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UK households to pay £14,000 each for Greek tradegy?
Author: Hazlemere Windows | Leave a Comment >>If the article by Andrew Malone in today’s Saturday Daily Mail is even 50% accurate, the Greek Economy is finished as a member of the Euro. It was entitled “The Big Fat Greek Gravy Train” A special investigation into the EU funded culture of greed, tax evasion and scandalous waste. It suggests that each UK household could have to pay £14,000 each towards sorting out Greece’s existing debts, this is before Portugal, Spain, Italy and the Republic of Ireland potentially cost all UK citizens even more if and when they also end up defaulting on their debts.
Having read the entire Daily Mail article in the newspaper, all it did was confirm everything I have read and heard about the current state of the…
Estimated £10.65bn cost to repair 2 million potholes
Author: Hazlemere Windows | Leave a Comment >>A press release from the Asphalt Industry Alliance entitled “Over 2 Million Potholes Raise Road Repair Bill to Record Levels“, claims that the number of potholes in England and Wales alone has increased by 59%. The press release estimated that the cost of bringing our highways up to some decent level has gone up a billion pounds to a staggering £10.65bn.
As a result the press release said the Asphalt Industry Alliance’s Chairman Colin Loveday is called on the UK Government to invest now to prevent further damage and an ever increasing repair bill. The same press release stated that “Three years of severe winter weather have revealed the fragile condition of the local road network, with road surfaces around the country deteriorating visibly…
Icelandic volcanic ash no joke if you marooned abroad
Author: Martin | Leave a Comment >>My family had no idea how fortunate we were flying in on Monarch Airlines from Cyprus on Wednesday 14th April 2010. After landing at Gatwick Airport Wednesday night, we had the usual tussle to get round the M25, but eventually made it home to Beaconsfield in Bucks blissfully unaware of the major event unfolding in Iceland. Sometimes in life we do not appreciate how fortunate we are, as many air travellers have now missed weddings, funerals, holidays, family events, business appointments and been massively disrupted.
The upside is that here in the UK we can now more appreciate National Express, bus and coach travel, our railways, and ferry services, as these have been the only means of travelling any distance. It also shows us how…
Make sure you claim if a pothole damages your vehicle
Author: Martin | Leave a Comment >>Whilst I accept we had an exceptionally severe cold snap in January 2010, I was dismayed by the apparent lack of urgency in repairing the dangerous potholes that exist on our roads (and getting worse the longer they go unattended). Even weeks later the main roads where I live and work in Beaconsfield and High Wycombe were littered with hundreds of potholes that can seriously damage vehicles and must be a severe danger to cyclists?
I can only hope that all the Council Tax we pay to South Bucks District Council and Wycombe District Council will get them to liaise with the Buckinghamshire County Council Highways Agency to make resolving this totally unacceptable situation an absolute priority. The suspension to my own car had to…
Events prove we should carry out fire risk assessments
Author: Martin | Leave a Comment >>When buying or renting a property, or looking at replacement double glazed windows, I am sure that carrying out a fire risk assessment, or ensuring one has been carried out by the landlord or local council, is not the first thing you would think of doing?
Sadly, recent tragedies do prove that carrying out a fire risk assessment could indeed save lives. Earlier this month, Ed Davey for BBC News, London wrote an article on the BBC News website that should be a wake up call for us all called “Lives risked by cheap fire option” following a BBC London investigation.
The article expressed concerns that “across London vast numbers of buildings have seen traditional wooden window frames replaced with PVC plastic, including a…
Bank of England claim “housing crash past its worst”
Author: Hazlemere Windows | Leave a Comment >>“Housing crash is now past its worst”, says Bank of England
David Miles, the Bank of England’s new resident expert on the mortgage and property market, may have announced the best news of 2009 so far. Positive news that will resonate around every home in the UK, and will surely instill confidence with estate agents across the land. If his comments are correct, the UK’s housing market has stablised and is set for recovery and mild growth. This sits in stark contrast to his report a year ago that claimed the economy was the worst it’s been for 20 years. Nationwide, the building society, supported the turnaround by announcing that housing prices in June rose for the third time in four months.
“It may…
Brian O’Driscoll and Irish team finally win Grand Slam
Author: Hazlemere Windows | Leave a Comment >>Ireland’s first Grand Slam since 1948 was almost thrown away by late second half schoolboy errors in Cardiff, not worthy of the manner in which the Irish came out at the start of the second half. As usual the excellent and tenacious Brian O’Driscoll lead from the front at the Millennium Stadium, leading the Irish to their first Grand Slam for 52 years. His try changed the momentum of the game and put Wales on the back foot.
Tommy Bone’s individual try for Ireland set up Ireland for a long overdue Grand Slam and helped write Brian O’Driscoll and his Irish Rugby Union team into the history books. Ireland almost threw a winning position away with silly penalties and errors, especially when Stephen Jones drop goal gave…
Guy’s house saves him from deadly Australian bush fire
Author: Hazlemere Windows | Leave a Comment >>Australian Guy Williams is alive today largely down to how he constructed his house in Steel Creek, Victoria, Australia. Guy, a 49 year old electrical engineer found some autoclaved aerated concrete bricks at a home ideas show in Australia. He built the house himself using no timber, just these concrete bricks stuck together with glue, steel double glazed windows and steel framed doors.
Guy explained to www.gatoday.com that the fire that bore down on his house was about 1200 degrees, hot enough to soften the metal but not melt it. Glass doors and windows in his house are all double-glazed. Some of the outside panes cracked in the heat. Next time he’ll add shutters!
“Through the double-glazed doors of his bedroom, Guy Williams watched flames roar…
Hats off to airline pilot Chesley Sullenberger
Author: Hazlemere Windows | Leave a Comment >>If anyone deserves a medal it is Captain Chesley B “Sully” Sullenberger for safely landing US Airlines flight 1549 in the Hudson River in New York, not only saving the lives of all of his passengers and saving the aircraft, but also the lives of New Yorkers who could have been killed had he not made the brave decision to land on water and not try for the alternate Teterboro airport six miles away in New Jersey.
Having taken off his Airbus 320 from Laguardia Airport and been hit by a double bird strike, pilot Captain Sullenberger landed his plane in the Hudson River saving all 155 passengers and crew. The entire take-off, flight, bird strike and landing occurred in less than five minutes, so you have to admire…
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