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Big fan of Virgin Atlantic, but never flown Virgin America. Wonder if they will keep the Virgin brand and core ethos which has got them where they are today. Can't believe Richard Branson had no say in the sale of the airline 

If you aren't taking payment, sending goods or offering a service such as download my app, or collecting any visitor details, then there aren't any t&c's to abide by.

But if you monetize your site using google adsense or similar, then you are supposed to have a cookie policy, as third parties will collect information by leaving a cookie when a visitor lands on your site. Some sites include this into the privacy policy. 

If your site is just informational and you dont monetize it, then I wouldn't worry about it. The rules are aimed at commercial and ecommerce sites.

Very shrewd Barney! I find the thought of shares terrifying and sounds like you really need to know your stuff.

Its windows, it always wants to put updates on which I'm convinced keep breaking my computer and everyone wants to keep changing things. I just want to be able to save my files and do my work and not waste time trying to find things because some bright spark at Microsoft decided to move everything. 

This is a good impartial information page from the The Commons Library, showing both sides of the argument.

www.parliament.uk/business/publications/research/eu-referendum/

And Edinburgh (Leith) born and bred  There are calls to create a local monument or name a Street after him.

www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/eric-winkle-brown-s-death-prompts-calls-for-memorial-1-4036887

About the 10th Beatles song I've heard today

Just wanted to add my tuppence as I've been talking about this recently and in love with the gov.uk website at the moment. From a digital marketing perspective it ticks all the buttons, call to actions, responsive, clear. But visually you could never call it pretty.

My other favourite case study one is Amazon (sorry if its already been mentioned). Far from pretty but 100% functional, practical and tailored to you personally. Anyone with an e-commerce shop should analyse it and learn. It's one of the top 50 websites in the world for a reason, regardless of what you may personally think, it works.

So do pretty websites convert? No, functional practical ones do that interact with the visitor/consumer.

Now we are in 2016, it's never been more true as more and more of your audience will be viewing on a mobile device or small tablet. So don't trade or waste space with pretty when you want to either quickly answer a user query or steer them to a course of action.

Clever, but would have been powerful with a supporting image rather than the broken one they went with.

I think we already have. Look at our market, directory information. It's now all about realtime updates, amending opening hours etc. You want instant weather before you go out, instant travel reports. I suspect it will be the behind the scenes delivery of how this happens that will be the next revolution rather than the information itself.