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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    .. but they won't have milk or cream in the coffee, mushrooms with the beef, .. incidentally how much non EU cheese would be consumed in the UK market at present?. . It seems to me mainly a uk cheddar with leavening of French brie and Danish harder cheeses, and some specials of Italy
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    .. then there would need to be an irish border.. if the UK insists on bringing tat from around the world tarrif and inspection free and customs free into the UK, then the cairnryan ferry will be very busy bringing trucks down the road to Newry. Also what will HMG do without the revenue from...
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    Woman fighting for life after 'e-bike' hit-and-run in east London

    .. not sure that having the naughty bits soft and cuddly, was the objective!.
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    Cycling hostility and decline

    Was in Swansea over the weekend, and there were lots of cycling on the prom area,.. all types from real lycra types to b leisure and commuters. Feeling the breeze on the front, it seems to me that electrical assistance would be very helpful.. don't think I saw an ebike. .
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Oh dear.. crys of dispair rent the Irish air today when it was announced that the current leader of the free world and global golfer will be unable to visit Ireland on his way to the WW1 celebrations in November.. Yesterday there was a threat to bring a certain balloon from the UK to...
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    Bosch Powerpack 500 - will it fit a Powerpack 300 mount?

    You do of course need to check that the generation is correct .. there are differences between the classic and the current ranges.,There is now also a difference between the current and the more stealth in frame versions. Also you need to check whether the battery pack is the carrier mounted...
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    Raleigh Motus help please

    .. don't bother, the active line is fine,with the gear range supplied. These people talking hill climbing are mainly off road fiends. If the county council recognise s the road as being capable of tarmac, the motus with or without panniers and up to the recognised weight limit of 120 kgs will do it.
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    Raleigh Motus help please

    Although, I am male, at least I think so.., that is exactly the same model of motus I have. The motor and the gearing have been selected as a perfect match for any road or gravel path. I have not found any hill that could not be tackled comfortably in the lower..not even lowest gear, and it is...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Other than disagreeing with your choice of the words free money, i would fully agree with your assessment that uk civil servants and more particularly the "gentlemen" they sent to brussels ,were and are singulary ill equipped to engage in the excercise of formulating proposals. I would also...
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    Woman fighting for life after 'e-bike' hit-and-run in east London

    Not much more.. an ordinary bike will typically be 10 kg lighter than an ebike, .. say 30% lighter. But the cyclist will be about 70 to 80 kg, so it is the weight of the cyclist which is far more significant
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    I feel I need to respond on this topic. Whether Apple engaged in illegal activity is still under judicial review. Whether Ireland's Revenue Commission was complicit in this i just do not know. But i am sure, and from personal experience, that Irish Revenue is very careful , very powerful...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    If only. But did not no deal mean no deal?. If NI were to stay within the SM it WOULD be a deal.
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Obviously not a welsh boss then?
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Logically that would say mean a London Edinburgh run of about 1 hour . with the train starting from Cornwall and terminating in Aberdeen Or 1 hour and 10 minutes if there was a stop in mid England. Then your 125 speed train would ferry people from Liverpool to midengland and another would bring...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    You can easily replace the bulb in the cooker hood from incandescent to either Cfl or led. However the oven or microwave oven needs the official nhigh temperature laddies. And they are now expensive... There is rarity value as the soldering used to the external metal bayonet or Edison part is...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    We can agree Tommie that the Catholic population in NI, or even in the RoI are not stupid, and neither are their fellow Christians of whatever flavour... . On mainland UK, there is a presumption that Catholic equates to Nationist and Protestant to Unionist(in the UK. context). We know that that...
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    going over the 15.5 cut off point

    In my (humble) opinion, the 15.5 mph or 25 kmHR is a really good compromise. It allows one to go up steep hills at a fair lick, travel on the level or downhill at any speed you want, and provide support against headwinds up to a road speed of 15.5 . If it were higher, the brakes and suspension...
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    Anyone own a SONY NW-A45 Walkman?

    Like I said the first has never been s problem for me ,and I would include listening to full symphonies,which are probably longer than those pop concerts,you refer to. The only caveat,is that I rarely use LDAC or Bluetooth and use wired transmission instead.. the second problem, .. well you...
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    Anyone own a SONY NW-A45 Walkman?

    Hi I have both the Sony A25 and also the Sony a35 .. not A45 . I do not understand this alleged problem about gapped and gapless feedback.. . The two machines have no problems in storing music cds in FLAC or any of a wide range of other digital formats, using the Sony software on a pc ...it can...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    I have great difficulty in defining who is the terrorist... And I come from a country which has had politically motivated violence all my adult life. A colleague described the grammar as simply. I am a patriot and a freedom fighter You are a nationalist,or unionist, Confederate, or BREXITeer...