MoD seeks to cut soldiers' payout

"BBC NEWS | UK | MoD seeks to cut soldiers' payout
The Ministry of Defence will go to the Court of Appeal later to try to significantly reduce the compensation awarded to two injured soldiers. One, who was shot in the leg in Iraq, received £46,000, while the other, injured in training, got £28,750. Both had their payouts increased due to complications, but the MoD is arguing that they should only be compensated for their "original injuries"."

I already knew the MoD was tight, but this really takes the biscuit. Wonder just how many of the tight-arses behind this decision have even been shot at, let alone injured in the line of duty? Will they even remember the names of these soldiers when they retire on fat, civil service pensions?

BBC NEWS | UK | MoD seeks to cut soldiers' payout

Ofwat calls for lower water bills

"BBC NEWS | Business | Ofwat calls for lower water bills
Proposals set out by water regulator Ofwat will see average household water bills fall between 2010 and 2015. Taking out the impact of inflation, the proposals, if accepted, would see the average water bill fall by £14 to £330."

How come Ofwat can control water prices, whereas Ofgen are completely powerless against the money-grabbing electricity and gas suppliers?

BBC NEWS | Business | Ofwat calls for lower water bills

UK has enough helicopters - Brown

"BBC NEWS | Politics | UK has enough helicopters - Brown
Gordon Brown has said the UK has enough helicopters for an offensive in Helmand - and said lives lost during the past month were not due to a shortage."

So says a guy whose probably never been shot at once in his life.

"It comes after Foreign Office minister Lord Malloch Brown rowed back on comments in a newspaper interview that the UK did not have enough helicopters. The PM said the minister had 'corrected any misrepresentation' of his comments."

In other words, he's been told to retract his statement since it contradicts the aforementioned tight-arse.

But its not just helicopters they're short of.

BBC NEWS | Politics | UK has enough helicopters - Brown

Remembering the moon landing 40 years on

"Remembering the moon landing 40 years on - The Daily Record
However, the Americans' progress was dwarfed by the Soviet's Sputnik in 1961, when Yuri Gagarin became the first man in space."

Er, check your facts guys. Sputnik was a series of robotic space craft - none were manned. On 4th October 1957, Sputnik 1 because the first human-made object to orbit the Earth. Gagarin's flight didn't happen until 1961, the first flight of the Vostok programme.

Remembering the moon landing 40 years on - The Daily Record