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The BBC has announced it will turn off @BBCRadio4 Long Wave on 27th June. This will mark the end of our BBC as a national broadcaster, as vast areas of the UK will no longer be able to receive any BBC services (via FM,DAB,DVBT or internet) other than with a fixed satellite dish.
This is what Armageddon looks like.
In 1982, inside the massive assembly hall at the Sevmash shipyard in Severodvinsk, Soviet workers were building one of the largest submarines ever made: a Project 941 Akula, known to NATO as the Typhoon class.
The scale was staggering. A Typhoon stretched about 575 feet long and displaced roughly 48,000 tons submerged. That made it bigger than many surface warships. Instead of a single hull, it held two main pressure hulls side by side inside an outer casing, plus smaller pressurized compartments for the control room, torpedoes, and steering gear.
Its purpose was deterrence on a terrifying scale. Each submarine carried 20 R-39 ballistic missiles, and each missile could hold up to 10 nuclear warheads. The Typhoons were designed to hide beneath the Arctic ice, punch through it when ordered, and launch a retaliatory strike against the United States.
Sevmash completed six of them between 1981 and 1989. For a crew of around 160, life aboard was unusually comfortable by submarine standards, with a sauna, a small swimming pool, and a gym.
The Soviet Union collapsed before the Typhoons ever had to fight. Most were scrapped, and the last of them, the Dmitry Donskoy, was retired in 2023.
More iconic historical photos: bit.ly/44OpIzi
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The three BBC UK #LongWave transmitters did this far more effectively, reliably, and robustly than the FM proposal offered here, the capabilities of which appear to have been severely misunderstood - unless this proposal is deliberately misleading.
BBC emergency protocol:
“100 people in the BBC will run a emergency radio studio.
“It will have secure lines of communication not dependent on the internet, and fuel, water and food to ensure it can operate without resupply for at least three days.”
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ck5y…
Never seen this before. It's difficult to reconcile this painfully awkward, nervous statement with the consumate performer of 15 or so years later. #HaroldWilson
#OTD 1948. Harold Wilson emerges as a national figure as he announces his 'Bonfire of Controls' outlining how clothing rationing will be relaxed.
Rationing on suits, footwear, plastics and knitted bathing costumes abolished.
He admits that he “wishes” he could do more.
@FlowerdewBob If I can get high resolution copies of these, I'll try them in the rotation of kites, snakes Etc. against pigeons.
Tokyo developed new anti-crow posters to put up around trash collection sites. They feature geometric shapes幾何的 and eyes which apparently put crows on their guard
However, as the effect only lasts for a few days, the cities prepared several different types
The crow population in Tokyo has gone down from 36,000 in 2001 to 7500 today
They are not "#Developers". They are #PropertySpeculators, and the primary cause of the #CostOfLivingCrisis, #HousingCrisis, and the untold suffering of millions. #FollowTheMoney
The average new-build property has 130 defects, according to specialist inspection company HomeSnag.
I visited one with Tom Britton and his team to find out why so many of Britain's shiny new homes are scarcely fit for purpose.
Read: telegraph.co.uk/money/proper…
Credit: @HomeSnag
Presumably this next local government fiasco will start on 1st April, like the absurd "Hereford-and-Worcester" failure of 1974-98?
A historic shake-up of councils across Worcestershire is set to go ahead despite a 12-month delay, with the county due to be carved in two.
Read more 👉 bbc.in/4jJ6R0k
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Wild enquiry: My grandmother knew Anna Balint (sp?) Unmarried Hungarian Jewish mother, aristocratic (Austrian?) father. Studied patisserie in Vienna. Left around the Anschluss. In Yorkshire early 1940s Leeds/Harrogate area, working catering/domestic service. Friend called Marta.
Very unfortunate to hear government and a representative of a private transmitter contractor praising the robustness of FM radio. Line of sight only, relatively short range, severely effected by atmospheric conditions. AM MW/LW/SW have none of these problems.
Wonders when there was last an elphant in Leominster, let alone two.
Welcome to the weekend 🤩
📍Spotted in Leominster, Herefordshire
Fancy sharing your pictures with us? Sign up to be a BBC Weather Watcher now 👉 bbc.in/4dRgRAT
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Disruption warning ahead of five-day rail closure bbc.in/4ie5TrX
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Bad news: the BBC is set to scrap Radio 4 Extra. 📻 Losing this treasure trove of classic comedy, archive drama, and timeless storytelling would be a huge blow for millions of us.
Sign the petition to help save it 👇 you.38degrees.org.uk/petitio…
Our very first confirmed parakeet. I heard some calls earlier in the year, but put that down to mimicry. Seems like a lone bird, possibly a stray from the small flocks around Birmingham. (Hurried phone pic, from distance.)
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@stewartwaine Are yours in training? 🐰🥇
🇸🇪 🐇 Hop of Europe: rabbit jumpers clear hurdles at Swedish championship
Europe’s top rabbit athletes hopped into action in Lysekil, Sweden, racing down straight courses and leaping over high bars at the European Rabbit Jumping Championships.
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They must have got the wrong photo. That's no cashier, it's a librarian.
Bank cashier outed by holiday photos after stealing £8k is ordered to pay back money bbc.in/4hQyban
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