UK trade disrupted by volcano in April
Due to the volcanic eruption on Iceland, UK trading is on its behind, watching as the volcanic ash cloud fails to leave the UK airspace and therefore have bound everybody and everything to the ground. The trade, however, rose slightly to £7.28bn, from £7.26bn in April, after imports fell by 0.4pc to £28.6bn, and exports slipped 0.6pc to £21.3bn. The Office for National Statistics said it was impossible to estimate the exact impact of the volcanic ash cloud on imports and exports. It said that non – EU trade was likely to have been more affected by this than EU trade, because a greater proportion of goods are transported by air to those countries.
Source: Retrieved June 10th, 2010
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/economics/7814885/UK-trade-disrupted-by-volcano-in-April.html
My reaction:
In the months April and May a lot of plains where cancelled because of the volcanic ash cloud and trade by air was not possible. Therefore in this time of economic crisis I am glad to hear that the UK economic seems to be doing somewhat better in spite of the volcanic ash cloud. Who could have imagined, that it would be possible to make a profit or a rise for the better (economic wise), in spite of the ash cloud
vrijdag 25 juni 2010
Volcanic ash cloud: UK flight ban worsens
Volcanic ash cloud: UK flight ban worsens
The volcanic ash cloud from Iceland that has been the reason for the ongoing flight ban in the greater area of Great Britain and Europe has worsened over the last couple of days. The UK flight ban worsened and passengers for far flung destinations where told that they might be stranded for at least nine days. Although some Scottish airports briefly began operating again on Friday night, experts said the travel misery could last a fortnight. Even if British airspace would be fully reopened, the backlog of flights will take days to clear. On Thursday alone, 16,000 of the usual 28,000 flights across the continent were cancelled. No landings or takeoffs were possible for civilian aircraft in most of northern and central Europe The anger among passengers grew because of the slow response from travel insurers, with some already refusing to cover losses due to the exceptional nature of the eruption.
Source: Retrieved April 17th, 2010
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/travelnews/7600412/Volcanic-ash-cloud-UK-flight-ban-worsens.html
My reaction:
A rather cruel way of Mother Nature to say you are not going anywhere today, not on my watch. That is the reason that this article drew my attention because I know a lot of my fellow classmates had a problem with flight delays or cancelation due to this volcanic ash cloud. On the 17th of April the UKOK trips where planned to happen but for a lot of my classmates it did not go as smoothly as hoped. I however went to London by train and did not experience any delay but I was thinking about the others and hoping their plane did get of and bring them to the place that they where ment to go.
The volcanic ash cloud from Iceland that has been the reason for the ongoing flight ban in the greater area of Great Britain and Europe has worsened over the last couple of days. The UK flight ban worsened and passengers for far flung destinations where told that they might be stranded for at least nine days. Although some Scottish airports briefly began operating again on Friday night, experts said the travel misery could last a fortnight. Even if British airspace would be fully reopened, the backlog of flights will take days to clear. On Thursday alone, 16,000 of the usual 28,000 flights across the continent were cancelled. No landings or takeoffs were possible for civilian aircraft in most of northern and central Europe The anger among passengers grew because of the slow response from travel insurers, with some already refusing to cover losses due to the exceptional nature of the eruption.
Source: Retrieved April 17th, 2010
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/travelnews/7600412/Volcanic-ash-cloud-UK-flight-ban-worsens.html
My reaction:
A rather cruel way of Mother Nature to say you are not going anywhere today, not on my watch. That is the reason that this article drew my attention because I know a lot of my fellow classmates had a problem with flight delays or cancelation due to this volcanic ash cloud. On the 17th of April the UKOK trips where planned to happen but for a lot of my classmates it did not go as smoothly as hoped. I however went to London by train and did not experience any delay but I was thinking about the others and hoping their plane did get of and bring them to the place that they where ment to go.
