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Speech, that's a bit of a strong word for it...

Faults. Yup PnC will do. Not plagiarism, it's sharing. And have better things to spend money on, cakes,wine cheese.

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Its time this was now left alone. The last court case was lost by BT, the appeal of that case was lost by BT. If this had been a criminal action the criminal would now be banged up for there sentence and that would be the end of the matter.
The same should now apply to BT, unless any new, substantial evidence came to light. Which it will not...

FYI. FTTC Known as super fast broadband or Fibre broadband, uses Huawei equipment in the street cabs and in the local exchange since day one. Concerns around it have been there since then, guess removing it will not matter as there are so many Huawei phones around any concerns around them can no longer be controlled. You get wot you pay for !!!

Not really Aus. It's about time the legal system stopped big company's doing what they like with employees pensions. The company made up the rules when it set out the section C pension in 1986 why shoul it be allowed to change those rules over 30 years down the line. It was only open for 15 years and has around 80000 people in it, many of which left BT before it closed under release schemes so only have a few years in it. I would be surprised if half of the 80000 are still working for BT I don't think it would have had a big impact on the funding from BT but would have on it's pensioners. Hopefully this will now be an end to trying to mess with its employees pensions. Rant over...

Hi Yes correct pacemaker, managed to find this thanks
LONDON (Alliance News) - FTSE 100-listed telecommunications firm BT Group PLC has lost a court case over changing the basis for calculating pension increases for its members, the Financial Times reported Tuesday.
On Tuesday, Lady Justice Asplin at the Court of Appeal dismissed BT's claim, stating that the scheme rules had been interpreted correctly by a previous court ruling, the newspaper reported.
BT had asked the Court of Appeal to overturn an earlier ruling on BT's interpretation of scheme rules and on whether BT should be allowed to switch to a different cost of living index for calculating increases to pension paid in the future.
BT argued that it should be able to decide to switch from the Retail Price Index to another measure, such as the Consumer Prices Index for calculating increases to pensions for its Scheme C members, some 80,000 people.
In January, the High Court ruled against BT, finding that the matters put forward by the group were not such as to have caused RPI to become inappropriate for the purposes of the scheme rules.
"Whether RPI has become inappropriate is an objective state of affairs, which, if it exists, triggers the obligation to choose another measure of the cost of living," she said, according to the FT.
"I consider that the judge was right to come to the conclusions he did," Asplin added.
BT said it was "disappointed with the outcome", and is currently deciding on its next steps, the FT reported.

Hi Can you provide a link please to CPI/RPI Thanks

There are to cases that have been running. One an appeal re changing CPI/RPI the other against the Treasury affecting people reaching state pension age between 6 Dec 2018 and 5 April 2021. BT has lost against the latter but I can find nothing about the appeal case. So think this may be regarding the treasury case. Hope this may assist...

The issue with the type of managers we are talking about, is the Apprentice candidate typical type. They are so full of themselves they tend not to see what is going on around them. Ther decide to change something, in most cases to show they have value, without consulting with people who would be able to inform them if the change could have a negative impact in some other area. They tend to be people who know nothing about what they intend to change, and worse do not try to gain an insite throm those that do know. They also tend to excuse any issue thurther down the line by claiming, continued improvement...

Yes at last the realisation that middle managers have to go. For years they have messed processes and staff about to justify there bonuses. Then moved into another roll, so when problems emerge with there past changes, that others have warned about, they are no longer in that roll. Reset and start the whole process again, repeat pay bonus. Reset etc......

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If it's dry enough, give the lawn a last cut, get the greenhouse ready for the new year, collect up the last of the fallen leaves for compost, and get your winter clothes out its gona be cold next week.
Oh LT. Give it a rest nobody is listening.

Yup the cost of producing the passport may well be lower than the existing provider, and reducing cost is a good thing, perhaps a replacement will now cost less !!!
It was the ideal opportunity to back the UK by the government, a bit of propaganda to make voters think it's all going to work out in the end. After say 5 years the contract could have been put up for grabs again, and given to the French company at a lower cost. But no, yet another own goal, no wonder this is such a mess, can't see the wood for the trees politicians. Bring back the MRLP ... Price holding well...

Blue Passport. Contract to a company in France, not the existing provider in the UK. Just about says it all, were having Brexit and giving the work away...

Errrrrrrr ummmmm. We voted for Ice cream, but nobody told us what flavour we would get. And now we seam to have nuts as well. I vote we now have jelly, and it's red......

And how many masts do you think BT own ?

If you want to play the stock market, and do not have the advantage of things like employe share options, then unless you are happy to take the chance of profit or loss over a given time period, don't do it yourself. Talk to the people that offer to invest on your behalf, spreading the money over several companies and products. You will have to pay for there services but in the longer term may well see a better return than leaving it sitting in a bank account. Then again there may be a crash and you would have been better off in the bank. If you are genuinely interested in the stock market, find a couple of independent financial advisers and see what they can offer, then decide what you want to do with your cash.

Very true Dogs, negative equity on your home is only a problem if you want to sell. The good thing with a Dividend share is you get income even if the price has dropped from your purchase price.

Dividend cut ????? Think you should look back over the last week of so on this board, and you will see there is not a cut but effectively a freeze...