OT Jade Goody given driving ban.

[Roger Merriman]

Tony Raven <[email protected]> wrote:

> Roger Merriman wrote on 05/07/2007 09:48 +0100:
> > Tony Raven <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> Ah but only because she made an error, cancelling her driving license
> >> instead of her television license ;-)-
> >
> > oh they still write letters, though not exackly well targeted they send
> > loads to places that don't exist any more, mind you one of the gas firms
> > sends letters to one of the moblie phone transmitters...
> >
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> We have a place we escape to without a television (or phone!) and its
> been quite amusing watching the monthly letters from TVLA getting more
> and more threatening and hysterical over the years about us not having a
> TV license. My response at the beginning of "if you have any evidence
> that we are using a TV..." was met by the expectation that I must prove
> to them I didn't have a TV. Well forget that!

well quite, i coped fine with out a tv even now in lovely londonish area
i mostly don't watch tv but read etc while my partner does at least it
solves the control of the remote problems!

i still own a place in wales which does get nasty letters but then there
is no tv etc so they can feel free. i always feel the letters are on the
edge of the law.

roger
--
www.rogermerriman.com

 

[Martin Dann]

Paul Boyd wrote:
> citizen142 said the following on 05/07/2007 13:13:
>> Jane Goody. Reminds me of that line - The triumph of mediocrity.
>>
>> Why on earth would any rational, balanced person want to watch the
>> goings on of a bunch of half witted social misfits talking and acting
>> a load of complete and utter bollocks is beyond me. Big Brother -
>> watched by millions.
>
> According to the Mirror (not my paper!!!) she can't use public transport
> because she's a celebrity. Uh???

It is not how important you are, it is how important you
think you are.
e.g. many of the royal family use public transport

 

[citizen142]

The actors or the viewers?

Both

 

[The other view point, there is one you know...]

On 4 Jul, 17:27, Martin Dann <[email protected]> wrote:
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/essex/6270506.stm
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> > Jade Goody is handed driving ban
> > Television celebrity Jade Goody has been banned from driving for six months after admitting motoring offences.
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> > The 26-year-old, from Chipping Ongar, Essex, admitted driving her car on the M1 motorway in Buckinghamshire, in November, under a provisional licence.
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> > The former Big Brother contestant also pleaded guilty to driving while uninsured, and otherwise in accordance to her licence, in Brentwood, in March.
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> > Basildon Magistrates Court also ordered Goody to pay more than £1,500in fines.
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> > Passing sentence, magistrates' chairman Richard Albon said 14 points would be added to her driving licence resulting in the ban under the totting-up procedure.
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> > Phillip Kelly, mitigating, told the court Goody had made an error, cancelling her motor insurance instead of her home insurance policy.
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> > He also claimed Goody was "totally dependant" on her car.
> > Mr Albon said the penalties had been imposed as a six-month driving banwould not cause "exceptional hardship" to Goody.
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> Ms Goody was "totally dependant" on her car, yet she only
> had a provisional license.- Hide quoted text -
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I understand she had passed her test, but not sent off the pass cert
to convert the provisional licence to a full one. Don't know about her
other points, but...

 

[David Damerell]

Quoting Paul Boyd <usenet.dont.work@plusnet>:
>My mother had the same problem when she moved to Lincolnshire, then
>after a series of increasingly threatening letters a man turned up at
>her door. Apparently he was very pleasant, didn't want to come in, was
>just doing his job, and toddled off again. She's had no hassle since.

This was my experience when I lived without a TV (I would do now, but I
live in a shared house; the only TV I watch is the F1, and I wouldn't pay
a hundred and something quid a year for it); the letters were impolite so
we ignored them, and then a human came who was polite, so I told him we
had no TV, and that was the end of it.
--
David Damerell <[email protected]> Distortion Field!
Today is Second Wednesday, Presuary.

