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I'm a massive supporter of vocational training - learn a skill or trade and accept a living but lower wage as part of that training.

The end of apprenticeships as our manufacturing industries were decimated by cheap imports was the big problem. People will blame governments for this, but the consumer has to bear a big part of the responsibility.
You only have to look at on our doorstep to see how much the demise of the boot and shoe factories had so a huge knock on effect on all of the supporting companies costing thousands of jobs. Corby suffered the same when British Steel cut it's own throat by selling the machine tools from Ravensgraig to India and Malaysia and being hit by cheap imports in return. This is the same for so many towns and cities in the UK.

I've just noticed, Chesterfield are already champions of the National League and Oxford City are relegated with five games still remaining.

Waste of time. Should concentrate on our own tournaments.

What an asinine statement. The IPL is probably the best example of twenty20 cricket in the World and a way for English players to keep in form ready for the domestic and international seasons.

The Telegraph remains the most literate right of centre read. The Times the best broadsheet for years now. The FT for Economics. The Guardian and Independent used to be first class but that's long ago now.

The Daily Mail is the best of the red tops (a decent read even if from a right of centre perspective). The Mirror, Express awful. The Sun was good for men's health.

I've read Socialist Worker from time to time - hilarious.

If you want hilarity try the Morning Star.

Isn’t it great that the era of the press barons has come to an end.

And it has been replaced by the oh so trusty influence of social media, fake news, AI, algorithms.

I was always taught believe none of what you read or hear and only half of what you see.

I’ve only learnt following that comment how to find out that information 😂  31 for me by the way, rubbish!

I did check the stats page on the home page and the top 10 posters for thread starts are all over 100. Marvo is miles behind the leaders😉 Singcobb out on 642 so a whole lot of work for Marvo needed if he’s to take the lead.

Amazing. I'm actually top of a leader board for something, mind you 630 of those are GTA or Prediction League.

That knock by Andre Russell was something else.

The best cricket franchise tournament there is. Yesterday's game wasn't bad but not overly close

The loss of the quick wickets lost it for RCB.

The Daily Mails circulation in February 2024 was 705,000, so a fair amount less than what Manny says.

That may seem a lot but when you take into account the population of the UK TODAY is 67,899,626million the newspaper is reaching a meagre 1.08% of the population. You also have to remember that people buy newspapers for differing reasons, some for sport, some for politics, some for the crossword, there's myriad of reasons you may buy a newspaper, I recall some buying the Sun for the Page 3 girls. Anyway my point is very few people read them cover to cover.

Note: 1.08% of the population of Northampton is roughly 2,000 people. Big deal.

Do the circulation figures take into account those that read on-line?

I'm looking forward to this and really hope that the games are as close as most of the women's were.

Kenjiro Shinozuka the first non European to win the Dakar rally aged 75.

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Topical satire. 
Although I am not comparing the Trust board to the Russian dictator. I prefer keeping my pension intact. 

Why, are they going to be invading a NATO country in the next 20 years or so?

Todays fabrication from Derek.

It's got to the point that anything he says can only be taken as lies.

At half-time the bottom 6 have hot just 1 point between them. This could be the season where you get a team survive on a very low total. I reckon we've already got enough points.

We are safe by a country mile. The bottom three are pretty much certs to go down and the last spot is between Chelts, Cambridge and Burton. I'd like to Burton gone for a.

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[Referendums are “a device of dictators and demagogues” ~ Margaret Thatcher.]

I don't see any need for a vote, surely we've learned our lesson with the Brexit one. You can't trust people to make a decision on something they do not know enough about. For good or bad, we elect politicians to make these decisions for us, hopefully guided by experts in the given field. If a party says in its manifesto, they are looking at closer ties with Europe, then it's job done, after all, we all know what we're voting for.

Referendums are “a device of dictators and demagogues” ~ Margaret Thatcher.

There is one huge problem with that. The rest of the EU has to accept us back. Germany wont be a problem, we were their biggest EU trade partner before we left, that's why during the negotiations German Euro MPs were campaigning for a favourable deal for the UK. The French wont have us back because they hate us, the Italians will just shrug their shoulders, the Dutch will light another spliff, the Spanish will take a siesta, Portugal will be happy they will get more British pensioners and their money, Malta, Cyprus and Greece would probably be a yes as for some reason the seem to like us, Eastern European countries would say yes because it another one contributing to the pot, the Austrians will follow the Germans as usual, the rest will probably go with the flow.

Maybe time to maintain the likes of the Guildhall, St Giles Street and the Derngate and level the rest of it for housing. Could be the new ‘Hunsbury’.
The likes of the shopping centre and Abington St are a waste of time.

I can't see anything about the town at the moment would attract any commercial ventures to invest.