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One of Britain’s widest cycle paths which is even larger than the lanes on the road it runs alongside was today condemned as ‘shambles’ by local residents with drivers having to pull over to avoid crashing. The cycle path, which is 11ft 2in across, was created in Wimborne, Dorset, by drastically narrowing the width of a busy B-road alongside it – leaving buses, lorries, buses and emergency vehicles with only 9ft 5in wide lanes. This is contrary to Highways England guidelines stating they must be 12ft. And, despite being more than half as wide as the two-lane road, cyclists are still using the regular carriageway instead of the freshly-created bike lane. Residents in the market town have reported lorries clipping wing mirrors as they pass each other, angry motorists shouting at cyclists for not using the path and cars veering into the oncoming lane to avoid bicycles.
Meet the butcher of 260 UK troops who boasted of raging jihad … and now he is a leader of Afghanistan
GUY ADAMS: A senior Taliban commander named Abdul Ghani Baradar (left) gave an interview to Newsweek in 2009 and was asked what the future of his homeland might hold. ‘The history of Afghanistan shows that Afghans never get tired of struggling until they have freed their country,’ he responded. ‘We shall continue our jihad until the expulsion of our enemy from our land… In every nook and corner of the country, a spirit for jihad is raging.’ Twelve years later, that prediction seems eerily prescient – aside from one minor detail. The Taliban’s ‘enemy’ were not exactly expelled – but instead chose to quit the hostile land of their own accord. Baradar. who counted Mullah Omar (top right) and Osama Bin Laden (bottom right) among his friends, is now attempting to act like a global statesman.
Leopard doesn’t change its spots!
LATIF HOTTAK: At each gate to the airport – there were five in all – I had asked for the British. I had spent six years working with them as their interpreter, but the unsmiling Turkish guards would let no one through. I was a potential Taliban target because of my years of work for British soldiers (pictured left: Mr Hottak, right, with another translator in 2008). But also because, over many years, the UK Government had repeatedly and unjustly refused me relocation – a chance to escape and build a new life for my family. When I eventually arrived home at the darkened basement that has been our home for three years, I sat on the rugs covering the floor which are also our beds. I was exhausted and depressed. So when the phone rang on the corner table, I could hardly be bothered to answer. It was my brother Rafi, also an ex-translator, who calls most nights from the UK to check on us. He said my case had been granted. I screamed, my wife screamed and my four children screamed. I feel elated but scared too, very scared. I am approved at last – but will the call ever come for the flight? Pictured far right: former interpreter Yama, who is in his third hiding place since the Taliban swept across the country to Kabul, and inset: Wazir, right, who is trying to secure sanctuary in the UK after being rejected for relocation, and a British soldier.
More than 90 per cent of adults at Edmondson Park in south-west Sydney have had one dose of a Covid vaccine with 69 per cent fully immunised. It is next door to West Hoxton, the scene of a super spreader birthday party in June that caused a Delta outbreak that sparked a city-wide lockdown. The Liverpool local government area is no longer among the hotspots but Blacktown is. Schofields, within the Blacktown council area, also has a very high vaccination rate.
UK approves Moderna’s Covid vaccine for 12 to 17-year-olds after medical watchdog rules jab is safe in children
A review by the UK’s Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) found the jab was safe and effective and that the benefits outweighed any risks.
Once again Women and Children suffer because of religion.
Hubby says this is care of Pakistan, the army in Pakistan have engineered this.
So I guess the army in Pakistan will take over the country.
Refugees staying at the park fled to Kabul as the only major city in the country no longer under Taliban rule by Sunday
Good!
Coronavirus crisis: McGowan’s zero policy even after 80% have had COVID jab
Colin BrinsdenAAPTOPICS
Mark McGowan wants a zero COVID policy in WA – even when the State reaches an 80 per cent vaccination rate.
The Premier said that despite National Cabinet agreeing that Australia would open up when an 80 per cent vaccination rate was achieved, he would retain a zero COVID policy and not tolerate any cases or deaths in WA.
