The cold spell we’ve had in the last couple couple of weeks seems to have caught those in charge of the countries transport infrastructure by surprise.  Preparations clearly hadn’t been made properly, and a plan for dealing with some reasonably heavy snow and ice seemed to be largely absent in many areas. The media went [...]

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Today was a good day, like the summer we never had, and it offered the chance to revel in the past manufacturing glory of Welwyn Garden City. Back in the days of Britain’s manufacturing based economy, before we became a service economy, important things were made here, air liners and domestic electronics, and they were [...]

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