HMV is shutting another handful of stores.

Kettering
Newport
Islington
Leamington Spa
Oxford Street (downsizing)
They're also relocating the Trafford Centre store (there's currently a big relocation "stick liquidation" sale on complete with that POS the administrators seem to use ...

remind me, it's the building next to Primark (as viewed from Piccadilly Gardens) that used to be 'Old' Broadcasting House?

No, it's above Natwest on the adjacent side of Piccadilly Gardens (to the right if you're looking at Primark) that used to be Broadcasting House (I think it used to be a ...

I was in an Asda the other day which have already installed them over the cigarettes. They were all white with just some rather plain ID realated stuff (by which I mean "you have to be 18 to buy" type things.) Didn't look great to be honest, but I guess they had to come up with a quick solution.

Pete wrote:Does anyone else find this bit of POS really annoying?

Yes, the fact the two sets of text face the oposite direction jumped out at me stright away.

And now he has a web site "looking at Theme tunes, idents and branding of britains TV channels." with absolutely nothing on it.

The best bit is he wants content for it - "if you have any thing that you could add that we don't have on the site, please post below or contact me through the site ...

I don't know about Gav, but I tend to accumulate vast quantities of change and only get rid of it in big batches, so coinstair is both a blessing (convenience) and a curse (so many percent!)

You see I use the Barlcays machines in thier branches, same concept as coinstar, but without the commision ...

One last point, don't assume we know where you are, so telling us that Fred from your region was on wasn't very helpful. If you write a load of drivel, we won't bother in scrolling back up to read your region.

To be fair to ginodog (*shudder*), there is a the information below everyone's username ...

The joys of living in a gated complex, people struggle to get in, even if we want them to, so havn't had a door to door sales person in the year I've been here. There's not even a buzzer on the gate.

So there are avantages to the stupid set up we have after all, hmmmm.

Sput wrote:EXCITING NEWS from Manchester arndale, where the already quite new comet has got itself a new logo, in lower case!

I had to sit down to prevent the onset of gaspies.

Indeed, and here it is:

I have to say (just to add my less than interesting thoughts on this, and generally reapet what everyone else has already said), I have also recently become increasingly frustrated (there's always usually some degree of it, but I can normally withstand it) with the way the form is at present ...

Here's a look mat the logos of the Greater Manchester Councils. Some horrific, some not so horrific.

In the last few years, Trafford council has had a major rebrand from this:
http://www.ashfish.net/council/traffordold.jpg To this: http://www.ashfish.net/council/trafford-council-logo.jpg

Salford ...