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My old (prescription) polarised glasses have now got more scratches than actual viewing surface, so replacements are needed. I have seen the Drivewear ones at Optilabs which change colour in response to light levels, sounds like a great idea. However I am always distrustful of miracle claims...

No need for belief Ray, I actually exist. Keep up the good work though, I love a good conspiracy theory. So much more fun than the real world.

The rantings of Chris Booker! More paranoid conspiracy theories. Global warming, it's all made up by Zionist scientists. Anything Booker says should be treated with great suspicion in my mind. His arguments boil down to.. Lets carry on as ever, use up all the worlds resources as fast as possible...

Steve, the going at Worcester for the racing on Sunday is Good to Soft, so I assume it isn't actually flooded!

I seem to rememeber watching people fishing from a.boat on Worcester Cricket ground on ATV's fishing programme back in the day. Out of season as well. I think they claimed they were after the salmon..........

Veggiie fish and vegan anglers perhaps;)

Hardly a Marxist...water companies were publicly owned, as were many other basic industries for many years. It was during the time that they were publicly owned that the lack of investment was most marked. Investment came from the tax payer and tax payers are not inclined to vote for increases...

I saved £250 as would many other who are careful with water. Many, many people would pay more, because the use more. Simple as that. Personally I think that the large buisness, that make massive use of water should pay rather more than a small buisness that hardly uses any. I cannot see that...

The people up in arms are always those who use loads and loads of water and enjoy being subsidised by those who use little. I saved quite a bit when I had a meter fitted, however I still see neighbours who use loads of water for car washing, watering the lawns etc and they don't have a meter...

I quite like Cuba...the sun, sea and old cars always made up for the lack of consumer goods and when I last visted it wasn't as beurocratic as the UK! However my travels in real living socialist countries, back in the 1980's made me more than happy to live in the capitalist west:D

Tone's post above makes a lot of sense. Unlikely therefore to convince those who live in a world of conspiracy theories sadly. I would add that water remains too cheap in the UK. The full costs of providing water are still subsidised in many ways by the hard pressed taxpayer. UK based...

Hear, hear....all that casting....far too much like hard work. I also second the Dave H floats. It will make a trip to the BS conference worthwhile this year as he will be having a stall I am told. For the first time I may actually buy something there!

We make better cars...like Aston's and Range Rovers (used to make a few others as well before Thatcher) and our golf course water themselves, with stuff called rain:)

Desalination makes a lot of sense in those country's without enough water and no other options. However it makes no sense at all in the UK a country with plenty of fresh water. The problem is not a lack of water, just that the demand for water is miss matched to the supply by decisions about...

You make some very valid points in your post, but the last two I have left in the quote above are particularly relevant to water companies. The margins that monopoly companies, which is what water companies are, are far higher in this country than in the rest of Europe. This is one of the...

Moving water from one river to another is not a cheap or simple operation in the way the media would have you believe. The water will need treatment between each river it enters for PH levels alone...just this alone is not a cheap process. There will also need to be treatment to ensure that...

I was there and there were huge shoals in particular places and matches could be won with 60-80 lbs of 2-3 lb barbel. However this was only around barbel alley not the entire river and with the right conditions. Pleasure anglers could expect half a dozen fish in a days fishing with maggot feeder...

Match returns have always been the best ways of viewing angling potential on a river and with river match fishing in general decline there are less of them. But from reports received from clubs on the Severn returns from the middle things are on the up. However the area around Shrewsbury seems...

If they can make £50,000 profit from an asset only worth £600,000 I wouldn't of thought that it would be sold unless the company had a serious cash flow problem. A return of nearly 9% on assets is good stuff these days. If those sort of returns can be made I would think they won't have much...

:D Rainbow trout are not usually fished for as catch and release, stocked, caught, knocked on the head and into the smoker they go( they don't spawn in UK waters other than the Derbyshire Wye). Happy to do the same with carp myself, but looking at the prices for carp in B'ham fish market it...