Yes we are pensioners - that doesn't mean we are brain dead and are only able to discuss mild bland subjects surely ?

That's what I gathered, Klon. 

I got a bit of a shock earlier when I was putting an appointment on the calendar, It's May 21st today and I realised that in exactly 4 weeks 3 days it's June 21st.......The longest day It pulled me up I can tell you, it feels like we've only just gotten out of Winter and the nights will be counting down to darkness again. 

This isn't Twitter though - it's a pensioners forum. 

There is a by-line to the Let's Chat logo of the top of every page. It would be good if everybody remembered what it says. 

If someone has a valid point of view surely they must be willing to put forward the reasons why they hold such a view ? .

Otherwise there is no discussion at all .

I see this is a new result from a retrial. It must be the undecided charge from the original trial. I thought some charges had been upheld in that one.

Checking shows there was one conviction from that - https://www.gmp.police.uk/news/greater-manchester/news/news/2025/july/man-convicted-of-assaulting-two-female-police-officers-and-a-member-of-the-public/

They were also charged with assault an a male police officer following the first assault. My pure speculation is that they were in a punch up with other police who maybe didn't stick to the rules after their female colleague had her nose broken

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/jul/30/men-guilty-manchester-airport-police-assault

I thought my internet contract was nearly up so had a look at my account. It's next year but there was a link to upgrade offers so I took a look. I'd taken a downgrade from my 500Mbps to 125Mbps as it was a fair bit cheaper and there was an excellent cashback at the time.  I saw I could upgrade to 900Mbps for £3 a month more. I don't in truth need it most of the time but it does speed u[ any backups and downloads when I do them so I thought why not.

I checked post upgrade and it is working well..




Then I got and email confirming the change and it is saying there is a £5 discount on the price for the life of the contract so it is actually £2 cheaper 

They got one conviction ( breaking the woman pcs nose ) 
I don't know what they other is about 

I thought it was only one of the charges that couldn't be decided. That's from memory though I think as I'm sure I saw something about this a while ago. 

The problem is often seeing the validity of the some other point of view that conflicts with your own when it is so obviously wrong.