If moving from one house to another other will make now difference. Could help most first time buyers
Posts by Ray Wilkes
The Summer Sunday DalesBus network of buses into and around the lovely Yorkshire Dales is now running for the 2026 season.
dalesbus.org/sundays
Maximum single fare for any journey £3 (£1 for under 19s).
Concessionary bus passes now valid on all buses.
Good train connections from Manchester and Lancashire. Many Hebden Bridge local services ate exciting rides
See the windswept moors that inspired the Brontë sisters from the Brontë Bus! 📚 This route takes you to Haworth for cobbled streets, the Parsonage Museum & dramatic moorland. 👉 scenicbuses.co.uk/routes/keighley-bus-comp...
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Worse than owl infestation
Producing our own owl would reduce our balance of payments wherever the oil went. Ot would mean less money for autocracies
Farage keeps repeating Donald Trump's talking points. But Trump is extremely unpopular in the UK (-65 approval rating).
We don't want Trump-style politics here.
www.ft.com/content/d975940e-6f91-43...
There are lots of anticapitalists. They are unbelievably silly and clueless!
A Sunday bonus blogpost praising a commercially produced bus timetable book … and it’s not from either a bus company or Transport Authority.
busandtrainuser.com/2026/03/01/b...
Sensible stuff on Gorton & Denton from Tom Watson tomwatsonofficial.substack.com/p/a-party-ca...
Where were the Tories Ian?
They should keep there nerve and be left of centre. Green and Reform local council disasters will help Labour win
If Greens and Reform do well it will be tough for Labour to keep it's nerve. But it would give voters time to find out how stupid the extremes are.
The best policy is to ignore sport
https://mccaul.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/mccaul-senate-appropriations-subcommittee-hearing-russias-abduction
https://www.ohchr.org/en/statements-and-speeches/2022/09/update-chair-independent-international-commission-inquiry-ukraine
And what articles of the Geneva Conventions cover Russia's systematic raping of civilians, from small kids to elderly people, and attaching electrodes to children's genitals to torture them after kidnapping them from their families?
She would be good if someone would explain to her what's good about markets and capitalism. She'd then know how to best help ordinary people she cares about
Friends of DalesBus are holding a fundraising concert with The Hall Brothers full band featuring John Carey; Nigel Broadbent & Jim Jarratt and Keepers Wood on Saturday 28th February, at The Three Swords, Guiseley.
Details and tickets (also on door) at: wegottickets.com/event/690259
It saddens. Me to see that he is inadvertently suport Reform
No, vote Reform get Trump and Putin
Dr. Gladys West, the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology, has died. She was 95.
If Reform win it will be the fault of the greens. Their populist economics would be disastrous
It's a white elephant and should be scrapped along with WYCA. What is needed is traffic management, bus priority in a bus partnership
A guarantee of an unwanted Reform government
Every day is a better day without sport. Go walking instead.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMIy...
Might be men who lose more. Being a mcp is a bad place to be.
Double-decker DalesBus 59 runs every Saturday between Harrogate, Blubberhouses, Bolton Bridge and Skipton.
All single fares are just £3 (£1 for under 19s).
Dep. Harrogate Bus Station: 0935, 1150, 1445 & 1645
Dep. Skipton Bus Station: 1045, 1250, 1545 & 1745
Give up football and take up hiking!