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Re #221 Yes, you're right Chris. I never know what bus to catch from Derby bus station to get to Breaston. I'm just want to get the hell out of the place! I think they call their service Indigo (?) It's now supplemented by other services - the Y5 and something else that I can't remember. At one time it was called the number 4 I think, but the same number bus used to split to different routes at Long Eaton and elsewhere. Most confusing. I constantly have to ask the driver if I'm getting on the right bus. The only sure thing is the fare - which is ridiculous (£3.20)

Re #21 Sexy Beast was a fantastic film. Great performances from Ray and also Ben Kingsley - who made a very convincing psychopath. I can't tell you how disappointed I was by the follow up: 44 Inch Chest. Badly written and directed. I was never convinced by some of Ray Winstone's forays into 'theatre-type' roles. Henry the 8th for example was deeply ill-advised. But he's a good actor and has done some great stuff over the years. "I'm the Daddy naah !"

Me neither.

I've always disliked Derby as a city. Especially the central area. The horrible Eagle Centre, now joined by the equally out-of-place Westfield Centre (or 'Intu' ?) Designed in a period where large shopping centres were thought to be the future for city centres. Stupid buildings like The Quad, which look great in an architect's portfolio but look like they belong in Legoland rather than in a Market Place. At least in Nottingham they've retained a lot of the nice buildings (despite the EU-funded vandalism in places like Slab Square) and as a city, it looks cared for. Derby looks ill though

Ha ha ha ha ha ha........ http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-36707266

I don't know how Caroline Ahearn got away with some of those lines ! To boxer Chris Eubank (after his defeat to Steve Collins). 'Were you surprised when he came at you from behind and licked you in the ring ?' (Eubank didn't get it). One that passed a lot of people by...... (While talking about Gary Glitter) 'He's got his own club hasn't he. My son Malcolm is always saying he likes to take his friends up the Gary Glitter'. R.I.P. Caroline

First of all.....fantastic! Wales won a great game. I hope they crack on. Even if they don't go any further they can be proud of what they've achieved in this tournament. Yes. Robbie Savage is a major irritant. Nasally voice, lame opinions. Match of the Day had largely sidelined him, but he's Welsh isn't he. That's why he was on tonight. On the whole, we don't need co-commentators. One is more than enough (Screaming Jonathan Pierce for example), but it's now the norm that we have to have some ex-player as well. That's how we end up with the droning Phil Neville (remember that debacle ?)

Both Psycho and Roy Keene's attempts at management showed that 'extreme commitment' and 'intensity' are not enough when it comes to running a successful football team. Man-management skills, tactics and indeed confidence are equally important. Having all those attributes together is a rare thing indeed. As far as England is concerned, I never disliked Hodgson. As I said before, he was great at press conferences and diplomacy, but he never got to grips with the fact that England continually 'bottle it' on the international stage. His tactics were naive and the players never looked at ease.

The match was an embarrassment. I mean no disrespect to the Icelanders, but we were just woeful. Both the players and management should take a long hard look at themselves. Highly paid failures. I think a major part of the blame should be the FA. They should have appointed Redknapp last time round - instead of Roy. Nice guy, but underqualified. As Shearer said, he didn't know his best team or what system to play. But the FA have never appointed the public's choice. Hodgson was great at giving interviews and press conferences - that's really what the FA was more concerned with. Someone w

People in radio and TV think that Chris Evans is great.. They think he's fantastic because he can talk and talk and talk (mostly about himself) AND he is totally confident in front of a TV camera. Its the kind of confidence that comes from someone who is very full of themselves. I've never been a fan of the bloke. He seems to be famous for being famous. All his interviews amount to small talk and his ideas are based on lame humour and 'blokeish' views - usually borrowed from his mate Danny Baker. No wonder the Top Gear audience is falling through the floor (despite the canned laughter and

Re. #40 Yes. I think so. I have a really good quality Acer scanner. It was quite expensive when I bought it and it worked great on XP, but Win 7 onwards it refused to work and Acer never made any more drivers for it. I guess they assumed that people would just re-buy another scanner. However I found a programme called VueScan that got it working on Win 7. Then a friend of mine alerted me to a forum where some guy had written a driver to get it working on Win 7 AND 8. It still works great now! How ridiculous it would have been to have had to have thrown it away. (Not very 'green' either

The whole situation with Microsoft is that they have had the monopoly for too long and resent any encroachment on it. They are entirely market-driven because the money markets expect them to bring out a new operating system every 5 years which boosts their profits and re-starts the whole 'churn' thing that I mentioned earlier. PC manufacturers promote their new machines with the new OS bundled on them. Software manufacturers force you to buy the new version of the utility that you've been perfectly happy with until now, and YES the manufacturers of scanners, printers and other peripherals wa

Re #34 Yes, Windows XP was a superb OS - much to the chagrin of Microsoft who realised that most people didn't want to 'upgrade' from it to their next MS offering (Vista) because everything was working great and their new stuff was full of problems and offered nothing new. So they set about crippling XP to try and force people to move and get back to the 'churn' of: a new computer, new software, new peripherals, buy, buy, buy....... Re #27 'Trusted company' ? There is a saying in the IT world: 'Microsoft - talk like hippies, act like Sicilians' If you don't automatically buy their prod

I don't think that making this a 'European' issue is particularly relevant. Mike Ashley and his ilk would be treating people like shit regardless of whether we were in the EU or not. Zero-hour contracts, paying below the minimum wage, searching employees before they go home. All symptomatic of contempt for both customers and staff. They think that wealth excludes them from morality and simple common decency.

