In todays news...

[Horse]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-o ... e-62924112

A World War 2 pilot, who was a prisoner of war at the camp made famous by the film The Great Escape, has died aged 102.

Captain Vyvyan Howard, from Banbury, was captured and held at the German Stalag Luft III camp after his plane was shot down in 1941.

During that time, he aided attempts to dig tunnels under the perimeter fences.

His family paid tribute to his "quiet wisdom" following his death at a nursing home in Banbury, Oxfordshire.

Mr Howard joined the Royal Navy as a pilot shortly before the start of World War 2 and was shot down and captured in the ill-fated Kirkenes raid in the north of Norway.

He spent two-and-a-half years at the Nazis' Stalag Luft III POW camp in Lower Silesia, now part of Poland.

During that time, he helped in escape attempts immortalised in the films, The Wooden Horse and the Great Escape.

In the wooden horse attempt, he and others continuously jumped over a vaulting horse which covered the trap door to an escape tunnel.

While not among those who made it clear of the camp during the 1944 Great Escape, he used his fluent German to engage the guards in conversation to distract them from covert digging of tunnels - codenamed Tom, Dick and Harry.

[Noggin]

Not a like like. But wow. Always interesting and amazing to read about the real people that lived the stories to create the films

[Horse]

Not a like like. But wow. Always interesting and amazing to read about the real people that lived the stories to create the films

I didn't quote perhaps the most important but:

Recalling his wartime experiences on his 100th birthday in 2019 he said: "It was bloody awful but you were in it and that was it - you couldn't just walk out of the door."

[MingtheMerciless]

ooops

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-c ... to1BTHYstE

Other news outlets have some aerial shots that show how close to the road it is.

One place had 700mm of rain in 24hrs!!!!

[Horse]

ooops

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-c ... to1BTHYstE

Other news outlets have some aerial shots that show how close to the road it is.

One place had 700mm of rain in 24hrs!!!!

That's one heck of a bombing run! (Wrong link?)

[Trinity765]

https://road.cc/content/news/strava-kom ... ers-296049

41mph av. speed on lovely, open twisties. How do I get me the Strava koms app?

[Pirahna]

The Budget:

The wankers have managed to knock another 2p off the Pound against the Euro.

[Mr. Dazzle]

The Budget:

The wankers have managed to knock another 2p off the Pound against the Euro.

It's to make the economy grow!

No I don't really get how borrowing more and 'earning' less helps either, but then that's why I'm not chancellor.

But then said drop in pound suggests the people who DO understand aren't fully convinced either.

[Mussels]

The tax lost in England will be made up for by rich Jocks moving south now the Scottish super tax is 6% higher. Sturgeon must be spitting feathers.

[Greenman]

The Budget:

The wankers have managed to knock another 2p off the Pound against the Euro.

It's to make the economy grow!

No I don't really get how borrowing more and 'earning' less helps either, but then that's why I'm not chancellor.

But then said drop in pound suggests the people who DO understand aren't fully convinced either.

Blinded by the ball shit much?

They always do this sort of thing and sell it off to us that it will benefit all but in reality it only really benefits the 1%.

[slowsider]

The tax lost in England will be made up for by rich Jocks moving south now the Scottish super tax is 6% higher. Sturgeon must be spitting feathers.

The threat of Rwanda should deter them

[Noggin]

Sturgeon must be spitting feathers.

See, I've always thought Spitting Feathers means angry.

But a friend called his bar Spitting Feathers because apparently it also means really really thirsty!!! LOL Dodgy if someone isn't sure which one it is!! LOL

[Mr. Dazzle]

Just cause the pic makes I laugh.

[cheb]

To me spitting feathers is being really thirsty and spitting nails is being really angry.

[Horse]

To me spitting feathers is being really thirsty and spitting nails is being really angry.

& 'farting sparks'

[JackyJoll]

Sturgeon must be spitting feathers.

See, I've always thought Spitting Feathers means angry.

But a friend called his bar Spitting Feathers because apparently it also means really really thirsty!!! LOL Dodgy if someone isn't sure which one it is!! LOL

Let’s face it. It doesn’t really mean anything.

[JackyJoll]

To me spitting feathers is being really thirsty and spitting nails is being really angry.

& 'farting sparks'

Not to be confused with sparking farts.

[JackyJoll]

The Budget:

The wankers have managed to knock another 2p off the Pound against the Euro.

It's to make the economy grow!

No I don't really get how borrowing more and 'earning' less helps either, but then that's why I'm not chancellor.

I think we all really do get how reducing tax might help trade and industry.

[slowsider]

The Budget:

The wankers have managed to knock another 2p off the Pound against the Euro.

It's to make the economy grow!

No I don't really get how borrowing more and 'earning' less helps either, but then that's why I'm not chancellor.

I think we all really do get how reducing tax might help trade and industry.

Increasing tax on fuel company profits might help fund reductions elsewhere without putting the bill on the next generation.

[JackyJoll]

It's to make the economy grow!

No I don't really get how borrowing more and 'earning' less helps either, but then that's why I'm not chancellor.

I think we all really do get how reducing tax might help trade and industry.

Increasing tax on fuel company profits might help fund reductions elsewhere without putting the bill on the next generation.

Yes and you’re doing the same as me: using the word “might.”