Some good news from York...

This from the York Press...

A RETIRED museum worker had a special message for a police community support officer – thank you for saving my life. 

Ray Towell, 66, had a heart attack and stopped breathing as he went to catch a bus home from Blossom Street, in York. 

But PCSO Lee Johnson was passing on patrol and immediately started emergency first aid, as did paramedic Craig Barley, who also happened to be passing. 

“It is just amazing to me I am still here,” said Mr Towell, of Moor Lane, York, a former curator at the National Railway Museum. “How lucky can you be? I am extremely lucky that the right people were there at the right time. “What they did –it means my life to me.”

After being rushed to the cardiac unit at Leeds General Infirmary by ambulance, he made a full recovery...

Matey! 

HS2 failure rewarded by success!

This from ITV News...

The company behind the new high speed rail link through Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire is at the centre of a major new row after it emerged it is up for a top award for its consultation on the scheme, despite failing to consider hundreds of responses due to technical errors. 

No doubt the DfT team behind the Incredibly Expensive Procurement are already counting their plaudits from the Public Accounts Committee?