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What it’s about: “Widespread looting of cheese,” is not a phrase we thought we’d hear outside of our spec script for a gritty Wallace And Gromit reboot, but gouda-related violence marred an annual outdoor market in Nottingham, England in 1766 in what became known as the Great Cheese Riot. Advertisement Biggest controversy: Then as now, people are not happy about price gouging. Winning the Seven Years’ War three years previous had come at a cost of alienating Great Britain from the other European powers, and inflaming tensions in its colonies in India and America. At home, England saw food shortages and rising prices, which came to a head in Nottingham’s annual Goose Fair (more on that later), when merchants from Lincolnshire bought wheels of cheese, intending to sell them in their own city well above their already inflated prices. Locals objected to large quantities of food leaving their hungry borough, and when a group of “rude lads” attacked the merc ....
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MPs highlight broker concerns in Parliament debate subscribe A A The Member for Fisher says brokers back the bill repealing responsible lending laws, while the Opposition Whip told the house mortgage brokers oppose it. Speaking in the House of Representatives during the debate for the second reading of the National Consumer Credit Protection Amendment (Supporting Economic Recovery) Bill 2020 yesterday (25 February), politicians continue to voice the pros and cons of the ramifications of the proposed changes. Among those speaking in the house was Liberal MP for Fisher, Andrew Wallace, who outlined that the repeal of responsible lending laws was needed to free up credit and “replace the increasingly complex guidance provided by regulators and to get the flow of credit moving again”. ....
Resolution to recognize Eaker AFB nationally passes in Senate Bill to designate national Cold War center By Monae Stevens | February 25, 2021 at 6:55 PM CST - Updated February 25 at 7:52 PM The alert base in Mississippi County was the only publicly accessible and fully intact Alert 7 Facility and Weapons Storage Facility in the United States. Senator Wallace says it will help people near and far understand Blytheville’s significant role in the Cold War. “It’s history,” Senator Wallace said. “We don’t realize, but at one time, and I’m glad I didn’t know this when I was younger, we were number nine or number ten on the nuclear target list for the Soviet Union there on Blytheville Air Force Base because of the said base that was there.” ....