Tridentine

Thanks for all your hints. I should have backed up more of the messages away from the ISP than I did. It's a lesson I won't forget and will backup useful messages daily and delete the rest. Dominus vobiscum Tridentine

Update BT today confirmed that they had permanenty "lost" all my messages from their servers in the transfer from BT Yahoo to BT servers that they insisted on doing, no request or permission from me anytime. Total tossers. I'll be asking for compensation. Not sure that any of other ISPs that serve this area are any better going on Sheff forums comments.

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.

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.

A bit late in the day but...... The migration from BT Yahoo to MyBT is a disaster area. I've lost all of my Inbox content and BT have been trying for nearly 3 months to find it. They have also lost all of "my folders" contents. It's a total and utter shambles.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Running XP (Service pack2) on an HP laptop. Whenever I connect an external file storage device formatted as either FAT or FAT32 an error message comes up to say the device is not formatted. File storage devices formatted in NTFS don't seem to have this malfunction. Thanks for any advice about possible reasons for the things I'm seeing and any suggestions/advice of how to fix the problem. Tridentine

The Armitages were called Jack and Audrey and were great friends of my uncle and aunt in Nottingham. They were very nice people indeed.

Cafe Ceres menu French influenced in some dishes maybe but a long way from a French restaurant experience.

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.