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.

I think the fight between King with Cameron and Osborn is not good for banks like RBS and LLOYDS.

None of them are right, Cameron and Osborn do not bother about growth and King is coming with new ideas out of nowhere when he is leaving. He has nothing to loose by complaining NOW, and may just want reputation! so he can sell his time (lectures) at high prices.

Why is he complaining now?

Very good run on CIU and hoping for similar on LAM, out of TCG yesterday on job news.

What a lot of nonse from gf. Where does he get these bizzare rumours from. He must read the Socialist Worker or some other left wing rag. He is getting as bad as fred, maybe even worse.

sticky ..... just banked very decent profits on both the above, but confess my entries and exits are never based on logic i'm afraid, but i have certainly made far more than lost on them

Looks like the yanks are going to legalise interstate gambling, so 888 & BPTY doing well, for those looking for less 'slow going stocks'.

See Vince is stirring it up.

Camoron is in West Yorkshire today 12.00 on TV with his speech. Handpicked company probably 1 out of 100 thats doing well.

Hope somebody puts the question about Cables plan 1a to him.

Yep cyners just seems after a great run from xmas that ive hit the buffers but indicies still seem to be going up.

Harry - I mentioned ZNGA a couple of weeks ago - worth a look if you want a punt on gambling.

Zynga’s Online Gaming Push Faces Hurdles From Casinos

Well its either fishing or pub. or both.

laters.

sold HG+HC Index too early insofar as it has roared ahead a FURTHER 50 points since i got out - unbelievable

Silvio Berlusconi convicted over Italy wiretap

Italy's former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has been convicted and sentenced to a year in jail over an illegal wiretap.

He was accused of arranging for a police wiretap concerning a political rival to be leaked and published in a newspaper run by his brother.

Mr Berlusconi is likely to appeal and will remain free in the meantime.

He is presently appealing against another conviction and faces two more verdicts in the coming weeks.

Strong character. he is paying millions of Euro to his former wife already to settle out of court.

city-wide manhunt is under way after a 16-year-old girl was stabbed to death on a rush-hour bus on one of Birmingham's busiest roads.

Police are looking for a black male in his late teens or early 20s in dark clothing after the "sporadic attack" on the Hagley Road at 07:40 GMT.

He was thought to be wearing a jacket with a tiger design or other logo on and carrying a white carrier bag.

children not safe to go to school the UK 2013 .

Two men have today been jailed for drugging and raping vulnerable underage girls they found walking the streets.

Shazad Rehman, 30, was jailed for 18-and-half years and his nephew Bilal Hussain, 23, was jailed for 17-and-a-half years at Bradford Crown Court.

Judge Jonathan Rose said the men 'engaged in a course of conduct which has become increasingly and depressingly familiar in this country'.

The pair denied abusing the girls, who were picked up as they cruised the streets of Keighley and Halifax, West Yorkshire.

Is the "success" of tory immigration policies down to the increased red tape and "security", or is it down to the UK economy being crap and nobody wants to come here?

as the uk wage and employment levels are significantly better than in spain, italy, latvia, serbia, croatia et al, your snipe is (as so often) mis-aimed

As far is banks loaning being difficult is concerned, it strikes me that a lot of businesses don't want to borrow, because they don't believe in tory policies.

If the government had put the money of QE into directly into the infrastructure "upgrading" directly on a National or Local bases then the general economy would have benefited. The cash would have trickle through to the general economy rather than into the pockets of the bankers and some "private companies" doing "public work".

(Suggested by many 18-24 months ago by Vince and many others.)

The coalition and Maggie's off-spring, are not split down the middle, but shattered into fragments and Cameron's rallying call is another of his sham.

Suggest Cruella May would be a good leader.

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Two men have today been jailed for drugging and raping vulnerable underage girls they found walking the streets.

Shazad Rehman, 30, was jailed for 18-and-half years and his nephew Bilal Hussain, 23, was jailed for 17-and-a-half years at Bradford Crown Court.

Judge Jonathan Rose said the men 'engaged in a course of conduct which has become increasingly and depressingly familiar in this country'.

The pair denied abusing the girls, who were picked up as they cruised the streets of Keighley and Halifax, West Yorkshire.

deja vu

Two Britons 'kidnapped' in Egypt

Gunmen in Egypt have kidnapped two British tourists on their way to a beach resort, according to local security and tribal sources.

They are thought to have been in a car travelling from Cairo to the Sharm El Sheikh tourist resort when they were seized in the Sinai Peninsula.

Security in the isolated desert region has deteriorated since the overthrow of President Hosni Mubarak two years ago.

South Sinai's Red Sea coast is a major north African tourism hub.