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- 11th July 2008
...for Mr. Walsh's bonus!
His arguments in this Richmond and Twickenham Times article dubious for the least:
1. The jobs impact has never been quantified by an independent survey
2. Comparing LHR alone to other airports is dishonest for t
- 17th June 2008
I don't have much to add to this article: British cities shun London's wasteful car tax - Times Online
"[...] overheads are now so high that they burn up the equivalent of almost £4 of a standard £8 charge. Money raised to improve public transport has be
- 11th June 2008
In my previous post about The great holiday ripp-off... I spoke about Expedia and Hertz, on baby car seat rental charges and thought I'd let you know the rest.
I've complained to both companies about the doubful practice of allowing you to rent a d
- 9th June 2008
A cautionary tale today because it's bad enough that the Euro makes holidaying on the Continent much more expensive.
Car Seat Hire with Car Rentals Companies
We've rented a car through Expedia and Hertz came up at a quite competitive rate (about
- 9th June 2008
I've always been interested by ecology, tryign to do my bit -like leaving a camping/picinic site cleaner than when I arrived. But my green attitude is based on common sense, not on any form of green religion inspired by city-luddites, the kind of people wh
- 5th June 2008
Whilst Britain basks in a soggy Summer, I guess jetting off somewhere nice might seem the ultimate answer to combat the summertime blues.
Yet, after a week of sleepless nights thinking about boarding that plane, how many of you sit tight mid-flight,
- 17th May 2008
Having been through the downturns of the seventies, the eighties, the early to mid nineties and everything else in between then and now, am I alone in thinking that the main part of the problem is the media seeking sensationalist stories?Yes, there is a sh
- 16th May 2008
Read this morning in the Richmond and Twickenham Times: Court challenge to early morning Heathrow jumbos.
I find difficult to agree that a 747 could wrongly be put in a category of "quiet planes", unless maybe the transportation ministry staff never f
- 8th May 2008