Tories may 'lose broadband vote'

George Weston wrote:
On 19/03/2010 20:52, Norman Wells wrote:

Actually that's an urban legend. You don't have to have a cathedral
to be a city.

You most certainly used to, when I were a lad.

I don't think Brighton's got one.

Could that be because it's not a city?
This sums up what is and isn't a city in the UK:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City#Un...om_and_Ireland
As you'll see, it's an ever-changing set of circumstances!

It only depends on whether it has been officially designated as a city.

And Brighton has been. See:

http://www.ukcities.co.uk/

On Fri, 19 Mar 2010 21:11:58 +0000, The Natural Philosopher
wrote:

Norman Wells wrote:

I don't think Brighton's got one.

It wasn't UK gay capital either, when I were a lad ;-)]

It was, they just didn't tell you . . .

On Fri, 19 Mar 2010 12:53:53 +0000 (GMT), charles
wrote:

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Graham Murray wrote:
The Natural Philosopher writes:

which IMHO is utter crap. You dont want vast monolithic organisations,
you want stratification. Regional crime squads probably need to be
national crime squads, but the bobby on the beat needs to be YOUR
bobby, from YOUR patch in a station that isn't 40 miles away, that you
can talk to easily, cos he hangs out in the local pub.

You mean bring back the Police House so the village bobby lives in the
village and the estate bobby lives on the estate.

You may havwe something there. 40 years ago, this village had a resident
sergeant and a couple of PCs. Now we share a single (neighbourhood) PC
with 8 other villages with the police staion in another village but we do
have a PCSO shared with only 2 others. This is all about to change in that
our local police station about to close and the PC will move to the town.

yeah one of my neighbours is a PCSO, and if anything big happens she
knows which of the Real Police to call in, we still have a proper
Police station t'other side of town

On 20/03/2010 14:39, Norman Wells wrote:
George Weston wrote:
On 19/03/2010 20:52, Norman Wells wrote:

Actually that's an urban legend. You don't have to have a cathedral
to be a city.

You most certainly used to, when I were a lad.

I don't think Brighton's got one.

Could that be because it's not a city?
This sums up what is and isn't a city in the UK:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City#Un...om_and_Ireland
As you'll see, it's an ever-changing set of circumstances!

It only depends on whether it has been officially designated as a city.

And Brighton has been. See:

http://www.ukcities.co.uk/

I stand corrected, kind sir!

George

"The Natural Philosopher" wrote in message
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David Rance wrote:
On Fri, 19 Mar 2010 The Natural Philosopher wrote:

I can understand cities within the area of shire counties doing their
own thing but Berkshire doesn't have any!
(In any case, as far as I'm concerned, Slough is still in
Buckinghamshire - and I'm sure that the majority of Berkshire
residents would have similar feelings!)

Many years ago Reading was a County Borough. Then in the 1970's
reorganisation it lost that status, but now it appears to have regained
what it lost - or has it? It is canvassing for city status but it's
doubtful if it will get it.

needs a cathedral first. Or possibly these days a mosque.

Actually that's an urban legend. You don't have to have a cathedral to be
a city.

David

You most certainly used to, when I were a lad.

A relic of our Christian past I suspect.



Well you must be getting on a bit as the first city created without a
cathedral was Birmingham in 1889

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Paul S

Paul S wrote:

"The Natural Philosopher" wrote in message
...
David Rance wrote:
On Fri, 19 Mar 2010 The Natural Philosopher wrote:

I can understand cities within the area of shire counties doing
their own thing but Berkshire doesn't have any!
(In any case, as far as I'm concerned, Slough is still in
Buckinghamshire - and I'm sure that the majority of Berkshire
residents would have similar feelings!)

Many years ago Reading was a County Borough. Then in the 1970's
reorganisation it lost that status, but now it appears to have
regained what it lost - or has it? It is canvassing for city status
but it's doubtful if it will get it.

needs a cathedral first. Or possibly these days a mosque.

Actually that's an urban legend. You don't have to have a cathedral
to be a city.

David

You most certainly used to, when I were a lad.

A relic of our Christian past I suspect.



Well you must be getting on a bit as the first city created without a
cathedral was Birmingham in 1889

Well I DID look it up.

Seems a city has always been by royal decree apart from a few that
always have been cities. But royal decree was not granted to places
without a cathedral prior to Birmingham.

On Mon, 22 Mar 2010 15:52:22 +0100, Martin wrote:

The old do get priority for euthanasia treatment.

No doubt it will eventually become compulsory.

On Mon, 22 Mar 2010 22:38:08 +0100, J G Miller wrote:

The old do get priority for euthanasia treatment.

No doubt it will eventually become compulsory.

I'll let you know ;-)
--
Alan White
Mozilla Firefox and Forte Agent.
Twenty-eight miles NW of Glasgow, overlooking Lochs Long and Goil in Argyll, Scotland.
Webcam and weather:- http://windycroft.co.uk/weather

On Mon, 22 Mar 2010 22:35:50 +0000, Alan White wrote:

On Mon, 22 Mar 2010 22:38:08 +0100, J G Miller wrote:

The old do get priority for euthanasia treatment.

No doubt it will eventually become compulsory.

I'll let you know ;-)

According to

http://www.euthanasia.COM/netherlands.html

QUOTE

In 30 years Holland has moved from assisted suicide to euthanasia, from
euthanasia of people who are terminally ill to euthanasia of those who
are chronically ill, from euthanasia for physical illness to euthanasia
for mental illness, from euthanasia for mental illness to euthanasia for
psychological distress or mental suffering,

and from voluntary euthanasia to involuntary euthanasia

or as the Dutch prefer to call it

"termination of the patient without explicit request".

UNQUOTE

When the surviving parent has become too much of a burden
and the children need the inheritance money, you know it
make sense to call in the doctor and get the job done ...

On Tue, 23 Mar 2010 01:03:39 +0100, J G Miller wrote:

When the surviving parent has become too much of a burden
and the children need the inheritance money, you know it
make sense to call in the doctor and get the job done ...

Still got a bit of time left then. That's good :-)

--
Alan White
Mozilla Firefox and Forte Agent.
Twenty-eight miles NW of Glasgow, overlooking Lochs Long and Goil in Argyll, Scotland.
Webcam and weather:- http://windycroft.co.uk/weather