In todays news...

[ZRX61]

Isn't it something grim along the lines of you start floating after about a week?

Yup, friend of mine fell in a river one night after a skinful at the pub. He floated up about a week later.

[Horse]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-l ... e-64716821

A pilot continued to fly after his co-pilot suffered a cardiac arrest and died - believing he was playing a joke.

The pilot believed his colleague was pretending to be asleep and only realised what had happened after landing, a safety report revealed.

The Air Accidents Investigation Branch investigated the incident, in Blackpool, so lessons could be learned.

It concluded current medical assessments were acceptable but risks "can never be reduced to zero".

The report found the pilot who died was flying with a qualified pilot who was able to land the aircraft safely but said "the outcome could have been different" on a different flight.

The 57-year-old, who had passed a medical four months earlier, had agreed to join the the short journey aboard a Piper PA-28-161 light aircraft around Blackpool Airport in June.

[mangocrazy]

It's not quite the same as being able to pull over onto the hard shoulder and give CPR, now is it? I imagine the surviving pilot must be feeling a b1t sh1t right now...

[wheelnut]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-l ... e-64716821

A pilot continued to fly after his co-pilot suffered a cardiac arrest and died - believing he was playing a joke.

The pilot believed his colleague was pretending to be asleep and only realised what had happened after landing, a safety report revealed.

The Air Accidents Investigation Branch investigated the incident, in Blackpool, so lessons could be learned.

It concluded current medical assessments were acceptable but risks "can never be reduced to zero".

The report found the pilot who died was flying with a qualified pilot who was able to land the aircraft safely but said "the outcome could have been different" on a different flight.

The 57-year-old, who had passed a medical four months earlier, had agreed to join the the short journey aboard a Piper PA-28-161 light aircraft around Blackpool Airport in June.

That’s happened a good few times in airliners over the years. I suppose that’s the reason there’s two of them.

[Ant]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-l ... e-64716821

A pilot continued to fly after his co-pilot suffered a cardiac arrest and died - believing he was playing a joke.

The pilot believed his colleague was pretending to be asleep and only realised what had happened after landing, a safety report revealed.

The Air Accidents Investigation Branch investigated the incident, in Blackpool, so lessons could be learned.

It concluded current medical assessments were acceptable but risks "can never be reduced to zero".

The report found the pilot who died was flying with a qualified pilot who was able to land the aircraft safely but said "the outcome could have been different" on a different flight.

The 57-year-old, who had passed a medical four months earlier, had agreed to join the the short journey aboard a Piper PA-28-161 light aircraft around Blackpool Airport in June.

That’s happened a good few times in airliners over the years. I suppose that’s the reason there’s two of them.

No, the reason there's two is so that one can fly whilst the other spends time with some raunchy obliging air hostesses.

[Horse]

That’s happened a good few times in airliners over the years. I suppose that’s the reason there’s two of them.

Ya reckon, eh?

https://www.euronews.com/travel/2022/11 ... the-cockpi

Flying solo: Airlines say it's safe for passenger planes to fly with one pilot in the cockpit

[Ant]

Enabled by the left wing, the male pervert who identifies as female....

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/ian- ... 62093.html

[irie]

IMF predict that the UK economy will be the worst performer in the developed world, including sanction hit Russia. Story from the BBC but I could have chosen a few other outlets as well.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-64452995


"UK expected to be only major economy to shrink in 2023 - IMF
The UK economy will shrink and perform worse than other advanced economies, including Russia, as the cost of living continues to hit households, the International Monetary Fund has said.

The IMF said the economy will contract by 0.6% in 2023, rather than grow slightly as previously predicted.

However, the IMF also said that it thinks the UK is now "on the right track".

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt said the UK outperformed many forecasts last year.

But shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves said the figures showed the UK "lagging behind our peers".

The IMF, which works to stabilise economic growth, said it had downgraded its forecast for the UK because of its high energy prices, rising mortgage costs and increased taxes, as well as persistent worker shortages. It did not mention Brexit in its report as a factor for the UK not performing as well as others. Today marks three years since the UK left the EU.

The UK is expected be the only country to shrink next year across all the advanced and emerging economies. Even sanctions-hit Russia is now forecast to grow this year."

In view of today's UK economic news, how's the above IMF forecast now looking less than a month after it was made?

[demographic]

In view of today's UK economic news, how's the above IMF forecast now looking less than a month after it was made?

I understand that the elderly kind of assume that everyoje else catches every little bit of news but I'm at work sipping my soup. Any chance you could put a little effort in and bung some kind of link up? Ideally maybe even with a bit of a précis?

I've got some ceilings to board.

[Ant]

The racists have been out again

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-64731007

[gremlin]

SNP leadership candidate being dropped like a wet fart after after answering a question with absolute honesty...

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-sc ... s-64727152

So, Kate Forbes, current bean-counter and aspiring leader of the SNP answers a question openly and honestly, in that, as a member of the Wee Free church in Scotland, she would not have voted for same-sex marriage. Suddenly her backers all seem to have found somewhere else more pressing they need to be....

I find this dispiriting. She hasn't made noises about rolling back the legislation, indeed she says she would 'defend it to the hilt' as a democrat. And yet she's already seeing her challenge withering and dying. What did her colleagues think her views would be on this issue? She hardly kept her religion a secret. Perhaps she should have simply kept her mouth shut or offered some weasel platitudes. Or just missed the vote altogether, as one of her rivals did back in 2014.

And people wonder why politicians rarely give a straight or honest answer....

[Mr. Dazzle]

As they always say; You get the politicians you deserve.

[Yorick]

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-64731007

[Mussels]

Enabled by the left wing, the male pervert who identifies as female....

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/ian- ... 62093.html

He's an idiot, he should have gone to Scotland.

[Yorick]

Accrington Stanley?

https://news.sky.com/story/accrington-s ... l-12817798

[Trinity765]

Earthquake in Wales at 23.59 yesterday. It was reported at 4.2 when I woke up but it's been downgraded to 3.7.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-64769319

I've been following this guy on Youtube and he predicted a Wales earthquake last week - he rabbits on a bit but he's pretty informative and accurate.

[KungFooBob]

That's Dilbert fucked then.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-64775250

[gremlin]

That's Dilbert fucked then.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-64775250

"It's OK to be Dilbert"

[ZRX61]

That's Dilbert fucked then.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-64775250

Gee, a racist democrat, what are the odds?

[Horse]

https://inews.co.uk/news/environment/se ... ty-2172858

The Government is taking sustainability advice from the boss of a water company that was fined for sewage pollution.

Liv Garfield, chief executive of Severn Trent Water, chairs the Council for Sustainable Business (CSB). It was set up in 2018 to help advise Government department Defra on how it can achieve the goals in its legally binding 25-year Environment Plan.

Also on the council is the boss of a scrap metal company whose company was found guilty of illegal dumping.

According to openDemocracy, which first reported the story, during Ms Garfield’s time as chair, the CSB took part in consultations ahead of new sewage discharge targets that were announced last year.

The Government subsequently set targets which will not require a complete end to legal storm overflows until 2050, and have been criticised for lacking ambition by campaign groups.