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If just doing grass work how about a saloon or estate plus some all terrain tyres? An octavia 4x4 will legally tow 1800kg, do 50-60mpg on a longer run, and do slippery fields on the right rubber... That said the new fabia will tow 1200kg and drink less for half the price, and likely be almost as capable on the right rubber. A simpler alternative might be to try moderating the right foot. When i am using the better half's far exclusively it averages 54mpg, whereas it averages 42mpg when she is the only one using it.

If I remember rightly when I bought mine the protac 2 was more expensive but also more protective, the sportac I think was mid twenties snr whereas the protac was low thirties. I have the protac 2 and think they are fantastic They now do a protac 3 which is both more protective and cheaper than the Sportac, it comes in slim (snr26) and full cup (snr32) versions. Eyeballing stock levels I wonder if the slim and full cup protac 3s are replacing the sportac and protac 2.

My experience so far has been that anything with teeth you can feel will clog and catch. My best success has been with an ultrafine cutting disc on an angle grinder, trying to get the tyre under tension may also help. If might get easier if you use a stanley knife to revove the layer of rubber above the belting where you plan to cut As you say this has A&E written all over it so be very very careful, and dont take any of my suggestion as gospel.

Break out the moth gun like king George.

They did always seem a one issue party which has ultimately been achieved. I was far more supportive of many of their other policies, flat tax for instance, than exiting the uk but for the vast bulk of their voters they now offer nothing they can't get from labour or the conservatives other than a chance to split the vote of their preferred governing party such that they are less likely to gain a majority. By the next general election I reckon ukip will essentially be history.

How small a trailer?

1997 disco about £250.

I'm not sure this place is hugely representative of pigeon shooters, it's just a friendly and well used shooting forum. I've never shot a pigeon in my life.

Brexit or not if the Euro lot want to buy our goods and we can sell more with better transport links I am all for another tunnel or bridge. If setting up shop with the rest of the world reinforces our manufacturing the economies of scale may well mean we end up with more to sell to Europe also, likewise whatever we are planning to export we will likely need components and materials from the mainland, even before we consider the potential for increasing tourism with a weaker pound... The gains on all the above should fund some border security and the costs of a few thousand getting through.

Somebody will want it. Put an ad up or if feeling very charitable offer it free if going to someone in a situation close to your heart. In the the time I have been on this forum a few shotguns have been given away for teenagers to start out with, often other people offer a few cartridges etc to go with it.

Whilst I'm all for pushing ones abilities on inanimate targets that sounds like frank disregard for ones quarry and a lucky shot to me if the range he thought he was shooting was that far off the actual distance. DOI: **** shot.

How about your shooting ear defenders with a pair of decent earphones inside? I gave up on noise cancelling earphones after trying that.

What a bunch of scrotes (though at least two colleagues were specced out with blues all round but no siren for legit work).

When it snows often enough to justify the expense of the infrastructure to keep things functional in an inch of snow things will change. Until then I would prefer my tax goes on expenditure that generates better return. German style systems require enormous amounts of kit, massively more gritters and staff for them, heated runways, dramatically more deicing kit, and that is just on an infrastructure level. People who care enough here can readily and cheaply buy snow chains or socks but dont want the expenditure suggesting pretty strongly they wont want to pay more tax to cover it either.

They did, brought in new management, pulled out from several markets that were not proving profitable, sold on some parts that could raise cash to steady the ship, looked to make themselves too vital to be politically allowed to fail, but it wasn't enough. Arguably the liabilities accumulated by that point were too big to recover from without either a huge change in pensions liabilities a lot of new investment, or both. Pensions liabilities for defined benefit schemes are a huge problem, a friend was involved with a family firm which was producing 80% of the European supply of their product, profiting around a million a year, but would never in their market be able to profit enough to honour the old defined benefit liabilities run up in the 70s and 80s for a now very very generous pension scheme. Apparently the best long term option to secure its future was to attempt an asset strip and wind down with a view to liquidating what was left and establishing a new company without the old liabilities. Makes me feel very uneasy about my defined benefit pension.

Can turning a major **** into a lesser one not be a good job if that is the best that is possible? If so why shouldn't they be rewarded for a job well done? Good management can be a case of working out how to have a system fail least disasterously and minimising fallout if a company is in a irretrievable position. It sounds like plans were made and managed to keep this show afloat for two or three years after it might have collapsed.

Not entirely but good point, hgv, diving, background checks, and flying related costs are often borne in recreational pursuits but are a minority of the cases i have ever encountered. I assume in the uk only a small minority of firearms users are in the system purely for work purposes. Why should leisure use shift the burden of responsibility to the public purse? If anything costs that get people working and paying tax seem more logical to subsidise. I would happily pay more for a functional system, over here there is no GP involvement unless health problems are declared and an FAC application is near bang on £100, variations £30. The system is computerised and worked well after the change from paper forms but now there is a growing backlog of files to process. I put in an online variation six weeks ago and have not yet heard anything.

