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UK RNLI Ladies Leading the Way

Europe Calling - January 12, 2023 19:03 ★★★★★ - 1 rating
Adam Powis made the foul-mouthed farewell on the public address system at the hardware giant's Weston-super-Mare branch in November. He shared a TikTok of the incident, which quickly went viral, showing the 18 year-old saying: 'This is a customer announcement. I just got sacked and B&Q are c****....

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Importing Hypocrisy

Europe Calling - January 12, 2023 18:59 ★★★★★ - 1 rating
@vincetracy and @terrywhitehead discussed #Spain #weather #winter #construction #water #cultivation #farmers #Madrid #Eurostat #EU #Russia #imports #BBC #media #protests #Rome #CatholicChurch #PopeBenedict #PopeFrancis

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Retirement Abroad

Europe Calling - December 29, 2022 19:24 - ★★★★★ - 1 rating
@mattking and @vincetracy discussed the very important question of #retirement looking at #pensions #careers #education #careersadvice #timemanagement #finances #money #age #health #travel #ambition #fitness #languagelearning #Spain #UK #hobbies #music

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Christmas Week Paper Review

Europe Calling - December 29, 2022 19:20 ★★★★★ - 1 rating
The Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill will make it easier for trans people to obtain a gender recognition certificate (GRC), which is legal recognition of their acquired gender.It will introduce a system of self-declaration for obtaining a GRC and remove the need for a medical diagnosis o...

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Greed, Corruption and Politics!

Europe Calling - December 15, 2022 19:12 - ★★★★★ - 1 rating
Greek MEP Eva Kaili, who has become the face of the European Parliament's widening graft scandal, will spend at least another week in custody before attending a postponed pre-trial hearing, her lawyer said Wednesday. Former EU parliament vice-president Kaili, 44, her partner Francesco Giorgi, 35,...

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The Camera Never Lies

Europe Calling - December 15, 2022 13:15 - ★★★★★ - 1 rating
@mattking and @vincetracy discussed #photogrphy #television #media #software #technology #var #politics #editing #presenting #paperazzi #telephones #animations #disney #misinformation #Qatar

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Leave Christmas Alone

Europe Calling - December 15, 2022 13:12 - ★★★★★ - 1 rating
Civil servants have been told to call their Christmas parties 'festive celebrations' in an attempt to avoid offending other faiths. In another move to promote diversity and inclusion, some officials have been informed they cannot drink alcohol at a celebration if one team member is tea-total. UK...

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Is the Tik Tok Guy Right?

Europe Calling - December 15, 2022 13:11 - ★★★★★ - 1 rating
A TikTok star has revealed how he makes more money than a doctor - despite sleeping in and only working two hours every day.Andy Peng, who goes by Andy the Sk on social media, has racked up more than 4.6million followers on TikTok thanks to his outrageous pranks. For years, the obituaries in our...

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MPs Pay Rise?

Europe Calling - December 15, 2022 13:05 - ★★★★★ - 1 rating
According to Spain’s Labour Inspectorate Ryanair violated the right of workers to strike earlier in the year, when it used so called “scab” labour. Business Secretary Grant Shapps today acknowledged 'national security' fears led to taxpayers' cash being used to end China's involvement in the Size...

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True Colours

Europe Calling - December 15, 2022 13:02 - ★★★★★ - 1 rating
Plans to use ‘pushback’ tactics against small boats in the Channel have been ditched by the Home Office, the immigration minister confirmed yesterday. Robert Jenrick said analysis showed there were only ‘limited circumstances’ in which the turnaround idea could be deployed against dinghies. He sa...

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Quality Education in UK

Europe Calling - November 17, 2022 19:19 - ★★★★★ - 1 rating
A female secondary school mentor sent a teenage pupil 3,000 messages in just two months and told 'I think I'm falling for you' and 'I want you so badly', a court heard.In a series of 'overtly sexual' texts Ellen Cadman-Smith told the 15-year-old that he 'drove her insane' and that she was 'thinki...

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Nurse Pay, Prince William and Dodgy Fun in the Sun

Europe Calling - November 17, 2022 19:16 - ★★★★★ - 1 rating
Ministers were accused of betraying British workers today as a £1.6billion contract for Royal Navy support ships was handed to a consortium that will carry out work in a Spanish dockyard. Defence Secretary Ben Wallace today announced the Team Resolute consortium including Navantia, the Spanish st...

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Preparing for UK Winter of Discontent

Europe Calling - November 10, 2022 19:30 - ★★★★★ - 1 rating
Britain is facing a winter of discontent after 100,000 civil servants voted to strike today as comrades on the rail network agreed new dates and nurses decided on taking industrial action for the first time in more than a century. Salto de Castro, found in north-western Spain, has 44 homes, a h...

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Sex Drugs and Rock n Roll

Europe Calling - November 08, 2022 13:59 - ★★★★★ - 1 rating
@mattking and @vincetracy discussed the implications of #alcohol and #drugabuse from definitions of these terms via #teaching #experience #sport #rugby #judo #music #Spain #UK #theosaps #advertising #sponsors #centrepoint #emmerdale #coronationstreet #beer #spirits #depression #loneliness #social...

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We all need a safe space

Europe Calling - November 08, 2022 13:56 - ★★★★★ - 1 rating
A Royal Navy submarine which was fully armed with nuclear missiles aborted a top secret operation after a fire broke out onboard.The £3billion HMS Victorious, which is one of Britain’s four Trident submarines, had been sailing to a base overseas when the electrical fire started six weeks ago. T...

