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On Behalf of Clifford Eley | Apr 27, 2011 | Head & Brain Injuries |
There are a number of injures an individual can sustain in a work-related accident. Head injuries, for example, can be caused by a slip and fall or falling debris. Getting medical treatment for a head injury can be expensive and costly; workers' compensation benefits can help an injured worker deal with some of those bills.
For one school bus driver, workers' compensation benefits would have allowed him to get a surgery after he suffered a possible brain injury in a job accident. But when the workers' compensation doctor refused to approve the surgery, the school bus driver sought another doctor's opinion. But that resulted in the immediate denial of workers' compensation and the school bus driver was subsequently fired by his employer for being unable to return to his driving job.
The driver had been an employee of the school district for four years. In the winter of 2010, he dropped off a bus load of students at school and was returning the vehicle to its storage facility when a tractor trailer made an illegal turn in front of him. Police reports put the truck driver at fault.
The bus driver had injuries to his head and neck, which produced constant headaches. An orthopedic surgeon allowed the driver to return to work in the spring, but with restrictions; the school district reassigned him to an internal job.
Though the orthopedic surgeon recommended surgery, a workers' compensation doctor would not agree. Dissatisfied with that opinion, the bus driver decided to speak with another orthopedic surgeon which resulted in his workers' compensation being dropped. Because the bus driver had used all of his sick days and was not covered by short-term disability, the school district fired the bus driver, claiming he could not perform his job.
The unemployed driver did have surgery, a bill he paid himself that put him over $40,000 in debt, but it's a loss he hopes to recoup. The driver is repealing the decision made by workers' compensation to end his benefits, a legal process that could take two years.
Source: Rapid City Journal online, "Injured bus driver fired after sick leave runs out," Lynn Taylor Rick, 24 April 2011

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By ERIN BANCO, ASHLEIGH FURLONG and LENNART PFAHLER/Politico
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When Covid-19 struck, the governments of the world weren't prepared.
From America to Europe to Asia, they veered from minimizing the threat to closing their borders in ill-fated attempts to quell a viral spread that soon enveloped the world. While the most powerful nations looked inward, four non-governmental global health organizations began making plans for a life-or-death struggle against a virus that would know no boundaries.
What followed was a steady, almost inexorable shift in power from the overwhelmed governments to a group of non-governmental organizations, according to a seven-month investigation by POLITICO journalists based in the U.S. and Europe and the German newspaper WELT. Armed with expertise, bolstered by contacts at the highest levels of Western nations and empowered by well-grooved relationships with drug makers, the four organizations took on roles often played by governments — but without the accountability of governments.
While nations were still debating the seriousness of the pandemic, the groups identified potential vaccine makers and targeted investments in the development of tests, treatments and shots. And they used their clout with the World Health Organization to help create an ambitious worldwide distribution plan for the dissemination of those Covid tools to needy nations, though it would ultimately fail to live up to its original promises.
The four organizations had worked together in the past, and three of them shared a common history. The largest and most powerful was the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, one of the largest philanthropies in the world. Then there was Gavi, the global vaccine organization that Gates helped to found to inoculate people in low-income nations, and the Wellcome Trust, a British research foundation with a multibillion dollar endowment that had worked with the Gates Foundation in previous years. Finally, there was the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations, or CEPI, the international vaccine research and development group that Gates and Wellcome both helped to create in 2017.
(Left to right) Gavi CEO Seth Berkley, former German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Gates Foundation Co-founder Bill Gates, and former President Donald Trump. | Getty Images and AP Photos
1 The four organizations have spent almost $10 billion on Covid since 2020 – the same amount as the leading U.S. agency tasked with fighting Covid abroad.
2 The organizations collectively gave $1.4 billion to the World Health Organization, where they helped create a critical initiative to distribute Covid-19 tools. That program failed to achieve its original benchmarks.
3 The organizations' leaders had unprecedented access to the highest levels of governments, spending at least $8.3 million to lobby lawmakers and officials in the U.S. and Europe.
4 Officials from the U.S., EU and representatives from the WHO rotated through these four organizations as employees, helping them solidify their political and financial connections in Washington and Brussels.
5 The leaders of the four organizations pledged to bridge the equity gap. However, during the worst waves of the pandemic, low-income countries were left without life-saving vaccines.
6 Leaders of three of the four organizations maintained that lifting intellectual property protections was not needed to increase vaccine supplies – which activists believed would have helped save lives.
