By giving a CAST IRON GUARANTEE that the government will back up Northern Rock savings if they go tits up, the Chancellor has technically made NR safer than the Bank of England, hasn't he?
Presumably there will be QUEUES of people waiting to put their money IN in the morning.
WARNE CLEARED
Hampshire captain Shane Warne has been cleared of directing foul language at
spectators in a one-day match last month.
The former Australia leg-spinner appeared before a disciplinary panel after it
was alleged he made comments to the crowd during the second innings of a NatWest...
Did you also meet his brother William G Stewart, who actually hosts Fifteen to One? :jester:
My girlfriend was on 100% once. Two of my friends have been on the Weakest Link. And I know an NSCer who was on University Challenge.
Northern Rock is NOT going to go bust. BBC Radio has just been reprting that it's expected to suffer a reduction in profts this year -- but they'll still be around £500m.
So the people panic-withdrawing their savings are being incredibly silly.
In fact the only thing British people are more...
I'm British and "media". Today I wrote a story about a doctor who's invented special ear implants to stop people with big ears looking silly.
I don't call that being scum. I call that serving the great British public.
Agreed. but then I would say that.
You're wrong, Storer68 -- this will probably lead to MORE Fred Dinenage, and MORE Hampshire stories on their air in Sussex. Do you really think they'll make cuts and then move their main newsroom to Brighton?
(They won't)
My mum used to work in a residential care home in Whitehawk and I don't think she ever had, or saw, any trouble whatsoever.
I'm only suprised it hasn't started to become gentrified by people pushing the boundaries of Kemptown eastwards...
What he said.
Also -- to be guilty of manslaughter gross negligence, you have to not just be negligent, you have to be GROSSLY negligent. This is actually a really hard thing to prove in court.
And Jacquie Simpson wasn't up on a charge of failing to control a dangerous dog -- because she...