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What app do you use ? Do you know of anything better than Winamp ?? Would be keen to know your thoughts Ian

(Private Eye no.1219 19/09/08 - 02/10/08 edition page 3) The Eye's exposure of the unaffordability and big military risks of plans to privatise defence training in a £12bn PFI deal has angered the man running the project, Brigadier Geoff Nield. "I regret to return to you on the subject of the leakage of the DTR related material to the press," he writes in a memo. "You will be aware of most of the articles on package 1 [the main, PFI, element of training reform] which have appeared in Private Eye." What really riled Nield was our exposure of the cancellation of a planned announcement before parliament broke up. "The act of someone to release this latter infor…

Hi I am looking to change my car soon, around the time i will start police training. I was looking around at a few cars on the web and put the details into Confused.com for a quote. thinking about the police i changed job details on confused and it gave me a higher quote, and it wasn't just just a few quid. Anyone else find this, or can recomendinsurance companies. Rick

is New Labour's new testing scheme for PC's & PCSO's. With John Prescott doing the voiceover..... ....and you think your paperwork is the worst of it!Graham2008-09-09 16:24:29

I saw that a muslim colleague was praying one evening recently. As muslims are supposed to pray alone when they're not at home or in a mosque I didn't disturb him. He was facing the wrong direction. I didn't say anything to him. Should I have interrupted him & told him? Should I tell him the next time I see him?

Has anyone else seen this advert ? It's two minutes long, and depicts a young fella on his way home with a loaf of Hovis ...... travelling through major events in British / English history over the last 100 + years ! A masterpiece .... ! Must cost them a fortune, but excellent !!! here it is ; http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=S4tFzuFGUOI exmetskipper2008-09-13 20:44:23

Four times Italian women's champion Lara Liotta, 29, was on a street in broad daylight in central Rome when the man, a Romanian immigrant of no fixed abode, approached her and asked her for a cigarette. When she told him she did not smoke he allegedly lunged for her and grabbed her around the neck. Miss Liotta, who works as prison officer, immediately put her black belt training to good use, delivering two swift jabs to the man's face which sent him crashing to the ground. The karate champion was fortunate she could rely on her skills to fight off her attacker because there was no assistance from passersby, despite the attack happening shortly after rush hour on Mon…

Is there an overwhelming clamour in the UK for a holiday to celebrate Britishness? Why after reading this article do I have visions of the scenes at the end of carnival--only with people lobbing their sticks, clubs and swords at the police? click

Without sounding completely blonde* where did this "traditional" copper insult come from?? It's frequently used in reference to police officers, so there must be some significant reason... Anyone?... I'm curious. *no offence, i WAS born blonde!

Click Two things seem to be missing: parenting classes/training emphasis on the children having successfully employed role models in the home and community (not just social workers and teachers but neighbors and other family members)

Take a read of this. I actually caught this interview on the news this morning and the presenters seemed to nervous when he started slagging off the BBC. I agree with everything he says. I don't pay the licence fee in my house, but the money that is payed is wasted as none of us watch any of the BBC channels as they're full of complete rubbish. My parents didn't pay one year and we had several threatening letters and eventually a visit from some baliffs.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1056570/My-rape-hell-Wrongly-accused-man-tells-11-month-nightmare.html What on earth are our courts coming to, three months for perverting the course of justice, it should have been three years at least. There is no excuse for what this woman did. I hope the CPS appeal the sentence. Maverick222008-09-17 10:10:22

Hi Not sure if this is in the right section but thought you might like to see it!! Two local Police officers from Chorley, Lancs ... Sgt Brooks and PC Payne were in attendance at a BMX race this weekend at the Coppull track and were persuaded to have a go .... it cant be that hard surely!!!! They were great sports and did some great PR for the local Police force ... good on them - hope the Sgt is feeling OK ??!! Click here to watch - Police race !!

I have quoted this from the Where did it all go wrong thread because I think it's moving away from that topic, yet makes a good discussion in it's own right. We were discussing the discrepancy betwen Paternal rights and Maternal rights, and Shootist put up this post to illustrate how unfair the system can be. Of course, I've been unable to resist answering it. But only to put another point of view across.

REMEMBER WHEN YOUR MOTHER TOLD YOU NEVER TO TAKE SWEETIES FROM STRANGE MEN.... ...THIS IS THE ONE SHE WAS TALKING ABOUT!!!!