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Was Ervine hero or villain? Went for 21 off his 1 over, out 1st ball in the OOPSE but made a useful 32.

Dave Cameron said in the Tory Manifesto that no banker in bailed out banks would be allowed a bonus of more than 2k. http://www.conservatives.com/News/News_stories/2009/02/No_bank_bonuses_over_2000.aspx He wouldn't lie, would he? Oh yeah, he also said "We have no plans to increase the rate of VAT".

Watching the first few episodes of "Boardwalk Empire" . It's about the prohibition era in the US. Due to be shown on the new Sky Atlantic channel next month. Another quality offering from HBO.

If speed cameras are a way of making money, why are some local authorities turning them off "to save money"? Surely they should be installing more to get even more cash. Let's face it, we all break the speed limit at times. If you get caught, just accept it, there's not really any excuse.

Started taking my nipper to Reserve games when they were at the Dell when he was about 5. His first "real" game was at home to Ipswich when he was 6. 7 goals, a penalty and a sending off. Trouble was he thought every game was going to be like that.

I've no particular axe to grind re hunting (by the way, the Con-Dems have said that there is no chance of the free vote taking place in 2011), but the hunt is an inefficient way of controlling foxes. I used to assist in the running of a pheasant shoot and we had a few problems with foxes. The hunt was invited in and the foxes simply moved to land where the hunt couldn't go and then returned when the hunt was over. We had a lot more success with a few good guns.

During the '83 Election Campaign, she visited a company where I was working. She's a lot shorter than you think.

Military Intelligence

Ask some of the Scots and Welsh Nats or the Northern Irish Republicans.

Rodney Marsh was on Radio 4 this morning saying that, according to a very reliable source, Tevez is on 286000 a week after tax. This makes him the highest paid player in Europe. Look like he wants to go back to Argentina. His estranged wife is there with his kids.

What's brown and sounds like a bell? Dung!!!!!

'His parents are Pompey season-ticket holders and intelligent people." Isn't that what's known as an oxymoron?

Same here, and if you forgot your towel you still had a shower and had to borrow a towel from someone else (after they'd used it) and it was invariably very soggy.

Obviously a man of taste: "HE is the brain of Spain, the world's best playmaker - and his idol is Matt Le Tissier. Xavi was voted the top player of Euro 2008 for masterminding his country's triumph. But it might never have happened but for Southampton legend Le Tiss. In an exclusive interview, Xavi admitted: "The man I absolutely loved watching as a kid was Matt Le Tissier after seeing the highlights on TV of his extraordinary goals. "His talent was out of the norm. He could dribble past seven or eight players but without speed - he just walked past them. For me he was sensational. "We had a programme on Spanish TV with the best goals from around Europe. He was always the star. "I was 10 or even younger. He was definitely an idol." And '"I'll tell you who I used to love watching", says Xavi Hernandez, Barcelona's prodigious midfielder "Matt Le Tissier. He played for Southampton, as small club with a small stadium. But he would never leave. He wasn't like a typical English player and he would have done well in Spain. He had offers all the time leave but he stayed where his heart is. I'm like Matt Le Tissier, but for Barca. I've had offers to leave but I'm here for as long as possible.

He did spend 18 years as a Liberal MP (Churchill, not dune)

Good point. The Dutch calculated that they would lose about 100 million euros staging the World Cup. I think the point of the programme was not the allegations themselves but that FIFA showed no interest in investigating them.

The Little Englanders are swimming against the tide. We will not leave the EU because 99% of British business is against it. Even old Dave Cameron realises this, hence not much mention of Europe in the election campaign. Many British companies are European owned (I work for one of them) and we have been told that if we left the EU, production would be moved to mainland Europe locations. Many other companies would follow suit.

Older forum members will remember The Running Horse pub down the side of the old Echo building in Above Bar. Some relatives of mine used to keep it during the war. When their was an air-raid they took shelter in the pub cellar. One night, although the pub survived, the Echo office was flattened and the rubble trapped them in the cellar. A broken water main was slowly filling the cellar with water. They were rescued in time but it must have been a pretty scary experience. I remember my old Aunt telling me she went into town the morning after the raid on 30th Nov. When the sirens sounded the night before, many people were still shopping in Above Bar and the ran out of the shops into the parks. Unfortunately that was where the first stick of bombs fell. She said that the next day there were still arms and legs and other body parts up in the trees.

I hope that you're not referring to dune. I'm sure that he seeks a wide spectrum of opinion, examines the statistical evidence behind the more sensationalist and xenophobic headlines and then comes to a considered opinion using his formidable intellect (and what Nigel Farage says). Sarcastic? Moi?

'Effect' is a noun, 'Affected' is the past tense of a verb.

There's not a hope in hell of UK withdrawing from the EU. None of the major parties support it as they know ot would be disastrous for UK businesses. Neither the CBI or the TUC support it (not often those two agree). The EU is supported by (amongst others) Unilever, BT, BMI, BAE Systems, Ernst & Young, Ford Motor Co, Kelloggs, KPMG, Nestle and many other major employers. People might vote for UKIP for a laugh in the Euro elections, but they've achieved nothing nationally. They did increase their share of the vote by a massive 0.9% in 2010 but even their fellow nutjobs in the BNP managed 1.9%. Farage is a good laugh when you listen to him. Maybe he'd get elected in the US as they elected Reagan and they even seem to take Sarah Palin (we must stand by our friends in North Korea) seriously.

The problem with Kindles is that there is no second-hand e-book market. Apparently each e-book has a unique code that ties it to the Kindle where it's installed. I buy a fair few used books (some from Amazon) so why no used e-books?

If you let the BBC take advertising then the programmes will be created to get the largest audiences for the advertisers. This stifles innovation and creativity and we'd just see more of the garbage churned out by ITV. The founders of the BBC saw one of their objectives as education and, although I think that BBC1 has dumbed down somewhat, BBC2 and BBC4 still produce some good stuff that they couldn't do if they were dependant on advertising revenue. Same applies to R4, which despite it's somewhat stuffy image, produces an extraordinarily wide range of programmes. Not all to my taste, but always something to engage the brain.

Alas, no more Sandeesh. She didn't do a lot, but oh those amazing eyes!