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Interests in farming, Bed and Breakfast @themanorhousebb , Carp Fisheries and home to @arniemanton the 46lb Carp. Family man 1 wife 3 daughters 1dog

[Chris the Bald @Wiseworlduk]

#OTD 1936 Gatwick Airport is officially opened by Lord Swinton, the Secretary of State for Air.
Gatwick had four landing strips made of grass and a subway connecting the Beehive terminal to the train station.
The first scheduled flight was a Jersey Airways plane to Paris.

[DepressedBergman @DannyDrinksWine]

British Motor Corp, owners of the Mini, refused to donate any cars for "The Italian Job" (1969). The chief of Fiat Motors offered to donate all of the cars needed, including Fiat 500s in place of the Minis. Peter Collinson, the director of the movie decided that, as it was a very British movie, the cars should be British Minis.

Fiat still donated scores of cars for filming, as well as the factory grounds. The authorities refused to close the roads, but the Italian Mafia stepped in and shut whole sections of Turin down for filming. The traffic jams in this movie are real, as are people's actions during them.

(Source: IMDb)

P.S: On this day, 56 years ago, "The Italian Job" (1969) premiered in London, UK.

[Historic Hub @HistoricHub]

A striking 1954 photograph captures Admiral Nelson’s flagship, HMS Victory, blanketed in snow at Portsmouth Dockyard

[ikok🐝 @mustbedriver]

🧑‍🌾Kaleb: who is he?
Clarckson: He's a F1 driver...
🧑‍🌾Kaleb: So he should piss this
Clarckson: ...he can go through Eau Rouge flat out, which is incredibly difficult and a brave thing to do

(Struggling to reverse a tractor...)

But he is from the city...

😂😂

[𝐌𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐜 - 𝐌𝐨𝐯𝐢𝐞 - 𝐀𝐧𝐝 𝐌𝐨𝐫𝐞⭐️❤️ @NgocThach74]

This has to be one of the best openings to a Bond movie, intense and action-packed as it should be.

[North Yorkshire @visitnorthyork]

Through the walls of Wensleydale.

[Stuey Beef 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @stuey_beef]

Morrisons just said the quiet part out loud.

Around 100 convenience stores are now on the chopping block.

Hundreds of jobs are at risk.

And the reason given is not “greedy supermarkets”, not “corporate profiteering”, not “Tory austerity”, not any of the slogans Labour spent years throwing around.

It is “significant cost increases resulting from Government policy choices”.

That is corporate-speak for: Labour made it more expensive to employ people, more expensive to operate, and harder to keep marginal stores alive.

This is the basic economic reality the Government pretends does not exist.

You can raise employer costs and call it “fairness”.
You can increase wage mandates and call it “growth”.

You can load more regulation onto businesses and call it “responsibility”.

You can demand lower prices at the till while making every input cost higher behind the scenes.

But eventually the spreadsheet wins.

And when the spreadsheet wins, shops close.

Not the imaginary shops in a Treasury forecast.

Real ones.
Local ones.
The ones people use for milk, bread, prescriptions, newspapers, top-up groceries and last-minute essentials.
The ones staffed by people who do not have the luxury of working from home while lecturing everyone else about “resilience”.

This is the part Labour never wants to own.

Their policies are always sold as compassion.

But the consequences are brutally practical.

A store that was just about viable becomes loss-making.

A worker who was just about employed becomes “at risk”.

A community that had a local shop now has an empty unit with metal shutters.

And then ministers will stand up and blame “global pressures”, “market conditions”, “corporate decisions” or “the legacy we inherited”.

NO.

Morrisons has named the problem directly: government policy choices.

That phrase matters.

Because it means this was not inevitable. It was chosen.

[mantonday @mantonday]

https://t.co/iX5f1vkY5Y

[fwmalacyafeez @fwmalacyafeez]

40 years since we learnt what a REAL knife was🥲
Watch till the end. 🎬👀

[Fascinating @fasc1nate]

The Concord supersonic jet, which operated from 1976-2003, could fly from New York to London in just over 3 hours, at speeds up to Mach 2.

More iconic historical photos: https://t.co/W7jIvOHun5

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

86 years ago Today, Igor Sikorsky demonstrated his helicopter invention to the public.

[R!cky W. @wayne_m159]

Had no idea that Pierce Brosnan had a custom 1 of 1 Aston Martin Vanquish built for him after his last outing as Bond in ‘Die another day’

[John Bull @54JohnBull]

One British company that has done sterling work since the mid 1940's on ejection seats is the Martin Baker company of Denham, Berks.
In the west it's the leading manufacturer and was responsible for these 4 surviving the mid air collision in their F18's on Sunday.
Martin-Baker Mk14 seats working here.

[Farmers Guardian @FarmersGuardian]

The Muir-Hill 171 was Britain’s last V8-powered tractor, and for many operators, nothing else came close to its pulling power or presence in the field. 🚜

Built for heavy draft work and remembered for its raw strength, the 171 became one of the most iconic British tractors of the 1970s.

Did you ever drive one, or hear its V8 at work?

READ MORE: https://t.co/1OwVn29VeW

[Brian Roemmele @BrianRoemmele]

Over 400 KM per hour on the Autobahn!?

[Best Movie Moments 🍿 @BestMovieMom]

Replacing Daniel Craig will be the hardest casting challenge in Bond history. The combination of physical presence, dramatic weight, and screen magnetism he carried across 5 films is genuinely rare. The successor will spend years escaping the comparison.