If the District Line is out Saturday, as Posty says, I will go via Richmond, which means, being who I am, I will be forced to purchase a takeaway coffee and spill the dregs into a storm drain. I'll go by the station and first check that some officials are about

I would just stop any managers getting bonuses plus dividends. Of water fines just take investment away from much need fixes to the sewage system so more fines = less investment = more leaks into rivers = more fines, and we go on. Someone has to pay; households or taxpayers, more or less the same people anyway

[Link] Speaking of Catholicism... Lincoln fined £8.5k for anti-catholic chants. I make no judgement either way but here's a related story [Link]

Henry VIII when he abandoned Catholicism, something about wanting to denounce the religion in person. iirc

Well done Coffee Pour Lady [Link]

Both Mary and James II are within 500 years so would invalidate the general news item. Of course in those days travelling to Rome was a major undertaking and not many monarchs would have fancied the risks both of the journey and who might be plotting at home.

My bet would be Mary 1.

I'm wondering if the answer is nobody as no media outlet says anything other than more than 500 years. Reddit suggests Richard I who certainly passed through Rome on the way to/from the Crusades. Edward I and Alfred the Great also went to Rome but prior to being King. Weirdly Macbeth actually took a trip to Rome whilst King, Shakespeare left that bit out!

Alfred (the Great) went to Rome as a young man, year 853, was *quote - confirmed by Pope Leo 4thand 'annointed as king'. He did get to be called King of Wessex later in life. Far more than 500yrs ago though.

Wonder what he prayed for?

OI, I'd assume James II would be the most likely candidate, being the only (I think) catholic king since the reformation.

That would be an ecumenical matter.

Suggest they're just assuming this happened pre Reformation OI. AI certainly doesn't have a clue and that's been around 500+ years

The only thing I'm a little surprised about is that QE2 never did. Would have been the kind of bridge building she would have encouraged.

OI - I believe it has never happened before. Certainly not sine the break with Rome, and almost certainly not before that.

I seek the wisdom of the guestbook ;) The news keeps going on about the king being the first British monarch to pray with the Pope in more than 500 years. I can't find who was the previous monarch to have done so and when. Any answers?

If Greenford Sainsburys did taste the difference halal in 2001 it wouldn't of closed.

NGU the day the riots were going off up town while we were watching football

Never been stuck in a lift. I got chased by a goose in a park when i was a kid but I don't think that's relevant here.

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I went to North Greenford United twice,does that help? 2nd time it was like a monsoon

I note Greenford Sainsbury's closed in 2001. Not sure if the incidents were linked

I got stuck in a lift in Greenford Sainsbury's many years ago.

Yeah but he got sent off after 5 minutes. Either way, you're right once that was done so were we if we weren't done already. We're bound to get other performances like that this season and we did at least respond to it well.

CW - i felt they controlled the game. Bolton excepted (as per my previous posts), no-one else has done that so far.