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Sunday 11 September 2016

Dormice in Britain 'vulnerable to extinction'

Sleeping dormouseBritain's native dormouse has declined by more than a third since the year 2000 according to a new report by wildlife charity, the People's Trust for Endangered Species.
The State of Britain's Dormice report also shows that hazel dormice are extinct in 17 English counties.
The researchers assessed more than 100,000 records gathered from across the UK over 25 years.
The report says the dormouse is now vulnerable to extinction in Britain.
Since 1998 trained volunteers around the country have been gathering data on the tiny hazel dormouse (Muscardinus avellanarius). It is one of the longest-running small mammal monitoring projects in the world.
The creatures live mainly in hedgerows and woods, weaving ball-like nests in the undergrowth from bark in the summer and hibernating on or near the ground in winter between October and May.read more
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Ticks found on 'one third' of dogs, researchers say

Tick on a dogAlmost a third of dogs checked at random across the UK were found to be carrying a tick, researchers say.
The finding comes from the largest survey of ticks in dogs.
Researchers also found that the risk of an animal picking up a tick is as great in urban areas as in rural ones.
Ticks can carry a range of diseases including Lyme disease, and also a parasite discovered in the UK for the first time earlier this year that is potentially fatal to dogs.
Lyme disease has the potential to cause serious health problems, such as meningitis and heart failure.
In the most serious cases, it can be fatal.
Almost 15,000 dogs from across the UK were examined in the study, which was carried out by Bristol University last year.read more
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Scientists in search for hottest life forms

SCIENTISTS will start drilling off Japan this month to seek the hottest place where life can survive in an uncharted realm deep below the seabed.
Drilling under the Nankai Trough in the Pacific Ocean will be part of a project by 900 experts to map carbon underground, hoping for clues to everything from the origin of life on Earth to the formation of oil and gas.
Previously, microbes have been found living at a torrid 121 degrees Celsius around a volcanic vent on the seabed in the Pacific Ocean off the United States.
Scientists will now drill into rocks where temperatures reach 130 degrees in a two-month trip off southern Japan starting on Monday, said Kai-Uwe Hinrichs, of the University of Bremen in Germany who led the scientific proposal for the mission.
He reckoned life was likely to exist at temperatures around a maximum 85 to 90 degrees beneath the surface. He said there was probably less food in such rocks, heated by the molten core of the Earth, than near volcanoes on the seabed.
“But we’ve been surprised in these systems before. I wouldn’t bet any money on it,” he told reporters.
Water in the Nankai Trough is 4.7 kilometers deep and the scientists will drill another 1.2km into the Earth. Researchers reckon it is easier to prevent contamination of samples on a drilling ship than on land.
Scientists say they are discovering vast amounts of carbon-based life in the little understood subterranean zone.read more
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Surprise! Giraffes fall under 4 species, not one

For centuries, scientists believed all giraffes fall under one species.
But genetics now show the lanky creatures are not one species, but rather four different ones, changing the game for the world's tallest mammals.
    The new findings appeared in the journal Current Biologythis week, highlighting the need for further studies of the four genetically isolated species, according to the Giraffe Conservation Foundation, which was part of the research.
    Until now, the gentle African mammals were all classified under the Giraffa camelopardalis species.read more
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    Does Weather Affect Joint Pain?

    The skies are clear blue, but your ankle starts flaring up with arthritispain. Could a storm be looming? You feel it in your bones, but is it just an old wives' tale? Or can joint pain actually predict weather changes?
    Believe it or not, your weather forecasting might have some validity, thanks to the effects of barometric pressure changes on your body.
    It's common for people to blame increased pain on the weather, according to Robert Newlin Jamison, PhD, a professor in the departments of psychiatry and anesthesiology at Harvard Medical School and a researcher who has studied weather's effects on chronic pain patients.
    "Everyone's got an aunt who complained that her knee or ankle would flare up. Or Uncle Charlie's shoulder would give him trouble and he would say, ‘Oh, the weather's changing,'" he says.
    But Jamison, who is also the chief psychologist at the Pain Management Center at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, has seen patients worry about being ridiculed. "For whatever reason, people with chronic pain are real shy about saying it, because they think other people think they're nuts," he says.read more
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    Animated 'Doctor Who' series will re-create 'Power of the Daleks'

