The political question and scenario time!

In rei publicae tempus quaestio, the political question and scenario time!
Here are 55  hypothetical political moral questions, events and dilemmas on national affairs that are based on would hit any English, French, Dutch and\or Irish regime between 1993 and 2016. The nation portrayed is a small and totally fictitious example nation, as are the settlements and the hypothetical situations with in it.

Question 1


The 450 year old Barton Castle of Barton Town is falling down and needs an expensive restoration job done to it very soon or it will face closure on safety grounds.

The town is in the geographic center of the 540 mile wide by 750 mile long island. The 50 year old ceremonial plaque dedicated to this was in the castles' hightower, but has now been stolen by some one. Police have no suspects and no one has owned up to it.

Question 2


Barton West Station was opened in 145 years ago and then rebuilt 45 and 125 years ago. The passenger numbers fell consistently over the next 100 years. The station closed 10 years ago and was demolished 2 years ago. It is said by a local planning expert that it would be worth reopening after the new housing estate opens in 3 years time. It will cost a lot to rebuild the station. Currently a bus connects the current homes with local bus networks. Trains pass straight through on the journey between Beresford North and Barton Central.

Question 3


Barton East Station opened in 125 years ago and was rebuilt 85 and 35 years ago. The passenger numbers fell consistently over the next 20 years and it closed last year. It is said by a local planning expert that it would be worth reopening after the new housing estate opens in 3 years time. It won't cost much to renovate the station. Currently a bus connects the current homes with local bus networks. Trains pass straight through on the journey between Beresford North and Barton Central.

Question 4


The Barton Vale is rich in valuable mineral resources including coal, ironstone, clay, gypsum/anhydite, sand & gravel, limestone, building stone and silica sand. The exploitation of these resources have taken place for several centuries. There were several individual coalfields and mines in the Barton Vale from which several recently closed deep mines and an operational 6 year old open cast coal has been won.

Barton Colliery closed last year because it was mined out (all viable coal removed by the mining operation). Many of the miners have worked hire all their lives and can't or won't retain. The pit also directly created 75% of the town's jobs and indirectly created 5% more, mostly at the local coking works. The rest of the jobs come from the local 5 supermarkets, 2 major DIY shops, several dozen corner shops, 3 garages, the railway station, the bus depot, a open cast coal mine, a clay pit, a ironstone mine, a stone quarry and a post office sorting depot.

Question 5


Ben Shaw was a leading agricultural workers' rights activist. He lead a major farm and orchard workers' combined strike 134 years ago over getting a better purchasing price from food factories for their produce. His farm is still in use by one of his descendants and the main building are listed as an historic monument.

Someone sent the current owner a envelope with a dead rat and a note supporting the local biscuit factory in it on last year's anniversary of the strike, Police have no suspects and no one has owned up to it.

Question 6


Ben Shaw was a leading agricultural workers' rights activist. He lead a major farm and orchard workers' combined strike 134 years ago over getting a better purchasing price from food factories for their produce.

Ben Shaw Point in central Badgerton, a satellite town 5 miles south of Barton was where he spent most of his time leading the strike from his tent. It was open fields back then, but was built on 80 years ago.

The 60 year old ceremonial plaque dedicated to this was at Ben Shaw Point, but has now been stolen by some one. Police have no suspects and no one has owned up to it.

Question 7


Hugh's Bridge is 10 miles northwest of Barton, in the village of Milton. A line leads from Barton to the local stone quarry 2 miles west of it and then Ironford cement works after another 60 miles to the south west. Speeders and joyriders regularly crash in to it. Some of the yobs were either drunk or high on high on synthetic cannabinoids like K2/Spice.

Doctors and firefighters are fed up with dealing with the horrific crashes, locals fear being crashed in to, cops don't like the dangerous pursuits of the louts, United Island Aggregates hates the disruption to there busses caused by the near constant bridge closures and the Bristowe Island Railways Board don't like constantly having to close the bridge for repairs.

