My wife, when on a Speed Awareness course, was told that said courses, plus the (local, anyway) voluntary Refreshers for Elderly Drivers (which she's also been on) wee funded from speeding fines. The… (View Post)

Good morning one and all! Bright and sunny here at the moment; not like November at all! Few thoughts from what's been posted this morning. As a one-time small businessman I'm inclined to support low… (View Post)

To be fair, others may have a different memory of the school, (View Post)

It was a bit like that. Science wasn’t really acceptable unless it led to either medicine or Cambridge. The Head didn’t like the Biology master and the feeling was mutual. (View Post)

At the Grammar School I attended we had a choice at the end of the year at which we were 14. Latin, History and Geography or Biology, Chemistry and Physics. Plus, of course English, Maths and two lan… (View Post)