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We know very little about Markus's day-to-day relationship with the rest of his family. For example, we don't know the reasons why he left the family business, do we? From the anecdotal evidence I suspect you're right but there could be underlying scenarios in the past we don't know about.

Isn't this sort of thing normally published in the Echo first....?

COAST are playing at the Soul Cellar this Friday. Living proof that the best bands do play Southampton ;-)

Maybe the OP mistakenly typed 'Sun' instead of 'Tea leaves'?

Dusting off my super-yacht spotting binoculars as we speak

I'm sitting in a swimming pool spectator area laughing out loud :-)

Sigh....getting bored of this "blame the BBC" line.... If the FIFA executive committee are that easily swayed by a TV programme then it says to me that Panarama perhaps had a point. Just think how much they could be swayed by money if they can be swayed by a TV programme....

Why are people surprised we came last? There were 'experts' saying beforehand that we would either come first or last. Something to do with the voting system....i.e. to win it we'd most likely scrape through the first round but then pick up most 2nd and 3rd votes. We obviously failed to do the first round scraping, that is all. Now England supporters know what it feels like to be David Milliband..... ;-)

No surprise. Predicted Russia on here 18 months ago

Substantial snow on Boxing Day too. You heard it here first

It wasn't obvious on 23rd November as it didn;t start snowing until several days later. I was simply using my mystic powers.

This is old news from 23rd November....keep up people FFS http://www.saintsweb.co.uk/showthread.php?26363-Hartlepool-4th-December&p=899001#post899001

You'd be better off joining a union. Much more regular and predictable days off that way...

Two words: Lembit Opik

"Hoax"?

http://www.conservatives.com/News/News_stories/2010/11/Britain_out_of_the_danger_zone.aspx

That was buctootim

Current members only, Shirley?

Are people really still talking about the variable temperature of a small spec of dust (aka planet Earth) in a vast universe? The self importance you humans attribute to yourselves is rather amusing.

Just heard that Unite will be avoiding Christmas / New Year if the strike ballot goes in favour of a strike. Common sense prevails!

Is that the same BBC that predicted I would get snow at the weekend just gone....?

Some clever sod predicted the game would be snowed off a week ago.... http://www.saintsweb.co.uk/showthread.php?26363-Hartlepool-4th-December&p=899001#post899001

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-11866508 If the snow doesn't get you first......not a good time to be planning a Christmas break me thinks.....

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-11860585 "The independent Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) says the economy will grow by 1.8% this year, higher than the previous forecast of 1.2%." "The OBR also revised its forecast for the number of public sector job losses it expects over the next four years, down from 490,000 to 330,000." Doesn't that put the number of public sector job losses below the 'natural attrition' threshold?

I think you have the bite you were after Dune.... ;-)