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chris-brooke.bsky.social @chris-brooke.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
I’m not a scheme user, but car lease costs are a large function of residual value and premium cars often hold value better than other brands. So it can cost less to lease a BMW 1 series than a Vauxhall Astra. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
'Premium' cars like BMW and Mercedes cut from Motability scheme - BBC News
Motability says it will provide vehicles that meet disabled peoples' needs and are safe and affordable.
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chris-brooke.bsky.social @chris-brooke.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
surely paying a substantial sum would become an attractive target for people-smuggling gangs who could deliberately send people to claim with no chance of getting asylum but merely for a large slice of the exit reward.
theguardian.com
Failed asylum seekers could be given ‘big increase’ in payments to leave voluntarily, home secretary says – UK politics live
Shabana Mahmood says scheme could increase the £3,000 cap currently in place and that payments are ‘good value for money’
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Alexandra Topping @lexytopping.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
I wrote about football, family, memory and loss. About going to watch Everton with my dad, taking my son to Goodison for a final pilgrimage and why that place means so much to so many of us 💙>> www.theguardian.com/football/202...
theguardian.com
History, memory, grief and belonging: my bittersweet Goodison farewell
Evertonian Alexandra Topping – knowing that the famous old ground’s time was running out – made a final pilgrimage with her nine-year-old son
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chris-brooke.bsky.social @chris-brooke.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
Can you imagine how much VAR would have ruined this game? Oohh did the ball brush a finger - penalty, did that push get seen by the ref - red card , let’s count millimetres for offside. Boring boring boring VAR.
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chris-brooke.bsky.social @chris-brooke.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
What ever happened to acid rain?
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
“Brexit-optimist economist Julian Jessop, a fellow at the Institute of Economic Affairs, admitted that Brexit has made it harder or “impossible” for small businesses to adjust.” Finally.
independent.co.uk
The damning statistics that reveal the true cost of Brexit, five years on
As January marks five years on from Britain leaving the EU, Alicja Hagopian and Kate Devlin explore its impact
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90s Football @90sfootball.com · 26/11/2024
Who remembers running away from the ref on FIFA? 😂
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