It is hallmarked solid silver and has the image of the Britannia figure with a lion on the other side. This represents the mother country of Britain whilst the lion National servicemen lobbied recently for a National Service Medal and their campaign was adopted by the National Service Veterans Alliance (NSVA). They felt that a medal With her clever and colourful planting, Isobel has diverted attention from a large 1960s telephone exchange on one side of the garden, partially masked by a magnificent walnut tree. single man over 60 on ESA can still claim PC ? what about women after 2010 when retirement ages start to equalise ?

The explanatory memorandum to the same regs, that Shawn flagged up the other day, seems to explain why. Here is para 4.5:

History Of National Service

This is a horrific prospect. If taken to its logical conclusion, then all company rules would apply; there'd be no more working in pyjamas, no alcohol allowed on the premises, and heaven help your pets. At least someone would pop round to water the plants.

Do you agree this is an official 'softly softly' approach? Maybe I have missed something - please say.

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A garden created and tended by soldiers on a London rooftop is now blooming, just in time for National Gardening Week. The next three months of recruit training involved the delights of square bashing and for those whose marching or kit did not come up to scratch they learnt the joys of polishing the guardroom dustbin for hours on end.

and the in-work support, which is most important and costly, can probably be provided by recruited volunteers, or hey, be a low paid job for ESAs...so i doubt the contractors have too much to fear from Freud's spin about being paid by results after 3 years, like yeah...However, for those who find the scales more balanced, it's distinctly odd that government policy should appear to incentivise quitting your job!

there are plenty of people claiming IB only, about 1.5 million currently. all new claimants want is a claim form. are they going to have to go through all the means-testing questions? will the DWP give any assurances that they will not unlawfully collect data they don't need? (would i believe 'em if they did?) Once it’s tidy you need to go about building your demo. As you are a working research lab and don’t normally just keep presentation equipment around, more than likely you are going to have to assemble the demo from an actual working experiment. Try not to cry into the parts as you disassemble your latest experiment. On the big day itself don’t forget to dress to impress. On no account wear any of the clothing you would normally wear while working in the lab. Find something in your wardrobe that suits you the least while also being impractically uncomfortable. The humour was well brought out; the running gag of the porter carrying the wooden leg going on and offstage right and left was well worked. There was even a rather risque mention of the "clap" which, in panto style would go over the children's heads, but made me laugh. This picture shows how a loquat, raised from a pip, makes a spectacular show in one corner of the garden with the soft yellow blooms of the ‘Canary Bird’ rose. Lance Sergeant Ian Shepherd, from the Grenadier Guards Band, and the Sergeant’s Mess gardener, said: “Central London might seem an unlikely location for insects to thrive, but the countryside is largely a patchwork of arable land comprising acres of monoculture crops offering little nutrition or habitat to these creatures, not to mention the use of pesticides. The city has more to offer them!

They aren't public sector workers though, they are self-employed and have to pay their staff, including cleaners, receptionists, nurses and secretaries.