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F or anyone struggling with the recent UK Freeview TV channel changes, here's some relevant info. which might help you make sense of them.... I've just posted an updated list with the multiplex channel numbers for each TV channel included. These are for the Waltham (E. Midlands) transmitter. I've added instructions for getting the equivalent multiplex channel numbers info for your local transmitter. If interested, download the Excel spreadsheet from my website at: https://sites.google.com/view/vivweb01/home I have also added a 'Freeview' page to my website providing more info on UK digital TV and Radio reception. Hint: You can search each column of the spreadsheet via the filter buttons on the top row. Hope this helps,  Update 18.6.22 : Excel sheet revised yesterday - only minor changes, but if you haven't retuned your digital box or set recently, now would be a good time. Update 21.11.24 : Excel workbook revised with new channels for 2024. Happy viewing.... Ver...

  Those of us who were suspicious of Labour’s motives before the election will not have been surprised at Rachel Reeve’s first salvo in Labour’s ‘war on pensioners’ in August. The only thing that was a little unexpected was the belligerence of her delivery…and the readiness with which she was prepared to ‘let the cat out of the bag’ this early in her tenure. The pronounced ‘gasp’ from all sides of the Commons when she announced the move suggested that even her own colleagues were a tad surprised. Subsequent analysis has shown very little evidence of contrition on her part, although Starmer's 'happy band' of new MPs are getting it in the neck via their mailboxes. It was a virtual certainty that benefits would come under attack following the Tories election defeat. Labour, having successfully hemmed themselves in by their manifesto promise of no increases in NI, VAT or income tax rates, have already agreed several inflation-busting increases in public sector pay. With man...

  We've been hearing rather a lot about ‘Black Holes’ over the last 3 months or so….some would argue a bit too much. Sadly, there has been little attempt being made to explain their true origin or properties, and the focus instead has been on explaining how terrible things are likely to get for us all because of them. In an attempt to dispel some of the current UK.Gov-induced pre- (and now post- !) budget gloom and despondency, I’ll take a light-hearted look at these not-so-celestial phenomena and attempt to explain them for the interested reader. Firstly, do they resemble the cosmological feature of the same name ? In some ways, they would certainly appear to.... Physical black holes are frequently found at the centres of galaxies, and have such huge masses that their gravitational attraction sucks in everything in their vicinity, including light. They thus have a habit of getting progressively bigger…and darker, and present a distinct ‘event horizon’ beyond which nothing...