A leading doctor has called for a ban on smoking in private cars when children are present as the concentration of smoke in a closed vehicle is much worse than it might be at home or anywhere else.

Professor Terence Stephenson, head of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health has said that as we have already banned smoking in front of collegues at work he sees no reason why...

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A guy from Carfin, Lanarkshire, who phoned the police and told them he had a gun was eventually cornered on a rail-yard and shot by the cops. It seems that after this shooting had taken place it was found that the "gun" was in fact a piece of wood. ( No gun has been found after a massive search !).

If this is the case then I find it astounding that armed police are unable ...

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I am sure that we all think about 7/7 amd 9/11 as we go about our daily lives in the West and with these thoughts in mind I was wondering why and how the Muslim clerics do not keep a tighter watch on the people who are radicalising our teenage Muslims ?

A report in the Sunday Times shows that ordinary Mosques are breeding grounds for fundamentalist jehadis and while the hate-filled ...

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Here is an amusing look at what went wrong with the banks all those months ago. It was sent to me by my son who found it on the internet:


Derivative markets..... An understandable explanation:


> Heidi is the proprietor of a bar in Kansas City . In order to increase
> sales, she decides to allow her loyal customers - most of whom are ...

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So last friday I got my matching orders. My office hasn't made money for 2 months and they needed to chuck out the sandbags and quick.. so i was one of them sandbags. But its quite crazy, I am 30.. and in my life I have been made redundant Twice. The got into deep water as they decided to focus on new business and not focus on the accounts they had that was low in margin but good business none the...

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My friend and yours, Merlinz, suggested that I should activate the advanced profiles option for the forum and after some advice from him about how to do this....I DID !

Now, as I am as much a novice about the advanced bells and whistles of this fantastic forum software I guess we are all going to have to find out about what is in "Advanced Profiles".

I do kn...

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Hi folks.

I am going to use this announcement posting to give you any news that you might like to have about your new forum:

Today I registered with all of the search engines and found that the first link is already on page four of GOOGLE. THAT was pretty quick !

I have changed the look of the index page so as to make it more informative of what we are ...

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How about adding a off-topic general discussion forum so members can chat in a less formal way?

I have been checking in a lot more than usual and find it extremely sad that this forum becomes a ghost town after 4pm most days and today there’s not been a post since 1pm.

add your view so the admin can see if this idea as any strength and should take the idea into consid...

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Hi all

Having experience of a close elderly friend of the family who, 5 years ago, had an operation on the gall bladder and who has not been right ever since, plus all the other never-ending stories about the appalling, disgusting and downright inhumane treatment of elderly people, I felt compelled to highlight this huge problem in this country.

Now the friend of the ...

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