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shell in cumbria
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TinaTheCheshirePussyCat | Report | 7 Apr 2005 21:55 |
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I have had a particularly hard and trying week at work and am totally exhausted, hence the brain is even more scrambled than usual, so pleas do not be too hard on me, but I DON'T UNDERSTAND ANY OF THIS! Please could someone explain this thread to me? Tina |
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Ken | Report | 7 Apr 2005 21:11 |
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How many times can you fold a winkle??????? |
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Geoff | Report | 7 Apr 2005 21:07 |
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Oooooooooooooh! This was forty-odd years ago. In those days we used to put becquerels on our fish and chips as an alternative to vinegar! |
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Bob | Report | 7 Apr 2005 20:59 |
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An article by Rob Edwards in the New Scientist (12.10.04) points to thousands of tonnes of shellfish from NW England and SW Scotland being likely to exceed newly proposed international safety limits for radioactivity in food. The UK Food Standards Agency (FSA) has warned such foods could be banned. Lobsters, cockles and scallops are so contaminated by Sellafield's plutonium sea discharges that they will breach limits due to be introduced by the United Nations in 2005. The UN's 'Codex Alimentarius Commission' - which brings together the World Health Organization and the Food and Agriculture Organisation - is proposing a safety limit for plutonium in food of one becquerel per kilogram (1Bq/kg). The aim is to reduce the long-term risk of getting cancer from eating these foods to below one in a million. The most recent Ministry report (Radioactivity in Food and the Environment, 2003 - RIFE8) shows plutonium contamination levels in Cumbria's whelks and cockles far in excess of the proposed limit. Whilst local West Cumbrian winkles are shown to average around 100 times greater than this limit, ------- those from St. Bees and Nethertown show significantly higher levels - over 200 times the proposed 1Bq/kg limit. - 260Bq/kg and 210 Bk/kg respectively. Figures for Morecambe Bay and the Solway area show that whilst cockles and whelks are less contaminated than their West Cumbrian counterparts, they too would be outlawed by the UN. Just thought you'd like to know:) |
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Geoff | Report | 7 Apr 2005 19:11 |
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The most common sort of shell on the Cumbrian coast is that of the common winkle. We used to gather buckets of them from the beach at Nethertown; locally, they are known as 'cuvvins' (spelt phonetically, as I have never seen it written). |
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Unknown | Report | 7 Apr 2005 17:42 |
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Not just newspaper, any kind of paper. nell |
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Shell | Report | 7 Apr 2005 17:39 |
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did you know a sheet of newspaper can't be folded more than eight times--- try it, if you dare. |
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