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Civil society organizations active in poorer nations, including Doctors Without Borders, expressed discomfort with the notion that Western-dominated groups, staffed by elite teams of experts, would be helping guide life-and-death decisions affecting people in poorer nations. Those tensions only increased when the Gates Foundation opposed efforts to waive intellectual property rights, a move that critics saw as protecting the interests of pharmaceutical giants over people living poorer nations.
"What makes Bill Gates qualified to be giving advice and advising the U.S. government on where they should be putting the tremendous resources?" asked Kate Elder, senior vaccines policy adviser for the Doctors Without Borders' Access Campaign.
Bill Gates (center), shown above with Britain's Prince Charles (right) and Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau (left) in November 2021, co-founded one of the largest philanthropies in the world. | Pool Photo by Phil Noble
Soon, however, governments in the United States and Europe were offering their own crucial support to the four groups. The organizations spent at least $8.3 million lobbying the U.S. and E.U., according to an analysis of lobbying disclosures. When, this past spring, the leaders of CEPI sought to replenish the group's coffers, it spent $50,000 in part to advocate for $200 million in yearly funding from the U.S. government, according to filings and interviews with Capitol Hill staff.
The overtures worked. While President Joe Biden's efforts to obtain an additional $5 billion in funding for the administration's international work combatting the virus were floundering in Congress, he still managed to slip $500 million for CEPI into his budget proposal — $100 million a year for five years.
The money, which has yet to be approved, would help what most global health experts agree is an important cause, not only in humanitarian terms but in helping prevent poorer nations from becoming breeding grounds for new variants. And most believe that the Gates Foundation and the other groups deserve credit not only for their work to help save lives but for being almost the only game in town with sufficient scope to fight a pandemic.
But the groups' extensive politicking and financial might in the U.S. and Europe helped to enable them to direct the international response to the most important health event of the past century at a time when governments were caught flat-footed, according to the investigation.
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JAMES WILSON was born September 14, 1742 near St. Andrews, Scotland. He was educated at the universities of St. Andrews, Glasgow, and Edinburgh, initially studying to become a Presbyterian minister. However, in his last year of divinity school, Wilson's father died and young Wilson soon rejected the seminary and went to Edinburgh to study bookkeeping. He saw little future in Scotland and emigrated to America in 1765 and remained for some time in New York city. Early the next year, he accepted a position as Latin tutor at the College of Philadelphia (later part of the University of Pennsylvania) but almost immediately abandoned it to study law under John Dickinson, Philadelphia's leading lawyer at that time.
In 1768, the year after his admission to the Philadelphia bar, Wilson set up practice at Reading, Pa. Finally, two years later, he moved to the Scotch-Irish settlement of Carlisle, and in 1771 he married Rachel Bird. Wilson built a successful law practice and built an impressive estate. He specialized in land law and developed a broad clientele. On borrowed capital, he also began to speculate in land.
From the beginning, Wilson became involved in Revolutionary politics, contributing many essays to the controversy. In 1774 he took over chairmanship of the Carlisle committee of correspondence, attended the first provincial assembly, and completed his essay: Considerations on the Nature and Extent of the Legislative Authority of the British Parliament. One of its paragraphs read in part: "All men are by nature, equal and free. No one has a right to any authority over another without his consent…The consequence is, that the happiness of the society is the first law of every government." The essay circulated widely in England and America and established him as a Whig leader.
In 1775, Wilson was elected to both the provincial assembly and the Continental Congress, where he sat mainly on military and Indian affairs committees. Surprisingly, and despite his curiosity about the basis of "this power of Parliament over us," Wilson was not at first in favor of total independence for the colonies. He joined the moderates in Congress voting for a 3-week delay in considering Richard Henry Lee's resolution of June 7 for independence. Nevertheless, it was his vote that broke the deadlock of the Pennsylvania delegation. Wilson took an important part in the discussion of military and commercial questions, and opposed the views of southern delegates on questions of slavery and taxation. When hostilities began, Wilson was chosen colonel of a battalion of militia that was raised in Cumberland county, with which he took part in the New Jersey campaign of 1776.
Wilson's strenuous opposition to the Pennsylvania constitution of 1776, led to his removal from Congress the following year. He moved to Annapolis, Maryland for a year and practiced law during the winter of 1777-78 and then took up residence in Philadelphia.
