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.

Hi Haystack,

I would not be too sure about UKIP turning into another also ran.

I am a member of a Conservative club (only reason being its cheap parking) and the main talking point is UKIP, with many members calling Cameron an, all talk, little action PM, and that UKIP is the only alternative vote.

Many people think that UKIP is a one policy party, but I would urge everyone who thinks that, to look at their manifesto, they may be very surprised.
I am not so gullible as to believe anything politicians say, but if UKIP were ever in a position to carry their policies forward and kept just 25% of their promises, I would be happy, as I believe in well over 90% of their aims.
There main aim of course is to get us out of the EU shambles, and as there is no other party wishing to do the same, they will be getting my vote and many others who agree.

well said they will be getting at least 73 votes from my lub alone we are sick of the EU and human rights and just come from the club and as above post ukip is the tak of the club and the flags are up

Tau Ceti's planets nearest around single, Sun-like star

The nearest single Sun-like star to the Earth hosts five planets - one of which is in the "habitable zone" where liquid water can exist, astronomers say.

Tau Ceti's planetary quintet - reported in an online paper that will appear in Astronomy and Astrophysics - was found in existing planet-hunting data.

The study's refined methods of sifting through data should help find even more far-flung worlds.

The star now joins Alpha Centauri as a nearby star known to host planets.

BBC takes Teletubbies, TV news and Doctor Who to Burma

The Teletubbies, 24-hour news and Doctor Who are being introduced to Burma as the BBC launches three pay-TV channels there next January.

Viewers will be able to watch CBeebies, BBC Entertainment and BBC World News.

All three channels along with BBC World Service in Asia in English will launch on Forever Group's pay TV platform.

The formerly isolated nation has begun to improve relations with the West by releasing political prisoner Aung San Suu Kyi and holding by-elections.

Quiz of the Year: 52 weeks 52 questions, part one

Quiz of the Year: 52 weeks 52 questions, part two

Greece upgraded by S&P. which company to benefit?

Price's Candles :-)

Any other!!?

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Outlook stable for US building materials, says Fitch

http://www.investegate.co.uk/News/outlook-stable-for-us-building-materials-says-fitch/388720/?

Presumably their houses would fall over if they used unstable building materials?

Lake Ellsworth: Mission to the Antarctic's lost world

A team of British scientists, engineers and logistics experts has launched a daring attempt to hunt for life deep beneath the Antarctic ice. The research project will see the group drill 3.2km (two miles) down to Lake Ellsworth - hidden for hundreds of thousands of years. Click on the labels below to find out more about the mission and life at the drilling camp.

Wrong thread.


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Just remembered that tomorrow is the end of the World, so I have sold all SBs Longs.

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Interested to see how much dumping goes on at the end of the day and to-morrow!

Also, Interested to see how many lemmings climb back up the fiscal cliff.

So on the assumption that tomorrow is the end of the world, you have sold up - to do what exactly - spend it all today?

Have you jumped yet Fred ?oh he has with the above post :-))

go back a few weeks to my posts about plebgate and asked can we believe the police
well it is not looking good is it not
how many innocent people have the police set up

Dreams.

I was the one who sold you a parachute.

Lol, I remember that parachute.

Congratulations George.

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UK economy grew 0.9% in third quarter, says the ONS
Shoppers on Oxford Street British shoppers brave the rain but retail sales have been flat

The UK economy grew 0.9% in the third quarter, says Office for National Statistics (ONS), less than the 1% it had previously estimated.

Output from manufacturing and services sectors grew less than expected, the ONS said.

But the decline in output from the construction industry was slightly less than previously thought.

The UK's official statistics authority regularly revises its data as more information is collected.

Joe Grice, chief economist at the ONS, told the BBC that the change to the growth figure was "not significant".

He pointed out that despite this strong showing, the economy is still about 3% below the level it reached before the recession.

The UK's services sector, which accounts for the majority of gross domestic product (GDP), or the value of all goods and services produced in the UK, grew by just 0.1% in October, indicating a weak start to the fourth quarter.

Figures also showed that the government borrowed £17.5bn in November, £1.2bn higher than a year earlier. Economists had predicted borrowing would fall slightly to around £16bn.

The bigger-than-expected increase piles more pressure on Chancellor George Osborne as he struggles to reduce public borrowing in the face of a sluggish economy.

This takes total borrowing so far this financial year to £92.7bn, £8.3bn more than the same period in 2011.