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General Discussion

Call recognition doesn't always work though. Anyone ex directory or phoning from somewhere with a big phone network, like the council or even your bank, can be shown as number withheld. I also had a call from a lady in Newton Abbott once (at work) that bizarrely showed up as International. Most firms get round the TPS thing by using overseas call centres or just plain ignoring it or claiming you ...

You can doubt it all you want, but I guarantee that it will be true that people will travel to Teignmouth for the play park.  Just as I used to travel with a group of Mums to Decoy for our children to play at the park there before the Teignmouth play park was upgraded.  My children were just about too old for it by the time they finished it. The Teignmouth play park works really well and is very ...

The trouble with litter and the like is that as soon as there is some, it tends to multiply. It is about changing attitudes so that people don't litter the area in the first place, but also a change of attitude from all of us. The Council would have to spend most of its budget to keep every path, pavement, road and park clean and tidy 24/7. That's a ridiculous thing to have to happen. ...

Oh thanks for the link to that table of birth dates and retirement age Lynne.  I've just check and I'm actually a year better off that I thought I was.  So it is 67 for me now, not 68.  But you are also quite right, Lynne that this might be changed again.  As it may well be for men too - after all their retirement age has also been pushed back beyond 65.  By the time I retire, men and women ...

10 Aug 2016

Well it is just how it has to be. People are living longer and for a huge number they are starting work later due to staying on in education. So probably the number of years actually in work is similar to years ago.  And it was in the press so much I can't believe anyone was completely unaware of it. Also for years there has been the demand for equality - well now we have it. Men and women have ...

Leadsom or May
9 Jul 2016

sexist, ageist and offensive - all in one short post.  Congratulations!! are you suggesting that two neurotic, power hungry, old men would be better?

One of the reasons the Consultant has less time for NHS patients is because they are allowed to do private care for so many days a week.  NHS hospitals like private funded care because it helps with their bills and the Consultants like it because they get more money in their pockets.  If all Consultants had to work full time for the NHS then we would see a difference in care.  But their contracts ...

Leadsom or May
7 Jul 2016

Burnside, given the option between the 2 final candidates, then yes. I do consider May the better option.

Freedom of Speech
7 Jul 2016

It strikes me that those who cry they should be allowed Freedom of Speech, rarely seem to want to extend the same privileges to those with an opposite view to their own.

Leadsom or May
7 Jul 2016

Why would anyone want Leadsom, a comparative novice, when you could have May who has a wealth of experience in Government?  Right now this country needs strong leadership and this is about so much more than just negotiations with the EU, there is far more to governing than just that. I would hate us to end up with someone who might, possibly, be great at Brexit stuff, but pretty useless at ...

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