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So the economy is still heading for the toilet, more people are losing their jobs, those who aren’t are having to take pay cuts and those who aren’t have less disposable income than ever thanks to the every increasing cost of living and the fact that every time you pop to the supermarket the price [...]

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Download so that you can do good

Download so that you can do good

The non-making arm of the Virgin Group, Virgin Unite, have joined up with other leading charities to form a partnership with Fairsharemusic.com , the music download store where you really make a difference through the music you buy. Fairsharemusic isn’t dissimilar from other music sites, wherein they offer [...]

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Packyourbags Holidays wants to give you 10p To Plan For Every Facebook Like

Money is being raised to help Plan International’s Girl’s Fund by Packyourbags Holidays. This is a  project that supports the rights of girls in the poorest countries across the world. Packyourbags.com have recently launched their own Facebook page, and the company is obviously very keen to let everyone know about this page and also its [...]

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We do the ‘WaitingIn’, that way, you don’t have to!

For busy people, or just those who value their days off work, having to take time off for a trades person to call can be a real hassle. Many people find that they are having to take time off work to wait for people to deliver items or come and make repairs to their homes. [...]

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Why an Englishman’s home is not his castle

The say that an Englishman’s home is his castle, that’s until it comes to defending it. In the old days there were cannons, moats, drawbridges and sneaky little blighters hiding in the battlements waiting to pop an arrow in your head if you were seen in anyway to be a threat to either the castle [...]

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Google maps sends geeks to map the Amazon

We have all heard of Google maps, the option is there on the home screen in between Videos and News. While they claim that their maps can take you from anywhere to, well, anywhere else, they have come in for some criticism in the past. Bearing this in mind, the news that someone has got [...]

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Do we need to return to the gold standard?

All you need to do is listen to an occasional news report from almost anywhere and you will hear the sound of a financial structure falling apart.  Though the noise has not quite reached ear-splitting level, it’s very hard to ignore reports from both sides of the Atlantic about a crisis in the world’s economy, [...]

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Sativex cannabis plant MS drug only available in certain regions

Budget cuts across the board are causing more than curtailed holidays and fewer nights of dinner-and-a-show for many people. One of the peripheral results of reduced government funding is an increase in the pain and suffering of patients with multiple sclerosis. The drug known as Sativex, derived from the cannabis plant and used [...]

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National grid pays to ‘dump’ electricity

When power companies are getting paid more to stop producing electricity than they would have made if they kept running, something is wrong with the system.  That scenario is actually taking place, at least  in Scotland.  Six wind farms were paid a total of nearly £900,000 by the National Grid to shut down for one [...]

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Religion in the workplace row churns on

Religion in the workplace is a minefield at the best of times, but in this case it seems to have really gone of the scale. A 64 years old Electrician and former serviceman is facing the sack from his job of 15 years for displaying a palm cross in his company vehicle. The small and [...]

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