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Free market economics and healthy competition. Why should the taxpayer subsidize inefficiency. I'm beginning to sound a bit too right wing, so I'll shut up.

Dave doesn't fancy it because they've got a strong military and are backed by Russia and China and the US isn't interested. You don't think that Libya was anything to do with human rights do you?

It was a private venture and was losing money (apartment blocks are much more profitable). I was told by someone working on the demolition that the ground beneath the rink was frozen solid to a considerable depth (about 10 -12 feet).

A 70's classic. Re-makes are rarely as good as the original although I thought that Johnny Depp was good in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

Perhaps we should ask why he's been in prison for nearly 10 years without being charged with any crime If he's broken the law he should be put on trial.

It closed "temporarily" so that the staff could help with the flu non-epidemic a couple of years ago. It was a very useful place which is probably why they closed it. Took a lot of load off the local GPs.

Cooking is a valuable skill, not least because you learn that you don't need to spend a fortune to eat well.

If you like that sort of humour Newsbiscuit and Newsthump are both worth looking at. One that I really like is the Framley Examiner. It takes the **** out of local newspapers, but it hasn't been updated for a couple of years. I find the classified ads hilarious. http://www.framleyexaminer.com/

Amusing view from The Guardian: Fabio Capello has won seven Serie A titles at three separate clubs, two Spanish titles in two seasons a decade apart, four Italian cups, a Uefa Super Cup, and Big Cup, when his 1994 Milan team delivered the greatest and most dominant single performance of modern times. Meanwhile in his penultimate game as England coach, his well-drilled young side ground out a result against world and European champions Spain, a sign that while nobody was expecting Brasil'70-style shenanigans any time soon, there were at least realistic and coherent plans being put in place, with a view to an acceptable showing at Euro 2012 and maybe even a smidgen of hope for the future. But consider this. Capello recently went on holiday over the Christmas period! He speaks Italian! He doesn't do chest-thumping passion! He hasn't wasted one nano-joule of energy in buttering up the English press pack! And not once in his so-called career has he won the FA Cup, or pulled off an audacious relegation escape by signing Paul Kitson and John Hartson, even though he was the man who led his team into deep relegation trouble in the first place, or got a club relegated from the top flight after a 27-year residency, or proved himself to be a more successful boss than Jacques Santini and Christian Gross and Ossie Ardiles and Doug Livermore and Ray Clemence! So, no loss, then. Chancer. Foreign chancer. Bye!

When did she buy them, and how much rent does she pay for Buck House and Windsor? Or are they a bit like tied cottages?

Despite my republican leanings, I think that Liz has done a reasonable job. However, she can't go on for ever so we're faced with the affable but slightly weird Charles. if we have to have a monarch, I see no reason why the whole thing can't be scaled down a bit like the European monarchies. OK, they need a big house with an enormous garden in the centre of London. But they've also an enormous castle set in a huge park in Berkshire, another estate in Norfolk and yet another in Scotland. Do they really need all that?

Scott Parker.

Top of Hill Lane area to Hardley. Usually takes about 20-25 minutes but I have to go through 20 sets of traffic lights so it can make quite a difference if they all happen to be red.

Goals galore. In '89 we scored 4 away at Loftus Rd and the next week 4 at home v Liverpool (even King Kenny admitted that it could have been 8 ) Probably my all-time favourite game in terms of us out-classing the opposition who were, at that time, one of the best in Europe.

Still there.

Me too.

Ken Monkou for 750k was a good buy although, for some reason, Souness hardly ever played him. Only decent thing that Branfo*t ever did.

The problem with Kindle is that, if you buy an e-book from Amazon, you can't pass it on to another Kindle owner (although, in the US, you can lend it to one other person for 2 weeks and then can't lend it to anyone else). I get my fiction books from the excellent Southampton library as there are very few that I would actually want to keep. If they enable libraries to lend e-books, I may consider a Kindle.

CBP - Carlton "Bloody" Palmer.

I was at Barton Peveril in the 60s and, after school, we used to sneak into the railway works to get up close to these enormous steam engines. Fascinating place. Most of the blokes were happy to chat to us but eventually some jobsworth would spot us and sling us out.

Just the one.

You are a man of taste,sir. Closely followed by ACDC.

It's gonna be brass monkeys this weekend. That'll teach them.

Isn't that what they're paid for?

If we got rid of q, would it be Kween Elizabeth or Cween Elizabeth?