Chris Leigh 🇬🇧🏴
@Chris_Leigh_UK
Scientist, hands-on father & country bumpkin. Proud Brit, pro-UK, Royalist, ex-RAF, anti-woke, anti-SNP, traditional views but a floating voter. Views my own.
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12-10-2015 13:51:32
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70 years ago today, former Beechen Cliff student Sir Roger Bannister became the first person to run a mile in under four minutes, a target that existed purely in the realms of the fantastical until, on that blustery Oxford day in 1954, he subverted the possible. Beechen Cliff School Physical Education and Sport
A counter protest to today's pro-Palestinian march, organised to show solidarity against anti-Semitism, was cancelled because Metropolitan Police warned they cannot guarantee our safety after threats.
So it's definitely not a hate march then. Uh huh. dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1…
ECONOMY: The UK capital has held onto its global pole position ranking for green finance, for the fifth consecutive time.
The twice-yearly Z/Yen ranking has placed London in the top spot every time since October 2021 - ever since Brexit 😎
#UKGoodNews
cityam.com/london-keeps-s…
Love or hate Brexit, can we agree that it’s amazing to have finally been able to ban hideous bottom trawling in UK marine protected areas? This was not possible when we were inside the EU. Cue disappointing but predictable fury from EU fishing interests. theguardian.com/environment/20…
TRADE: The UN Committee on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) have revised their trade data for 2022, and as a result the UK is now considered the 4th largest exporter of goods and services in the world - up from 5th previously, and 6th in 2021
#UKGoodNews
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GROWTH: UK car production grew by 14.7% year on year in February, with just shy of 80,000 cars rolling off UK production lines.
Three-quarters of those cars, were shipped overseas - as demand for UK cars increased as well.
#UKGoodNews
smmt.co.uk/2024/03/six-co…