In todays news...

[Yambo]

Indeed, its so hushed up that the first hit on Google tells you what happened.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.co ... yjv40o.amp

That report, like all the others, tells me that a head was found but no body. It tells me, like all the others that the man was decapitated by being hit by a bus. I've spent most of my life in road transport related jobs and later in accident investigation and that's the first incident I've ever heard of where a bus has decapitated a pedestrian. I think there are regulations in place to prevent vehicles from causing that type of injury.

There's nothing in that report, like all the others, to tell us the man's body was found nearby. There's nothing in that report, like all the others, about the bus and driver being found. Other reports say that there were a lot of pedestrians around (it being Halloween) so how did a bus get up enough speed to decapitate a man? No Lothian bus services use the street and it has a no traffic curfew from 22:00.

If the bus and driver have been found why has it not been reported? I'm interested, from a (previous) professional popint of view.

[gremlin]

So growth down and now inflation up, but the budget was about growth right!

Another rate cut this year has now been given a 9.7% chance, down from 15% prior to the latest inflation figures. Markets are now only predicting two 25bp cuts next year. In lay terms, this means mortgage payments won't be coming down as quickly as one might hope.

On the up side, higher rates means a stronger pound, so your holiday money, if you can can still go given your mortgage repayments, will go further in forrin lands (GBP/EUR back above 1.20 as of this morning), as long as that forrin land ain't America, as the greenback is riding the 'Trump Trade' wave at them moment.

[Mr. Dazzle]

If the bus and driver have been found why has it not been reported? I'm interested, from a (previous) professional popint of view.

Well they probably didn't guess his name just from the head

I'd suspect it's more the case that it's not widely reported in the popular press, doesn't mean it's being hushed up, it's just not a headline. They don't shout about all the other pedestrians killed either.

[Dodgy69]

Maybe if they stopped increasing the energy price cap just as we enter the colder months, then lower in late spring when no one uses much might help.

Thought it was introduced to help consumers, not oil company profits, or am I being nieve.

[Taipan]

Indeed, its so hushed up that the first hit on Google tells you what happened.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.co ... yjv40o.amp

That report, like all the others, tells me that a head was found but no body. It tells me, like all the others that the man was decapitated by being hit by a bus. I've spent most of my life in road transport related jobs and later in accident investigation and that's the first incident I've ever heard of where a bus has decapitated a pedestrian. I think there are regulations in place to prevent vehicles from causing that type of injury.

There's nothing in that report, like all the others, to tell us the man's body was found nearby. There's nothing in that report, like all the others, about the bus and driver being found. Other reports say that there were a lot of pedestrians around (it being Halloween) so how did a bus get up enough speed to decapitate a man? No Lothian bus services use the street and it has a no traffic curfew from 22:00.

If the bus and driver have been found why has it not been reported? I'm interested, from a (previous) professional popint of view.

There was, is, a sort of silence around it? My weegie colleague told me the bodyless man was a convicted sex offender and it was a revenge attack. I thought this slightly odd, as I thought they would have lopped off his genitals rather than his head? I'll further qualify his version of events by adding he told me Alex Salmon was assassinated and that's being covered up too...

[Mussels]

So growth down and now inflation up, but the budget was about growth right!

And she lied on her CV, no wonder her budget backfired. She now she's doubling down by robbing the public sector pension pots.

[Taipan]

I didn't think anyone could look worse than the departing Tories so quickly! There's not much sport to be had with labour voters either, as they're more incensed than anyone else!

A middle class labour voter earlier...