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.

Not a problem I'm ever (nor ever have) likely to suffer from The South African hair thieves targeting dreadlocks

Jack Maseko was recently mugged by three men in South Africa - they wanted nothing but his mobile phone and the dreadlocks he had spent three years patiently cultivating.

"They had a knife and cut off my hair with scissors. I still feel pain when I think about that night," the 28-year-old Zimbabwean tells the BBC.

"I used to see people selling dreadlocks on the streets and didn't know where it came from," he adds, still battling to believe what happened to him as he was walking home late at night in Johannesburg.

Farmers say sell more British products

Farming leaders are urging supermarkets to stop scouring the world for the cheapest food.

At the National Farmers' Union (NFU) conference president Peter Kendall said supermarkets should source traceable products from British farmers.

Environment Secretary Owen Paterson said farmers should not be tarnished by criminals' fraudulent activities over the horsemeat scandal.

Earlier, the head of Tesco pledged to bring meat production "closer to home."

Stan.... sorry not looking at Gold as an investment at moment.

Seems to me over last 18 months its been lobbed into same sector as other metal miners.

Stan.... sorry not looking at Gold as an investment at moment.

Seems to me over last 18 months its been lobbed into same sector as other metal miners.

OK thanks G/F.

has i posted a few days back RBS stephen hestor rbs will be ready to sell before next election . no more bank bashing and will help the banks to make more profit so they can bribe the voters has i said buy rbs lloys now double your money

at least rbs 16p cheaper to buy today then last night

yes cynic you have to watch the market i have bought today
did not buy before results update never do .
double in 12 months

remember the consolidation 10.for 1 so sp is 33.6p less shares in issue

Yum Yum Legal loophole allows banned mechanical meat in UK sausages

The BBC has learned that European meat suppliers are using a loophole in the law to sell a banned low quality material to UK sausage makers.

E-mails indicate that suppliers are selling a form of mechanically recovered residue under different names so that it can be legally termed meat in Britain.

oh wowee, there's a surprise ...... as was said by a commentator, "you get what you pay for" ...... thus, buy cheapest sausages (and burgers) possible, and what do you expect?

Brings a tear to your eye - Thousands of litres of whisky flushed down drain in Dumbarton

Thousands of litres of whisky have been flushed down the drain by accident at a bottling plant in Dumbarton.

It is understood the mix-up happened at Chivas Brothers during the night shift on Tuesday while equipment was being cleaned.

Instead of draining away waste water, the workers on duty somehow flushed out thousands of litres of bulk whisky.

The smell was so strong that sewage workers reported it.

Sounds a bit like Whisky Galore to me.

I would be looking for hose pipes to a white van park in the lane outside.

Skinny and Stan,

Something to while away your time while you are looking at the screen.

Jeremy Hardy Speaks to the Nation

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01qwhx0

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What has the market got against CLLN? Seems undervalued.

Fred - Carillion wins new and probable orders of £650m

I guess terms such as "Although markets remain challenging," and "Probable orders" don't inspire.

Thanks, similar thoughts.



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Good by-election result at Eastleigh for UKIP.

Tories need a comedian, perhaps Boris.

much more sensibly than the above - it certainly shows that the general populace needs a lot of convincing that uk's future remains best served by staying with europe

however, is it my imagination or are not both labour and lib/dems pledged to stay in europe?

ukip may be a good repository for a protest vote in a by-election, but it is very unlikely indeed that they will score particularly well when it comes to the "real thing" in a general election

At least Labour were pushed into fourth place. Just a bit above the 'Elvis likes pets' party.

Labour have the "we are not sure how we feel about Europe" cop out strategy.

Cynic,

Were you on your knees when you wrote your last post?


9-)

labour were never going to be anywhere else, so their vote can be discounted