Roofbox.co.uk and get a Kamei. Don’t even think of going to Halfords.

Debt up, deficit down but still a deficit (hence debt up).

If a vehicle is not type approved for towing then you cannot purchase a type approved tow bar. This applies to all cars after a certain date (long enough ago that few cars aren’t caught by it).

If you can buy a type approved tow bar, you can legally tow. It isn’t legal to fit a tow bar that isn’t type approved.

You will not find a legit Ford Ka tow bar anywhere. Ford did not include towing on its type approval. There are one or two other cars in the same boat.

There will be a towing limit in the handbook for most cars, max gross train weight is on the car’s plate. Subtract the max GVW (also on the plate) and you get the towing limit.

Witter flange mount – carries four bikes with ease. 100kg nose weight limit helps…

My wife was on them when a big enough dose of another antidepressant gave her insomnia. Don’t take it until you are ready to sleep, it kicks in within 20-30 minutes and there is no resisting it.

She came off them a few months ago and is now coming off venlafaxine (which is a bit more of a challenge).

Take them while you need them, the goal should always be to get to a point where you can cope without. Having a good gp helps massively.

The first reply says it all.

At the very least, you will need a relaxed geometry road bike and also a race geometry bike. Plus maybe a CX too.

If your risk assessment says that forklift truck drivers need protective safety glasses, then you’d have to get them prescription ones (assuming they’re an employee of yours, if not their own employer (i.e. agency or self-employed) needs to provide).

Or ones that fit over normal glasses. Custom prescription safety glasses for every required employee is beyond what the Act requires.

If specs are required for driving, you might not need to provide them but you would need it to be company policy that drivers wear them.

If someone is a contractor, it may not be your responsibility to provide PPE but you must still ensure that they have it and use it.

You have to pay what your contract says you have to pay. If that’s weekly then your contractual obligation is to pay weekly.

The only mandatory ground for rent arrears eviction is if you are 8 weeks in arrears both when the notice is served AND on the day of court. There is a discretionary ground that would cover your scenario, but judges tend not to evict on discretionary grounds (human rights and all that).

Your best advice is to speak to the HA as above. They are probably doing this as part of their rules and processes.

If your rent is weekly, you should have legally have a rent book. Are all your payments recorded in there? Before court, you want paperwork to show that over time you are paying rent that is due and you are just out of sync.

edit: I am assuming that you are on an AST as you haven’t said. If you are on a secure tenancy or a starter tenancy then the rules are different.

edit2: Try shelter e.g. http://england.shelter.org.uk/get_advice/eviction/rent_arrears/rent_arrears_in_social_housing If you call them, they will answer but they are a very overworked charity so be patient trying to get through

We have a newer (11 plate) alhambra. It’s mainly to cart our kids around in, but it’s a very good car and with the seats down it can swallow huge loads.

Something like an S-max might not have the height you need, but they are plentiful and could probably be picked up cheaper than the Seat. There’s the Galaxy I suppose.

am I right in thinking that the Scots allow hunting foxes with dogs?
Was the amendment meant to come in to line with the scottish law?

This proposed change would have relaxed the English law to make it equivalent to the Scots Law. The SNP were going to vote to keep English fox-hunting laws stricter than Scottish ones. They have promised to review whether a change in Scots Law should be implemented. Personally I’d rather they sort out the police mess, the declining education standards, the NHS shambles but they are all devolved issues so not something Holyrood or our Westminster contingent like to say much about.

Why are the people not bashing the Scottish Toffs for fox hunting?

Some are, the SNP don’t like to draw attention to it. Their adherence to the political hypocratic oath exceeds even the Tories.

Remind me please, what are Labour doing apart from squabbling?

The headless chicken dance?

The SNP are far more organised and coherent (so much so that they are being whipped on a free vote). If the Labour leadership could muster a brain cell between them then the SNP would not be nearly so popular as they are.

Some might say that the Scotland Bill which only one Scottish MP agreed with and 58 did not means that it’s open season and all bets are off.

The Scotland Bill affects the whole UK.

Just as EVEL affects the whole UK and so if it were tabled as a bill then the SNP should get a vote on it. But it’s going in by the back door instead – perhaps technically right but morally wrong.

One thing to note, is that while we’ve right-to-roam in Scotland there is no requirement on the landowner to ensure that any route is accessible, ie don’t need gates that horses can get through, or stiles that walkers can get over etc.

This is maybe the biggest difference to the current way the FC and other landowners permit access. At the moment, if the FC open up an area for mountain biking then they are taking on some measure of liability and they have to maintain it.

If I grab my bike and take it up on a Scottish hill then the risk is mine and I might not find it in the same state it was last time.

