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RNS - further drilling results from West Kenya

"particularly pleased with a new intersection of 3.9 m at 63.80 g/t Au which is 60 meters in proximity to the Undisclosed hole announced last month which intersected 4.0 m at 706.3 g/t. We are almost halfway through our total planned infill drilling programme at West Kenya for 2021 with a resource update due to be released later this month."

28 C on Tuesday

The British press is up in arms that Waitrose lorry drivers now earn enough to shop at Waitrose.
https://twitter.com/ewangibbs/status/1433391952070942723/photo/2

Waitrose offering £50k for lorry drivers in utter desperation.
But it won't improve the situation as the overall shortage remains the same.
BOZO refuses pleas from the whole of British industry to allow EU drivers work vistas to help fill the 100,000 + driver gap.
The UK population is grossly top heavy with us oldies and will ALWAYS need foreign workers until the indigenous birth rate increases

English newspapers are outraged that Hungarian football fans racially abused England players because that's supposed to be their job

Lord Frost outraged at trade deal negotiated by Lord Frost is getting boring now.

An outstanding site..
Eons ago when Big Blue was larger than all the Worlds software/hardware Co's put together.
INTEL was king and almost the only chip Co around.
AND British companies like ELLIOTT made mainframe computers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliott_Brothers_(computer_company)
Distant days before we sold everything off....

at Heathrow Airport massive queues.
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/heathrow-airport-queues-delays-airport-covid-travel-holidays-b953689.html
Lockdown sooooooon ?

https://twitter.com/DavidHenigUK/status/1433706971543261218/photo/1

Raab vs. Wallace: Boris Johnson yesterday appeared to side with his Defense Secretary Ben Wallace over his Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab over the role intelligence played in the mess. Earlier this week, Raab criticized “military” intelligence failings in an apparent attack on the MoD. Wallace hit back in the Spectator on Thursday that the intelligence was not to blame and it was clear that the “game was up” from July. Yesterday Johnson seemed to back Wallace, admitting it had been “clear for many months” that the country could fall to the Taliban.

$90B is the estimated cost so far
Heaven knows how you protect the subways from these rainfall floods
But the strengthen levees held

Prices of precious metals increased on Friday after the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics unveiled that nonfarm employment in the country rose by 235,000 in August, failing to meet the analysts' expectations.
Gold gained 0.93% to go for $1,825.41 per ounce at 8:35 am ET. Silver advanced by 1.45% to sell for $24.26 per ounce a minute later.
Platinum moved up by 0.49% to change hands for $1,006.1 per ounce at 8:36 am ET, while palladium lost 0.23% to sell for $2,404.86 per ounce a minute after that.
Breaking the News / BU

Barbara Castle did a hell of a lot in her long life......
she proved an effective reformer, overseeing the introduction of permanent speed limits for the first time on British roads, as well as legislating for breathalyser tests and compulsory seat belts.

for her successful intervention over the strike by Ford sewing machinists against gender pay discrimination, speaking out in support of the strikers, and overseeing the passage of the Equal Pay Act.

she was responsible for the creation of Carer's Allowance and the passage of the Child Benefit Act.

She was also a prominent opponent of Britain's continued membership of the European Economic Community during the 1975 referendum

Opting to retire from Parliament at the 1979 election, Castle quickly sought election to the European Parliament, representing Greater Manchester from 1979 to 1989; during this time, she was the Leader of the European Parliamentary Labour Party from 1979 to 1985, and publicly reversed her previous stance of Euroscepticism.

She became a member of the House of Lords, having been granted a life peerage, in 1990, and remained active in politics until her death in 2002 at the age of 91.

Woken up......

In a year of surprises, here’s another sentence you never thought you’d hear: the Tories want to raise taxes.

Reports circulated in the press this morning that government ministers are contemplating a rise in national insurance payments to help fund the country’s troubled social care services. The Telegraph claims Downing Street is pushing for a 1 per cent increase, while The Times says health secretary Sajid Javid wants a 2 per cent hike.

This is hardly the comprehensive plan for reform that Boris Johnson promised on his first day as prime minister. But investors in Caretech (CTH) and other private companies that run the UK’s care homes should question whether the government is getting serious about its plans for a radical shake-up.

Indeed, ministers are coming under increasing pressure to overhaul the beleaguered and largely privately operated care system for elderly and vulnerable people, which while delivering bumper profits for the likes of Caretech has become a source of shame in a country that takes pride in its state-run NHS. Earlier this year a government-commissioned review said there was an “urgent need” for a new approach to children’s social care, where the average cost per child has increased 40 per cent

SERPS - brought in by Labours Barbara Castle .....long time ago

"If you were paying into the additional state pension from 1978 to 2002, it was called state earnings-related pension scheme (Serps). If you were paying in after 2002, it was called the state second pension (S2P)."

Read more: https://www.which.co.uk/money/pensions-and-retirement/state-pension/your-state-pension-and-benefits/state-second-pension-and-serps-ad9mc1v6fq6t - Which?

“As ever, the range of forecasts is far and wide, but the median consensus seems to be around 750,000 jobs added this evening. My thruppence worth, as a mere pilot fish cleaning the global market's shark’s teeth, is thus; a number lower than 600,000 jobs will push back tapering expectations from the Fed. That will see markets "buy everything" and sell the US Dollar. A number nearer to 1 million jobs will have the opposite effect, sell everything and buy the US Dollar
https://www.proactiveinvestors.co.uk/companies/news/959372/ftse-100-in-wait-and-see-mode-ahead-of-us-jobs-report-959372.html

Just the civil servants have GOLD plated pension now
AND they are index linked to inflation

ABBA
AGE 73 to 76

ABBA
Have aged well....
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-58423452