Tomorrow Will Bring More Winter Chaos

Brits are warned of further travel chaos tomorrow as the Met Office has issued fresh ice warnings across the United Kingdom.

The forecaster has said regions of Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and the South West of England will encounter icy conditions, with warnings in place from 5 pm today until 10 am tomorrow.

It said there will be increased chances of icy patches on roads, pavements and cycle paths, with injuries anticipated.

Overnight will become extremely cold with hard frost and isolated freezing fog patches across the country, causing traffic chaos for drivers and the possibility of some households facing power cuts.

Many awoke to ice and snow today as the United Kingdom continued to be hit by this week’s cold snap.

Manchester Airport was forced to close its runways amid snowstorms this morning after the coldest night of the year so far.

Temperatures plummeted to as low as -10.4C in regions of the country before Britain encountered yet another day of travel disruption.

Passengers at Manchester Airport said they were sitting on their planes for up to four hours after snowstorms made it impossible for flights to take off. Both runways at the airport were closed for about two hours.

According to tracking website FlightRadar24, at least 36 flights were delayed and two were withdrawn, and an aircraft which had travelled 4,000 miles from Atlanta in the US was redirected to London after being unable to land in the snow.

Images were shared of a snow-covered aircraft grounded on the tarmac at Manchester Airport as passengers waited for news.

Claire Staniforth and her husband Gary were two holidaymakers stuck on an aircraft. The couple said they boarded at 6.30 am this morning and were still waiting to fly over two and a half hours later.

A spokesperson for the airport said at about 6.20 am, following a period of heavy snowfall, they temporarily closed both runways, and that health and safety was always their highest priority and operations would continue at the earliest opportunity.

The spokesperson said that passengers were urged to contact their airline for the most up-to-date flight information.

The runways reopened almost two and a half hours later as passengers remained inside the terminal and onboard aeroplanes.

Just after 8.40 am, the airport said in a statement that following the temporary closure of their runways due to snow, they were happy to report that operations had resumed, and they thanked the passengers for their patience.

Of course, Norway has had bad winters for thousands of years, every year. The UK has a bad winter and everything comes to gridlock, but then we don’t get them that bad all the time so when we do it appears to be disastrous, and of course, countries like Norway and Russia get snow all the time, but they have a better infrastructure set up to deal with it.

But then we have to remember that countries like Norway are always colder than here in the United Kingdom. Wet snow that melts and re-freezes is far more dangerous to land a plane, but dry snow that doesn’t melt due to the colder conditions is much different.

The United Kingdom is far more susceptible to wet snow than other countries and therefore yields far more concerns.

Since the 2.5cm of snow in England which everyone called heavy, the US has had 2 feet of snow, now that’s heavy, but the media love to escalate and overdramatise everything they write about, but then I guess that’s what peddles over the internet and on paper stands.

A Gallery Owner In San Francisco Hosed Down A Homeless Woman Outside His Upmarket Business

A business owner who went viral after he was filmed spraying down a homeless woman with a hose in front of his San Francisco store has been arrested for battery, hours after the city’s DA said he would face charges for the widely seen incident.

Collier Gwin, the owner of Foster Gwin art gallery, is presently being held on a misdemeanour charge arising from the January 9 altercation, police said following his arrest.

Earlier in the day, the San Francisco District Attorney’s Office issued a statement revealing that a warrant for Collier Gwin’s arrest had been issued, following pronounced public uproar over the footage, which was filmed on a day when temperatures hit 49 degrees.

The video posted on social media prompted sleuths to search for and successfully identify the gallery proprietor, and served as enough proof to charge Gwin, officials said following his arrest.

If convicted of the crime, Gwin could face up to six months in county jail, as well as a $2,000 fine.

San Francisco DA Brooke Jenkins said, referencing footage that showed the store’s owner casually soaking the unidentified woman with a stream of water.

DA Brooke Jenkins went on to reveal that the victim didn’t seek to file charges against the store proprietor, who stood by his actions in interviews with various news outlets in recent days, saying that when he asked the woman to move, she became aggressive and refused.

Nevertheless, DA Brooke Jenkins said that Mr Gwin would face appropriate consequences for his actions.

