Pat Regan's Blog, page 47
July 23, 2019
UPDATED: Tonight off Birkdale – Status: Restricted Manoeuvrability…
LATEST NEWS:
We are informed that a vessel is currently making its way across the Irish Sea laying international fibre optic cable that will connect with BT’s network locally. This may indeed, therefore, be the task of the ROXANE Z, which is still off Birkdale this morning (24/7/2019).
Earlier. The tug ‘ROXANE Z’ appears to have run aground onto a sandbank or broken down off the Birkdale coastline. This is not however yet confirmed.
She was stationary this afternoon and this evening (23/7/2019)...
UK’s New PM Boris Johnson – more hunting to come?
When he was Foreign Secretary, Johnson defended the brutal sport of bullfighting at a dinner to celebrate Anglo-Spanish relations.
Johnson launched his defence of bullfighting, claiming Spain’s partial ban on the sport is “political correctness gone mad”. The cruelly tortured bulls, however, most likely would have disagreed with him.
Johnson repeatedly voted against a ban on fox hunting in the early 2000s, when he was MP for Henley.
As London's mayor, Boris absurdly suggested introducing h...
July 20, 2019
Hesketh Park’s Fernley Observatory
Hesketh Park’s famous Fernley Observatory (also known as the Baxendell/Fernley) Observatory) was explored by the public today during an open day hosted by the Southport Astronomical Society.Today’s observatory opening (20 July) marks 50 years to the day since the Apollo 11 landing. Apollo 11 was the spaceflight that first landed humans on the Moon.
Data from Historic England: Observatory. 1877; telescope dated 1869, manufactured by T Cooke and Sons, York and London (on brass plaque). For Josep...
July 12, 2019
Orange Lodge arrives in Southport
Liverpool’s Provincial Grand Orange Lodge paraded through the resort today to mark the 200th anniversary of the first July 12th Orange Parade, which took place in 1819.
The Orange Order in England is highly prominent in Liverpool. Orange manifestation in Liverpool dates back to at least 1819 when the first parade was held to mark the anniversary of the Battle of the Boyne, on 12th July 1690. The Order was a significant constituent in the founding of the Liverpool Protestant Party in 1909.
It ha...
July 9, 2019
Ainsdale trees - planted 2017 - destroyed in 2019
In January 2017 Sefton Council ignored residents and councillors and went ahead with unnecessary and costly felling of a mature tree.
https://www.otsnews.co.uk/sefton-tree-butchers-ignore-residents-and-councillors-and-go-ahead-with-tree-felling/
Subsequent to the felling, the council promised to allow the old stump to regenerate and to plant new trees. Thankfully their promise was kept. However, residents recently noticed that the trees that were planted in 2017 (which had initially thriv...
July 5, 2019
Formby Bypass Chaos – latest update
Update on road closure by Woodvale resident Cath Regan.
United Utilities and Sefton Road Management team are currently on the scene to alleviate and fix the urgent problem affecting drivers commuting from Formby to Southport. The area allegedly holds the heaviest traffic in the North West, so the problem needs fixing urgently and fast.
At the time of writing, United Utilities are still working to find out what has caused the problem.
We believe that further investigation of the road collapse has...
June 27, 2019
Woodvale Jackdaw roof rescue
This morning caring staff members from Brookdale Daycare Centre in Sandbrook Way noticed a young jackdaw that was trapped and dangling on dilapidated woodwork in flats opposite the centre.
Staff tried desperately to alert residents at the flats, yet to no avail. They were understandably distressed at the bird’s plight. The jackdaw had been stuck up there for several hours it seemed and a call from the Brookdale to the RSPB was only greeted with advice that they would “pass a message on”.
Above:...
June 25, 2019
The Glossy Ibis at Marshside
This species used to be quite rare but numbers are said to be increasing. Nevertheless, the Glossy Ibis always seems to draw in the twitchers from near and far.
The British Trust for Ornithology (BTO) gives the UK Status of the Glossy Ibis as ‘Scarce Visitor’. They also advise of 82 records per year in the UK of this species. The first recorded UK sighting was in Berkshire in 1793.
It was once a rare vagrant to the UK but numbers have improved in recent years and it has become more common...
June 15, 2019
Pope Francis promotes science – duplicity exemplified
You really couldn’t make it up! A religious leader who represents an irrational credo based on unscientific dogma and centuries of persecution against scientists now begs climate deniers (that is people who refuse to accept questionable alarmist opinions) to ‘listen to science.’https://www.thenational.ae/world/europe/pope-begs-climate-deniers-to-listen-to-science-1.874528
This must be the very height of religious hypocrisy.
Does this mean that the Pope will also now be telling his faithful floc...
June 8, 2019
Christian vigilantism today
Christian vigilante/false accuser 56-year-old Philip Day was sentenced to jail time for a sick crusade of biblically-fuelled harassment, vented on a teacher and headmistress.
Day, of Runcorn, was jailed for 15 years with an extended licence period of five years.
Some years ago Day made unfounded sexual accusations against a teacher from the Northwich academy, which was formally known as Rudheath High School. Cheshire Police mounted an investigation yet Day’s wild claims were never corroborated....