 

[JNugent]

The other view point, there is one you know... wrote:
> On 4 Jul, 17:27, Martin Dann <[email protected]> wrote:
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>>http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/essex/6270506.stm
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>>>Jade Goody is handed driving ban
>>>Television celebrity Jade Goody has been banned from driving for six months after admitting motoring offences.
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>>>The 26-year-old, from Chipping Ongar, Essex, admitted driving her car on the M1 motorway in Buckinghamshire, in November, under a provisional licence.
>>
>>>The former Big Brother contestant also pleaded guilty to driving while uninsured, and otherwise in accordance to her licence, in Brentwood, in March.
>>
>>>Basildon Magistrates Court also ordered Goody to pay more than £1,500 in fines.
>>
>>>Passing sentence, magistrates' chairman Richard Albon said 14 points would be added to her driving licence resulting in the ban under the totting-up procedure.
>>
>>>Phillip Kelly, mitigating, told the court Goody had made an error, cancelling her motor insurance instead of her home insurance policy.
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>>>He also claimed Goody was "totally dependant" on her car.
>>>Mr Albon said the penalties had been imposed as a six-month driving ban would not cause "exceptional hardship" to Goody.
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>>Ms Goody was "totally dependant" on her car, yet she only
>>had a provisional license.- Hide quoted text -
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>>- Show quoted text -
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> I understand she had passed her test, but not sent off the pass cert
> to convert the provisional licence to a full one. Don't know about her
> other points, but...

Maybe you don't need to swap the provisional licence for a "full" one
until the provisional licence is due to expire.

That was certainly the way it was when I was a novice driver, several
decades ago. I was once approached by the Cheshire police, late at
night on a rural route, when my car had broken down and after I had
returned from a phone box to call the AA. They naturally wanted to see
all the documents and were apparently taken aback to see that my
licence was a provisional one, even though the car bore no L plates
and there was no passenger who might be a full licence-holder. I
picked the folded "pink slip" pass certificate out of the rear of the
licence booklet (we still had real licences in those days) and read
out the wording, part of which specifically provided that the
provisional licence was as good as a full licence and could be
retained until it was about to expire (council-issued licences only
ran for relatively short periods in those days).

Clearly unimpressed, and noting that the licence and pink slip had
been issued by a London Borough council and a London test centre
respectively, the observer remarked "Well, that may be what they do
down in London, but it's not the way we do things in Cheshire".

 

[[email protected]]

On 12 Jul, 12:28, JNugent <[email protected]>
wrote:
> The other view point, there is one you know... wrote:
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> > On 4 Jul, 17:27, Martin Dann <[email protected]> wrote:
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> >>http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/essex/6270506.stm
>
> >>>JadeGoodyis handed driving ban
> >>>Television celebrityJadeGoodyhas been banned from driving for six months after admitting motoring offences.
>
> >>>The 26-year-old, from Chipping Ongar, Essex, admitted driving her car on the M1 motorway in Buckinghamshire, in November, under a provisional licence.
>
> >>>The former Big Brother contestant also pleaded guilty to driving whileuninsured, and otherwise in accordance to her licence, in Brentwood, in March.
>
> >>>Basildon Magistrates Court also orderedGoodyto pay more than £1,500 in fines.
>
> >>>Passing sentence, magistrates' chairman Richard Albon said 14 points would be added to her driving licence resulting in the ban under the totting-up procedure.
>
> >>>Phillip Kelly, mitigating, told the courtGoodyhad made an error, cancelling her motor insurance instead of her home insurance policy.
>
> >>>He also claimedGoodywas "totally dependant" on her car.
> >>>Mr Albon said the penalties had been imposed as a six-month driving ban would not cause "exceptional hardship" toGoody.
>
> >>MsGoodywas "totally dependant" on her car, yet she only
> >>had a provisional license.- Hide quoted text -
>
> >>- Show quoted text -
>
> > I understand she had passed her test, but not sent off the pass cert
> > to convert the provisional licence to a full one. Don't know about her
> > other points, but...
>
> Maybe you don't need to swap the provisional licence for a "full" one
> until the provisional licence is due to expire.
>
> That was certainly the way it was when I was a novice driver, several
> decades ago. I was once approached by the Cheshire police, late at
> night on a rural route, when my car had broken down and after I had
> returned from a phone box to call the AA. They naturally wanted to see
> all the documents and were apparently taken aback to see that my
> licence was a provisional one, even though the car bore no L plates
> and there was no passenger who might be a full licence-holder. I
> picked the folded "pink slip" pass certificate out of the rear of the
> licence booklet (we still had real licences in those days) and read
> out the wording, part of which specifically provided that the
> provisional licence was as good as a full licence and could be
> retained until it was about to expire (council-issued licences only
> ran for relatively short periods in those days).
>
> Clearly unimpressed, and noting that the licence and pink slip had
> been issued by a London Borough council and a London test centre
> respectively, the observer remarked "Well, that may be what they do
> down in London, but it's not the way we do things in Cheshire".




Hi, what do you think of Jade goody? ?

 

[Tony Raven]

[email protected] wrote:
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> Hi, what do you think of Jade goody? ?
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Who?

Tony