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.

yes $400 million dollars. Just opened restaurants to fast. Perhaps poor accountants.

Just looked at the local rag , and Chimichanga could close with other Prezzo-owned restaurants at risk , whether just local don't know .

100 Prezzo's to close.

Mr. Oliver is taking the mickey with the pricing at Jamie's Italien.

I'm happy to go out and pay a premium for something special but I left feeling rather aggrieved over the bill. The bill was simply too high for what I got.

Most recent one I went to had "trendy exposed services" - A/C, pipework and electrics on display with floorboards for wallpaper. You can tell me 1000 times exposed concrete is the "in thing" but I just think it's cheap. I'm not sure quite how it goes with the £40 bottles of wine they were advertising.

Price cut of 30% would entice me back. Otherwise not interested. Which is probably where their business model is falling apart.

House of F next maybe? Who else is in trouble - New Look - and the likes of Carpetright might even take a tumble if sales take further hits.

If Corbyn gets in then everywhere will be closed.

Weatherwise and politically wise.......the perfect storm coming perhaps......?..

All down to brexit of course..

https://www.retailgazette.co.uk/blog/2018/03/carpetright-talks-lenders-issuing-profit-warning/

As expected, another one following in the path of Queensway years ago, after Harris got out.

So then filling up the country with limitless numbers of freeloaders as per EU , does not do a lot for the high street then , or am i wrong .

there is a big difference between pulling up the drawbridge and being discriminating in who is allowed either temporary or permanent work or residency visa

Anyone on here got Sky Q?

If so, what's it like when you are watching a non UHD transmission?

I've got Sky+ HD at the moment and, with double the UHD content coming along in 2018 and also, not-withstanding the latest announcement of the Netflix inclusion to the Sky Q deal, I am thinking doing the upgrade.

UHD uses a lot more band width when streaming EL - watch you broadband bill rise.

Mr T.

Steel & Aluminium.

Sabre rattling or start of something bigger?

Mr T.

Steel & Aluminium.

Sabre rattling or start of something bigger?

Don't most ISP's provide unlimited bandwidth nowadays?

We don't have fibre optic, but have something called VDSL2 which gives between 35Mb/s and 40Mb/s. There's no bandwidth buffering issue streaming 4k which (I just Googled) needs about 25Mb/s.

The biggest problem is the lack of 4k content imo.

Can you imagine a world with Trump, Putin, Boris and Berlusconi as the PMs or leaders of their countries?

Which country would have the most corrupt PM?

The €U, by a mile!

On BT's Infinity 2, I get about 16.1 Mbps (and 4.31 Mbps upload) which is OK for an HD download because you can start watching it immediately although it hasn't fully downloaded. I also get 1TB of online storage (BT Cloud) for free too with my deal. Our phones' SIM cards are also BT's and photos automatically save to BT Cloud.

Hmmm? Well if that is pucker advice about Sky Q needing at least 25 Mbps, then for me, I conclude using Sky Q would most probably be a non-starter.

PS. You can check your broadband speeds by typing 'speed test' into Google and using the first search answer which comes up as a speed testing tool.

Beaufort Securities Limited in administration I see.

https://www.beaufortsecurities.com/



Beaufort Securities Limited (BSL) and Beaufort Asset Clearing Services Limited (BACSL) have entered insolvency and have ceased trading at the intervention of the Financial Conduct Authority.

Administrators have been appointed from PwC.

The Administrators are assessing this critical situation. At this moment in time the administrators are unable to deal with individual queries.

The firms are currently unable to execute any new business or act on any instructions from clients.