I'm a maths tutor based in Birmingham, UK. I tutor online and face-to-face in the Midlands area (GCSE/A-Level). I'm a Dip CII with the Chartered Insurance Institute. Experienced SAS and R programmer who worked as an underwriter and pricing manager for RSA Insurance. I make data visualisations and animations in R. Drummer for Bangford and The Skuttlers. We play almost exclusively at the Three Tuns in Sutton Coldfield.
I remember this case well I was a teenager at the time and it shocked the whole town as violent crimes like that didn't happen in Redditch let alone violent murders. I remember seeing him on the news with West Mercia Police appealing for witnesses and describing how he cradled her as she was dying. The guy exhibited all the signs of a classic psychopath. Showing no sign of any real emotional responses or empathy. Just flat emotionless matter of fact. It was an explosion of anger and hatred. A very frenzied and sustained attack with 57 stab wounds as I recall which suggests a guy with an intense hatred of women or a warped sexuality that requires violence. Since he stalked her he most likely had an abnormal twisted sexual arousal that requires inflicting extreme violence and murdering. Quite a daring attack in daylight in middle of car park given he must have been covered in blood and couldn't have hoped to flee the scene. I remember the knife was recovered. He'd thrown it over the carpark down onto a building roof and think the police got a finger print on it. He ended up in Broadmoor a secure prison facility for the criminally insane didn't he? Never to be released where he belongs. The other frenzied murder we had in Redditch was Tracey Andrews who stabbed her boyfriend to death. The same as Stuart Hopkins appeared on TV at first and was not initially considered a suspect by police until later on. I remember seeing Andrews a lot around the Kingfisher Shopping Centre before the murder. She's out of prison now and even had cosmetic surgery in prison. Way back in late 19th century was the very first murder (and only murder of a police officer) very close to Redditch at Icknield Street a stones throw from St Leonards (Beoley) Church. PC John Davis was stabbed to death by a man stealing sheep in the early hours of the morning who was later caught and hanged for it. It happened very close to the cross roads between Beoley village and Redditch along Icknield Street leading to Wythall is said to be haunted by the ghost of PC John Davis. There's a few sightings of him with his unusual 1880's police uniform which one driver mistook for fancy dress custom when stopping to offering him a lift only for him to vanish. PC John Davies grave is at St Leonard's Church, Beoley and his original Constable badge and a memorial display is inside the church which itself is rather creepy. I always felt a presence in there as a young lad.
Enjoying your videos, we’re doing a similar itinerary next summer but swapping Alicante for Cagliari. We sailed on Britannia this year but to Norway, we really liked Britannia. We ate in the dining rooms which were included in the cruise and a few extra cost restaurants. The buffet was always heaving so we gave it a miss.
Thank you so much Sarah! That's a good swap. The castle in Alicante was great, but the walk from the ship to the beach wasn't good (some discarded bottles etc, bit of a mess). It was the only place we visited that felt like that. We discovered the dining room breakfast on the penultimate morning and realised we'd made a mistake going to the buffet every day. Enjoyed the Beach Hut and Sindhu too. Hope you have a great cruise next summer :-))
I hope your dad gets better Alexia and I hope you are doing way better than being with. I am Jay station because you deserve something better than putting up with somebody like I am JayStation’s bull crap you really didn’t deserve to be humiliated on RU-vid and also JayStation shouldn’t of said that you got hit by a drunk driver And made all these fake rumors about you. I’m just happy that you’re alive and everything‘s OK because when I saw that video before I have never felt my heart has been ripped out of my chest by a fake ass person like I am Jay station fuck that dude he’s a dried up piece of turd Why would anybody like I JayStation be on RU-vid anyways you should’ve got demonetized a long time ago
Hello Marcia, the Bounder stone is now on display in St Margaret's Churchyard. The location of the rest of the stones is still unknown. However, we did find a great article explaining what was written on all of the other stones.
Interesting! Are you happy to spill the beans here? People who have travelled with them in the past say that the customer service is not what it used to be. Really interested to know about your experience. Thanks for sharing :-))
We had a man and his wife taken off Britannia on the evening of the second day and flown to Spain, makes the need for adequate insurance even more important.
@@Bangford I treat Sophie love and respect, I have been a gentleman towards her, and I had no idea how people made fun of her on Gogglebox, it is not OK to do that. She makes me smile with happiness, and her content is super family friendly and she is a fantastic mother. Thank you for this video.
Santa Barbara Castle is incredible and I still get the heebigeebies at the shot of the sea from the top of the castle because I know there are these sheer walls with a sloping bit at the top. There's another incredible castle a few km in from Benidorm, Castillo de Guadalest, it's got it's own museum of torture. Also, there is the Fonts de l'Algar, a waterfall, made famous for the Timotei shampoo advert. Fantastic cruise you've had, almost tempting me to take one hehe 😊
The thought of those sheer walls is giving me the heebigeebies now! It's funny, I was much more worried about being in the long tunnel waiting 15 minutes or so for the lift! They really love their castles and cannons round there don't they. Thanks for the info, I would love to check out the waterfall. Thanks for watching. The cruise was a great adventure, we got to see a lot of different places in a short time. It was good knowing that you could go back to the same cabin every night and not have to find new places to stay. Cheers, Toby.
