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We had a 2001 5 door for about six years, bought as the second owner in 2012. Petrol gx, had plenty enough get up and go to keep up with traffic, and provided it was driven carefully, returned about 32mpg (not bad for a 150hp permanent awd car). Brilliant load lugger, especially with the rear seats removed (one lever, took about 20 seconds), and about the most comfy car I've ever owned. Bearing in mind it had the original Michelin tyres on it when we got it (plenty of tread left, but hardened off and cracked), it wasn't too bad off the beaten track. Understand though, it isn't an off road er, just a car that can do a bit more than a normal car off road. New tyres made a difference, I think they were Cooper discoverers. Happy, trouble free motoring, cost us very little in maintenance, and we only got rid because someone reversed into it in a carpark and the insurance company wrote it off. Highly recommended.

Subaru xv. About the size of a focus. Good ground clearance and excellent grip. Or a suzuki sx4.

This is very true. Lot to be said for bangernomics. Unless fuel goes up a lot, and if your current motor is otherwise sound, stick with what you have got.

Oh don't worry, I'm sure he's just a lone wolf extremist with mental health problems. Just like all the other 'terrorists' we hear about on the news.

I had a 110 hi cap 300tdi for work. Excellent load lugger but suffered all the usual problems, ujs, clutch cylinder, etc. Not had one for a while now, probably wouldn't have another (any Land rover), but only because I can't afford one. Love my subarus now anyway.

I think makita are now what was sachs dolmar. If their chainsaws were anything to go by, the Strimmers should be very good. If in doubt, and if you are considering spending £200+, just get a second hand stihl.

Purely anecdotal I will admit. My part of the world is Norfolk, where housebuilding is absolutely booming at the moment. In my district there are in the region of 5000 homes either currently being built or in the planning stages. Numerous local campaigns against them (local referenda, petitions etc) are ignored, councillors suddenly change their mind about applications despite being elected on a promise to fight them, lots of cronyism at district and county level (I.e big local builders or their family members getting elected and going straight on to the right committees and so on). If I wasn't busy working 60 hour weeks and raising a family, I might be inclined to do more about it. Time used to be that local papers would investigate these things, but with the importance of advertising revenue and the homes and housing supplement to think about, they are strangely silent too.

Wow. I take it all back. There's definitely no corruption in local planning.

Sadly, corruption is endemic in this respect, and all councils are up to it. My local council have recently given the go ahead to 243 new homes on agricultural land (very prone to flooding) at the edge of town. This despite the proposal being turned down three times for various reasons including increased traffic, no facility for extra drainage, not enough affordable housing, no extra facilities and so on. Lo and behold, the plans were submitted for a fourth time, there was massive objection, it went to committee (again) and the very people who have turned it down three previous times suddenly unanimously approve the (unchanged) plans. No one does anything to stop it, so it will carry on. Banana Republic Britain.

My two on a walk this morning. Winnie (3 years 3 months) on the left and Raven (15 months) on the right.

10 weeks wages. Incredible. My father bought a w&s 701 in 1967 when he was 21, and he's still got it. Never knew it was worth that much new back then. I suppose 10 weeks wages for me now, I could probably afford entry level perazzi. Not that I would dream of spending that much on a gun.

I have Michelin latitude cross as above on my subaru xv. 10000 miles and so far so good. Superior in every way to the supposedly a/t yokohama geolandars they replaced.

I've had 4 subarus over the years, as you may know they are permanent symmetrical all wheel drive. Never known any such problem, and I have probably covered over 100000 miles in these vehicles. I actually find the tyres wear fairly evenly front to back. I would be interested to know if anyone else has experienced anything different. Certainly no diff problems.

Exactly this. Hit them where it hurts. Our orgs have this fighting fund, put it to good use. Don't go after them for money, make them print a full front page retraction and apology.

I use them professionally, the copy cat mains tools are fine, I would avoid the battery powered ones, if you want cordless, get dremel. At home, i love my dremel, used to use it a lot, but now I have invested in a bigger compressor it's air tools all the way.... 😁 One note of caution. Don't bother with cheap imitation fittings and consumables, buy the genuine dremel stuff, everything else is rubbish.

That crane was decrepit when I was working there 12 years ago. Used to give me the heebie jeebies putting it up and down.

Play him at his own game. Spurious litigation, judicial review, private prosecution? Go after him personally, basc have all this money lying around, put it to good use with some good old fashioned lawfare. What's good for the goose is good for the gander. I'm tired of shooting being on the back foot all the time

Get a forester.

Now he's let his guard down, let's destroy him and his crew once and for all......

I think we all know the answer to that. Its pretty clear the BASC et al have decided what course of action they are taking and no amount of evidence to the contrary will persuade them otherwise. In short, they have bet the farm on the non toxic shot horse, and cannot back out now. Its also why the rather excellent suggestion from stonepark is sadly pointless. Any study commissioned by our organisations will be starting with the conclusion (lead shot bad) and will cherry pick data to support that conclusion, rather than hypothesising that lead shot is bad, and seeing where the evidence takes them. Its the same story in many 'research' establishments, where vast sums of money and time seem to be spent trying to fit the data to the desired outcome, usually to suit whomever commissioned the study. Or you can bet that any findings not producing the desired outcome will be quickly buried. The reasons as to why they have chosen to do this will doubtless become clear in due course, but by then unfortunately, it will be too late.

I helped set the pay and play course on long siberia up and ran it for the first couple of years. There's a lot of variety there, and it's gone from strength to strength since I moved on to pastures new. Great fun for simulated game down the far end of the ground. I hope you enjoy it.

Cooper discoverer at3 are a goot all purpose tyre and reasonable price too. Have a set on the wife's qashqai, and they have been brilliant for 10000 miles so far over the last 18 months.

I shoot a miroku mk38 32" teague for clays. With your money, you could get a brand new grade 5 one and a 1000 cartridges. That said, I tried a blaser f3 once and really liked it so if you get the chance, have a go with one of them.

I should think it will be the kgs figure, around two tonnes sounds about right for that car. Parkers guide will have all the figures for that car, including the braked and unbraked towing weights.

We got some aquamat ones from ebay. They seem to do the job, but were massive even though we followed the sizing guide to the letter. I just sewed on an extra strip of velcro, and they fitted well enough. They do dry off quickly with them on though. A lot cheaper that the better known brands.