Chris Clark

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

How bullets become stunning underwater jewelry

[🎞️ mr_scoopz]

[Wiltshire Council #WiltshireTogether @wiltscouncil]

🚚 Our gritting teams are out this evening and overnight, so please take extra care on the roads, allow more time for your journeys, don't assume roads have been treated and watch out for ice, particularly black ice ❄️

[DWFireControl @DWFireControl]

It's unfortunate that there is a need to communicate this, but whilst our crews are attending an incident they do have the rights to close a road. We understand that this can cause frustration but verbal abuse towards our crews, and driving over closure cones, is unacceptable 1/2

[Eugenie Brooks 🇺🇦 🇬🇧 @alberttopcat]

On this day in 1944 Sgt Maurice Rogers 2nd Bn Wiltshire Reg was KIA at Anzio & posthumously awarded the VC. His Bn was held up by stubborn german MGs & he dashed ahead of his platoon thru heavy MG fire, firing his Tommy gun & throwing grenades. He wiped out several MG nests but

[FosterWilts @FosterWilts]

I'm Helen from Wiltshire fostering team. To raise awareness that children in care are placed, on average, 20 miles from home, I cycled 24 miles around beautiful Wiltshire, with a stop at Great Chalfield Manor!
Let's spread the word about the difference fostering can make!

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

In 1922, a group of scientists went to the Toronto General Hospital where diabetic children were kept in wards, often 50 or more at a time. Most of them were comatose and dying from diabetic ketoacidosis. Others were being treated by being placed on an extremely strict diet, which inevitably led to starvation.

This is known as one of medicine's most incredible moments. Imagine a room full of parents sitting at the bedside waiting for the inevitable death of their child.

The scientists went from bed to bed and injected the children with a new purified extract: it was called insulin.

As they began to inject the last comatose child, the first child injected began to awaken. Then one by one, all the children awoke from their diabetic comas. A room of death and gloom became a place of joy and hope.

In the early 1920s Frederick Banting and Charles Best discovered insulin under the directorship of John Macleod at the University of Toronto. With the help of James Collip insulin was purified, making it available for the successful treatment of diabetes.

In the same year, Banting, Collip, and Best decided to sell the insulin patent to the University of Toronto for $1.

Banting and Macleod earned a Nobel Prize for their work in 1923.

Photo Credits: Library and Archives Canada

[Wiltshire Council #WiltshireTogether @wiltscouncil]

Please be aware of this closure of the M4 J17 at Chippenham currently which will affect journeys in this area this morning.

[Hartpury RFC @HartpuryRFC]

Post match update:

Brad Denty was confirmed as the scorer of the first try and well done to Keir Clark for making his @Champrugby debut from the bench as well as stepping up from our @BUCSSuperRugby programme

[Ministry of Defence 🇬🇧 @DefenceHQ]

In a touching tribute to John ‘Paddy’ Hemingway DFC, this morning, the Band of the @ColdstreamGds performed the Battle of Britain March and the @RoyalAirforce March Past during the Changing of the Guard at Buckingham Palace. 🇬🇧

[Chippenham RFC @ChippenhamRFC]

Brilliant to see two @ChippenhamRFC players in the @deafrugby Squad for the test on Sunday

So proud of Sam and Connor - #RugbyFamily

@BBCWiltsSport @DorsetWiltsRFU @RFU @OneChippenham @BR_Foundation

[Mark Ormrod MBE @MarkOrmrod]

It might be just a bit of green cloth, but when you’ve grafted THAT hard to earn it, it’s the greatest feeling of pride. Nothing beats sitting back, looking at it, and saying, ‘I did it’ 🪖🦾

#GoldMedal #ArmedForces #RoyalMarine #GreenBeret #Veteran #Reorg

[Wiltshire Council #WiltshireTogether @wiltscouncil]

‼️ Take care if you’re going out this weekend.
❄️ Overnight below zero temps - gritters will be out.
🌧️ Tomorrow: yellow warning of rain & wind.
⚠️ Flood alerts: https://t.co/1l5oVHyrsf
🚙 Allow extra time for journeys & drive carefully.
📱 Report issues: https://t.co/9quYyZGsMy

[Wiltshire Council #WiltshireTogether @wiltscouncil]

⚠️ There is a yellow warning of fog in place for Wiltshire this morning.
❗️Please allow additional time for your journeys and take extra care if you are heading out.

[Wiltshire Council #WiltshireTogether @wiltscouncil]

With colder temperatures to continue overnight throughout the weekend, our fleet will be out again later tonight gritting the primary routes. Please continue to take extra care if you’re out and about, particularly on those minor routes and always drive to the conditions ❄️

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Office life before the invention of AutoCAD and other drafting software.

Prior to the release of AutoCAD in 1982, engineering drawings were all done by hand using different grade pencils, erasers, T-squares and set squares.

[Wiltshire Council #WiltshireTogether @wiltscouncil]

We've all woken up to another frosty morning today, which can only mean one thing - our gritters were out again overnight treating the A and B roads 🚚

Please take extra care on the roads, particularly minor routes as these may not have been treated 🚗

[Wiltshire Council #WiltshireTogether @wiltscouncil]

Roadside temperatures across Wiltshire are expected to drop below zero this evening so our gritting teams will be treating the roads.

Not all roads will be gritted, so please take extra care if you’re heading out tonight or tomorrow morning and think ice.

[Wiltshire Council #WiltshireTogether @wiltscouncil]

There is currently a Yellow warning of wind in Wiltshire on Sunday.
☃️ Tie down loose items in your gardens such as trampolines or Christmas decorations.
🚗 Take care if you’re heading out this weekend and allow extra time.
🪚 Report trees down: https://t.co/AbWcCOSaWR

[Veterans’ Foundation @VeteransFdn]

Please take a moment to remember Marine Georgie Sparks, 42 Commando Royal Marines, who died of wounds received in an RPG attack northwest of Lashkar Gah, Helmand Province.
Lest we forget.🕯️🌺
#MemorialWall

[Jon Wort 🇺🇦🇮🇱🇬🇧 @Tofrek]

I have started a https://t.co/cFymGkvbTS to raise money for Richard Broadhead (@WiltSoldiers), who is a fellow Battlefield Guide, but has sadly been robbed of his passion through illness.
I am trying to raise funds for a mobility vehicle.
I hope you can help him return to Ypres.