Paul

Adblue is never injected into the engine and should never be used as a fuel additive, doing so would cause serious engine damage. It is injected into the exhaust system to reduce diesel particulate emissions. Mercedes cars and vans will engage limp home mode once the ad blue tank is empty and will not then restart if the engine is switched off or stalled. In order to restart the vehicle you need to refill the tank then attach a diagnostic device capable of resetting the adblue counter. My 3.0 V6 twin turbo diesel has used about 8 litres of adblue in the last 12,000 miles. The tank size is designed to last between services with a reserve of around 20%. If a Mercedes constantly needs refilling between services then this suggests a fault and should be referred to a Mercedes qualified technician. There is an excellent independent Merc specialist in Loddon. Access to the Mercedes Star diagnostic system is essential in trouble shooting the adblue system, it cannot be done effectively without.

I finished work at 7 today, just in time to nip to the chip'oyl then off to Aldi meaning I can enjoy my long weekend without having to waste half a day shopping. I have to admit to having been tempted to flick the engine and suspension modes into sport and "enjoy" the trip, roof down, engine growling, light up the 285s on the rear occasionally, then realise why I don't do it very often. 8.2 miles covered, 8.1 mpg. Ouch

perhaps a "grendel league" ..... OK, I'll get behind the sofa now!

the point where that argument falls down is that the sport is not, at top flight level at least, in decline. In fact most clubs have waiting lists for season tickets. At my club, Liverpool it is literally dead mans shoes for a new season ticket. Grounds are mostly full, the few general admission tickets available at Anfield are hugely oversubscribed every week. More people than ever before pay subscriptions to watch football in England and the revenue generated by those subscriptions support football at every level, not just the premier league. Many of the smaller clubs Regulo urges us to support would not exist without that financial aid. Those who buy these season tickets, who pay those subscriptions are free to spend their money as they like. They may well look at a boat owner and ask why do you waste so much money on a boat to keep driving along the same bit of river week in, week out. You do it because that is your choice (or whatever you send your money on). They do not bemoan or belittle that choice yet every time football is mentioned grown men, and sometimes women feel it is fine to ridicule those who do support their chosen club.

In a way Alan your comment is exactly what this is all about, but perhaps not as you intended. Revenue generated by larger clubs is used to fund smaller clubs, it is they who are not paying their way but rely in hand outs - funding fed down the pyramid by the FA. It is no secret that these clubs, and it goes beyond the six mentioned here want more control over more of the revenue they generate. This was not the way to go about it. An excellent statement from John W Henry this morning.

I have to admit I didn't enjoy this weeks race so much. It was a weekend determined by mistakes though I think it did hint at some exciting racing to come. Verstappen made two mistakes, one in practice which cost him the pole his car probably deserves right now, and one in the race behind the safety car which he got away with. Hamilton made one mistake and it cost him dearly. Then we saw mistakes through out the field, Perez overtaking behind the safety car, what's that about. Kids in go karts are taught at the age of five that you do not overtake behind a safety car. Both Williams drivers threw away potential points finishes, desperately needed by the team, and their cars into the wall, Russel taking Bottas with him. What we are seeing is that Bottas is not justifying his place in a top team. With more competitive cars around him than we have seen in recent seasons he is struggling to look like a regular podium contender, despite having the same car in which Hamilton is contesting race wins and leads the championship. I think his days are numbered and despite his faux pas on Sunday I am pretty sure we will see Russell in that car very soon, possibly even before the end of this season. What I want to see is the top cars and drivers at their best, flat out, wheel to wheel. Let's see a real shoot out, not a race decided by the impact of errors, in what were admittedly incredibly difficult conditions.