Volcanic ash cloud: UK flight ban worsens
Volcanic ash cloud: UK flight ban worsens
The volcanic ash cloud from Iceland that has been the reason for the ongoing flight ban in the greater area of Great Britain and Europe has worsened over the last couple of days. The UK flight ban worsened and passengers for far flung destinations where told that they might be stranded for at least nine days. Although some Scottish airports briefly began operating again on Friday night, experts said the travel misery could last a fortnight. Even if British airspace would be fully reopened, the backlog of flights will take days to clear. On Thursday alone, 16,000 of the usual 28,000 flights across the continent were cancelled. No landings or takeoffs were possible for civilian aircraft in most of northern and central Europe The anger among passengers grew because of the slow response from travel insurers, with some already refusing to cover losses due to the exceptional nature of the eruption.
Source: Retrieved April 17th, 2010
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/travelnews/7600412/Volcanic-ash-cloud-UK-flight-ban-worsens.html
My reaction:
A rather cruel way of Mother Nature to say you are not going anywhere today, not on my watch. That is the reason that this article drew my attention because I know a lot of my fellow classmates had a problem with flight delays or cancelation due to this volcanic ash cloud. On the 17th of April the UKOK trips where planned to happen but for a lot of my classmates it did not go as smoothly as hoped. I however went to London by train and did not experience any delay but I was thinking about the others and hoping their plane did get of and bring them to the place that they where ment to go.
The volcanic ash cloud from Iceland that has been the reason for the ongoing flight ban in the greater area of Great Britain and Europe has worsened over the last couple of days. The UK flight ban worsened and passengers for far flung destinations where told that they might be stranded for at least nine days. Although some Scottish airports briefly began operating again on Friday night, experts said the travel misery could last a fortnight. Even if British airspace would be fully reopened, the backlog of flights will take days to clear. On Thursday alone, 16,000 of the usual 28,000 flights across the continent were cancelled. No landings or takeoffs were possible for civilian aircraft in most of northern and central Europe The anger among passengers grew because of the slow response from travel insurers, with some already refusing to cover losses due to the exceptional nature of the eruption.
Source: Retrieved April 17th, 2010
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/travelnews/7600412/Volcanic-ash-cloud-UK-flight-ban-worsens.html
My reaction:
A rather cruel way of Mother Nature to say you are not going anywhere today, not on my watch. That is the reason that this article drew my attention because I know a lot of my fellow classmates had a problem with flight delays or cancelation due to this volcanic ash cloud. On the 17th of April the UKOK trips where planned to happen but for a lot of my classmates it did not go as smoothly as hoped. I however went to London by train and did not experience any delay but I was thinking about the others and hoping their plane did get of and bring them to the place that they where ment to go.
CSI Dundee gets £23m laboratory
CSI Dundee gets £23m laboratory
Crime scene investigation (CSI) in Scotland has received a major boost with the opening of a £23 million forensic laboratory. In this facility you can find a special room for blood pattern analysis, the DNA database lab and a DNA robot that tests for links between suspects and crime scenes. There are special rooms that have been fitted with black magnetic walls so that car parts can be attached to them rather than laid on the floor. Tom Nelson, director of forensic services at the Scottish Police Services Authority, said: “The new facility provides our experts with a custom-built working environment that fits their specific needs but that is also adaptable to changing demands. The laboratories and enhanced facilities will allow us to take forensic science to a new level.
Source: Retrieved June 7th, 2010
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/scotland/article7145208.ece
My reaction: The necessity for a CSI laboratory has become part of our world or so it seems. On television and in the newspaper all we hear and read is a disappearance here or another murder there. I do belief that though the cost, of this apparently high – tech building, it is a necessity in the world as we know it today, especially if this might help us with more crimes being solved.
Crime scene investigation (CSI) in Scotland has received a major boost with the opening of a £23 million forensic laboratory. In this facility you can find a special room for blood pattern analysis, the DNA database lab and a DNA robot that tests for links between suspects and crime scenes. There are special rooms that have been fitted with black magnetic walls so that car parts can be attached to them rather than laid on the floor. Tom Nelson, director of forensic services at the Scottish Police Services Authority, said: “The new facility provides our experts with a custom-built working environment that fits their specific needs but that is also adaptable to changing demands. The laboratories and enhanced facilities will allow us to take forensic science to a new level.
Source: Retrieved June 7th, 2010
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/scotland/article7145208.ece
My reaction: The necessity for a CSI laboratory has become part of our world or so it seems. On television and in the newspaper all we hear and read is a disappearance here or another murder there. I do belief that though the cost, of this apparently high – tech building, it is a necessity in the world as we know it today, especially if this might help us with more crimes being solved.