Question 8


Barton North Station opened in 135 years ago and was rebuilt 125 years ago. The passenger numbers fell consistently over the next 60 years. The station closed 40 years ago and was demolished 20 years ago. It is said by a local planning expert that it would be worth reopening after the new housing estate and shopping mall open in 2 years time. It will cost a lot to rebuild the station and provide a nearby carpark. Currently a bus connects the current homes with local bus networks. Trains pass straight through on the journey between Draketown and Barton Central.

Question 9
Barton Central Station after it's resent electrification and teenage deaths. Electrification of the Beresford to Ramsdale main line through Hepworth and Barton was completed in time for scheduled electric train service to commence between Beresford, Hepworth and Barton late last year and the section from Barton to Roachlake and Ramsdale will be finished early next year.

A fool did not install the security fences and cameras correctly and several teenage graffiti artists have been electrocuted on the line this year.

Rail and construction industry rumor has it that the horrific project overspend was caused by corporate greed and incompetence of a monumental scale! Police are investigating and have named several suspects including a top civil servant at the Ministry of Transport.

Question 1


Ironford's town center is now choking with traffic due to the closure of the fiscally unviable  local bus and train services last year. A near by local brick factory has expanded last year leading to more trucks and cars going their. The locals want traffic numbers cut soon. The rail lobby want the station reopened, but that would be costly since it's been demolished. The roads lobby want a bypass, but several local farmers don't want it running through there farm land.

Question 1


The early 15th-century packhorse bridge over the River Hepworth, the oldest bridge on the island, is a few hundred yards from the village of that name. This year's flood and both the floods 3 and 6 years ago badly undermined it's foundations and it may colapse in another flood. Locals do want it made safe, but don't want it demolished since it's the only road access across the river several farms have got. The farmers also want some minor flood defenses around it to defend there field from the worst of any future floods.

Question 2


Hepworth's main road is little used by locals. The locals recently became terrified that a school kid or the crossing attendant would get run down and killed by speeders and joyriders from Brockley Borough and Bushford Borough, who think they can street Hepworth like a racetrack. There are calls from everyone for speed cameras, shickianes and\or speed bumps to stop the hooligans from driving so fast.

Question 3


Hepworth Station was upgraded and the line electrified year. Electrification of the Beresford to Ramsdale main line through Hepworth and Barton was completed in time for scheduled electric train service to commence between Beresford, Hepworth and Barton late last year and the section from Barton  to Roachlake and Ramsdale will be finished early next year.

A fool did not install the toilets correctly and they are now blocked and stinky.

Rail and construction industry rumor has it that the horrific project overspend was caused by corporate greed and incompetence of a monumental scale! Police are investigating and have named several suspects including a top civil servant at the Ministry of Transport.

Question 1


The cost of renting stall space at the capital's Meadow St. Friday Market went up drastically for the 3rd time in a row. Brockley Borough Council say they need the money to maintain the area when the Market is away, but the market stall traders are saying it will put most of them out of business due to increased costs.

Question 2


The the traders of the Meadow St. Friday Market's over-spill in both Kemp Street and Warwick Street, directly south of Bristowe City Center, has reported that the old buildings are dangerous and decrepit. The shop owners and\or residents are fed up with the near constant 14 year old battle with rising damp and the resultant moldy wall-paper. They also complain that rents and\or local business rates are also to high. Brockley Borough Council say they have too little money to upgrade and the maintain the 120 year old buildings, that were last renovated 60 years ago, prior to the rise of a series of notoriously wasteful or tight fisted councils.

Question 3


The The 30 year old motorway is getting congested in peak times, NOx air pollution is bad in peak times and some potholes are occurring in the tarmac surfacing to. The public, economists, ecologists, transport firms and transportation experts have several ideas including: a road toll charge, promoting the use of electric cars, adding an extra lane (with some difficulty due to limited roadside space) in boat directions, a park and ride bus service and banning diesel fuel for use in cars.