Yes, though I have to admit I have not been to one in over a year now. Oh wait, neither has anyone else! I get to Anfield whenever I can and also watch my local home town team in the Southern League Premier. Interestingly one of our great rivals in recent years has been King's Lynn so I have made a number of visits to the Walks, though they have now moved couple of divisions above us. Our greatest moment came in 2011 when we all made the trip to Wembley for the FA Vase final, and in 2004 when we made he first round proper of the FA Cup. I used to hold a season ticket for Anfield but had to give it up as I could only make games on a Saturday. Liverpool play very few games on Saturday. Ironically now I work Saturdays and not Sunday and Monday I would probably be able to make more games then I used to, but despite the recent stadium expansion there is still a waiting list for season tickets a mile long. So I have to rely on the ballot system for general tickets, which is a shot in the dark really though hopefully the next stadium expansion will make things easier.

I certainly hope this breakaway league doesn't happen, if for no better reason than I see it removing the last remaining vestiges of financial fair play, as pathetic and unenforceable as they seem to be. At least the "state owned" clubs like PSG and Manchester City have to make some pretense of staying within a set of rules, even if we know that in truth there are any number of loop holes which they use, seemingly with impunity to spend what they like. Even the other "super rich" clubs like Man U and Liverpool cannot compete with their spending. Will a European Super League have financial fair play rules? I doubt it. For the fans of the clubs involved I think it's a terrible idea, for the fans of the clubs "left behind" I think it's a terrible idea. I come from a football family, two cousins who played in the then 1st division in the days before the Premier League and one currently playing in the Premier League and a late Uncle who was one of the countries premier player's agents. I find it extremely ignorant that whenever the subject of football raises it's head on the forum and the comments pour in about players being paid "just for kicking a ball around". Just so that these people know, what these players are being paid for is a lifetimes commitment to their sport, training often starts before school age. By the time they get to junior school age they will be training or practicing most nights of the week after school, rain or shine. By the time they are high school age the very best will be living in or closely associated to an academy where they entire day, seven days a week revolves around training and schoolwork. Everything they do, everything they eat and drink is closely controlled. On top of all of this they are still studying for their normal school qualifications, as they will be very aware that even from those kids taken into an academy, only a very small percentage will ever see a professional contract, and a tiny part of one percent will see a top premier league deal. Players are paid what they are worth, their market value just like anyone else. It might surprise you to know that most professional footballers are "in it" because they love it, you have to in order to make the sacrifices needed to get there. A club like Manchester United might but a player for £50m, they know that they will recover that revenue in worldwide shirt sales within a few months, and if that player helps towards a higher premier league place, or the holy grail a champions league place then the seven figure salary is also a snip. The reason all of that money is available is down to the popularity of the sport, the huge number of people who follow it and the money they are willing to commit to it. If those people didn't want it, if they didn't pay for it, then it wouldn't happen. And that links nicely to my final point, the one thing that might stop this European Super League. Governments can't do it, governing bodies can't do it, in fact the more they try, the more they squeeze and pressurise the clubs involved the greater I believe the resolve of those clubs will become. What can stop it is the fans, the players and the management. Jurgen Klopp in his extended press conference last night stated that he doesn't want it, that the players don't want it and the fans don't want it and that the clubs relationship with the fans is part of his remit and, to quote him exactly "I will sort it" I have little doubt following that comment that Liverpool Football Club,as we know it now will not be part of any European Super League. What I do worry about is the club being taken in the style of American sports franchises away from the city to become some non entity somewhere, stripped of it's fan base, management and current players and rebuilt artificially elsewhere, as we have seen with NFL clubs in recent years.

