... onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; The rise in their use over the last 5 years is pretty shocking. How are you supposed to get a house and a pension (as the government tells everyone) when you've ...

... a Bank loan, because it was utterly un-mortgageable. £2,000 I paid for it, and my repayments were about half what my peers were paying to rent their accommodation., I literally camped in it initially as I did it up, learning how to plumb, plaster, bricklay, etc.. from books. Sold it a few years ...

... moving into a house felt natural for me. It was a big step for my other half and her parents, as she came from a council housing. They had bought their house in the early 90s for £13k. They sold it 10 years later for ten times that. We did put our house on the market about 12 years ago and we ...

duke63 wrote:Bikesure appear to work the same way. Listen to what the customer wants and do their best to provide it.

And they think out of the normal box too. Rather than insure my bike as a modified aprilia, it's insured as a custom.

Bikesure appear to work the same way. Listen to what the customer wants and do their best to provide it.

Totally agree with you, riders will crash through no fault of their own due to mechanical failure. But in nearly all of those cases there was a human factor involved in the failure. Race bikes and components are made and run on the edge. That's a human ...

... laugh with the 'stupid bike' comment D, and I was too with the reference to my son. But the inability for some people to accept responsibility for their actions and the outcomes is something that really grates on me wholesale. Every crash I've had has been my fault. Even when the wheel bearing ...

Interesting that they can fund lawyers to protect their image but cant fund a bloke with a shovel to start work on building the circuit.

... for a lot of places. There were two brand new estates being built near Redditch, at the same time. They were identical in every way apart from their location. One was close to an old council estate, the other was further out and closer to an expensive area. A 4 bed semi was £200k more in the ...

Doubled the quote for an extra 100cc or so? What a joke. I find it very hard to see how it increases their risk by much at all. It just increases their excuses to my mind. But insurance can be very fickle....my rates went DOWN when I added another bike...then back up a touch ...

... they can afford the best Lawyers, & get away with whatever "shit" they want by playing the system.? Well...end of the day it is their land...and has been for a long time. I'm sure if they thought they could build a store and make a profit they'd be all over it in no time. End ...

D41 wrote: End of the day it belongs to them.

You guys are very territorial.

I'd call it "invested interest" in the area they live in and their money...

... they can afford the best Lawyers, & get away with whatever "shit" they want by playing the system.? Well...end of the day it is their land...and has been for a long time. I'm sure if they thought they could build a store and make a profit they'd be all over it in no time. End ...

I don't think the lawyers have been needed to show their faces with this one. The Council jumped into bed with Tesco as soon as Tesco said they would spend some money doing up the area around the store. They did the same for many years to Meteor Ford ...

I don't think the lawyers have been needed to show their faces with this one. The Council jumped into bed with Tesco as soon as Tesco said they would spend some money doing up the area around the store.

... store with local amenities and services. So it wasn't just a supermarket but there would be other services on the site as well. They've dragged their feet for years. The locals have not been impressed. In the meantime Lidl have come in and bought a gym (the one I used) about 200 yards away from ...

Doubled the quote for an extra 100cc or so? What a joke. I find it very hard to see how it increases their risk by much at all.

... The problem is it takes a while for those changes to take effect. But the increase in the discount rate means that the insurers have to increase their reserves now, so we'll see an immediate increase.

... as risk averse investors, reflecting the fact that they may be financially dependent on this lump sum, often for long periods or the duration of their life. The discount rate was last set in 2001, when the then-Lord Chancellor, Lord Irvine of Lairg, set the rate at 2.5%. This was based on a three ...

They were up for it, but Italy used the rucking/offside Laws to their advantage and England hadn't got a clue how to combat it, hence the disarray. When the England Skipper amongst others is asking the Ref what the laws are you know they're in trouble. The ...