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.

Meet my new investment manager!

Hmmm?

Will the payn in Spayn spread to Britayn agayn.....and will it rayn?

As the French see UK or Little England

Who's worried about what the French think

Bee Gees Singer Robin Gibb Dies Aged 62 - very sad news

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Well, well - If you can't beat them....

Waterstones to sell Amazon's Kindle book reader

UK bookseller Waterstones is to sell Amazon's Kindle book-reader and launch other Kindle digital services.

Waterstones says the deal will dovetail with its current store refurbishment scheme, which is creating dedicated areas for digital books, free wireless internet and new coffee shops.

Sorry about Robin Gibb....wonderful singer, writer, composer...

Here here. He was also one of the very few celebrities that was not 'full of himself'.

Spent a lot of my teenage to early twenties listening to him...

Huge asteroid could hit Earth in 2020

140,000 ton asteroid set to narrowly miss Earth in February may destroy SATELLITES... and it could hit us for real in 2020

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An interesting list.

The New Elizabethans

I see Fred 'the shred' makes it, but Gordon Brown doesn't.

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No surprise as Bloomberg was urging everyone to sell - So the outcome.
Is it called manipulation? No, It is their right to predict.

Currently down 11%

Launch success for SpaceX mission

California's SpaceX has launched on a mission to re-supply the space station - the first cargo delivery to the orbiting outpost by a private company.

So commences a mis- delivered, stolen, lost, or just plain couldnt be arsed to deliver service.

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The World Bank cut its economic growth forecast for China this year to 8.2 per cent today and urged the country to rely on easier fiscal policy that boosts consumption rather than state investment to lift activity.