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This has been going on for years, it's not townies it's animal rights wierdos more likely. My mum was a Biology teacher, 20+ years ago they started getting the same abuse about dissecting animals in class so the schools got scared and stopped it.

Your dad fought a war to prevent a Single European Hegemony.....rethink your statement.

Maybe at home but I am against teachers using gimmicks like IPads in the classroom. Waste of money, children shouldn't rely on flashy graphics every time we want to get them to learn something.

It's not the root of all evil. Immigration will put a strain on future generations (a bit like the baby boomers have done) unless population continues to grow at the same rate for ever. We need highly skilled people to come in, we need to replace those that leave. We don't need millions of low skilled people because we have plenty of those sitting on the dole.

I love this rubbish about us losing 3 million jobs if we left the EU. We're one of the biggest economies in the world, only a fool would refuse to trade with us. We are a net importer from the EU, does anyone thing they'd whack unfair trade tariffs on us? It's not about being nationalistic, insular or hating foreign people it's about democracy and we are losing it.

Go to the doctor! The problem I described earlier (calcification) nearly destroyed the ligaments because I didn't get it looked at sooner.

I don't think they will. Clegg has signed his death warrant doing this.

Yep I got the same impression from the photos and thought they probably attempted an emergency landing but hit the roof too hard. I have zero experience of choppers and only had a PPL but I found night flying very deceptive especially on landing. You can think you are about to touch down and start to flare but in reality you're higher than you think. They must carry black box recorders?

There is a V1 bomb site just downt eh road from here, my Neighbor's house still has a big crack in the wall although they weren't quite as excited as I was when I told them about it

Between 1939 and 1952 only 32% of the entire country owned their own house, including upper and middle class. After 1952 wages started to rise faster than house prices making buying a house more of a possibility.

Staffies have been bred for their good temperament for nearly 200 years. They're got rid of by people who thought they were getting a 'hard dog'. I think the dangerous dogs act has inadvertently shafted the staffie because to get around it people have cross bread Staffies with the so called dangerous dogs and then sell them on as staffies. I wonder how many of the bad ones are KC registered with proven breeding? Most of the staffies you see round here are soft as you like and pretty small as well.

Question to ask yourself is would you really exercise something that was giving you serious pain without getting an expert to check it out?

The best thing I did was ask for a referral to a shoulder specialist who set me straight very quickly, the GPs couldn't diagnose my problem and I had the same ideas that they did on what it was. The problem is getting to the specialist in the first place, I had private medical care which changed everything as soon as I mentioned I had it I was seeing a specialist within days, then off for X-Ray and MRI and then had the op. From seeing the specialist to my Operation was a matter of 10 weeks and it would have been faster if I'd been available earlier. Now I don't it's hell on earth to see specialists for other issues I have. I think if we have a persistent problem we have to push hard to get the specialist advice.

All breeds can be aggressive. The malamute in this case is not considered one of the aggressive breeds just like labs and the rest of them. The breed is irrelevant in this particular case. What is relevant is the fact that all dogs have prey drive, and any breed can kill a baby. Temperament is an issue with dogs at the moment because of the way they're being bred for money, less consideration is paid to the temperament of the sire and Dam and it is suggested that because of that the fashionable breeds like staffies are more susceptible to being born with the wrong temperament. It was explained to me that the increase in popularity of the type of dogs you are talking about and the increasing amount of the bad ones being abandoned, then re-homed and then breed from has added a worse temperament in to their gene pool. I'm no expert but I feel there must be some truth to this.

Off topic but I was bitten by my Labrador on the ankle by accident when he was playing with something, sweet jesus it hurt so much I nearly hit the roof. After watching him smash his way through beef bones it's quite an eye opener to see the power they have.

To better answer the first question. A frozen shoulder is not the same as a rotator cuff injury. Rotary cuff injury will not heal itself through time and people that have it suffer from it until it's repared. Basically if this has just happened then it might just be a pulled muscle/frozen shoulder, Ibuprofen or voltaren gel it very good for this kind of injury and obviously some rest etc. If the problem has gone on for months then you've got something else wrong. The shoulder is a very complex part of your body. I was trying to self diagnose my own issue, I could rest my arm on the arm of a chair for example but couldn't lift it off, it wasn't particularly painful just I had very restricted movement. In the end I found it wasn't a RC problem but I had severe calcification between the two tendons in my should (so much that you could see a bit lump moving) and also a tear to my bicep which amazingly goes right up in to your shoulder. If its only just happened give it a while, use the pills gel and rest it. If it's gone on for a long time then you have to see a specialist and maybe have an MRI or X-Ray.

Torn rotator cuff might be the case if you are older than 40 years old. There's a bunch of shoulder injuries you can have, get the doctors to refer you to a shoulder specialist.

I have to say this dog might not be aggressive though, do they see a baby the same way they see us humans? I imagine a dog might approach a baby the way it would approach any other animal, with curiosity at first and it's prey drive could easily be triggered the same way it is with a squeaky toy or a cat? I wonder if things would have been different if the dog had been brought home after the baby was in the house. My lab is great around kids etc but I wouldn't trust him as far as I could throw him with a baby and he isn't allowed to play with the kids unsupervised, not because I think he will attack a child but because he is a very powerful dog who gets easily excited and could hurt them by accident.

I definitely think adverts would be a good start. The problem with the media focusing on certain breeds is people get 'non dangerous' breeds and think they're completely safe which is insane. Labs and Collies are just as likely to bit a person as any other dog. Televised ads being run by the government should highlight the dangers of leaving children unattended with dogs and educate how to keep them safe. To most of us this isn't rocket science but doing something simple like having a baby/stair gate would be a cheap start. I see this the same way I look at how kids are killed each year by being left unattended near swimming pools, people just don't seem to think about the dangers until it's too late.

From what I understood they put up per-fabricated buildings a lot of the time.

Pretty sure house owners got nothing as the insurance wouldn't cover acts of war. Most working class people didn't own their own houses either. Turns out because of the above Churchill (Winston not the insurance company) set up some kind of reimbursement scheme for when the war ended. http://histclo.com/essay/war/ww2/air/eur/bob/phase/p3/bof/bli-insur.html

What are they going to do about it then? It's not the breed as this case shows it's the stupidity of some people thinking they can leave a dog with a new born baby.

1st or 2nd hand smoke is only dangerous because tobacco contains carcinogens. Nicotine isn't a carcinogen but is addictive so you wouldn't want kids directly inhaling it but they'd ahve to be very close to you for that to happen.

They set off my asthma so it's a no go for me. Annoyingly smoking cigarettes doesn't!

Don't know if this is of any use but this butcher apparently sells game. http://www.littleangusbutchers.co.uk/meat-for-sale Pretty hard to believe the ones he's been to have blown him off. Most round here will get it in for you if you ask.