CHB, when you get back from your run please realise that RT is 100% right as to the awfulness of the telephone network pre-privatisation. I can't recall the numbers, but it was something like a pound… (View Post)

Hayes has always been a bit poor. It's the sort of a place that the bus routes that go through it represent the glamour. Uxbridge has some historical glamour. My grandfather used to insist that we dr… (View Post)

Did you also read that despite 80% of Indians being Hindus only 36% voted for the BJP? (View Post)

I thought perhaps Poland. If I was the Polish PM I'd want more tanks, and they've given some of theirs away. (View Post)

The story might be a little more complicated. It seems it was once a Metropolitan line station, so opened in 1868. It also seems very odd to challenge you Mr P on a railway fact! (I live nearby thoug… (View Post)