Wilson closely identified with the aristocratic and conservative republican groups, multiplying his business interests, and accelerating his land speculation. He took a position as Advocate General for France in America (1779-83), dealing with commercial and maritime matters. Wilson made himself obnoxious to the democracy by denying the right of the town council to regulate the price of food, opposing the more liberal provisions of the constitution and he legally defended Loyalists and their sympathizers.
In the fall of 1779, during a period of inflation and food shortages, a mob which included many militiamen, set out to attack the conservative leadership. Wilson was a prime target. He and some 35 of his colleagues barricaded themselves in his home at Third and Walnut Streets, thereafter known as "Fort Wilson." During a brief skirmish, after many shots were fired, several people on both sides were killed or wounded and Wilson and his friends were rescued by the city troops. In 1782, by which time the conservatives had regained some of their power, Wilson was reelected to Congress, and he also served in the period 1785-87.
Wilson reached the apex of his career in the Constitutional Convention (1787), where his influence was probably second only to that of Madison. Rarely missing a session, he sat on the Committee of Detail and in many other ways applied his excellent knowledge of political theory to convention problems. Over six foot tall, imposing and bespectacled, Wilson was one of the early congresses greatest orators.
For his services, in 1789 President Washington named him as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, though Wilson expected to be appointed Chief Justice. He was chosen that same year as the first law professor at the College of Philadelphia. In 1793, as a widower with six children, he remarried to Hannah Gray; their one son died in infancy.
In 1797, to avoid arrest for debt, Wilson moved from Philadelphia to Burlington, New Jersey. The next year, apparently while on federal circuit court business, he arrived at Edenton, North Carolina, in a state of acute mental stress and was taken into the home of James Iredell, a fellow Supreme Court justice. Within a few months, on August 28, 1798, James Wilson died there.
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Who Got Gavle's Goat?
Gavle's first goat was built in 1966
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By Kendal Hemphill | Apr. 9, 2018 10:28 am
OPINION—My great grandfather emigrated from Sweden to America on a cattle boat, so I've always been kind of interested in Swedish stuff. I'm not excessive about it – I've never traveled to Sweden, or actually done any research or anything, but if I happen to see a news story about Sweden I might read it. Or not. No use going overboard.
But sometimes something happens in Sweden that piques my interest, especially if it involves animals, or Christmas, or incendiary devices. So a story sent to me a while back by my research department, Pat Wentworth, caught my eye. I intended to write about it back during Christmas, but I never got around to it. And if I wait until next Christmas I'll forget it again. So.
For over 50 years now the town of Gavle, Sweden has enjoyed a Christmas tradition. They build a Yule Goat in the middle of town, on Slottstorget Square. But not just any Yule Goat. Gavle doesn't do things halfway. Gavle's Yule Goat is made of straw, and stands about 40 feet tall. This is a serious Yule Goat, as Yule Goats go.
You may be wondering what a Yule Goat is, and why the residents of Gavle want one, or what a goat has to do with Christmas to begin with. Well, you can keep on wondering, because I have no idea. I do know that your top quality, extra large Yule Goats don't come cheap. Gavle spends about $250,000 every year building the goat. Well, they don't spend dollars, being Swedish. They spend kronors. But the city of Gavle drops about 2.3 million kronors on the goat, which comes out to a quarter of a million bucks. Obviously, the residents of Gavle place great value on their Yule Goat. Or else this is another case of city officials grossly misusing tax revenue.
Anyway, the Yule Goat, as intriguing as it is, isn't the story. The story is what happens to the Yule Goat every year. It seems Gavle can't protect its goat. Every year, someone destroys the goat. Usually it's burned, but not always. During this five-decade tradition, Gavle's Yule Goat has only survived through the season 14 times. Lately it usually goes up in smoke within a day or two of its completion.
I know what you're thinking. You're thinking, "Well, if they don't want their goat torched, they should put guards on it." Please try not to be so naïve. They do put guards on it. But someone always manages to attack the goat anyway. And since the goat is made of straw it's highly flammable. That's one of the downsides of building a goat out of straw. I guess.
After the 2016 Yule Goat was burned, a spokesperson for the goat's organizers, Maria Wallberg, said, "There will be a great, great sadness for Gavle residents, the Gavle goat, and for all of its fans over the world." So the folks in Gavle evidently don't want their goat burned, which is not surprising, being as how they spend some big bucks on it. But for some reason they expect to be able to keep it from being destroyed, which they don't seem to be good at. At all.
Gavle's first goat was built in 1966, and the guy in charge of it was Jorgen Gavlen. Jorgen's brother, Stig, suggested the huge goat, and Jorgen got the job. The funny thing is that Jorgen was the town's Fire Chief. Which seems kind of ironic. Or maybe prophetic.
