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Hi there,Just had another run in with my local Peugeot dealer! The car 307 D-Turbo, age two and a half years old and mileage £48. Full Peugeot service history. Latest problem: - It needs a minimum of 4 ltrs of fuel additive @£24.00 +...

With the tour of Tsunami devastated areas by Mr. Clinton and Mr. Bush. Condi's wordwind tour, Hilary's appearances and the forthcoming European visit of the President a corner appears to be aturning . The Americans are very wise to bury all hatchets...

Hi,Was driving home from work today and noted that due to the 1/2 inch of snow on the road, the roads were littered with crashed cars etc...It don't half catch folk out, this white stuff, and its not as if it don't happen every year, does it?All I did...

Resounding no vote with 74% against. It'll be interesting to see how this effects the planning for other schemes elsewhere in the UK. A significant problem in Edinburgh was the poor design of the scheme, so perhaps other councils proposing congestion...

Anyone know if Squeezebox from Slim Devices can be persuaded to stream Yahoo's Launchcast service?

ChapsMrs Mick and I have recently developed a habit of taking coffee after dinner.We have a Gaggia Classic coffee maker and we would like to grind the coffee immediately before making it.I hate drinking rubbish coffee (instant is banned in my house)...

I am a regular visitor to many of Bradford's curry houses - tending to have a meat khari. Can anyone advise on how to cook this dish at home and get a restaurant type curry? From what I can see in the kitchen, the chef uses what looks like a standard...

Hunter S Thompson of Fear and Loathing committed suicide at age 65.I could make this a poll.Another reason not to:- wear tinted aviator glasses- go live in a desert state- speak with a 'Tucky accent

Hi,I just received a 3 way grahams hydra (which they kindly exchanged at cost for my old 2 way hydra (as I now have a CD5, FC2 and Nait 5i).I plugged it all in this evening and found that there was intermitent sound coming out of the right speaker (as...

With all the talk of swish and shiny new cars that takes place on the forum I thought I'd try to start a thread about crappy old cars which were all I could afford when I was younger but which I remember with fondness.My choices:1968 Peugeot 404 that...

Unsuprisingly enough nobody has yet mentioned the current British food scare and it's implications. Not for the first time a banned food dye (Sudan 1) has been found in UK products, ranging into the hundreds. My question is, has anybody yet returned...

AllI have a 14 year old daughter who has an interest in learning photography. I want to buy her a digital camera and am looking for recommendations for one that will allow manual operation, but without costing an arm and a leg in case she loses...

According to todays Observer, many police forces are saying the hunt ban is unworkable and consider enforcing it a low priority.I don't seem to remember them having this problem when it came to policing the miners strike or 'new-age travellers'/ rave...

Flat Earth Beer Drinker Test. Further to Joe Petrik's FEP test of about four years ago I propose the Flat Beer Drinkers test.See how many Flat Beer Drinker Points (FBDPs) you notch up in the following test: Drinking in the pub Do you drink beer just...

Yes, especially hunting dog, grilled to perfection and served with french fries and mushy peas. One can have a stuffed head on the table as decoration, though it's not advisable to have the mouths wide open on all breeds.Fritz Von Snappy stuff

I've just heard a news story on the wireless about 5000 Neo-Nazis marching in Dresden on the anniversay of the fire-bombing, asserting that it should be declared a war crime. Much as I detest their politics I cannot help but sympathise with their...

With all due respect our elite cricketers must be laughing... all the way to the the bank. With the attention span of the average punter becoming more and more minute we now have a criket match reduced to twenty overs per side.Cricketers are not...

I know I should know this but the brain has refused to comply.How many Megabytes in GigaByte? Howard

Went to a dinner dance last night, totally smokefree and only had two glasses of beer. What a change from the parties of yesteryear.The times they are achanging.That was a great tune . We played it on the jukebox but don't know if it ever made the charts.

For my wife's 30th birthday, we will be traveling to Italy for 2 weeks in April. We are flying into Rome and plan on making our way north to Venice through Siena/Florence. I'm looking for "must see/do/eat/stay" suggestions from those who have been to...

I've just been playing with a couple of new line in recorders using Radio 3 as a source.Just as I was finishing up, they played a recording of Solomon and Mozart’s 24th piano concerto; "terrific" I think and record it.Only to discover that I...

What primes do people favor for non specialist use?I quite like the idea of getting a small lightweight less cumbersome prime lens for my D70, as I am concious that zooms can act as a hinderance to improving ones composoition skills, with a prime...

As hunting became illegal in UK as of yesterday a new glut of finest dogmeat is to flood the markets. EU regulators have allowed the move to be swiftly passed as the meat is healthy, BSE free, and very yummy indeed. A spokesperson for ex hunters Arro...

This could well be psychosematic on my part but after reading Michael Caine's auotobography last year (sorry Sir Michael, and a baat bluddy time too, that's wot i say)I seem to be growing far more nasal hairs than I ever did previously (or so it seems...