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    [News] Huw Edwards

    Failure to comply would see him brought back before a "breach" court where the reasons for non-compliance would have to be given. The court then decides whether to allow the sentence to continue (with added sessions making it more onerous to reflect the breach), to revoke and resentence or to...
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    [Finance] 40 year mortgages

    The worst of it is that if you're on benefits then the housing benefit is paying the landlord's mortgage.
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    [Finance] 40 year mortgages

    The biggest problem for a lot of younger people is pulling the deposit together; I know several people in the 30-40 age group that are paying more in rent than a mortgage would be. The government needs to be pushing the banks to provide mortgages with much lower deposit requirements.
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    [NSC] Has NSC been HACKED

    If you're over Eastbourne way Adrian iPhone repairs in town did me a battery for about £25 I think (https://www.facebook.com/AdrianiPhoneRepairs/)
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    [Food] 'On the turn' meals

    There's something about milk that gives me what I can only describe as "funny guts" (thats a medical term, a real one) but only sometimes. If I have a bowl of Rice Krispies or Cornflakes for breakfast, every couple of times I will get a bit of a shifting in the basement and need to "go". 50% of...
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    [Misc] Moon Landing, are YOU are conspiracy theorist?

    Yeah, they went there. The doppler shift on lunar orbit couldn't be faked. Radio hams set up a 9 metre dish to listen in "Ham's setting up a 9 meter dish to receive signals from the Moon, and a doppler shift measurement (offset) of the received signal at around 2287.5 MHz as the spacecraft...
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    [Sussex] What's the best way to buy a house that you anticipate will have lots of competition?

    From a seller's POV (I've sold several properties in the last 40 years), I wouldn't entertain an offer from someone who hadn't either got cash in the bank or had already got a confirmed buyer.
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    [News] Ofwat to basically deregulate water companies….

    Let all of them go bust so the shares are worthless then take back under public ownership. If they're not going to go bust, impose rigid (onerous even) requirements on them to sort out thier infrastructure. It's time the large institutional shareholders found out that share prices can go down...
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    [Football] Would Man City take a 100 pt deduction tomorrow.

    I wish the PL/FA had had the balls in May to throw them into non-league and let them appeal it.
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    [Football] Would Man City take a 100 pt deduction tomorrow.

    They won't accept it as there seems to be the attitude from top to bottom that not only should can they get away with it but that they are entitled to get away with it.
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    [Politics] Small boats, smashing the criminal gangs and the UK job market

    Foreign criminals are deported after release if they've served 12 months or, if it's deemed a serious offence, any custodial sentence...
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    [Brighton] Roy Grace coming to ITV next year

    Huge howler last night; in 1963 the boy and his sister were taken from Stepney to Brighton and they were seen boarding a steam hauled train. BUT, the London to Brighton line was electrified in the 1930's so they would have been getting on one of these : (credit: By Ian Mockford, CC BY-SA 2.0...
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    [Technology] Help to setup VNC for personal use

    Consider installing linux on his PC (Mint is very windows-like). You can still remote in but if he's a bit vulnerable and gets taken in by a scammer their modus operandi is 99% targetted at windows users and malware is much less likely.
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    [NSC] Lighthouses.

    Neap tides. Twice a month. When there is a low tide, the Moon faces the Earth at a right angle to the Sun so the gravitational force of the Moon and Sun work against each other. These tides are referred to as neap tides; a low tide or one that is lower than average. A neap tide happens between...
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    [NSC] Lighthouses.

    It's low tide twice a day so you can walk to it anytime (although in the rain it might be a bit slippery).
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    [Travel] F**K SOUTHERN FAIL. Help?!

    Well played JC, good result. Shameful, though, that you have to go to such lengths. I've just started two complaints for relatives (Moss Bros and Ikea).
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    [Misc] Old Bible

    "This is a work of fiction. Unless otherwise indicated, all the names, characters, businesses, places, events and incidents in this book are either the product of the author's imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is...
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    [NSC] NSC - what it has become, and how can it be made better

    Get rid of all the football threads, they bore the tits off me. On a serious note, more robust policing of threads that get personal (seems to crop up a bit on politics threads where some people play the man not the ball).
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    [Travel] Brighton Station Exit and Re-enter farce

    On Pride day I was going from Eastbourne to Shoreham to meet some mates and I had to go round and out and back. Somehow I ended up in the exit lane and had to go through the (open) exit barrier. I assumed the system was just in place for Pride but it sounds like a right ballache now. As for...

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