World Cup 2010: Fabio Capello says he's decided England XI to face USA
World Cup 2010: Fabio Capello says he's decided England XI to face USA
All eyes have been on Fabio Capello as he has to decide on his eleven to face the USA in the World Cup Group C opener in Rustenburg. In a radio interview with BBC Radio Five Live Fabio Capello said: "Yes, I've decided, I know. Every nose is pointed in the direction of Fabio as he now knows which eleven will play during the first match on Saturday. Capello believes England has improved greatly since their first match, with him in charge, against Switzerland in Feb 2008, having won eighteen of the twenty four matches. One thing we know for sure is that Manchester United strike Wayne Rooney will be one of the eleven playing in the match this Saturday.
Source: Retrieved June 10th, 2010
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/world-cup-2010/teams/england/7817511/World-Cup-2010-Fabio-Capello-says-hes-decided-England-XI-to-face-USA.html
My reaction:
Imagine the pressure put on one man to choose the eleven players to start of in the first World Cup match against Switzerland. I can imagine Fabio Capello feeling a bit under pressure because what if he chooses wrong and England looses? Than the finger will be pointed at him and he will have to take the fall for it. I can not imagine feeling that much pressure and having that sort of responsibility or even wanting the responsibility. All I can say is: hopefully Rooney will deliver.
All eyes have been on Fabio Capello as he has to decide on his eleven to face the USA in the World Cup Group C opener in Rustenburg. In a radio interview with BBC Radio Five Live Fabio Capello said: "Yes, I've decided, I know. Every nose is pointed in the direction of Fabio as he now knows which eleven will play during the first match on Saturday. Capello believes England has improved greatly since their first match, with him in charge, against Switzerland in Feb 2008, having won eighteen of the twenty four matches. One thing we know for sure is that Manchester United strike Wayne Rooney will be one of the eleven playing in the match this Saturday.
Source: Retrieved June 10th, 2010
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/world-cup-2010/teams/england/7817511/World-Cup-2010-Fabio-Capello-says-hes-decided-England-XI-to-face-USA.html
My reaction:
Imagine the pressure put on one man to choose the eleven players to start of in the first World Cup match against Switzerland. I can imagine Fabio Capello feeling a bit under pressure because what if he chooses wrong and England looses? Than the finger will be pointed at him and he will have to take the fall for it. I can not imagine feeling that much pressure and having that sort of responsibility or even wanting the responsibility. All I can say is: hopefully Rooney will deliver.
NHS spending ‘will have to be cut’
NHS spending ‘will have to be cut’
The National Health System (NHS) in Scotland will be under pressure in the next few years not only because they have to freeze current levels of spending but also to impose real cuts in services. The Scottish NHS could face making more cut-backs than its counterpart in England as the impact of the recession on the UK deficit continues. In a report, written for the IFF by Dr Margaret Hannah, a consultant in Public Health Medicine and currently deputy director of public health in NHS fife, she paints a bleak picture of the financial prospects for the NHS on both sides of the border. It contends that without radical innovation in the way health services are delivered in the UK, the NHS is “in a state of terminal collapse”. Dr Hannah comments: “This inevitable rise in spending would come as a surprise to the founding fathers of the NHS. They never would have thought it would end up costing the taxpayer so much. They thought that once immediate health concerns were addressed, initial increases in funding for the NHS would level off at a steady state.” However the actual consequence may well be described as dramatic, compulsory, permanent cuts in services as that reality begins to sink in, two or three years from now. Dr Hannah indicates that without radical improvement in the spending rate of the NHS, this could possibly turn into a system in a state of terminal collapse.
Source: Retrieved June 8th, 2010
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/scotland/article7145514.ece
My reaction:
To my belief a country can not manage to function properly without a working healthcare system. I would say pay those extra taxes to increase funding for the NHS because I figure the UK does not want to end like the USA paying thousands of Pounds for healthcare that can be managed the way it is done now. Even if this means more workload for doctors and nurses, paying extra for medicine and investing in new technology then that will just have to be done. To my opinion if the high heads in the House of Parliaments would increase the medicine cost from the now £ 7,20 per recipe to £ 10 it would increase the income for NHS increasingly, but that is just my opinion.
