Previous government intended to cancel the leg to Euston despite all the work already being done to save money, but hadn’t confirmed.

It made little sense because they’d already spent a lot of money to build a good amount of it and would’ve made all of it a waste.

Not to mention, having a high speed line terminate further than the main line it’s meant to take pressure from would’ve defeated made the line effectively useless.

Only 121 votes, a very slim margin.

Central Devon was even closer, a majority of only 61 votes!

Wholeheartedly agree, best we can do is do business with local shops where possible.

We had these where I worked, what a lot of people miss is these don’t actually record until the person wearing it presses a button, it doesn’t have the battery life to record, encode, then broadcast video for 8+ hours. No doubt when that becomes feasible they’ll give it a go though.

In the UK we have to announce to everyone it’s recording. The gangs and thieves know this and don’t care. They were happy to attack and rob us when we already had store wide CCTV.

The only deterrent that worked was a security guard we had for a short while, but the company withdrew them because we weren’t losing over 5% of our daily take to theft, ignoring that we got the guard because two people had been sent to hospital after being attacked by a gang of youths.

Got a 10 year old laptop that couldn’t do anything whike running Windows 10. Couldn’t install Windows 11 because no TPM chip. Was about to replace it when I thought screw it and gave Linux a go.

It now runs as smoothly as the day I got it, and am now a Linux convert.