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20 miles an hour

Should the man who has just said on BBC news :-'It takes a lot of concentration to drive at 20 miles per hour'', be allowed to drive ?

Gromit

How are you going to celebrate Tax Freedom Day?

Today is Tax Freedom Day, which marks the theoretical point in the year when employees stop making money for the taxman and start making money for themselves. It takes the average worker a full 152...

what..the?

bowed wooden garage door

I took the rubbish out his morning and when getting in the car to go to work I noticed the garage door was extremely broken, in that the door was locked shut but the top had bowed/bend inwards so bad...

AB Asks

First prize � a kidney

A new Dutch reality show will see contestants battle it out for transplant organs. The show will see a dying woman decide which contestant will receive one of her kidneys. The contestants will make...

monsivais

globalization

Globalization is inevitable, what can be done to regulate globalization, dumping, and low wages due to the competition of work from immigrants?

Gromit

Should we pay for people to quit smoking?

The NHS is to pay ?163 for a course of drugs to encourage people to stop smoking. At the same time, they are denying funding of some drugs to treat Alzheimer's and cancer....

puddicat

David Beckham maybe given a knighthood

listening to the radio news, heard that they might be giving david beckham a knighthood, what do others think of this, do you think he deserves one, and can you imagine what Victoria Beckham would be...

anotheoldgit

Deputy Leadership vote

On Tuesday night's BBC's Newsnight Jeramy Paxton conducted a live debate with the 6 candidates for the post of Labour's Deputy Leadship, the 6 candidates were. Jon Cruddas, Harriet Harman, Alan...

kwicky

Has Blair redeemed himself?

On his fairwell tour he has just visited Libya. In doing so he has secured contracts not only for our defence industry but also for BP. As it was Blair who introduced BP to Russia by investing ?5...

NJOK

Organ donation - should we have to opt out?

In this country, once you die, your organs are unavailable for donation unless you have expressly asked for them to be used. In 14 European countries, it's the other way round. It is assumed that your...

Compostella

Slugs! How do we eliminate them?

This is our 1st year of having a garden and we planted some nice borders and tubs. Now I keep finding the odd plant looking unwell and upon closer inspection I usually find a slug close by. I guess...

m62902

Rye grass irritation

Help! Anytime I mow the lawn, all the blades of rye grass just bend under the advancing mower blades and then spring up again. So once I'm finished mowing, I need to go over the lawn with the hand...

neg213

Cavity Wall Insulation

Is it worth it? I keep getting flyers through the door saying it will reduce my heating bills by a third, and it'll only cost ?400 to do?!

kwicky

McCarthyism or Reds under the Beds

Is there a return to McCarthyism...ie Reds under the beds! You would think so judging by the USA's attempts and aided by friends of Tony Blair. To criticize any of the USA and UKs foreign adventures...

naomi24

Keeping Prisoners in Police Cells

With prisons overflowing, can anyone explain why it apparently costs ?2000 a night to keep a prisoner in police cells?

milly143

Is it April fools day?

WTF? Is this the most ridiculous story there is? If that's the only problem Poland has, I'm moving there. http://uk.news.yahoo.com/itn/20070529/ten-tele tubbies-in-polish-gay-probe-ea4616c.html

Raj

My phone number

I have a phone line I have at home which hasn't been used for months, and I don't know its number. I can get a dialling tone but can't seem to dial out. I need to find out the number of this line....

AB Asks

Are Grammar schools the way forward?

The Tory party has been divided over grammar schools. David Cameron has announced that the party shouldn't focus too much on them, focussing instead on the city academies favoured by Tony Blair....

bizzylizzy

Starting an ethical cleaning business

Hi there I am currently manage a country house hotel. I'm thinking of starting my own cleaning business as it's so difficult to find good, reliable cleaners. I want to be ethical in the way I pay and...

bookend

Ceramic Hob Cleaning Problem

We've just bought a new electric cooker with a brown ceramic hob. We've never had one of these before and are experiencing problems keeping it clean. Although we check the bottom of saucepans to make...

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