Everyone agrees that he NOx levels are causing the last 5 years' rise in asthma cases and must be reduced fast. Air pollution from road traffic is very high and asthma levels are very heavy. In areas of high motor vehicle traffic, like Bristowe City, the amount of nitrogen oxides emitted into the atmosphere as air pollution can be significant and a major contributor to making acid rain, ground level ozone, particulates and the gray summer haze that comes down over the Bristowe City center at times. particulate matter (also called particle pollution) is mixture of solid particles and liquid droplets found in the air and it is commonplace in the local air.

Question 4


Both the busy Bristowe Roundabout and the 175 year old bronze statue of King Robert Swain the 3rd inside it are tourist spot for the entire planet. A blackmailer has said to Bristowe Borough Council and Bristowe City Police that if the government doesn't pay him £10,000,000 with in a month, he will blow it up and kill as many tourists as he can! Bristowe City Police said no arrests have been made so far and their inquiries continue.

Everyone agrees that he NOx levels are causing the last 5 years' rise in asthma cases and must be reduced fast. Air pollution from road traffic is very high and asthma levels are very heavy. In areas of high motor vehicle traffic, like Bristowe City, the amount of nitrogen oxides emitted into the atmosphere as air pollution can be significant and a major contributor to making acid rain, ground level ozone, particulates and the gray summer haze that comes down over the Bristowe City center at times. particulate matter (also called particle pollution) is mixture of solid particles and liquid droplets found in the air and it is commonplace in the local air.

Question 5


The rundown Benton Estate, 5 miles south of Bristowe City Center, is 175 years old and was regularly refurbished by Bushford Borough Council until 40 years ago. To save money they sold it to an existing private landlord, but his son took over 20 years ago and spent much of his earnings on lots of alcohol, gambling at slot machines and high-end watches.

Rising house maintenance bills, falling rent returns (many are now so poor they are legally rent exempt), the landlord's life style and the 5 year regional economic downturn have taken their toll and the estate has missed it's previous 10 yearly renovation and probably will miss it's next one later this year. The major storm that hit the estate 3 years ago dislodged many tiles and drains, but the landlord ignored and now several lofts are beginning to leak badly. Many of the Benton Estate's residents are also fed up with the near constant 12 year old battle with rising damp and the resultant moldy wall-paper.

Everyone agrees that he NOx levels are causing the last 7 years' rise in asthma cases and must be reduced fast. Air pollution from road traffic is very high and asthma levels are very heavy. In areas of high motor vehicle traffic, like Bristowe City, the amount of nitrogen oxides emitted into the atmosphere as air pollution can be significant and a major contributor to making acid rain, ground level ozone, particulates and the gray summer haze that comes down over the Bristowe City center at times. particulate matter (also called particle pollution) is mixture of solid particles and liquid droplets found in the air and it is commonplace in the local air.

Question 6


Beresford Town, 12 miles west of Bristowe City Center is getting crowded. House prices are now very high after 20 years of sharp price and population growth. It was a small town for 300 years, the a commuter town for the next 50 years and a borough of Bristowe City for the last 30 years. Building spaces are now low and the roads are becoming congested, but there are some spaces for a new bus station and shopping center on the site of an old car factory.

Everyone agrees that he NOx levels are causing the last 4 years' rise in asthma cases and must be reduced fast. Air pollution from road traffic is high and asthma levels are heavy. In areas of high motor vehicle traffic, like Beresford Town, the amount of nitrogen oxides emitted into the atmosphere as air pollution can be significant and a major contributor to making acid rain, ground level ozone, particulates and the gray summer haze that comes down over the Bristowe City center at times. particulate matter (also called particle pollution) is mixture of solid particles and liquid droplets found in the air and it is commonplace in the local air.

Question 7


The 175 year old local park is popular and used by may kids, but druggies have used it as a shooting-up place for several years now. The cops are concerned by the local drug crisis and the local parents are concerned by the dropped needles. Beresford District Council installed some new spring riders, a replacement slide a CCTV camera and 2 lamp posts last year. Sadly, the slide was destroyed by a pick-axe wilding yob last month, like the old one was 2 years ago. He was fined £400 for it by the local magistrates court.

