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Sorry I've come across this a little bit late. But are you aware of the Late Payment of Commercial Debts Act? https://www.gov.uk/late-commercial-payments-interest-debt-recovery/when-a-payment-becomes-late

You keep coming back don't you CarMotion? I know this may appear to be free advertising but pretending to be somebody else is not very clever or ethical!

Well said.

http://www.thestar.co.uk/news/local/rotherham-youth-group-volunteer-guilty-of-abusing-four-boys-1-6903121 A Rotherham youth group volunteer who abused four boys over the course of 17 years has been found guilty of 43 sexual offences. Darren Swift, who is now of Lawrence Road, Telford, Shropshire, carried out his campaign of abuse between 1980 and 1997 while working at various local sporting clubs and youth groups in Rotherham. He was found guilty by a jury at Doncaster Crown Court of 26 counts of indecent assault, 12 counts of indecency and five counts of buggery following a two-week trial. One count of buggery was discarded during the trial. The charges relate to four boys who were aged between eight and 14 when the abuse took place. Detective Constable Ian Hampshire who lead the investigation said: “Each victim was subjected to years of abuse by this man who was a trusted member of the local community. “He held several positions of trust for various community groups, where he met and effectively groomed these vulnerable young boys for sexual purposes. “I am pleased with the verdict reached today and I pay tribute to the victims who had the courage to come forward and disclose their ordeal. “It is difficult to comprehend the strength it will have taken each victim to report this abuse to police years after it took place. “Because Swift continually denied his guilt, each victim was forced to relive their traumatic experience in front of a jury, which is further testament to their strength of character. “I hope that for the victims, this marks the conclusion of years of torment for them and their families. “The force remains committed to tackling child sexual exploitation and take any reports of sexual abuse, historic or current, very seriously.” Swift has been remanded into custody and will be sentenced next year.

Two sides to every story.

Haha, don't worry, in this global village we still have some idiots who still have the village mentality.

Surely all she needs to do is confirm that she does the appropriate number of hours of physical exercise in a week? She can go the library during the PE class and then she can do any verifiable exercise in the evenings or weekends.

OP, I agree somewhat with your post in the British drivers are far more aggressive towards pedestrians than drivers in any other country I have visited on holiday. That includes places like South Asia where the roads are chaotic but drivers are still courteous and give way to pedestrians. Frequently here drivers will speed up to 'scare' pedestrians who they think aren't crossing the road fast enough, bus drivers are well known for this type of driving. I have tried to modify my own driving to be more considerate.

So basically your argument is that as certain members of the community have turned a blind eye (which nobody is denying) the whole of the Pakistani community deserves to be punished (which I have an issue with). I could use exactly the same line of argument with the social workers/police officers and yourself. They were (probably) white British, so are you (probably), you reap what you sow, so you deserve everything coming to you. See the fallacy?

I would love to see your evidence for this, but I'm sure you're just basing your comments on guesswork and supposition. We've seen cases where family members aren't aware of, for example, the father abusing the daughter. But yes let's stigmatise a whole community because after all we have to blame someone.

And wear a helmet guys and gals!

Memrise.com has plenty of Farsi courses. It's free.

A family member is looking for a job, what are the other benefits apart from the exercise and getting to see our great city?

The mango pudding looks a bit fishy.

Justin, I'm no expert, but perhaps you should read the attached link because it describes your attitude and why it is so wrong in great detail. To clarify, the Highway Code section you should be quoting is: Road Works: 288 Where lanes are restricted due to road works, merge in turn http://www.infsq.co.uk/tag/highway-code/

Justin, you might not think it's fair, and you may think you have a greater entitlement and act aggressively, but the drivers who use both lanes and merge at the point the lanes merge are actually in the right.

Agreed, and as the lack of action allowed this to flourish I would suggest that they have much suffering on their hands.

And according to yours everybody within minority communities is the same. I'll let others work out what that makes you.

So you ignore a direct question I asked twice, and then you immediately start playing the "racist card", despite it not being relevant to the discussion. Are you sure you're not a Rotherham social worker in disguise?

http://ahmadiyyatimes.blogspot.co.uk/2014/08/uk-rotherham-muslims-joining.html

Zamo, I really hope you talk more sense in your other 4,000 odd posts because this is a load of rubbish. I think you are implying that Pakistani's all live close together, and are Muslim, and therefore are all the same. You really must get out more. There are Pakistanis in Rotherham who are non-Muslims, others might be Sunni or Shia or Ahmedi, they originate from different parts of Pakistan each with a different culture, and I could go on. Maybe you should go back to school.

Haha now you're selectively quoting! You said they were close knit with little integration! Plus you didn't answer my question about making sweeping generalisations about other sections of the population.

I love how you manage to stigmatise an entire community with just a single statement. May I enquire as to how you came to this conclusion? And could you please also summarise the white community in Rotherham in a few words - all of us including the doctors, scruffs, goths, geeks, pagans, beggars, and business people?

Of course huge abuse rings organised by white Christians have come to light but people choose to ignore them because they don't fit into their biased and stereotyped narrative. "World's largest paedophile ring uncovered" http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-12762333 "More than 100 Brits involved in massive international paedophile ring" http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2540409/More-100-Brits-believed-involved-massive-international-paedophile-gang-streamed-live-child-abuse-Philippines.html

I was thinking about this earlier and I thought that we could really do with a single issue campaign group responsible for informing people which councillors should have known what was going on and therefore which people they should not vote for. Feel free to steal my idea