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Oneeyedvic

Four to be prosecuted

Three Labour MPs and one Tory peer will face criminal charges over their expenses, Director of Public Prosecutions Keir Starmer has said. MPs Elliot Morley, Jim Devine, David Chaytor and Lord...
12:34 Fri 05th Feb 201024 answers, last by modeller 23:25 Fri 05th Feb 2010
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Gromit

Historic Northern Ireland deal agreed

Prime Minister Gordon Brown and Taoiseach Brian Cowen have confirmed it will take on policing and justice powers from April 12. The deal between the Democratic Unionist Party and Sinn Fein includes...
12:34 Fri 05th Feb 20102 answers, last by ahmskunnirt 13:58 Fri 05th Feb 2010
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R1Geezer

MP's repaying £1.14m....

Exccellent, look forward to some prosecutions. Anyway I gather this whole exercise cost approximately the same as what MP's are being asked to repay. Should they not all have to pay a proportional...
10:53 Fri 05th Feb 20106 answers, last by anotheoldgit 11:17 Fri 05th Feb 2010
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Gromit

The BNPs tentacles are spreading

A survey of 1,498 people found one in three members of the public matched a picture of Nick Griffin, the BNP leader, with the name of Peter Griffin, the protagonist of the cartoon sitcom 'Family Guy'....
17:38 Thu 04th Feb 20104 answers, last by Oneeyedvic 10:56 Fri 05th Feb 2010
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anotheoldgit

Counter-terrorism officers in universities.

http://www.guardian.c...stationed-on-campuses Perhaps it is now time for counter terrorism police to be stationed in Mosques also?...
16:03 Thu 04th Feb 20108 answers, last by Haggisdj 14:40 Fri 05th Feb 2010
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anotheoldgit

Should migrants earn their benefits?

http://www.dailymail....nefits-takes-BNP.html Why has she took so long to come up with this? Couldn't be that Nick Griffin, leader of the BNP is standing against her in the 2010 General Election,...
14:59 Thu 04th Feb 201013 answers, last by mollykins 10:44 Sat 06th Feb 2010
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anotheoldgit

Foreign GPs.

http://www.express.co...Ps-must-speak-English Has the NHS something to learn from the taxi drivers, or would this also be racist?...
15:18 Thu 04th Feb 20108 answers, last by Sqad 10:37 Fri 05th Feb 2010
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anotheoldgit

ENGLAND ‘IS CESSPIT FOR BREEDING ISLAMIC TERROR’ ?

http://www.express.co...eding-Islamic-terror- /// Wole Soyinka, 76, the first African winner of the Nobel Prize, who was born in Nigeria and studied at Leeds University in the 1950s, said:...
13:53 Wed 03rd Feb 201011 answers, last by anotheoldgit 14:30 Thu 04th Feb 2010
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anotheoldgit

Armed forces face 'tough choices

http://www.guardian.c...s-defence-green-paper Reading between the lines is this 'Green Paper' an opening gambit for the creation of an European defence force? Do we need to support an Armed Forces on...
14:09 Wed 03rd Feb 20109 answers, last by rov1200 18:00 Fri 05th Feb 2010
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Gromit

Avram Grant and Privacy Law

Avram Grant has been caught visiting a brothel near to his club's ground. This was reported in a newspaper last year as "Unnamed Premiership Manager visits brothel". The newspaper blamed...
11:05 Thu 04th Feb 201016 answers, last by Sandy-Wroe 00:27 Fri 05th Feb 2010
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Gromit

Man spared from jail sentence because he was a practicing Muslim.

A Judge gave a man a suspended sentence for a violent attack because he was "a religious man". The National Secular Society claims her attitude was discriminatory and unjust. They have...
11:40 Thu 04th Feb 201016 answers, last by Gromit 15:41 Thu 04th Feb 2010
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VHG

Why is this marriage news?

Turned on Teletext on BBC TV this morning, and they have space for 10 "News Headlines. One of those 10 news items was the fact that some slapper whose has huge lumps of plastic on her chest, has...
10:01 Wed 03rd Feb 201023 answers, last by anotheoldgit 16:20 Wed 03rd Feb 2010
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Philtaz

France - Grasping The Veil Nettle Firmly, That The UK Never Will

http://news.bbc.co.uk...ld/europe/8494860.stm Well done France. I particularly like the paragraph: Later, the minister stressed that French law required anyone seeking naturalisation to demonstrate...
09:32 Wed 03rd Feb 20105 answers, last by theonlyone 18:47 Wed 03rd Feb 2010
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bibblebub

'Internet addiction' linked to depression

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/8493149.stm That combined with reading the Daily Mail explains why the same miserable old farts keep posting their usual "the country's gone to the dogs"...
10:26 Wed 03rd Feb 20106 answers, last by anotheoldgit 12:58 Wed 03rd Feb 2010
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bookbinder

Military corteges in Wootton Bassett

This is for people who live in Wootton Bassett. Whenever I see pictures of military corteges passing through Wootton Bassett, there are always many people lining the streets, and the British Legion...
12:33 Wed 03rd Feb 20107 answers, last by bookbinder 12:28 Fri 05th Feb 2010
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Gromit

English Speaking Taxi Drivers

Taxi Drivers in Southampton have been displaying a sign to the effect that the cab driver is English speaking. http://www.dailymail....English-speaking.html They have been branded racists, are they?...
13:37 Tue 02nd Feb 201021 answers, last by chas2008 15:29 Wed 03rd Feb 2010
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R1Geezer

Discouraging smoking

Why are they tinkering at the edges with this plain packaging h0rsh1t? Make them £100 a pack! and add £10 each budget, sorted! Most kids can't afford that we extract a load more tax from...
13:57 Tue 02nd Feb 201041 answers, last by Noraq 14:02 Wed 03rd Feb 2010
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elderado

spreadsheets

Does anyone know what symbol you use when you want to automaticaly add a set of numbers together on spreadsheet? I think it begins with the letter m.
15:08 Sat 30th Jan 20103 answers, last by anotheoldgit 15:25 Tue 02nd Feb 2010
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anotheoldgit

Seven Ages of Britain.

Did anyone watch this last night, Seven Ages of Britain, presented by David Dimbleby? If you didn't there is another chance to see it tonight BBC2, 7.00pm. This looks like it will be a superb series,...
16:08 Mon 01st Feb 20105 answers, last by anotheoldgit 15:24 Tue 02nd Feb 2010
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rov1200

Is Afghanistan the right target?

http://news.bbc.co.uk...ld/africa/8491329.stm Now that Islamic extremists linked to Al Qaeda are flourishing in Somalia couple this with the same fanatics in Yemen they will be able to form a pincer...
17:35 Mon 01st Feb 201015 answers, last by rov1200 17:50 Wed 03rd Feb 2010

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