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I'll check that also. I wouldn't expect to withdraw cash from an ATM but at least knowing it is €1.5 is good news.

Thanks Trousers. I'll check the small print of course!!

I should have said Euro zone rather than EU zone of course!!

I'm wondering whether there is a UK visa (or similar) debit/credit card that you can use in the Euro zone for electronic transactions that doesn't charge a hidden currency swap fee for purchases made abroad? Does anyone know if there is one or, failing that, is there one that has low rates that people can recommend?

Agreed.

I don't think there is any need to worry. It's just Ashley Browne and his PST colleagues making noise for the sake of it to cement their position with the blue few.

But all we know about their youth is what Factless Allen and co say in the Snooze. Surely it is more likely to be the case that they are not that good, given they have bugger all training facilities for the youth and most of them have been out at local very non-league sides where they have done ok at an even lower level...

I'm still not sure why they have lost £2m... Can somebody explain please?

Excellent. No arguments about -10 now. That's that done. FL know all other clubs would go spare if they didn't hold it over to next season.

Feeling good about this!

Ultimately they were very lucky that the Premier League gave them (and other relegated teams) an unexpected boost this season with the extra payment. They could get another one next year as a one-off but otherwise the remaining payments won't add up to to much. There is a figure that has been quoted here somewhere about PPs for L1 and L2 clubs which would be useful to know if somebody can dig it out.

http://teamlocals.co.uk/news/portsmouth/news-sport/pompey-start-fresh-but-not-totally-debt-free So in effect, they're already about £11m in debt if you believe the PST figures. Which ignores the non-football CVA creditors also. And also doesn't account for the £3m plus "add-ons" for Fratton Park, most of which they need to pay by end of this month.

Surely Oldham can manage 1 or 2 points from 4 games. Let's hope so. Just to seal the -10 for Pompey next season.

Am totally against a divisive figure like Thatcher who did nothing for football being recognised at a football game anywhere.

This whole episode is getting over the top now as the state has started to act politically. I am fully supportive of those MPs who choose not to attend today's 7.5 hour Parliamentary farce if they feel it is not what their constituents would want.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Smith_(judge)

There's no question that many of the mines were shut for political reasons rather than economic ones. Not all of course, some were on the way out anyway. I work in the energy industry and regularly visit Drax Power Station in North Yorks. Although it is partially converting to biomass (all of which will be imported), it still supplies 7% of the UK's electricity demand alone by burning 30,000 tonnes of coal every day on average, mostly imported now. Fully laden coal trains arrive at Drax every 45 minutes 24/7/365 from the ports of Hunterston, Tyne and Immingham where they load up with coal sourced from Australia, South Africa, South America and Eastern Europe. Drax was built on top of the Selby coal seam along with Eggborough and Ferrybridge power stations which contribute another 7% of the nation's insatiable and growing demand for electricity at the present time. Drax Power Station wasn't even completed until 1986 by which time the miner's strike was over and Thatcher was laying policies to shut those remaining mines right next to the power station, in the misguided belief that North Sea gas was going to last for many more years than it will. There is still a lot of coal below the ground there but to reopen many of the mines would cost a fortune as when they were shut they were abandoned and allowed to flood so are now ruined below the surface. With modern mining technology a lot of that untapped coal would still be available at an economic price to dig out had it not been for the politically shortsightedness of the Thatcher government at the time to abandon those mines. We all know about coal contributing to pollution and so on, but with new CCS technology making advances and about to be tested at places like Drax (http://www.whiteroseccs.co.uk), that coal would have been bloody handy now.

http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/society/northern-britain-already-hammered-2013040865062 Northern Britain already hammered. Lol.

I agree with all the above. The lady's not for returning.

It has to be MoPo. But NA will always be held high for what he did for Saints.

As time has passed I am reasonably happy with Cortese's decision to replace Nigel. There is no doubt that Nigel was great for us with successive promotions but MoPo has instilled fresh vigour in the same set of players.

I'm a bit boring. Something classical... failing that Stairway to Heaven.

Nevertheless, in a utilitarian stance, you can't allow a maverick nation to threaten the existence of many more people elsewhere.

Dune would have loved this thread. To take a Dune (and possibly realistic) view, it could be argued that the traditional working class has largely disappeared and been replaced by feckless Mick Philpotts who sit about on the dole in plastic clothes that promote brands, collect benefits, moan about immigrants and watch Sky TV paid for by somebody else...

Don't mess with a haircut or ears like mine Obama!