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Ironic that "a substantial majority" of the electorate voted in the Leave/Remain referendum to take back control, apparently because our institutions are the best but top judges have been branded enemies of the people for doing nothing more than a bit of judging and MP's who follow our unw...

Here's my cyclists' "Get Well Soon" card.

... I agree with voting controls you mention and with the "non of the above" "non of them" or similar on the ballot papaer. But what do you do after an overwhelming "non of them" vote? A substantial 'none of them' vote might be the reaction to compulsory voting. IMO an...

Do other folks agree with me, or am I the only one? I think you are simply mistaken. There isn't a page limit. Posts in the classified ads sections auto-delete after a set period of inactivity. The "For sale" section is the one that attracts by far the most posts. I've not been back to lo...

... I'd be interested in knowing what constitutes "not working". I'd put good money on it that actually being lit up at all would have some jobsworth claiming they were working (probably then demonstrated by using the patrol car to trigger them). I cannot point to any cases here but the o...

Good luck with this.

I rang the police on this one, and got the curt answer " no one can give you permission to go through a red light" If a traffic light isn't working, it's not "lawfully erected" and it may be passed with due care and attention, ie, you cannot simply ignore it. If traffic had to w...

Presumably that was somewhere like a park, rather than in your garden/ backyard? It's pretty much a fact of life that people don't report things like that, often assuming that what's happening is legit; with or without what's happening in France, a yellow hi-viz vest legitimates anything, even more ...

I'm sure it will come as a massive relief to the entire forum membership that my missing copy of Private Eye arrived in a plain brown envelope at lunchtime today. A timely reply to my email by a human being to say they were posting it would have been nice and would have headed off my email to the ed...

Put it down as a success, accept the gratitude of cyclists everywhere, and keep your eyes peeled.

I cannot help much with the details of ANPR which had a terrible reputation in the early days, much like the DVLC (as was.) There's a tv series running called Traffic Cops. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006zygp I don't actively watch much telly, but my wife does so I'm a passive viewer (a bit li...

Do they have a closed base or do you have to bolt into a concrete base for full security benefits? The bike store has metal floor ie it forms a complete metal box. Belt 'n' braces suggests to me that while anchoring the whole caboodle isn't strictly necessary, it wouldn't go amiss. I don't know if ...

Harrogate has a big problem with motor traffic and futile attempts to deal with it have arguably made it worse. From a cycling POV, jams are ideal if you are ok with the fumes, but urban routes which have turned Victorian streets into one-way systems are not.

has any one wild camped on beaches? what is the law regarding that? The law of nature is that if you camp on a beach you are likely to be disturbed or worse by the tide unless you do a lot of careful planning. If you include the sand dunes as "beach" then I believe camping is likely to da...