Danny

Small claims court is a civil court for claiming relatively small amounts of money (up to a few grand, I think). You pay about £50 to start proceedings against someone/a company andof you win you are awarded that back, plus whatever it is they owe you - in this case the excess.

Where's the fun in that? Guesswork is the way forward.

If he agrees on the location of the accident, (ie you were driving down the road he was joining) it doesn't matter. Also, the damage to the vehicles should corroborate the positions of the vehicles (assuming you have pictures of the damage the accident caused to your car, even though you don't have phots from the scene). His insurance will try and wriggle out of it. If you don't hear anything for a while consider taking him to the small claims court - that'll jolt him/the insurance company into action.

http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/sport/4576919.Saints_sign_Fiorentina_striker_Waigo_N_Diaye/

Except MPs are told how to vote by their Whips. That's what makes these things become law, despite any public opposition.

Can't really argue with any of that - especially the nepotist thing. The BBC does just seem to be so overstaffed in the places it doesn't need to be. For example, there were 12 people from the BBC covering Saints v Birmingham the other day - Two from Solent, two from BBC Midlands, a camera man and six (!) from Radio Five (I can't remember who the 12th was). In my mind, that's not a good use of the licence fee!

Murdoch did raise some good points (and some incredibly stupid ones). The BBC is a good service, however it's financial might is too much for anyone else to compete with. It needs to be reigned in. Allowing it to stifle competition is not in anyone's interest (I heard the other day the Beeb has twice the income of ITV). At local level, the BBC doesn't break news. It depends on local papers to provide news which it then reads out on air or regurgitates for an awful lot of it's content. Audiences don't realise this, so assume the BBC's first and as a the listeners/viewers don't buy papers. Papers die, BBC has less sources for stories, less gets reported, and eventually local news dies and becomes all about Sally Taylor's latest visit to a country park.

I think it's nothing to do with that - it's that the foundations underneath the stand are not able to take a heavier structure than is there already. IIRC, the ground there is softer as it sweeps down to the river than it is on the rest of the site, so they couldn't build the same type of foundations as they could with the other three stands. There used to be a great website when SMS was being built called saintsnewstadium.co.uk - anyone know who ran it? It had loads of info about the construction. Whoever it was would still have all the details - and the web archive only shows small bits of the site!

Indeed. Wasn't the deadline for confirming interest about two months ago?

Now, I hate to be awkward, but wasn't it Daffy Duck who had a lisp, and not Donald (who just spoke in quacks which vaguely resembled words)?

This is a better one: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xoybd_michael-jackson-ghosts_music

Actually, he's a Man City fan...

Nope, SSN have just backtracked. That's all. The moral of the story: SSN don't check facts until after they put a story out.

No he hasn't. The problems he's had are getting the debts transferred to him. All that will have happened is that he's managed to convince someone to go guarantor to appease the banks (or managed to negotiate a repayment package based on their TV income over the season, which is far more likely, I would imagine). Unless he's discovered £30m he didn't know he had.

Yeah, pretty much. It doesn't have backwards compatibility for PS2 games (I think it does for PS1) but that's no problem, as only the very first 60GB PS3's can play PS2 games anyway. Everything else is pretty much the same.

Nope, I can't see any reason for the way Game are pricing the PS3! With the bigger HDD, I guess the Slim is a better deal than the original PS3 bundled with a game, but there's probably not much in it. That said, I think the new Slim is really ugly and cheap looking from the pictures I've seen. Not that you look at the console other than to put the disc in! Edit: Just found this - it's not as bad looking as I first thought. http://www.engadget.com/photos/ps3-slim-vs-ps3-original-vs-xbox-360-fight/2217133/

Yep.

Is the webcam on? Some laptops/netbooks require you to turn the webcam on, usually by holding down the "Fn" key in the bottom left hand corner of the keyboard and pressing one of the F keys (F1 to F12). Usually it'll have a picture of a camera on it, rather than say "Webcam". You often do the same thing for volume/screen brightness etc. I've been caught out by this - spent ages farting around with drivers when the problem was just that the camera wasn't even turned on in the first place.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/leagues/premierleague/portsmouth/6051363/Portsmouth-takeover-faces-fresh-doubts-over-Sulaiman-Al-Fahims-borrowing-plans.html Exactly how many nails can a coffin take?

http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/sport/saints/news/4553096.Matt_Le_Tissier_speaks_about_his_autobiography/ There'll be extracts in the Echo and the Pink from tomorrow. I've been lucky enough to get an early copy of the book. About a third of the way through - it's a very good read. MLT, while being diplomatic, doesn't hold back with what he thinks about people. The foreword by Shearer is also surprisingly funny! I thoroughly recommend getting a copy when it comes out.

http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/sport/saints/video/88811/ Alan Pardew, the ex-West Ham boss speaks.

Pah, journalists.

Is that a euphemism for money laundering/tax evasion? As for the debt issue, once you clear all your debts, PFC have two options - rebuild within the budget available (even with the Sky money, a 20,000 capacity will hold you back) or try and get back to the dizzy heights of 18 months ago (which will involve accruing a debt once again). Even redeveloping Fratton will cost the club (Tesco are NOT covering the cost at all. The proposed Fratton supermarket would cover at most half of the cost it would be to redevelop FP to the 30k mark, assuming it gets past planning with the nearby Asda and the Tesco in the town centre). As for Horsea Island, there is not a chance in hell that any business would spend £30m on developing their current premises, just to jump ship five years later for a development which would cost upwards of £60m - especially when the resale value of even a redeveloped FP would be unlikely to fetch anything more than (a very optimistic) £10m.

LOL.

Or: Pardew says the same answer to the similar questions he's asked or they did the interview at the same time.