It seems to have garnered fairly universal condemnation. I seem to remember exactly the same level of derision when it was suggested that the top flight English clubs would break from the Football League and negotiate their own TV deals and commercial rights contracts. It was the end of football as we know it, or so we were led to believe except that it wasn't, it created The Premier League which is widely considered to be the best league in the world. In this era of the shrinking planet I'm surprised this European Super League has taken so long to come to reality, or at least appear to. It was first mooted twenty five years ago. Of course the FA, UEFA and FIFA are against it as it will, effectively signal the end of their control of top flight football, they will become obsolete, overseeing a second string product of little or no commercial interest to the global audience. Before they start to cry about that they need to take a sharp look inwards, all three of them are rotten to the core, corrupt and governed by self interest, not the interest of the game. They are gravy trains, it's high time they were consigned to the history books. I appreciate that will upset the traditionalists, sorry, but tough. Saying all that, I'm not sure, as a LIverpool fan I would support such a break away, but I can understand why the clubs involved want to do it. Whether we like it or not these clubs are businesses, huge global businesses with offices, fan bases and marketing interests on every continent of the planet. They generate massive revenue but have very little control over how much of it is spent because of the intercedence of these corrupt governing bodies. Would Tesco for example tolerate great chunks of their income being taken away by some regulatory body who then keep great chunks of that money for their own ends and give the rest to smaller shops and supermarkets? Of course not, so why should a football club. You might complain, you might howl, you might spit and swear and tell me that football clubs are different. No, they are not, they are no different and if existing governing bodies or governments try and interfere then I think we will see that tested in court with terms like restrictive trading practices being bandied about by lawyers. FIFA are within their rights to say that players and clubs who sign up to this competition may not play in their competitions, right down to national FA level but would they really cut their own nose off just to spite their face. I remember the BDO saying just that in 1992 (the same year ironically that the premier league was formed) and the world's top darts players simply said "OK, bye" and the BDO immediately became a second string organisation featuring only those players not good enough to make it into then WDC, now known as the PDC. What I do find highly hypocritical is the string of former players led by Gary Neville who have made millions from playing football in the Premier League off the back of just such a greed based decision as that now being taken, who suddenly feel they have the right to chirp about whats right and wrong. Does he realise what an idiot he is making of himself? Of course as the owner of a lower league club he too is driven by his own self interest, as such the media should not give him a platform to vent his diatribe. Would I welcome the split in football which now seems inevitable, no. Do I believe it will happen? Yes, sadly I think it will. How deep that divide will run will largely depend on those at the top of the FA, UEFA and FIFA being able to swallow the humiliation and work with, rather than against this new league. One thing for certain, the future of football will be very different from what it has been, but things change, football does too and we need to accept that. If you don't want to support a super league then lower league football will still be available, the grass roots will still be there but it will depend on funding itself rather than handouts to survive. Is that wrong? We are likely to see a future with fewer professional clubs, that I think is inevitable with our without a European super league.

Add to the cost issue the limitation of a boat and caravans or motor homes have a benefit a boat cannot match. A boat cannot take you to dartmoor, or to aysgarth, to the cotswolds, or the weald.

The debate between motorhome and caravan has been raging ever since the towbar was invented, and as Cal rightly says it is the way you intent to use it that should determine which to go for. We like to use ours as more standard holiday accommodation away from home, we site it and leave in place for as long as possible so we have a caravan with modular awning. If we are away just for a weekend the porch goes up, for a week or more the whole lot goes up, We have a permanent double bed, large bathroom, domestic sized shower and full size single beds for the boys which are the seats during the day. We don't need a second car, the Mercedes Convertible is a superb all rounder, solo it's a very comfortable and economical GT car with the roof up as soon as the sun is out the roof is down. Deploy the towbar and it will pull an 1800kg caravan well beyond the legal speeds and in any terrain we will find in Europe. We also have a trailer so if I need to move a sofa or a wardrobe we can do that too. It really is everything we need, though it has not stopped me deciding on another Range Rover, I really do miss my old one!) I could be forgiven for wondering why anyone would want a different setup, were it not for my own sister. They have a motorhome, they are on their 4th now. They started with a little CI, got bigger and bigger till they had a coach built Hymer which they loved but decided was too big and so they down sized recently. The vehicle they have now is quite an obscure make, usually custom built but this one was a cancelled order with a sizable discount and suited their needs. It is much smaller than the Hymer but clever use of space and a permanent double bed which lifts away into the roof space when not in use means it is still very versatile. Unlike the Hymer it's only just over six foot wide so goes through all the width restrictions and is four wheel drive. It suits them because they like to tour, spending one or at most two nights in any one place, so they don't have the hassle of hitching up a caravan every time they move on and generally the van is small enough to access most places, the only thing it can't manage is height restricted access due to the high roof. It can be parked in a standard car parking space, just. The only thing I don't understand is having a motorhome then towing a car. Friends of ours at the cricket club do it, and for the life if me I don't understand why. It seems to me they combine the down sides of both caravans and motorhomes into one package on top of which they have three sets of road tax to pay, three lots of insurance and three lots of mots and servicing. Their XF Estate would tow a very adequate caravan which would have much more space and comfort than the motorhome and whilst on holiday they would have a comfortable car to travel around in, rather than the tiniest thing on four wheels you ever saw.

