Whitey Grandad

In this case 1% is too low, but I do think that the principle of a percentage is wrong. Once you've paid some threshold, say £50,000, then the rate should reduce to around 10%. As I once said in a private meeting with Nigel Lawson (ooh, get him!) the intention is to get these people to stay and pay the tax rather than avoiding it, and he readily agreed.

The last series was crap. They changed the format and moved production to somewhere west. Mick Aston left in disgust and I don't blame him. The new presenter Mary-Ann Ochota has also left. They meddled with a much-loved product.

No you're not. You're thinking in percentage terms, not absolute amounts. http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/news/article-2107031/UK-Budget-2012-Top-1-earners-contribute-income-tax.html (Daily Mail but still valid)

It's simple really. 1% is way too low and %50 is way too high. Make it flat with no allowances, and anything over 20% is too much. The difference between benefit cheats and tax avoiders is that one takes money but the other just doesn't give it. And one is illegal, the other isn't.

I'd rather have the SLS, thanks. Do I have a choice of colour?

Was that at Woodside Avenue? I used to buy from them and they arranged or my son to have some work experience when he was at school. Did you know that Vero was founded by Sir Geoffrey Verdon-Roe (hence the company name), son of Sir Alliott Verdon-Roe of Avro aircraft fame? Sir Alliott is buried in St. Andrews church graveyard at Hamble.

It depends on getting the FIT guaranteed before August. The advantage of an industrial unit is that we would be using the electricity whilst we are producing it. I use an average over the year of 50 units a day, 40/day in summer and 60/day in winter. I've just had a bill for 19 working days in April for around £450 and it scares the willies out of me. Historically the usage has stayed the same for at least 12 years but the cost is steadily rising. Let's see what the costs are and take it from there.

I know them very, very well and have done for nearly thirty years. The owner is an old friend of mine. Do I remember that you work in the health service? In which case I think I know where this is going! Give me a pm and I'll give you my phone number and we can have a chat.

If it makes you happier, I am having quotes tomorrow for a rooftop solar system on my factory unit.

Wash your keyboard! All designed, manufactured, assembled and tested here by me, and my colleagues. We also export signs, mainly to France, USA, Australia

Bought my two this morning. £1350 plus £3.00 because I paid by card instead of cash. Are they crazy? Don't they know how much cash costs to process? If it makes any of you feel any better, my brother-in-law's company has just renewed their four corporate package seats (not a box) at White Hart Lane for a total price of £19,000 for one season. Ouch.

That film would be worth seeing. If the posts aren't vertical then all bets are off. No technology can ever be 100% accurate and there would need to an allowance for the margin of error, say 6", assuming that you're going to assume 'no goal' if in doubt. There will always be a point where 50 people would say 'goal' and the other 'no goal' it's a very simple sport, twenty-odd blokes running around a grass field kicking lumps out of the ball and each other. Many decisions are vague and qualified by 'in the opinion of the referee'. Judging offside by an imaginary line across the field at a right-angle is always going to be subjective. It's only a sport and without all the money and hype the result would not be important. Leave the beautiful game as it is, warts and all. entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem

Electronic programmable displays, and anything else that makes money.

I suppose forewind sounds better than backwind. Should be useful whilst it's working but the sea is a very harsh environment. And another thing... Why do they all rotate in the same direction? All these vortices are buggering up the conservation of angular momentum. Talking of which: http://vortexwindfunnel.com/

What's the battery life like when running? I have TomTom and also Satnav2 by Skobbler on mine. Every map in the World for £7.99.

Honest, that was the first photo I found.

That's ok then, oop north is well out of the way. Just don't put any in Scotland, just in case. If they go independent we shall want our subsidies back.

Heading the right way, at least. The oil price has been a large factor in the recession, IMO.

Not many, certainly not my business. It all depends on how many voters are involved, of course.

And there we can agree...

This is exactly why we should not introduce it. Leave the game as it it, pure and simple.

Ooh, get her! You have to be very careful with statements like that. If it's not viable without a subsidy then it's not viable. That subsidy is just paying for conscience appeasement. And they're so damned ugly.

An alternative view: http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/03/19/the-reality-of-wind-turbines-in-california-video/

Because demand with no wind can last for many days, for example in winter with a high pressure system locked over us. Then we would have the cost of two supply systems. Wind is not free, forever, the turbines are not reliable long-term and need maintenance. And they're so damned ugly.

No, the referee specifically said "is there any reason why I should not award the try", which is a different presumption. The video official decided that the player had stepped into touch, by brushing a couple of blades of grass with his toe, it appeared to me.