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  1. Thanks for that - frontier folk....... neither one side nor t'other...... You're correct about the sheep, scientific research has found there are more nervous brakdowns among sheep in Derbyshire than any other area in the UK; Wales come a close second though.
  2. From Sheffield - definitely Not Tykes Yorkshire starts when you get to wool - or so says the wife (a Leeds person). Sheffield is more like the midlands, it hasn't got the true feel of Yorkshire, unlike Rovrum, Barnsley and similar. One distinguishing Sheffield trait is to constantly moan about this, that, something, and nothing (just see the Sheffield forum). True Tykes just get on with it.
  3. Being a pensioner I don't see what all the fuss is about. Free rail travel was a concession not an entitlement and if the community as a whole needs to tighten its belt then all have to play their part. If you protest by entering a train with no intention of paying then that's fraud so expect to be challenged. However, if pensioners want something to really get excited about how about this proposal ...... Daily Telegraph letters 4 July 2014. SIR – I’d be surprised if Labour’s health spokesmen are against the proposals I am putting to Labour’s National Policy Review on refinancing the NHS and social care. The objection you report them making is squared in the report. As the gainers from social care will be overwhelmingly older people, it would, of course, be unfair if yet another burden was placed on non-grey voters. That’s why I propose that all pensioner income should be brought within the National Insurance contributory system so that pensioners, who will most benefit from social care being combined with the NHS, and from the NHS service itself, should pay their fair whack once their income is high enough. On the financing crisis described by Mary Riddell (Comment, July 2), there is no alternative to my proposal, except to accept that within a Parliament the NHS we know will not exist – no happy prospect for voters looking to Labour to protect them. Frank Field MP (Lab) London SW1
  4. He's only asking for 80p? The German scoungers on the intercity train at Frankfurt Hbf station on last Monday morning were going down the carriages asking for 25 Euros. Mind you it was at Frankfurt where the bankers come from. The beggars were careful to leave the train before it set off if they had not already been thrown off by some very large lady ticket inspectors/train guards. Maybe Sheffield should lift its asking prices a bit.
  5. Having had to settle four sets of affairs after deaths it can prove be a bit of a nightmare if there is significant money in savings accounts or in property (such as a house and land). Suggest you talk to a solicitor quickly. If money has been left in cash then it needs to be safeguarded before things start "to disappear". It is unlikely that a bank would hand over any money left by a deceased person to any other person however closely related without a proper authorisation such as a Grant of Probate.
  6. Apologies for previous reply, meant this one: The Pensions Advisory Service If the Pension Tracing Service was unable to find your scheme, please send full details to us. We are experienced in tracing lost pensions. In your correspondence, please include any pension statements you may have along with any correspondence you may have received from the Pension Tracing Service. Click here for our contact details. http://http://www.pensionsadvisoryservice.org.uk/contact-us
  7. This might help as a start: Pension Tracing Service - trace a personal or company pension scheme If you've lost the details of a pension the Pension Tracing Service may be able to help by providing your pension scheme’s address. You can then contact the scheme and find your entitlement. Find out what The Pension Tracing Service can do for you and how you can contact them. Tracing a pension scheme It can be easy to lose track of a pension if you change jobs through your working life. The Pension Tracing Service (part of The Pension Service) will try and help you trace a pension even if you're not sure of the contact details. It has access to information on over 200,000 pension schemes. The Pension Tracing Service will use this database, free of charge, to search for your scheme. The Pension Tracing Service may be able to provide you with current contact details for a pension scheme. You can then use this information to contact the pension provider and find out if you have any pension entitlement. http://http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/Pensionsandretirementplanning/Companyandpersonalpensions/DG_10027189
  8. The options are too short term sighted. Don't see anywhere the option of paying down/paying off/putting something by to repay the debts left by the Gordon Brown and Co's so called government. Sooner or later the UK will need to start to pay its loans off or the bailiffs will come. Alternatively further loans will be refused or the interest rates demanded will be crippling. Borrow money and the system then has you by the b**ls. For the individual its the local banks that have you; for the country it's just bigger banks like the IMF. If you cannot manage to control your spending to give the assurance that you will repay your loans then someone else will come in and do it for you - witness Greece and Italy.
  9. The Armitages were called Jack and Audrey and were great friends of my uncle and aunt in Nottingham. They were very nice people indeed.
  10. Cafe Ceres menu French influenced in some dishes maybe but a long way from a French restaurant experience.
  11. Unless you are prepared for a lifetime of lopping and living in the dark don't plant Leylandii. Put mine in about 15 years ago cost £1 each. Must have spent over £1000 having them trimmed (to keep below 40ft high) every couple of years and then to have them felled last year. Not a value for money option.
  12. There would be significantly more money for the front line if: 1. SHA's were abolished and their duties passed on to supercharged PCT's. 2. The burden of regulations on the NHS was streamlined, at present each hospital has to answer to over 45 different sets of regulators. 3. The Department of Health (DoH) in London got a severe pruning as there is a significant number of employees in London dreaming up initiatives for those out in the sticks to implement. The DoH then demands the folks in the sticks supply reports and detailed information on how these initiatives worked (or not) out in the field. The instigators then write further reports to justify the initiatives. Cut this out and save the money for the front line services. 4. Let hospitals do simple elective procedures on a late shift system subject to medical safety. In what other business would valuable assets worth £££££ be worked for only 10 hours a day? 5. Scrap stupid performance targets. The NHS is currently rapidly running out of staff goodwill, once that goes the service will collapse in the form that we have known it.
  13. It's all part of a very clever plot to eliminate poverty from the UK. Place VAT on food and the poor won't be able to afford it so they will either emigrate or starve. Either way you''ll be rid of them and so can say that 'poverty has been eliminated'. "Hard on the poor and hard on the causes of the poor ". Simples
  14. It's all part of a very clever plot to eliminate poverty from the UK. Place VAT on food and the poor won't be able to afford it so they will either emigrate or starve. Either way you''ll be rid of them and so can say that 'poverty has been eliminated'. Nobody ever claimed to eliminate poverty just by giving away more money "Hard on the poor and hard on the causes of the poor ". Simples
  15. The van picture was in the "Memories of Sheffield" volume 1 published by the Star (?) with the help of subscriptions about 20 years ago. I recollect the photo in question was taken about 1922 and the van was driven by a man who was about 80 and looked a bit like Cpl Jones. If that helps trace the picture....?
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