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It's the lead pollution problem since recycling the batteries cannot be guaranteed to be done. Even the Chinese are getting concerned about this. A P1 moped licence or full motorcycle licence cover use of any up to 30 mph moped. Also any car driver who passed their car driving test before...

That was two Scottish banks, RBS and HBOS, both with HQs in Scotland. London's Barclays and HSBC didn't need a penny of help and were blameless in this repect. .

Don't do that, you could tear out the cables from the spindle centre. You have to anchor the wheel spindle firmly into frame or forks to ensure that doesn't happen. .

But like Metro, none of them are finalised and are only at early stages. We've been fed these optimistic messages for years with no outcomes so are very wary now. For example we have a large development area by East Croydon station that's had so many promises over the decades we've lost...

I explained it in an article on the early Panasonic units, here's the extract: The explanation for the very early phase down is more complex, and it results from Japanese law on electric assist pedal cycles. The Japanese have determined that the maximum power allowable must not exceed the...

One swallow doth not a summer make though, this won't be the start of a banking and insurance sector here since the opposite has be happening, starting with us losing Lombard Finance long ago and the insurance companies since. For those sectors the draw of the City of London is irresistable and...

Unfortunately there's very little available documentation on the opiliones so I can't get any closer without a photograph of it. .

They still make around £56 billions a year for Britain though, so not entirely stupid! You don't seem well informed about the way in which government has acted to move out many companies, but I agree it's far from everyone. It started with the manufacturing sector and then spread to both many...

Yes, as Frank says, it was Japan who originated the 250 watt and 25 kph limit on pedelecs, and their power phase down law is far more strict than the EU one. And of course it's not just China adopting it, the Australians have too, so it looks like becoming some sort of world standard. .

Good to know all's well now Ann, when bad service is encountered it always pays to walk away and try elsewhere. .

It will be interesting to see if the SNP repeat this almost clean sweep for the Holyrood election in May next year. I doubt they will repeat it for the next general election after five years of having to live up to expectations. .

There is a difference between connecting and disconnecting though Dave. By all means disconnect the mains first when at end of charging if you wish, you won't do any harm by doing that. .

It's neither you or your age Cindy, upright trikes are notoriously difficult to adapt to for anyone of any age, and especially difficult for anyone who has previously ever ridden a bike. When a trike is narrow at the rear as your's is, it's even more difficult. The problem is that on turns...

And sadly they are becoming illegal In China too, since they are gradually phasing in EU type 250 watts law which will make them all motor vehicles there as they already are here. .

Although those conditions are truths, almost all the companies were in fact "persuaded" to move out with threats, bribes etc, almost none showed any inclination to move until government got involved. Many struggled to stay in fact, and as I've just posted above, the odd ones like Brompton still...

It's raining here. :( So we bitch instead of going to the beach. .

That's simply not true of London, I'm surprised at how little you know about this. As I've said, London does not have income from elsewhere in the UK and sucks nothing from the rest of the UK. London does not have the UK HQs of businesses based elsewhere in the UK. Take the car...

Only 8% of the UK economy is manufacturing, and it's not very profitable, far too much of it "bought" through subsidies. Financial income from overseas is just that, income we use to buy in from overseas all we need that we cannot supply ourselves with. .

Still daydreaming, London's wealth does not come from the rest of the country, most of it comes from overseas. Such little wealth that is made from the rest of the Britain is more than counterbalanced by the large areas that have to be carried by London all the time. Read the article I linked...

You're day dreaming, the rest of the country isn't funding the bankers and loans, it's London's productivity that's paying those. London was also a major production centre until successive governments moved it all out to needy places in the sticks. Once they'd exhausted that they moved out...