Thanks to this article I've now discovered that the local practice in my little town is not independent like I had assumed but one of many chains owned by IVC. I've recently had an interaction with them where I suspected they might be pushing for unnecessary procedures while also not being open about the costs. This certainly makes me even more suspicious of them.

I've found this site to be useful in my search for a new vet https://www.independentvets.co.uk/ run by the Federation of Independent Veterinary Practices.

Love my kobo e-reader, and in the UK at least you can connect it to your local library using something called OverDrive and rent ebooks for free

The answer is that you type 2 characters to make a heart, which are the less than symbol < and 3, when together make a heart <3 And that's only 2 characters, which is less than 3. So the answer is both the instructions on how to type a heart and the number of characters required to type a heart.

Is kind of annoying that in most areas especially mine tactical voting is the only option if i dont want the torries back in. I saw this posted on another thread https://stopthetories.vote/ Seems to have been updated for the most recent local elections.

From memory the BBC have a decent tool on their site closer to the election that allows you to do something similar with choosing topics important to you which then suggests the party manifesto most aligned to your priorities.

I'm going to pretend this was done in honour by a former lover or two. I prefer that world.

I know next to nothing about this but I'd assume the public money cost would be around sending out all the voter cards, organising venues for the voting, cost of processing the votes at various stages etc.

Yeah due to the petrol price increases this month they thought it would go up but looks like that's been cancelled out by other factors.

I'll be heartbroken if Argos goes the same way. It really is so useful for those sort "I need this item today at a reasonable price" items. It often competes with Amazon on prices, and I have a reloadable gift card through work that provides a modest discount making it my go to for most purchases. My local Argos is in Saintsbury which a lot of them seem to be now and it appears to work well as a relationship.