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Pipex Homecall Bulldog – customer care billing issues recording

Friday, March 20th, 2009

This is really just to log the continuing and ongoing problems with Pipex Bulldog Homecall. I left in Jan 09. They’re still sending me bills, I’ve now got a warning that they may take action which may affect my credit rating.

I have phoned and emailed them several times over the last few months. On Thursday 19/03/09 I started recording the calls for use in court evidence if need be.

You can follow my progress here – note: this is NOT the beginning – this has been going on for months now.

Thursday 19/03/09 3pm

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Book Review – Bad Science

Monday, January 5th, 2009

From the BBC

There is no evidence that products widely promoted to help the body “detox” work, scientists warn.

The charitable trust Sense About Science reviewed 15 products, from bottled water to face scrub, and found many detox claims were “meaningless”.

There’s a great book in the current bestseller list called Bad Science – here’s what one of the reviewers thinks:

Goldacre also lays bare the facts about such ‘complementary’ therapies such as Homeopathy and Nutritionism, which when stripped of the accolades given them in the media, are revealed to be little more than eccentric ideas which somehow have gained unquestioning credence in the popular mind, and even, perversely, created a deep-rooted suspicion of maninstream medicine which is now taken at face value. 

It’s a great antidote – cleanse your mind as well as your skin!

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Network rail fined – director gets knighted plus bonuses

Thursday, February 28th, 2008

http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/news/2008/02/network_rails_record_fine.html

What’s the point of fining Network Rail a record £14m for its “monumental foul-up” on the west coast main line over New Year?

The official justification from the Office of the Rail Regulator is that the fine marks the seriousness of disruption caused by Network Rail’s overrun on engineering work.

But few can see the point of the penalty.

Fines don’t do any good, says Martin Waller in the Times. He points out that Network Rail was penalised £2.4m for similar failings during Christmas 2006.

And as Network Rail is a government company, fines only amount to shunting money from one bit of the state to another,

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