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Aren't you confusing the end of the World with "the end of boom and bust"? Can't fault Labour on that one though: no more boom, all bust!

Looks like your rush to judgement is going to be proven wrong on this one Symptoms. Not only does it appear that a plod has been caught impersonating a member of the public (a novel new offence for the statute book?), but the "peelers" who wrote up the definitive report on the incident didn't quite manage to "lose" the CCTV footage. The "shocked" mini-crowd they detail seems to have comprised the Invisible Man and all his invisible friends. So Mitchell's account of things is now looking a lot more like the unvarnished truth than that of the boys in blue. Sacking?! I think they are going to be put on attachment to the ravens for a good old while!

Is he any relation of the amazingly talented Ed Wood?

Are footballers paid far too much? Yes! Anyone disagree..... thought not! Close topic please Mr Moderator. P.S. To make our ordinary lives just a bit happier just think of the tax they pay - because their peak earnings are all loaded into a few years. Not much in the way of repeat fees for football matches.

He last compeered Treasure Hunt way back in the early 1980's I think. Happy days!

Nige, Terry Smith, and the Norwegian lady win hands down! The posh twits arguments - only Martin Sorrell I recognised - spouted all the usual you'll-be-sorry crap, but had nothing of substance to say. Their big foreign blond may have been fit, but she wasn't making a great deal of sense. Though far more sense than the Labour Party woman, a non-entity who would make even big-mouthed Mrs Balls look sage! Who was this third-rater, and is this really the best the Labour Party can do on such an important matter? If the Labour Party was pathetically indecisive and incoherent, then Boris, for the Tories, was showing his naked ambition - trying to backing both horses for max political gain and offering an easy target to Paxo. Cameron is a bit safer after this performance. The screened-in French female illustrated once again that they think even worse of us than we think of them, and seemed to be operating under the delusion that in mentioning Edward Heath (did she even get his name right?) she'd score brownie points with a UK audience. Exactly what the Train-spotting author guy was mumbling on his screened-in slots from far-away Scotland escaped me, but it seemed to be a-pox-on-all-your-houses you rich Southern scum. I think the lefty element at the Beeb had some input in the selection here, and the editors were hoping that he'd say something about what an independent Scotland would do when the UK finally gets a chance to say no. For a Scotland that has suddenly discovered its preference for the £UK over the Euro this was never going to happen - whoever they invited! Just a minute, there were absolutely no LDs on the program! Now there's a mystery!

Isn't that blackmail / misuse of office? And isn't that a criminal offence? It's a wonder that she didn't put emphasis on her surname, and that people who crossed her shouldn't go anywhere near the moors. Score one for the contention that government shouldn't be allowed anywhere near press regulation!

I think Patrick intended Chris Lintott take over, and certainly relied on him a lot since his stroke. There will surely be several others that will happily stand in for now, so little likelihood the program will end.

Bear in mind that a bare behind is what you'll find when you're in a bind 'cause you've been blind and the bear behind isn't terribly kind. All together! It's b-e-h-i-n-d you!!!

Yes you can! At least in clearer climes, and with budget (£10-20) binoculars too. They appear as tiny pinpoints of light - I saw at least three of them last year. Better than Google Sky Map is SkEye, and it's also a freebie. I've uninstalled the Google one as SkEye is so much better. It's aimed at people owning telescopes, as a star finder, but I find it pretty useful stand-alone. If you don't have a "droid" you are missing out on life, and budget or s/h smartphones are little more expensive than a better quality dumb phone.

Really? PM me a link please.

Pictures pictures! Post pix and shame them!

20 Duracells delivered to your door for free at less than 25p each. http://www.pcworld.c...pxmxaa&istBid=t Alert courtesy of Hot UK Deals. They are probably using the promo to build a mailing list or some sort of loyalty scheme, so don't be suckered into giving away all your details.

The Nexus is the only game in town now! Not worth paying the £178.29 discounted price the A110 is now being offered at.

