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A THOUGHT TO SPOIL THE SUNSHINE
What a glorious Easter weekend!
We assume that most of our readers will have enjoyed the holiday, whilst presumably complaining about how they were too hot … and about how the Easter eggs had melted!
Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales broke Easter Sunday records, with temperatures reaching 23°C; and on Monday England broke its Easter Monday record, with a high of 25.4°C in Cambridge.
Time was, of course, when – apart from making sure the old and vulnerable were safe – we could relax and simply enjoy the sunshine.
Nowadays, however, it is impossible to see the sunshine without also contemplating the dangers of Climate Change – a prospect brought home to us, not only by the Extinction Rebellion protestors in London over the weekend, but by the visit to Britain of 16-year-old Swedish climate-campaigner Greta Thunberg. Speaking to MPs and Party Leaders on Tuesday she painted a bleak picture of a looming future: “Around the year 2030 … we will be in a position where we set off an irreversible chain reaction beyond human control, that will most likely lead to the end of our civilisation as we know it. That is unless in that time, permanent and unprecedented changes in all aspects of society have taken place, including a reduction of CO2 emissions by at least 50%.”
And that is a thought to spoil the sunshine.
AYCLIFFE’S OWN DRAGON
Congratulations to Crafter’s Companion award-winning founder Sara Davies who, we understand, is to become the youngest-ever dragon on TV’s Dragon’s Den.
Sara has always been generous of her time and expertise helping other entrepreneurs and says: “hopefully I’ll be able to help some of the contestants to really take their businesses to the next level”.
It is an attitude typical of the Aycliffe Business Park Community, and all of Aycliffe wishes her well as she shows the rest of the world how we do things in Aycliffe!