Many thanks for posting that bach. There are currently 130540 signatures. COME ON EVERYONE - If you haven't signed this petition yet please do it online TODAY and get everyone you know to sign it TODAY - it closes at 9pm tomorrow evening so there's no time to waste. Gurkha Justice Campaign GET TO IT!

There's a website called PetrolPrices.Com - Free UK fuel prices. 9,762 petrol stations covered - PetrolPrices.com - that sends out emails updating you on the prices of petrol or diesel or both in your area - you can subscribe and decide how often you want to receive updates. It's an excellent service. They also have loads of data about how much of what we pay per litre is tax etc. Hope this helps.

A message from Joanna re the campaign is available to view here http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=InjrGSHMQ2I Please ask your friends, colleagues and family to sign this petition online or download the paper version and take it out and about with you and collect as many signatures as you can. Thank you!

Thank you for your clarification PGH - an unfortunate turn of phase used originally then.

I don't understand what flying pigs have to do with what I posted. Also, I'm not aware of any connection the Red Arrows, a marvellous, acrobatic, non-combatitive, flying squadron have with flying pigs.

An integrity of bankers?

Eh? Please translate :?

Will Sir Fred Goodwin hand back his 2004 knighthood "for services to the banking industry", last year's £2.88m bonus, his £500k+ annual pension and his reported guaranteed payoff of at least £1.2 million (last year's basic salary) when he resigns? Time to restore a modicum of honour Fred.

If they give you a "present" without apologising they're making a gesture of goodwill whether they say so or not.

It's still a gesture of goodwill

I have had nothing but problems with BT. At our last house we were with BT. At our current house we are with BT. When we moved we told them we were moving and asked that the old telephone line & internet access cease on a particular date and that the new telephone line and internet access start on a particular date - it didn't happen. The new telephone line was activated but the old one wasn't stopped. The new internet access wasn't activated for two 1/2 weeks and the old one wasn't stopped. We have been indudated with bills which we cannot understand and which have telephone numbers which don't correspond with the address sent to. We've had threats from debt recovery agents. We've spent days and days on the telephone trying to sort it out. We're left on hold for ages, eventually the call is answered by someone who "can't help" but "will put you through to someone who can" - and so it goes on, on hold again for ages, "sorry, I can't help" I'll just put you through to another department" etc. BT don't even know which bill refers to what account at which address... On several occassions we've been told that they'll "investigate the matter and get back to you within two hours" - several months later we still haven't received the call. I think we've overpaid but as I can't work out which bill is what I have no way of proving we have.

No it isn't. An apology means "I admit I have made a mistake and I am sorry" A gesture of goodwill means "I do not accept liability in any way, shape or form but to make you go away and stop berating me about the mistake(s) I made but which I will not admit to making (and am having a great deal of difficulty trying to persuade you that I am not liable for because you and I both know I am guilty) I'll give you a fiver/bunch of flowers/bottle of wine"

There's now a printable petition that you can download - here: http://www.gurkhajustice.org.uk/gurkha_campaign_petition_form.pdf As Joanna Lumley says in her email to those who have signed the petition online: "Please download and print some copies, and ask friends and colleagues who have not signed on line to sign up. Please do pass it round (some friends of mine have run street stalls asking people for their signatures - I'm not asking you to go that far!) and return completed sheets to me at the address on the form by the end of October." Perhaps you take a few sheets along if you're doing a car boot, put some in the reception area at work etc. Many thanks for the support. The aim is to get 1 million signatures - so there's a way to go yet.

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Anyone read Max Hasting's piece in todays Mail? MAX HASTINGS: The guilty must be named and shamed! | Mail Online

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Contact commercial agents and ask them if they act in rent reviews. Assuming you can find several compare their results and their prices - cheapest is not necessarily the best - and neither is most expensive! Get as many property particulars as you can for similar shop units - frontage, size, location etc. Shop rents are calculated in three areas - the first area is the shop front and first few feet of retail area: this is the most expensive. The area at the rear of the shop is the least expensive and the bit in the middle is "middle" expensive. Storage areas/loos/office etc are less expensive than retail part. Hope this helps but your best advice is to get together with your neighbours, appoint an agent who acts in rent review cases and do battle... It's less expensive for ING to have you there paying less rent than to have an empty unit - and in these uncertain times they could be stuck with an empty unit for some while.

Has anyone heard a word of apology from any bank for the mess they and their employees have put us in? Or the Government? Or the FSA?

Thanks everyone, much appreciated

If I was in this position I'd start the ball rolling on re-claiming these charges. True you haven't paid them yet but if you don't re-claim them you'll end up having to pay them. Write to Nationwide (and send a copy to ACI) stating "this account is in dispute" using letter 2 in the templates library http://www.consumeractiongroup.co.uk/forum/bank-templates-library/671-2-letter-preliminary-approach.html - as you know how much they've charged in fees you won't need to send the SAR letter. Send the letter to Nationwide by Recorded Delivery - or drop it off in branch and get them to sign for it. I made my bank sign a photocopy of the letter I was delivering so there was no way they could say they hadn't received it. Also send the DPA letter (if you've been defaulted for unlawful charges)http://www.consumeractiongroup.co.uk/forum/bank-templates-library/5078-10-data-protection-act.html Again, get them to sign for it. Good luck.

Reminder to sign this petition please.

When he's uncomfortable, isn't enjoying life, isn't walking around, isn't eating, and MOST IMPORTANTLY isn't washing - the moment they stop grooming you know that the time has come.