Following discussion on another thread here is a poser: Mr. A is a paying passenger on a closed coach tour wholly within the UK provided by Company P. Mr. A does not suffer from diminished eyesight...
Recent report highlighted firm refusing an agency job candidate because she was a smoker. Boss said they are less healthy. Now I recently had to recruit a co-worker and chose a non-smoker for the same...
Last weekend a man was kicked and beaten to death on Clapham Common, London by two or three thugs. Witnesses saw this and police arrested three men later. Now they may not be guilty of anything, but...
As part of a discussion in another place, I put up this page. Do you see the picture as horrific, identifying with the small girl; as a indictment of US Imperialism at it worst; a warning to...
Stephen Gough, 46, of Bournemouth, his girlfriend Melanie Green, 33, and male companion Jeffrey Woodhouse set off to walk naked from Land's End to John o' Groats. They reached Wem in Shropshire before...
Did any one else see this? I was de-icing my car on this beautiful clear morning at 0634 and was musing about Saturn whilst looking in that direction when what I thought was a shooting star made...
I've just been checking the expiry date on my TV licence and it clearly states that it runs out on 29th February, 2005. Now, as this date is clearly not part of the current year (February finishes on...
The following error is now displayed in bold red at the top of (it seems) all questions. When I tried posting an answer the thing went potty and posted wice then took me to a Page not found page....
This "Editing by Answerbank" is more than a joke. It seems that we are now not permitted to write answers using paragraphs, thus making sense easier to appreciate, and layout easier on the eye. ...
Some "Spyware" aware visitors may have noticed that The Answerbank tries to silently install a tracking cookie from a crowd of American smoke and mirrors merchants called Avenue A Inc. The little text...
Thanks for the Science section, now that was a good idea. Not only did dthe science type Qs get buried somewhere in HIW and I&T or even H&M, but also the new category attracts more science Qs,...
Nice improvements to looks but PLEASE PLEASE restore ability to break text into paragraphs, and emphasise some words either by BOLD or ITALIC.<br><br>It should be possible to produce...
Retired trucker Johan Prettenthaler, aged 70, has been charged with causing the death of the five Britons in an incident near Hallen, Austria, in which police believe his overtaking minibus forced a...
It's here again. Friday the thirteenth. Now I'm not supersticious (touch wood), but what horrid things have happened to you on this supposedly unlucky day?
As recently provoked by a castaway comment on BBC7, I (and I am sure lots of others) remember a kids' story about nasturtiums growing up the side of a cottage and being mistaken for fire. Does anyone...
So, here come the 'Oscars', and apart from the milk curdling thanks chat and impossible frocks, the TV coverage will be delayed by a gap long enough to prevent any repeat of the Janet Jackson...