Category Archives: uk

Spot the difference

By 6000 | 6000 | February 19, 2009

This one will test you. Two stories, remarkably similar, but… not. A driver found guilty of killing another motorist as she used her mobile phone to send a string of text messages and make calls has been jailed. Phillipa Curtis, from Suffolk, crashed into Victoria McBryde’s parked car at 70mph on the A40 near Wheatley [...]

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Visa woes

By 6000 | 6000 | February 10, 2009

Between them, the UK Government, the Department of Home Affairs in South Africa and the British Consulate in Pretoria have conspired against me. I’m not sure in what proportions the blame should be meted out, but I’m going to have a go. In more ways than one.  First off, the UK Government. For once, I think they [...]

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How many nurses?

By 6000 | 6000 | February 9, 2009

My plans to post an entry each day in February seem to have been somewhat derailed by a HTTP 500 INTERNAL SERVER ERROR, which is denying me access to 6000.co.za and also to the dashboard and inner workings of the site where the wonderful milky prose you come to lap up each day is created [...]

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SA’s UK Drug Hell!

By 6000 | 6000 | January 21, 2009

Or should that be UK’s SA Drug Hell? SAA: powered by weed (allegedly) As fifteen flight and cabin crew from the daily SAA Jo’burg to Heathrow flight were arrested after 50kg of cannabis was found on board, South African rugby player Matt Stevens, now living and “working” in Bath, UK, failed a drugs test and looks [...]

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Heathrow alternatives – the Runwet

By 6000 | 6000 | January 16, 2009

On a day when the big news in the UK was the Government’s long overdue approval for a third runway at Heathrow airport, a pilot in New York went out of his way (literally) to show how Gordon Brown et al could have saved £9 billion by simply utilising the River Thames as an alternative landing [...]

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