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£95.00 Info / Buy Product Information If your garden is looking pretty drab then how about sprucing it up with some assistance from a professional? We can't do Ground Force unfortunately, but the next best thing.

I’ve just come across an Early Day Motion at the House of Commons, dated 1 July 2008, by Labour’s Khalid Mahmood: That this House believes that the Register of Postcodes is a national public asset and should be freely available. Short and sweet. And attracting healthy numbers of (mostly Labour) MPs willing to add their names in support.

I’ve just come across an Early Day Motion at the House of Commons, dated 1 July 2008, by Labour’s Khalid Mahmood: That this House believes that the Register of Postcodes is a national public asset and should be freely available. Short and sweet. And attracting healthy numbers of (mostly Labour) MPs willing to add their names in support.

"The UK has one of the planet’s more granular postcoding systems, with each of the nation’s 1.8m individual postcodes covering on average 15 houses. In IT terms, that’s a remarkably accurate piece of geocoding data..."

LibDem MP Lynne Featherstone has an idea. She tells Liberal Conspiracy the one IT project she’d like to see from government would be (if I can paraphrase) an email-bouncing facility, where you’d send an email (for example) to yourpostcode@police.gov.uk (sic), and it would automatically get forwarded to the relevant coppers.

... from a local estate agent. Even in these days of credit crunches and plummeting house prices we still get regular missives from different companies saying how they've just sold or let a neighbouring flat and if we are considering doing the same to call them.

It's what, on this side of the Atlantic, could be called the washed out Boden look. Probably borrowed wholesale in some of the smarter London postcodes ( we Brits are nothing if not impressionable) from the east coast of the USA. Deck shoes and no socks. Distressed chinos. And a faded short sleeved shirt.

Mortgage Squeeze Down Under From the Herald Sun: THE mortgage-belt suburbs of Hampton Park, Craigieburn and Roxburgh Park are reeling from interest rate rises, and are falling behind with their repayments. Fitch studied home loan data from 947,000 loans nationwide.

Aussies Suffering From Mortage Stress From ABC: New figures show mortgage stress is now a problem for a higher proportion of regional home owners than city dwellers. Figures from the Mortgage and Finance Association show about 40 per cent of people living in regional Australia are under mortgage stress, compared with about 30 per cent in the city.

A postal code which is also recognized in various countries as postcode or ZIP code is a series of letters and/or digits attached to a postal address serving the purpose of sorting mail. Geographical areas are usually assigned with such codes. But sometimes, there are also individual addresses or institutions...