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So did anybody else see the bolide (meteor) this evening approx (6pm'ish), it went east to west, it was travelling almost horizontal across the sky to the north of Newbury. I saw it from our kitchen window (looking north).

I did not want to post about it, just in case I was seeing things, BUT the internet is buzzing with reports from the UK.

... and just think the supermarkets and Wilko's et al, will all have Easter Eggs on sale this Sunday!

Happy Easter folks.,

and suprise, surprise Richard Benyon voted in favour of that bill.

https://www.facebook.com/yesterdaysshadows/...894611370687185

But then he also voted against EVERY bill that would force Landlords to improve safety measures, new building regs etc.

So he also has some the ashes of those that died in Grenfell on his BLOOD soaked hands!

He is your a typical tory, as long as he is OK, then to **** with everybody else beneath....

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As per subject line really.

Well a deal has been reached within the last couple of hours (as I suspected and said it most likely would).

The question is just how much damege has this fiasco done to Sky, as just on a customer relations matter this has been bad. What is worse is the way Sky have alienated such a large amount of its subscriber base. That although Sky is the BIGGEST TV provider in the UK, even when that is taken into account Sky still has the largest amount of customer churn of all paid UK TV providers.

It would appear that many people have seen Sky in different light and their arrogance has seen many of those customers that can, switching to other companies.

http://uk.businessinsider.com/sky-discover...ife-edge-2017-1

Many people seem to be missing the real issue at stake here, whilst it is Sky vs Discovery Networks today.

At any point in the future it could be ITV or BBC who Sky decide to try it on with next, I find it interesting how people are seemingly happy to believe the press release that Sky have put out today, when all the evidence of year, on year price increases well EVERY OTHER YEAR they raise the TV subscription charges. I can remember when I signed up to Sky in 1991 and it less than £8 a year, what was even better is back then the consumer had a choice of what satellite receiver they wanted as you bought it and then signed up to Sky.

Anyway the point is this yes, Discovery Networks have done themselves no favours as when the Discovery Channel first started it was a channel worth watching, but Discovery have ruined many of the decent programmes by making more and more into reality style programmes, people watch Discovery to "discover" then can get reality like crap on every other channel.

But again I say this is NOT just about Discovery channel, there is the Eurosport Channels too the cynic in me thinks this may be Sky flexing it muscle more about Eurosport than anything else, as Sky have been there before when they threatened to not allow Sky Sports on CableTV when it was bought by Virgin Media.

If you are a Sky subscriber, you might well think the "discovery channels are not worth it" fine, the TRUTH is Sky over paid for the football rights and vastly overpaid too.

Now if the BBC find themselves in a "price fee battle" with Sky, just remember it will NOT only the channels with "BBC" in the names that go, the BBC own a controlling stake in a company that was called Flextech it might have been renamed....

EDIT/UPDATE: A quick internet search shows that Flextech was split into two companies Flextech was bought by yes BSkyB and is now a subsidiary of BSkyB Flextech owns the Living channels on Sky. The other major and better know channels were all kept together and the company called UKTV, the BBC still hold the controlling stake.

Sadly my old ITC members pocket book is out of date, well out of date as the ITC is now called OFCOM!

I thought I would wait a couple of days before I posted about this, but it seems that BSkyB are already accepting cancellations from TV subscribers.

But on the 31st January Discovery Networks will pulling its 12 TV channels from Sky TV and the Sky owned Now TV services.

This is due to Sky demanding more money from Discovery Networks, Although Discovery Network channels are broadcast (uplinked/downlinked via either an Astra or Eutelsat satellite) they have to pay Sky vast sums of money to appear on the EPG, they also pay for positioning on the EPG.

For those who may say "well I don't watch Discovery" you should know that they now own the Eurosport channels and they WILL be going off too, if neither side backs down.

Still as is always the case it is the viewer, customer and paying subscriber that is being made to lose out.

NOTE: BT & Virgin customers are NOT affected by this.


Grr, I wish this keybaord would spell rite.

I think that would be a valid question if Clinton had won aswel, as she had upset most of of the close protection officers from the US Secret Service to the extent that may of them refused to be assigned to protect her.

Given that Trump has effectively accused the CIA & FBI of lying, he is already upsetting those senior miliatary officers at the Pentagon with his love in with Putin. I would think he has got a pretty big target on him. But as is the seemingly the way with Trump, I am actually pretty **** surprised he has survived now, if he is alive at the weekend it will be interesting to see if he manages to see out a full term, for some strange reason I don't think he will!

Still Trump, might be like Tony Blair, be teflon coated and proof that you can indeed polish a ****!

