Ken Tone

Ben Ainslie and Iain Percy both went to Peter Symonds College in Winchester -- local lads , sort of!

I've been to that cemetery. It is extremely unlikely that any Falkand Islander would vandalise it. The islanders show great respect for all such memorials. And if someone did want to vandalise ,why would they choose just that one small piece of glass out of all that huge cemetery? It might even have been damage caused by the high winds that prevail there.

I'll look at it. Thanks

Thanks again for the advice so far. Idiot question from me now please, because I've been trying to decide which contract deal is best -- high on free minutes but no data , or low on minutes but some free data. Email usage. Is that effectively data download, so that if the contract has loads of free minutes and texts but no data allowance, there will be a cost for every email read or sent ? Any idea of cost?

Thanks

Trouble is, the wife is used to a steam-powered simple, Nokia that she just uses for phone and texts, with a battery that last for a week, so the idea of charging every night would appal her. My Blackberry usually needs charging every 3 days, but I do switch it off overnight.... And I keep GPS stuff switched off unless I need it. It's amazing isn't it, how we seem to accept such short battery life from smartphones? Am currently leaning towards an I-phone 4 on the sort of deal Block 18 has, but am grateful for the responses so far , and would welcome any other suggestions.

We could just have a special thread for Turkish to pick on MLG, and a few sad gits to join him -- that alone would stop half the problem.

This is indeed what makes their whingeing about the fit persons test so irritating. If the FL. had refused to let CSI, or any other of their dodgy owners, takeover, the chances are they'd have gone bust years ago anyway --amidst cries of anger against the football authorities.

Yes Colin Farmery seems basically ok, but he is not really part of the POL lot is he? He runs another PFC message board. (Though god knows how he finds time to run his site as well as being a college vice principal.)

Not sure we get T-mobile reception out here in the sticks... The coverage websites show it as touch and go. How is battery life on the I-phone?

Hadnt heard of the battery extension ..sounds a good idea if not too bulky.

I use a blackberry and an iPad myself, but since both are provided by my work I haven't really taken much notice of contract deals, functions etc. I now need to buy a phone for my wife that is at least vaguely up to date. She doesn't want lots of bells and whistles - phone, text ,emails and a bit of internet use, and I suppose some pics, mostly still not video. She is unlikely to play games or much music. Where we live doesn't have particularly good reception. Is ok on O2, so-so on '3', and dodgy on most other networks. Want good battery life as a priority, and not too big a phone to fit in pocket etc. What would you advise? I'd like to keep contract below £30 a month if possible.

I signed up to POL ages ago, on the naive basis that I might find out more about their ownership situation. I was wrong. They are so paranoid on there that they jump on any poster that dos not follow the party line that the Trust will be their saviour, and all other discussion is strangled. Presumably as a result, there are remarkably few regular posters, all from an inner clique and often they are reduced to quoting the News stories.

Somebody please explain to me why we have 'Team GB', rather than 'Team UK', when uk includes northern ireland and GB doesn't?

Someone has just gone on Pompey on line as 'Russell Hobbs' to announce that ticket sales have been suspended!

And notice that the rates of virtually all other crimes have dropped too ...but somehow I'm pretty sure that will not a headline in the Daily Mail. "Life Getting Better Shock"

I'd check carefully to see what else has dropped off overnight if I were you!

Dont forget AA mysteriousy found some extra creditors thereby making the HMRc share too small to outvote the others in CVA1. It may be quite difficult to find them again!

Shocking

Can we choose which fan?

I often think in the euphoria of any club's promotion, especially at play-off finals, as the players celebrate wildly on the pitch, but actually, how many of you will be playing in the higher league? There are some players who seem to get promotion with club after club but are just not considered good to enough to play a division up. Mind you, my sympathy for them is tempered a bit by realising that they'll get a huge promotion bonus anyway!

But after the 28 days is up, what then? Must chainrai go ahead with his offer (if his conditions have been met) , or can he withdraw, or can he just wait for as long as he likes before doing anything definite?

Yes but he's under 24 ,so if PFC offer him a contract extension and he goes elswhere they are entitled to compensation - either agreed between the clubs or at tribunal

In any normal circumstance I'd agree with you Minty. However, contracts of such gargantuan scale as this are virtually impossible to monitor, especially if the contractor spins a line. IMO we should not be letting issues such as this go to the private sector in the first place, and I'm extremely worried that political dogma seems to be leading us to do similarly daft things to the NHS.

Anyway, to return to Buttner (how do I type an umlaut?) In the radio interview last (?) week, his agent said, yes, that the' third party issue' was now resolved, but then said something dodgy about now only wanting saints to pay in fewer installments than was originally agreed. That did not sound like an "only" issue to me, so it does not surprise me that he has not yet since signed...and may not sign at all.