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SirRumpole said:
Was he driving a Golf ?

Best wishes for his recovery anyway.
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@SirRumpole, surely not - he wouldn't be seen dead in a Golf Caddy!
Rumour has it he was suffering driving range anxiety at the time.

He actually crashed his new Genesis:


If you look at his crashed car, the whole front end was ripped off, so he did well to get out of this one alive.
Let's hope he's back on his game soon.
 
noirua said:
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A very serious hazard that many seem unaware of.

Button batteries should be treated much the same as a firearm so far as young kids concerned - keep them well away at all times.

If swallowed then it's a full blown emergency - call an ambulance but even then there's a fair chance it ends extremely badly.

I'm firmly of the view that manufacturers should not use these batteries unnecessarily for that reason. Eg TV etc remote controls can easily be built to use the inherently far safer and readily available AA or AAA size batteries instead. There's a place for button cells yes, but the fewer of them we have around in things kids are likely to use, the better.
 

Foreign holidays will be illegal from Monday: New Covid laws mean £5,000 fines for anyone leaving the UK without 'reasonable excuse' – and they won't be reassessed until after Easter at the earliest​

Foreign holidays will be illegal from Monday

Entitled the Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (Steps) (England) Regulations 2021, the laws come into force on March 29.
www.dailymail.co.uk
 
It looks as if the coronavirus situation in Europe is extremely serious as the UK variant spreads quickly. Especially France and Spain.

The European Respiratory Virus Surveillance Summary (ERVISS)

This interactive dashboard provides a weekly integrated epidemiological summary for influenza, RSV and SARS-CoV-2.
www.ecdc.europa.eu

14-day COVID-19 case notification rate per 100 000, weeks 9-10​

 

Explosion Rocks Indonesian Church Compound on Palm Sunday​

Explosion Rocks Indonesian Church Compound on Palm Sunday (Published 2021)

No churchgoers were killed, but at least 19 people were injured, the police said. President Joko Widodo called it an act of terrorism.
www.nytimes.com

An explosion ripped through a Roman Catholic cathedral compound in the eastern Indonesian city of Makassar on Sunday morning, shattering the calm of Palm Sunday, a holy day for Christians.

Unverified video said to have been taken at the Sacred Heart of Jesus Cathedral showed smoldering wreckage and palm fronds scattered on the ground.

Father Wilhelmus Tulak, a priest at the cathedral, told Metro TV, an Indonesian network, that a parking attendant had been burned as he tried to stop a suicide bomber. Ten people were injured, the priest said.

The cathedral was between Masses when two motorcyclists approached, looking suspicious, Father Wilhelmus told Metro TV.
Mohammad Ramadhan Pomanto, the mayor of Makassar, a multifaith port city of about 1.5 million people on the island of Sulawesi, told Metro TV that body parts were found as far as 200 meters away. He said no churchgoers had been killed.

Indonesia, the world’s largest Muslim-majority nation, has a significant Christian minority. In recent years, Southeast Asian affiliates of the Islamic State have targeted Christian places of worship there and in the mostly Catholic Philippines.

In 2018, three Christian churches were bombed in Surabaya, the second-largest city in Indonesia, leaving a dozen bystanders dead. The suicide bombers were a married couple and their four children. Within days, members of two other families also set off bombs in Surabaya, blowing themselves up.

Last year, a Roman Catholic cathedral was bombed for the third time on the island of Jolo in the southern Philippines, killing at least 14 people. As with the Surabaya bombings, a local affiliate of the Islamic State claimed responsibility for that strike. A 2019 suicide attack on the same cathedral, which killed more than 20 people, was carried out by an Indonesian couple.
 
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