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The financial cost and reputational damage is going to be far more significant now. Obviously, they expected their cover-up to work and didn't bank on Mr Bates exposing it.

Could anyone explain what he is retiring from?

Or furry dice.

Nothing. It's just a different name to rip you off. I actually suspect it's something to do with the fees to pay by card, the cost they pay to process the payment. Pretty much every other card purchase includes that cost but events always seem to add it on as an extra.

Pretty much, going by the last update. McKenna said recently: "George is seeing a surgeon this week for a repair to a rupture to his hamstring. It will be the very, very back end of the season before he will be eligible. "We wanted to add a goalscorer (in the January transfer window) before George's injury. Now he's ruled out for a large majority of the season that increases that importance."

Are you new here? FWIW, I agree but people will always find a way to moan about something.

I think Para was referring to the transactions that the Post master's were actually doing themselves when reconciling their accounts, trying to post adjustment transactions and the deficit kept doubling. Which, it was explained at the inquest today, was due to an error in the software code. At the time the postmasters were reporting it to the helpline, who didn't help and no one investigated.

Highly likely. But, no one is going to look for that if you're covering up for your 'robust' software. PO/Fujitsu just denied there were issues, they didn't investigate anything like that.

I used to work somewhere that did these a lot. The sales and customer service people loved them, those of us in IT could politely described as 'less enthusiastic'. The irony was not lost on my boss that I missed a significant deadline due to being away for 3 days on a 'Maximising Your Potential' workshop

It's the sheer scale of the cover-up, lying and continuing with prosecutions when they knew there were software issues that I just can't get my head around. Knowing how things of that nature worked in a bank, software issues and how shortfalls etc were investigated, I just can't make it make sense.

I doubt very much that any computer software has ever been implemented that didn't have any. However, as software testing was once my job, the process was that we reported all said faults and bugs. Each one was then given a priority for fixing, dependent on the impact. Anything severe would mean the software not being released. I was also in financial services and anything which impacted financial data would definitely not have been released. Fujitsu and the PO accepted the release of software which had very serious financial deficiencies. "In one surprising instance, inquiry counsel Jason Beer KC points to issues that arose when a sub-postmaster would attempt to correct a transaction. Rather than minus the amount no longer needed, a bug in Horizon would "double up" the sum the sub-postmaster was trying to reverse out - referred to as "remming out". According to Beer, this was down to a Fujitsu employee coding this element entering the wrong mathematical symbol - a plus rather than a minus. In one incident, a sub-postmaster reported the amount they attempted to remove doubling to more than £27,800". Every time I don't think I can be more shocked by this debacle, I read something like the above. And it went on for 20 years!

We feel the same about Harry Kane, 18 goals in 15 games against us. We did have him here on loan in 2013, scored 2. Obviously, we did something to upset him during that loan.... The year he leaves Spurs and finally can't get a hat full against us, and we're relegated!

Loved a goal against Ipswich did Dave. I distinctly remember Mick McCarthy saying, after another Nuge goal and Ipswich defeat, that he couldn't wait for us to get promoted and fcuk off so Nugent stopped scoring against them

I hadn't seen that today's incident involved the same person as yesterday. Very sad and tragic situation. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leicestershire-68015389

People standing outside the TV shop for the footies results. Or going in and looking the latest scores up on Teletext.

Another fine example of 'competitively' priced vet treatment. The dog appeared to have an eye infection, we suspected a conjunctivitis type thing, 5 minutes with the vet, and he confirmed that was the case. Prescription for eye cream. I'm now down £92.50. £92 fuching 50!! Poor spanners does look very sad for himself and his eyes do look so sore, so I'm grateful to have cream to help. But still. Last time I had conjunctivitis, the pharmacist confirmed it was and sold me some drops for £5.

Loved Dubai, fortunately I didn't have any teenagers in tow, so I'm not sure what they like but would highly recommend High Tea at the Burj Khalifa, the miracle gardens, and a dhow boat trip. We did a walking tour included in the boat trip, all around the old town and souks. Plus you've got the aquarium and skiing etc. If you stay a bit further out and get the metro in, the prices are a lot more reasonable. It's hot, but I don't recall it being overbearing on any of our visits either. How did I not know about the 25ft cheese bar? I'm adding that to our next trip! Although, we're booked for April 2025, Dubai to Paris, to redo our cancelled trips to Jordan and Egypt from last Novembers cruise. Which, I'm now thinking, may have been optimistic...the world won't accept the Suez Canal out of operation for another 18 months, surely, hopefully. Edit - disappointingly, the brunch is only on Saturday. We sail on the Saturday. But I have just picked up a good deal on a hotel overlooking the creek.

Are we saying, with Daggers in goal last season, we'd have stayed up?

I agree and hope so too. We do have options to buy with most of our loans, don't we? The problem arises, as in your example with Fulham, when a lot of your squad are on loan and the parent clubs want the players back, then find you need to replace 5/6 key players. Which is why Fulham didn't stick with their promotion squad, they didn't have a choice, the parent clubs refused to sell Fulham the players that were instrumental in their promotion. Forest on the other hand were just scattergun in signing a few 'names'. Get in the big league and spend big, which they couldn't afford. It obviously depends on the reason the parent clubs are loaning players out, offload or development - we would've been the same with Barnes, KDH when they were out on loan.

It's wasn't the app, just the website. I'm afraid you're the same in Hinckley, -7 headline but it's not that on the actual hourly forecast. How is @Izzy supposed to plan for golf if its not right. I mean, that might be a blessing but

Clearly, Buy One, Get One Free at the Royal's local hospital. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-68010563 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-68009259 Rather a long stay for POW though.

The BBC weather heading stating its -7c overnight. Click on it, it's -4c for most of the night, an hour at -5c.

The article said the Mother saw him just before Christmas and an older Sister was also quoted. The boy’s sister Melanie Battersby paid tribute to him on Facebook: “Beautiful little boy deserved so much better than this life. We love you Bronson, forever a part of us, and forever my baby brother.” The family dynamic was clearly a bit dysfunctional and they obviously needed support. It just came across as though they were apportioning all the blame on the social worker, when there were a lot of other people who should or could have acted. Sad and tragic, irrespective.

Why weren't the rest of the family and the Mother in contact or attempting contact? Or concerned, they last saw him before Christmas and knew the Father had an existing heart problem. "A social worker visited their home on 2 January, after contacting the father on 27 December. But she received no reply and, after making inquiries at other addresses where the child might be". Surely that's other family and the Mother. If a social worker said they couldn't contact the Father, and you were another member of the family or Mother, wouldn't you be calling or visiting?

There was a case in Northern Ireland, not far from where we lived. Police helicopter saw a roof like this, Sent a few colleagues to visit and it was a full blown cannabis farm.