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Have to admit, as a recent convert to SEOmoz, I am really impressed

Age old scam I'm afraid. It feeds on the gullible and the greedy

It's not often you win a competition you never entered

Normal format is you need to pay for a flight to go and receive your prize, ie send them the money, or you need to pay some kind of fee in able to collect etc... It's all rubbish.

All different versions of the 419 scam.
Advance-fee fraud - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Another twist now apparently is conmen targeting lonely hearts on dating sites. String them along for a couple of weeks, then they have to go somewhere on business, and would you believe it, they get mugged and lose all their money... and of course the only person they can turn to is their new online date...

Sad thing is, lots of people fall for it, which is why these scams are so common

Facebook has announced a partnership with Skype to add video chat to the social networking site.

The move is likely to be seen as a shot across the bow of Google, which recently launched a Facebook rival, Google+, also featuring video calling.

This is not the first time Facebook and Skype have teamed up - they already share some instant messaging tools.

Skype is in the process of being bought by Microsoft, which is a major shareholder in Facebook.

BBC News - Facebook adds Skype video chat feature

After the recent collapse of the Homeform Group, which included Moben Kitchens and Kitchens Direct, 453 outstanding customers stand to lose

What you mean...


<exits stage left>

So your insurance policy doesn't allow you to solder? I'm no plumber, but isn't that an essential requirement of the job? Joining/sealing pipes?

Forking out another

Well I thought I'd just check our google places listing, and low and behold some of our reviews have disappeared!

C'mon Mr Google what are you playing at?

Nothing wrong with copy and pasting when its useful info like this

Been a manic couple of days, playing catch up but on the case

Now wheres he gone

I admit it's a very over simplified view, but point I was making was if you decided tomorrow to be a clothing manufacturer, the route to market would be cost prohibitive for you because of the salary overhead.

But you will still generate UK employment by outsourcing your factory, but employing a wide range of people, including lower skilled, such as clerical, warehouse people, pickers etc.

Saving the overhead of rows and rows of people sat on sowing machines means you can grow and expand your business, which in turn will recruit and train more UK employees, plus offer much cheaper products (including to people on lower wages). Upskilling could be as straightforward as a shop floor worker doing basic but more productive clerical work.

We will always have a demand for a lower skilled labour market, but when the average UK consumer wants cheaper stuff, this ends up making making low margin high volume UK made products more expensive. Then everyone suffers, as factories close and businesses go bust.

To keep old style low margin high volume factories, either we have UK factory workers on