Leah-Lacie

Yes! Like the ones that print "white rolls" on breadcake packets!

Crumpet...

http://www.jewson.co.uk/branch-locator/?Location=sheffield Give your nearest branch of Jewsons a call and see if they can beat that price. It doesn't seem bad to me though, no.

If you go into Homebase they have sizes of MDF in store that they don't have on the website. They also cut it to size for you - I was building a dolls house and took them the exact sizes I wanted and they cut a large sheet into all the small pieces I needed. More expensive than Wickes and B&Q though, and obviously having to go into store eliminates the option of delivery.

Plus with the bottom end of Arbourthorne you are on the border with Heeley which is a much more desirable area than the 'notorious' Manor estate If you heard Parson cross wasn't a great area, don't ask anyone about Manor!

I had a teacher at school called John Stocks, and I have him on Facebook. No idea if it is the same one, but it is the one mentioned above who taught at Carter Lodge in the 80s.

San Bernardino? Probably the city in which the concert is being held. ---------- Post added 29-06-2015 at 19:35 ---------- Well the video was posted in November 2009, and she did a concert in San Bernardino in July 2009, so I guess it would be that x

Of those, personally, I would say Walden Road was the best of them all. Although Arbourthorne has its bad parts, Walden Road is at the very bottom of the estate and to my knowledge that part isn't bad at all. You are very close to the town centre with that one, a 3 minute bus ride. Parson cross, Southey, Longley etc are all over at the other side of the city, and a bit further out of the centre. Just had to Google where Aylward road is, and its at the opposite end of the estate near Manor Top, so I would personally favour Walden Road over it.

Do you mean like heat marks? For example, when you out a hot cup on it and it leaves a white ring? If so look here:

To be very honest, none of the areas in Sheffield where council houses tend to be readily available would be deemed as 'great' areas to most people. Most are just OK areas, they all have their pros and their cons, and a lot of them will depend on which part of the estate it is. You used Parson Cross as an example, none of that area would be called great, but there are better and much worse parts of the area to live on. Same goes for the Gleadless area, some parts are bad, some parts are better.

I always found the program to be a total pain, uninstalled it and always use windows live / hotmail / outlook from my web browser now, much more simple!

I seem to remember he declared himself bankrupt after many years of not paying his taxes

He must have a lot of bottle.

I think a single person (or a couple) on low wages can claim some tax credits actually. Only a small amount, but it is still available. https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/tax-credits-entitlement-tables-working-and-have-no-children/tax-credits-entitlement-tables-working-and-have-no-children

I agree with your sentiments, but I don't think that having children for extra benefit money is a genuine life choice for many people, not anywhere near as many as some people think. It's as crazy really as someone having a child just so they can fill up their spare bedroom and avoid the bedroom tax. However, all I was doing with trying to get a breakdown of the figures you were quoting was trying to point out that the majority of the welfare bill doesn't go to the long term unemployed, which is what it seemed you were implying was your line of thought with the above quote. The majority of the welfare bill in fact goes to people who do work, either part time, or possibly more, but are on a low wage, and need to have their wages subsidised. The long term unemployed, who are genuinely long term unemployed, actually make up quite a small percentage of the total figures.

So it as I thought, the majority of the housing benefit bill does go to people who do work and are on a low wage, rather the long term unemployed (that working under 16 hours criteria does include the unemployed, right?). I didn't think it could be quite right. The figures I can find for the housing benefits bill seem to be around the £25b region, in total per year.

In your breakdown, you have stated that the housing benefits bill just for those who work under 16 hours is £40b... In this article http://www.theguardian.com/housing-network/2014/apr/24/housing-benefit-bill-soar-25-billion-2017 It is stated that the housing benefit bill will '"soar" to £25b in the next few years. This is the total bill, including for people who work and are on a low income.