Despite Mr McGowan pursuing a zero COVID policy, Federal Emergency Management Minister Bridget McKenzie said it was an impossible aim and the virus would end up becoming like the flu over time.
“We will never be able to eradicate this virus from our country or indeed from the globe,” she told Sky News.
“That is a scientific reality of pandemics.”
Mr McGowan also urged the NSW Government to take an even tougher stance on eradicating the coronavirus for the sake of the country.
NSW has now gone into Statewide lockdown after reporting a 466 new cases and four deaths yesterday, although the State’s Premier Gladys Berejiklian has spoken in the past about easing restrictions when vaccination rates reach 50 per cent.
Mr McGowan said NSW needed to adopt the approach to “crush and kill” the virus that was taken by WA, in South Australia and as Victoria and Queensland are doing.
Australia’s total COVID-19 vaccination count has passed 15 million doses. Credit: AAP “We just want them to get it under control for the sake of the people in NSW and also for the sake of the rest of the country,” Mr McGowan told Sky News’ Sunday Agenda program.
“NSW delayed putting in measures that worked, they obviously believed all that stuff written about them being the ‘gold standard’ and all that sort of stuff, which was clearly a mistake.”
Victoria, which remains in another snap lockdown, recorded 25 new cases today, with more than half having been in the community while infectious.
Ms McKenzie said she was fully aware of the impact of lockdowns, both on the economy and on an individual’s mental health, being a senator for Victoria
“I think it is heart breaking to know that we are trying to stop the spread of this Delta variant and look at scenes at Bondi beach or people from Sydney gathering in the open without masks,” Senator McKenzie said.
“But at the end of the day it is up to each premier to make those decisions.”
Meanwhile, the Federal Government will start rolling out a fast COVID-19 screening program for NSW aged-care residents and visitors that will be done on site and more regularly.
The COVID-19 rapid antigen testing program will begin tomorrow at the Uniting Bankstown Aged Care Facility, then progressively roll out to other facilities who have expressed interest in participating.
“Given the rate at which we know the Delta variant can be spread between people, the very fast turnaround of RAT – around 15 minutes – makes these tests useful in preventing asymptomatic transmission and outbreaks as they can be used on a daily basis,” Health Minister Greg Hunt said.
He said the pandemic’s toll in Australia last year was highest among aged-care residents.
“That is why, along with the increased infection control training and vaccinations, we are looking at further innovations such as RAT to provide an additional layer of protection for the most vulnerable Australians,” Mr Hunt said.
Toddler, 2, dies after climbing into pan of boiling water and being taken by her medical student mother for treatment by unqualified ‘TRADITIONAL HEALERS’ instead of hospital
Lesya Gorova, two, suffered horrific burns to her, back and bottom after getting into a pan of water boiling to cook chicken. Medical student mother took her to traditional healers in Ukraine.
His father, from Rose Bay in Sydney’s east, has been charged with breaching public health orders by ignoring lockdown to drive north for eight hours to the sun-drenched hippie hangout
An Australian woman has come up with a genius hack for stopping curious and hungry creatures from making a mess of your wheelie bin.
Bianca’s cheap and easy tip to stop animals and birds opening up bins went viral in a Facebook organising group where members raved about her advice.
The simple hack only requires four thick cables ties and two refilled 1.25 litre soft drink bottles, which are strapped to the wheelie bin lid to stop animals from tucking in.
The fed-up Aussie attached two water bottles to the top of her wheelie bins with cable ties
The annoying thing was for years I have left bits of old coconut fibre out for them and they didn’t take it, now I have a new basket and they want to rip it apart!
Reminds me as a child of about 5 years old in the UK, my bedroom was at the top of the house in other words an attic, there was a fire place in the room and dad went to build a fire and a bile of smoke came out of the chimney! LOL He had to take the fire apart and look up the chimney and saw a huge birds nest sitting blocking the chimney! LOL It was a pair of storks, I am guessing he removed their nest, whether it was an old nest or not I don’t know, it may have been as this was winter and I don’t think storks put nests up then, who knows. In English winter hubby says they fly to Africa!
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