The first years road tax on the new Range Rover is £2245 but please don't ask what is after that, everyone you ask says something different. Parker's website says £475 but the Vehicle Certification Agency's website says £155, but whichever is correct there is the "£40,000" premium of £335 a year to add in years 2 - 6. We'll find out when the reminder comes. It would have been a lot cheaper if we had gone for the hybrid but it only has a two litre four pot petrol and who wants a two litre Range Rover. Milk comes in two litres, not Range Rovers.

I would not hold my breath. When they acquired Formula 1 Liberty Media made a great deal about "giving the sport back to the fans" but I have yet to see that borne out in any of their actions. It would not surprise me at all to see the TV rights sold to the highest bidder again, which could well be Amazon or Apple, even Disney

What I would include is Brograve Bridge on the Waxham New Cut, Brick Kiln Bridge at the head of Tyler's Cut in Dilham, the as far as I'm aware unnamed bridge approaching Rowancraft at Geldeston as well as the Locks footbridge.

You have only listed one for Wroxham, don't forget the railway bridge I personally would dispute Smoggy's list as being "on the system" as being outside the area of the control of the Broads Authority would for me make these parts of the relative ports, not part of the Norfolk (and Suffolk!) Broads.

GET IN THERE LEWIS ...... What a win that is How to beat a faster car, vol. 1 by Petronas AMG, Foreword by Sir Lewis Hamilton.

Agreed, £216 per year for what is in effect 23 live races each season compared with the number of Premier League football matches for the same price seems a bit harsh. I wonder how many other people will feel the same way and either lose interest in F1 altogether, settle for free to air highlights or find other dubious methods of watching the racing. The way Sky price their sports packages now means it is either all or nothing, picking a particular channel of interest is just not viable. Hooray, was never a fan. We used to have to have to suffer him on the US PPG Cart and Indy Series broadcasts as well as BTCC. Always sounded like his pants were on fire. Was Vettel ever a force? He lucked in on a car which due to technical advantages, fair or otherwise, was so far clear of the field for four years that all he had to beat was a mediocre team mate. A little bit like Jenson's championship winning season at Brawn it has to be said, as much as I like him and was pleased for him claiming a word title. Take Vettel out of that superior car and he is nothing special and never was. Amen to that, a master of his craft and a voice which will forever be the standard of motorsport commentary. In years to come when I am gone to dust, when motor sport and combustion engines are considered deviant in a polished white world, men with oily hands somewhere in the darkness will whisper, "did you ever hear of Murray Walker, boy was he good ...."

