Four high street banks will be forced to hand over details of client’s offshore accounts after Revenue & Customs won another legal victory in its battle against offshore tax evasion.
The details of about 100,000 customers of the banks - they are understood to be HSBC, HBOS, RBS and Lloyds TSB - will be disclosed to [...]

This article in the Telegraph Online spells out the massive exodus from the UK:
‘Last year, nearly 200,000 moved overseas to settle — the equivalent of one every three minutes.’
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Apologies if everyone already knows about this, but I just discovered it:
Picture of the whale
From CapCreus Online:

A whale was found dead on Cape de Creus in the Cala Agulles. It measured eight meters and was about three tons. The animal was discovered by workers who were working on the demolition of the old club [...]

At a recent computer expo (COMDEX), Bill Gates reportedly compared the computer industry with the auto industry and stated,
“If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25.00 cars that got 1,000 miles to the gallon.”
In response to Bill’s comments, General Motors issued a press release [...]

this is an interesting cautionary tale about how not to get ripped off buying property here in Spain.
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This is an interesting article that confirms something I’ve been suspecting for a long time, namely that Norton Internet Security reduces your computer to something just above a crawl; this guy has tested various software and found which slows performance the most, and Norton wins by a large margin.
Haivng more than 1000 fonts on [...]

Cinderella is now 95 years old. After a fulfilling life with the now dead prince, she happily sits upon her rocking chair, watching the world go by from her front porch, with a cat named Bob for companionship.
One sunny afternoon out of nowhere, appeared the fairy godmother. Cinderella said, “Fairy Godmother, what are you doing [...]

1. If a small child is choking on an ice cube, don’t panic. Simply pour a jug of boiling water down its throat and hey presto! The blockage is almost instantly removed.
2. Before attempting to remove stubborn stains from a garment, always circle [...]

I am married 36 years, I took a look at my wife one day and said, “Honey, 36
years ago, we had a cheap apartment, no car, no TV, no money and slept on a
sofa bed but I got to sleep every night with a hot good looking 18 year old.
Now, we have a beautiful house, [...]

I know someone who was diagnosed with AAADD - Age Activated Attention Deficit Disorder.
This is how it manifests itself:
I decide to water my garden. As I turn on the hose I remembered I was going to wash the car yesterday so decide I might as well do it now.
As I start toward the [...]