Bees are found on every continent except Antarctica; and they’re crucial to life on this planet since they pollinate nearly 75% of the world’s plants, which in turn produce 90% of the food consumed by humanity. Without the aid of bees plant pollination would not occur so easily, plants would die and humans and many …
It’s that time of year again, when the rumour circulates that Christmas has been cancelled to avoid upsetting members of other faiths. This is of course pure nonsense whipped up by fearful and over-sensitive right-wing commentators in the media and has been debunked every time it’s been mentioned. Who’s to say that adherents of other …
Today’s Bristol Post website features another of modern journalism’s highlights – the hidden exclusive (posts passim), although this particular style of hackery is not itself peculiar to publications in the Reach plc stable. Yesterday’s Bristol Post hidden exclusive features Mark Taylor, allegedly the title’s food, drink and restaurant critic, who seems to have eschewed protein, …
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How are matters progressing five years on from that referendum and over 6 months since the end of the Brexit transition period? In simple terms, what was dismissed as Project Fear has very much become Project Reality. Crops are rotting in the fields due to a lack of seasonal workers to pick them, whilst a …
We’re now in May and one reliable natural occurrence of the time of year is the flowering of common hawthorn (Crataegus monogyna), which is also known as the oneseed hawthorn, or single-seeded hawthorn. Other common names include may, mayblossom, maythorn, quickthorn, whitethorn, motherdie, and haw. The Woodland Trust have produced a short video depicting one …
in 10 years of campaigning for less litter and fly-tipping in east Bristol’s Lawrence Hill and Easton wards, one constant factor has been litter generated by takeaways, particularly the major franchises like Burger King, KFC and the like. A petition has now been started on change.org to help tackle part of the problem, namely littering …
Following hot on the heels of the sacking of its Director of Corporate Affairs for insulting the Welsh (posts passim), comes news that frozen food giant Iceland is reviewing approach’ to bilingual signage in its Welsh stores. The company had previously been criticised for its lack of provision of Welsh and English signage in stores, …
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Keith Hann, director of corporate affairs for frozen food retailer Iceland has been dismissed with immediate effect after he was found to have made disparaging remarks about both the Welsh language and Wales itself. The supermarket, which has its corporate headquarters on Deeside (Welsh: Glannau Dyfrdwy) in North Wales, was forced to apologise on Wednesday …
Although I graduated over 4 decades ago, I still look back with fondness on the days of my modern languages degree. One of the absolute requirements for the award of the degree was a compulsory period of residence in countries where the languages being studied were used. In my instance this involved 5 months’ residency …
Earlier this week, Bristol City Council’s licensing committee voted to ban the sale of toasted cheese sandwiches in a north Bristol park due to concerns about anti-social behaviour (posts passim). Whilst doing background research for that post, your correspondent discovered what must count as the world’s ultimate cheese toastie, particularly if the main metrological criterion …