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.

The Trellick Tower in NW London. Had its own blaze earlier this year. Each should come with a border control officer at the entrance to the lifts. Some people only know how to brew their tea with paraffin lamps.

Agreed

There's not enough being done about stopping or deterring 'illegal tenanting', particularly in high rise blocks of flats.

And not just with tenanting but also with things like the supplies of services, too many people, who were (are?) both 'in' and 'out' of authority, had (have?) their fingers in the pie too.

I Wonder if the jobless rate fall lately is due to the said " East European" moving out of the UK for 2 reasons £ falling meaning less money to send home and Brexit so not much simpathy from the British any more


UK Unemployment Rate Lowest Since 1975

LONDON (Alliance News) - The UK jobless rate dropped unexpectedly in three months to July, data from the Office for National Statistics showed Wednesday.

The jobless rate fell to 4.3%, the lowest since 1975, the ONS said. Economists had forecast the rate to remain unchanged at 4.4%, as seen in three months to June.

There were 1.46 million unemployed people in May to July period, down by 75,000 from three months to April.

The employment rate came in at 75.3%, the highest since records began in 1971.

In August, the claimant count held steady at 2.3%. The number of people claiming unemployment benefits fell 2,800 after declining 2,900 in July.

Average earnings including bonus climbed 2.1% from the previous year, slower than the expected rate of 2.3%.

Have you a chart of UK hours actually worked?

And another of self-employed with a distribution or a description of "new jobs"?

You wouldn't understand it Fred.

Watch out, there is a Dumbo about!

re - Have you a chart of UK hours actually worked?

I do hope you can read it.

With apologies to my Irish friends..

Guy goes to a bar and asks the bartender:
“You hear the latest Irish joke?"
The barman says, "I should warn you, I’m Irish".
So the guy says, "All right then, I’ll tell it slowly".

Mental,

Thank you.

Most helpful.

PS.

Restart your medication!

B!tch Freda

Just go to school and learn how to read it.



Len McCluskey will teach you how to lick @rses

RSI, I should see someone about your obvious problems before they get worse.

Apparently the earth is definitely flat.

A guy took a flight from North Carolina to Seattle, duly armed with a spirit level to check if the pilot would dip the nose of the plane to “compensate for curvature”.

Throughout the main part of the flight (ie. excluding initially doing the climbing and also the descending for landing) the spirit level bubble kept steady in the middle.

The guy concluded, that because the pilot had not needed to dip the plane for curvature compensation, the earth was proven to be flat.

QED

Prisoner 'trapped' in jail for 11 years to be released

A man who has served 11 years in prison for what was a 10-month sentence is to be released, the Parole Board has said.

James Ward was sentenced under Imprisonment for Public Protection (IPP), after he set fire to his bed while in jail for actual bodily harm.

The 33-year-old has mental health problems and has regularly self-harmed while serving his indefinite sentence.

The Probation Service is working to find Mr Ward a hostel and mental health support in the coming weeks.

Mr Ward's sister April said: "We are over the moon, my dad can't stop grinning.
"My dad hasn't grinned for years. I can't stop crying or smiling.

"James is not a risk to the public, he's only ever been a risk to himself, and with the right support we can get him there."

Prisoner 'suicidal' 11 years into 10-month jail term
Man 'trapped' in jail for 10 years

'I thought about ending my life'
'Get a grip' on IPP prisoners

Ms Ward told Radio 4's Today programme she had yet to speak to her brother about his release and was unsure of whether he even knew that he was to be freed.

"He's got no hope. He will be very surprised of the release today because it's taken over 10 years for this result to happen."

Mr Ward, from Sutton-in-Ashfield, in Nottinghamshire, was serving a sentence in 2006 after getting into a fight with his father Bill.

But unable to cope with prison life, he set fire to the mattress in his cell, leading a judge to give him an IPP, which has no release date.

There is nothing like having a BIG mouth, instead of inflating your body like the animals in order to look BIG.......

