bridge too far

Part of the NHS budget has been devolved to Social Services for the joined up elderly care service. It means that ALL aspects of elderly care can be dealt with by one team. It's part of the drive to devolve community care to the community and free up the NHS for more acute care. HTH

Nobody has sympathy for burglars (no-one in their right mind that is). I don't have time for summary, vigilante justice. The two shouldn't be linked. Where would you draw the line with vigilante justice? Would you go down the route of the lot down the road, haranguing a paediatrician in the mistaken belief (or inability to understand) that that's not the same as a paedophile? There are sometimes errors in judgement in law but there'd be far more if we took the law into our own hands.

Great idea! My mother had a horrible fall because her slippers weren't suitable. She didn't know that and we didn't realise. She could afford a sensible and safe pair of slippers - not all pensioners can. The NHS tries very hard to reduce the number of falls suffered by elderly people. Apart from the fact that the treatment costs, the number of beds blocked is substantial. Good idea.

Have you tried looking in the place you last had it?

Good luck Duncan. I'm metaphorically four square behind you.

FF I thought people couldn't be dismissed for going about Union duties. It certainly used to be the case. Or has the law changed

So let me get this straight - the £2m they claim they are owed is going to cover the following: Player and staff wages for January Staged payments to the overseas clubs Given that the player wages alone are reportedly £1.8m a month, the remaining £0.2m will cover non-playing staff wages and staged payments? Their legal advisors must be costing them a fortune too. Doesn't add up somehow and where will they get the money for February salaries and February stage payments? Oh I forgot - from the gates

Greece too

I absolutely agree with you and I'd add one further thing. I think it's desperately sad that some of these young people, who are getting killed, joined up because there are not too many jobs with training available for them at the moment. I think this is evidenced by the sheer numbers joining the forces now compared to before the global credit crisis.

Many women who wear it are unmarried. HTH

I don't know to be honest. I do know that a lot more women wear the burhka these days and I can't believe that ALL of them are recent immigrants. I'm sure some of them are UK born and brought up in 'western' ways. Perhaps some / lots of them HAVE chosen to wear it :smt102

However, VFTT, there is a point of view that holds that, by wearing the burkha, women are less oppressed as they are judged on what they are rather than what they look like. That men oppress women by having expectations about what they should look like and / or wear. It's not a view I concur with as I wear what the **** I like regardless of what others might think. I guess we could afford burkha-wearing women the same freedom. I see much more offensive garb such as overweight men / women wearing shorts, men without upper body cover in the summer (you know, the ones with beer bellies) - the list goes on. But each to their own would be my motto.

It's not often you make me laugh JB but that's absolutely fantastic! :smt081

I reckon they couldn't get police cover - given that they have not paid the bill, allegedly

Lots of snow up here in deepest, darkest Oxfordshire.

And another thing, Hutch. The PL also need to be reassured that PFC's finances are sound and sustainable. It's patently bleedin' obvious that they're not. Any business plan just would not stack up, with their ground and their gates let alone how much it would cost them just to service the debts.

Can you believe the parents that have allowed their (10 year old?) son to wear a copy of Westwood's hat and wig! Role model huh?

Really? Strewth!

Commentators just said AG looks like he needs a cuddle.

Not now he isn't

Their share of the gate should solve all their financial woes

Are they planning a demo tonight? All 3 of them?

But I didn't know what you meant - that's why I asked you if you meant 'purser'. You said 'no I didn't mean purser'. But look! You DID mean 'purser' after all! This man he speak with forked tongue BTW and FYI, my grandfather was a purser - in the Merchant Fleet. Although, in those days, he was called 'boot boy'. But no-one would know what that meant.

So you did actually MEAN 'Purser' even though you said you didn't

Strange: Pusser is Royal Navy slang for a purser, HTH