Quote from: morty on Today at 05:17:44 PMOh well if he's handsome too you'll be getting the tin out with the posh biccies in won't you. 

It's a small world isn't it? He lives 5 doors down?

Probably.   

If he doesn't do a good jobll though,  he'll get a dog biscuit instead.   

Quote from: morty on Today at 05:49:58 PMIt's on social media , FB , apparently ... but I find it hard to believe myself.

I agree with you, Morty.      Surely that cant be true?

Might nip down there myself with a drill, hose and a few petrol cans.

Absolutely when diesel is over £10 a gallon even a few vans full would be worth a mint.

That was 2011.  Today's price would be double that.

They probably weren't selling it through the pumps so worth 2 or 3 million on the black market. 

Wow £ 8 million  !

Quote from: Alex on Today at 05:44:11 PMStealing diesel ? if they were, it's a dangerous site to choose, they could have been shot !

It's a USAF base so they probably have a fuel oil pipeline. It's not unknown for thieves to milk a pipeline. Police said they didn't actually have explosives. Nevertheless they want us to believe that they foiled a plot to blow up an American air base. Maybe they did, maybe they didn't. I don't think they would have let terrorists out on bail... would they?

Fuel stolen from Hampshire refinery's underground pipeline (August 2014)
A PIPELINE that carries fuel from Hampshire to Gatwick Airport has been targeted by thieves.
Police have launched an investigation after fuel was siphoned from the 120-mile long pipeline that carries fuel from Fawley Refinery to Purfleet Fuel Terminal and Gatwick.
The theft was committed near the Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg's official country residence in Kent.
Police said initial indications were that it had been ''a well organised crime''.
A gang drilled their way into the pipeline, which passes through Chevening House estate, shared by the Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Secretary.
The fuel was funnelled along a 1,600 foot pipe to an area just outside the 3,500 acre estate near Sevenoaks, Kent, and pumped into huge plastic containers aboard lorries, it was reported.
About 30,000 litres of fuel a day was stolen over seven months, with a value of £8.3million at pumps. Southern Daily Echo

To hell with you.  Avast that idea, god damn it.

Can you tell I'm still reading Hornblower books?

I always think big .... 

I read something else about this licence replacement.

Another suggestion been considered is that if the TV licence is kept as it is, payable to the Beeb ............. there should also be a £2.30 levy as well ontop of internet fees to cover any shortfall.