One more to add: a lad called James from SE London/Kent. Used to post on 606 back in the day and will be known to a few on here. His uncle apparently took him to Charlton v Boro in the early 90s, with the intention that it would be his first game as a Charlton fan. We won, and he took up...
The original group on COB were those from the BBC 606 Boro Board. When that shut, one of the lads (Steve) started a dedicated Messageboard. It started off well enough, but Steve didn't want to exercise any kind of censorship, which meant that slowly but surely it got overrun by the knuckle...
It's about time for another radical development of the High Street. We had the Castlegate in the 60s; it was the other side of the River and numerous micro developments off the High Street in the 80s. The 00s were knocking down the Tab, creating the Wellington Arcade and re-doing all the road...
I still don't understand this fetish about UK fishing quotas. The rights are largely owned by Millionaires and foreign entities. It's not 'When the Boat Comes In' anymore:
UK Fishing Rights
Italy has a population of 60m people. They are about 2-4 weeks ahead of us on this. Why do you think the measures haven't worked? Do you know what the fatalities would have been without those measures?
Not true. They imposed restrictions in Lombardy a couple of weeks ago and effectively locked down 11 northern towns at that point too. More than we're doing.
Look at how China has handled it; look at how Italy has handled it; look at how Spain is now handling it, and then say that it's 'very difficult' to criticise the Govt on their handling of this issue. They are doing NOTHING