Vince Green

Probably exactly right " well, we searched as best we could but it's a very large area, "

I'm in ! Where do you sign up for this scheme?

I nearly always get a cold after going on a plane Also I know somebody who recently flew back from Spain knowing she was still Covid positive after being ill over there. It's not illegal and she didn't want to change her arrangements.

Gordon Even if they think it's a complete waste of time they have to be seen to explore every possible option. Just so they can't be criticised later for not doing so

The truth is it wouldn't be solved over night but gradually, as the message got back to the camps across the channel they would realise it was hopeless, then it would work. And it would solve France's problem too because they would stop coming to the channel ports in the first place. No point trying if you just going to get sent back

I remember many years ago sitting in apartment on the Costa del Sol watching a big hotel being built on the plot opposite. That was a lesson in how not to build a multi storey concrete building.

But they are not illegal immigrants are they? They are poor unfortunate seafarers who got rescued by the lifeboat or the coastguard when their inflatable dinghy got into trouble. Haha! Joking apart though, the fact that "we" brought them ashore makes their status less easy to define. Answer ? Stop rescuing them?

That's a ponsi scheme, technically illegal in this country. They can't use your pension contribution to pay somebody else's pension. Otherwise how do they pay your pension when the time comes? But the pensions are index linked so even in years when the workers have had no pay increase the pensions still get increased by what ever index it is linked to

So do I have a defined benefit (final salary) pension. My employer invested our contributions and managed the scheme with trustees. That worked out OK The fact that the NHS failed to do so is an inditement because now we are paying these peoples pensions

To be fair, it's very much in the public domain now. As long as nobody says anything offensive or unwarranted I don't see a problem It is a real mystery

It's incredibly difficult to just do a runner or fake your own disappearance these day with all the cameras and dash cams around. Similarly, it's equally difficult to abduct someone and get away. The police are not stupid, they have access to a lot of hi tec resources.

It has been said that the Belgians have done that in the past in a different way. Picking up refugees at their southern borders and running them up to the northern coast so they don't shoplift or beg /sleep rough etc on the streets of Belgium as they pass through. That way the population of Belgium don't see it as a problem. From their point of view its probably a good thing to do and for good reason

I think to be fair the police are saying they can't see any other plausible possibility except the river. Although that too is looking less likely after today.

I have said that ever since they said the dog was dry. We had a springer and he would have gone into the water in a blink. Also I would not let a springer off its lead unless I had a ball to throw for it and somewhere safe and enclosed for it to run. That is definitely not on a footpath by a river. Unless its a very old dog. Another thing that's not right, why put your phone down on a bench? Most people are protective towards their phone and would slip it in a pocket or bag

The NHS wastes so much money on unnecessary things that they shouldn't even get involved in. When my late mother had one of her many hospital appointments several times a car, ambulance or a taxi would turn up unannounced to take her to her appointment. We never once requested this, a family member would always take her. Who booked these cars we have no idea.

A friend of mine, his son in law walked out of work at lunchtime and jumped off a bridge. No family problems, no money worries, no trouble at work. His wife said he was fine that morning and colleagues said he seemed relaxed and normal at work in the days building up to it. Totally inexplicable for everybody who knew him. He left behind a wife and a seven year old daughter.

A ridiculously high part of the NHS's annual expenditure goes into paying pensions. This is because, although they deducted pension money from the staff wages over the years they did not invest it in a pension scheme. So now they don't have a pension pot to pay the pensions from and have to pay it instead from their annual budget.

With gun prices at a absolute rock bottom at the moment you may well pick up a real bargain.

I agree with this, my mother aged 90 had two difficult and invasive operations in the last year of her life when it was obvious to everyone that she was dying. The cost must have been huge and it may have given her a few extra months. Not happy or pain free months though

Exactly. There is no predicting what a virus might do next. Tricky little blighters

It's the same the world over. Very few countries have proper building controls and regulations in place.

Harry will end up on I'm a Celebrity or dancing on ice at this rate .

Any example of a non mammalian virus crossing to mammals is a cause for concern. How big a concern is yet to be seen. As we have seen in the recent past, never underestimate a virus. It's been detected in foxes and otters, what they haven't said is what effect it had on them.

I have heard this said before by a friend who is an RFD. Something to do with ethical policy

The only reason I know about it is because a workmate years ago bought a house there that had been flooded in 1953 for his retirement. There have been a couple of programmes on TV about it.