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Bit more research and it seems that yes of the four zones the furthest two are being scrapped BUT duty of zone 2 will still be applied... so instead of paying £94 for a zone 4 flight (over 6000miles) the flight will incur the zone 2 rate, £71.00...

According to the Daily Mail March 20 FROM APRIL 2015 Holidays to long haul destinations are set to get cheaper thanks to a reduction in air passenger duty. The top two tiers of the current four-zone system - costing £83 per passenger for flights of 4000 - 6000 miles, and £94 for for 6,000 miles and more are being scrapped. We'll see...

'Oxymorman' you mean like the Osmond Brothers...:)

Check out SBI Sunfly 171 / 9 Soi Baruna Moo6 Up towards the top end of second road before the roundabout, behind the shopping mall on the right, so turn right, left, right and left again, it's on the left behing their car park. No charges, main hall and also private rooms with your own music upstairs, mega song choice, food...I believe they're opening a solely English tunes club next to the existing multi language one. Any prob google SBI Sunfly, shows all the global clubs and available songs.

Remind me never to take this clown of a journalist John Sparks seriously again - Channel 4's Asia correspondent's skewed tabloid ramble is packed with generalisations and distorted adjectives - so over 65's are elderly / sunset years / senior citizens...something 'often' happens, 'many' people get into trouble...no figures..,No mention of the top golf courses, excellent dental, physio etc therapists, restaurants, although the programme starts off talking stats about British retirees the 18,000 visiting Banglamung hospital is not broken down by nationality. What cooked up, vague, crass, inaccur

Thanks Tom, I'm thinking that if she has the private check up any treatment they advise has to be done privately, with the appropriate required funding of course

What arrangements does the average Thai make for their health care... Is it state funded, do they go private, or is the Thaksin 30 baht service still working... (She's asking for help for an annual health check, says it costs lots of money)...

When we finally go the youngsters will have to rely on books, the net or second hand 'hearsay'. So maybe there's fragments of encounters you've had, the curious, the unfair, or maybe hilarious... so here's mine...people long gone, 1st company I worked for, guy had no sense of smell, been gassed in the 1st world war, Joe Goddard I think his name was. Met guy in old people's home, said how cold it was driving horse drawn trams. Met a distant relative who left his rifle behind in the landing craft in the D day landings... The point is this was first hand conversations, I hope there

Soldiers who fought in WW2 would've been mostly born just after the end of WW1. Even 30 years ago it was said we were living in the longest period of peacetime in recent history. So I'm sure a lot of us feel extremely lucky and try to live the life they would like to have lived.

Nearly forgot: In a faraway time, before Aids, Vietnam, turn on and drop out etc Nobody ever got killed, divorced, sued etc. There was the U.S. sitcoms, we had them all syndicated to Britain My Favorite Martian Beverly Hillbillies I love Lucy Bewitched Gilligans Island F Troop Double life of Henry Fyffe Green Acres No Time for Sergeants Tugboat Annie My Mother the Car The Munsters McHales Navy Skippy the Bush Kangaroo (Ok, from Oz) Then there were some more challenging shows like: The Twilight Zone Smothers Brothers Lost In Space (WARNING Will Robinson!)

Yeah those guys told us about a thing called a micro chip and that we'd all only have to work three days a week LOL

From the U.S. a long time ago: Petticoat Junction Get Smart Dick Van Dyke show Bilko I'm Dickens, he's Fenster Cannonball Circus Boy Car 54, where are you? Addams family

If you ever see a copy of Mad magazine's paperback 'Greasy Mad' they did a send up up of Route 66 where Ted Stools and Bud Mudrock drive around but cant find anyone that needs their help. It's quite funny.

Here's a link: [media=] [/media]In the forties in the U.S.there was an early form of video jukebox that played and showed musical performances, called soundies. Three or four hot numbers were made by him for the soundies. One star that stands out to me but seems to be largely forgotten is Maurice Rocco. He was born in Oxford Ohio and toured the U.S. and Europe,he was in London in 1947. He had residencies in New York and Chicago. The Thai connection, well he moved to Bangkok in the 60's playing in cocktail bars and clubs but apparently died on March 25th 1976. I wondered if anyone recalls

Anyone remember 'Craise Finton Kirk' covered by Aussie Johnny Young, or 'Spics and Specs' from roundabout 1968 both written By B.G.