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Outdoor peeing could activate composting revolution

Rated Nov 19 • 14 reviews • uk, gardening, national trust, fertiliser, memorable • nationaltrust.org.uk

A straw bale attracts out of hours urination by UK national trust staff. Mixed later with the comfrey and sheep dags in a ferment of fertiliser.
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About urban agriculture

Rated Nov 19 • 1 review • uk, sustainability, food security, reports, urban agriculture • sustainweb.org

From the page: "About urban agriculture

In 1996 Sustain produced Growing Food in Cities, which drew on some of the already considerable experience of urban agriculture in the UK and recommended that more should be done to support and promote it. This message was re-emphasised in 1999 with the report, City Harvest, which examined food growing in London in more depth. "
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Britons face working until 70 to help bring public debt...

Rated Sep 30 • 2 reviews • uk, retirement, economics, economy, debt • telegraph.co.uk

From the page: "Britons face working until 70 to help bring public debt under control
Britons will have to work until the age of 70, at least five years beyond the current retirement age, if the Government is to stand any hope of bringing public debt under control over the next decade, a report claims."

Australia already going down this path.
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Daily Express | UK News :: Doctors give in to Muslims

Rated Apr 07 2009 • 10 reviews • uk, fasting, islam • dailyexpress.co.uk

Reportage that a British Health Service has taken advice that its workers should not be eating at their desks in the presence of Muslim people during their fast. Mention of removing vending machines, too. "Newspaper" is a tabloid, but claims the consultancy company includes Scottish Parliament as a client.

I really like the following response from a fellow Stumbler. SarCaustic:

I'm a muslim and I say that this is absolutely ridiculous. Muslims don't care if other people eat around them when they're fasting. The point of fasting is spiritual cleansing and development, not becoming an over-sensitive idiot that imposes their religion on others.

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ICO queries Heathrow T5s huge fingerprint scam scan •...

Rated Mar 02 2009 • 1 review • uk, privacy, biometrics, fingerprinting • theregister.co.uk

From the page: "The government, the British Airports Authority and the Information Commissioner's Office are arguing over fingerprinting at Heathrow's new Terminal 5, which is due to open on Thursday. T5 is to use a 'count them all in, count them all out' biometric system to log entry and exit to the departure lounge, but the ICO thinks the move may breach the Data Protection Act, and has demanded an explanation from BAA.

Fingerprints are to be taken because T5 will use a single departure lounge for international and domestic passengers, and there is therefore a need to tie the passengers to their tickets. Otherwise, it is claimed, passengers could swap tickets in the lounge, and incoming terror suspects could slip into the UK via a regional airport without going through immigration."
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Images of Braziers Violin

Rated Dec 11 2008 • 1 review • uk, permaculture, courses • braziers.org.uk

They do permerculture here, apart from music!
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http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=a-KHHKuVVRc

Rated Oct 28 2008 • 0 reviews • uk, video • youtube.com
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Big Brother database threatens to break the...

Rated Oct 28 2008 • 7 reviews • uk, politics, privacy, big brother • independent.co.uk

From the page: "Government plans to build a giant database holding information about every phone call, email and internet visit were last night dealt a major blow after the man in charge of prosecuting terrorism in England and Wales warned of the dangers posed by a "Big Brother" security state.

Sir Ken Macdonald, the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), told ministers not to "break the back of freedom" by creating irreversible powers that could be misused to spy on individual citizens and so threaten Britain's hard-won democracy.

Sir Ken's intervention in the debate over the controversial new database is the latest and most serious among a growing number of senior public figures from across the political spectrum who have raised concerns about the potential misuse of information collected in the name of national security.

Last week, Lord Carlile of Berriew QC, the Government's independent reviewer of terrorism laws, described the "raw idea" for handing over millions of pieces of private information to the state as "awful".

Under the proposal, internet service providers and telecoms companies would surrender phone and internet records to the Home Office, which would store them for at least 12 months so that police and security services could access them.

But Sir Ken, giving the Crown Prosecution Service lecture in London, said: "We need to take very great care not to fall into a way of life in which freedom's back is broken by the relentless pressure of a security state."
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Wild Swimming - Outdoor Swimming in rivers, lakes and...

Rated Sep 20 2008 • 1 review • sports, uk, swimming, outdoors, books • wildswimming.co.uk

A feast for the eyes, leaven for memories: swimming in the wild in the UK. Places to go, with a chapter dedicated to great places for indulgement in the greatest of swimming pleasures, the skinny dip :)
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Wild Swimming: the book

Rated Sep 20 2008 • 1 review • uk, swimming, dreaming, outdoors, bliss • issuu.com

A blissful book about swimming in the wilds of the United Kingdom. Stunning images, embracing text. Recommended visit. Great facsimile displays in your browser.
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