Should have added as well, the only reason I have to keep changing my bank details (which, again, takes less than a minute to do online) is because anything I pay by card within 7 days of the DD due date doesn't reduce the amount of the DD. My Sky bill DD due date is the 27th of the month. If on, say the 23rd, I have £35 outstanding on the bill, and I then pay that off by card, they will still take an extra £35 DD on the 27th, and then reduce my next bill. I would rather them not do that - I would rather pay it off when I can, and not have them take money out when on that particular day I might need it for something else. I have a lot of bills come out between 27th and 31st of a month, for example, the water bill, council tax, TV licence. I don't see the problem with not having a DD set up with Sky as long as the account is in credit, but they have cut me off more than once for cancelling it in the past, even though one time I was £54 in credit, which covered the next bill completely.

On the subject of Tax Credits - I believe you have to be working at least 16 hours as a single person, or 24 hours as part of a couple before you are able to claim working tax credits. I assume the figure you posted includes both child and working tax credits, without a breakdown of each. As an example. I you work 16 hours, and you have a partner who works 8 hours in order to make up the 24 hours a week threshold, and you have 4 children, your weekly tax credits payment will be in the region of £300. I think that is roughly £100 in CTC and £200 in WTC. You will still get full housing and council tax benefit allowed according to your LHA. So from the figures you posted, the tax credits claimants are also the ones who are claiming the housing benefit - Employed people on a low wage, rather than the long term employed. As a single person with 2 children, working 16 hours a week, your weekly tax credit payments will be in the region of £200 - You will then again also still be entitled to a large amount of housing and council tax benefit, although probably will have to contribute a little bit more than in the scenario above. If you were going to disregard tax credits figures from your calculations, it isn't really possible to do so without also disregarding a large proportion of the housing and council tax benefits too.

Haven't looked at your link, but from what I remember reading before, the bulk of welfare goes to people who DO work, in payments such as tax credits, rather than to the long term unemployed.

Its really not a massive faff, it only takes literally less than a minute to change it. I just prefer to pay it weekly rather than a big chunk monthly, although it makes no real difference, I just prefer to budget by the week rather than the month, due to being paid weekly

Sky don't, I believe, charge any extra for not paying by Direct Debit - But it is a condition of the contract that you must have a direct debit set up. I pay mine by card, once a week, rather than once a month, and it is kept well in credit every month. However, I still get a message on screen, telling me that my TV will soon be cut off if I don't update my payment details. I was once cut off even though the account was in credit, because I had cancelled my DD. The way I get round this is to set a direct debit up to my main bank account, then about 4/5 days before payment is due, I change my payment details to my other bank account, which doesn't allow for direct debits to be taken from it. I pay my bill up to date and make sure it is in credit. A few days later, I get the message that I need to update my payment details again, as the bank have refused their direct debit request from the other account. I then switch it back to my main account for the next month (this is all very easily done online in seconds with Sky). No money ever needs to be taken via DD as I'm in credit, but I do always have a DD set up as agreed.

It does work something like that, although I can't remember the exact figure. I have children and I work 16 hours, but occassionally I am required to work a little bit extra, which I did in Dec, Jan and Feb this year, due to a big shake up of staff at work. The council have an applicable amount, which is what the government say you need to live on, then for every £1 you earn after that, they deduct money from your housing benefit - I was paid £600 in February and £600 in March, for approx 23 hours per week, so I was paying near enough full rent for those months, when my wages and tax credits were taken into account for the applicable amount. I just had to provide my pay slips once it went back to normal and my benefit was adjusted back. You should be able to find a rough estimate using a calculator such as http://www.entitledto.co.uk/benefits-calculator/startcalc.aspx?e2dwp=y

Spoke to someone in the cross scythes earlier who mentioned they had just been in, said it was very nice, and because we were obviously in a Thornbridge pub at the time, they mentioned they have a range of Thornbridge bottled beers.

It was sold to Selfridges in 1920, and then to John Lewis in 1962, but was still branded as Cole Brothers until 2002, so no one would have noticed