Did you see the discussion of the Green Belts a few days ago? The English ones are absolutely enormous compared to the skinny one around Edinburgh. (View Post)

The local rivers tend to flow in ravines and valleys cut into the postglacial crap but with some stepped terraces to form riverside haughland in the valley bottoms. So flooding doesn't mean the … (View Post)

Warminster is highly germane, in an environment where obvious airliners - with wings, flashing wingtip nav lights, and all - are being touted as UFOs. Back in the 1980s I spent some time reading up a… (View Post)

No; there is usually a spouse/dependent/partner pension. But on the same annuity model. There is, however, often a quite separate death in service (and in early years of retirement) lump sum. This is… (View Post)

If they are assigned outwith the estate, then they don't fall into the estate for IHT. The problem is when someone CBA to fill in a little form. It's one of the simplest and easiest ways of… (View Post)