silverfox

Who's the say what the vaccine will contain?

Oh oh, this could be serious. Italian Police Raid Barclays Over Rate-Fixing http://news.sky.com/story/967142/italian-police-raid-barclays-over-rate-fixing If the PIIGS can show Barclays and other banks have contributed to their nations' indebtedness by fixing Euribor rates, as they did with Libor, and sue them accordingly this could be explosive.

All two to 17-year-olds in the UK are to be offered annual flu vaccinations... ...The children will be immunised using a nasal spray rather than an injection, starting in 2014 at the earliest. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-18969338 Given the expense of this maybe we should ask the question why, especially as flu is only a minor inconvenience to the majority of healthy children? Would I be a conspiracy nutter if I queried whether the government knows more than it is telling us? Could it be related to the mutation of bird flu in Asia and the new flu virus found in seals in the US? I think we should be told (New flu virus found in seals concerns scientists http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-19055961)

What happened uncleglen was the skip arrived and a neighbour from a couple of doors away who I was on nodding terms with appeared. He politely asked if he could 'put a couple of items' in the skip, pointing to a slab in his front garden broken into about six pieces and perhaps half a bucket of soil and stones. I said okay and disappeared into my house and garden to get my own stuff. When I came out there he was, perspiring with effort. A wheel barrow had been brought into play with old fertiliser sacks filled to the brim with rubble. There were at least 10 in the bottom of the skip. I expressed surprise at the quantity and he said he only had a few more bits. I said he'd better stop otherwise there'd be no room for my own stuff. He said okay, thanks, and walked off in a bit of a huff, rather put out by the whole thing.

Were trams replaced by trolley buses elsewhere during this period? Also, interesting to note in the light of James Barber's support for the tram project that as early as 1946 the authorities realised motor buses were more cost efficient.

I empathise. The reason they can afford to live in pricy houses is because they're too tight to get skips of their own. One polite neighbour of mine managed to fill about a quarter of my skip with his rubble. Hand in pocket to make a contribution to the cost of the skip hire? - Not a chance

Fifty Shades of Grey?

French MPs throw out proposal to audit their expenses None of my business really - a matter for the French people. I mention it only from the point of view that it is a bit rich for the lovely Mme Christine Legarde to tell the Greeks to tighten their belts etc when she has been used to a no-questions-asked annual allowance equivalent to ?60,000. Leveson please note: France does not have a national press like the UK to expose such largesse. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-19004353

Dali Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Who did you enquire with? Dali, let's face facts. If you don't have the wits to find out who lets these business premises (still under administration) then what hope do you have for running a successful business. It's a bit like the tattoo parlour/cinema threads on here. Time wasters

Sorry SJ, I don't understand your post

Chaos at the Millennium stadium which kicks off the Olympics today with the women's football. The contents of bags have to be emptied into different sized see through bags. Long queues held up and many people will be lucky to get in in time for the second half. Organisers had asked people to turn up 2 1/2 hours before kick off.

Battery cows would reduce farmers' costs - fact

"...but not sure if it will come across as amazing on tv as it was as actually being present..." Shame, considering 3 billion people will be watching it on TV. Too late for a rethink?

Not a chance

Fair play to them. I'd be interested to know the listening figures however.

James, Spend some taxpayers' money and nip up to Blackpool and see how they do it there. Plenty of space for trams. Cars not impeded. Then take a walk from King's to Elephant and Castle and ask yourself the following: Where will cyclists go? Where will buses go? If a bus can take 56 passengers and there is one every 10 minutes how many can a tram take and how often will they run? See the Edinburgh fiasco - ?500m for a 20 mile circuit that was stopped short after years of construction disruption and led the Scottish Parliament to refuse to pay the last tranche of the money.

Waste of time and money and would create traffic chaos

More information please

That looks like a cigarette holder to me with some sort of cigar/cheroot. But yes, a desk sergeant is possible

Could he be a government chauffeur? See link for picture of young boy dressed as a chauffeur with similar double-breasted uniform http://www.flickr.com/photos/windryder/6787472551/

Prussian, late 1800s? The number on his cap implies public duty. Tram operator?

The fact you've started a new thread mentioning the matters you claim to dislike could be a classic case of self-deception - ie you really enjoy them

Perhaps they'll put black tape over the Pepsi logos on the T-shirts as they have even on the soap dispensers in the toilets at Coventry FC's Ricoh Arena, now renamed The City of Coventry stadium for the Olympics. http://news.sky.com/story/962605/the-truth-about-the-branding-of-the-games

Here you go Hugeunot: ...Olympic ring bagels banned from cafe window... Council orders bagels off after claiming shape breaches Olympics copyright ...Florist, doll maker, cake bake and butcher among those previously warned... ...the cafe had the book thrown at it by Southwark Council in South London. Two ?community wardens? swooped on the House Cafe and Gallery, in Camberwell, within 20 minutes of manager David Adams putting up the display. They claimed that putting the circular buns on show breached copyright rules... One customer said: ?They were being quite aggressive to David, ordering him to take them down immediately and threatening him with court and fines. They said there would be very serious consequences if he did not obey them. ?It was just some bread hanging in a window, for goodness sake! When a few customers such as myself started telling them off for being silly, they began taking pictures of us on their camera, which I found sinister. Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2175817/Bakers-churches-use-Olympics-rings-NOT-prosecuted-says-minister.html#ixzz218uj0OGc

No, but if I missed something please send me a clipping