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BBC News - Bank of England injects further £75bn into economy

Looks interesting :) BBC iPlayer - The 1951 Festival of Britain: A Brave New World

Some of you might remember that back in April I fulfilled a lifelong ambition and flew with a Spitfire over the white cliffs of Dover and Capel le Fern. It was an amazing experience and I took hundreds of photos a couple of which are below. My flight was arranged by Steve Burt of...

Muslim teenagers convicted after spraying burkas onto scantily-clad Lynx models | Mail Online Any ideas on what might happen if you put up a billboard that's accepted here, in certain other countries??! If you live in the UK then accept how we live. Not too much to ask.

A sight to behold. LINK.

I've just watched a very interesting documentary on BBC2 about our 'political elite' being public school educated. I'm not normally one to agree with Andrew Neil, yet in this case, the future doesn't look too pretty unless you're from a financially priviledged background. Very sad...

Britain's fastest police car. Lotus has donated one of its Evora sports cars to the traffic cops operating in the West Midlands. Dressed in full panda car livery, the Evora will be a worrying sight for speeders. Of more concern for law-breakers is the car's 276bhp 3.5-litre V6 engine...

Cancer victim hits out over release - Yahoo! News UK Sad!

clickerty click On More 4 tonight from 9PM. :thumb: Great series.

38,243 caught in 5 years Comment. I thought the job of these camera's was to reduce speeding,they can't be working if the level of offending is this high:crazy:

If all the Haters emigrated?

Time for all the gloom-mongers to wollow. Britain has worst quality of life in Europe, study says - Telegraph Please pick up your litter before leaving the country ;) Personally if I 'had' to leave I'd chose somewhere like Finland to live. Nice friendly people and a beautiful country...

I was dismayed the other day to read of Ronnie Biggs' release on compassionate grounds , in the wake of news that the same dispensation is being considered for the Libyan intelligence officer convicted in connection with the Lockerbie bombing ! I found the picture of Biggs sitting up and...

Excellent. Guess who is: 1) off to far Northern porridge land for New Years and 2) discovered today that there is no heating on drivers side of car! http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/3999747/Britain-braces-itself-for-New-Year-big-freeze.html# Britain should brace itself for a...

Has to be a fact or why else does Britain have more speed / safety cameras than any other country in Europe ...........or in fact more than the whole of europe put together...:mad: For anyone who has driven in other parts of EU...............lets get real now..:devil:

Culled from The Register roadpricing trials Of course it's only for our convenience.

Caught on video in a police sting. Unfortunately for him he also has a tattoo on his neck with his name and 'phone number on. Not much point in tagging him then ...? :crazy: http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=84c_1223407207

A disgrace http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/sep/12/military.defence :(

And about time too, maybe they will get rid if the clutter we find on most of our roads nowerdays I believe this is the worst slip road in the UK for signs :crazy: The A2 junction for Bridge and Adisham is one of the worst in Britain but it was beaten by the B3006 in Hampshire...

One example of its poor construction was that it was more aerodynamic when travelling backwards than when it was being driven forwards.:eek: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/main.jhtml?xml=/motoring/2008/07/17/mnallegro117.xml:D