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    Companies That You Expect to Disappear Soon

    Loss of credit insurance at key suppliers was what finally did for Wilko's [EDIT] From what I was told by someone who was well-informed, the particular issue was the suppliers of a lot of their own brand products couldn't get credit insurance because the insurers were worried that there would...
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    TFL Administrative resolution

    I don't believe the current TfL policy (link below) mentions administrative resolution as an option, and indeed the three options open to TfL are widely held by the experts here to be the other three you list https://content.tfl.gov.uk/revenue-enforcement-and-prosecutions-policy.pdf
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    Companies That You Expect to Disappear Soon

    Virtually all of them are.
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    Railway General Knowledge.

    No..... .....because yes, exactly this - the complete unit was briefly considered a DMU and renumbered accordingly @Kentish RYS please go to the TOPS of the class and set the next question :D
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    Railway General Knowledge.

    No. From what I can see the prototypes were renumbered in 1974. (Happy to be proved wrong though!)
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    Railway General Knowledge.

    Thanks Why were the prototype HST power cars 41001 and 41002 renumbered to 43000/1 rather than 43001/2?
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    Football

    Second qualifying round - the preliminary round and the extra preliminary round before it were back in August I'd love Halifax to get Darlo away in the 4th qualifying round (if you get that far). Nearest team to me left in the competition and we'd bring a decent few hundred to earn you a bit...
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    Football

    FC Halifax Town 1-1 Sutton United Nothing bappened Some more nothing happened Even more nothing happened 90+4 we scored a scruffy goal 90+5 they scored a scruffy goal
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    Railway General Knowledge.

    They have three letter codes that are frequently mistaken for other, bigger stations
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    Caledonian Sleeper

    Possibly, but I think your ability to recover does vary. As you get older the restorative value of your sleep tends to decline
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    Caledonian Sleeper

    And your age! I’ve flown overnight New York to Manchester and gone straight to work in Trafford Park before, but I was about 25 and had the (just about) boundless energy of youth. I wouldn’t do it 30+ years later for sure
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    East Lancs Railway

    The two webcams at the far end of the platform at Bury were a bit glitchy when I looked yesterday but all the others (other end of the platform, two at Rammy, Townsend Fold, Rawtenstall) were working fine
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    Railway General Knowledge.

    Kemble
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    General Knowledge Quiz

    Yep, that’s it. All regional varieties of dartboards, most of them obsolete Your turn to step up to the oche
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    General Knowledge Quiz

    Another clue….. Other varieties included Tunbridge, Bath, Grimsby and Norfolk, but they’re obsolete now
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    General Knowledge Quiz

    Neither of those
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    General Knowledge Quiz

    Neither of those Now we’re making progress. It isn’t this, but it does relate to a sport
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    General Knowledge Quiz

    Remember the question mentioned those being non-standard varieties, which implies there is a standard variety, which rules out pretty much all of the suggestions so far……
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    General Knowledge Quiz

    Neither of them
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    Trainline selling misleading tickets

    No worries - I couldn't work out whether it was me not explaining it properly or you not getting it, and being pretty sleep deprived at the moment I assumed it was me!

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