This seems like the place for this. I've been told that Republican internal polling puts Clinton four points ahead. Don't have any info from the Democrats.
Enjoy your evening...
The person you libelled -- even if it's the convicted rapist Owen Oyston -- can get £20,000 in damages from you.
This is the judgment in the case.
http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/QB/2015/3232.html
Jacob Schilt and Matt Grimstone both went to Varndean School, where Jacob's dad worked (coincidentally he was my form tutor and taught me science)
Here's a statement from the school
http://www.varndean.co.uk/blog/2015/08/24/condolences/
Obituary from tomorrow's Telegraph
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/11675446/David-Bellotti-Liberal-Democrat-MP-obituary.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
Dick Knight puts it well in the Argus: “It is always sad to hear someone has died but I think we have to put the David Bellotti role into context.
“He will be remembered by Albion fans who were around at the time as someone who had influence in our club in the first half of 1990s, the...
But it was only £40k. I know that is and was a lot of money then (it's about £70k in today's money). But I wouldn't go through that kind of nonsense for that salary. Would anyone here? He must have had a real defensive pig-headedness about him. It must have been about more than the cash.
"I earn forty thousand pounds a year and I'm worth every penny". Along with a small statue of a man with a coat over his head being bundled onto a coach in Rochdale.
Really sad news. Sarah was, like me, a regular bus-steward on the trips to Gillingham. I hadn't seen her for ages but she was always friendly while not, as Liz C told the Argus, suffering fools.
I think she worked in banking, and as a consequence understood all the complex business shenanigans...
Read this newspaper article. It will make your weekend.
http://www.newsshopper.co.uk/news/10842150.Crystal_Palace_to_stay_up__aliens_tell_Bromley_woman_who__used_to_be_Joan_of_Arc_/?ref=twtrec
Court 13, not before 1400. I am sitting in the Old Bailey cafeteria as I type this. I'm not sure I'll be able to go into court, though -- I'm working on another case.
Spot on.
I rather hope newsreaders don't mix up who and whom on the Beeb. They don't when I write their scripts, anyway. But what's wrong with "half nine"? Everyone says it.