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I didn't mention quality, I mentioned price. Last autumn I bought a Yuasa YBX5000, list price £190 for £89 on the internet with free p&p. At less than half price I would certainly call that cheap. As for quality, Yuasa are one of the best car and motorcycle batteries produced. And on the subject of AGM batteries, I'd avoid if you do a lot of distance runs as AGM chemistry is very susceptible to over charging. And Euro Car Parts although reasonable for most things list very expensive batteries on their website.

Does anyone actually care what people on social media say?

Played brilliantly by Roger Lloyd-Pack who also starred in The Vicar of Dibley! ?

Criticised by who?

An easy enough job to do for a reasonably competent amateur. 6mm twin and earth is sufficient for an electric shower up to 8.5kW. However if you are going to the trouble of running new wiring from the fuse box to the shower (via a 45A switch of course) I would recommend you run 10mm twin and earth. The cable won't cost much more and it gives you the option of upgrading to a higher powered shower in future without rewiring. I'm not sure what the wall you are mounting the shower on is, but if it is a tiled brick wall it is neater and less clunky to use 15mm copper pipe rather than plastic 'quickfit' types. Make sure you have a decent water pressure. In my experience, low pressure in an electric shower can make it fiddly to get the temperature right. And remember that after it has been running for a minute or two it is trying to heat water that is coming from a couple of metres under the ground. Some of the lower power electric showers can struggle on a cold winter's night to provide water hot enough for some people's comfort. And I may be wrong but the switch can be inside the bathroom as long as it is no less than 60cm (2 feet) from the bath or shower. I'd check that.

I think they supply a lot of Internet firms. The last battery I bought from the internet came from Andrew Page.

A car neither knows nor cares how much you paid for its battery! ?

Lots of cheap batteries on the Internet. (and most come with free p&p!)

Although usually much more expensive, one advantage of a main service agent is that if they want to test a temperature sensor for example, they will take one off the shelf and fit it. If the problem is resolved they will charge you for the part and the time it took to fit. If the problem is something else they will refit your original part and just charge you for time it took to fit.

Back on topic, an interesting study has just been done by Loughborough University into all aspects of media coverage of the 2017 election campaign. It is a lot to digest but if you scroll down to Fig. 3-2 you will see a graphic representation of the positive/negative coverage by the newspapers for all the major parties. Looking at that in the light of how close Labour came to winning that election, it seems that the right wing press is now a busted flush as far as influence over an electorate goes. I say again, Corbyn can quite safely ignore these smears and negative coverage as they seem to be making little difference to how people vote on the day. https://blog.lboro.ac.uk/crcc/general-election/media-coverage-of-the-2017-general-election-campaign-report-4/

I can't remember whether you said how old the car was but most modern cars have extensive factory produced digital service manuals that are available to all dealers and most good garages that 'talk you through' a problem eliminating the most obvious problems and avoiding repeating the same diagnostic. This takes much of the guesswork out of finding a problem (or combination of problems), saves unnecessary labour costs for the customer as well as the fitting of replacement parts that aren't needed. In my experience it is laziness as much as lack of experience that leads to bad practice. A cousin was faced with a £850 bill to fix an electric ariel on her car. All it turned out to be was a power connector which had come adrift under the carpet below the front passenger seat. The garage basically couldn't be bothered to take out the front seat to check it so firstly replaced the powered ariel and then her car radio. Luckily she asked to keep her old radio and ariel and my uncle connected them together and found that they were both working perfectly well.

My point is that assaults (because that is what they are) from tattooing through ear piercing to genital mutilation are all illegal except on medical grounds, because the child is not of an age to give lawful consent. It is not a case of changing or strengthening the law, just one of enforcing it.

I think it's mainly stag and hen dos he targets. Here today and gone tomorrow. He has been there at least 15 years to the best of my knowledge. Oh and on the cost of living in Prague which is the point of this thread, the whole of the band Killing Joke upped and relocated to Prague in 2005 I believe, largely because it was so cheap to live there! ?

I thought everyone knew you can't have a tattoo until you're 18.

The Tattooing of Minors Act of 1969 already makes it an offence to tattoo anyone under the age of 18.

WHY......... Because he asks how much you are changing and if you say for example €100 he says he can offer a better rate than the bureau. If the bureau is offering say 2,500 Czech Krona* for €100 he will offer you 3000 Czech. Then he takes you aside and counts out 3000 worth of notes. Unfortunately about 500 of them will be Czech Krona, the rest will be various random Eastern European junk currencies. All you are doing is counting the 00s. After all, we don't know what all this weird money looks like, do we? Then he disappears like the shopkeeper in the Mr Benn cartoons and you are left with about £20 worth of various junk currency for your €100. Which you only discover when you walk into a bar and try to buy a round using a 100 Hungarian Forint note (worth about 25p!*) (*exchange rates are not accurate and simply for the illustration of the story)

The Yaris is a great little car which is why the second hand/resale prices are quite high compared to others in that class.

There is a money changing place in the top North East corner of Wenceslas Square. If you stand outside looking at the rates, you will almost certainly be approached by a man in a beige camel hair coat offering you a much better exchange rate. Avoid!!!

Oh Dear! ?

Not in the same league I know, but it is also time parents faced prosecution for piercing kids ears, tongues etc.

I'm not sure you understand how the civil courts work in this country. In a defamation case, Bradley will simply be asked by the court to prove to its satisfaction, that his claims about Corbyn are true. Any attempt to widen this to other unrelated matters will be given very short shrift by the judge. Also if Bradley was relying on information from the security services, he will be waiting a long time. Such information is rarely made public and usually in such a redacted form as to be worthless. If Corbyn sued, this matter wouldn't even get to court. Any serious legal adviser would urge Bradley to apologise and make a very healthy donation to a charity of Corbyn's choice. Or risk a very expensive day in court. I don't know how wealthy Bradley is but I very much doubt that his party would make the same mistake as the 'kippers and offer to cover his costs and damages.

Before we get too carried away with this, let's not forget that in the 1970's, MI5 had Harold Wilson under surveillance even as he was a serving Prime Minister and it is thought that there were those within MI5 who were actively plotting to bring the Wilson government down. And Wilson was by no stretch of the imagination any threat to the status quo. Like the BBC, MI5 sees the Conservative Party as the natural party of government in the UK. Does anyone seriously think that anything MI5 has on Corbyn would have any credibility in the real world?

Are you sure? And what if he doesn't? Is the sky going to fall in? No, of course not. Those who support him will continue to support him, those who hate him will always hate him and all the rest will be divided between those who are unsettled by the accusations being made and those who start to wonder what this guy has that is upsetting the great and the good so much.

That is quite a claim to make about someone who even if they did exist, we know virtually nothing about. There are countless figures in more recent history who would have a greater claim to that accolade because of real stuff we know for fact that they have done.

Its working title was "To Have and to Hold". I can't remember what it actually aired as.