Faulty washing machines and toys feature prominently in customer complaints, but a sick horse is a new one on us. Nonetheless, the UK European Consumer Centre, which is two-years-old on Saturday, highlighted the case of a UK woman who was miffed at finding out that the £3,000 horse she bought from a Swedish trader suffering from a medical condition that prevented it from being ridden. The ECC's UK...
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THINGS always look better the morning after. Just as well for the SNP after a defeat in the Glasgow North East by-election which Labour was fully entitled to call "resounding". On any view, losing an election by 59 per cent to 20 per cent poses significant questions.There are two things the SNP can do wrong at this point. The first is not to react to this result. The second, equally dangerous, is to...
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Hull boss Phil Brown admits Jimmy Bullard has provided his side with just the spark they needed.Brown has had to wait most of the year for the chance to name the £5million club record signing in his starting line-up due to a serious knee injury.Bullard required major surgery after injuring himself on debut in January and did not start a game until the defeat of Stoke a fortnight ago.The 31-year-old...
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Bahrain will be hoping to build on a dominant second-half display in last month's scoreless draw with New Zealand as the platform for a better result in Saturday's AsiaOceania World Cup qualifier second leg.The winner of the match at a sold-out Westpac Stadium in Wellington will advance to the 2010 World Cup finals after the side's battled out a 0-0 draw in Manama, with Bahrain failing to convert several...
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Real Madrid's Kaka of Brazil, left and Marcelo of Brazil runs past Racing Santander's Pedro Munitis during a Spanish La Liga soccer match at the Santiago Bernabeu stadium in Madrid on November 21. Real Madrid won the match 1- 0. (AP Photo)Barcelona dropped two costly points in a 1-1 draw at Athletic Bilbao on Saturday to fall a point behind new leaders Real Madrid ahead of next Sunday's eagerly-anticipated...
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South Africa's rugby team has accused France of "disrespecting" their country's national anthem at the start of Friday's test match in Toulouse.The vice-caption of the Springboks called the rendition a "joke" after the singer forgot some of the lyrics and struggled to hit the high notes.Many in the crowd began to laugh during the anthem, which incorporates five of South Africa's 11 official languages.South...
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Car financing is always the main problem in purchasing a new or a used car. If you are thinking about purchasing a new car then you had probably ran into the credit score process and you know that you should score a perfect result in order to qualify for car loans.The problem is that most of people had a problem or two with credit card companies before like repossession, bankruptcy or any other credit...
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London's Heathrow Airport has beenvoted the worst airport in the world for the second year running in a poll of14,500 frequent fliers while Singapore's Changi was again ranked as the best.The survey participants, all member of airport lounge programmePriority Pass, rated Paris' Charles de Gaulle airport as the second worst withLos Angeles International Airport coming third despite a recent $1 billionoverhaul."A...
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third-quarter reports roll along, banking, transportation and heavy industry companies have said the worst is behind them. Not so for real-estate investment trusts. Their comments on third-quarter results indicate few are ready to say the worst is over.REITs, which operate commercial properties from office buildings to prisons, have diligently whittled down the leverage on their balance sheets and...
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VERY GOOD BIKE, TVS MUST RESTART THE PRODUCTION, MY BIKE WAS 5 YEARS OLD, I SOLD IT BECAUSE OF NON AVAILABILTY OF SPARES. TVS MUST IMPROVE ITS SERVICES ALSO.: I had never got any problem with this bike for 5 years now. The only one i faced was when its engine broke down because of rains. When other bikes on the road were still running that means the deficiency is in its design, overall its performance...
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