     BBC America and BBC Worldwide say they have ordered a six-part, animated series re-creating the long-lost, Doctor Who adventure The Power of the Daleks.
    The installment of the sci-fi program was notable as Patrick Troughton's debut as the Doctor, but the master negatives for it were destroyed in an archive purge in 1974 and no complete film recordings are known to have survived.
    Original audio recordings, photographs and film clips will be used to refurbish the episode, which is to air this fall.
    "Fifty years after its inception, Doctor Who continues to be a global phenomenon that perpetually re-animates itself -- literally, right now," Sarah Barnett, president of BBC America, said in a statement. "The Power of the Daleks is the latest uniquely creative storytelling to spring from the extraordinary mythology of the Doctor Whoworld -- there are only a handful of global franchises that have the depth to evolve in this kind of way. We are so proud to present this work to our BBCA Doctor Who fans, who we think will go crazy for this reverent, yet shockingly re-invented, 'mash-up.'"read more
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    56

    why am i writing about a number ,well carry on reading this post and you will find out more .many moons ago i lived in ilfracombe near barnstaple devon and to get a little extra cash i went to garages and various other places picking up scrap iron with a friend .one whilst awaiting items to be weighed at barnstaple scrap yard i spotted an old 56 lb weight may have been used to weigh potatoes -so i put it inside the front of van and from that day i have used it in every home weight routine and would hate to depart with it -how sad.so i bet your glad dear reader you stuck this intesting post out -ha.
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    Yorkshire Dales get a new mountain

    THREE hill-walking friends are 'thrilled' that they have helped reclassify a Yorkshire Dales hill as Britain's newest mountain.
    By the tiny margin of just six millimetres, Calf Top, near Sedbergh, has nudged over the 2,000-feet threshold required for an official mountain.Back in 2010, when Myrddyn Phillips and his two fellow amateur surveyors measured the Cumbrian hill, it was declared to be 609.58 metres high - tantalisingly, a mere two centimetres below the 'magic' 609.6 metres/2,000 feet that is the benchmark height for mountains.
    However, six years on, the Ordnance Survey has double-checked and verified the data with a new 'geoid' computer model and declared Calf Top to be 609.606 metres high - making the grade by six millimetres or less than a quarter of an inch.
    "For this to happen six years later, there's a thrill involved and a little bit of excitement and a tremendous amount of satisfaction," said Myrddyn, 55, of Welshpool, Powys.
    "Personally I quite like reclassification. I like change but that change needs to be based on fact. In 2010 when the OS processed our data and it was literally two centimetres below, I was resigned to the fact that was the height of the hill. At that stage you can't argue against that."read more
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    secrets of the sas

    a documentary on channel 5 running over 4 programmes in which you can see former sas members talk about serving in this elite  military unit .things talked about are -rationalise killing as part of their duties ,what happens to those instincts when leave service to return to civilian life.
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    east african gorilla near extinction

    the population of this gorilla has fallen in rwanda,uganda ,congo by 70 per cent in 20 years .this means the east african gorilla is now on the red list of threatened species as critically  endandered which is one step away from extinction status .
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    prince buster grandfather of ska and two tone -r.i.p

    Cecil Bustamente Campbell OD (24 May 1938 – 8 September 2016), known professionally as Prince Buster, was a Jamaican singer-songwriter and producer. He was regarded as one of the most important figures in the history of ska and rocksteady music. The records he released in the 1960s influenced and shaped the course of Jamaican contemporary music and created a legacy of work that later reggae and ska artists would draw upon.[1]

    Early life[edit]

    Cecil Bustamente Campbell was born on Orange Street in Kingston, Jamaica, on 24 May 1938.[2] His middle name was given to him by his family in honour of the Labour activist and first post-Independence Prime Minister William Alexander Clarke Bustamante.[1] In the early 1940s Campbell was sent to live with his grandmother in rural Jamaica where his family's commitment to the Christian faith gave him his earliest musical experiences in the form of church singing as well as private family prayer and hymn meetings.[2]Returning to live at Orange Street while still a young boy, Campbell attended the Central Branch School and St. Anne's School. While at school Campbell performed three or four times a week at the Glass Bucket Club as part of Frankie Lymon's Sing and Dance Troupe; rock 'n' roll-themed shows were popular during the 1950s, with the Glass Bucket Club establishing a reputation as the premier music venue and social club for Jamaican teenagers at that time.[1][3] Upon leaving school he found himself drawn to the ranks of followers that supported the sound system of Tom the Great Sebastian. Jamaican sound systems at that time were playing American rhythm 'n' blues and Campbell credits Tom the Great Sebastian with his first introduction to the songs and artists that would later influence his own music: the Clovers' "Middle of the Night", Fats Domino's "Mardi Gras in New Orleans", the Griffin Brothers featuring Margie Day, and Shirley & Lee.[1]wiki link
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    Japanese fisherman aged 63 'fights off bear with karate'