It would seem that the Newcastle 'relegation specialist' has caved in and will appear, after all, before a commons select commitee to defend Sports Direct's 'good name'. I wonder if Phillip Green will do the same and express his profound sorrow at pillaging BHS' s pension arrangements. I think they should both be sent to Bear Grylls' island to fend for themselves along with perhaps Martin Sorrell and maybe Michael O'Leary. It would be like a fat cat Lord of the Flies !

I've just been watching the Select Commitee on TV questioning directors of the Arcadia group - you know that company owned by Tina Green (!) You would think from their answers that they were all philanthropists who were 'desperate to sort out the pension difficulties after the BHS sale'. Instead of asset-stripping 'suits' who didn't invest a penny into the company when they bought it and ran it into the ground before off-loading to some pratt who couldn't run a tap.

Who in their right mind would take the Forest job ? Dreadful to see a club with such a proud history being run by a bunch of numpties.

Re #2 He should never have got one in the first place. A most unpleasant man. Makes a mockery of the system when someone gets a knighthood for being a complete and utter bastard.

William as Robin from da Hood, and Kate as a somewhat 'suprised' Marion (!) Re. the Ridley Scott film. What accent do you think Russell Crowe was pitching for there ? (Unintentionally hysterical). The late great Alan Rickman made the best Sheriff of Nottingham in my opinion. Some great lines in that film too.

When we moved to Bramcote in the late 60's there was a solitary Co-Op store on Sandringham Drive, It seemed a curious place to have one - in the middle of a housing estate, all on it's own. But apparently this was because there had been a Co-Op van on this route when the estate was being built, and they'd made a commitment to continue supplying groceries. So a space was left for a store. (They also left a space opposite for a pub). It didn't last too long and was replaced by a Hi-Fi store (!) which also didn't last long either before the space was used for more housing. The patch of ground

If you are reasonably computer savvy, it is possible to remove the irritating popup that tries to get you to install Win 10. It is update KB3035583 and you can un-install it by going to: Control Panel Programs Programs and Features Installed Updates Just make sure that you don't re-install it the next time you do a Microsoft Update (i.e. review the updates before agreeing to install them). This whole thing makes a mockery of the idea that Automatic Updates are the best thing for your computer. What Microsoft 'recommends' might well be good for them, but not necessarily for you !

I have tried Windows 10. It's quite good from an OS point of view e.g. boots up quicker, but I was quite happy with what I already had. Everything was working fine. I didn't want to change and I really don't appreciate being forced into 'upgrading'. Some of the things that happen when you migrate to Windows 10 are that peripherals like scanners and printers might stop working because there aren't any Win 10 drivers for them. Software that worked perfectly happily on 32 bit Win 7 might not work so well on 64 bit Win 10. All your surfing and web habits are reported. You are coerced into the

Yes. I noticed this too. It smacks of desperation on Microsoft's part. They've tried everything to cripple previous versions of Windows in order to coerce you into getting Windows 10 - the most intrusive and invasive OS yet. They constantly tell us that Windows 'recommends' this and Windows recommends that, the most prominant one being Microsoft Updates. If you dutifully allow 'updates', then a popup will constantly appear (since Windows 10 arrived) telling you to 'upgrade'. They've now taken this a stage further by organising the irritating popup so that when you dismiss it, it automatic

When I was at Beeston Fields Junior School they didn't have any kitchens or indeed a dedicated place to eat. So the assembly hall became the canteen at midday and then they had to have two sittings for the food which had been cooked and brought in from some outside kitchen. It wasn't great - but it was OK. Secondary School (Bramcote Hills) was much better because it was fitted out with nice kitchens and a proper dining hall. In fact, that school was superbly designed because it had complete facilities for things like school dinners. It had a library, a gym (with proper changing rooms and s

I know it's a common thing to mock school dinners (and I've certainly had my share of bad ones), but in actual fact they weren't that bad! It's very difficult to please everyone under normal circumstances. In general, schools tried to provide a balanced diet and so stuck to a 'meat and two veg' policy. I can remember being forced to eat certain things that I didn't like (beetroot, chopped liver etc) which didn't help, and even in the 60's there was still a 'post war austerity' attitude where no food should ever be left to go to waste. I certainly remember some of the bizarre things that th