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Carbon offsetting skydives
Read more: Carbon offsetting skydivesIt looks like it will cost around 30 pence to offset a jump from an AVGAS-fuelled plane at 10,000 ft. More data required to support turbine aircraft. Not bad.
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The Chancellor flounders around, ultimately doing a good thing
Read more: The Chancellor flounders around, ultimately doing a good thingChancellor Alistair Darling has put up the personal tax allowance by £600 – meaning anyone earning up to £40,835 will gain £120 this year. It would have been impressive if it had appeared in the same budget that…
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“Man cuts up car in clamp protest” – a hilarious reaction to an over-zealous state
Read more: “Man cuts up car in clamp protest” – a hilarious reaction to an over-zealous stateA car is bought for restoration as a cheap runaround but it is beyond economical repair. It’s declared SORN, but parked with a small corner off a private drive. The busybodies turn up and clamp it, so the…
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Nelson
Read more: NelsonBeth recommended this quote from Nelson: I will be a hero and, confiding in Providence, I will brave every danger! I suppose he wouldn’t get away with this today.
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CCTV boom ‘failing to cut crime’ – so let’s have a new database
Read more: CCTV boom ‘failing to cut crime’ – so let’s have a new databaseThe gist of the argument here is that the State should have control of a widespread, integrated camera system to track “offenders”. Instead, “the CCTV network in the UK has been built up in a piecemeal way, driven…
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Hello 1984 – UK National Staff Dismissal Register to go Live
Read more: Hello 1984 – UK National Staff Dismissal Register to go LiveWorkers accused of theft or damage could soon find themselves blacklisted on a register to be shared among employers. Innocent people could find it impossible to get another job if listed on the online database of workers accused…
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Red Bull HUMVEE-mounted DJ
Read more: Red Bull HUMVEE-mounted DJGrotesque, yet appropriate, which is cause for thought.
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Finishing off the trip and reflecting on carbon offsetting
Read more: Finishing off the trip and reflecting on carbon offsettingWe squeezed in three jumps this morning: one tracking, one fun and a four way formation. The Porter’s door is small for four big lads: So, despite practising the exit, we broke the formation while upside down and…
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The most fabulous day
Read more: The most fabulous dayToday was a fabulous day. I jumped 8 times with Steve and Tristan (second and last from the left), with Mark joining for the last four on his recovering ankle: I never thought I would witness one airline…