The !!GOOD NEWS!! thread....

[turbobloke]

ONS data in the Daily Mail:

Employment and pay on the rise as private sector creates 13 new jobs for every post axed in public sector

*There are now 30.8million in work, up 588,000 on the same time last year
*Unemployment figure down 455,000 on 2013
*Public sector jobs down 49,000 in a year, private sector up by 637,000
*Number of 18-24-year-olds claiming dole down to lowest level since 1970s
*Regular pay up 1.6% in a year
*Inflation falls to 12-year low of 1%

[55palfers]

Petrol prices are falling!

[FredClogs]

Homeless man gives student his last £3 to help her get a taxi home after she lost her bank card with an amazing outcome...


http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-lancashire-3051...

[turbobloke]

FredClogs said:

Homeless man gives student his last £3 to help her get a taxi home after she lost her bank card with an amazing outcome...

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-lancashire-3051...

Great result.

[Kermit power]

I just got my new (and first) glasses.

Not something you'd necessarily think of as good news, what with being a sign of getting old and decrepit, but I went through that bit when I was told I needed them.

Driving back from picking them up from the factory shop in Croydon was just staggering, though! I'd not really noticed my eyesight starting to go, as it happens so gradually, but now, when I take them off, it feels like I've smeared a light coating of Vaseline over my eyeballs at the same time!

Being able to see perfectly again - and what feels like far, far better than I can ever remember seeing in the past - is very much "good news"!

[55palfers]

Kermit power said:

I just got my new (and first) glasses.

Not something you'd necessarily think of as good news, what with being a sign of getting old and decrepit, but I went through that bit when I was told I needed them.

Driving back from picking them up from the factory shop in Croydon was just staggering, though! I'd not really noticed my eyesight starting to go, as it happens so gradually, but now, when I take them off, it feels like I've smeared a light coating of Vaseline over my eyeballs at the same time!

Being able to see perfectly again - and what feels like far, far better than I can ever remember seeing in the past - is very much "good news"!

I reckon everyone who drives should have an eyetest every two years if aged over 40. Failing eyesight creeps up on one (as you have noticed) and I know a few people whose eyesight is far from adequate for driving.

[BlackLabel]

Scotsman said:

Something happened last year that hasn’t happened in past decade – beer sales in the UK actually rose.

This is extremely encouraging news and it is surely more than coincidence that it has happened in the wake of the scrapping of the beer duty escalator and two consecutive reductions in duty – the first time that this has happened since the 1950s. It has also coincided with an explosion in the number of breweries in the UK, with the number being at its highest – over 1200 – since before the Second World War.

http://www.scotsman.com/news/roll-out-the-barrels-as-beer-sales-rise-1-3689222

reuters said:

Better-off Britons drive record profit at Greggs

http://uk.reuters.com/article/2015/03/04/uk-greggs-results-idUKKBN0M00JB20150304

telegraph said:

Sales of new cars in Britain are set to record three years of continuous growth this week, highlighting the strength of the UK auto industry.

Official industry data on vehicle registrations, set to be published on Thursday by the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT), is expected to show 36 months of year-on-year increases.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/industry/11440902/Car-sales-on-track-for-three-years-of-growth.html

[turbobloke]

A rich relative I didn't know existed has died intestate in Japan and some nice geezer in a bank over there wants to send me my inheritance of 'eighteen million thousand' USD plus interest. Apparently there's only one other person, apart from the deceased, with the same name in the entire scamiverse. Me!



Word for word but with new names for the banks and staff this time

Back to busking

[Randy Winkman]

turbobloke said:

A rich relative I didn't know existed has died intestate in Japan and some nice geezer in a bank over there wants to send me my inheritance of 'eighteen million thousand' USD plus interest. Apparently there's only one other person, apart from the deceased, with the same name in the entire scamiverse. Me!



Word for word but with new names for the banks and staff this time

Back to busking

I can get you that cash tax free .... and for only a small fee.

[turbobloke]

Randy Winkman said:

turbobloke said:

A rich relative I didn't know existed has died intestate in Japan and some nice geezer in a bank over there wants to send me my inheritance of 'eighteen million thousand' USD plus interest. Apparently there's only one other person, apart from the deceased, with the same name in the entire scamiverse. Me!



Word for word but with new names for the banks and staff this time

Back to busking

I can get you that cash tax free .... and for only a small fee.

Excellent, now I have a bidding war between RW and Mr S Chung. It's around five years since my last unexpected multi-million dollar inheritance so the timing is perfect.

[turbobloke]

The CBI reckons that the speed at which the British economy is growing is increasing, their research showed business activity increasing markedly in the three months to May.

CBI Director of Economics Rain Newton-Smith said:

Growth has cranked up several gears.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-32949991

Good news - particularly to those Labour supporters who in the run-up to the election were crowing worried about the expected temporary slowdown in Q1, with the good of the country at heart naturally. Relax comrades, the Conservatives are in charge of the economy and the country

[dazwalsh]

Its a good news day for me, my grandmother is all clear after a cancer scare. 85 years young and just bullies her way through her advancing years.

Work wise not one property in my portfolio is empty, so I can take down the vacancies sign now, been a long hard slog refurbing the lot for the last few years, two holidays booked too relax a bit.

Finally mrs walsh pisses off to Disney land for a week for a hen do so I can lounge about in my pants for a week eating crap and not doing the dishwasher. I've got a load of disposable plates and cutlery ready for the slob fest. I'm also going to surprise her with a new TV and soundbar too, she will LOVE that!