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The police driver obviously was wrong as the advice, nay the RULE, is that where the roundabout is wide enough to permit 2 lanes, drivers going straight on should NOT try to ‘straighten out’ the roundabout by cutting across to the middle unless the roundabout is clear. Most police drivers round this way seem good, but even the best drivers make mistakes sometimes – this was a bad mistake.
As a man who has no particular interest in sport, I much prefer watching women doing sports than men, because they generally look nicer!
I have been self-employed for about 18 years, as an illustrator.
Nobody likes parting with money but I accept that I have to pay tax like everyone else does. I reckon that I’ve been no better and no worse off, tax-wise, compared to an employed person.The biggest problem for self-employed taxpayers is not the amount of tax they have to pay, but the difficulty of the system which I still find confusing after 18 years. The tax people must find it confusing too, judging by the number of unexpected refunds I get.
One thing that would help everyone, particularly the self-employed, would be for National Insurance to be abolished completely and the money added to income tax instead.
I think there are ways of deferring tax for the newly self-employed but you get a shock a bit later on with a bigger tax bill. I didn’t do that myself so I don’t know. The crucial thing for self-employed is to keep records of all your financial transactions – you are required by law to do this – particularly all your bank statements musty be kept for 6 years.
8% tax looks like a fairly light burden – when you’re earning a significant amount you’ll be paying 25% or more!
More successful businesses = richer people
There’s always someone who becomes poorer, unless the economy relies on property and share prices going up and up to fund more and more lending, and we know where that’s got us!
fancy a libarary stealin books. i thought they were all council ran so would it realley matter?
I think it’s what’s called ‘cashiering’ in the army – when stuff is nicked by one part of an organisation from another part. It isn’t theft really, because all the books belong to the County Council, but it’s still not nice when you lend books to another library in good faith and they just decide to keep them!!!
I suppose it was, but it was a mistake and I never got round to posting the book back.
Re the public library – I don’t think many of the people who got letters actually ended up in court – only those who had lots of books overdue or a particularly expensive book. Otherwise we just wrote off the overdue books. I sometimes used to get sent out to call at peoples’ homes to try and get overdue books back – sometimes it worked, sometimes it didn’t.But one of the worst things was when we discovered that another library within the same county library service had STOLEN some of our books. The way this had happened is we’d lent them to the other library because readers had requested them but they didn’t have the titles in stock. But that library had changed the ownership status and merrily kept the books on their shelves after the reader had returned them!!!!
I found, years after I left school, that I still had a library book out. The day I finished school after my A-levels, I dumped my briefcase in the garage and left it there, where all the stuff in it went mouldy, including a forgotten library book. I did keep the book for a while, but it was very dull and not worth much, then I think I threw it away.
A few years later I’d become a qualified librarian, working in public libraries and sending out letters threatening to take people to court who had failed to return their overdue books after repeated reminders!!!!
…..Ah! But I’d never received a remider for the school library book, so it was different! :lol:
Obviously if a cyclist rides dangerously and kills a pedestrian, or another cyclist for that matter, which has been known to happen, they should face a tough penalty, possibly prison as in the recent case. I wonder though, what the position would be when a pedestrian steps into the road in front of a cyclist, causing them to swerve and fall off, and they die as a consequence. Presumably there is a law covering careless pedestrian behaviour.
I’m a cyclist, pedestrian and driver, so I’ve got a fairly balanced view on this.
As a sideline, I believe it’s the case that although general traffic laws do not apply on private land where there’s no public access, the laws about causing death or injury by careless or dangerous driving do still apply – arguably even on a motor racing circuit.
Ah, but the train driver died as a result of the attack on him in the robbery, but it was just over the time limit for his death to be treated as murder. Biggs wasn’t the attacker, but he was part of the organised crime gang.
I’ve no time for the likes of Biggs but they might as well nominally release him because his real jailer now is the illness from which he’s likely to die very soon and he’s not exactly going to go anywhere except feet first in a wooden box anyway.
Taking a dog for a walk these days can be a bit embarrasing, since you end up having to carry a plastic bag full of poo home.
So why not train your dog to carry the plastic bag in its mouth? The dog can then saunter home carrying its poo with pride!
