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14:53 UK time, Friday, 7 August 2009
Re: , they were a good band in their time - shame they have stooped to this..
Jim, Crowborough
I'm so pleased you didn't prefix comment box with "Are you one of the 17 million refusing to go online".....
Simon, Alvechurch
Regarding , call me a cynic, but there has also been a large drop in media reports over the past week.
Tom Webb, Surbiton, UK
Web Monitor, quite a number of people appeared as themselves in the West Wing - Penn and Tellerand Foo Fighters are just a couple of examples.
Therese Wallace, York, UK
Re Diane from Sutton (Letters, Thursday); Vice versa is a Latin phrase, and the letter c was pronounced as a k (hence many European countries having a Kaiser/Keizer etc. from the Roman Caesar), so it's probable that the Romans would have said vicky versa instead of vise versa...nowadays it makes you sound slightly silly though.
Ulysses, Edinburgh
The gap looks bigger than six feet, unless is a photo of a small scale model...
Ralph, Cumbria
Re Rachel, (Letters, Thursday), there are indeed three, but only because the definition of an Olympic Pool changed recently to require an additional empty lane at each side (ie 10 lanes of which only the middle 8 are used).
Jim, Coventry
Although 50m pool provision in the UK has been woeful for many years the tide seems to have turned (perhaps thanks to that gala in 2012). By my reckoning we have about 24 50m pools in: East Kilbride, Stirling, Glasgow, Edinburgh (currently under refurbishment), Sunderland, Leeds, Sheffield, Liverpool, Manchester, Stockport, Loughborough, Coventry, Corby, Norwich, Ealing, High Wycombe, Crystal Palace, Cardiff, Swansea, Millfield, Bath, Aldershot, Crawley, Portsmouth. Hardly up to Australian standards (although they have the advantage that their climate allows pools to be built outdoors and hence much more cheaply) but heading in the right direction and certainly more than 3!
Steve Buckley, Cambridge, UK
There are 22 50m swimming pools in the UK (England 15, Scotland 4, Ireland 2 and Wales 1). The Aussies may have 47, but the average annual temperature across Australia is about 26.2C compared to a UK average annual temperature of about 10C and summer average temperatures of about 15.6C
David Ford, Ruislip Middlesex
Dear Rachel, There is one in Leeds at the John Charles centre for sport. It's only down the road from me so drop in for cuppa if you like on the way back.
Jennie F, Leeds UK
There's a story that Leeds tried to build an Olympic size swimming pool, but they forgot to take the thickness of the tiles into account. The result was an inch too short.
Rob, Sheffield, UK
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