Question 8


Corrupt banks are stealing company money and the bosses pay bonuses are ridiculous high. They nearly collapsed the state's Bristow Island Central Bank and the privately held Islander Bank last year.

Insufficient car parking spaces, urban traffic levels and ultra high housing\office prices are all a major issues as well.

Everyone agrees that he NOx levels are causing the last 5 years' rise in asthma cases and must be reduced fast. Air pollution from road traffic is very high and asthma levels are very heavy. In areas of high motor vehicle traffic, like Bristowe City, the amount of nitrogen oxides emitted into the atmosphere as air pollution can be significant and a major contributor to making acid rain, ground level ozone, particulates and the gray summer haze that comes down over the Bristowe City center at times. particulate matter (also called particle pollution) is mixture of solid particles and liquid droplets found in the air and it is commonplace in the local air.

Question 9


Trafic has slowly built up over the last 20 years on Drake street in Draketown, 7.5 miles north of Bristowe City Centre, due to incrased housing and supermarkets causing more road traffic. Everyone agrees that he NOx levels are causing the last 5 years' rise in asthma cases and must be reduced fast. Air pollution from road traffic is very high and asthma levels are very heavy. In areas of high motor vehicle traffic, like Bristowe City, the amount of nitrogen oxides emitted into the atmosphere as air pollution can be significant and a major contributor to making acid rain, ground level ozone, particulates and the gray summer haze that comes down over the Bristowe City center at times. particulate matter (also called particle pollution) is mixture of solid particles and liquid droplets found in the air and it is commonplace in the local air. Drake Borough Council is also proposing a low level road congestion charge on non electric cars both to deter motorists and increase there revenue.

Question 10


The poor quality of the 50 year old housing is causing it to fall apart since the firm that made them did a poor job, leading to the 6 recent floorboard collapses. Those houses on Blake Estate. were condemned to be demolished 70 years before they should have. Many of Blake Estate residents are also fed up with the near constant 30 year old battle with rising damp and the resultant moldy wall-paper.

The alkali–silica reaction (ASR), more commonly known as "concrete cancer", is a swelling reaction that occurs over time in concrete between the highly alkaline cement paste and the reactive non-crystalline (amorphous) silica found in many common aggregates, given sufficient moisture. It has been demolishing the interior walls of the low rises and tower block for the last 5 years (including the decade old moldy wall paper).

Everyone agrees that he NOx levels are causing the last 4 years' rise in asthma cases and must be reduced fast. Air pollution from road traffic is very high and asthma levels are very heavy. In areas of high motor vehicle traffic, like Bristowe City, the amount of nitrogen oxides emitted into the atmosphere as air pollution can be significant and a major contributor to making acid rain, ground level ozone, particulates and the gray summer haze that comes down over the Bristowe City center at times. particulate matter (also called particle pollution) is mixture of solid particles and liquid droplets found in the air and it is commonplace in the local air. Springford Borough Council is also proposing a low level road congestion charge on non electric cars both to deter motorists and increase there revenue.

Question 11


Brockley South Station is in a dodgy state and most of it's usage is in the rush hour. The closed old station freight buildings are still present on the left. On the right is the Lidl supermarket on the site of the former railway station sidings that served the ceramics factory and former cement works. The ceramics factory started using road transport 20 years ago and the former cement works closed 28 years ago and is now a major  printworks. The 40 year old ice rink is still in site and open.

A fast-food shop will open next year in the now closed station building. A new area of platform will open were the grassed over peace of old platform next to Lidl will have several flower pots and a litter bib put in it when the area is reopened to public use next month.

Question 12


The poor quality of the 70 year old housing is causing it to fall apart since the firm that made them did a poor job, leading to the 5 recent roofing collapses. Those houses on Winston St. were condemned to be demolished 60 years before they should have. Many of Winston St.'s residents are also fed up with the near constant 50 year old battle with rising damp and the resultant moldy wall-paper.

