ecuk268

Didn't Matt Robinson give up football and go to play for P*mpey??

I heard it from a friend of the person who walks Cortese's window cleaner's dog.

A couple of weekends ago I forgot to lock the car which was parked on the drive. Came out in the morning to find that the contents of the glovebox and door pockets strewn across the seats. They only took a tatty pair of gloves, a plastic ice scraper and a wind-up torch. Didn't take any of my CDs or my waterproof jacket. Mrs ecuk268 said "What a coincidence that they tried your car on the one occasion that it was unlocked". Reported it on the 101 number and had a visit from the law. They said it's quite common for thieves to go down a road late at night and routinely try the doors on all the cars parked on the street or in driveways.

Vampire Bat??

I see that one polling station in Gwent had precisely zero voters.

Why do they want credit card details?

Agreed. Did The Hobbit at school in the 60's, read Lord of the Rings in the early 70's but found The Silmarillion pretty hard going.

Katich gone to Lancs for the money according to R. Solent.

"I Am The Secret Footballer". Interesting account of the life of a recently retired Premiership player (no one appears to know who he is) who has written a weekly column in the Guardian.

It's frightening when you spend a fortune on a state-of-the-art TV and 12 months later it's 100's of pounds cheaper.

Entwistle's downfall was sealed by an interview on Radio 4 yesterday when John Humphries (his own employee) tore him apart. When the phone-hacking scandal broke, all News International did was to lie and try to deceive. Why didn't The Times do an in-depth investigation from inside the organisation?

It's never been any other way. Clive Ponting's book "1940" details how Churchill was royally shafted over lend-lease by Roosevelt and throughout the Cold War the US was determined to ensure that any conflict short of all out war would be fought in Europe.

Comparison of the bottom three.... http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/blog/2012/nov/07/reading-southampton-qpr-sack-chairmen

Sycophant

Really? Di Canio grew up in Rome and NC was educated in Switzerland.

http://www.politicshome.com/uk/article/65037/sunday_express_saturday_3rd_november_2012.html

I thought you were being serious for about 5 seconds.

Who has come up with the brilliant suggestion that if a team goes 4-0 down, they should be able to bring on a 12th player.

I think that Terry Hurlock could answer that one.

What literally? Bet that cramped your style a bit. Or maybe not..........

That was a woman??

There's an excellent book called "The Secret State" by Professor Peter Hennessy which relates in detail the UK's defence planning during the Cold War. When the planners learnt about the "Football" that always accompanied the US President and contained the launch codes for the missiles, they raised the question of what would happen if there was a surprise attack and the PM was in his official car and could not be reached. The only nationwide radio network at the time was run by the AA, so they installed a receiver in the PM's car which received AA messages. They could then use this to alert the PM to a surprise attack. The idea was that the driver would then find a phone so that the PM could get in touch and authorize retaliation. They also ensured that all the PM's drivers carried sufficient change so the the PM could use a call box if necessary. They also realised by 1968 that the various bunkers dotted about the country were essentially useless in terms of protecting the nations leadership as the Russians knew where they were and a direct or very close hit would destroy them. So they adopted the Python concept which was dispersing small groups of ministers + the royal family to remote locations and then re-assemble them after the conflict ended, although whether there would be anything left to govern was another question.

I was in the 1st year at Barton Peveril at the time and remember some lad who went home for lunch and listened to the news coming back and saying that a war was about to start and we'd all be dead by teatime.

Both Crecy and Agincourt showed that the longbow was more effective.

The Guardian's somewhat tongue-in-cheek transfer column has him arriving here in January for £1.5m.