"Icelandic volcano grounds all air traffic over Britain"
Much more interesting than the first televised leaders debate, I think you will agree!!
For all those that think that the National Air Traffic Services (NATS) have over-reacted, you ought to go to the following site and read about the 747 that flew through a volcanic ash cloud in 1982 and all four engines failed!! (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-431802/The-story-BA-flight-009-words-passenger-dreads-.html)
Happy Days!!
Friday, 16 April 2010
Saturday, 3 April 2010
Sorry I have been so tardy in getting this blog out......you know how it is......Christmas, then New Year (skiing!) then winter depression, then skiing again and now SPRING!! Hurrah!
Did you notice that another two members of the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD) have resigned over the governments plans to make mephadrone illegal? You remember the headlines a few weeks ago ("Teenagers die after taking mephadrone") - well it transpires that at their post-mortem they were found to have taken alcohol + METHADONE + mephadrone......not really surprising, then, that they died! Despite the fact that many people in the know about drugs effects and the evidence base (Prof. David Nutt + others from the original ACMD and now two more from the current ACMD) are advising the government NOT to ban these drugs on a "whim" - the government is bowing to "public and political" pressure and banning them all the same. It doesn't make sense - 25 deaths due to mephadrone in the past year - 9,000 deaths due to alcohol in 2008 (Government statistics). Ah, well, what do I know (except that the Police are NOT in favour of banning all these new designer drugs!).
Happy Spring and keep those questions coming!!!!
Did you notice that another two members of the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD) have resigned over the governments plans to make mephadrone illegal? You remember the headlines a few weeks ago ("Teenagers die after taking mephadrone") - well it transpires that at their post-mortem they were found to have taken alcohol + METHADONE + mephadrone......not really surprising, then, that they died! Despite the fact that many people in the know about drugs effects and the evidence base (Prof. David Nutt + others from the original ACMD and now two more from the current ACMD) are advising the government NOT to ban these drugs on a "whim" - the government is bowing to "public and political" pressure and banning them all the same. It doesn't make sense - 25 deaths due to mephadrone in the past year - 9,000 deaths due to alcohol in 2008 (Government statistics). Ah, well, what do I know (except that the Police are NOT in favour of banning all these new designer drugs!).
Happy Spring and keep those questions coming!!!!
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