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That's the story in the Telegraph. Pretty seismic. Apparently he's unhappy about the Christian Horner shenanigans. This could really shake things up.

Nationwide and Virgin Coventry and Coop Barclays and Tesco Is there some reason why they have all started happening at the same time?

It looks like freedom of movement may be restored for those under 30. It was suggested initially by the UK, and the EU seem to be on board. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/apr/18/brussels-proposes-return-to-pre-brexit-free-movement-for-uk-and-eu-young-people

The worklessness "crisis" seems to becoming a big story. Is it a real thing? And if so, is it actually that big a deal? For instance, there is an article in today's Telegraph which says: They are talking about 16-24 year olds. The great majority of those three million are still in school or...

I have been looking at the iGel mattresses sold by Bensons. They claim to solve the problem of memory foam being too hot for some people, by incorporating "crystals" of a phase change material in the top layer. They say this regulates temperature between 35C and 37C throughout the night. My...

New poll!!!!!!!

I am hoping somebody can advise what this might be and if it could even be dangerous. I still have the open vent Baxi FS which is now 32 years old. For as long as I can remember, it has always screeched a bit when heating up. But this afternoon it has got a whole lot worse. I've only ever...

On the face of it, the CPS prosecuted two protestors for calling Iain Duncan Smith "Tory scum". And when they were found not guilty, the Director of Public Prosecutions brought a judicial review. There has to be more to this case. Hopefully, somebody can explain the legal basis. Maybe...

I've just been watching a Youtube video of a heating engineer fitting a 125 litre high recovery cylinder. At one point in the video, he seems to be saying that if you run the coil on these cylinders at a high temperature, you will often end up with excessive stratification. So, the NTC sensor...

My Auntie's whole street has suffered an outage on its Virgin phone lines today. Virgin are refusing to fix the problem. Instead, they are saying everyone has to go digital and accept a VOIP system plugged into their router. Is this standard practice now? Is there anything they can do to...

I really like Gary Linker and Sophie Raworth. Also, Alan Shearer and Huw Edwards. I can't stand Fiona Bruce, Stephen Nolan or Zoe Ball. Don't really know the others...

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I've just had four URL redirection attempts whilst reading General Discussion. Attempting to redirect to luckypuppy.xyz I've no idea whether this is serious or not but thought I should flag it up.

I've deleted my last post from the other thread and copied it here because it was getting derailed: I know quite a bit about how PPIs work. They drastically increase stomach pH, from about ph 1.5 to about ph 5 on average. This is an absolutely huge difference, because the scale is logarithmic...

This is interesting but a bit beyond me, so I would appreciate anyone’s insight. When googling info on heat loss for the other thread, I came across this link to a government study from 2012, which covers the energy savings from turning the room temperature down by 1 degree, from 19C to 18C. I...

Last year my neighbour had a conservatory built and after a short time, the new radiators stopped working. He got a gas engineer to fix it and the engineer told my neighbour that the builder has used the wrong colour of plastic pipe. He said it was black pipe, and the black pipe attracted the...

I'm looking for other ways to dry hand towels. I'm not talking about after washing them, I mean after using them. At the moment, I put them over the radiator. If I don't, they quickly end up sodden. But I've read that using radiators is frowned upon, as covering them makes them very inefficient...

I regularly buy what the supermarkets now call Easy Peelers. Throughout the year, they vary enormously. So, for the past couple of years I've been tracking what they actually are. Timings are approximate: mid Nov-Jan: Clementines from Northern Hemisphere Feb-May: Mandarins from Northern...

I saw this famous old brain teaser on a film called 21, with Kevin Spacey. The answer is easily found. But it was the explanation which drove me nuts. You are a contestant on a game show. There are three closed doors. Behind one door is the star prize, which is a brand new car. The other...

It's not easy to find the info. But I think there might be a strike, just of delivery workers. Both my insurance broker and myself noticed we hadn't had any post today.