The National Health System (NHS) in Scotland will be under pressure in the next few years not only because they have to freeze current levels of spending but also to impose real cuts in services. The Scottish NHS could face making more cut-backs than its counterpart in England as the impact of the recession on the UK deficit continues. In a report, written for the IFF by Dr Margaret Hannah, a consultant in Public Health Medicine and currently deputy director of public health in NHS fife, she paints a bleak picture of the financial prospects for the NHS on both sides of the border. It contends that without radical innovation in the way health services are delivered in the UK, the NHS is “in a state of terminal collapse”. Dr Hannah comments: “This inevitable rise in spending would come as a surprise to the founding fathers of the NHS. They never would have thought it would end up costing the taxpayer so much. They thought that once immediate health concerns were addressed, initial increases in funding for the NHS would level off at a steady state.” However the actual consequence may well be described as dramatic, compulsory, permanent cuts in services as that reality begins to sink in, two or three years from now. Dr Hannah indicates that without radical improvement in the spending rate of the NHS, this could possibly turn into a system in a state of terminal collapse.
Source: Retrieved June 8th, 2010
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/scotland/article7145514.ece
My reaction:
To my belief a country can not manage to function properly without a working healthcare system. I would say pay those extra taxes to increase funding for the NHS because I figure the UK does not want to end like the USA paying thousands of Pounds for healthcare that can be managed the way it is done now. Even if this means more workload for doctors and nurses, paying extra for medicine and investing in new technology then that will just have to be done. To my opinion if the high heads in the House of Parliaments would increase the medicine cost from the now £ 7,20 per recipe to £ 10 it would increase the income for NHS increasingly, but that is just my opinion.
Men drowned at Loch Awe after rescue boat was removed from Oban
Men drowned at Loch Awe after rescue boat was removed from Oban
The search continued with underwater searchers scouring the loch for traces of Steven Carty and Thomas Douglas from Glasgow who went missing after a boating accident in Loch Awe, Scotland. A local politician claimed that the total of four men could have been saved if the rescue boat had not been removed from nearby Oban. Conservative MSP Jamie McGrigor, for the Highlands and Islands, said that there was no doubt that an Oban boat would have been on that scene more quickly than the Renfrew rescue craft. Loch Awe is the longest freshwater loch in Scotland, with a history of boating accidents, to have a rescue boat based locally would be a good thing to make sure accidents where lives are lost, like these can be prevented in the future.
Source: Retrieved March 24th, 2009
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/article5963251.ece http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/scotland/article7147988.ece
My reaction:
It makes me feel sick to my stomach to hear four men from Glasgow died in fain because of a non – available rescue boat. This tragic accident could have been easily prevented by the presence of a boat, one freaking boat!!! In another variant of this story the retired fire chief says he would have been prepared to break the health and safety rules and that if he had done just that then the four men would have still been alive today. I wonder why did he not act on his guts and do it.
The search continued with underwater searchers scouring the loch for traces of Steven Carty and Thomas Douglas from Glasgow who went missing after a boating accident in Loch Awe, Scotland. A local politician claimed that the total of four men could have been saved if the rescue boat had not been removed from nearby Oban. Conservative MSP Jamie McGrigor, for the Highlands and Islands, said that there was no doubt that an Oban boat would have been on that scene more quickly than the Renfrew rescue craft. Loch Awe is the longest freshwater loch in Scotland, with a history of boating accidents, to have a rescue boat based locally would be a good thing to make sure accidents where lives are lost, like these can be prevented in the future.
Source: Retrieved March 24th, 2009
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/article5963251.ece http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/scotland/article7147988.ece
My reaction:
It makes me feel sick to my stomach to hear four men from Glasgow died in fain because of a non – available rescue boat. This tragic accident could have been easily prevented by the presence of a boat, one freaking boat!!! In another variant of this story the retired fire chief says he would have been prepared to break the health and safety rules and that if he had done just that then the four men would have still been alive today. I wonder why did he not act on his guts and do it.
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