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Look at the Bigger Picture

Europe Calling - November 03, 2022 19:11 ★★★★★ - 1 rating
All hell broke loose' in Dover yesterday when the driver was seen laughing as he threw the devices at the Western Jet Foil immigration centre on the dockside, where nearly 1,000 migrants were brought for processing less than 24 hours earlier.A council has broken up a family-of-eight after they we...

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Feeling Totally Hacked!

Europe Calling - November 03, 2022 19:07 ★★★★★ - 1 rating
China is operating dozens of secret police stations in plain view by disguising them as British restaurants, estate agents and other ordinary businesses, a civil liberties watchdog has claimed. A report from human rights organisation Safeguard Defenders warned China was operating more than 50 und...

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Can Rishi Sunak reunite UK?

Europe Calling - November 01, 2022 14:41 - ★★★★★ - 1 rating
@MIKEPAYNE joined @vincetracy to try and make sense of the happenings in the UK. We discussed #RishiSunak #liztruss #Margaretthatcher #Tories #Labour #immigrants #racism #ecozealots #juststopoil #economy #woke cop27 #MONARCHY #THECROWN #NETFLIX

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Alzheimers and Dementia

Europe Calling - November 01, 2022 14:36 - ★★★★★ - 1 rating
An updated study on dementia published in the Lancet found that around 40% of dementia cases worldwide might be attributable to 12 potentially modifiable risk factors so we looked at such factors as #Health #education #lifestyle #smoking #drugs #alcohol #hypertension #obesity #depression #phys...

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Look at the Biggger Picture

Europe Calling - November 01, 2022 14:30 - ★★★★★ - 1 rating
All hell broke loose' in Dover yesterday when the driver was seen laughing as he threw the devices at the Western Jet Foil immigration centre on the dockside, where nearly 1,000 migrants were brought for processing less than 24 hours earlier. A council has broken up a family-of-eight after they ...

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Funding the Eco Warriors

Europe Calling - October 27, 2022 18:27 - ★★★★★ - 1 rating
The outgoing Prime Minister could leave a lasting mark and controversially lavish her closest aides with gongs despite a disastrously short tenure in Downing Street. Mark Fullbrook , the former premier's chief of staff, is understood to have suggested she reward her outgoing staff and advisers w...

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Protect the Family

Europe Calling - October 25, 2022 12:55 ★★★★★ - 1 rating
A new report has suggested that mums who choose to stay at home with their children should be given an extra £8,000 for support. Researchers at the Civitas think tank plan to urge ministers to make an £8,000 childcare allowance available in order to help stay-at-home mums. Labour MP Rosie Duffi...

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Liz Truss-What next?

Europe Calling - October 20, 2022 18:19 ★★★★★ - 1 rating
Mike Payne joined me to discuss the bizarre series events taking place in the UK after Liz Truss became Prime Minister. How much longer will she remain in office?

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Liz Truss-Beyond Belief!

Europe Calling - October 20, 2022 18:15 ★★★★★ - 1 rating
Spain will waste €300 million by putting the clocks back by one hour according to calculations by the Institute for the Diversification and Saving of Energy (IDAE). By abandoning this move from Summer Time to Winter Time, the evenings (when people are more active) would remain lighter for one hou...

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Not a United Kingdom

Europe Calling - October 20, 2022 18:13 - ★★★★★ - 1 rating
Former British fighter pilots are training the Chinese to shoot down Western aircraft, officials warned last night. Up to 30 pilots have recently moved to China after securing £250,000-a-year contracts to teach Western flying procedures, it was revealed. Nicola Sturgeon today claimed the UK is '...

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Football's Greatest Challenge ´Climate Change!

Europe Calling - October 11, 2022 12:52 ★★★★★ - 1 rating
Nicola Sturgeon was rebuked by ministers and MPs after she delivered the jibe during an interview in which she hinted at a possible election tie-up with Keir Starmer . The SNP leader insisted it is 'not difficult to answer' the question of whether Sir Keir or Liz Truss should be in No10, saying: ...

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Is Alexa Listening?

Europe Calling - October 06, 2022 18:09 ★★★★★ - 1 rating
The Spanish government said on Thursday that residents whose wealth exceeds €3 million will be subject to a new asset tax during the next two years, 2023 and 2024, as part of its upcoming budget that will need to be approved by the Spanish Congress. Budget and Public Finances Minister María Jesús...

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A Female Perspective

Europe Calling - October 03, 2022 18:07 ★★★★★ - 1 rating
Eco-protestors who smear the government as ‘genocidal’ paralysed central London for hours yesterday as they unleashed a planned month-long campaign of mayhem.Members of the group Just Stop Oil occupied four bridges in the capital, causing gridlock on busy roads, before converging on Parliament. ...

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What a Mess

Europe Calling - September 29, 2022 17:54 ★★★★★ - 1 rating
Terry Whitehead 29th September 2022 Europe must prepare for 'previously unimaginable' threats to its offshore and undersea infrastructure, Germany's interior minister has said today, after the Nord Stream pipe was blown up in a suspected Russian attack. Leaders have already begun scrambling to s...

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It's Not Just the UK Economy

Europe Calling - September 27, 2022 13:00 - ★★★★★ - 1 rating
A transgender children's charity has been accused of giving chest-flattening devices to young girls against their parents' wishes. Mermaids staff offered to send a breast binder to a girl they believed was only 14 after being told she was banned from using one by her mother. According to an inves...