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“The North York Moors National Park Authority confirmed that those targeted by the booking fraud were directed to their headquarters in Helmsley instead of genuine accommodation. The fake website offered people a half-price stay in a holiday cabin with the postcode of the park offices, but uses the name of a real cabin based elsewhere in the country.”

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5y772jlpgzo

““That was quite common in the 19th century – it wasn’t that unusual for women to do that job. What is unusual is that, in Annie’s case, she became trained to use the telescopes. By the 1890s, she was doing the bulk of the observing at the observatory, while still employed as a computer.””

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1jwn58gpwko

Hmmm … The Dark Knight Rises.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/jun/30/unsung-observatory-worker-uk-first-professional-female-astronomer-annie-walker

Bless.

One day Rudders…

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2025/jul/05/steve-coogan-accuses-keir-starmer-labour-of-paving-way-for-reform-uk

The Amused.