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Although not solely wind powered, there's vessels such as the Sohar Max which is a bulk carrier with a capacity of 400,000 tons that have sails.

Do you have a reference for that? Everything I can find searching talks about TfL not getting the grants other local authorities do, but implies that has been the case since the formation of TfL in 2000.

Detrunking passing maintenance of roads to the local authority happened in the 2000s.

The revenue grant was phased out. That process started in 2013/14 and finished in 2018. In return for the loss of the grant, the GLA was allowed to retain a greater share of business rates and could pass that on to TfL. As far as I can tell, that rates retention is bigger than the grant used to...

I was thinking it's more the other way, Verstappen has likely said it's him or me, and they don't want the golden goose to leave.

ITV will be paying WB Discovery for the rights, usually these things are done on multi-year deals. I suspect either WBD have hiked the price up further than ITV are willing to pay, or they've just refused to licence to ITV as they're trying to drive people to use their own platform.

To Buckingham from where? If you’re going to Silverstone then presumably we’re looking at a North-South alignment?

So they've probably decided to make their life easier and just demand a driving licence from everyone. Rather than having two different classes of user, one that has a licence and can hire a scooter and one that can't. Whereas Santander are just doing ebikes so don't have that problem.

Is it the same people doing the ebike and escooter hiring? Until there's legislation specifically designating escooters as something else, they're still classed as motor vehicles hence the requirement for the licence.

I believe they have a contract with F1 until 2034.

There is a Sustrans route for Oxford - Abingdon - Didcot which at least partially follows the railway line rather than the A34 https://www.sustrans.org.uk/find-a-route-on-the-national-cycle-network/hanson-way/

Possibly throwing good money after bad, but the question sort of becomes, is there a demand for which a railway running past Silverstone would be the answer? East-West Rail is likely to provide for many of the journeys between the Chiltern Line and the WCML, is another line in the relatively...

As @styles says, you’ve been lucky. I have some premium bonds that were purchased for me on birth. 40-odd years later and they’ve never won anything. I think there should be a discussion on ways to encourage saving, especially in longer term investments. Over the long term, shares have always...

You’d think so… https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-27497727 (Not saying this is the case for the 24 stock, just mentioning an occasion when it has gone wrong)

Half of the places you listed are in the permit area to get 100 passes, see the map at https://oxfordshire.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=13499ad796114714b4c419e83c5a495a But if everyone is exempt then it won’t drive any modal shift and will be entirely pointless.