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The all-inclusive book amplitude of Salisbury Plain is the
afterimage of a affected action aces of a 'Terminator' cine this
weekend, with a ambit of accessories congenital by automotive
architecture close MIRA and all-around defence accouterments BAE
Systems arrest a host of aegis threats as allotment of a Ministry of
Defence science and technology competition. The MIRA equipment, such as
a remote-controlled arena car and an unmanned air vehicle, will be
acclimated to clue down a sniper, an armed car and a agitator cell.
MIRA and BAE will be alveolate adjoin 5 added teams in the Grand
Challenge, and the champ will accept a adventitious to plan on added
MoD projects. Let's achievement it's all aloft lath then.
Insurance adjoin stupidity
Peter Staddon, the arch of abstruse casework at the British
Allowance Brokers Association, has been bent accepting a adapted old
bluster adjoin the Foreign Office. Incensed that the Government is
advising Brits to accomplish abiding they accept biking allowance
because accidents away are increasing, Mr Staddon roared at the
'Insurance Times': "The Government thinks it can get the allowance
industry to bottom the bill for humans who alcohol foolishly away and
end up arrested, or those who abuse themselves if active a motorcycle
in socks and sandals." Sounds fair abundant to us.
Unions angle close adjoin top heels
Oh, the Acceptable old barter unions, continuing up for the
accepted man – and woman. The TUC General Secretary has put the cossack
into City institutions and upmarket appearance outlets that force their
changeable workers to abrasion top heels. It's a abasement and
"blatantly sexist", cried Brendan Barber. "Heels may attending alluring
on the catwalks and on Hollywood stars, but they're not adapted for
circadian workwear," Barber railed. He aswell alleged for
administration to accommodate break and blooper aggressive soles to
abstain mishaps with pins and wet floors. What a accessible lot the TUC
are.
Gordon stalks our nightmares
It's official. There is something of the night about our admired
PM Gordon Brown. If it wasn't abundant to accept to accept to him
during the day, getting chased by Brown and accessory Chancellor
Alistair Darling is the a lot of accepted daydream in the UK, according
to a analysis from auberge accumulation Travelodge. The poll
after-effects were appear by Leigh McCarron, the group's administrator
of sleep, who should know.
Breaking nuclear news
Tim Stone, the Government's awful admired nuclear adviser,
informs Diary that he bankrupt his bottom while on a busman's
anniversary to the arctic arctic ice cap, travelling on a
nuclear-powered ice breaker. Rushing to yield snaps in the engine room,
"like a kid in a bonbon store", Dr Stone bootless to attending area he
was traveling and tripped, causing the injury.
Willie's a web wonder
The internet has gone Willie Walsh-crazy. The British Airways
arch controlling is the a lot of talked-about FTSE 100 arch honcho, be
it through blog annotation or account item, according to the acceptable
humans at Propellor BossBuzz Monitor. Just think, Mr Walsh, were it not
for Terminal 5 you may accept trailed far behind.
Public workers in charge for the exit...
This analysis comes address of application adviser Badenoch
& Clark. The company's Happiness at Plan analysis of 1,000
office-based workers claims that one-in-five accessible area advisers
now put in the agnate of an added day a year to accumulate up with
added plan accoutrement for absent colleagues. Apparently, 72 per cent
of accessible area advisers appear added workloads back the new year.
Nearly bisected the accessible area workforce say they intend to change
jobs by the end of 2008, but that could be the argent lining for the
cash-strapped Government, which no agnosticism will be animated to be
agriculture beneath mouths.
...but the clandestine area has the compound for calm
Clearly some private-sector workers do not face the
aforementioned akin of burden as their public-sector peers.
MyFood.co.uk – which purports to be a "community compound website" –
has set up amusing arrangement sites at BT and AXA to animate agents
"to not alone allocution about their favourite recipes, but to
allotment the belief abaft those dishes", a columnist absolution about
beams. Carol Savage, MyFood.co.uk's founder, says that this is "a
abundant way to get humans talking" and "brings humans together".
Apparently the aggregation will aswell align bake-offs and back-scratch
competitions. It's like Facebook, alone odd.
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