The state prosecutor, who’s come under fire for soft-on crime policies in a city experiencing crime and homeless rates not seen since the 90s, went on to chastise citizens who have damaged Gwin’s store, which had its door smashed in footage disseminated across social media.

The DA noted, before telling citizens in the homeless encampment-filled city that the vandalism at Foster Gwin gallery was also totally inappropriate and must stop and that two wrongs didn’t make a right.

Records reveal that Gwin was arrested around 3.30 pm at or near his gallery and that in recent days, armchair sleuths zeroed in on the store owner, but Gwin made it clear he wasn’t hiding from anyone.

But even after giving explanations to outlets including The San Francisco Chronicle and ABC 7, other local businesses criticised his actions, while scores of furious social media users left terrible reviews online, causing the gallery’s rating on Google to fall to only one star.

We have no idea of this woman’s situation, and it’s never okay to attack another person, especially unprovoked, and there are better ways of dealing with frustration than soaking this poor woman.

It’s understandable that Gwin wanted this woman to go because he believed that she was lowering the tone of his store, but where’s his humanity? He could have just as easily brought her into the shop, let her have a wash, cleaned her up and given her a job so that she could get on her feet again – it takes nothing to be kind.

But instead, this man soaked a homeless old lady because she couldn’t afford a home – does that mean she’s no longer human? What if it was his mother or grandmother, would he still have the same mindset? No wonder some animals eat their young!

Rather Like One Of Those Spitting Image Puppets!

A local authority has been mocked for spending almost £2,000 on a mural of King Charles III which has been compared to a Spitting Image puppet.

The street art was pitched on hoardings in Northampton town centre to celebrate the accession of the new King.

The dazzlingly embellished mural features images of both King Charles and the late Queen and it was commissioned by Northampton Town Council, but after its unveiling, locals were quick to mock the graffiti’s likeness to its subject.

It’s not the first time a royal mural has attracted mirth. In 2017, a floral tribute to Princess Diana in Chesterfield, Derbyshire, went viral after it was branded nightmarish and downright awful by residents.

While elsewhere, a mural of the Queen in Hounslow last September was roasted over its accuracy.

One local thought Northampton’s homage to the King looked more like a Spitting Image puppet, another said it seemed like he’d been on the Scotch, while a third thought both images would terrify children.

Neighbour Kerry Bellingham, 33, who lives nearby, said that there was no doubt the place needed a bit of colour but she feared it made them look a bit of a laughing stock.

She said that the one of the Queen wasn’t too bad but that she’s seen people having selfies with the Charles one while giggling their heads off, and she said that it just didn’t look like him. That his eyes were weirdly too close together, his hair was all wrong and it’s only the ears which really tell that it’s him.

She added that she felt that the money could have been spent much better elsewhere in the town, and that she wasn’t anti-royalist but that it was just an appalling likeness of the King.

Another local said, to be fair, it wasn’t the best painting in the world, and said that they didn’t agree with the money spent on it. There were better things to spend money on at a time like this.

The local said that it was also on a plank of wood which was deteriorating and that if they were going to do it, they should’ve done it well and put it somewhere more permanent.

Other locals took to social media where one web user said it was difficult to tell who the person painted next to the late Queen even was.

What a waste of money it was, but then that’s typical of local council incompetence.

It’s not fit for purpose and whoever in the council agreed to this, they’re not fit for purpose either, and it’s more than just an unsightly mural, it’s monstrous, and Northampton Council can ill afford to spend money on something like this.

But regardless of whether this image is any good or not, why are councils permitted to extinguish money so readily?

No money to repair our highways but plenty of money for ridiculous projects like this!

This is a terrible picture. It’s more like a Monty Python-style image and they should paint over it, and it would have been far better to have spent the money filling in some potholes around the town, and to think someone got paid for this junk!

According To China, COVID-19 Has Killed Nearly 60,000 People In Just One Month

Chinese health authorities reported that almost 60,000 people have died of COVID-related illnesses within the past month.

The figure is the first to be released since the government eased the country’s lockdown restrictions in early December.

In recent months, officials have been accused of de-emphasising the severity of the virus in the country.

But the actual calculation of deaths is still likely to be more elevated, as the 59,938 COVID-related cases reported between December 8 and January 12 account for only those recorded at medical facilities.

