Kbabe01

He didn't have a problem with increased rent. He owns the building. The Italian offered him a lot of money for the lease and he accepted. Koz will re open in beckenham. Will be more like the Hisar. A takeaway with a restaurant next door.

its the head gasket that has gone and apparently damaged the engine. Not sure if this could have been seen on a service? The guy who sold the car has since told us the head gasket was changed but apparently not. No paper work says sold as seen but i would assume all private sales are?

Need a bit of advice please. My parents bought a car from a private owner. Had a service on it and all seemed well. 2 days later it broke down and they have now been told it needs a new engine. The garage have told them that the previous owner would have known this as they can see recent work has been done on it. My question is do my parents have any legal standing? Would it be worth suing? If so where do we start? Any advice would be really helpfull.

Agreed!

This has really niggled me all day! After loosing my poppy time and time again i had a search on ebay for a poppy "brooch". I came across some beautiful Buckley Diamonte Poppy Brooches. The prices were from ?40 to ?150. Fair enough as they are 18k gold plated. Then i investigated further and found out these Brooches are Buckleys limited edition for the RBL priced at ?9.99 (all proceeds go to the RBL)!!!!! Is it just me or is buying one of these from Buckleys at ?9.99 and then selling them on ebay for ?40 plus just plain wrong! I sent messages to the various sellers asking if the proceeds would be going to the RBL and only 1 (selling at ?96) said that 10% would be donated!

I did contact the local authority who informed me that they sent the PCN to the address on the DVLA system and therefore it was the DVLA at fault. Of course DVLA are taking no blame! So back to southwark i have gone! Its now in their hands again! I have heard this has happend quite alot with the dvla not maintaing their system with the correct information. Very frustrating!

This happend to me. PCN sent to old address because the DVLA had not changed it on their system. I had the new reg document with my new address but the clamping company said as the address hadnt changed on the system they were in their rights to clamp! Had to pay ober ?500! Still in disbute with the DVLA to get it back but not having much luck!

Sarcasm really is the lowest for of wit :-S Fact is the Ffs said this was about cuts. Nobody believed them and now surprise surprise 16% cuts! In less than a week!!! So in all honesty I think the Ffs have won this argument as they have been proved right!! It was never about shift changes! It was always about cuts!

The LFB are not trying to close stations or reduce the number of ffs here. It's simply a change to make the way the Fire Service works more efficient. It's worked elsewhere. The LFB are thinking of closing stations and reduce ffs. I quote from a document written by the LFB Points to consider 1. Reduce the crewing level to 4. The appliance could continue to operate at 5 but would not attract a standby if reduced to 4. 2. Reduce the crewing level to 4. Reduce the establishment to 6. Loss of either a CM or FF post. 3. Produce a nighttime schedule for the removal of 10 appliances. Staff on this system would spend both nights conditioned to day duties. (There will be a slightly increased impact on attendance targets) 4. Produce a schedule for the removal of 10 appliances on a fixed basis. Then provide appliance standbys to those locations. Those are just a few! I didn't copy anything Kbabe...would you like to list the unwelcome strings attached to the LFC's offer of the 11/13 split? So that you actually back up your claim with some evidence? Because to be honest there's been more thsan enough claims and no data/ evidence provided by those supporting the strikes on this thread already. Sorry just your post and the LFB website are nearly word for word?? My mistake (tu) Below is part of the memo sent out: At this morning's meeting, the brigade made another slightly amended offer to the FBU. The offer did not seek to change the brigade's longstanding position of either a 12/12 of 11/13 shift pattern. The so-called "incentives" included a mere ?5 increase in the allowance for direct stand-bys; a withdrawal of the proposal to scrap the reimbursement of medical, dental and optical charges (which, in any case, is hardly a concession, as members who qualify for such payments are entitled to them under the Grey Book); a withdrawal of the proposal to scrap the allowance paid to mess managers; agreement that firefighters may stay at stations ? but only where they are "significantly delayed" beyond the end of shift; and some revised arrangements around leave and mutual exchanges. In addition, the brigade did not move its position that all remaining uniformed non-operational personnel must either leave the Grey Book* or be sacked. *National Joint Council For Local Authorities' Fire and Rescue Services, Scheme of conditions of service The Grey book covers the national pay and conditions for operational and control staff of local authority fire and rescue services

If im not mistaken Yorkshire were set to go on an 8 day strike regarding shift changes to 12/12. The union called for national arbitration and the fire authority agreed. The union negotiated 11/13 shifts, and the ffs voted to sign new contract of 11/13 with new benefits. The fbu in London would have agreed to the same but the lfb attached "strings" to the new contracts. This wouldnt be in what you copied from the lfb website though. Formal negotiations regarding shift change times only began in June 2010, just 4 months ago!

Do you believe the fire service does not deliver? They are trying to serve US! They don't want night cover contracted out to assetco. They are not moaning about having to work 12 hour shifts. The effects I speak of are because of this 188. Do you think cutting a night shift by 3 hours will stop sleeping? Stand down is from midnight until about 6 I think so that won't change much will it? My dad had 3 jobs when I was a kid to keep us afloat. Was he wrong? LFB give permission for Ffs to work second jobs and that will not change.

I think theres one at Dog Ken Hill adventure playground on friday.

No Pearson i do not believe everything the Union says. I dont believe much of what is written in the press. I have taken the time to speak to the people involved. I would do the same if it was any other workforce. Ive seen the effect this is having on ffs and i do not believe they deserve to be treated this way. They do an amazing job as do the other emergancy services.

DJKQ i assure you you do not pay my wages! I am not a public sector worker. Public sector workers do not owe you anymore respect than YOU owe them. You think everyone owes you something because you pay tax? Everyone who works pays tax. You are not the only one. The fact is you will not listen to anyone with a different opinion. Fire Fighters have posted on here telling you the reason for the strikes and telling you why they think the new shift is a bad idea. Still you refuse to believe anything that is not a written document. Why will you not believe what a worker involved is telling you before you believe press and politicians? Do you not think fire fighters who do this job every day are more equipped to tell us what changes are needed? Shouldnt they have a voice? Or just sack them and let some desk jocky make the decisions.

If they were being paid that would really annoy you wouldn't it? Unfortunatly they are not being paid to strike! You can rest easy. Today your taxes were not paying for londons fire fighters. I will dismiss the BBC if it's reporting utter crap like most. They rely on people like you to not have the sense to not believe all they read.