badgerx16

One atom says to another "I think I just lost an electron". The second one asks "Are you sure ?". "I'm positive".

Just browsing YouTube and have come across Eluveitie - a touch of Death Metal with bagpipes, flute, fiddle, and hurdy gurdy. Weird, but strangely addictive.

Mandatory full retest for anybody who loses their licence, and jail time for driving whilst disqualified. In my view, those most likely to cause / have an accident are those motorcyclists who fail to understand that the rules of the road, ( speed limits, solid white lines in the centre of blind bends, not overtaking in the face on oncoming traffic, etc ), apply to them as much as to car drivers. I wouldn't have thought many of them are over 60.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lancashire-13001777 'Mr Lund said: "We've always been completely open and honest about the fact we'd identified a problem. The initial research, referred to in The Times, was carried out in 2003. It was identified that children were potentially at risk from sexual exploitation, which led to Blackpool Council and Lancashire Constabulary pledging to tackle the problem head on by establishing the Awaken Project. Due to the success of the project, children in Blackpool are now safer than they've ever been. The project has received national acclaim and is now a model which other authorities have adopted.'

socks

For what it's worth, Mick Gradwell's involvement in this particular area of investigation ceased just after the 2003 report was produced. His last case in Lancashire, of any sort, was in 2008 before he went to head up the Haut de la Garenne enquiry in Jersey, after which he retired.

I'm not denying there may be a problem, but with the sensationalist way it is headlined, and by the way dunce has edited the story to form his OP, it seem to me that it is being used to support a particular anti-muslim agenda. The actual story is that an ongoing Home Office enquiry is investigating claims that this practice may be spreading to the midlands, hardly a surprise given the prosecutions in Derby. And this story is so much of a current issue up here, the local rag doesn't have a single line on it.

Exactly. Shows how up to date the Torygraph is, printing a headline story that is 8 years old.

Clinton

handy

Ascona

We're the rural Lancashire, not quite as exotic as some of the foreign places that are being registered, but nonetheless over here.

relax

gardens

:):) Good luck to everybody else.

Fingers crossed for everybody else in this situation - I find out if I have survived this afternoon.

Babs married Jesus of Nazareth ( well Robert Powell )

maglia

snap

But do they have the same level of hysteria over the debt level that we are experiencing ?

Just take a peek at Japan.

Do you feel better now dearie ? And just to help, they are not MY union members, as I'm not in a union, and haven't been since about 1988.

So, there are no unions in the private sector, are there ? Try getting rid of that massive chip on your shoulder, being able to stand up straight will give you a whole new perspective on life.

Oscar

Real World to Alpine Saint : I was engaged in a game of tit-for-tat statistics chucking, and I am perfectly well aware of the iniquities of our 'democratic' system and it's propensity to create majority Governments from a minority share of the vote -which you would be aware of if you ever bothered to actually read a thread through, ( something that dunce, for all his faults, actually manages). And for the record I am not, nor have I ever been, a member of ANY political party. So if you've got nothing of interest or value to add, go and troll somewhere else. Oh forgot ----- FFS !