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You can get local FM transmitters. USB ones are quite common (i.e. for turning computer audio output into FM), and there are ones that can take input through a 3.5mm jack too.

So in theory you could take any cheap DAB radio, plug in an FM transmitter, and then have all your FM radios tuned into that.

Presuming that's an AI summary, but it only covers the bit that's not blocked by the paywall. It's one of those that has the first couple of paragraphs visible and then blocks the remainder, and that's just summarised those first few paragraphs. The meat of it, where presumably it tells us about the shenanigans from the local councils and the details of the "policy failures and internal conflicts", remains a mystery.

Paywalled, unfortunately...

Would you say that he is in fact licensed to thrill?

That's public transport for you. You pay for one ticket, you get one seat; you don't get a whole row to yourself just because you don't like other people.

Pay for first class if you want more space and a seat on your own.

For a brief moment I parsed that headline as saying that the woodland was illegally felled in order to make it a nature reserve.

What do they actually mean by "model identifier"? Serial number? IMEI?

Europe is less a place than it is a state of mind.

Arianespace has fallen behind, but they're not out of the picture. They're still by far the largest competitor to SpaceX, and they're aiming for their 7th generation Ariane to be a reusable design.

Arianespace is an Airbus and Safran subsidiary, so it's not like they don't have the engineering oomph behind them.

Worth noting that these were changes implemented by the previous Tory government. The new Labour government was more or less happy to leave it to ride, but now it's been successfully challenged in court they're happy to let it fall by the wayside.

The "long story short" on this project: Swindon station is currently surrounded by an absurd amount of flat surface carparking. The majority owned by Network Rail, some owned by the Council, and some bits in private ownership. There's also a major brownfield site (some listed buildings which were part of the original GWR factories) owned by the Council, and a massive derelict tower block owned by Network Rail.

The project aim is to build a new multi storey carpark north of the railway line, along with a new station entrance (currently it is only accessible from the south), and then redevelop all the surface carparks into something more productive.

UKRI are already based there, and Bath Uni, Oxford Uni, and the Royal Agriculture Uni all have outposts there too, so the hope is that they and other universities could be persuaded to take a significant chunk of the new real estate. Oxford Brookes Uni and a performing arts college called Wilkes Academy both also have campuses elsewhere in town and there's hope that both of them may consider taking new campuses there.

Swindon's town centre is exceptionally dire, so a lot of hopes are pinned on this as being a catalyst for some regeneration.

Sure, but that applies to the UK too. London has a higher cost of living than Los Angeles; averages being averages, this is weighed against lots of cheaper places to live (with massive unemployment and stagnated economics).