foreveryoung Posted May 25 Share Posted May 25 But also remember. People at Fujitsu and the post office started to realise the fault was with the Horizon system, but carried on with, what can only be labeled as, terrorising of Post Office staff. Guilty until proven innocent. Problem was, the post office prosecutors, not the actual courts, wasn't interested in finding them innocent. It's prove of the cover up, with the CEO now lying through her teeth about not knowing the full extent of what was going on, when she was receiving internal emails from staff begging her to call off the prosecutions, as it was pushing a few to suicide. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Davkaus Posted May 26 Share Posted May 26 (edited) Can't say I'm shocked by this shit, but I'm glad it's getting some attention. https://www.theguardian.com/society/article/2024/may/26/nhs-england-spent-41bn-over-11-years-settling-lawsuits-over-brain-damaged-babies Quote The NHS has spent £4.1bn over the last 11 years settling lawsuits involving babies who suffered brain damage when being born, amid claims that maternity units are not learning from mistakes. It paid out just under £3.6bn in damages in 1,307 cases in which parents were left to care for a baby with cerebral palsy or other forms of brain injury, NHS figures reveal. NHS Resolution, which defends hospitals in England accused of medical negligence, spent another £490m on legal fees, taking the total cost of dealing with the legal actions to £4.1bn. “These figures are shocking and also a tragedy. They should set alarm bells ringing across the NHS,” said Robert Rose of Lime Solicitors, which obtained the data under freedom of information laws. “These mistakes in maternity care just keep happening. We’re stuck in a cycle of repetition of these sorts of mistakes – a continuing circle of negligence. It is a scandal that lessons are not being learned [by hospitals],” he added. A single case in which a baby is brain-damaged, often because they were deprived of oxygen during labour, can cost the NHS up to £20m to settle because of the high costs of caring for a child with particularly significant needs over their lifetime. Edited May 27 by Davkaus 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lichfield Dean Posted May 27 VT Supporter Share Posted May 27 What an amazing tale this is about a woman who collected the correct time from Greenwich and sold it to businesses in London to set their clocks by. Also goes to show that this country has always been a laggard when it comes to public services - even across India in the early 1900s they had more sophisticated methods of keeping the public informed it seems. The attitude of this country always seems to be to not care about stuff. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4nn7gew9zxo Quote The woman who sold time - and the man who tried to stop her For more than a century a member of the Belville family would visit the Royal Observatory at Greenwich at least three times a week. He or she would set the time on a watch and head across London to sell that information to their clients. When the last of the Belville time sellers, Ruth, died in 1943, she had clocked up more than half a century collecting the time and passing it on. But a competitor, St John Wynne, had tried to scupper the company. It backfired - in the end, he just boosted Belville's business. Wynne, trying to poach customers for his own time-synchronisation company, made a speech later published in the Times, claiming the Belville method was "amusingly out of date". He also intimated that Ruth Belville used her feminine wiles to get custom. The Belville business was a family concern, started by John Henry Belville in 1836. He was the child of a refugee who fled the French Revolution and then became a ward and apprentice of John Pond, the Astronomer Royal. (As a side note, when describing Belville to a colleague, Pond said the young man was "steady tho' not clever".) Businesses in the early 19th Century that wanted an accurate time - such as clockmakers and horologists, banks and City firms - usually sent an employee to the Royal Observatory to bang on the door and ask to see the clock. Pond's successor, George Airy, became fed up of this and limited the access to once a week, on a Monday. The time-reliant businesses were unhappy with this cut in service, giving Belville the chance to start his time-distribution company. As a former assistant to Pond, he had the access and visited Greenwich Observatory every morning. He would set his pocket chronometer first thing, before tripping off in his buggy to clients who paid a fee to look at it and set their own timepieces. When he died in 1856, he had more than 200 subscribers. His third wife and only widow, Maria, took on the job. And when Maria died, their daughter Elizabeth Ruth - known as Ruth - became the time seller. ------- An editorial in the Times about "lying clocks" provoked quite the debate in the letters pages. A Mr John Cockburn from Upper Norwood suggested "some censorship as to the time kept by clocks exposed to public view in the streets of London". "It is not unusual within a hundred yards to find clocks three or four minutes at variance with each other. Highly desirable as individualism is in many respects, it is out of place in horology. "A lying timekeeper is an abomination, and should not be tolerated." An H Berthoud from Wimbledon put pen to paper to say he had heard "a great many foreigners" exclaim in surprise that London did not have an accurate clock at "all the most important crossroads in the metropolis". And a Robert Orb was particularly incensed: "In Berne and in Neuchatel public clocks were pneumatically controlled 25 years ago. "About the same time every telegraphic office in the Indian Empire received a time signal precisely at 4pm; and yet here we are in London, A.D. 1908, fatuously and impotently pottering about with innumerable 'lying clocks' which are not only a scandal and a disgrace, but which inflict heavy pecuniary losses on the community. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted May 27 Share Posted May 27 Thing is, who set the time on the first clock? For all we know, we’ve been 26 minutes late for hundreds of years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Genie Posted June 21 Share Posted June 21 The story about the lad who has gone missing in Tenerife Quote A British teenager who is missing in Tenerife was on his first holiday with his friends, his mother has said. Debbie Duncan's 19-year-old son Jay Slater, from Oswaldtwistle in Lancashire, has not been seen or heard from for over 48 hours. ———— "He’s just a great person who everyone wanted to be with. He’s good looking, he’s a popular boy.” ———— Jay’s friend Lucy Mae – who had gone to the island with him to attend the NRG music festival – has said Jay had gone to stay with people he had met on a night out, in the north-west of the island. She has said she was called by him shortly before 09:00 on Monday to say he was trying to make the 10-hour walk back to their accommodation in the south of the island, but needed water and had only 1% battery life left on his phone. link Looks like he is not as sweet and innocent as he could be Twitter detectives are suggesting he was drug dealing which might explain why he was taking a random trip to the other side of the island in the middle of the night. Looks like a deal that went sour. