142,000 more top grades this year than in 2019.

The proportion of entries getting at least a 4 or a C, considered a ‘standard pass’, has fallen from 73.2 per cent in 2022 to 68.2 per cent this year. This is a drop of five percentage points, but higher than 67.3 per cent in 2019. The overall rate for 1/G or above is 98 per cent, down from 98.4 per cent in 2022 and 98.3 per cent in 2019.

In England, exams regulator Ofqual said this year’s results would be lower than last year and they would be similar to those in 2019. But Ofqual has built protection into the grading process which should allow a pupil to get the grade they would have received before the pandemic even if their quality of work is slightly weaker this year.

In England, the percentage of GCSE entries awarded 7/A or above was 21.6 per cent this year, down 4.4 percentage points from last year. In Wales, it was 21.7 per cent, down 3.4 points. And in Northern Ireland, it was 34.5 per cent, down 2.5 points.

In Northern Ireland and Wales, exam regulators say they don’t expect to return to pre-pandemic levels until next year. In Wales, results were midway between those awarded in 2022, the first-year students sat exams following COVID-19 and 2019.

It comes after the pandemic led to an increase in top grades in 2020 and 2021, with results based on teacher assessments instead of exams.

Many years ago when a student was granted an A grade, that was something truly special. Now, it’s basically the norm with the education system being dumbed down.

Back then, when you took your exams, you stood or fell on what you’d been taught and could remember. No marks for class work, and all you took into the exam room were a pen, pencils, ruler, rubber and your brain.

The fact is, you either have it or you don’t, and most university places are for those who want to study medicine, law or economics, but there are a lot of people who never went to university or didn’t do as well at school as they should but have gone on to do extremely well for themselves because common sense can’t be taught.

And those who did get degrees just ended up in a call centre or a completely unrelated occupation, but don’t worry kids, there are plenty of jobs in the Amazon Warehouses, even the jobs the robots feel are beneath them that need to be done.

Are You Spraying Animal Urine On Your Neck?

An undercover investigator has revealed that fake perfume bottles that claim to be made by many of the world’s top luxury labels can often be loaded with animal urine.

Detective and business investigator Tamer Bakiner claims that people across the world are endangering their own health by buying counterfeit goods, as most, if not all, are made with little to no concern for safety or health.

He said that people should quit buying them because they’re dangerous for your health, among other things they mix urine in perfumes to get the yellow colour, and that it’s disgusting.

Secondly, he said it supports a really lousy, inhumane business.

Bakiner wasn’t the only person who has warned that counterfeits could harm a person’s health.

Leo Longauer, the 54-year-old director of brand protection at luxury goods conglomerate LVHM, which operates brands including Dior, Bulgari, Louis Vuitton, and Dom Pérignon, said that fake products can be quite dangerous for your health.

He said that (sun)glasses that are sold have no UV protection even though the label says that they do, and the (perfume) mixtures are loaded with animal urine, that’s why they’re so cheap to buy.

He warned that counterfeits are treated with chemicals that can cause allergies and skin irritation or rashes, and this is not to be taken lightly.

He said that people may actually be buying counterfeit products unknowingly as they’re virtually indistinguishable from genuine products, and he said that many counterfeits can hardly be distinguished from the original.

But the intellectual property enforcer warned that customers who buy counterfeit goods, knowingly or otherwise, are endangering their own health and criminals are being supported and their own economy is being disadvantaged.

He said that the working conditions of local people, for example in Turkey, China, Vietnam or India, are inhumane and don’t meet the standards in Europe and that children are also being used to work. People are being exploited, combined with human trafficking and money laundering.

The worldwide counterfeit industry is vast and profitable, and criminal networks that sell counterfeit goods usually span the world.

Counterfeit goods are frequently manufactured in more impoverished countries with substandard labour and safety laws before they’re marketed in more affluent countries with staggering markups.

Europol estimates that as much as 2.5 per cent of all global trade involves the production and sales of fake or substandard goods.

Many people don’t even care about slave or child labour being used, and if companies didn’t charge such outrageous prices in the first place, then there wouldn’t be a market for counterfeits that are almost indistinguishable.

