This is yet another disadvantage to go along the other drawbacks of digital TV namely picture break up; blocky compression on some scenes such as rapid flowing water or snow flurries; loss of a fast responsive teletext option replaced by a slower system where most pages spill one or two lines of text over to a second page; sound and picture sometimes out of sync; occasional total freeze of the digital equipment requiring a power recycle; unless a perfect signal no sound or picture, just to name some.

Strafin,

"Modern exhausts are far cleaner than the cigarettes you insist on inhaling"

Are you serious?

Try sucking on the exhaust of a modern MPV for five minutes and see what it does to you.

Look at page 11 of this:

www.westberks.gov.uk/CHttpHandler.ashx?id=19119&p=0

One additional primary school isn't enough.

I cannot find any law on delivery lorries on pavements. These massive vehicles bump up the kerbs, crack the slabs and the pavement starts to subside. The tax payer then pays for repairs.

The sovereign set up is the pretty much the same as the old council house set up, in fact isn't it just basically the result of outsourcing the council tennants? So yes ultimately the tax payer is funding it.

When you say 'request' does that mean they still will collect even if you have not got such monies? My mother who is a pensioner has some items she wants to donate to a charity.

So who pays for Sovereign? Presumably the taxpayer who funds the benefits of the people living in their housing.

That bloke clearly wants to live in isolation. Maybe he is living in the wrong kind of property.
I cannot see why Plymouth Council need to think about this at all. 35ft Leylandii in a street facing property is just plain silly. They should be cut back to 6 or 7 feet.

What an foolish thing to say.
Are you really saying that if one has not physically experienced something then you have no understanding of it?
What about reading about it, watching a TV documentary, discussions with people who have been in jail or being at a lecture where a reformed criminal gives his account of being in prison.

Well the way I see it some right wing policies have to be adopted if we are to get ourselves out of the social mess we are in.

I agree. Some people have their head in the sand.
If you have suffered a break-in or been assaulted and robbed you may think differently.

I thought this cricket fiasco was really bad. Why are they still playing? They should have been suspended.

They're trying to be eco, but fell at the first hurdle. The environmental problem of light pollution cannot be underplayed.

Wouldn't you rather see the stars?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A46986097

The code of practice recommends that if the bollards 'sense' that a vehicle is being tailgated, they should retract to prevent damage to the vehicle - on the grounds that it is safer to let a few vehicles through.

What 'rules' are those then? A code of practice? So, lets get this right. If WBC's contractors had installed according to the 'Code of Practice' issued not by a trade association but by the Department of Transport the bollards would not have damaged vehicles - look it up, its still there! The 'clampers' problem was not the code of practice, more the unbending 'automatic' imposition of penalties and the financial amount taken from their victims... see the similarity. Yes, clampers are greedy and unreasonable. What of the mind set of those installing rising bollards?

There are a whole load of 'dignataries' wearing cocked hats but I.m not sure if they have them the right way round. Nelson always wore his from side to side so was he right or is the mayoral entourage right.

I must agree about the Retail Car Park.

It's awful even now. Whoever designed it should be shot.

It's too small, too tight, and badly laid out. It can only get worse with the added shoppers traffic.

The HRA was designed purposely to prevent governments and countries from treating people in the way you seem to endorse.

People don't chose where and who they are born to. I don't see why we should have any more rights than anyone else just because we had the good fortune to be born somewhere benign like the UK. Immigration is a small price to pay for that privilege.

Because they would have made his life a misery with constant phone calls and harrassment which may well have contrubuted to his depression?

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