Just over 5,500 of the deaths were down to respiratory failure caused by the virus.

Despite damning evidence of bodies lining hospital wards, only 37 fatalities had been officially documented in China last month.

World Health Organisation chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has asked China for more immediate, frequent, trustworthy data on hospitalisation and deaths.

Beijing authorities, however, have insisted that China has been forthcoming with its data.

Health officials have said the average age of those who died was 80.3 years old, with more than 90 per cent of fatalities above 65, but should we believe anything that’s reported by China?

Perhaps we should multiply that figure by 10, which might be nearer to some level of exactness, and all while the Wuhan lab is still up and running.

But this is COVID that we’re talking about and you never actually know the truth about what’s truly going on.

The ironic thing is the Chinese wore masks even before COVID became a thing and yet they still got COVID, which just confirms that the masks don’t work, or something more ominous is going on.

I’m not usually a conspiracy theorist but sometimes you just have to wonder if, in the long term, COVID was designed by China to drastically lower its own ageing and massively dependent population, and if this is the case then China’s reaping what they sow, and they created a monster that’s now killing not only their own people but all people of the world. Mind you, biological warfare will do that!

Renewal Changes For UK Passports

The government has announced a modification to British passport applications and renewals which will affect anyone who’s applying for the travel document.

Announcing the proposals, the Home Office said there’ll be more increased prices on all passport applications and renewals.

The modifications will be introduced next month, so if you need to renew your passport you should apply shortly to sidestep the increased costs.

This rise is the first time the cost of applying for a passport has gone up in five years.

The fee for a standard online application made from within the United Kingdom will increase from £75.50 to £82.50 for adults and £49.00 to £53.50 for children.

Postal applications will rise from 85.00 to £93.00 for adults and £58.50 to £64.00 for children.

The Home Office said that prices for a priority service, which permits travellers in rapid need of a passport, for instance, if they lost it and required it fast, were being aligned so customers will pay the same.

The new prices for anyone applying for or renewing a UK passport will be introduced from February 2 this year.

The rise in price is subject to approval from Parliament.

The Home Office said that higher application costs would mean that the system would better cover the costs of passport applications.

The department added that this would make the process less reliant on general taxation as the government doesn’t benefit from passport applications.

Announcing the shift, the Home Office said that the new costs would enable the Home Office to shift towards a system that fulfils its costs through those who use it, decreasing dependence on funding from general taxation.

The Home Office said that the government doesn’t make any profit from the cost of passport applications. The fees will also contribute to the cost of processing passport applications, consular support overseas, including for lost or stolen passports, and the cost of processing British citizens at UK borders.

The Home Office said that the increase will also help the government to continue improving its services and that the new prices include those newly applying for or renewing their passport.

The Home Office added that since January last year, over 95 per cent of standard applications had been processed within 10 weeks and customers were advised that they should apply in good time before travelling.

Between March and July last year, more than 300,000 people were forced to opt for costly fast-track services to make sure passports arrived in time for travels abroad. Figures show that during this time the Passport Office took in £30 million more than in the same time period in 2019.

Does this mean you get a free passport if you come in by dinghy? Along with a house, car, free healthcare and lifetime benefits because charges are only for us mugs.

Everything is complimentary if you come by dinghy, courtesy of the overburdened UK taxpayer, and there was me believing that leaving the EU would get rid of boat people, how wrong was I!

And our ironic or iconic passports will be made in the EU, so it will certainly be a European affair, and they will be made in Poland by a French-Dutch company.

Gemalto won the contract to make the passports provoked much debate in 2018, and the UK government said the last steps of manufacturing would take place in the United Kingdom to ensure no confidential data left the country.

Thanks to Brexit we will now have blue passports, which will be made in the EU – oh, the irony of it all. So, the question is, how has Brexit benefited anyone in the United Kingdom?

Lisa Marie Presley, Daughter Of Elvis Presley, Dies At 54

Lisa Marie Presley has died at the age of 54, hours after she suffered a cardiac arrest at her home in Calabasas, California.

According to TMZ, she’d been rushed to a hospital in critical condition and was said to be in a coma following a full cardiac arrest soon after complaining about stomach pains.

Her mother Priscilla, who was at her daughter’s side, said in a statement that it was with a heavy heart that she must share the devastating news that her beautiful daughter Lisa Marie had left them.

