Olly Benson
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Olly Benson
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NHS Englander. Ex VCSE and BBC.

Mainly interested in public participation and engagement, so stuff around people, volunteering, building communities, health, power, digital, media etc.

Husband | 🚸 Dad x2 | 💔 #ACHD

🌍 Warwickshire, UK

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Heathrow Express is listed twice in the key, and there is also a West Midlands Trains and West Midlands Railways listed (someone will be along to explain the difference).

Will be waiting to see it update when the Caledonian Sleeper starts stopping at Birmingham International.
November 28, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Much that I really like their album Extra Virgin, I think I have to put Olive's You're Not Alone in this category. Knocks everything else out the park.
November 28, 2025 at 8:04 AM
It's not really the venue size that's the issue, it's the number of stewards etc you need for the crowd size. No point employing stewards for 20k people if you only expect to sell 10k tickets. So if you hit the 10k sales then you would book on more stewards and then be able to sell more tickets.
November 25, 2025 at 9:15 PM
"Not to mention his many years as secretary of the Gary Wilmot Appreciation Society."
November 24, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Screensharing a PowerPoint presentation on Teams whilst in edit mode because they haven't worked out how to get to present view (or better still how to present on Teams rather than screenshare).
November 24, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Should have gone on Love Island...
November 23, 2025 at 3:05 PM
I get it for longer journeys - faster/nicer trains to London should cost more than the slower commuter trains. But between Rugby and Birmingham they use the same tracks so one is never faster than the other.
November 19, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Yep that was me - Rugby to Birmingham. Had an Avanti only ticket but got on a LNR train.
I always buy Any Operator tickets because they are often only slightly more expensive, but this ticket has been bought for me by a colleague.
November 19, 2025 at 9:33 AM
(Not recommended: getting to the station in good time for your train, spotting the previous train was late, so getting on that instead. And then discovering that whilst you had an Anytime ticket it was for a specific train operator. And discovering this when the ticket inspector pointed it out).
November 19, 2025 at 9:16 AM
True but you've also got to live with yourself for shilling for Big Risotto.
November 17, 2025 at 9:44 PM