Gavle's Yule Goat has gained international attention, mostly because of its repetitive misfortune. And the vandals have often tried to do their work in innovative ways. In 1976 a student drove a customized Volvo into the goat's rear legs, causing it to fall down. In 1998 someone burned the goat during a major blizzard. You think it's easy, burning a huge goat during a blizzard? Well, it's not. The 2005 goat was set ablaze with a flaming arrow, which was shot by some vandals wearing Santa Claus and gingerbread costumes. T'was the season.
An American artist named Lawrence Jones lit the 2001 goat, and he didn't even try to avoid apprehension. Police caught him standing beside the goat, watching it burn, with the incriminating lighter still in his hand. His story was that his Swedish friends had told him that torching the straw goat was a perfectly acceptable Swedish tradition. I guess it's not always a good idea to trust your Swedish friends.
The most interesting attempted goaticide occurred in 2010, when a couple of guys offered one of the guards a bribe of 50,000 kronors ($7,350) to make himself scarce, so they could airlift the goat out with a helicopter. They planned to haul it to Stureplan, in central Stockholm. I guess that was more of a goatknapping than goaticide. But still, impressive.
If I lived in Gavle I'd think seriously about abandoning a tradition that cost big bucks, especially if it never lasted more than a day or two before being conflagrated. It's either that or start a new Christmas tradition – the amazingly expensive Annual Yule Goat Bonfire Tradition.
Actually, I think they've already got a jump on that one, involuntarily . . .
Kendal Hemphill is an outdoor humor columnist and minister who always wears a gingerbread suit while shooting flaming arrows. Write to him at [email protected]
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ITANAGAR, July 16 - The total number of novel coronavirus cases in Arunachal Pradesh has risen to 491 after 29 more persons tested positive for COVID-19 on Wednesday.
Of the 29 new cases detected in four districts, 14 are from Namsai district, 12 from the Itanagar Capital Complex, two from Leparada and one from Lower Siang district, according to a bulletin issued by the Arunachal Pradesh Directorate of Health Services here last night.
Eleven out of the 12 positive cases in the Itanagar Capital Complex were detected outside quarantine facilities, while the COVID-19 cases of Namsai, Leparada and Lower Siang districts are those who had returned from outside and all were detected at quarantine centres. As per the bulletin, 28 cases are asymptomatic and one is symptomatic.
Itanagar continues to be the worst affected with 230 confirmed cases, including 205 active cases, 24 discharged and one casualty. Changlang stands second with 111 confirmed cases, including 33 active cases and 78 discharged cases, followed by Namsai at the third place with 38 cases, of which 30 are active cases and eight have already been discharged following their recovery.
Meanwhile, at least seven employees of the Naharlagun-based M/s Popu Enterprises, distributors of medical equipment and drugs in the capital region, have tested positive for COVID-19.


CURRENCY: The impact of yesterday's stunning NZ retail sales release should linger today, with underlying demand likely should the NZD dip closer to 0.8310. Today the NZD should remain within the familiar range.
RATES: Quiet night in kiwi overnight. We expect the NZ curve to open broadly unchanged.
CURRENCY: Another rocket under the NZD yesterday propelled it to a recent high overnight. With booster fuel running low it has subsequently eased back from the overnight highs.
GLOBAL MARKETS: Downbeat headlines on Greece contributed to ongoing negative market sentiment. The biggest moves were in FX markets, with the EUR weakening. Equities fell from highs earlier in the session, with the Euro Stoxx 50 up 0.2% in the European session. The S&P500 is up 0.3% from the previous session at the time of writing. Demand for safe-haven sovereign debt has seen bond yields ease in the US, Germany, UK, with bond yields moving higher in France, Italy, Spain and Greece. Iran tensions continue to provide support for crude oil prices (up 0.9%). Gold prices rose.
GREEK DEAL UNRAVELLING. With the EU delaying a decision on the ?130bn second Greek aid package till their February 20 meeting, tensions are building. Greek politicians remain unhappy at the stricter conditions being imposed, whereas Northern European politicians appear to be increasingly reluctant to provide additional funding. The dilemma for Eurozone parliaments (which include the increasingly obstinate German, Dutch and Finnish legislatures) that need to approve the funds is that they will not know for sure if Greece has lived up to its side of the bargain before they vote. While pledging that Europe's common currency will "not fail under any circumstances", German Finance Minister Schaeuble noted that the Eurozone is better prepared than in was in 2010 should a Greek default occur.
