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"Key events that make elections possible are set out in legislation and must be followed by returning officers, who are responsible for the conduct of elections in their constituencies."
https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/timetable-for-the-2024-general-elec...
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The Wide Awake Club
Submitted by Captain Qalypso on
"The UK is split into constituencies, and each constituency votes for an MP to represent them, using the first past the post system."
https://www.northyorks.gov.uk/your-council/elections-and-voting/parliame...
"A briefing is being held for prospective candidates and election agents wanting to stand in those constituencies above on Wednesday 29 May at 5pm via MS Teams. This will give more information about this election and the election process, how to obtain and submit nomination papers, and how to pay the required £500 deposit."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbfK4wX6UZI
https://www.theguardian.com/film/article/2024/may/30/happy-94th-birthday...
'Frozen Wilderness'
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"There are a few theories as to why a baker’s dozen became 13, but the most widely accepted one has to do with avoiding a beating."
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clll8d2vd8yo
"Only by growing the economy can Labour generate the funds needed for public services, he argued."
"If we could grow the economy at anything like the level the last Labour government did, that’s an extra £70bn worth of investment for our public services," he added... "The manifesto is around 23,000 words long, we are told – that is shorter than their doomed offering in 2019."
"There may be fluctuations in rising and baking and air content, and many of these bakers didn’t even have scales to weigh their dough."
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/jun/12/election-p...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckM51xoTC2U
""Afterwards, it was what you would call the scientific age. In the pantheon of polar ships, Quest is definitely an icon.""
https://www.theguardian.com/science/article/2024/jun/12/victoria-t-rex-f...
Hmmm ....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ln7Vn_WKkWU
"The technology company is to hold a public meeting with local people next week as it seeks permission from the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) to use the airspace around its warehouse on the edge of the town, in the north-east of England."
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4gx6n8w38ro
'Fayre & Square'
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"“How do I go to work now and try to get our sponsorship and get our grant money for breaking programs [for a sport] that’s just been made a mockery of? And how do we go and represent our country at other world level events when Australia’s been made a fool of? … This is actually affecting us on a much larger scale than just memes.”"
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/article/2024/aug/14/raygun-br...
""And I thought, 'Let's not complain, let's go back to my original circles map and let's make it better this time'."
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c9843r0dz3go
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MHtrM-jf9o
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/article/2024/aug/13/what-do-i-d...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYwMq1VPV7I
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/cly8r686984o
"... he was obviously going to jump and gravity, if nothing else, would ensure that this stunt, at least, couldn’t be dragged out for ever."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSC0DhCzPaw
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cj4ywe14gn4o
lol
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5yj05yvwv6o
Agent Orange.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2025/dec/10/australias...
Thou must not tell Fibs.
""With either merger, another corporation will have that increased control over what we see, what we hear and what news we consume," Booker said."
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5ydndkmvy2o