Interesting Facts

A speech drafted by British civil servants in 1983, was supposed to be read out in the event of nuclear war. (The Queen would have delivered the speech if Britain found itself on the verge of nuclear war.  So, we would have all felt much, much better as we evaporated in a cloud of nuclear dust. I'm very glad she never had to use it.)

The UK government has admitted that nearly 370 farms in Britain are still restricted in the way they use land and rear sheep because of radioactive fallout from the Chernobyl nuclear power station accident 23 years ago. (Dawn Primarolo, the minister for health, revealed 369 farms and 190,000 sheep were affected. In 1986, approximately 9,700 farms and 4,225,000 sheep were under restriction across the United Kingdom. So much for a cleaner, greener future.)