The statement continued that she was the most passionate, strong and loving woman she had ever known and that they ask for privacy as they try to deal with this deep loss, and thanked everyone for their love and prayers, but at this time there would be no additional comment.

Lisa Marie Presley’s death comes just two days after she was pictured with her mother at the Golden Globe Awards at the Beverly Hills Hilton where Austin Butler won the Best Actor award for his portrayal of her father in Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis.

The star’s life was turbulent with five stints in recovery for cocaine and opioid abuse, four failed marriages, losing her son to suicide and a vicious custody battle over her twin girls with an ex-husband she accused of having child pornography.

Sources told TMZ that Lisa Marie Presley was discovered unresponsive in her bedroom by her housekeeper and that her ex-husband, Danny Keough, who she’d been living with, performed CPR until paramedics arrived at the house.

The source added that someone administered epinephrine, more commonly known as adrenaline, at the scene at least one time in order to help Lisa Marie regain a pulse.

According to the Mayo Clinic, stomach pain is a sign of cardiac arrest in females.

Epinephrine, or adrenaline, is administered to treat many life-threatening conditions such as cardiac arrests, asthma attacks and allergic reactions.

LA County Sheriff’s Department told a newspaper outlet that deputies from Lost Hills Station responded to an assistance request call from LA County Fire, near the 9500 block of Normandy Drive in Calabasas about a female adult, around 55, for a medical emergency/female not breathing.

They said a female adult was transported by LA County Fire Department to a local area hospital where they were released to the hospital’s care.

Losing her son must have broken her heart, and she always looked so sad, but then she did have her father’s eyes which always made her look slightly melancholy, even a little high at times, but she did have the most stunning eyes. However, this is very heartbreaking and tragic.

She looked extremely depressed and didn’t look healthy at the Golden Globe Awards. She also looked very pale, but then she lived her whole life with terrible loss, first her father and then a son, which is more than anyone could bear.

Lisa Marie Presley never actually had a life of her own, she was always Elvis Presley’s daughter and she never really had a chance to be her own person, and her poor mother, it’s not right for a parent to have to bury their child or their grandchild for that matter.

But at least mother and daughter had one last glamorous night together with Elvis front and centre, and Lisa Marie enjoyed a night filled with love.

Her father lovingly doted on her and wanted her to have everything, but instead, her life was sad and heartbreaking.

Rishi Sunak Reveals He’s Used Private Healthcare In The Past But Says He’s From An NHS Family

Rishi Sunak disclosed he’s utilised private healthcare in the past as he fought with Sir Keir Starmer at PMQs.

The premier, known as one of the richest MPs, moved to quell conjecture over his use of the NHS.

Kicking off the first Commons questions session of the New Year, Rishi Sunak said he was registered with an NHS doctor and stressed he came from an NHS household.

The comments came after Rishi Sunak continually declined to explain his perspective on private treatment.

Health Secretary Steve Barclay said he didn’t use private, but stressed he wouldn’t criticise anyone that did.

Questioned on the matter in the house, Rishi Sunak said that he was registered with an NHS GP, and he said that he’s used independent healthcare in the past and that he was also extremely grateful to the Friarage Hospital for the excellent care they’d given his family over the years.

Rishi Sunak’s father was a GP while his mother ran a pharmacy.

The Prime Minister said that he was proud to come from an NHS household and that’s why he was passionately set to protecting it with more funding, more doctors and nurses and a clear plan to shorten the waiting lists.

Aides confirmed that Rishi Sunak doesn’t presently have private cover, but dodged saying when he last used the private sector.

During a round of interviews, Mr Barclay said he didn’t subscribe to a sort of GP private thing.

Pressed on whether he has NHS care, the Cabinet minister told LBC that he didn’t subscribe to a private provider, but that he didn’t have a problem with people, with their own money, who wished to spend that money on private healthcare, and who he believed it was a totally reasonable thing for people to want to do.

Rishi Sunak was squaring up to the Labour leader after a poll discovered that the Tories were 22 points behind in crucial ‘Red Wall’ seats.

Rishi Sunak’s personal ratings are also far behind Sir Keir Starmer’s in the areas that delivered Boris Johnson’s historic majority in 2019, with voters evidently angry about the handling of the cost of living crisis.