Well going by the latest updates from Network Rail as reported in the media, Newbury will not see any Electric trains until mid/late 2019.

Those brand new Japanese Hitachi trains are all having to be fitted with diesel engines, and the other new trains couldn't even run to the depots as the electric lines did not go that far (that was reported Spring 2016).

NetworkRail have also been told to replace the steel gantries that support the overhead wires between Reading and Didcot (well all of them that are visible and not in deep cuttings).

Not sure if anything matters anymore! Well according to the conspiracy idiots online.

As I will now not be voting to leave the EU, I don't want to be accused of supporting a murdering facist.

I see that the idiot behind that page is having another moan about a police car, this time because "they stopped in the road and got out and started chasing somebody on foot!"

I have to say that I am quite surprised he did not have moan about the fire engines outside bar sport a couple of weeks back!

Where I can buy any Elton John CD's in Newbury?

I am now 99.9% certain the f*ckwit who admins the local parking like a tw*t page, is also the same idiot behind the recently renamed "New Newbury & Thatcham page"....

It would appear that the said idiot learned nothing from his posting about an ambulance crew a couple of weeks ago. As he has now posted about a police car!

BTW: the from "anon" is NOT fooling anybody, either!

https://www.facebook.com/TownbookNewburyTha...am/?pnref=story

Double post deleted, not sure how that happened.

I see from the "New Newbury and Thatcham Berkshire page" that he is now posting pictures of Ambulances, when the crew have actually got a few minutes to stop and catch something to eat!

I am pretty miffed by this, as I have worked damned hard to be regarded as a tw*t on facebook. Then some wannabee comes along and tries to steal my crown.

Although I suspect the person who admins that page, may also be behind the recently renamed "New Newbury & Thatcham" page, as the same post was posted to both pages.

I would have to agree though that the guy behind the newbury parking page is complete i***t, but as for being a tw*t he should leave that to the pros on facebook and these forums too for that matter.

What struck me about reading that article was how julian Swift-Hook's name was conspicuous by its absence, so far be it from me to suggest but it would appear that he is happy to comment on positive "control tower" matters, but now that the proverbial cr*p is hitting the fan, he has decided to fly below the control towers radar! Typical behaviour of a councillior in West Berkshire.

Well the news yesterday was interesting, so much so that that it even left First Great Western disappointed.

Electrification to Newbury will not be completed until 2018, mind you I a have to say that I am not at all surprised that the project is not only OVER RUNNING, but is also WAY OVER BUDGET! Buy hey ho!

But more notable is the electrification of the stretch of line between Reading and Basingstoke (which spurs of the line just west of Reading West) has now been scrapped altogether, that is the main rail freight route from the midlands to Southampton Docks, Network rail spent a few £million only a few years ago working on the tunnels to the make the tunnels high enough for the new containers and overhead lines. So joined up thinking once again!

It would appear that Network Rail is at some point going to continue with the overhead electrification, west wards beyond Newbury at some point in the future.

As last April we adopted our 4th dog from Dogs Trust and I have to say that it seems that Network Rail have already installed the concrete footings and large steel fenced enclosure next to the line beside the Hamstead Marshall level crossing. So it looks as though they will be siting a electrical substation at that location. Well that is what it looks like!

Well I just done my daily check-in on the Microsoft UK facebook page, being the sadist that I am and after a short scroll down the "other users" posts somebody from Newbury has commented on how brilliant Win10 is!

I am running Vista 32bit as our main OS, mainly due as that was what came loaded on PC, but Win7 due for release within a couple of weeks so we got sent a Win7 upgrade dvd from HP for free upon release.

I set up a couple of extra hard drive partitions and used that Win7 dvd to do a clean install of Win7 then updated it to Win10, had a few problems which meant deleting the partition and then starting over again, then I after the third set of problems with an upgrade to win10, I decided to use the Windows10 media creation tool and download the windows10 ISO from Microsoft which creates a bootable DVD or USB, I then did a clean install of Window10 64bit (I was offered Win10 Pro) when I ran the installation dvd, NOT had any problems with it since.

Now got a triple boot system, of Windows Vista (which I prefer), with the option of booting either Windows10 or Ubuntu.

I do look at the Microsoft UK facebook page, everyday and although the issue of support is a bit dodgy with MS I was able to rectify an issue I had with product activation.

https://www.facebook.com/MicrosoftUK

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Gotta love the internettywebby thingy, what with spammers, scammers, cyberbullies, trolls, keyboard warriors, keyboard lawyers and the everyday f*ckwit too.

Even I have to agree with the above.