Telewest 'not planning more job cuts'

"About a third of Telewest's top 60 managers have been offered redundancy terms"

Sky One on Ess+ or Ess?

"The Telewest website also now shows it available in Essential Plus and above, which is different to what they had up last week."

 

Well, it seemed a good idea, but as it says later in the thread, what would be left in essential Plus if Sky One moved down? Not a lot. So no need for that pack.

1,000 jobs under threat at Telewest

"Executives expect the jobs to be shed gradually over the next 12-15 months"

 

The story's everywhere.

Telewest Makes More Cuts

"A source familiar with the company said another 1,000 jobs could go by the end of next year, reducing the work force to about 8,000.

Asked about this, managing director Charles Burdick said: "There are no specific cuts planned. (But) through attrition, working smarter, focusing on costs ... we will have a smaller workforce next year.""

Asia leads the way in broadband growth

"Over 26 million homes and businesses around the world now have high-speed DSL Internet connections, but Britain doesn't even make the top 20 countries.

 

There are thought to be around 850,000 broadband end-users in Britain, and according to latest figures up to 20,000 new customers are signing up each week."

 

Still BT's fault. They could have brought in broadband much earlier. But they decided to cream the dial up market while they could. Putting the UK plc below the quest for profits. Please dontt think of BT being British Telecom. They are the Big Thief!

BBC: Why Arabs fear Iraq attack

"Saudi Arabia and the other Gulf monarchies are nervous about the threat posed by Saddam; they might be more nervous about the idea of Iraq as a beacon for Arab democracy. "

 

The same fear the British had in 1799 and the French revolution, and everywhere else with the Russian revolution. The House of Saud are fearful that they may be killed. They know that their reign is oppressive and they are making no effort to move to a more democratic government, which the British were doing, slowly for sure at the time of the French and Russian revolutions. If the Saudis would only listen to the winds of change, they too would be less fearful.

Scuts can be good and bad. Here, this whole block is scheduled for demolition. Half the flats are empty. To me, if the area was just cleaned up a little it would be a good place to live. Certainly the few people I've met who live there are fine, cheery people. Though admittedly, under 30, well under 30.

The big board. every day we add our scores. Everyday, everybody in the checks to see who's where in the race to be beast rep.

Top left Sharna. Moody? Thoughtful? Nah! Just acting coy while I took a picture.

Dangerous geeza! Nonchalent Nick breathes fire.

Bottom left The big board and Cathi, ducking out of a photo opportunity - again. Meanwhile, guess what? Bobbie chuckles about micro digital cameras.

Iraq’s ‘drones of death’

"UP TO A DOZEN of the unmanned airplanes were spotted inside the hangar, each fitted with spray nozzles and wing-mounted tanks that could carry up to 80 gallons of liquid anthrax. If flown at low altitudes under the right conditions, a single drone could unleash a toxic cloud engulfing several city blocks, a top British defense official concluded. He dubbed them "