Well Pete, a hell of a lot of wind farms are going to be built, if you watched the 18.00. News today, all the way from just North of Spurn Point, right the way down the Norfolk coastline from what I gathered, the local fishermen are up in arms as regards the plans to build the wind farms are smack bang in the middle of the best cod and crab, Lobster fishing areas.

Can anyone tell me why we buy coal from Germany?, when we have our own coal mines.

Lincoln .7

7,000 to possibly 10,000 turbines have to built to meet our commitments!

Leaving aside the plethora of statistics I think the salient points are that the average turbine actually produces enough energy to generate power to the grid about 35% of the time. If our total energy needs include a percentage from wind, which we are obliged to provide under the EU emissions policy then we have to provide power for the time the turbines are not running. Therefore the mere fact of building one turbine requires alternative energy to be sourced elsewhere.

I think it is invaluable. It astonishes me how little many of our youngsters know about our history, culture and heritage. My grandson’s primary school is taking the children from the Romans, term by term, to the present day, so that at least they have a chronological overview.

I think the general and official lack of interest in our history says a lot about our country in 2011.:mad:

I always enjoyed the Suckling Airways from Cambrigde to Amsterdam because it took me back in time to when small was rather beautiful! I presume John Suckling and his airline are long gone…………..

The last government published proposals for scrapping the dating of food products to reduce waste.

The problem is that they are often ignored and more importantly during the summer months a majority of chilled products are not transported or stored within the criteria required anyway, so the life will be effectively reduced. There will be usually no adverse response if food is eaten after its expiry date but it will depend on many factors. The problem is that if there were no guidelines and people became ill as a result of eating a product the retailer would be open to legal action, our society being as it is.

There is no easy answer, that’s for sure.

The sell-by date on branded packaging is almost always an integral part of the packaging, either by embossing or ink jet printing – labels are rarely used. That is also true of many of the own label ambient, chilled and frozen products.

As you imply any malpractice can only apply to in-house packed products. I’m not sure what you mean by swopping packaging.