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there are lots of immigrants arriving in England, meaning the available land has to support more people, not many immigrants chose Bulgaria, or even rural Italy. Those places with less people, property is much cheaper . Surely without legal and illegal immigration England too would have less thriving economy, but also lower property prices? Rural places in Europe where the young move to cities or abroad for work, thats where the property is cheap. Supply and demand

Immigrants is an almost complete non sequitur. They're an annoying drip from a torn umbrella. The rain is the problem. Immigrants didn't take us off the gold standard. That was the death knell. We weren't as far round the curve on the graph in the 70s as we are now. Imagine what it'll look like as the curve gets curvier. 8:1. Pffft. See how 80:1 feels.

You can get a ferry from Chora Skafion to Agai Roumeli, which is at the end of the gorge. We've stayed there a couple of times, it's very pleasant. The number of people coming down the gorge and straight onto the ferry is astounding. They're nose to tail. I quite fancied walking it but after seeing that I'm not so keen. If I was to do it it'd have to be early in the morning or out of season.

Mine has a 14 inch bar which feels just about perfectly balanced for a 50ish cc saw. 20 inch is 70ish territory for me, especially with oak. I’ll cut pretty much up to 2 foot with it, which is ideal for 90% of the work I do. well done. The 261 is a powerful thing that seems to start well and is easy to work on.

my old man was a machine operator for a while and later prison officer, they were buying nice houses in their mid to late twenties on average incomes, you didnt need planning because there were affordable older houses with big gardens. Unlike today where building plots are .25 acre and the finished build with postage stamp lawn is half a million. So many relying on bank of mum and dad, because immigrants pushed up housing costs. House price to income in seventies and eighties probably averaged four times, its about 8 now

It wasn't. It was already on the death spiral of bad money and building restrictions. More people speed up the downfall but land prices would still increase with fewer people. The rich would still hoard it because money loses value and the the poor would still pay to rent it because they can't afford to pay a planner to magically make a piece of land legally habitable instead.

I'll let Mick do it. He's thinking of it too.

S-i-L has had several problems in a different business, he makes wooden garden buildings. He explains that the building requires a solid base or sub base and can provide them or the client can sort that BUT it must be level and straight and the correct size. People still have non - , level, straight or correct sized bases and expect doors and windows to open and close. This is pointed out verbally and in the small print but he still has problems with clients and has had to take down the building and either build the base or take away the building because they are idiots and think he's in the wrong. Not my business but I would close that door and if it was arb work I wouldn't take it on (not an arb but business is business).

so the 1951 refugee act means we now have an acceptance rate of 98% for Sudanese and Syrians, 87% for Eritreans. No matter how many come, they have a legal right and we have to let them stay. I believe this illegal migration issue is so serious there should be motion of no confidence. Callaghan 1979 and McDonald 1924 both lost. Not likely to happen with Labour's thumping majority. My fear is that so many foreigners settle they eventually become the majority. Absolute disaster happening in slow mo. Anyone wanting to cut immigration thought of as backward and racist. 'We need immigrants with the birth rate falling blah blah' This country was fine in the 60's 70's and 80's. An extra 15 or 20 million people has an only forced up the price of land

Glitter, Savile, Harris, etc etc Total scapegoating

I think that's basically trust building. Show the customer that you're fair, reliable and value for money, you'll be the first one they call.

I'd be keen to hear your feed back should you ever demo/buy one

Epping asylum hotel resident told girls he wanted to have babies with them, court hears APPLE.NEWS Hadush Gerberslasie Kebatu accused of sexual assault and harassment against two 14-year-olds and... Not hard to see why mothers are now taking to the streets to keep this scum away from their daughters. Regarding Farages speech, it’s amusing to see amount of mainstream media who are now asking questions. Questions imo for which he gave very honest and sensible straightforward answers.

Plenty sites here https://arbtalk.co.uk/recycling/?nearby=20&lat=51.312059&lon=0.032802&category=0&country=0&state=0&specialization=

I can't see it being an issue. Only if, by some unlikely coincidence, you decided to stack the recently felled limbs on the ground, next to one of your trees, in poor health, for several months. So hardly likely?

Not the best option? All depends what you want to do with it. If you want it to be the saw that can do everything then 18" could be a good cal. Mine has the 14" light bar on, and I think it's perfect for me. If I want 20" I pick up the 400.

I had this quandary a while ago. Makita battery was the preferred option, ( I have lots of batteries ) but they weren't cheap for what you got, and didn't look value for money, to me at least. Toolstation/Screwfix offerings were considered next, either petrol or battery. Nothing leapt out at me, and reviews are mixed. So, once more I bit the bullet, and once more, after I had done so, a better option appeared. I got a Stihl 82 R with the heavy duty gearbox, and it's a beast, cuts through stuff you would think beyond it. I can't fault it, except for the one thing I can't get round- starting a petrol tool at the top of a ladder. Once I'd bought that, and also lots of AP batteries for my newly acquired battery chainsaw, Stihl decided to bring out a battery equivalent, the 140 R. Thanks Stihl. Sounds like neither option would suit you, hope you find something that does, good luck.

When you buy a second hand saw you really take a chance on the saw. I brought this one from fleabay so at least i could return it. It come with a 15" bar which is not the best option. i have a 18" bar on back order as there out of stock. I had to sharpen the chain as is was completely blunt and i stripped it down for a total clean. It is such a fantastic saw but my god it really uses the gas.

Farage's small boats plan not about policy but putting Labour and Tories on the spot NEWS.SKY.COM Nigel Farage's speech was not so much about presenting real policy proposals but about putting Labour and the Tories on the backfoot, Sam Coates writes.

Do you think he would prefer Susan?

They'll put him out to pasture. He'll be unfit to stand trial on anything when the time comes. All the useful idiots who voted for "The Donald", handed America to JD Vance and his chums.

Ha! It was 10 regal king size, box of matches, and a pack of polos. Which clearly helped... 97p.

Hi, I have been offered some logs from a tree that was felled due to Kretzschmaria. The drop site is on my small holding that has various trees planted. Does anyone know if the logs would pose a danger to my trees? Thanks David

I'm getting there.

A weird coincidence that they are blaming Trumps tariffs and import taxes but not increasing prices worldwide - and they are not the only worldwide postal service doing the same, just the only one relevant to most of us on here.