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In a Bedfordshire town, locals are resorting to desperate measures as a road continues to collapse and the council refuse to get involved. Meanwhile, I…

Feb 11 • M. F. Robbins

Britain's Weirdest Detour

When badgers destroyed a road in rural Lincolnshire, the response was wilder than you might imagine.

Jan 26 • M. F. Robbins

Rubbish Mountain

A gigantic pile of rubbish was dumped in a field in Oxfordshire. The response sums up everything wrong with British bureaucracy.

Dec 2, 2025 • M. F. Robbins

How HS2 built a bridge to nowhere

A state-of-the-art road bridge has been built deep in the heart of rural Buckinghamshire. Designed to carry traffic over the HS2 railway, there's just…

Nov 3, 2025 • M. F. Robbins

Son of bat tunnel

Bat infrastructure is springing up across the land, and Reform are on the case.

Sep 8, 2025 • M. F. Robbins

The BBC's war on the Universal theme park

A theme park is being built in Bedfordshire with widespread public support, but the BBC are having none of it.

Sep 1, 2025 • M. F. Robbins

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