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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
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"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