Downing Street has been attempting to stabilise the government in the wake of Liz Truss’s catastrophic time as leader. Rishi Sunak will use a televised party political broadcast to deliver a prime ministerial address after he laid out five priorities on which the public can judge him.

This unelected billionaire Prime Minister couldn’t be more out of touch.

And why would it shock people that the leader of the country uses private healthcare? If I was the leader of the country, I would. There are tons of people that aren’t from rich families that have used private healthcare at one time or another.

I have no issue with the Prime Minister going private as long as he’s not claiming for it at the taxpayer’s expense.

The problem is that if the Prime Minister is treating himself to private healthcare, he’s treating himself to it with one hand whilst pulling the spending plug out for the NHS with the other.

So, do Prime Ministers and MPs get preferential treatment, or do they have to wait in A&E for 12 hours or more to be seen? Of course, they get special treatment, they can’t be seen sitting in A&E with all the peasants, plus they’re seen straightaway.

To be honest, I’m sick of all this twaddle and the miserable party that have destroyed our country and have only demonstrated that they only care about themselves, and a general election should be called now.

School In Southend Says Pupils Can’t Touch Each Other Anymore

Southchurch High School, in Southchurch Boulevard, England sent a letter home to parents on January 9, notifying them of the changes to the school procedures.

Within this, it included an update concerning the conduct expected by students at the school, which said pupils can no longer touch each other.

The letter stated that students were not allowed to touch each other whilst on site and that the only exceptions would be in Performing Arts, sporting activities and PE lessons when this was required.

The letter said that this would help create a calm and orderly environment and ensure that there was no confusion about play fighting or anything more serious, and it thanked parents once again for their support.

This comes months after Southchurch High School barred students from using the toilets during classes to avoid disruption.

As well as preventing students from not touching one another, the school also added restrictions on mobile phones and congestion in corridors.

The letter added that student numbers had grown rapidly over the last few years, and in order to avoid congestion and jostling in corridors, they’d introduced a one-way system in order to avoid overcrowding in corridors and to ensure safe transitions between classes.

It said that mobile phones mustn’t be used or seen, between the hours of 8.30 am to 3 pm, or in intervention sessions, or detentions, and that if they’re seen they would be seized and sent to the front office, where students could collect them at 3 pm.

This announcement follows the Chelmsford secondary school, Hylands, also introducing a new rule which prohibits students from hugging and holding hands.

Southchurch High School has been contacted by a newspaper outlet for further comment.

Welcome to your new communist country.

Remember when school was said to be the best days of our life, alas no more, with cyborg clones that are teaching cyborg clones in sterile and sanitised environments, no wonder our children are messed up.

Now education is a waste of time because now, one size fits all, so good luck with finding your vocation in life. What the hell is the world coming to when you can’t touch – next they’ll be telling us that we can’t kiss in public, or is that already a thing? If not, then it soon will be!

Air Fryer Owners Beware

A mother of two has issued a stark warning to air fryer owners after her own appliance suddenly burst into flames.

Rebecca Sim, 52, was using the one-year-old Tower product to cook bacon in her kitchen when she noticed a plastic odour.

The former school teacher, who has multiple sclerosis, then saw a flame which quickly escalated into an inferno as she unplugged the appliance and flung it outside.

Ms Sim from Prestwich, Greater Manchester, said that so many people have now got air fryers and that many of her friends have got one, and they all say they’ve frequently left their appliance on while they go and do something else. She said that it’s extremely easy to use and it had been thoroughly cleaned, so she wasn’t expecting it.

She said she was truly shocked and that she’d purchased the air fryer for her daughter Isobel when she was at Liverpool University and she would cook in it and leave it when she was washing her hair.

She said thank goodness she didn’t leave it, it could have burnt the kitchen down.

Ms Sim added that it was a truly nasty experience that could have been far worse without her quick thinking and that she knows with the cost of living crisis numerous people were endeavouring to lower the cost and have purchased air fryers.

Ms Sims said the appliance had been thoroughly cleaned out before she used it, adding that she put some bacon in to cook.

She said that when it was almost done she drew out the tray to check it. It was splattering and as she inspected the tray she noticed a minuscule flicker in the bottom part of the fryer and was worried as it didn’t look right.

