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How cruel. Just because he's a carrot-top and looks nothing like the rest of the clan, that's no reason to cast aspersions on Saint Diana.

He obviously realises that the Royals are far superior to him. Some of us aren't so gullible.

I think that opinion may change when the Queen goes to the great palace in the sky. Charles is by no means universally liked, and the other two aren't exactly the brightest sparklers in the box. Once Lizzie's gone, there may be more searching questions asked about their role and value to the country.

As long as I can opt out of paying the proportion of the price of goods that is spent on the advertising that funds ITV. (I think that we've had this argument before).

Presumably your MEP voted on it. He's accountable to the electorate (although we seem to hear very little from them).

Kate Bush did a great version of Marvin Gaye's "Sexual Healing"

I do like Walking Dead but what annoyed me in the last episode was why, when the zombies were approaching the broken down vehicles, the people didn't just run away. The zombies can only manage a snail's pace. Bit like when someones being chased by a car, they always seem to run in the middle of the road instead of darting sideways up some alleyway or narrow path.

Wake up to R4, Solent on the way to work for traffic and sport, R5 at lunchtime, Solent on way home (traffic and sport) and Solent for Saints away games.

And, if she makes a mistake, someone can rectifi 'er.

I was there. December '85 IIRC. I think we lost.

They're obviously well informed about current affairs.

I know that us older forumites are always saying how much better education was in our day but watching the girls trying to work out their costs was truly painful. "Three fours are twenty-eight?" - they seemed to have no knowledge of elementary arithmetic.

Your last sentence raises an interesting question. Should the public be allowed to decide on matters of which many have them have no great knowledge but which could have considerable effects on the country. The EU question is extremely complex and certain sections of the press have their own agenda and print stories which are blatantly untrue (the banning of Bombay Mix was invented by a small Belgian newspaper who then sold it to gullible papers like the Sun and the Mail who didn't bother to check it). Could a referendum be phrased in such a way that the voters would be aware of all of the possible effects of staying in or coming out?

This is a like a replay of the 90's with Major's government. Economy going down the tubes, unemployment rising, inflation rising and all the Tories can do is squabble about Europe when they must know that their leadership would never bring us out, as their big-business backers wouldn't let them.

I don't think that you can buy new Georgian furniture.

They haven't got any oil so nobody gives a toss

Boilers were lot simpler then. My old one went for 20 years and never went wrong. I've had the new one for 6 years and, while it's definitely more efficient, it's gone wrong twice and cost me about £250.

The RAF actually flew about 10% of the missions as did Canada, Italy and Norway, the French flew 33%, the Yanks 16% and Denmark 11%. Hardly a leading role. So, where next? Syria, Bahrain, Saudi?

I don't think he's a hypocrite, but where does he think his 120K comes from and what does he think his duties are? He's there to help his electorate, they pay his salary. A bit of advice wouldn't have gone amiss.

How do you judge a manager? Is Alex Ferguson with his squad full of superstars a better manager than some bloke in League 2 trying to keep his club going on a shoestring? Probably different qualities needed for each, but who's to say which is the better.

Townsend Thoresen went to Cherbourg and Le Havre and P & O also went to Le Havre (the Panther and the Leopard). There was also a larger ship called the Eagle which went down to Santander and Tangier. My cousin was a Customs Officer at the time and the Eagle was always good for a bit of the exotic tobacco.

Apparently, he resigned last week but gave the letter to Oliver Letwin to pass on to Cameron.....

I've had Virgin TV, phone and broadband for years and not had too many problems. When there has, they've been fixed pretty quickly and they've even phoned me afterwards to check that everything's OK. I've got a V+ box which will store 80 hrs of SD programmes. It's got 3 tuners so you can be watching one programme while recording 2 others. They now do a Tivo box which is like a better version of V+, stores more and has programme search facilities. As a new customer, you'll probably be able to negotiate a good deal.

Me too.

You cannot do this if they own a cat.