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Sounds liks much the same sort of thing really? Ie. it was the jewellery itslef that was the issue, not the religious belief. I'm not aware of any Christian teaching that makes the wearing of a cross on a chain a requirement of the faith. I'm no supporter of religion and I'm no supporter of disproportionately draconian codes and policies drawn up for no good reason but when you read a report of a case like this, unless it's from a legal update which discusses the issues of the particular case and the points in question, it is likely that you will not get a fair picture of what is going on.

As one of the commentators on the article has succinctly put it: She was asked to remove a necklace, not a religious symbol. She could have pinned it to her clothing but refused to compromise. The Sikhs in the same Trust have complied with not wearing the Kara (bracelet) on the wrist and the Muslim staff have complied with only wearing tight fitting Sports Hijabs, but we are all up in arms over a Christian woman who would rather wear a necklace dangling outside her uniform than care for her patients. Surely more Pharisee than Samaritan?

There's nothing like basing an argument on a false premise is there.... That nurse was banned from hanging something on her neck whilst performing front-line (ie on ward) duties dealing with patients with mental health deterioration in some cases. It was assessed that hanging something round your neck in those circumstances presented a health hazard. When she wasn't carrying out clinical functions on the ward she was allowed to wear the chain. The fact that it was a religious symbol was irrelevant. She was told she was welcome to wear the religious symbol on her person but not have it hung round her neck when interracting with the patients in a clinical capacity.

Robsk, there is moral virtue in the use of paragraphs, mate.

The second paragraph is correct. The only reason everyone seems to hate Mawhinney is because he looked cheery on Sky Sports News once.

People say I'm a photocopier salesman but I'm not.... sure I might have sold the odd photocopier now and then.... who hasn't?

True Actually now I think about it, Investec were the major insitutional shareholders in us (SLH PLC) weren't they? They possibly do have some sort of sporting arm that I don't know anything about in that case so I'll wind me' neck in on the subject of Investec and football finance!

I shall vote Lib Dem for the simple reason that the Tories will be a distant third here (my "Location" is wrong, by the way) and I obviously want to get rid of Labour. If we had PR, I'm not actually sure who I would vote for (but obviously not Labour).

I doubt it too. Investec are mostly into pension funds. Why they would waste their time on some sort of invoice discounting scheme with a two-bob outfit like Pompey is beyond me, therefore I doubt that they are.

Apparently some place called Silverspoons is a charming slice of authentic London life. There's a place over the road where you can get breakfast too.

I'm not being funny but you lot let Scooby post for ages despite it being obvious that he was just a plonker on a wind-up who enjoyed ruining threads. I reported it loads of times and I expect others did too. The biggest WUM by far and you let him post for months.

In simple terms, buying debt, or rather the right to recover debt, at a discount. The original creditor benefits from having a single debtor that is highly credit worthy (ie a bank), as opposed to a load of small customers who never pay on time, dispute amounts and are generally a pain in the backside, but loses out on recovering the full value of the debt. This gives the company cash-flow certainty. The bank keeps a proportion of the debt it recovers from the small customers etc. It is a fairly common thing and used by many solvent companies.

Did he say, "calm down, calm down"?

Referendum Party mate - Tories were far too left wing.

I wonder what the succesful outcomes that have been delivered are?

Yes, it really is a stupid song.

It's just a flesh wound.

No doubt some idiot will sing "You're just a small town in Milwall", or something equally nonsensical and borish.

Well, if there is a positive it's that Huddersfield are making hard work of this. As did we, to a certain extent yesterday. I'm sure they will drop some points, but will it be enough! It's a cliche but there's nothing we can do so I just hope the lads can finish this season on a high.

We may or may not have more "disaffected" fans. I don't think that's what the thread is about. It's about the number of "affected", if you know what I mean, fans. Frankly whether ours are any good or not is irrelevant to whether Pompey's are any good or not. There's clearly aren't. This season has exposed them for what everyone with a small smattering of intelligence knew they were all along; a small time enterprise catering for brigands and ne'erdowells that could only ever achieve anything in TECNICOLOR by embracing reckless abandon. They have been shown up as pointless, putrid and pathetic. Yet they have somehow, probably due to their unusual appearance and quaint, anachronistic surroundings cultivated an image as somehow cherishable, as nostalgic emblems, as a hark back to what we all used to be. This season has shown that to be a complete crock of ****. Which is worth comment.

Thanks for the warning .... HAAAA!! "Stuart Greens right hand man" PMSL. Marc Jackson’s Specialties: Complex distressed takeovers of Football clubs or management delivery of high level transition teams into distressed companies. Oh, stop it!

I'm sure they'd be able to explain it somehow. It's not as if cogent thought and consistency is a prerequisite for a religious dogma!

Looknig at those Huddersfiled fixtures is a little depressing but I guess we need to hope that Milwall do us a favour and that Colchester drop some more points but also do us a favour. Finally, we need Exeter to deliver! I can see that match being a test. If the pressure's on Huddersfield on the last day and Exeter are giving it 100% it won't be easy. Oh, and we need to win everything!

Yes, I agree with that.

I agree largely with Chez's lengthy post above, apart from the bit about not expecting to win this weekend