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Isn't it good to see that religious freedom in Saudi has led to such diversity. So much so that any foreign national who takes Saudi nationality is required to convert to Islam. Hindu workers from India who live there are forbidden to worship in the country.

I'm sort of puzzled about who Palestine belongs to anyhow. Surely the people who live there own the place. I don't see anyone saying that folk who move to the UK have no right to be here. I think some folk confuse religion with nationality. They seem to think anyone non muslim has no right to be in Palestine. Yet those same people have no problem with muslims living here.

To which the defence barrister answers. "Well Ms Lawson how do you know what you were snorting was Cocaine. " Well my 2 assistants assured me that it was when they took £10K off me for it, although I have noticed a bag of flour missing from the kitchen" "Ms Lawson are you aware that sticking flour up your nose isn't a criminal offense" "Well I'll be blowed. Who would have thought it" " But surely the blood test evidence would show that up if only they had done a blood test 6 months back".

Well bus lane penalties don't increase the number of parking fines. It is just another revenue stream for the council and like the parking restrictions which operate for longer hours just increase the incentives for those with cash to spend going and spending it elsewhere. ---------- Post added 20-12-2013 at 20:08 ---------- I don't blame her. I don't wear high heels but I'll not be walking anywhere more than I need to tonight.

So what you are saying is they now give out far more parking tickets than the linked article suggests.

I think it has been highlighted many times on this thread. Many of the parking restrictions are not clear and others have changed. People park in the place where they did previously and find a ticket on their screen when they return. Like you say folk get fined because they do not understand the changes just as York made £1 million in fines by folk who were not aware that a bridge had been made into a no go area a few weeks ago. Folks do not go out to deliberately get fined. But like you say folk learn valuable lessons. I think many learn the lesson of how in the long run it is far cheaper to shop at Meadowhall or better still shop online. I'm not sure what benefit that is to town centre businesses. Perhaps they will eventually get the message and shut up shop and start selling on line themselves from a nice warehouse in a nice low rates area of the country.

Buy more than Hull, Bradford, Harrogate etc. You employ more wardens to dish out more fines. More motorists get fined. I'm sure they appreciate that they need to be fined more often so they can pay the extra wage bill of those dishing out the penalty notices. I'm not sure that it will encourage them to visit the city centre more often however. Not only that. Those figures are largely on the run up to the latest parking alterations and Sunday charges. Taking into account the number of cars with tickets on their screens on Sunday evenings there has been a massive increase in the number of tickets dished out in recent months.

I came upon this after a very short search. http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/main-topics/local-stories/400-000-parking-fines-as-councils-owed-millions-1-2320568 Leeds’s total of more than 127,000 parking tickets was more than double that of Sheffield, the next-largest city. However, Sheffield oversaw by far the largest year-on-year increase in parking fines last year – 30 per cent more tickets were issued than during the previous year. Sheffield has also introduced the biggest rise in traffic warden numbers. The city council now employs 54 enforcement officers, up from 36 four years ago. Our study also shows rural councils employ very few traffic wardens and hand out very few tickets. This is partly because many smaller authorities have opted not to decriminalise on-street parking offences, leaving ticketing in the hands of police. Councils such as Selby therefore only enforce parking in its own car parks. Selby employs just three part-time parking inspectors and issued 241 tickets last year. http://www.thestar.co.uk/news/local/attacks-on-sheffield-traffic-wardens-almost-double-1-5923844 In the 12 months to June this year, there were 33 recorded incidents of verbal abuse on Sheffield Council’s 58 parking attendants - up from 17 in the year to June 2011. The number of physical attacks in the same period rose from five to seven. It seems we now have 58 traffic wardens up from 36 a few years back. It also seems wardens are getting attacked more in Sheffield too. I wonder why that is?

But that could have been you or Mafya or boy friday phoning in claiming to be from Óglaigh na hÉireann and hoping to cover up attrocities by a Muslim group. I hope you remembered to put on a fake Irish accent.

You clearly know it is going to happen then. But wouldn't it be nice to think that next time a Muslim blows up a bus he rings through to tell all the people to get off first so they don't get hurt.

The course drags out a couple of hours to make half a day, which I assume is the point. They show you films and you do a mini exam, but as no one actually collected the papers afterwards I don't think it was important. They also gave us 2 tokens each for the coffee machine. Not much else to report apart from I sat next to a very pretty girl and gave her my phone number. She has clearly lost it as she hasn't rung nearly 12 months later.

I presume you aren't a motorist then. Just run by me this £500 to run a car. Mine takes petrol, insurance, tyres, road tax, maintenance. It is a great trick if you can do that on £500.

The Coop Group are worse than that. They made a £ billion loss and have used that as an excuse not to pay the Christmas Divi to 7 million shareholders. However on the plus side they are giving a Christmas bonus of £50K to Ed Balls and splitting around a million quid between around 30 other Labour MPs.

I'm rather puzzled about how Paul Flowers got appointed as chairman of the Co-operative Bank. Being a Labour councilor and minister of the church are not usually considered to be sufficient qualifications for this type of appointment. Can anyone shed any light on the subject?

So more virgins all round. Heaven must be a very strange place with a load of beardy blokes surrounded by an endless sea of 2nd hand virgins. Or once the virgins are no longer in tact do they loose their spot in heaven, or are they just repaired and recycled?