Major retailers seem to be dropping like flys at the moment, just read the end credits are rolling for Blockbuster. Feel sorry for those losing their jobs, the outlook is quite bleak.

I wonder who's next?

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HMV are in a real mess

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Not at the top!

Executive Directors Salaries-
Simon Fox | 2010 £874,000 | 2009 £579,000 +51%
Neil Bright | 2010 £559,000 | 2009 £349,000 +60%
Gerry Johnson | 2010 £494,000 | 2009 £312,000 +58%
Non-Executive Director
Robert Swannell 2010 £200,000 2009 £50,000 +300%

Later values are not published but I'd guess they only went up. All this for running a business on a sea of debt.

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Crumbs !! no wonder they are almost dead

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Exactly GK - see my soap box comment on the wine rack thread.

None of these Plc directors have meaningful share holdings in the businesses that they run. When they did have shares, it was on the way up, the dealing price massaged with expensive marketing technique. As soon as the company begins to fail - Look at directors dealing in their own shares.
We need changes to the new Companies Act 2006 to legislate against incompetent management, and gross abuse of salary and benefit awards in general.

One way or another, the midde chunk of taxpayers will be footing the unemployment bill, and they know, that the middle group have zero power.

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Little will change D, too many troughers in Westminster playing the game.

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Four wheels move the body - 2 wheels move the soul.

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Like it.

Oh, BTW, its snowing.

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Yeah, heavily here in the Thames Valley with that sticky slippery stuff this time. Filled the wheel barrow with logs, was coming down the garden and the front wheel grew to a HUGE size, jammed, and I nearly ended-up head over heels on me noddle !

Not that keen on this white fluffing stuff. Goose won't be able to get out the door if he gets the predicted 400 mill blanket - Fluffy white Goggs

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We collected a large amount of wood last Sunday from a local wood, well seasoned and almost dry, just needs a day or so down the side of the stove before burning. Mostly birch and oak, would have cost me £50 minimum if I had bought it from a supplier.

Its currently in the shed and needs cutting into logs, the challenge being to get it cut and into the log shed and house whilst keeping the falling snow off it, should be good fun! We do have plenty in reserve if the weather gets too bad to go out, the wind is really picking up here.

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Snow a 100 mill here now and only 12:30 gmt. Hmmnn - much heavier than forecast.

Snow is challenging at my age . My baby chain saw is having it's chain sharpenned. I've asked the expert sharpenning guy for it back - so many bl***y times, and now ! Where he is, is on the South Oxon North Downs, it will be nearly a foot thick. We are walking locally, that is all we plan to do. I'm doing accounts and tax in my Retreat. The energy meters are spinning tops at chez Dunc, an open fire in an office is a no no. Anyway, I'd need another chimney. We could have log burning stoves in two of the bedrooms !

Logs are collected by the scrap metal boys and tarmac lads when ever any felling is done in the outskirts round here - like hawks they are. Back to the old ways.

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Chaps do you have a wood burner / stove or open fires ??

Looking to a buy stove as the open fire just doesnt give enough heat out.

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I have a stove, its multifuel but we only burn wood. One of the best things we ever bought for the house, central heating has hardly been on this winter. Got up this morning around 7.30, house still warm, stove still hot, threw in a handful of kindling and a log and away she went.

Best advice I can offer you is buy the best you can afford, it will repay you in efficiency and build quality. I have a Clearview, can reccommend visiting their showroom in Ludlow, couple it with a good day out, plenty of decent places to eat & drink.

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That is damn good advice - I was waiting for GK to say something - cheers

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