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Stop 24 Starbucks is to become a Costa

Starbucks at Stop 24 is closing

That's the starbucks at the ghost town services at Junction 11 of the M20 (the Folkestone Races junction). Staff have been told, the gossip hit the office on Friday but only just got to me this morning... that solves my problem of trying not to go in...

Appalling service!

Saturday 15 Augusr 2009, I stopped in at the George for a bite to eat with my wife and 7 month old baby. Was advised restaurant not open untiol 6 . . .no problem. Sat down to enjoy some real ale. Pub was very busy, with only 1 poor chap runing the pl...

Folkestone gets the high speed rail service next month

From 7 September, the high-speed services will also serve Dover Priory, Canterbury West, Ramsgate, Folkestone Central and Folkestone West.

says the BBC.

A hurried lunch at Brockhill Park

Lawks what happened at the cafe at Brockhill Country Park? There's me raving about it to anyone who'll listen and making plans to get back there as frequently as possible, arranged for some friends to come along and meet me there at lunchtime, and it...

'Anchor Baby' Recording Services

Anchor Baby Recordings is a professional digital recording service, based in a beautiful studio, set in its own peaceful garden in Monks Horton, just outside of Folkestone in Kent. The studio was lovingly purpose-built in 1989 and has seen bands such...

@itchypaws @pauly #m12494 cheers for all the tips, will be following your advice. Got a thermometer like that already.

@itchypaws @pauly cheers for all the tips, will be following your advice. Got a thermometer like that already....

New Twitter ticket service

Look up gigs on twitter.com, @ticketbot Killers, and it'll respond to you with details! Brilliant!OK, actually not all that brilliant. But it will follow you, so you look popular. Works for local bands (so long as the gig is listed on The 'Gerald, n...

High Speed Rail Link services from Chartham to London

There will be... none. Chartham is not far from Canterbury, and the existing peak services will continue. It's not so important to us now, a village location would have its own benefits, but here's a round up. Currently there's a choice of three trai...

RE: Thanks, advice from another friend at work here is NO too

Have you considered the Squeezebox technology from Slim Devices? I've used the Classics before, they stream off your network and each one can be streaming different music. You can jump tracks around too. Logitech bought Slim Devices (last year I t...

Thanks, advice from another friend at work here is NO too

It seems to be just one way communication, sound is streamed from the PC to the airport express, and then I can plug speakers in to that. I can't send anything back the other way to skip a track or anything. This would be slightly worse than the curr...

Oh and EAT is gone from Stop 24

That's EAT the chain gone from Stop 24, the motorway services near here.

Useful tips for guitar beginners!

This is what I was after, thank you Neil and Mark:cheat - don't use every finger on every string like the books suggest in strange cramped positions.if you want open chords 90% of songs are D C and G2 bar chord shapes and don't worry about extending ...

A lovely offer from The Hermitage

A contributor to the forum posted about a disappointing anniversary meal they'd had at a local restaurant in January. And The Hermitage have chipped in, this story obviously tugged their heart strings like it did mine, but they've actually put their ...

Denby Cotswold dinner service

Just picked up another couple of pieces of this at a market and there's lots on ebay at good prices, so keeping an eye on that from now on... It's good to have a hobby.And you wondered if I could write about anything less interesting than habitat rad...

Vice City: Fareham

Fareham man mown down by car wielding would-be assassin, possibly:A 34-year-old man was walking along Red Barn Lane in Fareham yesterday when a car mounted the pavement and struck him from behind. The vehicle responsible then left the scene.Anyone wi...

Sorry for the temporary lack of service

I think the website was too busy over the weekend, i triggered something at the hosting centre and they shut me down. This affected my email too. All back now!

RE: Great service and food

oops! didn't have my java script enabled so couldn't see the whole message, sorry =)

RE: Great service and food

dying to what it's called and where it is?

Great service and food

If you would like top food and great service this is the place to go. They made my whole party feel very special,it was good to see some young blood working in the restraunt as it use to remind me of an old folks home.i give it 10 out of 10...

RE: It's more and more like Miami Vice round here every day

Good choice on the purchase of the Buddha - we have a few dotted around the house, some really cheery ones. I want a big stone one for the garden but Hazel won't allow it :o( Got a picture of yours?

It's more and more like Miami Vice round here every day

Hmm, not really, but this morning a body was found on the beach at Folkestone. Grim, wonder if it's linked to this man, missing after being quizzed about this 53 million pound robbery.Had a lovely day in Canterbury today, despite the rain, was nice t...

Oof, bum arse service in The Jackdaw

Just been to The Jackdaw for lunch, and though the food was great again (one Indonesian vegetable satay, one roast beef and one roast turkey, not all me you understand) we had a hiccup with our starter. The main courses came before the starter, not i...

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Who reads these service agreements anyway?

> Dear Paul:> > Posting links in forums and on message boards is technically a violation of the service agreement. You will need to discontinue that practice if you wish to remain in the network.> > Sincerely,> Network QualityBah, guessing this is ab...

No space left on device

DAMN, problems with popex all day so far, it thinks it's out of disk space and it's not, trying to sort it... possibly it's too many small files on the partition, or something. Going to try deleting a load of stuff....

some advice I was given about Hamburg

S-Bahn is short for Schnell-Bahn which are the suburban trains.In German cities you have the following:U-Bahn (big blue U signs) - Untererdisches Bahn so Underground, normally a small network in the city centreS-Bahn (green S signs) - Schnellbahn so ...

Simon Pegg?

Why Simon Pegg earlier down in the listings? What has he to do with pop and music. I saw him at a Service station about two years ago, does that count?