Tim Almond

28th April at 7pm. See this.

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via LabourHome
Talking during the webchat, the Henley MP said he “would have an online referendum in London about whether to give boroughs back the power to give discretion over smoking to pubs and clubs.”
Wouldn’t that be about as pointless as all those “Nuclear Free” borough signs in the 80s?

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Martin Wolf in the FT
I have three answers to this cacophony of special pleading: first, anybody who thinks it is a duty of the state to help keep housing expensive is crazy; second, policymakers should respond only to clear market failures; and, third, with a floating exchange rate and an independent central bank, the UK […]

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It’s obvious now where those billions of pounds have gone on NHS IT. It’s not just to build some straightforward data management system, but on something far more sophisticated:-
The bulk of the confused appointment bookings occurred on Friday, but a spokesperson for the NHS IT group Connecting for Health (CfH) said a handful of patients […]

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From The BBC
He plans to wind back the clock at his estate in the Highlands by repopulating the land with a raft of animals that have not been seen in Britain for hundreds of years - including brown bears, lynx and wolves.
Presumably there’s method in this madness.
He explained: “The main problem we have in Scotland […]

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Large coffee chain in the UK. From 1st May. See this.
Anyone know if the coffee’s good?

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I’d prefer to run a proper dual-boot environment, but it’s quite a setup, so I tried setting up Ubuntu on Virtual PC 2007 using this guide.
The guide is about spot-on. The only two suggestions are:-

Increase the memory to 1GB.
Once the process is running, change it in Task Manager to use 1 processor as it seems […]

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From The Telegraph:-
A mother in need of a kidney transplant was denied her daughter’s “perfect match” organs after her sudden death.
Laura Ashworth died, aged 21, at Bradford Royal Infirmary after a suspected asthma attack.
She had spoken of her desire to help her mother, Rachel Leake, who has kidney failure, but despite being on the national […]

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This is a great return:-

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