MBE stands for Member of the Order of the British Empire. It is one "rank" below OBE -- which stands for Officer of the Order of the British Empire.
Basically if you're an OBE you get to sit next to the eldest son of a Baronet at one of the Queen's dinners. If you're a lowly MBE, you have to...
You CAN get more channels. You can get 6Music, BBC7, Sport Extra, 1Xtra, the Asian Network, all the commercial digital stations, and perfect reception on Five Live and the World Service. And that's without considering all the extra local stations you can get.
Sadly not. SCR is only on the multiplexes in Sussex and Surrey... so for (to all intents and purposes) the same reason you can't get it on FM in Salop, you can't get it on digital either.
I suspect the reason that the digital transmitters get the Surrey split is that the BBC has only paid for...
I've got the Bush one (can't remember which model but it's grey in colour and currently retails at 50/60 quid) which also runs on batteries if you want it. I've had it for a year, and it sounds ace. It only has one speaker but if you put separate speakers into the line-out socket, it gives you...
The food mountains aren't actually enormous piles of food in warehouses in Belgium. They are a figure of speech for all the produce that the EU gives farmers a subsidy for growing.
But perhaps the EU, and other major economies, could donate the cost of a dozen fighter jets each towards the...
Went to see this in London last night -- it was absolutely superb. I found myself laughing very very hard at stuff I really shouldn't (such as the tap-dancing Ku Klux Klan) but it was brilliantly designed, choreographed and sung.
The lass I went with was not so much a practising Catholic as...
Ledley King is whinging in the press today about how he doesn't get enough money. He's apparently only on 12.5K a week, and he wants 60K.
Ungrateful little turd.
The striker out of Palace went to Rome to see the Pope
The striker out of Palace went to Rome to see the Pope
The striker out of Palace went to Rome to see the Pope
And this is what he said:
"Who the f***ing hell are Palace?
"Who the f***ing hell are Palace?
"Who the f***ing hell are Palace...