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I really enjoyed listening to the kettle boil on the morning of my 55th birthday. I am a retired naval Commander now working at a tremendous school in Canterbury and I know parents of students do listen to you. I was wondering for a story through August is to track the thoughts and tensions leading up to and after exam results day for the Dads and Mums who support their off-spring. While I have the privilege of seeing the students come in for the exams I sit on numerous PA meetings and listen to all sorts of funny tales about family life. I think BBC 4 has a great and sensitive way of finding the humour of our culture and I just thought that this may be an option for a developing story over July and August.
A thought and take care - I think you do a great job.
Bob Crick
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Thanks Bob - happy birthday.
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Is it just me? Or does anyone else smell a big juicy rat over energy?
Fact 1: Gordon Brown's brother is an executive at EDF, the entirely French owned nuclear power company.
Fact 2: Ads are now being broadcast that promote EDF as not just a green energy company, but associate it with the first London Olympics ['when we all pulled together and cinders from people's grates provided the surface for the running tracks'], use a mangled national flag in shades of green [is this legal for a foreign company to use our national flag like a logo?], and talk about the 2012 Olympics and their 'partnership with the Eden project' as further badges of acceptability.
EDF ads seems to be proliferating lately, they are clearly making a bid to become THE major energy supplier to the UK, and the future they attempt to paint as green and sustainable, is neither, it is nuclear.
I find the association with the erstwhile prime minister sinister, why are the media somnolent on this? Expenses fraud is miniscule compared to what is at stake here; billions of future tax payers' money. Small wonder that Brown suddenly declared, in the middle of another spurious 'consultation' spin exercise, to be in favour of nuclear,and that was that, no further consultation, if there ever was any.
The arguments about nuclear are by no means a done deal. Despite claims, it is not sustainable [uranium is starting to run out already just as more nations decide they want to join the nuclear club], it is not carbon neutral [costs include mining, extraction, refining, shipping and distribution], and it is not renewable or green.
It is also dangerous and susceptible to terrorism, produces highly toxic waste which has yet to have a solution found for long term storage of, and siphons huge amounts of taxpayers' money away from truly sustainable, green energy alternatives which have yet to be fully exploited.
This strikes me as a scandal of monumental proportions, yet not a word from the media, as yet. Might you be the first?
Peter Simmons
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Was very proud of the smart 100% turnout of my Venturer Search and Rescue
Cadets at the D Day Service at Lepe Country Park. Yes I know they cannot march in step ; but " they were there ",and even rendered Oxygen and First
Aid. Given the training , equipment , opportunity and trust there is
nothing wrong with British Youth. Visit www.venturers dearc h and rescue.org.uk for proof
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My alarm radio clock woke me up to Radio 4 at 0500hrs and was upset to hear Brownis planning to Mortgage my Grand Childrens future. I sometimes wonder ifhe still dreams he is Chancellor !? and Darling is apuppet on a string , assurely he should be the one announcing future spending ? Only one thing to do make a cup of Hot Choclate ; go back to sleep and hope
it was a nightmare !
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Just woke up read my Daily Mail and found it was not a nightmare
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Could someone please explain why the recently released royal accounts are not being subjected to any level of scrutiny?
We've just had the scandal over MP's expenses and yet, as usual, the Windsor family are brushed over with deferential mentions and no investigation.
The palace today canceled its press conference all together, so as not to have to answer embarrassing questions. The BBC - the world's leading news broadcaster - is lapping up the royal spin like a trainee at a local paper and perpetuating the inaccurate myth that the royals cost us 'just 69p'. A figure which is calculated on total population, not on taxpayer and excludes over 100 million pounds of hidden costs.
Gordon Brown is now proposing the Royal family be completely exempt from freedom of information requests. This is the time to be asking why, what have they got to hide, before it's too late. This might be our last chance!
Come on BBC, proper news reporting not forelock touching please.
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News that the Welsh Assembly is making a law that Supermarkets must charge
their customers for disposable plastic bags ;must be very welcome as
a nice lttle stealth tax on shopping. Would it not be a better idea and
less resented by customers if this cash was putin a fund and donated to
charities. In the same way as Waitrose give very shopper a green
token which is used to caculate amount of donations to local
shoppers who suggest local worthy causes.
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When I met my boyfriend at university in the early 1990s, we investigated the male pill - only to be told it was five years away from being made available, then at the turn of the century (now married to said boyfriend) we investigated again - and still the male pill was "five years away". Recently, on realising that I had been on the Pill for more years than I hadn't, we asked our GP about it again. Guess what? Yep - we need to wait "five years". Is the male pill ever likely to be widely available?
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I've just had an e-mail from the deputy editor of the Pharmaceutical Journal (letters) to say again he is not interested in publishing about Sahaja Yoga www.sahaja.org which is a shame especially as it was about innovation in the NHS.
The papers won't take it as Shri Mataji,the guru and founder of Sahaja Yoga,has said.
This remains as source of sadness and disappointment for me at least.
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