About Wrinehill

  This Autumn 3430 fresh water sites were tested by Water Blitz.   60% of these showed poor water quality with unacceptable levels of nutrient pollution. The four last Water Blitz investigations have shown that water quality throughout UK   was at its worst in England.   This Autumn’s tests revealed that 66% of the water sites tested had unacceptable levels of nutrient pollution. Tyrone in N Ireland, Mid Glamorgan in Wales and Scotland sites had the best water quality.   Trent Lower, Trent valley and Staffordshire were found to be the most polluted waterways, and fell within the cohort of the worst polluted waterways in UK.   Cambridgeshire had the lowest water health standards of all, with 91% of the sites tested showing poor ecological status. It was reported that in this blanket test, additional contaminants showed pollution from sewage discharges and agricultural run off.   Concentrations of   antibiotics which suggested that anti-microb...

  Over the years a language can adopt new words, often incorporating words from other languages and countries.   Some words take on new meanings. The media is often responsible for coining new words and phrases that become part of every day speech and writing, eventually. More recently, politics has greatly influenced both language and meaning.   We now have a language of spin where nothing is as it seems and often meanings we once relied upon have now become meaningless.   George Orwell saw it coming and accurately termed it ‘double speak’   ie when the meaning is reversed, and the true meaning is masked. This might have been the case in 1984. In the 21 st Century ‘Truth’ now has a contested meaning.   ‘Honesty’ and ‘morality’ are two others which have become hard to define.    ‘Reality’ no longer exists as a shared experience since it seems it can mean whatever anyone wants it to mean.   So these words, once social anchors are now mea...