North Korea Calls For Bombing Of Japan And Reduction Of US To 'ashes'

SEOUL (Alliance News) - A North Korean foreign relations committee has issued a new round of threats against the US and its allies following the approval of new UN sanctions, warning that Japanese islands should be "sunken into the sea" and the US reduced to "ashes and darkness."

The UN Security Council passed new punitive measures on Monday in response to Pyongyang's claim it had tested a hydrogen bomb on September 3.

The sanctions seek to curb key sources of income for North Korea by limiting oil exports, banning textile exports and outlawing money transfers by the country's expatriate workers.

"The four islands of the archipelago should be sunken into the sea by the nuclear bomb of Juche," said the country's Korea Asia-Pacific Peace Committee, according to state news agency KCNA.

The Vice Chancellor of Huddersfield University ( yes, Huddersfield has a university - hope for Burnley yet) was awarded a 67% pay increase despite Huddersfield being 72 in the universities ranking. 72!? How many universities are there in the UK? In my day it was difficult to think of more than 12.
Well there are 129 on the university guide list, the lanterne rouge being proudly held by Suffolk. Make that Suffer.
Is the UK really better off for Blair's educational revolution? In an age when the phones are smarter than most of the users, I don't think so.

I think you'll find that it was the Further and Higher Education Act of 1992 that allowed polytechnics to attain university status without a royal charter, iturama.

It happened on Major's watch. Not one of his better moments, although I can't actually recall him having any good moments.

Well maybe Edwina Curry might disagree you know the odd moment .YUK .

I stand corrected ma'am. However, it was Blair that raised it to a new level with his call for a 50% university participation, without the resources to do, be it money, staff and onward jobs. It was under his stewardship that university fees were introduced, following the EU - wide commitment to pay all fees in advance of the later so-called "graduate contribution" - make of that what you will.
While I could start work after university in a good paying job, with no debts, many of today's students will never pay off their university loans because the jobs are not there for 50% graduate participation. Little wonder that Poles and our other eastern european friends are taking care of our aged. It is one great con financed by the tax payer, much of which will never be returned. Meanwhile the fat cat "university" administrators are in there, boots and all. There needs to be a change, starting with the toughening up of university entrance requirements, and the goverment refusing to fund the fees for subjects that have no prospect of useful employment afterwards. The financial crisis was partly due to banks loaning money to high risk people. That is happening today, but because it is tax payers money, nobody seems to mind. That debt is now at over £100B.

UK police investigate reports of blast on London underground train
Fri, 15th Sep 2017 09:13 - By Kevin Coombs and Kate Holton

LONDON, Sept 15 (Reuters) - Heavily armed police rushed to an incident at a London underground station on Friday with local media reporting there had been an explosion on a train.

A Reuters witness could see six ambulances, fire engines and a helicopter at Parsons Green station in West London where the Metro newspaper reported that passengers had suffered facial burns from a blast and others had been hurt in a subsequent stampede.

Outside the station, a woman was sitting on a pavement with a bandage around her leg while armed police patrolled. A Reuters witness saw a woman being carried off on a stretcher with her legs covered in a foil blanket.

"We are aware of an incident at #ParsonsGreen tube station. Officers are in attendance," London police said on Twitter.

Police said they were aware of reports on social media and would release facts regarding the incident once they could be sure of their accuracy.

London Ambulance and Fire Brigade said paramedics and firefighters were present.

Transport for London said on Twitter that there was no service between Earls Court and Wimbledon on the District Line which runs through Parsons Green.

Britain has already suffered four attacks blamed on terrorists so far this year which killed 36 people.

Iturama , my youngest is off to uni tomorrow and she had her acceptance letter Christmas Eve last year and it was unconditional and she was accepted on stuff she had already passed even though she hadn't sat any of her A levels !

Your comment about smart phones being smarter than their users ... middle daughter missed her flight home from Majorca yesterday because she thought it took off at 10pm when in fact it took off at 10am. She obviously hasn't heard of the 24 hour clock. Earlier this year she went to Ireland and left all her money at home and text me from the hotel to ask if the water was safe to drink in Ireland. She's off to Iceland in November ... can't wait to see how she buggers that one up :-)