Everyone agrees that he NOx levels are causing the last 7 years' rise in asthma cases and must be reduced fast. Air pollution from road traffic is very high and asthma levels are very heavy. In areas of high motor vehicle traffic, like Bristowe City, the amount of nitrogen oxides emitted into the atmosphere as air pollution can be significant and a major contributor to making acid rain, ground level ozone, particulates and the gray summer haze that comes down over the Bristowe City center at times. particulate matter (also called particle pollution) is mixture of solid particles and liquid droplets found in the air and it is commonplace in the local air.

Question 13


Blake Street joins Winston Street and there is an over full skip in it. It's been there for several years after the workmen finished working on a house restoration left the site! Some of the fiberglass wool blows out of it at times, it smells of stagnant water and rats enjoy eating food scraps that get chucked in it by passers by. The firm that owned it have recently dined it was this or that they did the job despite official records and several local witnesses saying that it is theirs!

Question 1


A broken sewage outflow pipe Brock's Beach on the south eastern Brock Peninsula has lead to a algae bloom crisis this year. It broke 3 years ago and spews sewage 50 ft, not 100 ft out to sea. A sewage outflow pipe is a cheap but dirty solution for struggling sanitation boards. For earlier and fast expanding towns, it's the only solution, unless you transport excess sewage to neighboring towns in the region for processing. The first pipe was 175 years ago, but was scrapped 150 years ago. The current pipe is 150 years old and should have been fixed 50 years ago, but was not.

Question 2


The River Blackwater estuary passes the Blacklakes Industrial Estate and the Brereton to Blacklakes M1 motorway flyover (10 miles south on the Benton Estate and 3 miles north of the coastline).

The water is reportedly full of industrial water pollution after it came in contact with toxic chemicals, heavy metals, organic sewage sludge, and oil. There is much concern after all the fish died off earlier this year. Several seagulls died off soon afterwards and duck populations have fallen from 20 to 8 over the last 10 years. Everyone agrees that better technology is being developed for disposal of waste and recycling as much polluted water in the industries as possible.

Question 3


Beachwood Station, 22 miles south west of Bristow City Center. Most of its usage is in the rush hour. Several stabbings have occurred hear late at night and the CCTV cameras are largely broken due to lack of maintenance. The town of Beachwood and passengers that use the station are frightened of going there at night now. A security guard and cop now patrol the station at night and will continue to do so for the next 6 months. Beachwood District Police said no arrests have been made so far and their enquiries continue.

Question 1


The northern town of Baile an Abhainn is dependent on road transport to connect it to the rest of the nation's rural north and north western village of Baile an Talaimh. Not many people have cars in the town or outlying settlements. It is dependent on the railways for connections to the western town of Tref y Dyffryn. The railway firm says the rout to the Tref y Dyffryn is unviable without a major state subsidy due to poor passenger numbers, so the number of trains will fall from 10x 6 carriage trains a day to 5x 5 carriage trains on weekdays only. The locals say they fear the station will close in time and that they will be cut off.

Question 2


The northern village of Baile an Talaimh is dependent on road transport to connect it to the rest of the nation's rural north and both the northern towns of Baile an Abhainn and Sheamustown. Not many people have cars in the village or the rural north. The local bus service says the rout to Baile an Abhainn is nonviable without a major state subsidy due to poor passenger numbers, so it will be withdrawn soon. The locals say they will be cut off and the village will die. Baile an Abhainn County Council say that local taxes must go up slightly to pay for the subsiding of the routes that will be closed otherwise.

Question 3


The popular out of town shopping center that opened last year has lead to a massive increase in the Sheamustown's traffic, especially on northern town's High Street. The air pollution by NOx (a generic term for the nitrogen oxides that are most relevant for air pollution, namely nitric oxide (NO) and nitrogen dioxide (NO 2).) is higher than before and several people have been run over during heavy traffic, rather than just the odd nocturnal drunkard and miscreant child as before. The locals would like to keep the shopping center and would also like to see more level crossings on the main urban roads.

