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The big difference between those examples and George Lucas is that you can buy the original unaltered versions in the best quality available, you can't do that with the original Star Wars trilogy. If you had a Blu Ray of the original films that was a proper, cleaned up print alongside the special editions then people would be fine with that.

Greedo and Han shoot at the same time now but it still looks shit.

Not infront of Biscan I hope...

Ribena's nice but it's no C Vit.

Thanks very much Neko

I'd like to play again this year if there's a space? I was Drunken Zombies last season

I've not seen this posted on here- Shropshire council sends dismissal letters to entire workforce | Society | guardian.co.uk A Conservative-led council has sent letters of dismissal to its entire workforce, telling them they will be re-hired the next day only if they agree to a pay cut. Shropshire county council gave its 6,500 staff notice of their dismissal on 30 September, but offered them immediate re-employment if they accepted a 5.4% pay cut as well as changes to their sick-pay arrangements. The council said it needs to make the changes to find £7m towards a total savings target of £76m over three years. The alternative would be "large-scale" redundancies. Jackie Kelly, the council's head of organisational development, said it had been necessary to embark upon a legal process of "dismissal and re-engagement" following failure to reach agreement with trade unions. All staff had been offered re-employment. "Whilst we appreciate [that] the formal nature of this process may lead to some anxiety, we intend to continue offering reassurance, guidance and support to all our staff over the coming days, weeks and months," Kelly said. Unison, which represents about 40% of the council's workers, said the letters had frightened and intimidated people. Leaders of the union's Shropshire branch would be meeting to discuss balloting on industrial action. "We've been told to sign up and shut up," said Alan James, branch secretary. "There's not a lot of places we can go with this." The council's plan emerged as new figures showed that spending by councils on local services has fallen for the first time in two decades as a result of cuts in government grants. Councils in England will this year spend an average 5.7% less on services than in the previous 12 months, including almost 15% less on housing, 21% less on roads and 32% less on planning. The spending figures provide the first authoritative overview of the effect of the sharp cut in council grants for 2011-12. The main grant has been reduced by almost 10%. According to public finance body Cipfa, which has surveyed all councils' spending plans as notified to Whitehall, expenditure on services will amount to £99.5bn or £1,921 per person – a return to levels of 2008-09. Cipfa says the reduction is the first since the introduction of the poll tax in 1990. The biggest spending falls are in the north-west (an average 7.8%) and north-east (6.9%), with the lowest in the south-east outside of London at 3.2%. Ian Carruthers, Cipfa's policy and technical director, said: "These statistics underline the difficult decisions councils have been faced with in setting their 2011-12 budgets. It is only through effective financial planning and an emphasis on efficiency that the impact on frontline services has not been greater." One encouragement for ministers is that their measures to protect spending on services for elderly and disabled people appear to have worked: average spending on social care is shown to be rising this year by 1.6%. But groups representing the hardest-hit services expressed dismay. Campbell Robb, chief executive of housing charity Shelter, said: "Our advice services are already seeing a huge increase in demand as unemployment and cuts to services begin to bite, whilst local authorities reduce the safety net for those in housing need." Trudi Elliott, chief executive of the Royal Town Planning Institute, said: "Planning has a critical role to play in supporting communities' aspirations for growth, new homes and protecting the environment and their social fabric." The local government minister, Grant Shapps, said councils' total spending this year, including expenditure other than that on frontline services, would amount to £118bn. This equated to more than £5,000 per household and there remained scope for savings without hitting services. "By cutting waste, more joint working and improving procurement, councils can do more for less," Shapps said. "Good councils can hold council tax down and protect frontline services." But Dave Prentis, general secretary of public services union Unison, said: "Given the biggest-in-a-generation spending cuts hitting councils, it's hardly surprising that spending has shrunk so drastically. Look behind the figures and you'll find cuts sending shockwaves through communities."

I'm sure it's a pure coincidence that the consultation period for the Sky buy out ends this Friday and these stories have come out.

Anywhere else in the real world if you'd of either been so oblivious that you didn't know what your employees were doing or you were encouraging criminal, brain snappingly insensitive behaviour by them then you'd expect to go. Murdoch's apparently firmly on her side and I think it'd take a huge financial hit from loss of advertisers and paper sales for her to get bounced, I hope that's not the case and she goes now but I'm a touch cynical about it all.

From what's been said in the likes of The Guardian Brooks is being protected, you'll see a whole stream of journo's and middle management go to stop her losing her job. Unless airtight, 100000000% red handed type evidence comes out she'll hang in there. Quite funny that Coulsen is being pushed out as the sacrificial offering not that it'll affect Cameron.

Thanks for the offer Dennis, I'd love a cat but I'm in a flat share and my flatmate isn't down with pets.

Sorry Neko, I can't rep but hopefully this is some sort of repayment... [YOUTUBE]IEwGaJJQRS0&feature=player_embedded[/YOUTUBE]

Damn you for making me even more broody for a kitten...

Sorry, no idea how to post pictures but I'll throw in Kat Dennings from Thor and Nick and Noras Infinite Playlist.

That's good, at least they've not papered over the couple of bumps they've had. The Goldsmith thing sounded weird, he never had any problems in Sunny Day Real Estate so I don't see why his drumming didn't work on Colour and The Shape.

Are Bill Goldsmith or Franz Stahl in the documentary at all? The new record's really growing on me especially Bridge Burning and Dear Rosemary, can't go wrong with a bit of Bob Mould.

Just listened to it now on the Metal Hammer site, it's not bad at all although it's lacking an Everlong, Monkeywrench or This is a Call to really grab me, needs a couple more listens for me to latch onto my favourite tracks.

Same thing happened to me over a different character so I spent the whole of season 5 dreading what was to come for them. It's really difficult to stay spoiler free these days.

Buca Di Bacco over the road from the Debenhams entrance into Liverpool One is nice from what I remember, couple of years since I've been there.

Part 2 is good too although it does get a bit sensationalist and pretty much points the finger at someone for doing the murders (to be fair he doesn't help himself and it only needs him twirling his tash for him to go into full on evil mode).

Some might say it was another example of class war from the current government... I wouldn't be surprised if you saw the likes of Hope and LJMU merging in the next few years and private providers like Kaplan buying up a struggling university or two.

The problem is that the so called red brick uni's get a lot more money from research than fees so they can afford to offer better bursaries to less well off students and look more appealing as well as appearing to be widening participation. If you use one of the governments proposals of widening participation by taking on students who would qualify for free meals in school and giving them their first years tuition for free then JMU would lose a massive proportion of its income as it takes on the majority of its students from less well off families. They're kind of the inverse to Liverpool Uni. If you combine that with the possible reduction in visas for international students and apply that to the post 1992 uni's then a lot are going to have real problems carrying on.

As things stand JMU needs to be charging around £7,500 per student to be breaking even, that's before the various "incentives" the government would like universities to implement such as waving fees for a year to broaden participation.

Oooh and Cocaine Cowboys 1 & 2 are good as well, they're about the drug war in Miami doring the 70's-80's.

The 30 for 30 documentaries by ESPN are worth a watch too, they're about various sporting incidents over the last 30 years. They're mainly American sport focused but are still interesting, ESPN Classic have been showing a couple each weekend. Overnight is good too, about the director of The Boondock Saints and his ego getting out of control. Video Nasties The Definitive Guide is worth a watch too.