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.

Thanks E/L, Still won't work though how very odd, will have another go later.

Stan

Do a Google for it using

'This family wanted to hire a nanny for £50,000 a year' as the Search

Clever lady:

Natasha Elcock saved her family as they were trapped in the Grenfell Tower inferno - by running a bath and flooding her entire flat.

She was trapped along with her boyfriend and her six-year-old daughter in their 11th floor home when the blaze ripped through the building.



Firefighters eventually reached the stricken family at 3am and led them to safety.

Brilliant or wot?

Brilliant!

Brilliant, absolutely brilliant. Thank God

Sincere well wishes for their future and that of those surviving this disaster that should never have been!

No problem with the link on the iPad E/L, obviously the kids are not what they seem...probably got drug habits or something equally problematic )-;

excel Doreen tipton yes it does work its bril best video I have ever seen

I hope cynic watches it ,

NHS cyber attack came from North Korea then .

Grenfell Tower
i confess i cannot bear to watch the news any more
my wife had to drive past today and she tells me it is absolutely horrific


there's a lot of fingers being pointed at the moment, but from the little i have read, RBK&C look to be firmly in the frame
RBK&C needed or demanded that the cost was kept within budget
RBK&C would have passed off the highly detailed proposal from the (various) contractors
RBK&C, while perhaps not being the site manager (not sure about that), would still have had to pass off the work at various stages


meanwhile, the snippet below is revealing ....

In 2013 the government wrote to every local authority to encourage them to retrofit sprinkler systems in older tower blocks. It did so at the request of a coroner who leads an inquest into a fire in Camberwell in which six people died.

Before passing judgement on whether the Kensington and Chelsea Tenant Management therefore acted irresponsibly, bear in mind that, according to the British Automatic Fire Sprinkler Association, only 100 older tower blocks in Britain have been retrofitted with sprinklers since 2013. Around 4,000 have not.
The vast majority of councils would appear to have been put off by the cost.

A snippet heard in passing was that a sprinkler system for that block would have cost approx £200k, which if true sounds like money well spent, a small fraction of the total refurb cost (£10m)

CYA will now be the order of the day...and I wonder what level of bungs was involved?

£200k sounds far too low to me .... more likely that's the cost per floor

anyway, it seems that (retro)fitting this was never part of the brief

all tower blocks should have a tank on the roof holding tons of water and values on ever side and opened when needed it would put out any external fire , as it went down the walls , and fitted in a couple of days , it can be made of plastic with ribs

cynic have watched the video if not click on excel post its will make you laugh its bril

It's only steel pipe and heat sensors .. old tech, bin around for years.

meanwhile, Call Me Comrade has a solution:




Jeremy Corbyn: Empty homes owned by rich should be 'requisitioned' for Grenfell Tower residents



http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/06/15/jeremy-corbyn-empty-homes-owned-rich-should-requisitioned-grenfell/

I wondered when someone would get round to that sort of thing , I'm sure Brexit will be brought up soon . Rich V Poor . £10 million seems someone thought worth spending , just not in right areas .

if the corbyn story had come via the guardian or the ft it might have more credibility
as it is, i read it with some scepticism

Oh dear!

Wifey just told me two JW 'crusaders' have walked straight past our house and obviously decided to 'give us a miss'.

All is not yet lost. I have thrown a pinch of salt over my left shoulder and will now offer up a 30 second prayer to the great Flying Spaghetti Monster, asking him to let me become a Pastafarian.

Well where's the lily Allens and sturgeons...They wanted everyone to take in a
migrant from the Calais jungle...not heard a whisper from them regarding those
left homeless by this fire..

And Australia had a similar fire in one of their high rise blocks, i believe they
had used the same cladding, but not 100% on that..

It's not the cladding, it's the insulation used, some sort of polystyrene type stuff.

Insanity.

I do look in on the Interactive investor site , no sign in , but what used to be quite good discussions now taken over by anti May , anti Brexit , any opportunity to have a go at leavers , sad Corbyn loving nothing else to do but complain all day bad loser types . I'm with TD , and just been taken over by them , sad times .