DATA TENSIONS. An improving US data run (with the US empire state back up to early 2010 levels, the NAHB survey of homebuilders sentiment rising by more than expected to its highest since 2007, and manufacturing production increasing 0.7% in January, confirms the US economy remains on the recovery path. However, Eurozone Q4 GDP fell 0.3% q/q, with contractions in Italy (-0.7% q/q), and Germany (-0.2% q/q) particularly notable. A better than expected Eurozone trade surplus was driven by a slump in imports - not a good sign for the health of domestic demand. The Greek economy contracted 7% in 2011, and Portugal by 2.7% y/y, which makes stabilising (or even cutting) debt to GDP extremely difficult. To avoid a debt trap the denominator needs to be your friend, but in this instance it is not.
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Demand for the NZD was driven through resistance levels. The brief blip above 0.84USD overnight was short-lived but remains a possible target again today although market participants may well be on the alert for the NZ Budget Policy Statement at 11am today that should calm some enthusiasm.
Australian January employment data due this afternoon may well see this cross push higher towards key resistance at 0.7830. Getting past this level would require a reasonable fall in the full time employment component of the release.
Concerns around the Greek PSI deal have ensured that the EUR remains pinned to support levels against the USD. Relative NZD strength has seen new records set on this cross with little likelihood of a retracement today.
NZDJPY: Tick off another target?
Having attained the 66.11 target overnight this cross should remain a lot calmer today. The NZD has done most of the work in attaining this target and now markets will spend a day resting.
The break of resistance at 0.5305 led to an explosive move overnight. Today things will calm considerably for this cross.


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Q: Gradient vector and regular surfaces I'm looking through my notes and I don't fully understand what this is telling me. What is the purpose of the gradient vector here and why is $S^2$ regular because of the following? I'm looking for the big picture and any underlying propositions or theorems that might be related.

Let $S^2$ = {$(x, y, z) \in \Bbb{R}^3$ | $x^2 + y^2 + z^2 = 1$} be the unit sphere. Then we can write $S^2$ = {$(x, y, z) \in \Bbb{R}^3$ | $f(x,y,z) = 0$} where $f$ : $\Bbb{R}^3 \to \Bbb{R}$ : $f(x,y,z) = (x^2 + y^2 + z^2-1)^2$.
Then...
$\triangledown f(x,y,z) = (\frac{∂f}{∂x}, \frac{∂f}{∂y}, \frac{∂f}{∂z})$ = 2($x^2 + y^2 + z^2 - 1$)($2x$, $2y$, $2z$)
$= (0)(2x, 2y, 2z)$ for all $(x, y, z) \in S^2$
$= (0, 0, 0)$ for all $(x, y, z) \in S^2$
$S^2$ = {$(x, y, z) \in \Bbb{R}^3$ | $g(x, y, z) = 0$} where $g(x, y, z)$ = $x^2 + y^2 + z^2 - 1$.
$\triangledown g(x, y, z) = (2x, 2y, 2z) = (0, 0, 0)$ if and only if $(x, y, z) = (0, 0, 0)$ but $(0, 0, 0) \notin S^2$. Therefore, $S^2$ is regular by our proposition.

A: The relevant theorem is the level set theorem which in this special case will say if  $f: \mathbb{R}^3 \to \mathbb{R}$ is a smooth map and for all $p \in f^{-1}(c)$ we have $Df(p) \not = \textbf{0}$ then $f^{-1}(c)$ is a regular surface.

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Change4Life takes root across the UK
By Gaelle Walker2010-12-10T00:00:00+00:00
Convenience stores will play an even greater role in improving public health from next spring, when the Change 4 Life healthy eating scheme will be active in stores in every region of the country.
The scheme, which now has more than 200 stores signed up, aims to boost shoppers' intake of fresh fruit and vegetables by making them easier and more attractive to buy.
Qualifying Change4Life stores, which are predominantly in deprived areas, receive eye-catching free pos material and, in some cases, government funding for new fresh produce chillers.
Speaking at the launch of the Health White Paper, health secretary Andrew Lansley said that with the right ranges and signage, retailers could play a key role in helping to "nudge" people into adopting healthier behaviours.
The scheme also provided healthy profits for retailers, too, with many participating stores reporting fruit and veg sales increases of up to 50%, he added.
The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs is now looking to extend the scheme to cover healthy foods that contain fruit and vegetables.
