Compensation alert!!! Girl, 8, left with severe burns after McDonald's hot chocolate incident To save you the bother of reading it. A woman...
@pete Nothing it's done at our surgery. They started when I was about 60.
I certainly don't dispute that both ADHD and Autism are very real conditions. I also believe that many are put into one or other category these...
After my annual health check a couple of years ago I looked at the information collected on the NHS app. My answers had been recorded as...
@NigelJ The GPs at our practice seemingly don't even read the information the Stazi, sorry receptionists, have demanded before permitting access...
I see John Torode has also been told by the BBC to resign. This is apparently over a single comment at a social event. There were no complaints...
We have a grey wheelie bin for non-recyclable stuff. A green wheelie bin for garden waste, but only if you pay for it. Then seperate smaller...
Smart water meters certainly exist. We switched to metered supply quite recently and had a couple of e-mails detailing our usage. That actually...
@Sheal I presume they put a firebreak in around the fire so it will burn out eventually anyway.
Last time I used KwikFit the ride seemed very harsh when I drove away. Within about a mile the pressure sensor displayed 57 psi when it should be...
What make of car? All I need to do in that situation is add air and then drive for a few miles to allow the sensor to reset. Same when I have...
@pete getting full fibre to existing houses other than by using poles would be extremely expensive and often difficult. There would be no way to...
I'm in the same situation as @shiney, pretty much stuck with BT because of e-mail address for all manner of things. Over time, a long time!, I...
Sadly, that's true of many seaside town now. Many years ago we went to Paignton on a regular basis. We were in the area a couple of years ago...
If you want to take your car to Europe it now required a 'UK' sticker rather than a 'GB' one.
That chef could be working in a Chinese takeaway near us. I called in once because our normal one was closed. Thankfully there were a couple of...
My wife seems to require far less work to her teeth since she stopped using a private dentist and got an NHS one. She's also saving a fortune on...
@Escarpment Thanks for the clarification, even if there seems to be no logic in expected one person on a pension to survive on £200 per month...
I definitely wasn't a low earner, at least for most of my life. To the best of my knowledge I wouldn't have been in any contracted out situation...
My wife retired five years after me, so after the change came in. She get the full amount of the 'new' State pension.
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