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So, now when the story with @BorisJohnson’s stylish hat became public, have to tell the whole story.
Danger: long 🧵 ahead.
Danger: long 🧵 ahead.
The story starts in #Irpin, where @BorisJohnson was during his recent visit to Ukraine. Look how grumpy he was. And I thought that the reason could be in his hat. That’s #londonunderground hat, btw.
So when Boris visited our station shop, @Pertsovskyi_O asked @BorisJohnson whether he’d like to try a different hat. A proper one. Ukrainian Railways hat.
🔵 NEW: The @RMTunion has announced that workers are set to stage fresh #railstrikes in November after Network Rail “performed a U-turn on pay offer”.
It has said: "Network Rail bosses “reneged on their promises.”
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It has said: "Network Rail bosses “reneged on their promises.”
nationalworld.com/news/uk/train-…
The union said that following negotiations, there “was an agreement where the company would commit to an improved offer on pay and working towards a negotiated settlement”, however, Network Rail bosses sought to “impose job cuts, unsocial hours and detrimental changes to rosters”
🗣 “In a crass attempt to cut the union out of national negotiations, Network Rail have written directly to staff undermining delicate talks and have tried to rehash a previous deal that RMT has categorically rejected,” RMT said in a statement.
#ColdWarHistory #PortonDown #LondonUnderground 55 years ago today, Porton Down scientists conducted a second covert release of live bacteria on the London Underground system. Porton were investigating how far a Biological Warfare aerosol would spread in the London Underground.
#ColdWarHistory #PortonDown #LondonUnderground At exactly 13.00 on 01 May 1964, a trainee LU Engineer covertly dropped a converted face-powder case from the rear window LU train while it traveled northwards between Colliers Wood and Tooting Broadway.
#ColdWarHistory #PortonDown #LondonUnderground The face-powder box was designed to break open on impact and contained two types of live organisms - Bacillus globigii (BG) spores & T.1 coliphage. BG is now considered to be a human pathogen by the US Institute of Medicine.