Hours after unveiling the White Paper Lansley paid a visit to a Spar store in Norwich to mark the scheme's rollout in Norfolk, Cambridgeshire and Essex. Some 11 stores across the East of England have just signed up to the scheme, with many more expected to join in the coming months.
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Lansley added: "The rollout is great news for local communities, boosting customers' health as well as shops' profits."
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Q: JPA skip persisting a specific property when persisting the Entity I have a property in an Entity that I would like JPA to not persist.
I don't want to use @Transient as I would still like the property to be populated during READ. But the property should not be written when persisting the Entity. Is it possible?
Here is the property I would like not to be persisted by read
 @OneToOne(cascade = CascadeType.ALL, fetch = FetchType.EAGER)
 @JoinColumn(name = "userId", referencedColumnName = "id", insertable = false, updatable = false)
 private UserBare user;

A: So it sounds like you want a read-only attribute, but I'm guessing you might have tried this already and did not like the results?
@Column(insertable = false, updatable = false)
private String myProperty;

A: Don't use cascade = CascadeType.ALL. If you want specific use other types except ALL, MERGE and PERSIST.


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Revealed: the once popular cars vanishing from our roads
July 19, 2016 /5 Comments/in Features /by
In the long term, popular cars are the victims of their own success. Huge sales figures and a swollen market leads to depressed values and a spiralling decline into oblivion. What's cool today might be so incredibly dated tomorrow. Allow us to take you on a drive down memory lane as we remember a selection of popular cars, predominantly from the 80s and 90s, that are seemingly vanishing from our roads. The data has been sourced from the DVLA and refers to cars actually taxed and on the road. There will be others languishing in garages and back gardens up and down the land.
Number on the road: 3,857
Compared to some of the other cars on this list, the number of surviving Vauxhall Cavaliers is relatively healthy. But when you consider that some 1.8 million Cavaliers were sold across a 20-year period, you can appreciate why this is, relatively speaking, such a tiny amount. The majority of the survivors will be the later Mk3 models.
There was a time when, even if your dad didn't drive a Cortina, you could almost guarantee that your best mate's dad did. Over the course of 20 years, the Ford Cortina pulled up a chair and established itself as part of the British furniture. There was a Cortina for all: from a basic 'my first company car' special to a blistering Lotus version.
Nearly 3.5 million Ford Sierras were built in the 1980s and early 1990s, but it didn't get off to the best of starts. The space-age styling sent buyers fleeing to the Vauxhall Cavalier by way of a protest. But once the nation had come to terms with the 'oddball' looks, the Sierra became a firm favourite for fleet buyers, families and fans of fast Fords.
Number on the road: 367
The Giugiaro-penned Fiat Uno was once a familiar sight on the roads of Britain. This should come as no surprise given that 8.8 million Unos were produced in its lifetime. Today, fewer than 400 are still enjoying active service on UK roads. Sadly, a mere two-dozen are the wonderful Turbo versions.
The Favorit was Skoda's first front-wheel-drive car and the last one it produced before the takeover by Volkswagen. At the time it was arguably the best car to emerge from Eastern Europe, which is why close to 50,000 of them found homes in the UK. It was replaced by the Felicia, which in turn became the Fabia.
Austin/Rover Montego (including MG)
Once upon a time, the Austin Montego was the choice of the patriotic sales rep. Based on the Maestro hatchback, the Montego was actually pretty good. Today, not enough people care about it, which is why fewer than 200 remain on the road.
Citroen CX
In 2014, the Citroen CX celebrated its 40th anniversary. First unveiled at the 1974 Paris Motor Show, the Citroen CX would go on to sell 1.2 million units across the globe. There are fewer than 150 on Britain's roads today.
Toyota Space Cruiser
Number on the road: 76
The Toyota Space Cruiser boldly ventured where few other vehicles had been before – into the fledgling MPV sector. Back in the day, people carriers were rather crude, van-based affairs, but they did help to establish a hugely successful sector.
The Alfa Romeo 33 arrived a decade after the launch of the Alfasud – the car it was designed to replaced. Sadly, despite early promise, the 33 failed to capture the magic of the 'Sud, although just under 900,000 were built before production ceased in 1994.
Number on the road: 1
One?! Just one SEAT Malaga? Can it be true? Let us know.
All information is based on the DVLA data as of June 2016. Numbers do not include cars registered with the DVLA as off the road. Numbers should only be taken as a guide.
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