The job centre deciding that I’m not allowed my JSA because, despite me actively looking for work, I’m not allowed to be unavailable at the same time. So, am I not allowed to take a short break??

Not only that, but they fail to adequately inform me that my JSA is going to be suspended!

So I have been three weeks without getting my JSA. Nice one.

In February the work I’d been getting through 3 driving agencies I was signed up with completely stopped. After 3 weeks of b*llsh*t from my local job centre I decided that claiming JSA wasn’t actually worth it for the amount of times I was expected to attend interviews/assessments/discussions etc meant I was spending a fortune in petrol!
The Government say unemployment is about 2.4 million but I imagine there to be about 1 million people who don’t show as unemployed as they know how difficult it is to claim any JSA so they simply don’t bother!!!

What aircraft are the two large wing leading edges visible in the background of the first picture from?

While they clearly could not have landed one could the RAF have not done a little flypast/air display of a Nimrod or two at Hatfield?

I was involved with the UK nuclear deterrent in three different phases. You can have no idea how difficult it was to get the Valiants across the N Atlantic at 40,000 ft in the early/mid-50’s. We, in Met, were practically making it up as we went along (just look at the normal commercial transatlantic crossing heights at the time!).
Then, at the height of the Cold War, we knew that if we had to deliver the Bucket Of Instant Sunshine then ‘our’ crews were on a one-way ticket. AND, even if you lived (as I did) only 15 miles from a V-bomber airfield, you knew that when “they” replied you were toast. But you couldn’t tell anybody that.
And later, when I was the Met Man on the Home Office Civil Defence Cttee, one learned just how little could be expected to be done for the vast majority of the population in a post-detonation environment. And (as a Reservist) I asked this Brigadier at a nuclear briefing “What my Unit would most likely be employed in?”. I expected to be told that we would be involved in some hairy meteorological enterprise(s). Not so. “Guarding Tesco wagons and shooting civilians, until you succumb to radiation sickness” was the somewhat chilling reply! But you couldn’t tell anybody that! Just remember that when you get shots or stories on the programme.
The technicalities will be fascinating – but there were people involved, don’t forget that!
HTH
Resmoroh

This makes you realise all it would have/will take is one Bucket Of Instant Sunshine for the whole of civilisation as we know it to finish!

They have roads in the north now!

Rubbish! Can you offer any proof?
:p

Flying Canberra;

http://www.bywat.co.uk/canframes.html

Can only be one, the Hawker Hurricane!

The first monoplane to join the RAF and the first RAF aircraft capable of exceeding 300mph in level flight. It shot down more aircraft during the Battle Of Britain than all other defences combined and the only VC awarded to a Fighter Command pilot was won by Ft Lt James Nicolson a Hurricane pilot of No 249 Squadron on August 16,1940.

The RAF wouldn’t have to involve the CAA if it was operated as a military aircraft.

In reality could they all be operated as military aircraft and leave the civvies out of it?