22nd June 2021 World Rainforest Day The rainforests are keeping our planet alive. They’re home to half the world’s animal species, they provide us with freshwater, and are essential for keeping our climate stable. Yet every second, one and a half hectares is lost, while each year, 78 million hectar...

Last week, the NHSBT service changed the guidelines on accepting blood from gay men. Before now, any male donor who'd had sex with another man in the previous 3 months couldn't give blood. The claim was that they were a higher risk than heterosexual men but I always felt that they were comparing the...

Well done pieman!

Result

1 England V Italy 1 ITA wins on pens dd 1yE 5yI


First Goal
0-25

Last Goal
Penalties



League Final
pieman 95

Sarah 81

kevinchess 75
macliam 59

Final total 142

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Only just found out about this upon receiving their final notice, as I don't often read their correspondence... Legal & General are closing their personal investing business in the second half of 2021. They're making arrangements to transfer portfolios to Fidelity. Customers have a choice to go ahea...

Down to 69p this morning. People may - or may not - want to revisit how they view this share. I've been on sell for a while now. I held Carillion until the end, so I have baggage on being burned. I appreciate I may be missing something that others know about, but it would be nice to see where the c...

I'd really like to get a strategy in place for reducing our holding in PGM. I accept that we're going to have to hold on to it for some time, but we're too deep in it at the moment and if the upwards movement that has happened this morning continues I think it would be fair to start discussing price...

Or at least, Happy Anniversary. 100 years since the Anglo-Irish Treaty, 99 years since the formal creation of an independent ireland. On this day in 1921, representatives of Dáil Éireann , the parliament established after Sinn Féin's landslide victory in the 1918 general election, met with Crown rep...

For once it's good to celebrate a life, rather than mourn a passing. For anyone who has not seen it, there is an interview on the BBC by Alan Yentob of Mel Brooks, the actor and director, now 95 years young. The full interview will be available on 31 December. He has outlived so many of those who st...