The only difference between the kosher stuff and the counterfeit is that a top fragrance such as Burberry lasts all day, but of course, you get what you pay for – daylight robbery!

Cows urine is used in the manufacturing of leather, and Ambergris is made with whale vomit, but that’s just fine and dandy, and any secretions that come from the sex glands of an animal to give that musky scent, and the article is probably endorsed and funded by some perfume manufacturer, but to be honest, some pricey designer perfume smells like animal urine anyhow.

Coco Chanel used a secret ingredient to make Chanel №5, one of all-time most popular scents, it’s secret ingredient is cat pee, now a typical additive in numerous fragrances.

Perfume has always been considered an indulgence product, but what makes it so very expensive?

It costs millions to launch a product and create awareness around it, and they come in unique, highly sophisticated bottles, but it’s all about marketing. Someone could create the most intoxicating fragrance in the world, but if no one knows about it, nobody’s going to be buying it.

A Third Killer Heatwave Is Threatening Italy

Italian authorities have triggered yet another red alert for 17 cities with the third punishing heatwave in just two months set to blast the country.

A dozen cities, Bologna, Bolzano, Florence, Frosinone, Latina, Palermo, Perugia, Rieti, Rome, Turin and Verona, were already hit with a red alert from yesterday.

Genoa, Milan, Naples, Trieste and Venice will be bumped into the red on Wednesday, meaning that residents are believed to be at maximum heat risk.

Temperatures in several of Italy’s biggest cities including Rome and Florence are already sitting at 38 degrees Celsius, with the mercury set to tip 40 degrees on Thursday.

A red alert means even the young, healthy and fit are warned to stay out of the sun from 10 am to 6 pm, such is the heat of the baking summer sun.

Storm warnings are also in effect in the southern regions of Calabria, Basilicata and Sicily.

Last month, several cities were forced to compete with widespread power cuts as temperatures reached a whopping 48 degrees Celsius in southern Italy.

Some half a million people were affected in and around the city of Catania, thanks to heat damage to underground cables.

The cuts meant that between 200,000 and 300,000 people were not only without power but also a supply of running water.

Separately, flights were grounded following a fire at the city’s main airport on July 16 that needed terminal-wide repairs.

The high temperatures in Italy come as Greece and one of Spain’s Canary Islands fight fierce wildfires.

Hot, dry and windy conditions are hindering the efforts of hundreds of firefighters fighting the fires, two of which have been burning for several days.

Europen Union officials have blamed climate change for the increasing frequency and intensity of wildfires in Europe, noting that 2022 was the second worst year for wildfire damage on record after 2017.

Authorities said the body of a man was recovered from a sheep pen in the area under evacuation, with local media saying the man apparently died of smoke inhalation while trying to save his livestock.

In the northeast of the country near the border with Turkey, powerful winds revived flames on several fronts in a major wildfire burning for a third day across forests and farmland near the town of Alexandroupolis.

Deputy Fire Chief Ionnis Arttopios said that several homes were destroyed over the weekend. Thirteen villages were evacuated, while more than 200 firefighters, assisted by 17 water-dropping aircraft, volunteers and the armed forces were battling the fire.

However, it’s always extremely hot in these countries around this time of the year, so this is nothing new.

I looked at my weather app this morning and in Turin, Italy this morning it was 30.5 Celsius going up to 35 Celsius by 4 pm, with sunny and light winds. It’s called summer and there’s nothing new about this.

So, do we really trust anything that the media tell us?

People must have friends from Italy that will probably tell you that it’s not as hot as the media tell us, but they will still spout their red and yellow warnings. Then we’re warned about heat waves – it’s a bit like the boy that cried wolf, and then we fall for the climate change propaganda hook, line and sinker.

It appears that this Climate Change is a con inflicted on us all by the elites and their lame selfish brains, and climate change is the latest pandemic that they can come up with, and if I went to Italy at this time of the year and it wasn’t hot I would feel that I’d been ripped off.

Design a site like this with WordPress.com
Get started