内容摘要：St Ninian's has been mothballed since August 2023 and an offer to enrol children this summer generated no response.

St Ninian's has been mothballed since August 2023 and an offer to enrol children this summer generated no response.

- would dramatically reform.A blizzard of headlines and a social media frenzy followed, cutting through the national psyche like the band’s

And now, we have a reunion.on Friday for the pre-sale, and Saturday for the general sale, with fans racing to beat each other the booking queue.But why reunite now?

There are several reasons - but the financial incentive is surely on the list."A deal would've been struck early by promoters, and I’ve heard numbers bandied around of the Gallagher brothers earning £50m each," says Jonathan Dean of the Sunday Times,

the reunion tour. That £50m estimate was made by Birmingham City University about the initial 14 dates.

"I think that is probably true, ticket prices are higher than they used to be."“It’s a regular occurrence,” explained Duncan Stewart-Ball, the FBU’s regional secretary for Wales.

He said some rural areas now frequently saw situations where their nearest fire station was unable to respond because of staffing problems, meaning waits of up to “half an hour” as crews travelled in from out of area.“We could in future see a situation where somebody is phoning 999 because their house is on fire and we could be turning around and saying ‘sorry, there is a delay',” he said.

“There are risks to the public. Lives are in danger.”Several serving on-call firefighters suggested the impact on family life and work were some of the main reasons for people giving up on-call firefighting - with one consequence being that some firefighters stayed on much later in life than they used to.