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Because they're exempt from a lot of taxes and have been for decades, so governments effectively subsidise air travel.How is it air flight is so cheap when rail fares are so expensive?
Only in some countries... In Italy a 55 minute train journey into central Rome is EU2.60 because workers need to get into the city. In the UK it is about £30 because the privatised rail companies can rip off the poor bloody workers who have no choice.Because they're exempt from a lot of taxes and have been for decades, so governments effectively subsidise air travel.
Why did Margaret Thatcher take away our free school milk? I don't remember the Heath government, but I remember our milk being taken away. I cam remember there were sometimes power cuts, which were fun because we could light candles and use the oil lamp.
Can't just be fuel tax that accounts for it.Because they're exempt from a lot of taxes and have been for decades, so governments effectively subsidise air travel.
No. One's a football ground. One's a cricket ground. About 5 minutes walk from each other, I believe.Is the Old Trafford cricket ground the same as the football ground?
I've carried a pocket knife for most of my life, perfectly legal as long as its under 3" and doesn't have a locking blade.Blunt kitchen knives. I go to stay with a son from time to time and have an en-suite accommodation and d in l feeds me in the evening. I make my own breakfast and lunch as I am out cycling in the daytime mostly. Making lunch involves cutting thing like fruit etc. but the kitchen knives are always blunt by my standards. When I was an agriculture student I learned the importance of always having a sharp knife and this has carried on the rest of my life. Blunt knives are useless and dangerous. All schoolboys in my day had a pocket knife as a matter of course but nowadays this would give the powers that be hysterics.
I have a couple of Leatherman multitools, really handy things to have. But because of the locking blade, illegal to carry, so they live under the seat of my motorcycles.Smudge I actually have a 6 inch kitchen knife I take with me now. Since this is carried in the bottom of my bag I doubt it would be a problem. I also have a couple of illegal lock knives which I bought when they were still legal. What on earth is one supposed to do with such things. When I go sea fishing or diving I am also highly illegal but again how does one gut fish or open scallops with a tiddly little blade?