Who on earth is the 2nd guy?
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Gissa job?
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Crumbs, I’m useless with faces. Sadly departed earlier this year.
Bernard Hill, Captain of The Titanic and Theoden King
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Hahaha. I genuinely thought, “F%%% me. Bono looks rough. I’m in for a tough few years if that can happen to him.”
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Gone.
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"So it begins … "
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Rather odd given that variation is allowed but wasn’t asked for.
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The article says temporary road closure orders were not secured in time. That begs the question as to when the organisers realised the issue, how/when they learned of the requirement and process to apply, what that process is, and how long it takes to go through - it might he a slow process.
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Especially as it was being towed backwards up the Thames
I met this guy - and he looked like might have
been a hat check clerk at an ice rink.
Which, in fact, he turned out to be. And I said:
Oh boy. Right again.
Let X=X.
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The option is well publicised in Wales and numerous other events have taken place without hitch in consequence of the ability to vary upon application. My understanding is that it takes 28 to 56 days to sort but then if you have an event running you’d largely be working to longer timescales than that anyway.
I get a sense that media wise they’re not really interested in the 99 which go ahead.
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My guess is simply the organises of the race hadn’t tweaks the significance of the 20 mph limits until quite late on, by which time there simply wasn’t Sufficient time left to go through the process. Not sure quite where I would lay blame if I wanted to, as for a cycle race it would be a novel thing to have to think about motor vehicles not being able to go fast enough.
I have to say I was unaware that speed limits don’t apply to cyclists! I always thought they applied to all road users, including me ad a cyclist, not knowing that the term motor vehicle came into it.
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In other news; I notice at Companies House that Vervent Audio Group no longer has significant control in Naim Audio. This is public record so hopefully this post won’t put anyone’s nose out of joint.
Interesting, I thought. Could be a number of things behind that so I’ll not speculate.
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Separate thread on this now SImon.
Young at heart, crumbs:
She did 130mph in a Ferrari at 99!
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It looks like a repeat of the Grenfell Tower fire, only in Dagenham this time 
With all the “buck passing” that went on after Grenfell happened in 2017, you would have thought that all this cladding would have been dealt with years ago
SAS soldier who helped to free Iranian embassy hostages dies at 82
Without people like him…etc.
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Absolutely. I had the pleasure and honour of meeting John in 1982 when i was at Hereford on a training exercise with 22 SAS TA from Hitchin in Hertfordshire. It was before the Falklands, i hadn’t known until i read the article that he served in the Falklands as well. Without people like John, the world be a less safe place than it is even in these turbulent times.
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