Somerset Grit Makes Planes Fly

Yes, it's official!

Forget biofuels, aeroplanes leaving Bristol airport are flying on Somerset Salt.

"So that's what they've bloody done with it," growled Daffer Jones, fresh from his encounter with the ditch beside the hedge on the far side of the B road at the end of the Black Run that starts outside the Dog & Duck.

"Ach so ... but how can you measure circumference using ze unit of square kilometres?" said Albert Einstein, our auditor, who is an internationally famous mathematician. Away with the fairies as usual, our Albert.

"Look Albert," I said, with some exasperation, "they spend £4million a year telling us what a good job they're doing...." (Sorry, I did of course mean an "excellent, dedicated, fantastic and amazing" job. And too many people undervalue it, which is why SCC breaking news has to find room for all these adjectives in the same sentence.)

"... and for that kind of money, if they say the circumference of the earth is 40,000 square kilometres then it's good enough for me."

Public Apology to communities team

A group claiming to represent people of Gypsy/Roma heritage recently contacted the Dog n’ Duck. They told us that the Somerset “Gypsy & Traveller Team” was in no way Excellent, and was, in fact, "doing a fe**ing good job”.

We promised to publicise this, and to link to a story about Somerset on a “Romany” website that they told us about …. but due to distractions around bullying and censorship it got overlooked. And in a display of utter incompetence (it wasn’t me, it was the Dog!) we have now lost the link.

However we would like to apologise for the delay in bringing it up, and to confirm our belief that this story on the Council’s own website is in fact true.

And, before you ask, no - we are not “only saying it” because they don’t mention Excellence.

Not even once!