Geoff Wilkinson details why Grenfell should not have been able to happen
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Source: If regulations were followed, the Grenfell Tower inferno should have been impossible
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Brick thrown through Angela Eagle’s office window after she announces Labour leadership bid
Angela Eagle has had a brick thrown through her constituency office’s window and been inundated with abusive phone calls after announcing her bid to become Labour leader.
Source: Brick thrown through Angela Eagle’s office window after she announces Labour leadership bid
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Marathon Records
How many marathons have you run? Could you do more than one in a year? How about a month? A week? This old article from The Telegraph (and recently showed up on Oddity Central at http://www.odditycentral.com/news/man-runs-370-marathons-in-one-year-proves-nothing-is-impossible.html) shows a guy running *370 marathons in a year.*
The most I’ve seen a woman run was 366, and that was Annette Fredskov (http://blog.endomondo.com/2013/08/09/how-annette-fredskov-ran-366-marathons-in-365-days/)
Source: http://blog.endomondo.com/2013/08/09/how-annette-fredskov-ran-366-marathons-in-365-days/
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Man ‘deletes his whole company’ after typing wrong bit of code
If ever there was a time you wish you could click ‘undo’, this would be it.
But while most people are often rescued by the quick ‘control+z’ command – seeing their entire document return to the screen after inadvertently deleting it all – there was no such saving grace for Marco Marsala.
The hosting provider wrote on help forum Server Fault that he had accidentally entered a code that seemed to have wiped his computers, including the websites of his customers.
The command, “rm -rf”, deletes everything it is told to and blocks the helpful warnings that usually inform the user that something is being deleted. In this case, because he hadn’t specified what he wanted deleted, it erased everything.
With super-user permissions comes great responsibility, which unfortunately doesn’t help with stupidity.
Source: Man ‘deletes his whole company’ after typing wrong bit of code
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Father’s Days
One of the cartoonists in The Telegraph put together a story of his becoming a father and it’s both enlightening and heartwrenching at the same time. And, being a cartoonist, he illustrated the story himself – to great effect.
Source: Father’s Days
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Why I Hate Councils…
A great grandfather is seen crawling upstairs in a shocking video because council bosses won’t fit a stairlift
Dundee City Council says a stairlift would be a health and safety hazard because he shares a home with his young grandson.
Gordon Fraser, 73, suffers a neurological condition called torsion dystonia, which limits his movement and speech.
He has fallen downstairs three times since he moved in with daughter Lucy, in Dundee, after the death of his wife in January.
But the council says that because there’s a child under 10 in the house, which would be too risky.
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My cat died, and it affected me as much as losing my dad – Telegraph
I commend this journalist for writing about this. It is a shame that deaths of family pets are not seen as the same as the same as family members, when to some – including blind people, they are more than just pets.
I used to own a cat myself, he disappeared one night and never returned. I never found out what happened to him – whether he was adopted or killed, and I guess I never will…
A few weeks ago I lost a close family member to cancer.
Although he had been had been ill for a while with a thyroid problem, until the morning of his death there was no indication that we were also dealing with incurable kidney cancer, nor that before the day was out we would have to say our goodbyes to him and would never see him again.
The family member’s name was Dave and he was just shy of his 15th birthday. He was, of course, not a human member of our family but a feline one (the picture above is a bit of giveaway). He was a valued and much-loved member of the family nonetheless.
Your regular, characterful-but-common-as-muck moggie, Dave was a cat it was hard to dislike. A big bruiser, people said he had the body of a boxer and the face of a rent boy.
Food obsessed, irascible and an ardent lover of warmth (we once found him curled up inside a duvet on a day when the thermometer hit 31C), he was also so ludicrously placid that you could pop him under your arm and squeeze him like bagpipes, or plonk him on your head and wear him like a deerstalker – something, I must admit, I occasionally did. Such was his docile demeanour that everyone from casual strangers to our cat-sitter and vet adored him.
When the end came, however, it came quickly. They day before his death he lay on the bed in the spare bedroom, listless, quiet and off his food. I knew the game was up when he even refused to eat a handful of prawns – his favourite treat.
The following day, a Saturday, he refused to eat again, eschewing food but lapping up water as if he hadn’t drunk for a week. So abnormal was his thirst – I’d only ever seen him drink from the water bowl about twice in 15 years – that we took him to the vet immediately.
On discovering his kidneys were enlarged, he was transferred to another local vets for investigations and by 4pm we’d had the news that he had cancer.
A few hours later, my partner and I were standing in a small treatment room having to make the heartbreaking decision to let him go.
My cat died, and it affected me as much as losing my dad – Telegraph.
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What is the Magna Carta, and why is it important? – Telegraph
The Magna Carta was granted 800 years ago. A series of events are taking place on the anniversary – 14 and 15 June – to mark the occasion, including a flotilla of boats sailing down the Thames and a royal appearance in Runnymede, the site of the charter’s sealing all those years ago.
So what is it, how did it come about, and what does it do today?
What is the Magna Carta, and why is it important? – Telegraph.
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Boston marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev found guilty – Telegraph
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev faces a potential death sentence after being found guilty of carrying out the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing which killed three people and brought carnage to the streets of a major American city.
A Boston jury found him guilty on all 30 charges and the same jurors will now be asked to decide whether the 21-year-old should be executed by lethal injection.
Boston marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev found guilty – Telegraph.
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