According to new data, hospital aquired infections are involved in the
deaths of more people than are killed in RTAs each year.
The answer to this problem of epidemic proportions is so simple that I
can not believe that it hasn't been put in place.

I'm looking at buying my fathers car on Saturday and he is collecting
his new car the same day. His current car has a Cherished number on it
and after reading through the DVLA info on their site I'm at a total
loss how we go about the process of me buying the car so that he keeps

Now on. Looks interesting.
ITV 4 18.00-19.00
Mike

I posted this last night at about 7.30pm, but as yet it has not appeared
so I am sending it again.
I know that this happens a lot both on dual carriagways and on the
motorways of the UK:

My gut feeling is that my braking distance is increased when going
down a hill compared to going up it. However, are there any figures
for this? Is it massively different or just a small factor? Is it as
simple as some maths based on the angle of the road being +/- a

Hopefully most people have heard about this crap by now.
If we have nealry 2 million signatures on a petition, and aparantly 75% of
people in the uk against it, why the heck are they rolling out trials of it.
How the heck can the government think they can roll out something even ...

Passed a parked 4x4 yesterday and the number plate caught my eye.
000 580D
We were in a queue at a junction and had plenty of time to confirm that it
was 0's as opposed to D's.  It was definitely British style plates, right

Today I went to London with my wife and two children.
I looked into the various ways of doing this. From my nearest station,
Westgate-on-Sea, and using a Network Railcard, tickets to Charing Cross were
£27.50, but one-day travelcards (which give access to buses and tubes) were

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/tayside_and_central/6385189.stm
Quite, quite remarkable.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/hampshire/6391681.stm
This is the ford that I think I mentioned here before, as being one of the
largest and deepest that I have seen. Most people in the area are aware
that it's substantially more difficult to cross than other fords in the

Is it universally accepted that a car is legally parked as long as the
wheels are within the parking bay even though part of the car may be
overhanging a yellow line (for instance) or is this something that
varies from borough/town to borough/town?

I do not have bluetooth on my mobile but I have my mobile in my trouser
pocket, and I use a wired earpiece I feed the wire from my pocket under my
sweatshirt and out the neck and into my ear when I get a call I press the
button on the cable to answer the phone it also has the ...

when will the new A30  Indian Queens to Bodmin road be open?
Thanks
Dave

Hey vince - just seen your photos of the Gambia - what were you doing there?
Working??
I see they've laid more tarmac in the last couple of years (didn't go last
year).

....  sorry Silk et al for the outburst. Am now on nicotine replacement
chewing gum. The missus has stopped flat hunting, people have stopped hiding
when they see me and all is right with the world.
Once again, sorry for the short fuse, foul mouth and serious sense of humour