Whitey Grandad

If the money is already due to the agents and they have submitted invoices then the VAT element would already have been included in the net amount owing to HMRC, that is they would already have 'claimed it back'. It depends on the tax point which must be very close to the date of supply of the service.

You're not wrong. Didn't Birmingam go straight back up?

Subject to ratification at a meeting in June, I believe. Almost all the Fotball League would be against it, surely?

So why didn't the BA staff bring forward their strike to today?

You'll get less wet if you take the ferry across instead of the train ;-)

I have a holiday on that weekend that we booked last year, so I can categorically state that we shall reach the final.

Please don't think that it's a question of whether or not you'll get a disease of some sort. The damage is cumulative in all sorts of ways, arterial damage, skin damage, lungs to name but a few. I debated this years ago with my business partner and he said: 'but nobody can point a finger at you and say that you will get lung cancer'. He died 7 years ago next August at the age of 64. From lung cancer. On the general point of universal health treatment, this is a fundamental problem throughout the NHS, deciding who, out of the many deserving causes, should get treated from what will always be limited resources.

Just heard on the radio: Dear Iceland, we said 'please send more cash'.

Apparently it's too high to see but we could have some red sunsets over the next couple of days.

We once supplied a training simulator to the Danish Army. On their firing ranges they are not allowed to shoot at anything which is shaped like a human being so they shoot at red triangles. The officer involved said that so long as the Russians invaded wearing red triangles all would be ok.

Perhaps they all smell? Just a thought...

Rule 1?

'It's not enough to succeed. Others have to fail'. Gore Vidal

Watch out for the volcanic ash.

Does anybody know how long this will last? I have regular air shipments from the Far East and it all my suppliers are a bit surprised when I rais the question of delays.

I always used to get nervous when it got bumpy but now it doesn't seem to bother me. Sit as far forward in the plane as you can and I always used to think of those brave chaps in their Lancasters over Germany. At least you're not being shot at!

You can believe that if you like, but it ain't true. I've seen too may friends and relatives eaten away by the dreaded addiction.

Highlights on BBC for uk viewers: http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/eng_div_2/default.stm We are at 06:50. I wish I'd been there.

Smokers should be banned from everything.

I'm told that over the Himalayas it can get bumpy.

Thanks. That is still a considerable reduction.

Which players would that be? The expensive, talented, ones that they bought with taxpayers' subsidy? This is the essence of the complaints, that if they only had players that they could afford, then they would not have distorted the competitions in which they have played.

Wasn't that brought down from £8m over the season?

I think it increases with more generations of inbreeding.

I've asked around and these people have good reports: http://www.mrclutch.com/branches/36/southampton Might we worth an ask. If you need a tow, I have a tow-rope.