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I've signed upto both.

Try and avoid staying overnight at Niagara Falls as the mist gets into the hotel rooms and makes everything slightly damp! The falls are great especially the maid in the mist boat trips but as has been said all around the falls is like mildly upmarket Blackpool. Toronto is ok but rather benign, the CN tower is great, as is the BlueJays Stadium underneath. It also has the Woodbine Centre shopping mall which is where they filmed some scenes for the Police Academy films if that floats your boat. I also seem to remember some very good chinese restaurants but that might be my brain failing me.

I've called the United Nations and they've said that this will now be their highest priority.

Not usually, your luggage will automatically be sent to your new flight.

For the People of Norway, by Michael Morpurgo From BBC News - Today - 'Each of us must face the monster down' & giving out an excellent idea at the end of the piece Only last Summer I was sailing along the coast of Norway, in and out of the fjords. We picnicked on deserted islands, explored tiny villages, with their simple clapperboard houses painted oxblood red. We visited ancient stave churches, entirely built from wood, black with pitch, each a symbol of survival and hope and fortitude. All the while I wondered at the majestic beauty of the place, at the dark rearing cliffs, the thunderous waterfalls. We warmed to the generosity of the people we met - a people without envy, it seemed, at peace with themselves. As we know, they had done their share of invading centuries before, had since been invaded themselves often enough, but had in recent history set all that aside, become hugely prosperous and developed one of the most equitable and democratic societies the world has ever known. Like the Irish and the Canadians, and others, they have carved out a place for themselves as the great peace-makers. I had brought with me a book to read on the boat, Beowulf, a story set in this very place, an ancient story/poem. It seemed appropriate. Grendel the Monster stalks this land, preying on the people, bringing death and destruction - it seems to be what he was born for, this foul fiend. Beowulf, our hero, confronts him and kills him in a titanic struggle, but this is not the end of it. Evil is not so easily vanquished. This struggle between good and evil is at the heart of so many of our legends and folktales, and these were told not simply to children but to everyone. And they had a purpose. They are warning tales, to alarm and to terrify - yes, to entertain too - but essentially to remind us of our frailty. Whatever the evil one is called - witch, devil, troll or dragon, we have to be watchful and wary. These stories are there to prepare us, to give us some understanding of our human predicament, of the precariousness of our existence. The perpetrator of the massacre in Oslo and on the island of Utoya stalked the land as surely as the monster Grendel in Beowulf. He attacked innocent young people in a determined attempt to extinguish hope. But Beowulf fought on. All his life he confronted the evil Grendel. Norway has done this before. They know how to survive. These ancient folk tales have great wisdom for us today. They can remind us that even the most prosperous and openhearted people, living in a country where respect for human rights is a given, where all seems so well, are vulnerable to evil. We cannot protect ourselves entirely. But we can be vigilant, particularly on behalf of our children. We can better prepare them. Let us not kid them. The monsters are out there, and they are not like Shrek, they are like Grendel. Each of us must face the monster down. At Christmas time, every year since the Second World War, the Norwegians send us a Christmas tree to put up in Trafalgar Square. Wouldn't it be an idea, now, at this terrible time for the Norwegian people, to offer to plant a tree of ours on Utoya, as a symbol of our solidarity and friendship with them? Nice little symbol, don't you think ?

To be fair, it couldn't be any worse than the original. I nominate Madonna's cover of American Pie

Nothing wrong with a little entertainment, it's only a friendly.

I'll miss the concrete dogs.

At last the Hindhead tunnel will open southbound on the 27th with the north tunnel due to open a few days later.

Doesn't seem to be a pre-requisite. JRR Tolkein, George Orwell and Rudyard Kipling were all born abroad but would be considered British.

Pedant.

Britain's former greatest living artist died aged 88

Bird poo normally.

Try Dune, he'll do anything to get rid of a foreign invader.

I see Dune's got his rod out again, his story is almost as believable as the Murdoch families.

Beaten by dingbattinger is bad enough, but ericofarabia as well, i feel like Rupert Murdoch in a cell full of NOTW journalists.

Bugger, dingbattinger beat me to it

It's called a Datura Stramonium (Thorn Apple) and it's poisonous to eat to human's and animals, you can use parts of it as a hallucinogen but i would try to destroy it completely.

Cameron is tainted now, surely he'll just be a joke if he stays on? I do find it quite funny that Piers Morgan might get dragged into the whole mess, it would make my day.

How's about £4200 cheapest, £22000 the most expensive! No wonder loads of people drive without.

First car, zero no claims.

One of my ex-employees is about to insure his first car, a Rover 25, say about '52' reg and worth about £1k max, he's 19 and works on a farm, any guesses how much for third party only insurance?

Oh, your so alternative it positively hurts. Lemon.

We're signing Skacel? Who he?

In reality us fatties are doing the country a favour by not living as long and therefore not incurring pension or carehome costs, you ferkin' selfish anorexics.