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Top ten salaried Chief Execs in Local Government : Cumbria County ( Conservative control ) Wandsworth ( Conservative ) Kent County ( Conservative ) Essex County ( Conservative ) Newham ( Labour ) Liverpool ( Labour ) Hammersmith & Fulham ( Conservative ) Lambeth ( Labour ) Suffolk County ( Conservative ) West Sussex ( Conservative ) Article here - http://www.localgov.co.uk/index.cfm?method=news.detail&id=91531 and a full list can be found in this file, linked at the bottom of the article - http://www.gmb.org.uk/docs/Top%20council%20earners%20Chief%20Execs%2009-10.xls

Lets make a more appropriate comparison - with the paid Civil Service. I have selected a story from the Daily Heil, just to show I'm not being partisan; http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1159860/700-mandarins-earn-100-000-year-new-figures-reveal.html Gus O'Donnell, in 2009, is listed as earning £285K per annum. And from an article in the Independent last year, ( after the BrokeBack coalition took office ) - "He was appointed Permanent Secretary to the Cabinet in 2005, with a salary of £240,000. He will have a lump sum of £305,000 and an income of £105,000 a year when he retires". ( http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/gus-odonnell-to-quit-before-next-election-2049100.html )

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hormones Cue a bad biochemistry joke : Q) What's the difference between an enzyme and a hormone ? A) You can't hear an enzyme. ( Courtesy of my BioChem lecturer in my 1st year at Uni ).

Hazel O'Connor - "Will You" The saxophone solo was used as the theme for a BBC TV series based around a welsh lifeboat station, and filmed at Mumbles near Swansea. I used to walk past it quite regularly when at Uni, and outside the station, and seen on the credits of the TV show, was a tethered old goat, with a baaaaad attitude.

Nation by Terry Pratchett, having just finished Unseen Academicals.

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Given the capacity of The Globe is a tad over 6000, as the Yanks would say 'go figure'. As for the Le Tiss evening, I work with the editor of their match day programme, and he says it was an excellent evening, and over £2000 was raised for charity by auctioning signed Premier League shirts.

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Multiculturism has not failed, but the press, especially the Heil, the Torygraph, and the Currant Bun like to tell you it has.

Every week we fail to win 8-0 this board is plagued with the most miserable, pessimistic sods you could ever meet. IF we fail to make the play-offs as a minimum, IF we fail to win through to the final, and IF we don't make promotion after the last ball of the season has been kicked, then hold a post-mortem, but there are still 19 games to play. Chillax.

There will be quite a few plastic mancs saying that this evening.

Makes us as good as the Arse then.

Posh put 5 past Sheff Wed at home, 4 past Hatlepool, 5 past Oldham, 4 past Huddersfield, and have now scored 45 at home in the league this season. It was never going to be 0-0. Cracking game, just fits the pattern of the day.

I put in my postcode and got "Sorry, we couldn't find a policing area that matched your search." I know there are spending cuts, but getting rid of the entire Lancashire Constabulary !

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