Question 4


A construction permit covering sand and gravel was issued last month for a sight 1 mile west of the northern town of Ramston. Aggregate MN, Direct Aggregate Supplies Ltd. and Lafarge S.A. will operate the site.

People's concerns are relating to the noise, dust, extra traffic and the cutting down of several ~100 year old trees. Economists say it will create jobs for the next 20 to 30 years. Ecologists say it will be ruin the environment for the next 50 to 60 years. The roads of are very potholed to due to years of bad weather and council neglect. The roads are often full of 3 to 4 ft heavy snow drifts in January and February.

Question 5
The 100 year old Kashmiri community in the McDonald Hills, 50 miles north of Baile an Abhainn has lived in harmony until now. Someone has shot several cattle over the last fortnight. The Kashmiris say it is not one of them or the local Scots. Baile an Abhainn County Police said no arrests have been made so far and their enquiries continue.

Question 1


The canal in the eastern village of De Velden is silting up badly with mud from upstream and has not been dredged out for 20 years. Environmentalists want the local newts and swans left in peace, but local residents want it dredged out to avoid flooding during extremely wet weather, like that which hit the area 3 and 6 years ago. The floods of 3 year ago led to 100 of the 175 residents having their homes flooded. The 5 local farms and the local cheese factory were also badly flooded. The flooding lasted for 3 weeks and the damage was fixed after 6 months.

Question 2


The polders of the New Groningen Region are flooding due to rising sea levels and stormier weather. The locals want the flood barriers, storm drains and channels upgraded, especially after the flooding of De Velden 3 and 6 years ago. The process would be very costly and moderately environmentally damaging in the short run, but the floods would be severely abated.

Question 3


BSE has be found in some cattle in the farming communities around the small market town of De Polderlanden. The farmers agree to have their infected cattle put down and burnt, are concerned by the fiscal impact. They are demanding heavy financial compensation to avoid bankruptcy due to the lost stock and productivity. Farming produces 90% of the town's jobs.

Question 1


The place is a popular seaside resort, but summer night life is getting ruined by rising knife crime. It is at a 12 year high and may break the 20 year high this year if it continues to rise at current rates. The public say drugs, drunkenness, joblessness and youth center closures are blighting the town. Social experts say it's because of obesity, joblessness and youth center closures. The police and teachers both blame drugs, lack of moral fiber and youth center closures. Doctors are desperate to stop the influx of stabbed, hopelessly drunk and dangerously high people. Local takeaway and souvenir shop owners are desperate to stop the nocturnal stabbings that on several occasions spilled over into their shops.

Sadly, another teenage male was stabbed last night. He was wounded in the neck outside the local college and is now critically ill in the hospital. Witnesses told the Tref y Dyffryn Recorder the ethnically Welsh victim was chased and attacked in the road outside the town's technical college by a mob of about 6 to 8 ethnically English teenagers of mixed gender. The victim was brought into the nearby library for treatment after the attack. Tref y Dyffryn County Police said no arrests have been made so far and their enquiries continue.

Question 1


Revolting farmers dumped hundreds of tonnes of manure and rotten vegetables on the streets of the southern town of Ville de François, as well as spraying a council water treatment office with slurry and trying to burn down the town hall as part of a major day of protest. The town was paralysed and traffic disrupted as the farmers on verge of bankruptcy vented their anger. The Frtench Province produces a lot of farm produce, so the country has a surplus and thousands of tonnes of beef, pork, fruit and milk are destroyed each year. A Fiscal experts say end both the state's subsidies and over production, trade experts say sell it to new emerging markets in other continents and the farmer's union say around 10% of livestock farms are at risk of closure, putting some 40,000 jobs at risk.

