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Bipat - you don't have the monopoly of who has many phone calls and emails from friends in India - many of us do, some of us have been adopted as grandparents to them. It is not a thing which comes from marrying into the culture.

Whilst I do not agree with the way the BNP go about things, I certainly agree with many of the things which were in the youtube clip.

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Nobody turns up for work at recruitment firm after they all win £28m EuroMillions jackpot (except the mother-to-be who missed out as 'she was off work with morning sickness')
Group of ten failed to turn up for work after numbers were announced
Louisa Whitby, 31, claims she missed out on her share of the jackpot
31-year-old says she was off work when payments were collected
She has hired a solicitor to get her share of the EuroMillions fortune


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...#ixzz2Yv5IgGRT

Would you have turned up for work! 10 more jobs available then :thumbsup:

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Not all vegetarians are vegetarian out of respect for life as such, my cousin just does not like the texture of meat. I gave up eating meat some 35 years ago when I read an article which said there would be plenty of food in the world to feed everyone if it was not for the way cows and other animals are fattened for slaughter (that's a bit of a simplistic explanation of the article) and I felt that I did not want to effectively take food out of others mouths in order that I could eat meat. I occasionally still smell bacon frying and think that I could eat a bacon sandwich especially when we are camping but I just wouldn't. However I always fed our animals on meat or fish and I do still cook meat for the family and visitors as I do not believe in imposing my views on others.

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I am still in a lottery syndicate where I used to work, I make sure I keep my lottery payments up to date and always pay a couple of months in advance. Was she in hospital or something, if not why did she need to be off work with morning sickness, millions of mothers have managed to work through it.
She must have known payments were due so it is her fault for not making them. She could have sent a cheque to the person running the syndicate or transferred money to their bank. I have no sympathy for her.

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I haven't eaten meat for a similar amount of time, and like you, try not to impose my views on others. The young spark fortunately can cook for himself these days but I still have to buy it for him.

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Would depend how old I was when it happened and whether I wanted to leave anything for kids- inflation is running at about 2.8% and the best investments available are yielding not much over 3% - so on £2,800,000 you could only draw five or six thousand a year without touching you capital (in real terms). An annuity might pay you 50 or 60 thousand a year before tax but your capital would die with you.
Hope they all did their sums!!

AndyD 8-)₹

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33 more properties under the scanner of ED and issued show cause notices.


In todays Times of India.

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link here

AndyD 8-)₹

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"The properties include residential apartments, bungalows, and ancestral property, and most of the 24 notices are to British nationals. Asked the status of the earlier notices, the official said the ED has begun receiving replies from the foreigners."

Typical those who have these notices have been given 30 days to reply - :thumbdown: most of these British Nationals will be at home in the U|K and will be unaware of the notices until they return. More Indian incompetence.

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Is it incompetence or is it done deliberately at a time when they know most British owners are not there - just like the bank account closure. Most of our friends which have the deeds will not be back in India until October/November, we will not be back until December so will not know how we stand with our bank account until then, I am hoping that as we do not hold the deeds (A of S) we will not have that problem.

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Two servicemen die 'from heat exhaustion' during training exercise in the Brecon Beacons
They were training during the hottest day of the year
Third person remains in hospital following the incident

Ministry of Defence working with police to investigate
Source: 'It is a case of the people succumbing to being affected by the training that they were doing'
Soldier also died training at Brecon Beacons earlier this year


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...#ixzz2Z2Nmo9Md

It really has been so hot here to-day.

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Dreadful thing to happen, it was really too hot for that sort of thing. Apparently these young men were trying out to get into the SAS, if that is the case then the trials should not happen in such hot weather as the recruits will probably not had the training on how to deal with such conditions.

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Forget check-in queues and delays - the worst part of flying is the naughty child in the seat behind you, say passengers
Survey reveals a third of travellers would pay extra to sit in a child-free zone on airplane
Biggest in-flight irritants include drunk passengers and rude staff


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...#ixzz2ZE1AMzwb

would you pay extra for a child free zone?

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Yes, everywhere :thumbsup:


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Well not exactly "today's" newspapers, but was amazed to come across this tonight?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-21841479

Whilst we have all been made aware in recent months that the BBC are a bunch of profligate, unprofessional poofs, it beggars belief that they blew £130 million of licence payers money on buying Lonely Planet!

No surprise that they have sold it after a few years at an £80 million loss:eek: