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Well this is a bit disappointing - I thought there would be loads of pictures and posts. A great house front on Ecclesall Road, near HB roundabout. Rustlings Road terrace house bay windows are even better than normal this year.

Hi My computer recently needed a new hard drive. Since getting the computer back from repair I am unable to watch the videos I filmed using my Canon camera and also not able to view any Apple videos. Some of the videos don’t even show up in the files I know they are in. I have been told this is a codec issue so I have just had a look and there are all sorts of codecs to download. Now I have no idea what a codec is or what to download so any help would be appreciated. Thx

Hi For several months I have been unable to send emails to hotmail addresses - they bounce back undelivered. I have spoken to Bt my isp and having checked it out they say it is not an error on their behalf. Anybody got any idea how to resolve this - I have no idea where to start! thanks Andy

Yes, very likely.

The answer is sensible to me, but may not be to you/your daughter. If you choose not to take any of the above suggestions my answer is pretty much the same as Cyclones in the above post: Contact the landlord. Tell him you made a mistake in signing a contract for a house that does not meet your needs and offer to pay the rent for the remainder of said contract therefor legally allowing her to move out and find another property - pressumably with more trustworthy friends and locks on doors

You ask for a discussion, don't read the responce and are rude to a number of the contributors. As stated above, my answer in short: yes.

This is a discussion Forum. Sometimes discussions do go off on tangent. In this case most of the tangents do have relevance to the original question. I think the discussion and opinions/ideas aired give you most of your options, which are many – some legal some not, some seem more sensible to me than others. There is no obvious answer because there are many choices. Yes - I can give you a 100% legal solution to your problem, (there would be no loopholes or legal arguments against it) but it would be expensive so you may not think it sensible.

If you read my posts you will see I have consistently stated the above facts about TV licences What I am referring to as nonsence is your statement about bedsits (Quote “PT - it wouldn't affect the insurance at all, that's how shared houses are, they DO NOT have locks on internal doors or they are not shared houses they are bedsits.”) A house can have locks on internal doors and can be a shared house on individual contracts or joint contracts, it may or may not be a HIMO, but is not automatically bedsits as you state.

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Wrong and nonsence. See my earlier post.

Where did you get that load of missinformation from? - 'Generally, having locks on doors points to individual tenancies' - A shared house can have locks on and the landlord could have signed the tenants on singular or joint contracts - so you are wrong. -'it is also likely to mean the building would be a house in multiple occupation' - again wrong - there are many things that make a house a HIMO - this is not one. -your last (big happy family) statement is also incorrect and missleading - just because a landlord chooses to use a joint contract does not (ever) exclude him from complying with HIMO regulations.

You are wrong. I do not know the rules governing halls of residence, but in a shared house it is nothing to do with locks. One licence is needed in a shared house (HIMO or not) if a single joint contract has been entered into whether locks are on doors or not. If a house has been let to more than one person on individual contracts then a licence is needed for each television used in the house.

I am not sure what rules you refer to when you say ‘original’ – if you refer to the standards set out in the ‘Green Book’ (which were Sheffield City councils standards until the 2004 housing act altered all the HIMO rules) you are wrong. - If you refer to the very latest HIMO rules you are wrong. I have re-read both to check my facts and also phoned Environmental Housing (who enforce the legislation) to double check and they have confirmed I am correct.

Its not - you are wrong

where have you read/heard that - you are wrong. Landlords can fit locks to bedrooms in any size house. They must be able to be opened from the inside without a key (for example a typical 'Yale') so a 5 lever mortice lock would not be acceptable. I would agree with you though on the 'daft government' bringing in the new HMO legislation - A poorly drafted and ill conceived piece of legislation.