She said her daughter used to leave the food to cook, while she got ready, so thank goodness she didn’t leave it.

She said she noticed the flickering and plastic smell, so she hit the switch off with a wooden spoon, unplugged it and smothered it with a damp tea towel.

She said that when she removed the tea towel she saw smoke and the beginnings of what looked like flames in the bottom of the fryer.

She said that she has multiple sclerosis and that she’s not that swift or strong but that with much difficulty she picked it up and flung it out the back door where it turned into an inferno.

She said that she wouldn’t have been cooking anything with a high-fat content in an air fryer.

The whole point of them is to lower the amount of oil or fat in your cuisine. Even cooking bacon under the grill can result in a fire, although according to the internet, bacon is safe to cook in an air fryer, but the air fryer needs to be clean before you start and it should be cooked at 350 degrees Fahrenheit as this will make the bacon go crispy without causing it to smoke or burn – well for this little piggy it was certainly overcooked and extremely crisp.

Well, you’ve heard the expression ‘burnt to a crisp’, well, I’m sure it probably fits the bill here.

Fat and a hot element never mix well and just because it says you can cook bacon in it doesn’t mean that it’s safe to do so.

There’s “No Life Left” In A Ukrainian Town As Corpses Of Russian Troops Cover The Ground

President Volodymyr Zelensky said that the remains of Russian soldiers were covering the ground of a Ukrainian town where there’s no life left amid intense fighting.

In Soledar, once a bustling salt mining town in eastern Ukraine, the ground is now scarred from a relentless stream of projectiles and gunfire as Russian forces aim to take possession of the nearby and key municipality of Bakhmut.

Volodymyr Zelensky said that everything in the town was completely destroyed, with no walls left standing and the lifeless bodies of the invading Russian Soldiers decaying on the streets.

Ukraine’s military asserted 710 of Vladimir Putin’s men had been killed in one day of the now-tenth-month war in yet another setback in Russia’s brutal aggression.

But Britain’s defence ministry said that Russian fighters and forces of Vladimir Putin’s Wagner contract group were likely now in control of most of the salt mining town after advancements in the last four days.

Yet this rare Russian victory has come at a lofty price for Vladimir Putin’s men, with Volodymyr Zelensky saying that it’s been a bloodbath in Soledar.

The Ukrainian leader said that everything was completely destroyed and there was almost no life left, and that thousands of their people had been lost, and the whole ground near Soledar was blanketed with the remains of the occupiers and scars from the blows, and that this was how madness looked like.

Soledar, in the industrial Donbas region, lies just nine miles from Bakhmut, where troops from both sides have been taking heavy losses in some of the most intense trench warfare since Russia invaded Ukraine in February last year.

Russia is endeavouring to take possession of Bakhmut as it has a web of cavernous mining tunnels below the ground which can hold armies or tanks.

Russian troops have stepped up their attack on Soledar, forcing Ukrainian troops to deliver wave after wave of aggression led by the Wagner mercenaries.

Britain said Russia’s Soledar axis was highly likely an effort to surround Bakhmut from the north, and to disrupt Ukrainian lines of communication.

Britain’s Ministry of Defence added that part of the fighting had concentrated on entrances to the 200km long disused salt mine tunnels which run underneath the district and that both sides are probably concerned that they could be used for infiltration behind their lines.

It appears that Vladimir Putin is content to sacrifice his people for his ego.

All these soldiers are dead, and young men and their families grieving while Vladimir Putin demands their sacrifice from a bunker.

Vladimir Putin doesn’t care about how many Russians forfeit their lives. He will chuck as many Russians to the front line to win this war. The only way to win this war is for Vladimir Putin to step down or be captured, but the latter would be the best resolution.

The main problem here is that Russia (aka Vladimir Putin) just doesn’t care how many lives are lost, as long as it’s not his own and he can declare victory. This won’t stop until the Russian people themselves make it stop, but they’re so brainwashed that they can’t see the wood through the trees, but what we do need is an end to this madness, but at the moment it’s more war, more death, then more war and more death. This could end here and now if putrid Putin hauled his forces out of Ukraine, and you have to feel for the citizens of Russia who are sending their sons, husbands, and partners to unavoidable death.

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