Barclays Taunton...a branch refit apparently will take 3 months.

Good job they're closing early on the Friday for the builders to get a head start, with such a limited timeframe they need every minute they can get!

Looks like the first actual one has just been sent out over Storm Darragh. Just like the tests, some people didn't get it

Edit - turns out there have been a few before.

Almost wondering how long before Asda ends up in here, with the total mess it's ending up under the Issa brothers.


It does beg the question, are the big four too big to fail? The repercussions of Asda going bust would be seismic for the UK and would lead to areas without proper food provision ...

Since these days so many (most?) First Buses carry route-specific liveries anyway, not really sure how much impact a new corporate brand will have now vs if it was done 10 years ago. Also seen nothing about a wider rebranding of FirstGroup as a whole. Are they going to use two logos at once?

andyso wrote: Mon 09 Sep, 2024 14.50 Smiths seems to be keeping up with the times by combining different services.And It does make shopping easier

Do you regularly shop at Smiths? What is your favourite service that Smiths provide? Which Services do they not provide now which you think they should add?

I'm sure it's far from unique, but saw my first triple-branded Smiths store last week in Taunton now they're making a big deal of their Toys R Us concession, and this store with a Barclays-branded cash machine to boot too. Doesn't look cluttered at all!

https://up.metropol247.co.uk/cwathen/Smiths ...

Out of curisosity, Metropollers, did anyone get affected by the IT Outage yesterday? Personally, it was quite minimal in terms of impacting my day. The worst was the dot matrix screen at my station was not working, and my online Maccies order went a bit funny. Besides that, felt like it was a bit ...

Probably the small matter of knowing that the TV News won't be able to do a newspaper review tomorrow morning. Therefore get the cover published in the afternoon to get the free publicity from the tv news.
Anyone else think maybe it's time we had a look at this? It's already a rather 1920s rather ...

Indeed The Sun have endorsed Labour at the 11th hour. I wonder how long that front page has been waiting in the wings for 'Time for a new manager (and we don't mean sack Southgate' reads awfully like the big sports news is supposed to be England out of the Euros, but we're still (somehow) in them.

Whilst I hate the paper, I'm a little surprised the S*n haven't endorsed anyone yet. Which suggests, they're expecting a Labour victory but aren't feeling too strongly about endorsing them.

There's reports The Sun will never endorse Labour with Starmer as leader when he was DPP during the phone ...

The last two times the government changed, in 2010 a Labour win was doubtless thought privately to be unlikely, and in 1997 Tory defeat was doubtless privately thought to be inevitable, yet publicly the incumbent government still campaigned like a thumping majority could be delivered and it was all ...