BP has announced it is putting its entire UK North Sea business up for sale, officially ending six decades of oil and gas production. This is a devastating blow for communities connected to the oil and gas industry. And shame on the governments who have enabled this to happen.
Jeremy Clarkson's farm shop was ruled by West Oxfordshire District Council to be incompatible with its countryside location. The countryside location is a farm.
Those are close to their own words. The nature, scale and siting of the operation was found to be unsustainable and incompatible with its countryside location within the Cotswold Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.
The building at the centre of it was a lambing shed. Built for lambs. In a field. Next to other fields, which contain sheep, which is what the shed was for.
The council's other findings, over three years of this:
- A farm shop may not sell food grown more than sixteen miles away.
- A lambing shed may not become a restaurant.
- A car park for the people who come anyway was refused.
- Six weeks was judged ample to put the barn back the way it was.
Sixteen miles. Meanwhile the supermarket eleven miles down the road sells Peruvian asparagus, Kenyan beans and Brazilian beef, and no council has ever drawn a circle round it.
And consider what the Cotswolds actually are. Stone walls, stone barns, cropped green hills. It looks the way it looks because for a thousand years men kept animals on that ground and built things out of the rock underneath it. The beauty under protection here was manufactured, slowly, by farming. Every wall in the view was put there by somebody doing precisely what the council has now determined is out of keeping.
They are not protecting the countryside from industry. They are protecting a picture of the countryside from the countryside.
The shed offended nobody while it held sheep.
It became an eyesore the day somebody put a till in it.
🚨NEWS: Three women found dead on a small migrant boat are believed to have been raped and murdered during the Channel crossing.
Their killers are now in the UK.
🚨BREAKING: Marine Le Pen ERUPTS "Freedom of movement is only for Europeans!"
If migrants enter Spain, they should not then be allowed to travel into France and the rest of Europe.
This is common sense
@TalkTV@jkyleofficial We should be building dozens of mental health asylum’s for these people, they shouldn’t be among us, never mind given media attention.
@TalkTV Alex Phillips, you are utterly fantastic, fabulous & feisty.
You are a national treasure who definitely speaks for the silent majority in this nation. Long may you have a platform, it’s so important that your voice is heard loud and clear.
@ThatAlexWoman
Insane scenes with thousands of North African men storming the Spanish borders
An invasion
Italy saying it's a crisis. Threatening to shut borders and leave Schengen
A continental crisis is happening
UK leaders? Silent
Only Nigel Farage speaking at this point