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Post by adrianc on Sept 2, 2024 13:22:27 GMT
If my understanding of what you say and what you say is correct, then this is an example of a nonsense bit of news. The news is simply reporting a government action - removing immediately the single overall classification. It's been on the cards for ages, but Sunak never got round to it before the election. www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-68106248The case that prompted it was sad... www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-65651606...but was it that one word that was really the problem? After all, it hadn't even been published when she killed herself. Or was it actually an inadequate head who hadn't been picked up earlier?
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Post by benaj on Sept 2, 2024 13:30:41 GMT
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Post by adrianc on Sept 2, 2024 13:59:28 GMT
What I didn’t know, the headteachers premises could have possession of firearms. It was the husband's legally-held shotgun. He wasn't employed by the school - he was an accountant. She was the head.
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Post by benaj on Sept 2, 2024 14:31:58 GMT
So, are you saying it is perfectly “legal” to bring a firearm to school as long as the person is licensed and authorised?
This is not part of ofsted or any independent school inspection report.
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Post by adrianc on Sept 2, 2024 14:46:13 GMT
So, are you saying it is perfectly “legal” to bring a firearm to school as long as the person is licensed and authorised? I have no idea if her employment contract forbade any particular otherwise-legal objects from being kept by family members in the tied accommodation or not. Do you?
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Post by adrianc on Sept 3, 2024 6:27:29 GMT
"News" might be tenuous, but...  Bless. They really are a bit triggered by a successful woman, aren't they? |
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Post by keitha on Sept 3, 2024 20:42:34 GMT
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Post by agent69 on Sept 3, 2024 20:53:25 GMT
I see the government north of the border are implementing a series of cost cutting measures in order that they can balance the books this year. One of the measures being considered is scrapping free bus travel for people in the asylum system.
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Post by bracknellboy on Sept 4, 2024 7:13:09 GMT
I see the government north of the border are implementing a series of cost cutting measures in order that they can balance the books this year. One of the measures being considered is scrapping free bus travel for people in the asylum system.
so members of the Scottish Government no longer get free bus travel ?
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Post by Greenwood2 on Sept 4, 2024 8:38:22 GMT
"News" might be tenuous, but... Bless. They really are a bit triggered by a successful woman, aren't they? The really scary thing is people will believe this. And should they have a son together he could well be subject to all sorts of nastiness.
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Post by bracknellboy on Sept 4, 2024 9:08:50 GMT
"News" might be tenuous, but... Bless. They really are a bit triggered by a successful woman, aren't they? The really scary thing is people will believe this. And should they have a son together he could well be subject to all sorts of nastiness. I know its more difficult to sue for libel in the US than the UK, but it would be fun to see them do so. I suggest the defendant would have a bit of a problem in demonstrating that "the allegations are substantially true".
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Post by bracknellboy on Sept 4, 2024 9:11:51 GMT
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Post by agent69 on Sept 4, 2024 9:59:43 GMT
At face value this appears a bit daft, but there is probably some common sense in there somewhere.
- access to the new car park is via an upgraded A40
- the design for the upgrade is over budget so the award of a contract is delayed
- a park and ride car park is probably getting grants from all sorts of different pots, but has to be built to the original programme or you loose funding.
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Post by keitha on Sept 4, 2024 10:55:43 GMT
and you have the stupidity of single year budgets in Local Government the NHS etc, with the idiocy of spend it or lose it.
spend meant spend and be billed by the supplier, and of course money isn't spent unless goods received.
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Post by benaj on Sept 4, 2024 12:04:56 GMT
At face value this appears a bit daft, but there is probably some common sense in there somewhere.
- access to the new car park is via an upgraded A40
- the design for the upgrade is over budget so the award of a contract is delayed
- a park and ride car park is probably getting grants from all sorts of different pots, but has to be built to the original programme or you loose funding.
Just checked Google maps. If the builders have access to build it, the access exists some where right. Last time I checked is Cuckoo Lane. Is this the latest attempt to ask for more money from central government by telling it won't be operational in 2027?
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