Question 2


French anti-immigration protesters in Ville de François. They do not want more Kashmiris, Ethiopian, Sudanese, South Sudanese or Somalis in the nation. The Africans have arrived both legally and illegally over the last 10 year, mostly in the last 2 years. Local shops are under stress due to high demand and theft by those who can't pay. The Dutch, English, Cornish and Scots also fear a rise in thire numbers. The Kashmiri community has been around for 100 years and some French, Scots, Dutch and English hate it as well.

Question 3


Over the last few years, ethnic English drunks are repeatedly roaming the streets of the southern village Ville du Sud town center during the summer nights. The ethnic French Villagers are upset by the trails of vomit and empty beer cans. They also dislike the intermittent illegal rave parties held in the nearby farmers' fields.

Many of the drunks and party goers regard the local culture as pathetic and the vast majority don't know any Metropolitan or Normaund French; they mostly speak Standard British English or Tyke. About a third of the villagers now Standard British English and a few also know Scots Gaelic and or Tyke.

Question 1


7.5 miles to the east of the capital and 22 miles east of Bristowe City Center, is the satellite village of Frith. It has a population of 150. There is reports that the locals oppose the new 20 commuter owned houses built with in eye sight of the village. They fear the extra traffic and loss of local character, but planning experts say it's in a good location for road travel via the nearby A-road and the builders say there is room for 12 more houses later on.

Question 2


The 28 year old Riverend Court Building in the eastern city of Fordham has had some of exterior cladding fell off in a storm during last year and more appears to becoming loose this year. Fordham City Council say it's non-hazardous and only of aesthetic value, but locals say that their rooms feel colder and some cladding might fall on to passing people.

The 6 year old phone mast on top has been blamed for 2 cancers in the building last year. The old one was connected with no cancers, since non hit the building in that time or before. The town has an average of 12 cases a year for the last 10 years, including this year.

Question 3


The River Blackwater in the eastern city of Fordham is silting up badly with mud from upstream and is regularly used as a makeshift dump by both of the local TV factories. The river was canalised 56 years ago. A closed garage still leaks some residual petrol in to the water 5 years after closure and botched demolition. The river has also not been dredged out for 30 years and stinks badly in the summer. The local duck population has imploded from 25 to 9 in the last 2 years. Trout used to swim in the river, but they left 20 years ago after a chemical spill from the local paint works.

Environmentalists want it cleaned out, the junk removed and have it made environmentally friendly. The local residents want it dredged out to avoid flooding during extremely wet weather, like that which hit the area 3 and 6 years ago. The flooding lasted for 3 weeks and the damage was fixed after 6 months. Local firms still want to use it as an informal dump. Everyone agrees the heavy summer stench of stagnant water, leaked petrol, excess natural sulfur compounds and excess natural methane gas needs to be dealt with quickly. Fordamshire County Council say they can not afford to clean it out for the foreseeable future.

Question 4


The River Blackwater in the satellite town of Brereton, 10 miles north eastern of Bristowe City Centre, is blocking up badly with crap since is regularly used as a makeshift dump by both the local furniture factory and several locals. The river was canalised 60 years ago. It has also not been cleaned out out for 20 years and stinks badly in the summer. Late night drunks regularly piss and puke in the river to. The local duck population has imploded from 22 to 8 in the last 2 years.

Environmentalists want it cleaned out, the junk removed and have it made environmentally friendly. The local residents want it it cleaned out to avoid flooding during extremely wet and stormy weather, like that which hit the area 3 and 6 years ago. The flooding lasted for 3 weeks and the damage was fixed after 8 months. The local drunks still want to use it as a toilet and vomitorium. Local some local people and the local furniture firm still want to use it as an informal dump. Everyone agrees the heavy summer stench of stagnant water, human urine, excess natural sulfur compounds and excess natural methane gas needs to be dealt with quickly. Fordamshire County Council and Brereton District Council both say they can not afford to clean it out for the foreseeable future and blame each other for the failure to look after the river in recent years.

