Just seen this on The Chase. If you take a direct free kick and it goes directly into your own goal what is awarded to the opposing team? a) goal b) indirect free kick c) corner
Advice wanted please. We were due to be moving house tomorrow. Four people in the chain and we were all asked to agree the date which would have been tomorrow. 3'oclock today we get a call saying there is a problem at the start of the chain and 'something is missing to complete the final checks of the sale' So deal off. No-one is moving. Just left us hanging. Hardakers removal firm already booked by us, cost just short of a grand, we have lost that, people buying ours also booked Hardakers and they have lost that too. Its in the small print of Hardakers contract apparently and you pay in advance. 5hitty responce from them and not recommended. In our case as we are downsizing and we have sold and given away a lot of our furniture. Not much we can do about that now. But surely someone is to blame for this? I would have thought all three sets of solicitors would have to agree that all is in place before they can ask for a completion date? Besides the lost removal firm money, a lot of other cash has been laid out thinking we were moving in the morning and none of it is returnable. So are there any solicitors out there who can offer a bit of advice please?
Contracts were supposed to be exchanged today or in the morning. All three sets of solicitors asked for 27th October as a completion date. We went along with that and booked everything accordingly. We pay handsomly for their advice and on this occasion is was bad advice because obviously something was amiss in the process?
It’s very risky to exchange and complete on the same day if you’re in a chain, normally you’d exchange a week or two before completing, so if someone pulls out, at least you’ve got 10% to cover your costs. Not that this helps you now, unfortunately, the damage has already been done. Hardakers have done nothing wrong, they now have a van idle tomorrow and removal men that still need paying, it’s not their fault your sale has fallen through.
I wasnt blaming Hardakers although i thought their reponse of 're book us and you will have to pay full pops again' wasn't the best customer relations in the World, when they've just pocketed a grand for a couple of dozen cardboard boxes. My issue is with the solicitors, we booked tomorrow because they assured us everything was set for that date, when it obviously wasn't.
Again, it’s too late. But I would run a mile from a four home chain, bound to go wrong somewhere. Having said that, I haven’t moved for 27 years now so I’m not a good witness.
On November 7th, 1920, in strictest secrecy, four unidentified British bodies were exhumed from temporary battlefield cemeteries at Ypres, Arras, the Asine and the Somme. None of the soldiers who did the digging were told why. The bodies were taken by field ambulance to GHQ at St-Pol-Sur-Ter Noise. Once there, the bodies were draped with the union flag. Sentries were posted and Brigadier-General Wyatt and a Colonel Gell selected one body at random. The other three were reburied. A French Honour Guard was selected and stood by the coffin overnight of the chosen soldier overnight. On the morning of the 8th November, a specially designed coffin made of oak from the grounds of Hampton Court arrived and the Unknown Warrior was placed inside. On top was placed a crusaders sword and a shield on which was inscribed: "A British Warrior who fell in the GREAT WAR 1914-1918 for King and Country". On the 9th of November, the Unknown Warrior was taken by horse-drawn carriage through Guards of Honour and the sound of tolling bells and bugle calls to the quayside. There, he was saluted by Marechal Foche and loaded onto HMS Vernon bound for Dover. The coffin stood on the deck covered in wreaths, surrounded by the French Honour Guard. Upon arrival at Dover, the Unknown Warrior was met with a nineteen gun salute - something that was normally only reserved for Field Marshals. A special train had been arranged and he was then conveyed to Victoria Station, London. He remained there overnight, and, on the morning of the 11th of November, he was finally taken to Westminster Abbey. The idea of the unknown warrior was thought of by a Padre called David Railton who had served on the front line during the Great War the union flag he had used as an altar cloth whilst at the front, was the one that had been draped over the coffin. It was his intention that all of the relatives of the 517,773 combatants whose bodies had not been identified could believe that the Unknown Warrior could very well be their lost husband, father, brother or son... THIS is the reason we wear poppies. We do not glorify war. We remember - with humility - the great and the ultimate sacrifices that were made, not just in this war, but in every war and conflict where our service personnel have fought - to ensure the liberty and freedoms that we now take for granted. Every year, on the 11th of November, we remember the Unknown Warrior. At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, we will remember them.
