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Thank's, that's helpful. I often use a (paid for) VPN service so it's probably linked to somebody else using the service. I've selected a different log-on server and it's gone away (for now).

It's got 8-0 written all over it

What do you think Fonte's best position would have been? Standing in the corner or sitting on the naughty step?

You mean Horton Heath?

If that newspaper article is the only source of information, then it is equally plausible that it is the cyclist that is under investigation, for assaulting Charlie's Ferrari with a dangerous bicycle.

Can I be the first to wish Portsmouth Community Football Club [est.7 Feb 2012] Happy 5th Birthday And what a five years it has been. Who could forget that highest-ever league finish last season, 6th place in the fourth division. Awesome. Or the hysteria on Portsea Island on reaching the fourth round of the FA Cup, beating towering giants like Macclesfield, Accrington Stanley and Ipswich on the way to glory. Never mind that those are the only FA Cup ties that they've won in their history, having gone out in the first round every other season. So HAPPY BIRTHDAY SKATES. Here's hoping you have a blue blue future.

It was rhetorical Doc, I didn't want to pass up another opportunity to belittle our neighbours. I know how many of them like to pop in here for a look-see

Q What do the following football teams all have in common? Chesterfield Sćunthorpe Rochdale Fleetwood Burton Albion Shrewsbury Bury Southend Northampton Oxford United Bristol Rovers AFC Wimbledon

If you're looking at some form of mortgage finance, and if the land or the project forms any part of the security for that finance, then the land will need to be registered to you unencumbered to get finance. And it sounds as if you need to also subdivide a large portion of land into 2 or more smaller pieces. That will also take time before you start. That will involve either a) your relative will need to legally subdivide it first and then sell you two separate pieces, or b) you will need to buy one large piece, then subdivide and register it as 2 separate pieces. All before you get started, although you could do it in parallel with your planning application. If you're doing it all cash, then you could do it in parallel with building but you would be taking a risk, and all this presumes that you are plannng to sell the new properties freehold. Leasehold I think you could have more than one property on the same piece of land, but the preliminary legals and financing arrangements would be much more complex and it would probably take longer to sell at the end unless you heavily discounted the price.

Aah, the good old Mary Whitehouse defence... I don't enjoy watching porn, but I have to do it so I can come on here and tell you how disgusting it is.

If she really wants another 15 minutes of fame, she ought to apply for a job on the opposition front bench.

If that is true, without any contingency, then now is the time to walk away. Ten months (forget December) from agreement in principle to buy the land to sold, paid for and money in the bank is far too optimistic. You need to consider where you will be if the project costs you 20% more than you think it will, and you don't bank the cash until the middle of 2018. If you can handle that, then crack on.

No, not that kind. For the past few weeks, almost every time I try to run a google search I get one of those captcha "I am not a robot" procedures to tick boxes in pictures and submit results, sometimes several times. It's a bit of a PITA having to do it several times a day. Is this the new normal, or have I finally been outed as a bit of a dodgy geezer?

Bugger me, I've accidentally joined mumsnet. Sorry ladies.

You got that wrong. I think it's war heroes, crying rallies and plucky chests.

Those articles are 3 years old, since when we've had the Hillsborough decision, which held that defects at the stadium, mistakes in the safety certificate and an incorrect capacity limit were contributory factors to the unlawful killings. They won't be getting any old mates favours.

I suppose nobody has posted because you're still all rolling about on the floor laughing

And an offshore Parent?

That depends on whether you're subject to first world levels of corporate governance or not.

Does it involve Thai hookers? I could be interested.

You're talking about people that would swap their grandmother's fanny for a vote. They're desperate to cling on to the gravy train.

I particularly like the bit where they're confident that their board are discussing their expansion plans with central government. That and the bit about finance through low interest loans, because as we all know lenders are queueing up to give soft loans on favourable terms to companies that have gone bust twice in the last ten years.

Or, as the biased BBC put it in their match report...

Hardly. Here's what the judgement actually says about that...

It was certainly an interesting, and overdue, review involving all three of the branches holding the separated powers. I shall enjoy spending at least a week laughing at Nicola Sturgeon throwing her toys out of her pram.