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So just car sales being car sales until proven otherwise.
Mar 7, 2018 at 9:07 AM | Uibhist a Tuath
Interest rates, and a lack of confidence that they will stay low?

Shellhalla
East Anglian beaches strewn with starfish and shore crabs by the million. Strange how Yorkshire-Lincolnshire beaches covered by a higher class of animal carcass, especially lobsters (many of which turned out to still be alive).

Re shellmageddon : there's a new patch ....on the beaches of Lincolnshire now
..it's like someone took the ocean floor with layers of shellfish, lobsters etc and put it on the beach.

Re Varley : maybe MetO are clearing the space so Bettsy can be king of the castle

Pcar
Been using home grown until recently. Normally steam rather than boil, if that makes a difference?

Mar 6, 2018 at 2:37 PM | stewgreen
Looking at the SMMT data, February 2016 was the highest in a decade, it fell by 280 vehicles in 2017 and 2018 is the third highest since the low of 2009. So just car sales being car sales until proven otherwise.

Why does May take advice from this man - Lidington - a bit dodgy form anyone know? My guess Here

Mar 6, 2018 at 8:21 PM | Pcar
From your link. This is the devastating evidence of the lack of evidence of Global Warming:
"This is the third time I have seen it in 30 years. It is nature, it happened before and it will happen again.'
Why are dead sea creatures washing up on UK beaches?
A combination of bad weather conditions is behind the huge numbers of sea creatures that have washed up on beaches.
In East Yorkshire, strong easterly winds up to force nine combined with a 20ft tide to bring severe stormy conditions.
Meanwhile the water temperature dropped two degrees in one day thanks to the cold weather,

Survey
UK Potatoes Winter 17/18
Have you discovered voids surrounded by yellow, brown, black after cooking?

@Tomo the Met Office statement 5th March is very scant
"Exeter MP Ben Bradshaw has called for a full explanation"
"Mr Bradshaw said: “Given reports of Government involvement, I have requested a full explanation from the Department responsible."
Corrected link
Pcar's example from theTime archive 1974 : Another Ice Age ?