blackn1ght
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- Comment on How switching your bank account could earn you up to £220 21 hours ago:
It’s straight forward if you use the current account switch service, we’ve just done it to move banks.
I guess you could keep a dormant current account open that you don’t use or use sparingly and use that to switch to a new account to get the reward. Probably does a number on your credit score if you do it quite frequently and it’s something you care about.
- Comment on Five reservoirs in England and Wales ‘exceptionally low’ as drought persists 1 day ago:
We are building new reservoirs, or do you mean more than what’s being planned?
- Comment on Changing pubs into offices or homes to be made harder under new rules 1 day ago:
I guess we’ll just see more abandoned buildings then rather than brown sites that could be used for housing.
- Comment on Emergency Alert About Wildfires 3 days ago:
Not used in a test scenario.
- Comment on Emergency Alert About Wildfires 3 days ago:
Yeah this proper shit me up! Is it the first time this system has been used in anger?
- Comment on British Transport Police responding to reports of train derailment in Essex 3 days ago:
Another one?
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- Comment on Burnham to consider ban on disposable barbecues as wildfires rage in UK 4 days ago:
They’re not disposable cast iron BBQs, they’re just an aluminium foil tray with a few bits of charcoal in and a wire mesh to put the food on. As you can guess, they’re awful for cooking on.
- Radio station falsely announced King’s death as staff member ran away in panicwww.independent.co.uk ↗Submitted 1 week ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 0 comments
- Comment on ‘The market is dead’: why aren’t flats in England selling? 1 week ago:
I guess it depends on why they’re selling. For some, it won’t be worth the financial penalty and will just stay put.
- Comment on ‘The market is dead’: why aren’t flats in England selling? 1 week ago:
That’s ultimately the answer and how the game is supposed to work. Lower the prices enough and someone will buy.
But people don’t want to then sell their property for £50k+ less than they paid for it, and I can understand their reluctance. So rather than just accept a lower price, they take the property off the market and just wait things out. Only those desperate enough will lower their price significantly, but I’d imagine those people would be a rarity.
So now you end up with house prices that don’t really fall in any meaningful way and social mobility is hurt, which has wider implications.
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- Comment on Driver gets £90 ticket after using Lidl EV charger out of hours 1 week ago:
ParkingEye can go fuck themselves. Predatory bastards.
- Comment on Man arrested after 'dressing as Grim Reaper' at hospital and staring at patients 1 week ago:
I think there’s a reasonable excuse: it’s pretty fucking funny.
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- Comment on Hospital parking hike in Essex only adds stress, patients say 2 weeks ago:
This reminds me, I’ve got two parking charges from taking my dad to the hospital 🙁 I paid and displayed the blue badge but didn’t choose the correct option when paying, which has cost me £140.
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- Comment on Fibre Tycoon Game Lets You Play as an Alternative UK Broadband Network - ISPreview UK 2 weeks ago:
a surprising amount of depth from a fist look
That’s what she said
- Comment on Blow to NHS as Royal Mail raises prices for bulk users by a third 2 weeks ago:
No I don’t think so, it’s for bulk senders. I’m guessing the badge made it too thick for a standard 2c post?
- Comment on Why don’t Gen Z buy rounds in the pub? 2 weeks ago:
I’m a millenial but on the very rare occassion that I go to the pub with a group, I hate buying rounds. Not because of cost, but because I’m a slow drinker and everyone is finished by the time I’ve drunk half a pint. Let me just enjoy my own drink at a pace I want to drink it.
- Comment on Blow to NHS as Royal Mail raises prices for bulk users by a third 3 weeks ago:
Well there’s email / NHS App, where letters get published digitally. If they do anything like my bank where you can opt-out of paper communcations then that would save some £ by not having to send mail to people that don’t want it. There’s obviously going to be a portion of the demographics that would prefer to receive physical mail, but they’ll be declining over time.
There’s also 3rd party companies that will handle mail (pick up, processing) and put it into the RM network at the end for a cheaper price than RM do. Not sure if the NHS are using that already though.
- Comment on Burnham approves US use of UK bases for some strikes on Iran, Bloomberg reports | Move marks a continuation of predecessor Keir Starmer's policy 3 weeks ago:
No I don’t because that’s not how our democracy works. We don’t vote directly for the PM, we vote in a local representitive and they vote for the leader of the party. It’s either a misundestanding or just being dishonest to say that they’re unelected. They were elected by their constitutency and elected again by whatever mechanism the party uses.
- Comment on Burnham approves US use of UK bases for some strikes on Iran, Bloomberg reports | Move marks a continuation of predecessor Keir Starmer's policy 3 weeks ago:
Both Starmer and Burnham were elected.
- Comment on Airline pilot skywrites ‘I’m bored’ over England-Wales border 4 weeks ago:
Airline pilot kind of suggests that it was done in a jet airliner, but it was a tiny single prop plane. Still impressive!
- Comment on People smuggler convicted in France found by BBC living in UK and seeking asylum 1 month ago:
Immigration officers have told the BBC that since the UK left the European Union, it has become more difficult to check criminal records from some other countries.
This should really be the headline.
- Comment on Lloyds Bank Blocks Account of Leftwing News Outlet the Canary 1 month ago:
It they’re not explaining why then they’ve likely fallen fowl off anti money laundering laws. Maybe they’ve had some transactions with sanctioned accounts?
- Comment on Asylum seekers to be billed £10k to cover own support once they start earning money 1 month ago:
will allow the Home Office to recover costs from adults who have been housed or who have received financial support while waiting on their asylum claim.
They’re already getting accommodation and financial support. I’m not entirely sure what the point of this is, on the grand scheme of things I can’t imagine these costs making a big dent in the finances of the country, and we’d probably spend a good chunk of money administrating and trying to recover this money.
Maybe it’s more about trying to discourage asylum seekers from coming here in the first place, or filtering out those who are genuinely in need.
- Bedford crash occurred after train passed red signal and was not stopped, investigators believewww.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 1 month ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 0 comments