It's a fabulous ship, I would love to go on another cruise on Britannia. It was such a great adventure and the response to the videos has been overwhelming. Thank you for your comment. Cheers, Toby.
Thank you so much, I really appreciate it! I'm so glad that you felt like you were experiencing it yourself. I think I have two or three more videos to upload in this series. I hope your maths theories are progressing well. I'm looking forward to getting back to some programming and tutoring soon :-)) Cheers, Toby.
Thank you for your comment. I hope this isn't true. I made contact with Elizabeth and we exchanged a couple of letters. She kindly reviewed my article before it was published. I found her a few months after this video was published. It was a pretty amazing experience.
Thanks for these videos. They give a different perspective to many of the other cruise videos which concentrate on dining and the odd excursion. It's nice to see the ship going along and watching the waves and surrounding traffic. I'm travelling on Britannia next year and your videos told me more about actual sailing than many others. Thank you.
Wow! Thank you so much for your comment, this really made my day. You're welcome, I'm loving working through these videos and I have a few more to edit. I hope you have a great cruise on Britannia, we loved it! Cheers, Toby.
Thank you so much for letting me know! We really enjoyed the cruise and it's been great re-living so many of these experiences while editing the videos. Cheers, Toby.
We found on Britannia that you could actually tuck the towels into the sides of the sunbeds, between the framework and the plastic coverings. Also found them to be the most comfortable sunbeds that I've come across on holiday.👍
Oh wow, thank you Steve. Absolutely did not spot this! Hope I get chance to try that out one day. Used the sunbeds quite a bit and found that I could just about trap the towel between the sunbed and the rail but it wasn't perfect when it was really windy :-))
That's really interesting! I had some concerns about it before we left. I was worried it would be difficult to sleep if it was moving around too much. That was fine, but the room felt slightly claustrophobic and it was weird knowing that you couldn't go anywhere other than on the (giant) ship. As I have an insurance background, I tend to assume the worst and thought the ship was "probably" going to sink at some point. When we got back, I found out that the same ship was caught in a storm in Majorca last August, broke free and hit an oil tanker. So glad I didn't know that before!!!
Aha! Didn't know you'd been on cruises, but I should have guessed. Yeah, it was brilliant. I couldn't believe how giant the ship was and how spacious it was inside. Really loved the view from the top deck too. Where have you been on your cruises?
I know this happened again last month and I figured out where they moved them, now it's happening again and I can't find my recurring meetings anywhere
They've change it again haven't they! On mine, it has moved to the panel in the middle/right of the PC screen. Sometimes you have to scroll down to see recurring meetings. I use the same meeting for every tutorial so it would be a nightmare to lose this again. Have you managed to find this?
Thank you Gail! Thanks for inviting us, it was a brilliant night. Sorry to hear you've not been feeling well, it was really cold up there wasn't it. Cheers, Toby.
Yes, I've built models in R before, using GLMs, XGBOOST and neural nets. Also built a basic neural net in R, following a tutorial. I really enjoy data science work (used to manage an insurance pricing team in London). The main reason for switching to Python is to make use of CUDA, because it can do maths on the GPU. I would really like to figure out how to make Mandelbrot plots using the GPU as they're 50 times faster! The best tutorials assume you want to make large language models, so I'm going along with that for now :-))
I love this! It's very cool. I've watched it several times. It's crucial to understand how we communicate with banks safely. It also illustrates how number theory and cryptography intertwine, shaping our everyday lives.
Thank you so much, I really appreciate it :-)) I love number theory and can't believe this process, it's so cool. Thank you for watching it multiple times, the video did really well after that. I'm going to play around with this a bit more today.
The intuitive reason is that the probability is a result of having a loop of 51or larger. In other words, it's no longer about the prisoners; it's about the arrangement of the boxes. It was wrong to say that the probability becomes dependent. We need 100 prisoners to guarantee that if there is a loop above 50, they will lose. You could have 1,000 prisoners and still have a 1/3 probability. That is the trick of the video. In other words, we don't calculate the prisoners' loss probability; we are calculating the probability of a loop being 51 or higher versus a loop being 50 or less.
Thank you G! Hope you're well. I will post link to video on BUFOG. I think it's possible that it might have been a distant helicopter which I couldn't hear but, apart from that, I have no idea what this is. I'm sure it's not a satellite or a plane. Pleased I managed to get it on video. I'm always looking at that bit of sky and have seen a few odd things over the years.
Thank you Loz. I've seen the ISS before. One time, I saw the shuttle chasing the ISS across space, it was incredible :-)) In my experience, objects in orbit are smaller and less bright than this. Have seen a few satellites over Cannock Chase in the last few years, got one on video once too. They look small, sharp and very fast/steady.
Thank you! Yes, absolutely amazing. Their response is really interesting, something about "a whole fleet of them..." I've heard some interesting theories but I still think it's a mystery. Also been following David Grusch and his revelations which are similar to Bob Lazar. I don't know what to think of it all but it's fun!
@@Bangford same here. David claims are credible, but need 1st hand whistleblowers to come forward. The only choices are 1 made up, 2 US tech they want to protect but unlikely, they wouldn’t put harms way in real-time testing, 3 an adversary or 4 not from earth.
I got to know Nick Drake through a friend who went away to uni and brought back a copy of Heaven In A Wild Flower, the compilation. We used to listen to the tape in his car.
