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What's eating my primroses?

Primroses seem to have been very good this year. But something is nipping the yellow flowers off the stalks and leaving them on the ground - piles of them, all around the garden. Nothing apparently...
10:14 Tue 15th Apr 20082 answers, last by Jules001 23:55 Tue 15th Apr 2008
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Getting hold of Tiscali's Accounts Department

Tiscali run their accounts department from a tiny place called Alness in N Scotland. The only advertised way of contact is via an expensive 0871 number. You sit on line for minutes on end at one's own...
16:58 Fri 04th Apr 20087 answers, last by buildersmate 13:57 Mon 07th Apr 2008
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Sending emails via commercial Wi-Hi providers

Having recently started using Wi-Fi from coffee houses and hotels, this questions relates to the SMTP settings required to send email. Incoming email works fine, but I have to realign my outgoing...
22:31 Tue 29th Jan 20083 answers, last by fo3nix 12:38 Wed 30th Jan 2008
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Management charges on Personal Pension Funds

My personal pension plan provider takes 1% of the current fund value per annum in management charges. Is this typical?
18:19 Mon 01st Oct 20071 answer, last by PrinceRainie 20:24 Mon 01st Oct 2007
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Tractors on the roads again

Summer's here, the farmers are busy bringing in the harvest. But most of the tractors and all the combines am seeing up and down the public roads don't have licence plates to be on the roads. Which...
20:56 Mon 13th Aug 20077 answers, last by buildersmate 10:51 Wed 15th Aug 2007
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Worlds Favourite Airline (WFA) losing stuff

Following a recent flight, the WFA removed and lost a US-style lockable luggage strap between the bag being checked-in and being returned to me. These things aren't particularly costly - about the...
13:04 Mon 09th Jul 20077 answers, last by buildersmate 09:06 Tue 10th Jul 2007
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Calling any teachers out there who have worked as a Supply Teacher

Mrs Buildersmate worked for several months as a Supply Teacher in the 1990s. This is work for the LEA where one gets paid only on the days/weeks one gets called in and the daily rate was higher...
10:45 Thu 22nd Mar 20074 answers, last by buildersmate 21:41 Sat 24th Mar 2007
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Obsolescence Risk in buying a HDMI TV

What are the obsolescence risks in buying a HD-Ready TV (with HDMI interface) now. I understand that Hollywood is threatening to stop any audio-visual manufacturer that sells an unencrypted signal out...
22:56 Mon 12th Mar 2007
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Council Tax Re-banding - misleading reporting by the BBC

Last night's main news contained a report about the expected rise in Banding for many houses in England 'due the increase in property values'. It then made a point about one-third of properties in...
09:14 Tue 20th Feb 20076 answers, last by willowman 09:47 Wed 21st Feb 2007
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Letting Agents charges for the privilege of drawing-up a tenancy agreement

My son is being asked to stump up ?350 for this. It covers credit reference checks and drawing-up an agreement. ARLA appears to have no recommended scale of charges. What is the experience of others...
22:46 Mon 12th Feb 20074 answers, last by buildersmate 16:48 Wed 14th Feb 2007
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Reusing a Company name

If the Company Name I wish to use for a new compnay is showing as 'Dissolved' by Companies House, does that mean I can apply to re-use the same name?
22:45 Thu 25th Jan 20072 answers, last by buildersmate 22:01 Sun 28th Jan 2007
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How many weeks of NI contribution to count as Qualifying Year

How many weeks of NI contribution (or NI credit) are required out of 52 maximum for that year to count as a 'Qualifying Year'? It's very easy to find out how many qualifying years are required for a...
11:36 Tue 02nd Jan 20072 answers, last by buildersmate 21:43 Tue 02nd Jan 2007
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UK History Channel - wall-to-wall World at War

I see the History Channel is showing 3 days of continuous World at War programmes for 12 hours per day. Can we assume they believe they have already lost the 'Xmas Ratings' battle?
13:13 Sun 24th Dec 20062 answers, last by Postdog 16:00 Sun 24th Dec 2006
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Problems with cancelled appointments under NHS Choose and Book

Under the much-vaunted 'Choose & Book' scheme for selecting a hospital/clinic of one's choice, waiting time for 1st appointment is one of the measured criteria. Having selected a clinic on short...
10:22 Mon 18th Dec 20061 answer, last by leedsgurl 15:03 Thu 21st Dec 2006
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Reduced signal strength on some Freeview channels

In the last 3 weeks some of my Freeview channels have become weaker in signal strength and both picture and sound break up. It applies to BBC1,2 and News24. All others are unaffected. I appreciate...
09:45 Mon 27th Nov 20066 answers, last by Disco Fever 20:44 Thu 30th Nov 2006
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Does subscribing to AB open you up to having Spyware dropped into your computer?

Does anyone else suspect that AB is responsible for dropping Spyware that monitors web-usage onto PCs? Not suggesting its malicious - the sort that web marketing organisations use.
09:24 Wed 01st Nov 200612 answers, last by fo3nix 19:16 Thu 02nd Nov 2006
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Locking a domestic heating oil tank

Has anyone found a satisfactory way of preventing unwanted access to such an oil tank - the standard type with a 2 inch BSP screw thread. Double skinned tanks typically have a lock on the outer skin,...
10:41 Sat 14th Oct 2006
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Finding VAT number of a UK company

Is there a quick cheap method of finding out the VAT Registration number of a UK business, if one knows the business name and registered address. This company won't co-operate and tell me.
11:52 Thu 13th Jul 20065 answers, last by yacine.d 17:46 Sun 06th Apr 2008
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Broadband (ADSL) connection keeps failing after rain

Every time it rains or humid conditions exist I keep losing my ADSL line. It connects, then fails after a few seconds, a typically lasts for a few hours. I appreciate this is probably something to do...
09:07 Thu 06th Jul 20061 answer, last by Catso 09:36 Thu 06th Jul 2006

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