Your ideas
A quick impression of your suggestions from last week.
Military fuel tanks
We're continuing our enquires about whether fuel tanks in military vehicles are as good as they could be, after a tip-off from a listener.
Local sports funding
Fifi's concerned that the focus on the Olympics means local sports projects, especially those in rural areas, are missing out on funding. We're keen to explore this in December when the elite sports find out how much lottery cash they'll get.
If you've a story about military fuel tanks to tell or have recently put in a bid for sports funding or know someone who has, leave us a comment or drop us a line.
New ideas also very welcome, thanks.
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Yep, been up all night - listening to you over a hung-over lunch in Beijing. The scorpions tatse great. A bit crunchy, but a real sting in the tail.
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Beij...thank you..and please see my comment on the Good morning thread. I am expecting a postcard from you...
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Is the BBC past its sell-by date? Many folk believe it is, with too many over-paid executives and presenters.
In community radio we don't have any money, about £500,000 a year to share between 160 stations with FM licences. Those with Internet stations get nothing.
The BBC spent £637 million last year on local radio - but are phone-ins really all we want?
Let's see the BBC broadcasting some of the locally produced content - and paying a proper price for it.
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Dear Eddie
I appreciate that this might not strictly be the appropriate forum, but is there some way we can have a voice about the stoning of that wretched woman (child?) in Somalia. The world, including the Muslim world, needs to understand the depth of feeling and utter horror of ordinary people about such a wicked and indefensible crime against humanity.
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It's the perfect forum, moraymint. There is also a spot in the PM Blog called The Furrowed Brow (look down the right hand side under Categories) where listeners can start serious conversations of their choice. You might want to post there too?
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we still have a letter from my great uncle Albert. It was written 20th April 1918. Full of faith in God and Country. He was killed 2 days later.
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Eddie,
I’ve raised the topic of the BBC Three show "Coming of Age" on the Furrowed Brow.
I can’t understand how this programme is consistent with any sensible standards of taste and decency (and seems to exist purely to thumb a nose at these standards). This is targeted at sixth formers, and will be watched by children much younger.
Can we expect to see this axed under the BBC's ongoing review following the Ross and Brand incident?
If this is permitted to continue to air, we will collectively condemn a generation of teenagers to think that this is acceptable
I do believe there is such a thing as society, and by setting examples such as this, the BBC is working against the better good.
As a public service broadcaster, please please please take our concerns seriously.
Most of us accept the license fee, and love the BBC, and we spend far too much time watching your programmes, because they are fantastic quality, but please hear us when we stand up and say that this sort of programme does not speak a language of hope and social mobility to our teenagers.
I despair of programmes like Coming of Age, and its clear that with iplayer, any child will be able to watch that material and parents will have a very limited ability to stop it.
The BBC should aspire to do better, and rather than commission rubbish because teenagers will lap up anything sexual targeted at them, take a more responsible view.
Channel 4 have made far better teen dramas like Sugar Rush and Skins which are far more responsible in the way they tackle teen issues. The Beeb could learn a lesson in how to make such drama without compromising its standards.
Thanks
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It occurred to me that the unfolding credit crunch, the global banking practice that has precipitated it and government's allowing of this to occur because it suited their political purposes, may well form a prototype for the way the situation concerning climate change will unfold and come to a head.
It suited government not to control the sub-prime mortgage and derivative markets because they appeared to show economic growth but surely their advisers must have been warning them for years that this was unsustainable and that the collapse of this market would cause severe economic problems.
We must surely be on a similar time line on climate change with the crunch point still (hopefully) some years ahead. Given government response to the growing credit crisis will we be confronted with the final official acceptance of the climate change and need for action at a point when the situation is at a critical level as in the current crisis but without the option of buying ourselves out of it, with severe consequences for us all?
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Hi,
This is a post for the WW1 story slot - not sure if its too late.
My grandfather was a twin - separated in infancy from his brother. My grandfather John McGuinness joined the Argyll and Southern Highlanders in 1914 (not sure of exact dates but believe it was early on). His brother, by this time named Felix Watson and an American citizen jumped a Merchant Navy ship to come to Glasgow. He joined the same regiment and followed his brother through training - a couple of steps behind. They did meet on a couple of occassions - thankfully.
Mid-war Felix - the twin- was coming back to camp -on the 'who goes there' request he replied - however because of the accent on 2 calls they couldn't distinguish between him and the enemy he was shot dead - he is buried in France and we are just now trying to find out exactly where.
Hope you find this as interesting and touching as we do.
Mary
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The story I like about trauma and war is one from Culloden,the book by John Prebble,where a lady called Anne M'Kay
helps a Jacobite soldier escape after the battle,for reasons of wanting to stop suffering,and then she was punished by a spell in the Bridgehole in Inverness,a coffin shaped cell under the old stone bridge where the feet would swell and the head ache from the constant noise of hooves and feet and wheels.
For soldiers you can add the noise of guns and other ordnance and you have the ingredients for some serious damage of a psychological nature.
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The American Marines have a V Hulled
Armoured car called the Buffalo which
diverts IEDs sideways , has shock
absorbing floor and seats . Which is
the gold plated in troop protection
and has brought many American Service
Men safely back to their families.
The Flat bottom Landrover can never
be developed to provide even mininal
safety as the enemy will just use more
explosive. I have all the information on
these vehicles and I wrote a personal letter to the MOD ; but not even a courtesy of a reply . They have been
available from stock for a number or years
yet I understand the Minister is wasting
time and money on developing flat bottom conventional armoured cars.
I have had letters in The Daily Echo
letter of the week the Mail on Sunday
but does not seem to have come to
the attention of the Minister.
Perhaps he and his cohorts in the
supply department should be sent
on " Work Experience Patrol " in
Snatch Landrovers in the Helmand
Province . Philip Pearce-Smith
Rather old but still angry soldier.
Who served in Aden and understands what our troops are up against
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The Russians with all there Military
Strength and far less scruples in
tactics left Afghanistan with their
tails between their legs. The American
with their use of air power which cannot
discriminate between Taliban and
innocent woman and children will
never win the hearts and minds of
the people. The Government try to
make us believe it is a " Nobel Cause " ,
Tell that to the Mothers of sons and
daughters who will never come home.
Afghanistan has always been Country
of Feuding tribes , where fighting is
a way of life . Who only unite when
Foreigners stick their nose in . Lets
get out and leave them to sort their
own future out. They now know what
Taliban rule is like and will not allow
it to take command again
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