prepares to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the world s first passenger railway, i ve decided to only use trains made here. horn honks along the way, i ll cross some stunning landscapes and meet people whose lives have been transformed by the great british railway. horn blows i wanted to bring us down this slimyjetty here cos i wanted to show off portsmouth harbour station. as you come in, you feel like you re on land, but actually, it s an old pier, and this used to function as a freight boat pier in the mid 1800s. i m starting my rail adventure on england s southern coastline, passing through london, the midlands, into the yorkshire dales, then crossing scotland, up through the highlands, and hopefully making it to thurso, the most northerly railway station in the uk. sometimes find hermit crabs. there isn t a hermit crab in this one, though. tannoy: please buy a ticket before getting onto a train. i as luck would have it, i happened to be wearing the specific badge to t
use trains made here. my name is francis bourgeois and i ve taken on the challenge to travel from the southern coast of england. did your ears pop? ..to the northern coast of scotland. we re just past the highest point of the uk network. along the way, i ll cross some stunning landscapes and meet people whose lives have been transformed by the great british railway. horn blows. i wanted to bring us down this slimy jetty here cos i wanted to show off portsmouth harbour station. as you come in, you feel like you re on land, but actually, it s an old pier, and this used to function as a freight boat pier in the mid 1800s. i m starting my rail adventure on england s southern coastline, passing through london, the midlands, into the yorkshire dales, then crossing scotland, up through the highlands, and hopefully making it to thurso, the most northerly railway station in the uk. sometimes find hermit crabs. there isn t a hermit crab in this one, though. tannoy: please buy a ticket
up through the highlands, and hopefully making it to thurso, the most northerly railway station in the uk. sometimes find hermit crabs. there isn t a hermit crab in this one, though. tannoy: please buy a ticket before getting onto a train. i as luck would have it, i happened to be wearing the specific badge to the train we re travelling on 166210. i actually used to get this train to see my parents when i used to live in portsmouth. so, yeah, i m really excited. and all the better doing it on br rolling stock, too. essentially, that means trains made in the uk in the era of british rail up to the mid 90s, before the network was privatised. tickets, please. hiya. hello. ta. thank you. this country invented the railway, and, once, we used to design and build locomotives that were sent across the world, slashing journey times between great cities. but as the uk s manufacturing industries declined, railway companies here found it cheaper to import trains from overseas. yeah, 7
the fiance brian laundrie drawn from the official media accounts. with all of the focus on laundrie s role, now, he s gone into hiding. all of this comes as the wall street journal is publishing a facebook investigation. one of its stories focuses on how its instagram app is harmful to teenage girl. the journal reports facebook will be studying this with three years with focus groups and diaries on the topic but it hasn t made the research public or done anything to fix it. among the finding that the journal reports from the internal documents and slides 32% of teen girls said that when they felt bad about their bodies, instagram made them feel worse. 1 in 5 teens says instagram makes them feel worse about themselves, among teens who reported suicidal thoughts, 13% of british users, 6% of european users traced the desire to kill themselves. this is even more alarming once you comprehend the number of instagram users involved. more than 40% 22 years old and younger. 22 milli
attack that everyone feared finally happened. president biden spoke to the country thursday, his expression of empathy and loss but he didn t duck responsibility for the failure to provide enough force to execute a safe evacuation. my position is would any been able to a safe evacuation for everybody? and the journal wrote what a position for the u.s. to be in, relying on the enemy that has spent years trying to kill americans. as we re committed to leaving, our chief concern is isis-k. therefore, we ve partnered up with the idea that based on the idea that the enemy of the enemy is my friend. and the report concludes saying the botched withdrawal and jihadists on the attack and only in afghanistan. well, i hope there s not truth in that, say that there is, what was the alternative? staying longer? defying the agreement? putting more american lives at risk? then there s the l.a. times the attacks are not the work of the taliban nor are the attacs a sign of failure by the bi