Not today....it nearly reached the 2nd page doom earlier, but no it had to be revived......For sanity reasons, to keep away from random named players being linked.
Damn.. Comic actor Eric Sykes has died aged 89 after a short illness. In wide-ranging career, he will be remembered best for the long-running and widely acclaimed Sykes And A... TV series with Hattie Jacques. He also wrote scripts for stars such as Peter Sellers, Frankie Howerd and Stanley Unwin. His manager, Norma Farnes, said: "Eric Sykes, 89, star of TV, stage and films died peacefully this morning after a short illness. "His family were with him." Mr Sykes was still appearing on the West End stage into his 80s, even though he became almost totally deaf and nearly blind. Whenever he was asked when he was going to retire from work, he invariably replied that he enjoyed doing what he did so much that he did not regard it as work at all. His TV series Sykes And A... attracted huge audiences in its nine series - involving well over 125 shows - between 1960 and 1965, and then from 1972 to 1979. The episodes have been repeated scores of times since. Mr Sykes was also the mastermind behind silent film The Plank, about the mishaps caused by a man carrying a large plank, which is now regarded as a movie classic. Other films in which he appeared or wrote or both, included Heavens Above! (1963), Those Magnificent Men In Their Flying Machines (1965), Monte Carlo Or Bust (1969), Theatre Of Blood (1973), Rhubarb, Rhubarb (1980), Boys In Blue (1982), and Splitting Heirs (1993). Not letting age interfere with his work, he also starred with Nicole Kidman in the acclaimed movie The Others when he was approaching his 80s. In 2005 he played Frank Bryce in the Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire movie. His two novels were The Great Crime Of Grapplewick (1997) and Smelling Of Roses (1998). In 2000, he wrote Sykes Of Sebastopol Terrace, an illustrated guide to the TV series, including short stories based on its episodes. And in 2003 he produced an anthology of his favourite comics, with Tommy Cooper heading his list. He was born in 1923 in Oldham and went on to serve in the Royal Air Force, during which time he was introduced to showbiz, like many comics of his generation. In 1952 he married Eith Eleanore Milbrandt, with whom he had one son and three daughters. He was awarded an OBE in 1986 and a CBE in 2005.
A home test for HIV could go on sale within months in the US after being given the go-ahead by regulators. The OraQuick In-Home HIV test is expected to be available from October at 30,000 American retail outlets, its manufacturer said, with the kit allowing people to obtain a result within 20 to 40 minutes. It will be the first over-the-counter home testing kit for HIV - the virus that leads to Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (Aids). The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the company that makes the kit, OraSure Technologies, hailed the approval as a major advance in detecting Human Immunodeficiency Virus infections. The test procedure involves taking an oral fluid sample collected by swabbing the upper and lower gums inside a person's mouth, placing the sample into the kit's developer vial and then waiting for the result. The FDA noted that a positive result from the test does not mean a person is definitely infected with HIV but rather that an additional test should be done in a medical setting to confirm the result. "Similarly, a negative test result does not mean that an individual is definitely not infected with HIV, particularly when exposure may have been within the previous three months," the FDA said in a statement. The home testing kit, which detects both type 1 and type 2 HIV antibodies, could identify large numbers of previously undiagnosed infections, according to the FDA. Clinical studies for self-testing have shown that the OraQuick home HIV test has an expected performance of 92% for test sensitivity, the percentage of results that will be positive when HIV is present. "This means that one false negative result would be expected out of every 12 test results in HIV-infected individuals," the FDA said. Similar testing indicates that one false positive would be expected out of every 5,000 test results in uninfected individuals, according to the FDA, which is responsible for regulating medication in the US. A spokeswoman for OraSure Technologies said a price for the over-the-counter test kit had not been decided but it would be higher than the $17 (£11) charged for a similar product sold to hospitals, clinics and doctors.
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Good Thursday morning Syd. Not raining again I hope lol Just reading the funnies from the US celebrations which I'll post after brecky. Man there dumb.
Aye, nowt like a good Barry. Try saving it up for 2 or 3 days & then go. Makes you feel top of the world. .
