Happy birthday you lovely young thing x x x

Refusing to disembark? Hmmm… That’s an interesting question.

I can only imagine that putting the ‘new’ jobs live through a third party re-routes the position enough to let them put these forwards as redundancies if they aren’t directly hiring the new staff themselves.

Must be absolutely horrendous for the staff on board.

P&O are telling customers to use another ferry company for ‘a few days’. Is there that much overlap that if you have a journey book you can just find the same journey with the boat next door?

https://www.gov.uk/staff-redundant/redundancy-consultations

20 employees!

I guess it depends on their contracts?

The legal position around redundancy, as P&O has described its process, is that a proposal to cut jobs is put to the staff affected and their union under a consultation period.

Given that this appears to have been an action taken with immediate affect, P&O could find itself in hot water.

Regulations on redundancy consultations state: "If you do not consult employees in a redundancy situation, any redundancies you make will almost certainly be unfair and you could be taken to an employment tribunal."

P&O has seemingly looked to bypass the process by saying that those sacked will be compensated for the lack of notice with "enhanced compensation packages".

https://www.rmt.org.uk/news/rmt-sets-out-six-key-reasons-for-leaving-the-eu/

https://www.rmt.org.uk/news/rmt-sets-out-six-key-reasons-for-leaving-the-eu/

Please excuse my ignorance, but what is the cause of the increase in army planes and helicopters in British skies? Is it because they have been flying to the Eastern part of Europe as a show of force, or is it as a patrol, or training exercise in case it all kicks off in a wider sense? Something else?

Please excuse my ignorance, but what is the cause of the increase in army planes and helicopters in British skies? Is it because they have been flying to the Eastern part of Europe as a show of force, or is it as a patrol, or training exercise in case it all kicks off in a wider sense? Something else?

Thank you, Dr Z. That’s a really helpful explanation and I’m grateful for it! x

We got to stop the pain and put the the wars on hold
Let the power of love inside the soul unfold
Free the mind, let it rise above
We've gotta change this world into a world of love
Mother Earth, she's on overload
One more war and she might explode
We got to look back and see a love from the past
We got time to change it but it's running out fast

All of the above. There are plenty of NATO planes doing patrols up and down the border with Ukraine - a mixture of fighters, unmanned drones and airborne radar, plus tankers. Some are based in the Uk but mostly to the west of you.

Some of the cargo planes are delivering supplies to the Ukrainians via Poland and other neighbours, and they have been going over the midlands.

There are more US fighters here than normal, based at Lakenheath, and they are doing low level training in wales so you’ll see them going past. F16s as well as the more common F15s that we get

There’s also B52s flying out of Fairford but again not so busy over the midlands.

Flightradar24 is good to identify what they are and where they are going.