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The UK High Street's biggest chemist chain, Alliance Boots, has confirmed former HBOS boss Andy Hornby as its new chief executive. Mr Hornby, in charge of HBOS at the time of the bank's near-collapse...
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jno jnr has been beaten to a flat he liked by someone who was prepared to offer cash for it. But what difference would this make to the seller? He's got mortgage approval from the bank, who will...
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The great British tradition of spin continues http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7884121 .stm Nice try, boys.
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Can you actually buy region-free players in the UK? Are any of them any good? Or do I have to buy a coded one and try to hack it?
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new website may answer your questions (where's it on, is it on DVD, can I watch it online etc). UK-based http://www.findanyfilm.com/search
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something to beware of http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/UK-News/Fake- Tax-Emails-Britain-Being-Flooded-With-Phishing -Scams-Warns-HM-Revenue-And-Customs/Article/20...
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Is a knighthood for a cyclist a bit over the top? I know he performed really well, but a knighthood? Three golds = Sir; two golds = OBE, F1 champion in his second year = MBE
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Since Virgin 'upgraded' their broadband service a couple of months ago my computer frequently (3-4 times a day, especially in the evenings) freezes when on the internet, or won't connect at all. They...
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First person in the world to take cash out of an ATM
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6230194.st m
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A quarter of Brits want homosexual sex made illegal. The figure has actually been rising.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2008/oc t/26/relationships
Weird. (imho)
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I'm running Windows XP. I keep my jpeg photos in a selection of folders, and among the options that come up when I open a folder is 'Picture Tasks', including 'view as slideshow', 'copy to CD' etc....
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Is there any such thing as a fast train? From anywhere round the London area would do, but I haven't been able to find anything much less than 4 hours.
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some blighter's got into my hotmail account and sent out a spam mail to everyone in there (I deliberately don't keep a contact list so the spam's gone to anyone who's sent me an email that I've kept)....
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When I got a new computer a couple of months ago it had what I suppose was some sort of short-term Symantec anti-virus programme already installed. This is about to run out. What are the best products...
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My camera takes 8 megapixel pictures, which I don't think I need and which gobble up space on my computer. I tried reducing the size of one photo to 'medium' and 'small' sizes, via Photoshop. The...
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I've got a new Plustek scanner and tried to scan a negative. It converts it to positive, but it will only make it a Tiff file. (Gigantic, but I expected that.) How can I convert this to a JPG file?...
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while trying to post in New AB, though not every time. The post always goes through on the second attempt, but I suspect it was having to post most answers twice that got me banned. I'm on Firefox....
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It's there when I click on Most Recently Answered, but when I click on the other tabs, eg Most Recent, it shows up empty. Wassup?
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it's time we had another little panel showing exactly which members are banned at any given moment. To add fuel to debates about reoffending rates, it could list how often they'd been there before and...
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This is wonderful! A news anchor refuses to have anything to do with the story and tries to burn her script! Go Mika!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VdNcCcweL0
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