As Brett says, it all depends! I go for the Acer at the present £130 price, because I will be moving it on with a year anyway and will probably recover most if not all of what I pay at that price. Also I want to connect it to the TV to watch iPlayer stuff and otherwise exploit the great video - you can't do that with the Nexus. Also if you buy the £159 Nexus you may be left wishing you'd bought the 32GB one for £40 extra. You won't be in that position with the Acer as it takes a microSD too, and they are cheap as chips these days. On the other hand the Nexus has a bit better screen (but the sound is not as good as the Acer). I do prefer the form factor of the Nexus, but it really depends how you hold them. If extreme battery life is what you are after go for the Nexus, but the Acer isn't bad in this respect. Anyway if you want an Acer you'd better be sharp as the are now showing only 12 left! They may or may not get more "cash back" stock. If I hadn't already bought I'd be waiting for the 3G version of the Nexus, to come available again, it was showing restocking when I last looked, but even at the present lower prices that's a whole £110 more than I'm paying! Actually these little powerhouses offer far more than the Kindle Fire, which hasn't even got GPS, and isn't a quad core. You even have to pay extra to get rid of the ads on the Fire, and the inconvenience doesn't end there!

It was £185,000 plus his legal bills - so in fact a lot more. Knowing just a little bit about Lord McA I'd say that he's likely worth a lot more than that. In any event he'll likely give the Beeb cash to charity himself. If the BBC hadn't settled they'd have been in for a lot more; there was more to it than simply not naming him on air. So, it was a pragmatic decision - having been sucked into the mess in the first place. The DG matter is entirely different, and yes, I have to agree with you. Far too many senior executives are insulated from the consequences of their own actions, unlike us mere mortals. In this case GE was already an insider prior to the appointment, so there's very little excuse that he didn't know the lie of the land. Few people resign of their own accord for "honourable reasons" these days, they are invariably pushed. If he wasn't to blame he should have pushed back, and if he was then Patton should never have agreed to the pay-off! As things stand everyone is left wondering, and this hasn't done the Beeb any good either.

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You mean you aren't using the MyChooChoos app to control yours by bluetooth? Kinda sounds like you're back in the steam age!

So you weren't being serious then?! I've never even considered a 10" tab - simply too big, and when you are getting to that sort of size a modern slim netbook will deliver a lot more power for much less money. Was very tempted by the new Chromebook at £199, but I don't think that cloud computing would do things for me. Have had a convertible touch screen netbook, but it was actually heavier than the current powerhouse laptop - haven't had a desktop for almost a decade now - and it's true, W7 just isn't up to 100% touch screen use! It turned out just a rather slow and heavy notebook with occasional touch screen convenience, and was seldom if ever used with the screen flipped. I've noticed that friends owning 7" devices often have them, but after an initial outing or two people with the iPad mostly leave them at home. Have found myself perfectly happy with a phone enabled 7 incher instead of a phone, and that's been true over the course of several months. But lots of 3G 7 inchers are data only (like the 3G Nexus), which seems dumb when you have all the electronics to make/take a call. This has confirmed my prejudice against large tabs, and the feelings that Steve Jobs was quite wrong on the size thing. In previous years I've been through the entire series of Nokia internet tablets - yes, folks Apple did not invent the tablet! - and they really were too small to be hugely convenient, though quite nice in the pre-touch-smartphone era. So... after lots of devices under the bridge, 7" seems to be about right, though I'm still not sure that devices bordering on 8" would be. You mention the price difference, and I'm sure you are right. Smaller tabs contain the same electronics and software, so larger ones shouldn't be that much more expensive. Thirty, forty, or even fifty pounds maybe, but not three figures more. Like notebooks I'd pay a good price premium for a smaller one if need be, but it turns out that for this category of devices, (and with production volumes being equal,) smaller ones are cheaper to manufacture. That's just another reason why 9 or 10 inchers will become very much a minority buy once Apple have stopped dictating to the market. Yup, the Note is nice. But it's a large smartphone and not a smaller tab. i.e. it's a 100% replacement for a "regular" smartphone but won't replace a computer screen.

Did this run on the Atari? Think I sort of remember it at the NEC Birmingham when it was first released. I'm not a gamer but remember being most impressed by the 3D wire-frame stuff!

