
Barry Hunt
@WordSmartComms
Ex-journalist | Business blog writer | Posting personal views, motoring bits and interesting stuff ignored by national media
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You can't beat a dog walk on the beach in winter... and Ivy agrees
Famous fish restaurant decides to scale back operation
Locals devastated as restaurant with 'best sushi' announces shock closure thescottishsun.co.uk/money/14127554…
I call it the brown bin
A chef has revealed the correct way to store avocados and advises against popular trend. dailyrecord.co.uk/entertainment/…
Gangs peddling second-hand bikes?
Thameslink 'suspend' bike racks at St Albans City due to 'increase in thefts' ift.tt/wETgtOI
Beware: yellow snow warning for laybys on Scottish roads
There is now a 'mineral rush' as the world wants more battery storage. However, governments and mining companies face opposition from local communities seeking to protect the natural environment.
The Serbian environmental organisation @mars_sa_drine and a German counterpart, Green Legal Impact Germany, have sent an official request to the @EU_Commission, asking not to label Rio Tinto’s planned lithium mine in western Serbia a “strategic project”. balkaninsight.com/2024/12/27/com…
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Commission Urged not to Designate Serbia Lithium Mine as ‘Strategic Project’
Serbian and German environmentalist groups ask EC to rethink naming planned Rio Tinto mine a ‘strategic project’, insisting it fails to meet environmental criteria.
Why does opening a tin of corned beef always require my toolbox?
Brazilian officials found 163 Chinese nationals working in "slavery-like conditions" at a construction site for a factory owned by Chinese electric vehicle producer BYD in Brazil's Bahia state, the local labor prosecutor's office said during a news… reuters.com/business/autos…

Volkswagen shares were down 3% in afternoon trading as investors struggled to digest a cost-cutting deal struck between company management and a union reut.rs/3VNmJBZ
Car manufacturing down in November as sector seeks an easing of cost pressures 🚗 production falls -30.1% in November with 64,216 units rolling off factory lines. 📉Output for domestic and export markets decline -56.7% and -21.3% respectively ⚡️Year to date volumes down -12.9%…

Christmas TV gets worse every year. Name a classic film that is no longer aired because it might offend someone. I'll start: One of Our Dinosaurs is Missing
Looking through my gallery from this year and this popped up. Spotted this Honda NSX by the beach - is there a better Japanese car? (My Disco in background).

This is absolutely shocking... we don't need more wind farms. We can't use the energy we currently produce. We need more infrastructure such as battery storage
Yesterday, Sat-21-12-24 Wasted wind cost Britain: £18,680,371 £7,313,603 switching off wind turbines £11,366,768 buying energy elsewhere That's 118,607 MWh of green electrons: enough to power 3 Londons for a day. Powered by wastedwind.energy BUT............

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