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[r1]

every time theres a newspaper quote on hear its from the mail.
do all oofers only read the mail? or is it the only paper worth quoting?
just wondered.

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

I don't think that many OOFers read the Fail/Mail.
It's probably because the Daily Mail never has a good word to say about anything or anybody.

[05omegav6]

To try and be provocative with lots of badly researched/written non stories...

Everytime I click a link, I kick myself... most of them have been covered (badly)in the last week or so by Jeremy Whine, or has been raised on MSN/on the radio news at least two days previously

[Rods2]

Personally, I would rather link to The Telegraph, but it is unfortunately behind a pay wall. So the fail, is the least worst of the rest which doesn't say a lot about the standard of newspapers in this country.

Some people prefer some of the other ones, for the celeb. tittle-tattle where some of them directly report famous peoples voicemail messages, allegedly.

[Vamps]

It's a long time since I purchased a National News Paper, even now I only tend to buy the local paper occasionally, usually with petrol if the headline catches my eye.....

[Lagondanet]

I dont read any papers regularly.
Tend to listen to the radio commuting. Radio 4 usually, sorry.  Radio 2 occasionally & Brian Matthews on Sat am of course.

[r1]

I havnt bought a paper in years hence the question
in a few more years think newspapers will go the same way as BL cars.

[05omegav6]

I havnt bought a paper in years hence the question
in a few more years think newspapers will go the same way as BL cars.

As far as the tabloids are concerned, one can only hope...

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

I havnt bought a paper in years hence the question
in a few more years think newspapers will go the same way as BL cars.

BL made some world-beating cars.....Marina........All-aggro......the list is endless, and goes to show what a motivated and enthusiastic workforce can achieve.

[cleggy]

My first company car was a pool car until my BMW 320I arrived was The Flying Turd an Austin Princess 2.2 heap of shite, what an embarrassing dog. After 6 beemers (New one every year) without a problem I changed companies and got a Rover Sterling, another heap of shite, in 6 months from New it was towed by the AA to the garage 5 times

My next company supplied me with Carlon CDX, BLISS

German manufactured car have never let me down, BL/Rover

[TheBoy]

BL made some shite without doubt. But (excluding works vans) the ones I can were all decent reliable^* cars.

I remember Mum and Dad cursing their 318 that failed its first ever MOT quite catastrophically (although apart from a HGF has been a reliable runner since (bar some niggles) - it improved with age ). My bro was stupid enough to buy an X5, which he's had a surprising amount of time now, and been chasing a gearbox fault for years, which started a few months out of warranty. BMW eventually changed the entire gearbox last year, but fair play, they did subsidise a small proportion of the £7k parts cost (but wouldn't subsidise any labour).

Pretty much all cars have similar reliability, in the scale of things.

[cleggy]

Going back further every BL car I had was a dog. MK2 Triumph Spitfire just fell to bits, Austin 1300GT had a hot spot on the head and kept burning out exhaust valves. I got so fed up of skinned knuckles removing the head and lapping in new valves that I traded it for a Dolomite Sprint. Big mistake, crank went under warranty, engine replaced and then it screwed the diff.
The replacement was a 1600 Cavalier, XNP 342R(funny how you remember some things) It is the only reg I remember, don't know the Omega's . Reliable car in fact swore I would never get another crap BL bag of Longbridge shite, unfortunately the company gave me the two mentioned above and I was right. Just surprised they didn't go belly up long before they did, or would have done without taxpayers money. How Red Robbo wasn't locked up I'll never know.