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while child poverty is calculated on percentages and average wages you cannot eradicate it because people are lifted in or out of poverty not because their actual personal situation may have changed, but simply because average national wages change

James Ashworth VC
24 Apr 2013

There are plenty of books that list citations and there are probably sources on-line too from regimental archives etc, but VC citations were also published in the London Gazette and you can do a search online for pages from that which should give all the information.

Sounds like an excellent edition to the other businesses at that end of Dawlish and more employment good news.  Let's hope permission is granted.

Having to change buses to make a connection is hardly anything new and as there is also the option of catching a train from Dawlish Warren then there are still plenty more transport options than a lot of villages get, so it might not be as totally convenient as before but it certainly isn't cut off from anywhere.  I have been on the number 2 bus plenty of times when it has done the journey to and ...

There are a lot of changes happening in the exam systems over the next few years and students making subject choices in year 9 now are going to be affected by them.  My own children were advised to avoid certain subjects that had looked like good options just a few years earlier, because they were unsure how many GCSEs or equivalents they would actually be worth by the time they had come to the ...

@Lynne oh dear oh dear, you do get yourself in a tiz, but as usual I'm going to have to disagree with you yet again. No, I did not state that because the Americans who posted on that forum liked her, then "the rest of us are supposed to follow suit".  Obviously that is not going to happen and I never suggested it should, the comment was made because unfortunately it has shown this ...

16 Apr 2013

Parliament (through the Speaker) makes a democratic decision based on requests received (by the Speaker) from members on how they should best pay their respects and yet people on here decide to be nasty about it, shame. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-22078727 And people are daft if they think state paid for funerals for former prime ministers is anything new. I was very ...

How about a disagree as well as an agree option under each post

The Iron Lady
13 Apr 2013

yeah we get it neilh, you didn't like her but you like to write poetry, how about something nice on another subject to show us what an all rounder you are at writing

Minutes silence
13 Apr 2013

keep the minute silence if you want to - don't keep it if you don't want to, no-one can make you do it either way, it is your own free and personal choice - end of story