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Tom Baker might have fitted the bill.

On point 2, this was really annoying, and the first thing I fixed when my computer was upgraded. There is a registry hack detailed here (Microsoft Community) that reverts this to the old standard. It does involve editing the registry, so not for the faint hearted, but the instructions are fairly...

"Gammon Broadcast News" ? I couldn't resist :D

Popped up in the news yesterday Radlett Aerodrome rail freight depot land is sold by council after 18-year dispute So one step closer...

I think the wonderful Douglas Adams summed it up best. So for me, the peak period would be around 2006 when I had a single Nokia phone that acted as a decent camera, mp3 player and phone, computers were simple but functioned well, you could watch TV or films without signing up for huge monthly...

Hosepipe bans and raw sewage in rivers and seas is fairly convincing evidence of job not done. 1688300889 Problem is, where is the evidence for innovation with the private water companies? Have they made significant advances in England that Scottish Water has not? Also, where is the risk...

I was just commenting on what others had said. I have no specific knowledge of this case, so it was just a statement regarding general principles.

I'd be suspicious if they were in the same badminton club. Frankly there should be a rule that if anyone on an 'independent' board has any connection with or knowledge of the person in question then they should declare it and not be involved in the judgement at all.

Some interesting answers here. I must admit I never considered new roads over existing railways, but it does seem a few did still create new crossings as recently as the eighties. Any more since? I assumed they were pretty much ruled out in most instances in modern times.

I was wondering about this the other day. When did they stop building level crossings altogether? I am not including light railways, tramways, sidings or reopened lines. Just proper new built lines in the UK. I think the Great Central london extension did not include them for instance. Did the...

I had a smart meter installed 3 years ago. Works perfectly with economy 7. It also saved me money as I had a few appliances running constantly which had a high standby draw I was not aware of, which I now have isolated so they can be turned off properly when not in use, so no complaints here. I...

I don't have a lot of sympathy for the water companies, but one small factor in their defence, is a lot of the leaking pipes are at least in part caused by more and more heavier lorries on our roads, which slowly pound them every day. Each time the weight limit for lorries goes up the problem...

I have a Macedonian friend who's nephew and niece (Macedonian and living in Macedonia) both learned fluent English by the age of 5 almost entirely from internet videos on sites like youtube. At a very early age it is very easy for a young brain to absorb additional languages.

I had stroage heaters in my flat. The flat was ground floor, well insulated but also suffered from a lot of damp from the kitchen. Anyway, I found one heater was sufficient to heat the main livingroom/kitchen area to a comfortable temperature even in the coldest day, so it wasn't too much of an...

I'll just quietly add my NO! to the list. Nothing is guaranteed more to put the majority off travelling by rail than compulsory reservations. The last thing you want to do is add the stress of being tied to an exact time to domestic travel, for the convienience of the operator.

Fun fact. The line from Exeter to Crediton (and on to Barnstaple) was originally built to broad gauge, and later converted to standard gauge after the LSWR took a controlling interest. Don't think broad gauge ever extended on the Okehamnpton part though, which came later.

Actually the opposite is true. It costs a huge amount of money to build and maintain the mobile network. You have a massive number of towers and transceivors that have to be spread out over the whole country, including very remote areas. This takes a high capital cost to build (which requires...

Don't forget that whilst households are tending to have fewer children, we are also seeing an increasing number of elderly people living with their offspring, a trend that is likely to continue with the demographic changes evident for the past few decades and increasing cost of social care.

So the member for the nineteenth century is now the minister for fantasy.

Possibly the more relavant numbers would be the website views. Press Gazette. Physical newspapers are largely a thing of the past. This puts the Guardian in the Top 3. Of course, it should be noted that a lot of online newspapers are behind paywals of some sort, so it's hard to judge how much...