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Yup, hear your pain.

Recently had an extension done, plumber was a comedian, couldn't get the sink to fit, so tried to chisel a bit off!! No surprises to what happened! Then didn't fit the bath taps properly so had water running through the (new!) kitchen ceiling

Then a sparky who couldn't line up sockets at the same level, didn't insulate recessed lights properly and failed to give us a certificate so it had to be inspected by someone else..

But we got there in the end...

So anybody buy a final copy?

It looks like a decision has been made for the struggling UK care home Southern Cross.

"It had been expected that some of the landlords would leave the group, leaving Southern Cross operating with between 250 and 400 homes, but now it appears that the group is to disappear altogether.

The process began when the UK's biggest care home operator said it was unable to pay its rent bills to its landlords."

BBC News - Southern Cross set to shut down and stop running homes

Its a good start! Give it another 25 years and it will become mainstream, and those of us still around will maybe zipping around in one

terminated.....

Think spam wise though we are down since we started filtering all user registrations.. obviously some still getting through

What an interesting concept.

Bloomberg Businessweek are running a competition to find the best Social Entrepreneurs/Businesses that aim to tackle social ills and turn a profit.

They have a shortlist of 25 ventures which will be shortlisted to the top 5 after inviting people to vote (before July 12th).
America's Most Promising Social Entrepreneurs 2011: For-Profits Fixing Social Ills - BusinessWeek

"Last year, the 20-employee Charlestown business got certified by B Lab, a nonprofit that promotes socially responsible business to show fellow entrepreneurs that businesses can tackle social ills. "Growing up, I thought the way you did that was go get rich and then donate your own money," says Jackson, 30. "I didn't realize there was this industry behind it."

lol interesting, so they were laying the groundwork to dump a title then, sharing resources and cutting costs

Saw newsnight lastnight, old Hugh Grant really did steal the show. Interesting stuff coming out though, with the Murdoch private parties, and the goverment and shadow goverment attending. He really is a King maker

Think we will see lots of self righteous politicians distancing themselves from the scandal.

Take it a step further, I wonder if Facebook can get the revenue to buy Bing out! It clearly can't compete with Google, but bolt it directly into Facebook and merge the two, and you have a powerful animal.

Well what a day!

For any non UK members, after a week of scandal and revelations of gutter journalism, one of the worlds oldest newspapers The News of the World was shutdown by its owner News International.

A cynical attempt to distance the rest of group from scandal, or a smokescreen while the BSKYB satellite channel bid goes through...

It's certainly rocked UK politics as the skeletons and corruption comes to light

BBC News - News of the World to close amid hacking scandal

Ahhh, you can't beat good old British Bureaucracy, it's what made us great