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Source News sends out an email daily about matters of interest in Scotland. It describes itself thus: Source is an online journalism platform dedicated to delivering what our readers need and deserve: unique, vital news and analysis for Scotland and beyond. One of the items in the email it sent out today mentions a report…

I gave Virgin zeros for service satisfaction. We have had a continuous interruption to our TV picture for months. It is not just affecting us: It is an area-wide issue. Oh yes, and Virgin offered £5.00 compensation because it was not a ‘total breakdown of service’. When I had completed the survey, the message that…

Plaintive – expressing sorrow or melancholy; mournful from Latin planctus- the sound of a person striking their breast, from the verb plangere – to beat, strike, mourn, bewail.

The Week reproduced this report under the title Cox’s Bazar, Refugees left at sea: Rohingya refugees from Myanmar, packed into boats in the Bay of Bengal, are at risk of starving to death, as countries are refusing them entry owing to coronavirus fears. Amnesty International says it knows of five such boats waiting off the…

Some things, you don’t resolve them. You don’t get an answer and you accept that and you move on and you leave the thing unresolved because it’s okay to do that in this imperfect world. And other times it’s not okay and you have to resolve it and if you don’t resolve it then you…