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<strong>GLENFIELD</strong> <strong>GAZETTE</strong> <strong>MAY</strong> <strong>2024</strong><br />
Every<br />
year, I<br />
announce that<br />
I’m going to take<br />
up jogging, but<br />
then I don’t. It’s a<br />
running joke.<br />
Apparently,<br />
it’s rude to poke<br />
someone in the<br />
forehead and say<br />
“Skip Intro” when<br />
they start talking<br />
to you.<br />
I can cut a<br />
piece of wood<br />
in half just by<br />
looking at it. I saw<br />
it with my own<br />
eyes.<br />
Yesterday, I<br />
accidentally sent<br />
a naked picture of<br />
myself to everyone in my<br />
address book. Not only<br />
was it embarrassing but<br />
it cost a fortune in<br />
stamps.<br />
I went on<br />
a once-in-alifetime<br />
holiday.<br />
Never again.<br />
I like to<br />
shower like<br />
Frank Sinatra<br />
did, and so I<br />
face the vinyl<br />
curtain.<br />
Did you hear<br />
they arrested<br />
the devil? They<br />
got him on<br />
possession.<br />
BBC removes Laura Kuenssberg episode from<br />
iPlayer following complaint by Toby Young<br />
THE BBC has removed a recent episode of Sunday<br />
With Laura Kuenssberg from iPlayer following<br />
Toby Young’s complaint to the BBC about Chris<br />
Packham’s false and defamatory claim that the<br />
Daily Sceptic is “put together by a bunch of<br />
professionals with close affiliations to the fossil<br />
fuel industry”.<br />
It has also deleted the tweet posted by BBC Politics containing<br />
a clip in which he said this, which was re-tweeted by<br />
Kuenssberg.<br />
In a statement, the BBC said: “We received complaints from<br />
people unhappy Laura didn’t challenge a comment made by<br />
panel member Chris Packham regarding the Daily Sceptic.<br />
“During a discussion with the panel about various issues including climate change,<br />
broadcaster and conservationist Chris Packham claimed that the Daily Sceptic, whose editorin-chief<br />
is Toby Young, is ‘basically put together by a bunch of professionals with close<br />
affiliations to the fossil fuel industry’.<br />
“We acknowledge we would ideally have asked him to present his evidence on this, but in<br />
a fast-moving live programme it’s not always possible to pick up on every point made by our<br />
guests.<br />
“We’ve removed any posts on X with this part of the discussion.”<br />
The BBC has also removed the programme from iPlayer.<br />
Packham had been discussing climate change and arguing that recent floods in Dubai, plus<br />
high temperatures in the global south and wildfires, were a result of carbon emissions.<br />
Writing about the discussion in the Spectator, Toby Young said: “And to think the BBC<br />
launched a multi-million-pound department last year [BBC Verify] to ‘address the growing<br />
threat of disinformation’.”<br />
AI cameras coming to a store near you<br />
Morrisons installs AI cameras to<br />
boost availability and staff efficiency<br />
27<br />
AS REPORTED IN RETAIL <strong>GAZETTE</strong>,<br />
Morrisons is set to install thousands<br />
of AI-powered cameras across its UK<br />
stores by the end of the year, after<br />
trials found they boosted availability<br />
and increased staff efficiency.<br />
The grocer has become the first UK retailer to<br />
integrate US technology, teaming up with Seattlebased<br />
AI company Focal Systems.<br />
Chief executive Rami Baitiéh has focused on<br />
improving patchy availability as a key priority for his turnaround at the retailer, with the<br />
cameras able to provide real-time on-shelf data and automatically direct staff to where stocks<br />
are running low, The Grocer reports.<br />
The title understands Morrisons has seen significant rises in availability scores in stores<br />
where the technology has been tested, suggesting that it could free up staff to prioritise<br />
customer service, which is another crucial focus for Baitiéh.<br />
Last month the supermarket reported its strongest like-for-like sales growth in three years<br />
during its trading update for the first quarter.<br />
It saw like-for-like sales, excluding fuel, soar 4.6% from a 0.1% rise the year before. Total<br />
sales excluding fuel were up by 3.9% to £3.9bn.<br />
Useful Computer Tip<br />
How to copy anything that’s on your pc<br />
computer screen<br />
DID YOU KNOW that you can create an image of anything that appears on your<br />
computer screen by pressing the SHIFT key, the WINDOWS key and the S key at<br />
the same time?<br />
The screen will go a bit dim. Then if you drag the cursor (whilst pressing the mouse<br />
button) you can copy any or all of the screen to the Clipboard, and then paste it into a<br />
program or document of your choice. Give it a try.<br />
DO YOU have any<br />
useful computer tips<br />
that you’d like to<br />
share with readers of<br />
Glenfield Gazette?<br />
If so,please email<br />
details to info@<br />
glenfieldgazette.com<br />
and we’ll include a<br />
mention in a future<br />
issue. Thanks!<br />
I’m not saying I’m unlucky but when I went to DFS to buy a sofa, the sale had finished.