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British nuclear reprocessing plant Sellafield said it had detected “high levels of radioactivity at one of its on-site monitors and was operating at reduced staffing levels.

Relax.

Rory O’Neill (no really) of Sellafield assures us:

“One of the 20-odd site perimeter monitors that we have is registering above normal levels of radiation. It’s not a level that would trigger any kind of activity on or off site. It’s below levels that would demand us to do sheltering or anything like that.”

Above normal?

Sheltering??

RUN!

UK’s Sellafield detects elevated levels of radioactivity (Reuters)

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Thanks Martco

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Today marks the 30th anniversary of the death of 15-year-old schoolgirl Ann Lovett who died shortly after giving birth alone to a baby boy beside a grotto in Granard, Co. Longford.

Filmmaker Leo de Boer’s short 1987 documentary ‘For Ann Lovett 1968-1984’ covers the last day of Ann’s life.

The Ann Lovett letters (Roisin Ingle, Irish Times)

Ann Lovett: Silence That Will Never be Broken (Caroline O’Doherty, Irish Examiner)

Previously: Forgetting Ann Lovett

When Women Were Women

In The Grotto

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Colonel Meow, the most famous long haired frowning cat on the Internet has died.

His human, Slave Beast, posted the following notice via Tumblr yesterday:

Colonel Meow passed away yesterday evening. I will post more about the details when I’ve had a few days to grieve. Thank you so much for your understanding, Minions. Your love and support has meant the world to us both.

Mmf.

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