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I think he just wasnt up FOR it. I dont think he ever wanted to be here and engineered a move away.

Guess Solskaer doesnt fancy Vegard Forren either then....

Sounds like she's divorcing him.

Now your coherence has gone as well. 1. Google to find out where Heineken is brewed. I know of at least three locations outside the Netherlands. Im not going to play ping pong off topic posts with you whilst you raise irrelevancies. 2. It was in 2006 or 2007 and I've no idea what the date was - although clearly during the season, probably November. Ive given you checkable references but you choose not to follow them up so you can continue to make empty points. Frankly you are a little odd. Goodbye

My, you really are mightily slow. Sainsburys and Wetherspoons buying Heineken brewed in the Netherlands is not the same as stating all Heineken is brewed in the Netherlands.Its not a difficult concept, Im surprised you struggle with it. Why dont you contact this woman, a former conservative party candidate? She first witnessed it and it was concerned about the impact on the image of shooting. It was her who asked me to do as site visit and raise it with David Miliband when he was environment minister. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Lampard] I used to have two people on ignore for being supercilious yet spectacularly wrong twonks. I need to apologise to Alpine because all things are relative.

The Daily Mail 22 hours ago http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2548345/Dani-Osvaldo-wanted-Juventus-Southampton-striker-serves-suspension.html

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No its one of those arguments where things don't happen f you haven't seen it. You claimed all Heineken came from Amsterdam which is clearly false as Heineken acknowledge on their website. As for shoots where fat barely able to fly reared birds are shooed out of trucks into a field or woodlands an hour or two before a coach load of untrained guns arrives - Ive seen it first hand - so don't bother to patronise.

The two areas are directly comparable - naturally occurring wetlands with similar elevations above sea level, man made waterways and peat pits. both areas are neutral or alkaline, not acidic. Obviously Im not advocating the whole area be flooded, something comparable in scale to the Great Fen would add to range of jobs, habitats and biodiversity. In the 2008 article below the increasing rate of flooding was already acknowledged. Re your assertion they currently act as a drainage sink - thats the whole point, they dont - they rely on pumped drainage. When it rains heavily the pumps cant cope and there isnt enough wetland to take up the excess water so farmland floods. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/europe/uk/739372/Willow-harvest-on-the-Somerset-Levels.html http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/sep/26/somerset-climate-change-uk

Great, you're a hobby farmer, even better. The biggest curse on rural areas of the 21st century. I know somebody who runs a city merchant bank for £2m pa who spends his weekend at a farmers market selling his pots of cream for £1.50. He'd be better off buying them from his neighbour and giving them away free.

http://www.goal.com/en/news/10/italy/2014/01/28/4575407/sensi-slams-third-rate-serie-a-foreigners

No no you don't understand. Its the government responsibility to keep the townies dry in their country cottages.

Thats more boll ocks Im afraid, although not uncharateristically so . http://www.wensumalliance.org.uk/publications/Taylor_Review_Livingworkingcountryside.pdf no doubt you live in a middle class household in a rural area your family have no connection to, but happily spout off about local history and culture.

Well done to all who made it happen

Forgive me but you tend to write in Daily Mail cliches. In any event the population of most rural areas has changed dramatically since the advent of mass car ownership. Townies pushed up the price of rural housing so now accountants live in the countryside and farm workers live in towns. The culture and history was trashed 40 years ago, and I speak as someone New Forest born whose family was priced out into Southampton.

No Im not advocating returning it to salt marsh at all - quite the reverse, although I do think the Environment Agencies plan to do away with some of the hard sea defences is a very good idea. Im against the highly engineered flood management style on the levels - reliant on artificial watercourses and pumping stations. The wildlife rich areas you refer to are those protected by the EAs actions they don't exist in spite of them. What I'd really like to see is the Somerset equivalent of the Great Fen project in Cambridgeshire. http://www.greatfen.org.uk/about/introduction. The areas are very similar terrain and fenland provides far better flood protection than pumping - though its hard to explain that to the average Joe as its counter-intutive - so you get a lot of ill informed reaction. http://www.greatfen.org.uk/about/future/flood-protection

20,000 acres isnt very much - the size of an average farm estate in Scotland. An area of farmland about five miles by six has been flooded. The bit about thousands of people in countless communities - well thats just Daily Mail drama which doesn't accord with any facts. http://www.environment-agency.gov.uk/news/151697.aspx

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The area has flooded regularly for thousands of years -it used to be tidal salt marsh. Despite what you see on the news only about 60 properties have flooded. tens of millions spent on sea defences, dredging and pumping to save 60 properties?

Somerset's name means Summer land - because it was too flooded to use during the winter. Even dredging the rivers wont make any difference because so much of the affected area is below sea level. The only reliable solution would be to use massive electric pumps to keep what is relatively poor agricultural land free from flooding. Why would it make more sense to spend multi millions trying to keep a relatively small area of farmland free from flooding when you could make it into a national park? Most of the houses and settlements are not actually flooded, but cut off (as people years ago had the sense to build on slightly higher ground). They could be cheaply protected by digging ditches around them with emergency only pumps and perhaps building up the height of the roads by a foot or so.

You're the one that thinks tackling climate change is a waste of time and money.

We should close down the academy talent production line to free up some vacancies for expensive transfers imo.

As you said its mostly below sea level and left to its own devices would revert to wetland ala the Norfolk broads and be a major tourist attraction. We dont have enough 'wild' space in the UK and it should be allowed to flood imo. Dredging rivers and turning them into lifeless drainage ditches isnt the answer.

Lithium

Exactly. There is an article in the , wait for it, Basingstoke Gazette, saying pretty much the same thing. http://www.basingstokegazette.co.uk/sport/10975474.COMMENT__Saints_need_to_ship_out_Osvaldo_and_bring_in_a_replacement_before_transfer_window_slams_shut/