It could be an interesting season ahead, it is pretty clear that Mercedes don't have the fastest car this year, though were I a betting man I would still be hesitant to put my thruppence each way on anyone else. They have not always had the fastest car in recent years but usually come out on top, though in the past the faster car tended to be a Ferrari in the hands of Sebastien Vettel and due to the the many fold errors of team and driver they have always managed to throw any edge away. I suspect Red Bull will not be so quick to waste any advantage they might have, though I still have doubts about Verstappen's ability to maximise the cars performance week in week out over a whole race weekend. He very nearly threw it away yesterday hitting a kerb too hard which could easily have damaged his car and lost the performance advantage he has over the Mercedes. And make no mistake, if he is to win this years title his car must maintain it's speed advantage. In equal cars Hamilton will have him for breakfast every time. Even in a car just a couple of tenths slower Hamilton will still beat him nine times out of ten. I a not having a go at Max, but Hamilton is a class above anyone else. In many respects I am not surprised at the apparent running order we see at present and if you look back at the end of last season you will see I did rather predict such or at least warned of the rise of Newey's Red Bull. With the reduced limits of track testing, CFD and wind tunnel testing introduced this year aerodynamicists are now the key men in the team, and Red Bull's Aidrian Newey is the best, the GOAT, nobody else comes near him or probably ever will. He is so far superior to anyone else he seems to be able to look at something and visualise the airflow over it, he knows if it will work even before committing increasingly precious wind tunnel time to testing it. The additional restrictions placed on Mercedes as 2020 champions the rest of the field have a significant edge in the development of this years car, increasingly so the lower they finished last year. In that respect Ferrari, who managed only 6th last term had a huge advantage in terms of testing. Whilst these new restrictions might appear to have served their purpose and reigned in the dominance of one particular team my dislike and distrust of rules which treat competitors differently in terms of past performance is absolute. I cannot accept than a sports person or team should be punished because of their success, and these rules which curtail the success of individuals are too easily manipulated to suits the ends of the rule makers. Just my opinion of course. Nobody suggested such things when Michael Schumacher was demonstrating this kind of dominance with Ferrari, or Sebastian Vettel with his Red Bull. Why? I'll leave you to form your own opinions. If we follow this example should we make Manchester City play premiership games with ten men or perhaps attack a goal smaller than that which they defend? Should Phil Taylor whilst winning his 16 world titles have been made to throw at a smaller dart board? Usain Bolt made to run 110 meters as opposed to everyone else running 100? Perhaps Michael Phelps should have had one hand tied behind his back? I am all for a level playing field, but you cannot create one by treating competitors differently. Instead you make sure they all have the same starting point. Access to the same budget would be a good start. This season sees the introduction of a budget cap, talked about for years but finally introduced due to the massive financial loss the sport suffered due to COVID-19 however the difference between the spending of the top and bottom teams is still massive, and we are already seeing suggestions that those manufacturers with automotive divisions may be hiding some of their F1 costs in their road car companies. The way to increase competition within Formula One and to reduce costs, allowing a lower financial cap and more equal spending would be the introduction of common components although such a thought would horrify many F1 purists. But, once upon a time those same F1 purists would have been horrified at the thought of one team buying engines from another, now that is commonplace. We even see one team running a thinly veiled version of another's previous car. There are already a number of common components. Martin Brundle bless his socks made quite a faux pas yesterday on commentary during qualifying which was not picked up, perhaps a subconscious tilt of his hat the late great MW when he suggested the only compatible parts of two different cars lapping the track within hundredths of a second of each other were the tyres and rear warning light. Not true Mr B, they also have the same floor plank to control ground clearance and more pertinently the same engine management computers, made by McLaren which supply EMU's to all F1 teams. So whoever is first to the chequered flag this afternoon, a little bit of McLaren will have gotten them there. I am not suggesting anything as sweeping as whole engines, or complete wing assemblies but a good starting point might be steering wheels. This is one area where the spending difference is most extreme with those teams with the biggest budgets spending millions of dollars developing new steering wheels whilst those on the tightest shoestrings spending relatively nothing (relatively nothing whilst acknowledging that each new wheel costs around $100,000 and teams might use as many as twenty in a season). Other key areas might be engine components. Many series around the world use common restrictor plates limiting the flow between turbo and engine, common turbos might be a good start, common pistons and rings, even common ICE blocks. There are lots of things that can be done to balance the playing field that don't specifically impact one team. It will be interesting to see if the F1 authorities are as keen to keep these restrictions in place if, come the end of the season a team other than Mercedes, a team with benefactors who are also very "supportive" of the FIA and Liberty Media are on the top step of the podium?

