General Discussion
I thought I'd seen the Sicklemores in the news before. These were the people that tried to shift their house through a raffle a few years back. http://www.thisisexeter.co.uk/Teignmouth-couple-raffle-home/story-11802013-detail/story.html The things people do, eh?
I saw one of the cars with the wipers all bent round. Any car is unusable like this since you cannot risk it raining. Lets hope it hasn't ruined too many peoples' holiday plans.
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all!
Sorry, here is the news article http://www.thisisplymouth.co.uk/Plymouth-postmistress-accused-pound-31-000-fraud/story-14053930-detail/story.html
I came across this news article about a plymouth postmistress, now living in Dawlish, who has been accused of defrauding the post office out of £31,000. I remembered reading a while back that there were concerns about the reliability of the post offices' IT systems. This is an article about it: http://www.fraudadvice.co.uk/fraud-and-the-post-office-horizon-computer/ It sounds to me her case is ...
Well it started off a bit dark, then the lights came on and it was still a bit dark.
I hadn't really being paying much attention to the size of these pensions until the last day or two and I am hearing figures like £10k a year, £6k a year and even as low as £3k a year. These are hardly generous pensions. Mervyn King, the public sector worker who is supposed to be in charge of the bank of england and keep inflation under control and who has failed spectacularly at his job, has a ...
The public sector got bloated under Labour with regional development agencies and similar ideas that were a waste of tax payers money. However, there is no need to take it out on teachers and nurses who in general do a pretty good job.
I suspect dawlishwulf is right. It probably wasn't a big enough incident for them to send out their own photographers or news reporters. Or they were too late.
Not seen the Gazette yet. What are the picures of?