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidcow Posted June 21 VT Supporter Share Posted June 21 59 minutes ago, Genie said: The story about the lad who has gone missing in Tenerife link Looks like he is not as sweet and innocent as he could be Twitter detectives are suggesting he was drug dealing which might explain why he was taking a random trip to the other side of the island in the middle of the night. Looks like a deal that went sour. Hmm. Clearly not a particularly good lad, though that doesn't prove anything about what's gone on here. It is very odd though how he ended up so far from where he was staying. Something out of the ordinary definitely happened there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genie Posted June 21 Share Posted June 21 (edited) 10 minutes ago, sidcow said: Hmm. Clearly not a particularly good lad, though that doesn't prove anything about what's gone on here. It is very odd though how he ended up so far from where he was staying. Something out of the ordinary definitely happened there. Yeah, it’s a strange one. First time away on holiday with friends. Met some people on a night out and decided to leave with them in a car to the other side of the island. Next morning called a friend to say he had 1% battery and was making the 10 hour walk back to the resort. Phone cuts off. Not seen or heard of since. I suspect he’ll be found dead in a ditch somewhere. Edited June 21 by Genie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidcow Posted June 21 VT Supporter Share Posted June 21 1 minute ago, Genie said: Yeah, it’s a strange one. First time away on holiday with friends. Met some people on a night out and decided to leave with them in a car to the other side of the island. Next morning called a friend to say he had 1% battery and was making the 10 hour walk back to the resort. Phone cuts off. Not seen or heard of since. I suspect he’ll be found dead in a ditch somewhere. Oh he's dead for sure, unless it is some kind of scam. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sne Posted June 21 Share Posted June 21 This probably sucks pretty bad. Been going on for a couple hours now. Quote Major power outage hits Balkan region as countries swelter in early summer heat wave A major power outage hit much of the Balkans on Friday as the southern European region sweltered in an early heat wave that sent temperatures soaring to up to 40 C (104 F). Montenegrin authorities said that an outage in the country's power distribution system left almost the entire country without electricity, while similar problems were reported in the coastal part of Croatia, Bosnia and Albania. Nada Pavicevic, a spokeswoman for Montenegro's state power distribution company, described the outage as a “disturbance of regional proportion,” and said authorities were still working to determine what happened. The exact cause for such a widespread outage wasn't immediately clear. Bosnia’s state power company said that the outage was caused by problems in a regional distribution line, while Albania’s state power company said the “extreme heat” caused the problem. Montenegro, Croatia and Albania share the Adriatic Sea coastline. Power grids in the region remain connected decades after the Balkan wars in the 1990s. In the Bosnian capital, Sarajevo, the outage also caused traffic jams, with trams stopping and traffic lights not operating. Similar gridlock was reported in the Adriatic Sea port of Split. https://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory/major-power-outage-hits-balkan-region-countries-swelter-111307456 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted June 21 Moderator Share Posted June 21 21 minutes ago, Genie said: Yeah, it’s a strange one. First time away on holiday with friends. Met some people on a night out and decided to leave with them in a car to the other side of the island. Next morning called a friend to say he had 1% battery and was making the 10 hour walk back to the resort. Phone cuts off. Not seen or heard of since. I suspect he’ll be found dead in a ditch somewhere. I still don't understand how someone serving a community sentence gets to go on holiday abroad. I also don't understand the judges reasoning for community sentence in the first place. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genie Posted June 21 Share Posted June 21 Just now, bickster said: I also don't understand the judges reasoning for community sentence in the first place. The judges are probably told there’s no room in the jail so their hands are tied. Very valid question about why he’s allowed to go on holiday to Tenerife though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rustibrooks Posted June 21 Share Posted June 21 4 hours ago, Genie said: The story about the lad who has gone missing in Tenerife link Looks like he is not as sweet and innocent as he could be Twitter detectives are suggesting he was drug dealing which might explain why he was taking a random trip to the other side of the island in the middle of the night. Looks like a deal that went sour. I saw on twitter that some people believe there’s also a scam going on with a go-fund me page to do with him. Some girl set it up and some people believe she’s involved with the drug deal/ him going missing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genie Posted June 21 Share Posted June 21 Just now, Rustibrooks said: I saw on twitter that some people believe there’s also a scam going on with a go-fund me page to do with him. Some girl set it up and some people believe she’s involved with the drug deal/ him going missing Yeah saw that, she’s “apparently” a well known drug dealer and has also now gone offline. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AVFC_Hitz Posted June 21 Share Posted June 21 I reckon they're the reincarnation of Rosie and Jim and went AWOL to build another canal boat. Without the beards bloke. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genie Posted June 21 Share Posted June 21 https://x.com/kimmyquickslice/status/1804179800266870793?s=46 Someone here claiming to know exactly what has gone on. I’ve not embedded it as it has an f-bomb in the tweet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jones1328 Posted June 21 Share Posted June 21 27 minutes ago, Rustibrooks said: I saw on twitter that some people believe there’s also a scam going on with a go-fund me page to do with him. Some girl set it up and some people believe she’s involved with the drug deal/ him going missing Ah yes, the good old Twitter detectives. Probably the same ones that were spot on with their theories during Nicola Bulleys disappearance. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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