Beware of the mushrooms at Premier Inn London Euston

I know, it sounds alarmist, but I am a little concerned.

Several days ago one of my neighbours mentioned to me that he’d watched as the Kuehne & Nagel delivery truck dropped off the food delivery to Premier Inn London Euston. A box of mushrooms fell off the delivery, and scattered over the ground. Not [...]

Premier Inn London Euston – A Danger To Your Tyres

I last mentioned this problem here last June, but it hasn’t gone away by any means.

Imagine you use a traffic route on a daily basis, and find every week you’re having to mention to the person who owns it that there’s a problem with broken glass.

It’s not like they shouldn’t know there’s broken glass there, [...]

Robocop comes to Oxford

I’m sure most of us have seen the clip of the Oxfordshire Policeman sliding down the hill on a riot shield…

Afterwards, Superintendent Andrew Murray, Oxford city commander, told The Guardian:

“The snow has a habit of bringing out the child in all of us. I have spoken to the officers concerned and reminded [...]

You're culpable for the unpredictable

BBC News report today that the Conservative MEP Nirj Deva has said that the Chief Executive of Eurostar should step down.

From an engineering perspective, the problems with the trains are totally understandable – the electric trains are running very cold in the outdoors where temperatures are below zero, and condensation forms inside the [...]

Was it the right choice for Camden?

I’ve been reading on the Camden Liberal Democrat’s website that they forged their partnership with the Conservatives of Camden because the voters ‘decisively rejected the Labour party’.

Statments like this, which lack any source or corroborative information always make me wonder, so I checked out the election results.

Labour lost 17 seats in the 2006 [...]

What Price New Bus?

London Travelwatch have criticised the Mayor, Boris Johnson, for ploughing ahead with his plans to scrap, or mothball the bendy bus in London.

Can London afford to pay for the extra buses, to have the extra traffic on the road? Just for the sake of the few drivers and non-users who supported Boris’s election pledge [...]