Everyone agrees that he NOx levels are causing the last 4 years' rise in asthma cases and must be reduced fast. Air pollution from road traffic is high and asthma levels are heavy. In areas of high motor vehicle traffic, like Beresford Town, the amount of nitrogen oxides emitted into the atmosphere as air pollution can be significant and a major contributor to making acid rain, ground level ozone, particulates and the gray summer haze that comes down over the Bristowe City center at times. particulate matter (also called particle pollution) is mixture of solid particles and liquid droplets found in the air and it is commonplace in the local air.

Question 1


The central town of Ramsdale is a major transport hub that connects Berresford to all places north of it except for Baile an Abhainn, Sheamustown and Baile an Talaimh. It has witnessed growing car theft, the closure of both the local automotive firms and the closure of a local primary school. The town's economy is in sharp decline and poverty has risen over the last 5 year. Most of the population is bilingual in Standard British English and Tyke.

Ramsdale Borough Council says the fall in local business taxes coming in and rise in people who are claiming rent exemption has hit thire finances badly. The council's fiscal shortfall has lead to the closure several of council run youth clubs last year. They want some sort of subsidy from central government to avoid either a painful high rise in local taxation the closure of the local council run old folks home. The lack of jobs and youth facilities has been indirectly linked by many, including Ramsdale County police, Tref y Dyffryn County Police and the Ramsdale gazette to the recent upswing in bored teenagers getting drunk and causing trouble in the city centre. Some social commentators and priests say that it is lack of parental discipline that has caused the youth to go astray and say that Ramsdale' inner city joy riding has been endemic for the last 12 years.

Question 2


The commuter village of Roachlake, 2 miles north of Ramsdale, is having a mini-crime wave. Ramsdale County police and the Ramsdale Gazette are concerned that mostly young youths are doing a lot of shoplifting and car theft. The Ramsdale Gazette has raised concerned that many are from broken homes, jobless, bored shitless and\or often high on synthetic cannabinoid like K2/Spice. Some social commentators and priests say that it is lack of parental discipline that has caused the youth to go astray and say that inner city joyriding in residential street in Roachlake has been endemic for the last 12 years.

Question 3


Barlow's town center is now choking with traffic due to the closure of the fiscally inviable train services last year. A near by local brick factory and stone quarry have expanded last year leading to more trucks and cars going their. The locals want traffic numbers cut soon. The rail lobby want the station reopened, but that would be costly since it's been demolished. The roads lobby want a bypass, but several local farmers don't want it running through there farm land. Some locals would like to see more busses in their town.

Question 1


A small pipe bomb was found in Trescothick's cathedral church of St Augustine by a cleaner. No one has confessed and no one is suspected by Kernow County Police. Who planted it, when it was planted, how the bomber got in and why it was made is still unknown!

Question 2


This years Trescothick Harbour Festival will be canceled due to a rapid increase in the population of phytoplankton or microalgae leading to an algal bloom or algae bloom. Also, some algae secrete poisons into the water. The production of natural toxins such as brevetoxins and ichthyotoxins are harmful to marine life. It has been deemed by port authorities to be toxic due to a fish die-off due to the alge's neurotoxins and the mass being so thick that is blocking out the sunlight from other organisms, and deplete oxygen levels in the water.

Trescothick's coastline has had trouble with it for several years now, but it has now boomed due to the mixture unusually hot weather, higher than average farm fertilizer runoff entering rivers that drain into the and the sinking of a bulk carry a few miles out to sea during a storm early last year (luckily no one died or got injured on the ship). It carried cars, TVs, writing paper, anhydrous ammonia (NH3) fertilizer, planks, ping-pong balls and ammonium nitrate (NH4NO3) fertilizer.

Question 1


The ever growing heaps of dropped litter on Drax's Beach on the south western Drax Peninsula has lead to a seagull, herring gull and pigeon infestation crisis. The number of birds went up from 100 to 1,000 over the last 5 years. No one likes the disruptive, greedy and hyper-violent infestation!

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