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Drivers coming down our 20 mph restricted lane that was clearly marked 'Road Closed' at the turning and then spinning round and speeding off at 60 mph (in our 20mph) zone to make up the time lost time.

Arcam CD5 Review By WHF: Product of the Year CD Players £500-£1000 £100 above your budget but worth it. Richers Sounds https://www.richersounds.com/arcam-cd5-black/

Contender for 101 I have just received an email from my broadband provider thanking me for 'reaching out' when I needed help with a problem. I'm in Cheshire and they are in Yorkshire. How long do they think my arms are?

Bargain and in budget on eBay. Superb speakers...

A friend of mine, (you know who you are) finally admitted that he had bought a Taylor Swift album when I had to resort to waterboarding him to get at the truth. I spotted him coming out of HMV and although not a clear sighting at a distance my suspicions were aroused. Should have chosen the HMV...

When I tried the squash balls I just placed some double sided tape on the base plate of the Thorens around each existing foot to create a seal and then placed the squash balls over the top of them round side facing down mainly for aesthetics but either way up would work I suppose. You'll see a...

Top Aldi Self Service Tips. 1. Use the one closest to the staff member and adapt the look of a totally clueless individual and they usually do it for you to stop a huge backlog building up. 2. Place your 'bag for life' on the bagging area before doing anything, usually a Waitrose or M&S one for...

Unexpected item in the bagging area

For just over £100 you could upgrade your E3 with the new E4 stylus. I contacted Goldring and they have confirmed that it is the same body. The E4 stylus is a nude eliptical which tightens up the bass, greater separation and more refined high frequencies. It's high compliance too so it will...

I've had my Thorens for nigh on 40 years and in that time (10 years in storage) I have oiled the bearing with sewing machine oil every couple of years. Each time I have cleaned (as best as possible) any residue of the old oil from the bearing and housing with lint-free cloth and then put in four...

Thank you for your compliment re my Thorens Mr Penkwin. I posted just to show what could be done on a tight budget and I think at £250 I have made some serious inroads into improving the sound quality of my system in reinventing what was a perfectly good deck to a hopefully new level within a...

I had a two inch thick piece of slate cut at our local stone merchants and placed a soft rubber floor pad on each corner plus one in the centre and placed it on the my rack shelf. Cones and pads from here (although I decided that the pads were unnecessary but came with the cones)...

I made my own using Shark wire. Made to measure and to my ears sound extremely good. A 50cm pair cost around £8 all in and took about half an hour to make up and a bit quicker on the second set. I then borrowed a pair of reasonably expensive QED Performance RCAs ( £70) from a friend to see if...