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.

Giant 'hamster wheel' Irish Sea challenge

A Wiltshire engineer is planning to walk non-stop across the Irish Sea in a giant hamster wheel.

Chris Todd, from Bromham, will tackle the 66-mile (106km) stretch of open water by walking for up to 48 hours in a hand-made paddlewheel raft.

Norway Oksnes family celebrates third lottery win

A Norwegian family has won the country's national lottery three times in six years, taking home a total of more than 3m euros ($3.9m; £2.4m).

Last week, 19-year-old Tord became the latest member of the Oksnes family to hit the jackpot, following his sister Hege Jeanette and father Leif.

The lucky numbers were drawn every time Hege was pregnant or had just given birth.

Same happens in this country.
The Smith family have won the lottery more times than anyone else, quickly followed by the Jones family with the Sing and Patel families catching up quickly.

It appears that the regulators are confused about the candles. The banks were clever to use the regulations during the process..

U.S. probe of HSBC tangled up in bureaucracy, infighting
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/insight-u-probe-hsbc-tangled-040600891.html;_ylt=AmM0aeUlnx7BnGUVGvBFjYqiuYdG;_ylu=X3oDMTN1aGloaGJjBG1pdANGaW5hbmNlIEZQIE1lZ2F0cm9uIDIEcGtnA2Y4YTI3NWMwLWJmZjUtM2U2Mi1iZmFhLTIwYTVjMTJlOWE4YQRwb3MDMQRzZWMDbWVnYXRyb24EdmVyAzBiYTk3MTEwLTA3OWQtMTFlMi1iNWZmLTdkZTUzYmQ2NjgwYQ--;_ylg=X3oDMTFpNzk0NjhtBGludGwDdXMEbGFuZwNlbi11cwRwc3RhaWQDBHBzdGNhdANob21lBHB0A3NlY3Rpb25z;_ylv=3

Case postponed till September 2013!



Will Cameron and Hunt be called as Character Witnesses?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-19725264


Phone-hacking: Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson in court
Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson are among those appearing at the Old Bailey in London

Former News International boss Rebekah Brooks and David Cameron's former communications director Andy Coulson are appearing in court on charges related to alleged phone hacking.

Stan and N.

Just read these and thought of .


Growing old is mandatory - Growing up is optional

Right now I'm having amnesia and deja vu at the same time. I think I've forgotten this before.

You don't stop playing because you grow old - you grow old because you stop playing!

8-)

Probably very true Fred, Do they do Walking Rugby yet?

Only when Wales plays against England.

We have to give the all whites a chance.


8-)

Sod of a day.

(Sorry, officer!)

Common Sense! - Welby farm shooting: Raiders from Leicester jailed

Two burglars who were shot by a homeowner during a break-in at his farm in Leicestershire have been jailed.

Joshua O'Gorman, 27, and Daniel Mansell, 33, were fired at with a shotgun by Andy Ferrie during a raid at his cottage in Welby on 2 September.

Fred,

Why don't you join me for one of these sessions: http://www.afctelfordunited.co.uk/news/get-active-with-tackle-your-health-walking-football-647559.html

... As I know how much that you like the "Beautiful Game" which is Association Football -):

You send a shiver down my spine.

Not going to Morocco.

Decided to leave until next year.

But will go down to Paris to see the lights and Aix to see the sun.

Do you know when Chris is back.

Regards.

My son has just started at a University in Wales. He is on freshers week at the moment.

He is sharing a house with 8 other Welsh students of both sexes.

We all went up there for a visit a few weeks ago. it was very nice. Lots of sheep!

No Fred not yet.. Talking of sheep, how you diddling H/S? -):

Hays,


I am surprised you got a visa to visit.

But the Welsh are very acceptive and majority of the time very friendly.

But he had better be careful of those Welsh girls. They frightened me and a married a foreigner. 8-)

Which college?

I have a daughter doing research at Cardiff and another like my wife and self got first degrees at Cardiff.


Good luck to him and I hope he enjoys his stay.

April Sumatra quakes signal Indian ocean plate break-up

The sequence of huge earthquakes that struck off the coast of Sumatra in April may signal the creation of a new tectonic plate boundary.

Scientists give the assessment in this week's Nature journal.

Fasten your seat-belts http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-19740004 Well done Ecotricity.

It hasn't done it yet! :-)

Vulnerable young girls, some as young as 10, were systematically targeted for sexual abuse but then ignored when it was brought to the attention of multiple agencies which believed that they were "making their own choices".

The child sexual exploitation review was ordered in the aftermath of a trial in Rochdale, Greater Manchester, which saw nine Asian men aged between 22 and 69 jailed for grooming young white girls for sex.

The Rochdale Borough Safeguarding Children Board (RBSCB) concluded that “deficiencies" in the way children's social care responded to the victims' needs were caused by "patchy" training of front line staff.

Publication of the review follows newspaper reports alleging that agencies in Rotherham, South Yorkshire, were aware of a similar pattern of extensive and coordinated abuse of white girls by some Asian men for which no one has been prosecuted.

Rochdale Council said it has used the review's findings to implement a catalogue of changes and improvements.
so the very people paid to protect the young turned there backs and just took they salary . this is the UK 2012. about somes up the C/SERVANTS

Agree Tanks, That is absolutely disgraceful.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-19739073

Only a matter of time Skinny.. Providing they don't get a power cut.

Did anyone just listen to Dick Taylor on R4 refuse to answer a very simple question on the Rochdale disgrace?