We know that using a mobile phone, driving while distracted, travelling at inappropriate speeds and not wearing a seatbelt are significant factors in fatal and serious injury crashes. This is why we take the matter seriously as they are avoidable, which makes it all the more tragic when people are killed in road crashes under these circumstances.
Tara Malik had this to say about that toilet, WHICH IS ABOUT 100FT BELOW THE SEAT: ” Wow – love that toilet!! An experience one will never forget .”
LITERARY PLAUDIT: Author Edna O’Brien after winning the Femina Foreign Literary Prize 2019 for her book Girl, in Paris, France. The Femina prize was founded in 1904 by the review Femina and is given annually for the best novel published in France. Photograph: Julien De Rosa/EPA
I had another endoscopy at lunchtime. Two extremely jolly, talky nurses wheeled me down to the unit, in and out of lifts, along endless corridors, me in my pyjamas, a ludicrous spectacle, quite pitiable in its way, myself indifferent to the effect having quickly shed any residual inhibitions. The usual paperwork on arrival – my file is already competing with War and Peace – and the usual question about whether any member of my family has ever been considered at risk of catching mad cow disease.
Commodore Bob Anstey with Sir Boyd Tunnock CBE as they sign the Armed Forces Covenant onboard an Astute Class Submarine at Faslane. Pictures by the
