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.

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That's a fascinating link, but doesn't the following statement negate its usefulness as some people may have Parkinson's and not have been diagnosed and therefore state 'no'.?


"Anyone can call and they need to state whether or not they have been diagnosed with the disease".

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if you can n ot take a penalty you should pack up playing football.
how the hell did a cole get in a team he is useles and can not even play

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I like brief comments, but "." is pushing it bit.


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Yuk!

Some fascinating images here Snapping bugs: What can we learn from insect images?

I see Master Mind has announced his latest policy for another U-turn.

Also Leveson evaluation of "political" pressure was interesting.

Good to know the the GOVE was asking Murdock for advice on Education problems or was he just taking the Michael?

And we think Egypt has problems.

mmm yum yum - Japan sells first Fukushima seafood since nuclear crisis

Seafood caught off the coast of Japan's Fukushima region has been put on sale for the first time since last year's nuclear crisis.

The sale was limited to octopus and marine snails, as other species cannot be sold yet because of contamination.

The catch was sold at reduced prices in markets across the prefecture.

What do octopussies feed on?

Crustaceans? crabs are a favourite from memory.

Hope you are not retreating to your ancestors for that information.

In the stories I used to read, there were man eating varieties as well.

Keep out of deep or hot water!

David Attenborough :-)

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Fred Scuttle

Looks more like a pickle to me.

It seems your muscle mass is taking over one of your vacant chambers.

Keep doing the press ups.

Spanish banks downgraded by Moody's

The ratings agency Moody's has cut the credit rating on 28 of Spain's banks, one week after the country asked for money to support them.

The move follows a cut to the Spanish government's own credit rating to just above junk status earlier this month.

Moody's said in a statement, that Spain's reduced creditworthiness "implies a weaker credit profile for Spanish banks."

Among the downgrades was a cut to Banco Santander

Queen Mary's used to be a fine hospital until it was saddled with debts as a result of PFI on the other two hospitals.


South London Healthcare faces being dissolved

An NHS hospital trust has been formally warned it could be declared bust - in the first case of its kind.

South London Healthcare, which runs three hospitals, had debts of £69m at the start of the financial year.

The health secretary has told the trust an administrator could be brought in within weeks. The trust could be dissolved and some services closed.

A spokesman for the trust reassured patients that services would be run "as normal" until a decision was made.

The trust runs the Princess Royal University Hospital in Orpington, Queen Mary's Hospital in Sidcup, and the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Woolwich.

When the three hospitals became one organisation they inherited a large debt - mainly from the private finance initiative that had been used for the buildings at Orpington and Woolwich.