My late aunt and uncle were keen amateur videographers, dating back to the 1940's with clockwork cameras such as the Citation, then later Kodak Brownie's and even a Bell & Howell 16mm camera. During my childhood Christmas Day evening was always spent gathered around their screen watching the highlights from the past year. In later years they moved onto magnetic tape (betamax etc) and data cards etc. After my uncles death a couple of years ago the issue of what to do with their many many hours of film fell to me and my sisters, they had no children of their own and we decided to have some parts of it digitised to keep, mostly those that showed members of the family or fondly remembered events then donated much of it to appropriate sources. This leaves us with about two hundred clips of video totalling around ten hours which have come from many different sources, some silent some with commentary added and some with live sound. It is that audio which is the problem as the volume varies dramatically from one clip to the next and I am looking for software that will standardise it. For MP3 I use something called MP3gain which has proved adequate for my old I tunes collection etc so immediately went to the sister program MP4gain but the results have been disappointing. The trial version failed to work completely on about half of the clips we tried, with no explanation or reason given and no obvious cause (file types, sampling rates, settings etc were all the same), and those it has "done" are still quite different in sound levels. Very different to the excellent results I have got from MP3 gain. Ultimately I want to stitch these together in a series of 90 - 120 minute episodes but it is very annoying when one clip you can't hear and the next near deafens. I would stress I want only to standardise the volume levels, I am not interested in enhancing the sound, removing clicks or hiss etc as these imperfections are very much a part of the experience and we are doing this solely for our own benefit as a keepsake for the family. It is not heading for broadcast, streaming, you tube etc. I am not averse to using a chargeable product as long as costs are reasonable, and not long time recurring as once these clips are done it is not something I expect to need again. Any suggestions would be very welcome.

The NHS is already geared up to issue vaccine certificates. Any adult planning to travel overseas in the next 18 months should anticipate being required to show one at international borders for most countries. No certificate, no entry. As for pubs I don't see it happening, though I would not completely write it off, and would fully support it if it meant getting back to some closer resemblance of normality sooner.

but they are often confused and used incorrectly, perhaps that is my heffalump trap.

Yes, and cross checked prior to posting. If I remember my Winnie the Pooh a heffalump trap ends up catching only those which set the trap, read into that what you will. On a more serious note what dreadful scenes from Bristol last night, the result I'm afraid of not policing the original gatherings effectively.

Illegal is normally used to define an act in contravention of criminal law, unlawful means a breach in any situation governed by a set of "laws". This could be a contravention of employment law or some other area of uk law, but could equally mean breaking the laws of rugby, for example deliberately throwing the ball into touch during a rugby match would be "unlawful", but it is not of course "illegal". As for the erosion of civil liberties then those liberties come with responsibilities as does the governance of them. In times of exceptional need it is right and proper for government to effect legislation that protects the population as that is the first requirement of government. Just as emergency measures were enacted during war time, so they have been now in another time of need. If these "people" had shown such little respect for the rule of law during war time they would have been very severely dealt with. Now here we are in a situation where close to twice as many UK civilians have died from COVID-19 than were killed in the whole of World War II and yet we suffer these idiots acting directly in contravention of UK law and all safety advice offered. There actions will almost certainly cause extra deaths. I believe I am right in saying these restrictions were put in place following the BLM protests last year to supposedly prevent further similar COVID breaches. If I am mistaken in that I am sure someone will correct me. But there intention is clear. To protect the population and prevent scenes like we saw yesterday. The problem with this country is not the erosion of civil liberties, but our obsession with the rights of the guilty. These protesters should be shown no tolerance, no accommodation whatsoever. I'll stop there, before I tell you what I really think of them, and provoke the attentions of our lovely moderators.

I don't think it's interpretation in many cases, but respect. There has been very little respect for the latest lock down in our area and it is no surprise we are now have the highest infection rate in the country. This is not about people not knowing, or misinterpreting the rules, we have hidden behind those excuses too long. It is about people blatantly knowing what they are doing is wrong but doing it anyway. And as for the "protesters" yesterday it is time we started treating these people in the manner which protects the populace not these morons. Water canon are very effective. People's desire to break the law tends to diminish rapidly when they are wet and miserable.

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