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Tax On Freebies

I know that freebies such as private health care have a notional value which is added to salary and taxed. Will this apply to the use of a corporate box at Arsenal for Keir Starmer and the clothes... ...
06:23 Thu 19th Sep 20249 answers, last by Hopkirk 09:46 Thu 19th Sep 2024
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According To The Russians...

The King is dead. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/index.html   ...
16:17 Mon 18th Mar 20243 answers, last by rowanwitch 19:04 Mon 18th Mar 2024
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Gritters

Traffic Scotland track their gritters and broadcast the tracking here: https://www.traffic.gov.scot/gritter-tracker Some wonderful names for the gritters. ...
09:14 Tue 16th Jan 20244 answers, last by ferlew 10:31 Tue 16th Jan 2024
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Venus And The Moon

Venus is cuddling up to the moon this morning - clear skies in Berkshire.
06:28 Thu 09th Nov 20232 answers, last by bhg481 08:09 Thu 09th Nov 2023
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Credit Where It's Due

About an hour ago we were in the front garden and happened to see water running out of the pavement (tarmac) and into a nearby grate. I went online and reported the leak to Thames Water. They're out...
13:55 Sat 29th Apr 202312 answers, last by Ken4155 10:46 Mon 01st May 2023
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Royal Mail Stamp Swap

A couple of years ago we bought about £100 worth of 2nd class stamps to inflation-proof us. We sent them off in batches to get them swapped for the new bar-coded ones, first about a dozen and then...
14:54 Fri 24th Feb 202314 answers, last by furrypusscat 09:35 Thu 16th Mar 2023
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Sign Language

We were discussing sign language the other day and someone was surprised when I said there were several versions of it eg, BSL. Can someone please explain why there are different versions of it? I can...
15:28 Sun 29th Jan 202313 answers, last by Peter Pedant 09:43 Tue 31st Jan 2023
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English Grammar

A family comprises 3 boys. Let's call them Fred, Jim and Bert, born in that order. It's obvious that Fred is Jim's older brother and Bert is Jim's younger brother. Is Jim Fred's older brother (on the...
10:04 Sun 27th Nov 202218 answers, last by Vagus 10:54 Sun 27th Nov 2022
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Did You Know?

Yesterday we visited Edward Heath's house, Arundells, in Salisbury. On the wall was a resume of his military career pointing out that he was "Master Gunner within the Tower" for three years and, as...
14:13 Sun 18th Sep 20229 answers, last by jno 18:20 Sun 18th Sep 2022
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Red Sky

We've been busy in the garden all day, came in for a brew and suddenly the sky went red. Not really, of course, we had about 20 or more red kites swooping around. We think our neighbour had thrown...
14:04 Sun 17th Apr 2022
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At Least One Oligarch Has Had Enough

https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1574939/vladimir-putin-news-alex-konanykhin-one-million-bounty-linkedin-facebook...
11:55 Thu 03rd Mar 202211 answers, last by royfromaus 18:03 Thu 03rd Mar 2022
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Royal Aircraft

Is this the choice of aircraft a loyal Brexit-loving PM should make? https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1560474/royal-family-Air-Force-BAe-146-France-Dassault-Emmanuel-macron-Brexit...
15:21 Thu 03rd Feb 20223 answers, last by mushroom25 17:33 Thu 03rd Feb 2022
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Green Party Peer Calls For All Men To Face A 6Pm Curfew

Green Party peer calls for ALL MEN to face a 6pm CURFEW: Baroness Jones calls for law change to bar males from the street in wake of Sarah Everard murder to 'make women feel safer and lessen...
13:18 Thu 11th Mar 202112 answers, last by ummmm 15:54 Thu 11th Mar 2021
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Vimto (Again)

Some bad news here for Vimto lovers (like me). https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9320483/Vimto-owner-Nichols-suffers-80-slump-profits-closure-pubs-restaurants-cinemas.html...
13:37 Wed 03rd Mar 20213 answers, last by bednobs 14:42 Wed 03rd Mar 2021
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Rip Chris Barber

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9317855/Giant-British-jazz-Chris-Barber-dies-peacefully-sleep-90-battle-dementia.html A tiny headline in the Daily Mail and nothing on BBC website; he deserves...
08:29 Wed 03rd Mar 202113 answers, last by Buenchico 18:15 Wed 03rd Mar 2021
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Executive Orders

I noticed that when Joe Biden was signing the stack of executive orders yesterday he used a new pen for each one which was than placed with the executive order. What is the reason for this? The only...
11:08 Thu 21st Jan 202124 answers, last by tomus42 01:14 Fri 22nd Jan 2021
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Frankfurt Airport

Rondy's "Captain's Call" reminds me of this one: The German air controllers at Frankfurt Airport are a short-tempered lot. They not only expect one to know one's gate parking location but how to get...
12:25 Wed 20th Jan 20214 answers, last by iluvmargie 19:12 Wed 20th Jan 2021
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Throw-In

There was a clip on BBC Breakfast this morning of someone taking a throw-in starting with a somersault and then getting the ball into the penalty area. They claimed this was unique but I seem to...
11:17 Wed 09th Dec 202013 answers, last by bhg481 08:57 Thu 10th Dec 2020
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King George Vii

It's just been announced that Prince William had covid at the same time as Prince Charles. With a 94 year old queen that could easily have put us in the position where Prince George would suddenly be...
09:07 Mon 02nd Nov 202039 answers, last by Peter Pedant 12:41 Mon 02nd Nov 2020
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Smart Meters (Again)

There is an advertisement in this week's Radio Times claiming that by having a smart meter fitted "You'll be helping Britain's energy system use more renewable resources". How can they justify that...
14:37 Tue 20th Oct 202018 answers, last by youngmafbog 15:26 Tue 20th Oct 2020

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