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@Margaret Swift , erm, “dear”. You missed the point about not being personal towards other www.dawlish.com forum members. Hopefully you will be reminded by the Webmaster of the terms and conditions of his website.
Actually if the world warms up then our climate could well become colder. Why? Because if the Gulf Stream is disrupted (and it is the warmth of the Gulf Stream that keeps our climate as temperate as it is) then we will have a much colder climate in this country.
But with climate change crops will change we grow more than you think Lynne for arguments sake we produce Saffron,Chillies and peppers are grown by the millions, we produce Strawberries nearly all year round. We used to manage without all these foods from abroad and we ate what was in season leeks, cabbage,carrots, turnip,and the tops, lots of fruit,pears,we grow the best apples in the world, ...
Some points: The beginnings of the shortage of housing that people could afford to buy/rent can be traced back to the Thatcherite policy of Right to Buy of council housing stock. Whilst the RtB policy created many more home owners, its legislation forbade local councils from building more homes to replace those that had been sold. It was argued that the private sector would pick up the rental ...
Wasn't all this 'new build' pushed through to alleviate the large numbers of local people who were unable to buy their own homes and alleviate the ever growing numbers of people without homes? As can be seen over the last few years many developers wriggle their way out of producing the numbers of homes required for such people. It's all well and good importing food, etc from abroad, but if ...
I understand that about 60% of the food consumed in the UK is grown here. The other 40% being imported. Therefore, as I see it, the more agricultural land that gets used for new housing development (and we do need more houses) the less there is then available for food production. So we will need to import even more food? Was just having a quick read about this food self ...
Also a grey vauxhall insignia parked along upper longlands betwen 22:00 hrs and 08:00 hrs on wed 1/11 and thur 2/11. A corrosive substance was poured onto the car causing extensive damage to the paintwork.
A country's land mass bears no relation to its abilitity to provide adequate infrastructure for its people. England is now the most densely populated country in Europe, some parts have a built-on ratio of 80%+, so for those people it would quite likely feel they were living in a "concrete jungle". The BBC link shows that almost 60% of land is used for farming, that fact seems lost on the people ...
POLICE have praised the courage of two young victims after two men were found guilty of plying them with drink and drugs and having sex with them. Full Article: http://www.middevonadvertiser.co.uk/article.cfm?id=110404&headline=Men%20face%20jail%20for%20underage%20sex%20and%20drugs%20orgy§ionIs=news&searchyear=2017
Police are appealing for witnesses after the paintwork on the car was damaged when offenders threw the ‘corrosive substance’ over the roof and bonnet DevonLive: http://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/corrosive-substance-thrown-over-car-753865