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Posted on: Dec 6 2017, 10:59 PM |
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QUOTE (Strafin @ Dec 6 2017, 12:28 PM) If you don'twant to pay for it read the online version. I have to do that anyway since I moved away but still have an interest in what people are moaning about. Local newspapers seriously need to raise their game if they are to survive the next decade. The way they need to do it is by going upmarket ad appealing to the ABC1 demographic. They need to offer something unique that cannot be found online and resist the temptation to go downmarket and plebeian. The Newbury Weekly News must make it its New Year's Resolution to abandon cheap content: Endless photo pages on school proms, new school classes, what children want for Christmas etc. I'd rather see more letters (although no more anti-Brexit ranters please). We also used to have a TV guide that was suddenly stopped with no apology or explanation. This needs to return. |
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Posted on: Dec 4 2017, 10:25 PM |
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QUOTE (je suis Charlie @ Dec 4 2017, 11:45 AM) If it broadens the appeal and sells more copies then go for it. Au contraire; the point I was making is that it of supreme indifference at best to many readers and is also pointless and annoying. Do we want local children to be that narcissistic to believe the rest of us want to know what they want each December? I don't think so. |
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Forum: Newbury News
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Posted on: Dec 4 2017, 10:21 PM |
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QUOTE (The Hatter @ Dec 4 2017, 11:21 AM) Can't see what's wrong with it. My sisters kids loved seeing their school pictures so she's kept it for them for when they are older. I think it's a good idea. It's just not news though is it? Why should the population of West Berks want to know what Kevin from Hungerford wants for Christmas? If the Newbury Weekly News wants to publish stuff like this, perhaps it could be done on the website only so those who want to see it can look at it there rather than having it pushed on us in the pages of the newspaper which should cover news stories and not the whims and wishes of people we do not know. I don't want to pay money for that. |
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Posted on: May 25 2017, 10:28 PM |
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QUOTE (Simon Kirby @ May 12 2017, 09:25 PM) The NHS is currently under attack from cyber-criminals - see http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/39901370Security analysts have been saying for years that the top-tier threats to UK security are 1. international terrorism, 2. cyber-criminality, and 3. pandemic, and the UK is painfully exposed to these real credible threats because all the serious money is being spent on a nuclear deterrent from the 1980's despite there no longer being a single state in the world with both the capability and intent to threaten the UK's territorial integrity. Really? The Russians are threatening us, flying nuclear bombers around our borders and submarines around our coasts. The Russians are on the course of full on expansionism and the ringleaders of a great international conspiracy to subvert democracy. |
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Posted on: Dec 14 2016, 11:29 PM |
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QUOTE (Biker1 @ Dec 14 2016, 08:49 PM) And used for blast furnaces and converters to make the steel. Oh, and the oil to make the plastic. If you care that much don't own / drive a car. Like I said, there is always an environmental price to pay for energy. (I wonder when we will get hydrogen powered heating and cooking?) Hydrogen powered trains!!!! I'm liking it already!!!! We could probably get them quicker than the time it is taking NR to electrify!! Yes, but plastics can be recycled or be made of bioplastic. |
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Forum: Newbury News
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Posted on: Dec 14 2016, 06:20 PM |
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QUOTE (Andy Capp @ Dec 14 2016, 12:44 PM) According to this article, the electricity required for Hydrogen production is environmentally more destructive than running a car. "A bigger challenge presents itself when you look at how hydrogen fuel is produced in the first place. Despite its abundance within the universe, hydrogen makes up just one part-per-million of our atmosphere. There’s a huge amount of hydrogen on the surface of the planet, but the majority of this exists in chemical compounds such as water and – ironically – crude oil.
That means it’s necessary to produce hydrogen fuel industrially and, in the commercial world, as much as 95% of all hydrogen is produced by burning fossil fuels.
This leads to a false environmental economy: for a hydrogen fuel cell car to work it’s necessary to take oil, gas or coal, burn them to produce hydrogen, store that hydrogen, then use it to charge a battery, which, finally, powers the car.
Until large-scale hydrogen production becomes environmentally friendly, it makes more sense to either: burn petrol or diesel directly to power the car or use electricity straight from the grid to charge an electric car’s batteries, rather than store the energy as hydrogen in between. The majority of our electricity is still generated by burning fossil fuels but, where cars are concerned, this is actually less environmentally harmful and energy intensive than industrially producing hydrogen is"http://www.carbuyer.co.uk/tips-and-advice/...-fuel-cell-carsYou say that, but we are gradually phasing out dirty, fossil fuels. With the huge amount of electricity now being generated by wind turbines and solar cells, hydrogen becomes a very desirable fuel and really is the answer to our (green) prayers. Bring it on! |
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