About The Gap
The Gap is an ocean cliff on the South Head peninsula in eastern Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. The area, which faces the Tasman Sea, is located in the eastern suburb of Watsons Bay, in the Municipality of Woollahra, near South Head.
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... Realising the lack of reliable assistance dog information during college, at 16 I created an to fill The Gap and help others...
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... Its lifeboat station is set slightly back from The Gap - an area of dunes at a lower point between higher sandy cliffs...
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... Dan Hurd, the Hemsby Lifeboat coxswain, said: " It s not looking promising for Hemsby - north and south of the The Gap s been hit...
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... If anyone finds themselves lost for words - a rare affliction around here, it must be said - The Gap is instantly filled by asking " when do you reckon the election will be? " What will follow, in considerable detail, are a range of perfectly lucid, plausible, thought through hypotheses assembled on a massive mountain of guesswork...
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... In an effort to close The Gap, the candidates have kept up a gruelling campaign schedule, spending millions and making hundreds of stops across Iowa, in venues large and small, from churches and schools to farms and hotels...
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... Meanwhile, it s unlikely the BBC will try to fill The Gap in the schedule with a different motoring series...
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...By Joel GunterReporting from HebronFawaz Qafisha cracked his front door open a few inches, stuck his head through The Gap and squinted against the sun...
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... " But what we do bring to the table are innovative materials and technologies to bridge The Gap between luxury and sustainability, " he says...
Government bails out bus companies hold open doors
4. 3 billion journeys were made by bus in England in 2018-19
The government will cover the losses to bus companies in England in the course of The Next three months, in order that the services can be carried out yet.
The British bus industry, says passenger numbers have not, "fall of a cliff", since the government advises people against all non-essential travel.
causing the bus companies cut services.
But a new £167m Fund for bus companies to cover their costs on essential services, so that the key persons, such as NHS employees, to work.
Similar arrangements already exist in Scotland and Wales. The offer in Wales, which includes free bus travel for NHS employees.
hundreds of millions of pounds of measures to support local and Central government has been devoted to the British bus industry, to ensure that The Company can survive, the move by the coronavirus crisis and to keep a reduced bus network.
The latest figures from the Confederation of Passenger Transport (CPT), which showed for bus and coach companies in the UK, that passenger numbers fell by 75%, although the numbers of bus companies suggest the numbers are even lower.
Empty busesWith people advised to stay At Home , many buses are around, driven to the British, with no passengers on them all.
CPT-boss Graham Vidler Said the funding would "plug The Gap " between the cost of the operation routes and the income of The Company . He Said that would allow "critical travel, to proceed".
the state support is dependent on bus companies about half of their routes.
the operators have also agreed To Let the buses carry More Than 50% of its maximum capacity, to ensure that the social distancing is aboard possible.
Stagecoach Said on Friday that the local, regional bus companies currently in the sales at about 15% of the "normal levels".
Martin Griffiths, chief executive of Stagecoach, Said that in a "very difficult time", the new funding would mean "key, can the employees still get to and from work, and that the local authorities can still have access to other services", such as shopping for groceries or picking up medication.
Stagecoach added that his Megabus would be exposed to inter-city bus service in England and Wales, to Sunday, the 5. April.
Transport groups-Go-Ahead and FirstGroup also Said that she had seen the huge falls in bus use, with passenger numbers and turnover figures of over 90%.
Go Ahead CEO David Brown Said the government funding Package was "crucial" to ensure, could provide the essential services.
Transport Secretary Shapp Grant , stressed that people should remain "At Home , if possible." But he described the buses as "a lifeline for the people who need to travel for work or to buy food".
"It is absolutely essential that we do everything we can to help the sector to run," He Said .
Grant shapp's describing buses as a "lifeline" for those who need to make the necessary journeysthe Bus companies do not want to, temporarily, about half of their employees receive income below the government coronavirus job retention System.
in Front of the Corona-Virus outbreak, the government had earmarked funding to open bus lines, the cut had been, in the last few years. Some of that money is now spent running on the keep existing lines.
losses, The Company advises by bus since the government of the people against all but essential travel should screen under The Rescue .
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Source of news: bbc.com