The individual pays for the safety issues for hgv driving, pilots, divers, offshore workers, skydivers, any kind of certificated dangerous equipment or working environment certification, background checks for working with vulnerable people, professional licencing... Why are firearms worthy of an exception? Whilst personally I agree with you (though were it not for my vested interest in shooting Im not sure i would), these are the questions we need to be able to offer a response to in order to fight our corner.

The work still needs doing, about 20,000 jobs doing it exist but will end up being done via another company who will have a sudden and unexpected need for labour once the dust settles...

Could part of the problem be firearms licensing neither being profitable to the local constabulary nor important to the majority of the local population? Higher fees could at least solve one aspect but as more and more local services become steered by the interests of local people (ie elected police and crime commissioners) loitering hoodies and vagrants may be deemed more important than our renewals unless the profit on renewals could fund more vagrant removal... If we could make easy firearms licencing important to 20% of the population we could have much more clout, otherwise it has to be in the interests of constabularies for other reasons. Until then firearms licencing is likely to be a service they do not want to provide and if the caseload can be reduced by making the process more difficult it is in their interests to make it more difficult. The BMA panel involved are essentially a body like basc. They represent (sometimes poorly) the interests of their subscribers but have no functional power over their members, or non members. If basc negotiated with the salvation army that you would clean their local hall windows free of charge once every three years would you do it? I dont think the current system is fit for purpose, inclusion in the nhs contract or removal of gp involvement seem the only robust solutions, there will be no funding for the former (and it cannot as i understand it be obligatory), and the latter will be very difficult to achieve. I looked into setting up a private service for people stuck with fees or no licence and could not make the numbers stack up for a competitive price (it was looking likely to come to to around £100 a time, mostly on access to notes and indemnity). If basc wanted to take such a system in house it may well be managable at a lower rate (if a large volume of applications had to be dealt with) but they are angling at avoiding fees alltogether.

The best of luck. I always buy a new shirt for a job interview, get my interview suit cleaned, full windsor knot, haircut and beard trimmed twice in the week before to ensure no missed bits, polished shoes, and usually find the thinly veilded questions about commitment to location and job tricky (I move however often I need to in order to progress). If doing my last interview again I would have tried to come up in advance with reasons I wanted to work in that location beyond wanting that job (in honesty i was just interested in the job, which I got, but I suspect it would have been advantageous at times to be thought to be a long term prospect). Conversely friends applying for other jobs have come unstuck by looking too unlikely to move if the job needed them to. My brother always pulls the accounts and if things look remotely unhealthy asks if the panel if they feel the company is a safe bet for the next five years, or alternatively ask why they are doing better than their competitors.

I heard an interesting report on their tendering which suggested they very often would be bidding below cost to try and kill off competition in various areas, they then subcontract out to firms who have to charge a slightly more sensible rate and have to find any extra pennies they can. Essentially it seems the buisness model was selling ten pound notes for a fiver. On the pensions note I understand many of the nhs contracts made big theoretical overall savings for tax payer liabilities vs in house staff as the workers could not access the nhs pension, but were often paid better salaries than the nhs staff they replaced (contribution rates for the generally low earners in point for the nhs scheme are eyewateringly low). The initial costs were higher but with no ongoing liability post retirement. I find the idea that Carillion were still operating a particularly generous pension scheme suprising as part of the model for public sector contracts seemed to be based on using staff who were in the long run cheaper by passing the staff much more of the responsibility for saving appropriately for their pensions, avoiding a recurring bill to the tax payer. Carillion didnt seem too bad to work for, i remember talking to one group of cleaners contracted through them who saw their weekend night rate go from £12 an hour to £25. They did work damn hard for it though.

I'm young enough not to be able to compare by personal experience to the sixties and seventies, but the data doesn't seem to universally support the idea of a huge rise. Absolute numbers are a very murky field due to improved data collection and supposedly increased incentives to report crime (improved insurance coverage and compensation). Interestingly the crime survey for England and Wales, supposedly the best tool for international comparions (based on interviewing people who haven't necessarily reported crime) suggests crime has been falling since 1995.

I have often wondered how easily one could bore out a Spanish ten bore. They are rather cheap and I understand an importer did bore some tens out to eight for the UK market. Would taking a double ten to a machinist followed by the proof house scratch your itch?

Ukriflemags do them, I have been holding off buying in the hope of spotting something cheaper. Let me know if you find anything.