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It's not just airbnb conning guests. There have been major concerns raised by local residents that the explosion of unregulated tourist rentals is causing massive overcrowding in the centre and stopping people who live there from going about their daily business unimpeded. Part of the clampdown...

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Come again? RIP

One minor & oft-forgotten postscript to the story is that while Guy Gibson survived this heroic raid, he was shot down and killed 18 months later by accidental 'friendly fire' while flying over the Netherlands during Operation Market Garden. He & his co-pilot that night still lie in a cemetery...

Nelly, surely?

Almost this, but I blotted my copybook by watching two televised games. #badfanbutnotasbadafanascheshirecatobviously

21 months? What kind of things are growing in there...?

The best political system (on paper) is, was and always will be a benign dictatorship, with a wise and kindly leader at the helm who knows what to do for the best for his or her country and does it, whether it's popular or not. Trouble is that in reality there are no wise and benign dictators...

If anyone here is partial to the occasional Duvel, it's now available on tap in the UK for the first time: https://www.beerguild.co.uk/news/duvel-now-pouring-iconic-brew-tap-first-time-uk/ Now, when the Duvel Tripel Hop Citra is on tap, that will be something...

In short, yes. Although I'm not sure it's going to make enough of a difference to stop a fat person being overweight.

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Doh! Of course you are right. Steve Winwood was who I was thinking of... *Morons. I got morons on my team...*

Only trouble is the kebab and chips you eat afterwards pretty much undoes any good the beer has done you...

Does Spencer Davis count?

I get out to the cinema, thanks, which clearly you don't... Is this scene from Top Secret what you mean? YapRwteQuW4

You mean the Hitler Rap? That's Mel Brooks's version of To Be or Not to Be. Although I don't think the song actually appeared in the final film - it was just used as a promo... And I have to say the 1942 Jack Benny original version (of the film, not the rap song) is funnier in my opinion.

Agreed, but... Can Caroline Lucas run parliament all on her own?

According to Peel himself (allegedly), this is the only record he's appeared on (reluctantly), in the rather tuneless backing choir: OppywKlMomo Cut 'n' paste job: Peel related the story of this recording session a few years later to John Walters: "I think I did a gig with them at Leicester...

A bit like John Peel's blistering mandolin solo on Rod Stewart's Maggie May...* And of course, Bob Holness's unforgettable sax playing on Baker Street...** *It was actually Ray Jackson from Lindisfarne, so kind of famous and fitting for the thread. **A session musician named Raphael...

Jimmy Page worked as a session musician for several years in the 60s. He no doubt appeared uncredited on hundreds of other people's records.