I wonder how much of this is Nationwide trying to get a better online banking platform? Their current IT is well in need of an overhaul, whereas much of Virgin Money is quite modern - I have a feeling it's based on Clydesdale's short-lived B brand. That said, I recently opened an ISA with them and i...

Despite my initial misgivings, I've quickly come to love my wireless earphones - admittedly it's partly driven by my change in commuting habits, but the case takes up very little space in my pocket, so I'm far more likely to stick them in and listen to something when out and about or even doing odd-...

Having gigabit broadband would certainly have been a lot more useful to me during Covid times when I was working from home a lot more (in a job that required quite a bit of streaming video). It's less of an issue now and I reckon a few hundred meg would do me fine, though having a symmetrical upload...

Buying lunch from Pret has definitely joined the 'once in a while' thing rather than being once a week or so - I understand their economics, but I can't really justify a fiver for a sarnie anymore. I'm also less likely to buy a fancy coffee on the way to work - though that's partly because I'm now g...

The last time I saw a The Body Shop and it actually registered in my consciousness was when I was in Seoul a few years back - but it was in Myeong-dong, which is home of many a flagship cosmetics shop, so it was a particularly big and swanky one. I guess Lush has supplanted it as a home-grown eco-co...

Clyde 1 are broadcasting a 2-hour retrospective on the occasion of their 50th birthday, with some good bits of archive and interviews with people who were involved over the years. So far, John MacKay and Dougie Donnelly have popped up. https://planetradio.co.uk/clyde/shows/clyde-1-the-first-50-years...

I've seen both the Channel 4-only version and the version with all three networks (but also on Channel 4).

Is there an STV version for Scotland?

Some of the NatWest brands have put their new card artwork online: https://www.rbs.co.uk/content/dam/royal_bank_of_scotland/personal/current-accounts/photography/image.dim.480.Mastercard-RBS-450X280.png https://www.natwest.com/content/dam/natwest/personal/current-accounts/photography/image.dim.480....

Thats the Gap closing All its stores, "Please insert your puns as required" I did say to someone about this and there reply was "oh its not very good store anyway so no real lose" https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-57670737 I missed this, but Gap have been opening concessions i...

I think Clyde 2 must have some sort of UK record for keeping more or less the same station name on more or less the same frequency - it's always had 'Clyde' in the name, and the move from 261m to 1152KHz is pretty much a rounding error. 49 years, 3 months and 2 days is going to be hard to beat. loo...

McGills of Greenock aren't too chuffed with the idea of a similar franchising model being introduced in Glasgow - which frankly a bit of top-down thinking applied to its transport network..

https://www.route-one.net/news/glasgow- ... -response/