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The huge super sewer construction project is progressing well and that will bring major benefits in this respect. We've been too long relying on Basiljet's Victorian sewerage solution. .

Indeed. Maplin were born at a time when electronics was a widespread home build hobby and the Hi-Fi craze was at it's peak. It was relevant in the 1970s and 1980s, but by the late 1990s the cracks were showing as they increasingly relied on manufactured electronics sales. I don't think they...

Yes, and Toys 'r Us too. Both are due to the decline in high street retail in favour of online, but there is a Brexit relevance. As Napoleon famously once said, we are a nation of shopkeepers and local retailing is a key part of our economy. At a time when it is in sharp decline is the worst...

That's just sour grapes. The images you refer to are small, click on them and they don't enlarge. Click on the large number of excellent bike photos posted in the last 24 hours in the cycling forums and you'll see they are usually huge, not even fitting on my monitor screen. If images are...

I only use the PC online and am having no problems on this site, despite letting the adverts show. .

Please stop with this nonsense Zlatan. All actions are international, national or local. We are doing our local bit and it's for others to do theirs, and by our well publicised actions we are drawing attention to what's needed. National action is for national governments and international...

Utter nonsense. We are making the infrastructure changes that are possible, but they can't appear in an instant and those that aren't possible we can't do of course. And we aren't making the public pay the congestion charge and to say so shows ignorance of the situation. The public is being...

Completely irrelevant again. We in London are dealing with a London problem, not Rotherham's not China's, not anywhere else. Again I say there is no possible justification for criticism of the positive actions we've taken and continue to take. That is especially true when the criticisms are...

No. Infinitely better than any Brexit possibility. We are doing something positive and it is having a positive and continuously growing benefit. There is no possible justification for criticising that. .

I'm not ignoring anything. I'm just accepting that all we can do locally is improve our local situation. Getting all other areas and parts of the world to do the same is a political matter beyond our local control. What I object to is the wholly negative attitude that criticises us for the...

Missing the point by miles, we aren't trying to solve a global problem. We are just reducing our local congestion and pollution for our local benefit. That's all, and it's working. .

Impossible even now, let alone 14 years ago when the charge was introduced. Where could thousands of electric buses be found then, they don't even exist now in a viable form that can cover the routes all day and night. Electric taxis didn't exist 14 years ago and weren't even possible, we...

Come now Zlatan, 1961 was a very long time ago when the guy was young, and the young do all kinds of silly things, including adopting political extremes. Tempered attitudes and realisation that there are shades of grey come with age. And apart from anything else, racism was still very...

Afraid not, adding cells in series only increases voltage, adding cells in parallel only increases Ah capacity Each series stack of cells only has the capacity of one of its cells, but the accumulated voltage of all of them. Each parallel group of cells only has the voltage of one of them but...

Mine's ok, fast as ever. .

While I agree with you about the silly comparison Boris Johnson made, your criticism of the congestion charge isn't justified. Not only has it reduced pollution and congestion, the outcomes should also be viewed in the context that traffic overall has increased by over 10% during the existence...

I just checked where you are. Clearly it wasn't going to be 400 square mile London! Even our unpowered cyclists often do very long commutes. .

Motor bolt creaking on crank drive units is very common and mostly a matter of them not being tight enough. It's the unit moving slightly within the frame mounts and I wouldn't advise greasing since that encourages the undesirable movement. The reason it crops up early in a bike's life is the...

But come the day of EU reckoning it won't allow for a deal that gives free access to the EU market. If we aren't to crash out we will have to make some concessions that the hard Brexiters won't like. It's all a horrible mess that leaves Labour now in a much stronger position than the Tories...

100% agreed. It will be interesting to hear what she has to say on Friday. After Corbyn's statement she needs to say something at least as positive about her intended direction. .