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So not an efficiency improvement then?

I think you may be confusing cost reduction and efficiency. Cost reduction can be part of an efficiency improvement but the terms are not interchangeable.

In a health setting, improving efficiency would mean better health outcomes.

Hats off to that government?

Mistimed but not excessive for me. He lunges in front of the player and misses the ball. It doesn't endanger their player at all. If it stands as a red then a 3 match ban it crazy in the context of many other challenges that won't even be a free kick this season.

The NHS would pay each surgery less each time the end user paid meaning the NHS budget would go further. Some of the problems with GPs are because they are run as businesses though, mostly by doctors that are really bad at running businesses.

The met police might take swift action but as we know from Ricky Jones, you just have a jury trial and a not guilty verdict is delivered.

I reckon it gets downgraded to a yellow. As rubbish as the challenge was, it wasn't serious foul play or violent conduct.

These guys?

Costumes, splat the rat, tombola? I wonder if I ought to go to the match for a more centrist day out?

I thought about it. But it's lubenham scarecrow festival today and I'm only prepared to attend one idealogical event in a weekend.

They should have signed Vardy, would have been ideal for them.

Trump has just told the press he has been caught.

It speaks of someone with many things none of them overly positive for someone in such a responsible position. She did make an unintended error. It was a basic one she shouldn't have made. Unfortunately for us all, our tax liability isn't based upon what we believe we should pay.

I doubt very much he will be PM. I would be surprised if he is an MP by the end of parliament. If he gave her the money and she bought he property in her name, then he should feel the full force of HMRC.

Setting up a trust is complex, which is why it costs quite a bit to do. The decision on stamp duty once its set-up, is not.

The law around her affairs is very very clearly stated on the government Stamp duty website which her department runs. She can tell people its complicated all she likes, but it isn't at all. Its very clear. Farage has been honest about why the additional stamp duty wasn't due. What he may have been dishonest about is the money as it doesn't appear as though his partner could have afforded the property by herself.

The inference is that even if he hasn't violated the law, he has avoided paying the tax using measures such as his wife buying the house and should stand down accordingly. He is different to Rayner in that he doesn't attack people that legally avoid tax. Ballsy as though. Buying a house in your much younger wifes name in a country that doesn't recognise a pre-nup.

If he has done something wrong then yes. At present, that hasn't been proved, he has been open about the arrangements. He also hasnt villified the wealthy, tax avoidance and second home ownership. He would probably claim that he wants to scrap the tax altogether.

No way. He had his full support yesterday in PMQs. If I were Reeves I'd be clearing my desk now ready for the chop. When SKS fully supports you you have less than a week.

@Izzy should get the family used to not having heating then proudly declare the saving on carbon by having an eco friendly unheated house. Then buy another Jag with the savings.

2 months isn't long.

The issue is that Leicester City isn't doing a great job generally and is hoping to 'spread its failings' further by expanding. So rather than deal with more difficult urban development, it wants the green spaces to push its housing needs into. These are areas that lack the necessary facilities and is terrible for environmentally friendly towns of the future as we are reliant on car use. The outer urban developments that have gone such as Barkby Thorpe or Thorpe Astley are just soul-less collections of houses totally reliant on cars for transport. We recognised the negative effect of urban sprawl in the 1960's but appear to have largely ignored that in the present day and it is getting worse. I suspect that the current policies will result in the city will becoming a slum as more and more people move out into the county. The new 'city centre' will be located at Aylestone Meadows and we will generally drive there rather than using an integrated urban transport system. Its sad that those in charge don't see that they are allowing our city to suffocate. I went to Nottingham a few weeks ago and there is building everywhere. Its like Leeds but smaller. Their council has done a great job over the past 10 years or so. Interestingly, our head of planning used to be at Nottingham City Council and the timelines of that change make a very interesting co-incidence.

It is very different. My experience is that the attitude of the department is key are they gatekeepers designed to keep 'bad development' (in their often limited opinion) out or are they instigators and facilitators. Leicester very much falls into the first bracket and the planning department appear to be anti-development and will put up any barriers they can. Blaby is terrible as well for this and just narrowly avoided special measures due to having too many applications over-turned on appeal. North West Leicester is more variable. What has replaced 'place-making' is the elected mayors such as Soulsby and the council development Directors that have done a lot of good work. However, they have and continue to totally ignore transport as the city is strangled. They are also ignoring the issue that is too slow and cumbersome to get planning in the city and it is clear that very few residential developments get built once planning is approved. Presumably because the developers loose appetite when stuck in the planning system for 2 years.

'The Lanes' and the Cathedral Quarter is great. If Soulsby ever makes up his mind, the Corn Exchange and market should be good too.