There will be other concerns – right to roam isn’t universally liked. It doesn’t help that some people don’t remember that the right to roam also comes with a responsibility not to be an eijit.

The FC seem to be growing ever more hostile toward MTB events
is this because of budget restrictions or is their something else afoot…..

Events are completely different and not covered by right to roam in Scotland, nor should they be IMHO.

footflaps – Member
They Greeks all went to a German bar and went on a 5 year bender with just a card behind the bar as collateral. Barman is now asking then to pay up. Turns out is was an expired library card they used as collateral. They now have one hell of a hang over and are asking the barman for a 5 year hair of the dog on a tab.

This, but the German bartender suspected that the card looked a bit iffy at the time. Didn’t bother checking because their main priority was getting folk into the bar so that they could boast about how wonderful it was.

It isn’t uncommon at all.

Often the problem is that the clause warrants something, but the seller has no knowledge from before they owned the house. In that scenario, you can remove the standard clause and have a binding declaration that “to the best of our knowledge…” or “we are not aware of…” so you’ve still got the sellers if they pull a fast one, but they aren’t responsible for things they don’t know about.

The solicitor I used last time would rant about this – some solicitors do it by default which defeats the purpose of the standard clauses.

Pretty sure you are protected by the Equality Act (https://www.gov.uk/when-mental-health-condition-becomes-disability)

I’d write to HR, OH and your line manager requesting a meeting to develop a return to work plan. If they aren’t open to your suggestions to move role, start asking for reasonable adjustments.

I would speak to both Mind and ACAS beforehand to get advice.

Big companies do not necessarily have good front line HR and line managers can often be ignorant. Try dealing with them at a lowish level, but if you get nowhere then it’s time to escalate with a clear statement about the equality act and reasonable adjustments. Reasonable adjustments, so far as employment tribunals have interpreted it, can actually be quite major changes so (unless Health and Safety is an issue) it is difficult for an employer to argue against a change if it is possible.

I will be voting Labour simply because they stand the best chance of defeating the SNP in our constituency.

If not for the SNP, I’d probably vote Tory because the current Labour leadership are utterly useless. Milliband, Balls and Harperson are probably three of the least capable politicians I’ve seen.

My heart is probably closest to Lib Dem but they are a joke of a party at the moment and, in my constituency, it would be a wasted vote. Actually getting into government has thrown them a bit. I have usually voted LD in the past but I lived in a very safe LD seat.

I suspect any attempt to get the recipients details from the bank are met by a flurry of ‘data protection says no’ responses too.

and rightly so.

There’s an exemption in the DPA (s35) where the information is required in connection with a court case.

If the bank refused, OP would have to obtain a Norwich Pharmacal order to force disclosure. This costs a bit but costs would probably be awarded against the bank.

They usually have a calculator you can bash numbers into if you have an employer code. Or just go to cyclescheme or similar if you don’t know who is doing yours yet.

In simple terms for a £1k bike, as a basic rate taxpayer you save 32% initially and then pay 7% extended hire – overall savings are 25%ish.

As a higher rate (40%) taxpayer you save 42% initially and then pay 7% extended hire – overall savings are 35%ish.

My employer chooses to use an external finance company which adds 11% to the costs of buying a bike through the scheme. Barstewards.

The extended hire is 7% for a bike over £500 and 5% for a bike under it. Which just happens to be the figures HMRC accept for the value of a 4 year old bike. This came in because people were taking the mick and claiming that a 1 year old bike had depreciated from £1000 to £1 when the employee bought the bike from the employer. Heaven forbid the government (of any/all colours) could come up with a simple scheme – maybe just tax free bikes and forget all this capital depreciation stuffs.

Then you get to our incredibly complex tax system so savings may differ from those above. Because it is salary sacrifice, if you are in the effective 60% bracket then you save even more. If you are in the bit where child benefit gets taken off, you get some child benefit back. If you receive tax credits, it counts against them so you have an additional 42% saving.

Recently advised by HR, holidays cannot be part of a notice period.

There is nothing to prevent them being part of your notice period.

Often there is a contractual prohibition, or sometimes a ban on booking (but not taking) leave during notice. Notice periods are there to provide for a handover, not much use in that if the departing employee is never there.

Usually, given all leave is at the discretion of your employer and can be cancelled by them, it comes down to negotiation.

You may also breach any moonlighting clauses if you start work for your new employer before properly finishing with the old one.

I would try for a shorter notice period. If you were to leave a week early, there is very little chance of them doing anything beyond docking your pay (which would be fair). Just don’t expect a good reference after pulling that stunt.

Thule one is proride 591 (I’ve got two). Don’t know about the atera one – maybe a Giro AF+ looking at pictures.

Try comparing with http://www.roofbox.co.uk/bike-carriers/bike-carriers-racks-range.php