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Am I the only one who can't summon up any enthusiasm for this? None of the teams have any identity, they're just a collection of players from all over the world who are there for the cash. I support Saints and Hampshire because this is where I've always lived and I suppose I inherited it from my Dad. I've now passed that on to my lad. The IPL is fine for the cricket-mad Indians. Just can't see any relevance to the UK.

Anyone read In The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco. I gave it a go but found it very heavy going - he takes about 5 pages describing a church. Is it worth persevering?

Gilberts was in Portland St. Not sure what's there now but Google Street View shows it as a jewellers. It was an amazing shop - used to spend hours browsing. The assistants were very knowledgeable and could obtain virtually any book for you. The entrance to West Quay was the Echo office. There was a small road down the side to the Running Horse pub. In WW2, a relative of my Dad was landlord. During the air raids they used to shelter in the cellar. When the old Echo office was bombed they were trapped by rubble and a burst water main was slowly filling the cellar. They got out OK and the pub was one of the few buildings in Above Bar that survived.

In his 3rd season in '89 they finished 11th. In today's high-pressure climate, he'd probably be sacked.

I don't think we've accepted mediocrity. We should aim to be among the best of our peers and I think we are now. However, in August we were a demoralised, not very good team. The 5-year plan is still on track. Please let's not go back to the managerial revolving door.

They were saying on the radio last night that HMRC are owed more than 25% of the debt and are taking a hard line and would be unlikely to agree to a CVA.

I was watching the "Unbelievable" video about Matt Le Tiss and he was saying that fans always expect you to play consistently every week. They don't relise that sometimes you might have been up half the night with a sick kid or you might have problems at home. How many of us can say that we do our jobs 100% every day. All teams lose games that they shouldn't. If they didn't, I'd still do the pools.

They were just saying on R5 that her election poster has been heavily airbrushed a la David Cameron.

Omar Sharif played cricket for Egypt at Lords.

I thought that sports quiz he did was utter garbage, although my son liked it. Maybe I'm getting old.

Did Greenidge, Marshall and Andy Roberts ever play in the same side?

I'm not suggesting anything because I don't know the full picture. The police have limited resources. How they deploy those resources will vary from city to city and it will also influence the crime statistics which record not crimes committed, but crimes reported. According to some studies so-called white-collar crime is massively under-reported but, because the Daily Mail doesn't create sensationalist headlines about it, there's no great pressure on the police to devote significant resources to it.

Forget stop and search. The numbers and types of people appearing in court are a consequence of how the police do their job. If they concentrate on a specific part of the population then they will appear more in the courts. If they totally ignored the Chinese, then, according to the statistics, they'd never have committed any crimes. I'm not saying that the statistics are wrong, but there are many factors that could influence them and we would need a lot more information before forming a firm conclusion.

No it doesn't. If the police only went after black people, then 100% of the prison population would be black. The reverse is true if they only went after white. The crime statistics depend a lot on police priorities and tactics. If they had a purge on drink- driving then the drink-driving stats would soar. You cannot make generalisations without knowing the complete picture. I can recommend some good books on statistics if you're interested.

Not at all. The figures show that more blacks are convicted. There are many crimes that go unsolved or are not reported. Maybe if police tactics were different, the results would change. Be very careful of simple statistics - they may not tell the complete story.

Cognis at Hardley (used to be BP Chemicals) test their major emergency alarm at 14:00 every Tuesday.

The problem as I see it would be finding a site. We're not in the North where there's acres of derelict industrial land and local councils welcome new development. Wherever they choose, the local nimbys will come out of the woodwork and it could take years. At approx £1000 per seat, I would have thought expansion would be the better option.

My apologies, you are correct. The Mail was owned by Viscount Rothermere, a personal friend of both Hitler and Mussolini. He supported Chamberlains's policy of appeasement and objected to Jewish refugees coming here from Germany. Not really changed much has it?

He gets his views from the Daily Express (which is slightly to the right of Genghis Khan) so everything he says must be true. This was the paper that supported Hitler in the '30s.

Yeah, worked really well so far. Bus services a mess and many services being withdrawn. Highest train fares in Europe. Increasingly dependant on imported energy, water companies foreign-owned. Lets have lots more!

As from tomorrow 95% of the UK will be available. Daily Mail readers will be up in arms (invasion of privacy blah blah)

Putting aside my own political opinions, I think that Cameron comes over as a triumph of style over substance. The Ashcroft affair has done him no favours, saying that he knew nothing about it until a couple of weeks ago. It had only been going on for 10 years. The Tories should have gone for Ken Clarke. He might be getting on a bit, but he comes over as a down to earth bloke rather than an old Etonian multi-millionaire.

If the latest polls are anything to go by, I should start thinking about it if I were you.

The Sunday Times printed the allegations about Foot which derived from a KGB defector, Oleg Gordievsky who, in order to accepted in the UK, had to provide as mich "information" as he could, a lot of which was uncheckable. Foot sued the paper and was awarded substantial damages.

The Iraq War was voted for in the Commons with Tory support. Most of the dissent came from the left wing of the Labour Party. Even now, you don't hear anything from Cameron opposing the war in Afghanistan.