    A Japanese man in his 60s fought off a wild bear using karate to save his life.
    Martial arts expert Atsushi Aoki was fishing in a mountain creek when the massive 6ft 3ins Asian black bear attacked him.
    Using only his bare hands to fend off the beast, the 63-year-old told a Japanese broadcaster: "I thought it's either 'I kill him or he kills me'."
    However Mr Aoki didn't escape unscathed and was left with injuries to his head, arm and leg.
    "The bear was so strong and it knocked me down.
    "It turned me over and bit me right here," he said pointing to his bandaged leg.read more and watch video
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    Saturday 10 September 2016

    town shuttle bus for holsworthy devon?

    Mark Mark
    Yesterday at 06:15
    Please support and give your views. I myself would use for holsworthy hospital and doctors appointments and waitrose
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    Anne Marshall Would be lovely to have the market bus back between Bradworthy and Holsworthy in a Wednesday
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    Esther Rowe Holsworthy Rural Community Transport do cover bradworthy already. A trip to Holsworthy is included in the timetable.
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    Anne Marshall Didn't realise that. We lost our Wednesday market bus about 7 years ago. It was the only bus link we had x
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    Esther Rowe Ring 01409 259001 for more details or look on the website, www.holsworthyruraltransport.co.uk to view the latest timetable
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    Paula Sargent I don't know if they still do it. But Brad Cars taxi company started to put on their own minibus for Wednesday. You had book a place, & i'm not sure if your place is covered but you can always inquire. Look on there facebook page.
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    Gemma Bee the bus from brad to holsworthy did get up and running earlier in the year but wasn't enough people getting on so it stopped again
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    Esther Rowe Unique opportunity to influence a local service to your needs. More opinions, better the service.
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    Carole Wise Much needed and yes I would use it if it included cookbury Thornbury area
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    Esther Rowe The current Ring and Ride bus includes Cookbury and Thornbury. Take a look on our website for more details. This would be a Holsworthy town shuttle, so looking for suggested routes and pick up areas in Holsworthy.
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    Michael Curtis well done really needed
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    Lynn Willey This would be great for doctors appointments and for the surrounding villages, my parents live in whitston and when they where I'll the orther week I couldn't get though , it would be a great service .
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    Esther Rowe This would be a Holsworthy town shuttle but we do come to Whitstone with our current Ring and Ride bus. Take a look at our website for more details. We also provide a volunteer car for medical appointments which also covers Whitstone, so if your parents are stuck again for a Drs appointment give us a call.
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    Carol Bassett This would be brilliant .
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    Valerie Davis GREAT idea.
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    Fran Beech Great idea
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    John Dexter Would it be possible to include Chilsworthy in its run ??
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    Esther Rowe Probably not as far as chilsworthy village as it is a Holsworthy town shuttle service (might go as far as the Redrow Estate) but our ring and ride bus service already covers Chilsworthy, take a look at our website for more details.
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    Cherry Irwin Definitely needed good idea
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    Cherry Irwin Also wish there was a bus from Holsworthy to Kilkhampton instead of having to go to Bude then a bus to Kilkhampton as they don't run very often
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    Tanya Boundy Great idea
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    Amy Clarke Great idea. ..I would definately use it for the medical centre especially if it was rainy to save me walking with my toddler!!!
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    Paola Louisa Chandler To medical centre what a brill idea!!
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    Victoria Davies Medical centre yey
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    Julie McIver Brilliant, could it stop outside deer park too please?
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    Esther Rowe Good suggestion Julie, thanks.
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    Julie McIver There are lots of old people by us that struggle to walk up the hill into town
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    Sammi Collington To the medical centre would be brilliant. To and fro the cattle market/farmer's market would be great. So what days of the week and how frequent the service?
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    Julie McIver It would be great if was Monday to Saturday
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