Goodness - you've been reading those UKIP pamphlets again! It used to be called EFTA (European Free Trade Area) and it worked! Or it worked until we sold the other EFTA members down the river, just like we did the Commonwealth. Why our politicians did this wasn't clear to most folks at the time - now it's crystal clear! There was a hidden agenda to the "Common Market" to become a federal state. Ted Heath admitted this some years later, and even went as far as saying that he would have said anything or done anything to bring this about. In fact he didn't need much help with those lies as the conspiracy went right across party lines. Don't fall for this "we must be at the heart of Europe" crap! It's meaningless; we are an island with whole-world connections and always will be. We've thrown away so much that is valuable in pursuit of the heart-of-Europe nonsense. We need Europe and Europe needs us so much that staying in a European free trade area (once again) will pose no problems. In fact being outside the Euro mechanism we're already there economically, it's just a matter of getting Brussels out of our legal system, and ending this European Parliament nonsense. We won't lose a scrap of trade, and neither will they. But, we will be in a much better position to trade with the rest of the world, and maybe develop other free trade agreements to compliment those with Europe.

I don't see much of a spec - it's only dual core and has all the Apple features of no microSD, no HDMI, no swappable battery,... Also has lower screen res than most 7" tabs, non-standard connectors, locked down O/S, and a high cost of ownership. On the plus-side it has the Apple logo on the back! Pity Google spoiled the Nexus by no microSD and no HDMI too! Otherwise excellent buy with quad core (plus supervisor) and a really good screen, and just £159 now for the 16GB. The Acer A110 has the same quad core CPU as the Nexus, plus microSD and HDMI, and is going at £50 cash back bringing the price below £130. Don't think stocks will last very long though. http://www.ebuyer.co...-ht-hapek-001�� I bought one at the weekend so may well review it here. Looked at the Kindle Fire HD, but it's heavily locked down, and unless you want your life run by Amazon it's not a serious offering. Quite recently sold my Sammy 7" 3G tab. Nice product, but as only a dual core it was becoming a bit dated. Got nearly £300 for it so that's why I've been checking out the field again. Stop gap was a £70 feature packed Chinese jobby with no brand name. Surprisingly good in many respects but the internal flash memory has just failed, and though it still works I can no longer install apps!

We are being warned about "sleepwalking out of the EU". Well Mr Milliband, wasn't that exactly the way you lot got us into the Common Market - sorry EU - in the first place? Blowing £8,100,000,000 of our tax money every single year (Treasury figures) on the 17 EU nations that are constantly on the take seems to me like a rather good thing to be sleepwalking out of! And...they want to increase their budget by yet another 5% this year! Are you going to tell us how much of that is to come out of the UK taxpayer's back pocket too? BTW that's £22,191,780 every single day - going on for a million pounds every hour. Remember this when you are told of drastic cuts to services to save a paltry few hundred thousand here or there. What's even worse is that money leaves the UK economy altogether, it's not recycled into further taxable income for Brits as most of our own government spending is!

"16GB costs Apple about $6.40" http://bits.blogs.ny...-tablets-flash/ UK cost of current iPad 64GB = £570 UK cost of current iPad 16GB = £399 Premium for 48GB of flash: = £171 Cost to Apple (approx) 48 x .4 = $19.20 = £12.07 Mark up: £158.93 -- a staggering 1317% !!! Other manufacturers are guilty of the same of course, but mostly not to anything like this extent, and generally their base model is quite reasonably priced to start with - which is hardly the case with the Apple. There must also be an element of "transfer pricing" in this, which means that Apple are likely paying tax on very little of their real UK earnings. So a significant proportion of their giant cash mountain is money which should have gone back into the UK economy. To add insult to injury the UK buyer already pays a substantial premium to the prices Apple sells at in the USA, and certain other markets where customers simply won't pay their silly prices.

But this does nothing to illustrate the depth and colour of the Ryanair experience! ----------- http://www.telegraph...anair-boss.html ""We don't have heavy landings anymore.. "" I'm real glad that Ryanair pilot of a few years back has now learned on the job! ----------- ..or how they carefully craft their offering to respect customer's sensibilities... http://www.puglialif...ri-mafia-c-r447