man after my own heart........greedy bu**er lol.,. are you an ex farmer herry??

Nope. Just never that well off when I was younger, so learned to be thrifty and it has never worn off!

;))

Eastern European criminals were responsible for more than 11,000 crimes in London last year.

Nationals of Poland, Romania and Lithuania are most likely of all foreigners to be prosecuted by the police, an investigation has revealed.
Overall, foreigners are accused of one in four of all crimes committed in London.

Astonishingly, they make up nine out of ten drug suspects and are responsible


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Lloyds is forecast to have plunged to a pre-tax loss of about £4billion for 2011, compared with a £281million profit the previous year, after setting aside billions of pounds for compensation.

Hit: Lloyds is expected to report losses for 2011 after paying billions of pounds for compensation
The mis-selling scandal is also the reason why Lloyds is still trying to claw back bonuses paid to former bosses, including chief executive Eric Daniels.

Excluding the PPI payouts and other one-offs, the group’s underlying profits are set to be about £2billion – lower than the previous year’s £2.2billion.

More...NatWest faces new anger over 'last in town' pledge after advert ban

RBS also had a tough year and while its PPI compensation payouts are much lower, it has been hit by tough trading at its investment banking division.

Chief executive Stephen Hester has also accelerated the sale of non-core assets built up during the reckless boom years before the financial crisis, which has crystalised losses.

The complexity of the bank’s financial figures means there is a wide range of analysts’ forecasts, with estimates of likely 2011 losses between £580million and £1.3billion.

RBS will also confirm that its investment banking division has set aside a bonus pool of £500million, about half of last year’s figure.

Neither bank will release more details of pay packages until their full annual reports are published next month.

Lloyds Banking Group PLC (LYG) is taking back a bonus from five senior
bankers, worth more than GBP1 million ($1.6 million), as a penalty for their
role in the mis-selling of payment protection insurance, U.K. newspaper The
Daily Telegraph reported Sunday on its website, without directly citing its
source.

Lloyds' former chief executive Eric Daniels will lose at least GBP360,000 of
his 2010 bonus, while four other current and former directors each have to
forgo about GBP250,000, according to the report.

It will be the first time a U.K. bank has used a "clawback" option on
executive pay packages since the financial crisis, the report said.

The bank is expected to make an announcement soon, though it might simply be
inserted as a clause in the annual report next month, the report added.

Lloyds declined comment, the report said.


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ve-directors-of-more-than-1-million-in-bonuses.html

2m out of 10s of millions a sham

Cashing in this am then Harry???

last week a letter from lloyds my account with a lot of money in as ended .
and is now paying 0.5 percent well i ammoving it today its only 231k but it was my last account waiting to move it putting it in to shares CNA VOD MRW TSCO

HARRY . the papers say bad results for lloys

Limit sell at 36.25p. Expires Wed. Thanks for your concern guys. Whatever happens will be out by wed!

Is that incredulity at my exit price or just my exit?

Neither Harry :-) Am I alone then hoping for 40p short term?

'Fraid so! Tried to push last time and didn't even make the 38p level. Good luck!
Of course I am hoping the sp surges forward so that my sell is slow to trigger!

sold some @36+. Sitting on the fence is hard on the nuts though.

sold my last lot @36 dont feel happy holding them at the moment,they have had a good run but time to part company as they say.

Sold at .36 if true to form watch them climb now!! lol

Both Holly cook and Erin Davis put a less than optimistic slant on immediate future.

the CEO to say it will take at least enough 4 years to turn the bank around .and no div for a while