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Talking of HMV one of their 'rivals' a.k.a Zavvi has just gone into administration...again... They were a high street presence at one point but have been online only since the last administration in 2009 I believe...

Was in a Co Op earlier and was surprised to find when purchasing beer no staff needed, the self service cameras managed to do some sort of age verification instead! (It was lightning quick at doing so too!)

I work for the NHS and postage is a huge cost which they could certainly do with reducing! Although there isn’t much choice when more patients than you think don’t provide a mobile number or email address to begin with The NHS app sort of links with PKB (Patient Knows Best) but again the...

Most of Leeds seemed to go along with either 10:30am - 4:30pm or 11am - 5pm As someone who doesn't generally go out on a Sunday I was actually rather surprised at how busy everywhere was in general! My local town pretty much caters to the ghost population on a Sunday :D

Morrisons in Leeds today - do half the public forget about the 5pm closing on Sunday? I popped in for a few bits about 4:30pm and the queue of people for the checkouts was almost as if the world was ending tomorrow!

I was in Leeds Trinity today and got some free dog treats plus some money off vouchers for the product in question Good job I have a friend with a crazy cocker spaniel who will happily taste test those :D

...or you could turn up like I did earlier this year to find them filming The Piano on the concourse! :D

I remember when Arriva took on the Northern franchise (which was quite a big deal at the time) I turned up at Leeds station bright and early thinking they might be handing out some goodies to celebrate and promote that to find...absolutely nothing :D East Midland Trains knocked it out of the...

My Dad had his wishes to be cremated and not make a fuss over everything...we got told when the cremation and scattering of ashes would be done by them in the 'memorial garden' and that was that basically I suspect my Mum will be the complete opposite as she has always been the more 'social...

Don't the local residents just basically get a letter through the door saying 'sorry about the extra noise we're diverting a load of trains at Brighouse for a while due to upgrade works at Huddersfield' and that is basically that? :D On a side note I wasn't expecting to see rail replacement...

NatWest allow me to set a contactless limit as little as £5 (or I can even just 'freeze' them altogether), and yes they do send a notification to my phone literally the second a transaction is made (in that I can be at the cash machine making a withdrawal and the notification will pop up before...

I noticed the local 'Three' mobile store in town was closed today for a refurb as Vodafone have bought them out so presumably they'll be either closing a lot of Three or a lot of Vodafone stores as they merge them together! What did the marketing brains come up with for the exciting new brand...

Wakefield Westgate is a pretty poor show, Greggs knocked off for 6pm and Costa / WHSmith by 7pm (Sunday 4pm and 5pm respectively too!) A decent walk to anywhere else in Wakefield to grab something other than some rather bright dessert place right opposite the station!

I can't find anything online other than perhaps some gossip on Facebook and my own eyes spotting some unknown works underway at Normanton whilst passing by in recent weeks but it sounds like Normanton may be getting platform extensions to allow for longer trains to stop there? If true...

Talking of advances on this route oddly I find Castleford - Manchester is usually fairly predictable (usually hovers around half the price of the open return) but Castleford - York is rather more unpredictable - I've seen availability around £6-7 but on the other hand I've seen an advance single...

I'm sure it doesn't help that whilst the Post Office do of course offer other services these days you can just do all your postage online and the postie will pick up the parcels from your house now! Plus of course many people have a negative view of them due to the increased coverage of the...

I was at a work event yesterday where they must have mentioned AI at least 100 times, it can do this and that, me being me I of course had to chuck a few spanners in the works of how fantastic it was and how it would resolve every single issue in the world :D 'So what if it goes down'...erm...

LNER are running a trial £12 (or £8 with railcard) 'early bird' fare on two specific services to try and compete with the coach market They show up as Advance Singles when booking so not sure if there is a limited quantity or not for each service, ironically the 21:10 'night owl' will...

I went to the Greggs in the station today for a meal deal but quickly changed my mind when I saw the price was 20% more expensive than a normal Greggs! (I just walked to the Boar Lane one instead!) I’m more than happy to pay slightly more for convenience but a 20% uplift on top of the ‘normal’...

Security guards are a pretty common sight in any of your more central hotels to be fair, the key card entry doesn't really do much when you could just tailgate someone in and 99% of them wouldn't challenge you!