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You can get down to the “beach” here too, squeeze through the alley to the side of the pub

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As local newspapers in Pennsylvania die out, Facebook groups. Unsurprisingly, the result is a shitstorm.

Not really news, but from the NY Times. Lovely photography:

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/05/travel/sussex-bicycle-portraits.html

Nice!!

Huge if true:

You know the onion is a satirical site?

Or is your follow up going to be a series of Sunday Sport headlines?

r/iatetheonion ?

I didn't even notice it was The Onion and wondered how that sentence would make sense even for Americans. There's a WW2 bomber on the moon too, apparently.

Surprise, surprise

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/golf/56668821

keep track of the daily volcanic eruptions and earthquakes here

https://www.volcanodiscovery.com/home.html

According to the map there was one in Denmark Hill...

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oh my ! i didn't zoom in at all, just looked at the ring of fire and moved on

any volcanoes south of the river ?

I just heard on BBC News that 11,000 people have died in gun violence in the US since the start of the year.

11,000 in three and a bit months. About 112 every day.

I'm starting to think their militia is not quite well-regulated enough.

China considers banning teachers from sexual relationships with primary and middle school students: https://www.scmp.com/news/people-culture/social-welfare/article/3128689/china-considers-banning-teachers-sexual

"considers"

Excellent typo in the comments.

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"Teachers found violating the rules would receive disciplinary punishment and prevented from joining any award competitions for a period of one to three years."

boris finally gets to use his water cannons

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/micheal-martin-northern-ireland-belfast-police-psni-b928621.html

oh maybe not, sold 3 years too early, another lack of foresight from our prime minister

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-46258584

wonder if they're just hiring them from some 3rd world dictatorship

"disciplinary punishment" means they get moved to another (less prestigious) school.

Water cannon have been here for quite a period of time.

Surprised we've not seen LRADs purchased yet, tbh.

Yeah but Tresemmé wouldn't let anyone use them "in England and Wales" and rejected Johnson's application for usage. [https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/jul/23/theresa-may-police-water-cannon-use-england-wales]
Don't know if anyone would block it if Johnson decided to challenge that again now though.

Always seemed odd that they were purchased but never used on the mainland.

Yeah but Tresemmé wouldn't let anyone use them "in England and Wales"

Seems a missed opportunity to cross-sell their shampoos and shower gels to properly deal with the great unwashed.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/apr/09/prince-philip-duke-of-edinburgh-dies