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Be warned, an hour spent in the archives rapidly turns into many more. When I used to work just over the other side of the canal, I thought I'd spend my lunch hours doing some research. Some days, I was there far longer than I should have been - one day, that hour turned into four without me realising.

Notts TV consortium executives: Garry Smith, NTU, Mike Sassi, Nottingham Post, Penny Linfield, Spool, Jamie Brindle, Notts TV, and Craig Chettle, Confetti Media. Photo: Nottingham Post. Hope this helps?

Kipper tie, Mick?

Most app developers seem to do it twice, once for Apple's App Store, and again for Google Play. And even a third time for Windows phones! About the only app I've not been able to find for iPad is a free ad blocker for Chrome, which means I only use Safari to read the Evening Post. Trying to read that in Chrome is an awful experience as they have persistent pop-up adverts all over the place.

Neither was I an Apple fan, Mick. Until I started to use an iPad and saw just how easy it was, and how user-friendly our daughter's iPhone is. And how all their devices can integrate so smoothly. When it comes to usability, Apple has made life far easier than Windows, Linux, or Android. It's only the cost premium that hurts.

It only affects people who buy over-priced designer sports clothing or trainers.

#5 Apple use Android? Not a chance! Why would they use a pale imitation of their own iOS software?

No action needed! It's not a windows machine, and the only way of installing any programmes, including viruses, on an iPad is via the App Store.

It was the same when my mother in law had care staff visit her. The agency who worked for the council gave them such tight schedules that there was no time for anything but the basics. They couldn't take the time to stop and talk to her without over-running their allotted time, even though that would have made an immense difference to her. Still, as long as the agency made their nice fat profit from the contract....

One of the other residents at our relative's care home smokes, but has to go outside thanks to the wonderful law-makers. Following my suggestion, they got him an e-cig to use when he doesn't want to go outside in the rain, hail, or snow. He's quite happy to use it, but only when he cannot smoke a proper ciggie. Unfortunately, the idiots in control of public health appear to have decided to completely ignore the dozens of scientific studies which show they are safe both for the user and those around them, and are now trying to ban e-cigs inside business premises as well.

What annoys me are those families who put their elderly in a home and then never visit. I know of some residents at our relative's home who go months between visits from their kids. Ok, if they have dementia, they may not even remember who they are, but that doesn't abrogate responsibility. Especially if the kids live locally.

Used to use Front Page a lot at work as it was the only web publishing programme that the company allowed, once Netscape had bit the dust. It was OK, but I found it best to lay out the page in FP, add the content, then go into Windows Notepad to clean-up and fix the HTML. In particular, taking out the excessive lines which FP always added, aligning frames, tabs, and images properly, adding header info, sorting out fonts, and so on. It was good for what it was, but not that good.

#23 Once your capital drops below (IIRC) £23,000, the state steps-in #24 That's where the importance of research comes in, with personal visits and chats with residents and staff, trawling the internet for feedback, and most importantly, reading the CQC assessments,

I've seen this from most angles. As a lad, we had my maternal grandmother living with us for a few months every year. She was 'passed around' between her three daughters, spending time with each but having no proper home (she had to move out of her rented home after her husband died a few years before). As ours wasn't the biggest of houses and there were four kids still at home, she had to share a bedroom with my sister and myself. Later, after the others had moved out, I used to earn the occasional shilling by doing her washing. Moving on to the 1990s, and my widowed dad wouldn't move out

A few years back, my brother was delivering parcels to Duncan McMillan House (formerly Mapperley Hospital) on Porchester Road, and happened to mention to the receptionists that our dad worked at the hospital for forty years and knew Duncan McMillan very well before DM died in 1969. They answered that he is still there, wearing a suit and walking the corridors, and has been seen on many occasions.

About time, too. The inventor and maker of what was regarded as the world's first superbike - the Brough Superior - a motorbike made famous by Lawrence of Arabia and playwright George Bernard Shaw is finally being honoured with two plaques at houses in which he lived in Nottingham. Nicknamed the "Rolls Royce of motorcycles" in The Motor Cycle newspaper because of George Brough's attention to detail and quality, the Brough Superior SS100 motorcycle was built between 1924 and 1940 at his factory in the city's Haydn Road. The Sheriff of Nottingham is due to unveil a plaque on the birthplace of

Best get me coat, then.

Mick, You just reminded me, I still have a 486DX laptop in the loft with Windows 3.1 and XT gold on it. Might dig it out and see if it still works. Can't connect to the internet though as it needs a modem and cable (no USB or Ethernet ports in those days) As for Windows 8, I recall the same reactions when folk had to switch to the various old incarnations of Windows. I liked Win95 and NT, 98 wasn't that different, then came Win2k and Vista, but everyone hated them! I now have Win7 on our laptops and Win8 on my phone. The problem with every version of Windows is that they get bogged-down

18. Stuck on numbers 8 and 17.

The recent series on BBC4 about WW1 concluded the other evening with the signing of the Versailles Treaty. They mentioned that the punitive measures which ultimately caused Hitler to come to power were based primarily on France needing to get money to pay back the loans they got from the USA to fight the war.

Batesy, Would that have been Geoff Cooke? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoff_Cooke_(cyclist) He was in Beeston RC at the same time as Ian Hallam. I have some photos somewhere of Ian as my dad knew him from when Ian was but a lad, and before Lizzie led him astray

Not a Trent bus, but there is a Pathfinder 100 service which runs between Nottingham and Southwell, taking in Lowdham and Burton Joyce on the way.

Michael, I did the same a few years back, having got the grave numbers from the council (http://www.nottinghamcity.gov.uk/article/21822/Cemeteries-crematoriums-and-burial-grounds). While I found the headstone of one Gt Grandfather who died in 1911, another grave for another ancestor who died in the 1840s had had the headstone removed so I was only able to find the general location of his grave. The General Cemetery is like an oasis of calm considering the noise from the tram at one end, and Canning Circus at the other.

I recall going to Isabella's one winters night for a friend's 21st party in about 1975. The stipulation was fancy dress. I went as a bishop and I had to carry one of the girls from work there from the Blue Bell as her high heels were lethal in the snow. Despite our going our separate ways, we married twenty years later! One lad had turned up as a flasher. When the cloakroom girl asked if she could take his coat, she didn't realise he had nothing on underneath until he took it off. I think she nearly had a stroke... ...but couldn't quite reach over the counter.

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