Thought Id start this one going because its rather dead on this board at the moment and I suppose all my usual muckers are either at the Stella tennis event watching Dim Tim (lose again) or at Henly Regatta eating cucumber sandwiches (they wish,...NOT).

Anyway please feel free to just talk to yourself blast away and let it go on any company or subject you wish. Just wish Id thought of this one before.

cheers GF.

Stan - its interesting to see the "Butchers Arms" described as the smallest Free house in England. I always thought "The Little Gem" was the smallest Free house in kent!

I don't know, always wary of such claims myself.

I've been to the Little Gem and it is just that - very small and a Gem!

Yes some of these pubs really are a haven aren't they Skinny.

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Clearly a case of not going into the right pubs and mixing with reasonable company mn.

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Pushing DOW towards 13k.
Banks trying to be positive.
after a week loss.

Yes - 13k looks a cert today - crazy yanks.

They were afraid and pushed it down too much, now getting positively excited, so the start of the rise. Check Apple.

Banks should benefit the most.

Park the car !!!

..Cancer Warning: Coke And Pepsi Change Recipe

By (c) Sky News 2012 | Sky News – Fri, Mar 9, 2012 22:15 GMT

Coca-Cola and Pepsi are changing the recipes for their soft drinks to avoid being forced by law to put a cancer warning on the label.

The caramel colouring in the drinks will contain lower levels of 4-methylimidazole, which has been added to the list of carcinogens in California law.

Coca-Cola's recipe is being changed across the US - but will not be changed in Britain or the rest of Europe (Chicago Options: ^REURUSD - news) .

Under the legislation, drinks containing a certain level of carcinogens must bear a cancer warning label.

Coca-Cola and PepsiCo (Euronext: PEP.NX - news) account for almost 90% of the fizzy drinks market in America.

The changes have already been made for drinks sold in California.

The companies said the new recipes would be rolled out across the US to streamline their manufacturing processes.

Diana Garza-Ciarlante, a spokeswoman for Coca-Cola, said: "While we believe that there is no public health risk that justifies any such change, we did ask our caramel suppliers to take this step so that our products would not be subject to the requirement of a scientifically unfounded warning."

The company later said that while its manufacturers had been asked to change the caramel ingredient, its "secret formula" was not being altered.

The American Beverage Association said the new standard was based on one study linking the chemical to cancer in mice and rats, but added there was no evidence showing that it causes cancer in humans.

The Food and Drug Administration said a person would have to drink more than 1,000 cans a day to reach the doses administered that have shown links to cancer in rodents.

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Lib Dem members oppose NHS reforms in conference vote

Lib Dem activists have voted at their spring conference in Gateshead to oppose the government's controversial bill to reform the NHS in England.

The party leadership lost a ballot on the issue by 314 votes to 217.

The decision is not binding on the government, but BBC correspondent Norman Smith said it was a major setback for the Lib Dem leadership.

The party leadership has argued that it has secured major concessions to the bill and it should now become law.

Clegg has sold out to the tory party of Broken Pledge and U-turn Cameron.

I doubt that the libs grass roots will forgive him or his fellow lib cabinet members.

I wonder or suspect Danny Boy Alexander, More and Cleg will renegade their previous principals and join the tory party.

A few more of the present party will disappear into the distance of time.


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The last thing the NHS needs at the present time is the uncertainty of an expensive reorganisation and privatisation.

Gps and Hospital consultants in general don't have sufficient overall perspective of what is necessary fot a unniveral health and welfare srevices.

The majority of those in favour of the changes seem to me to be doing it out of self interest and their own pockets.

Which seeems to indentify with the present ideology of the tory leadership.

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Sad period of British politics.

It looks like the Libs will support NHS reforms within the coalition. Excellent!

Fred won't like this , France want's to brake EU immigration rule's .http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-17332458

SYRIA . women raped and murdered children with there throats cut.
and not one word from the muslim church leaders so do they agree

druggies should not be allowed in the OLYMPICS there are cheats chambers is a cheat . if he is allowed then they should call it THE LONDON DRUGS OLLMPICS

Tug boat,

I haven't heard you decry the barbaric acts of an American in Afghanistan or the number of civilians covered by the American and British forces in that country.


I suppose dismembered bodies and civilian dead is unimportant?

Take your blinkers off.