And for Norfolk, and other towns hosting correctional facilities, not to be reimbursed at a reasonable rate for the ambulance services that they provide seems unfair,

The faltering global recovery means we would not be surprised to see a rate cut, but with the UK having held up well... we stick to our forecast for rates to remain on hold.

If you look not just at the headline rate but also at the underlying rates, you are seeing a gradual climb away from zero and that has to be seen positively.

I half closed my eyes and imagined this was the spot where everything I'd ever lost since my childhood had washed up, and I was now standing here in front of it, and if I waited long enough, a tiny figure would appear on the horizon across the field and gradually get larger until I'd see it was Tommy, and he'd wave, and maybe even call.

That's just a fraction of the rate we saw in the late 1990s.

Excluding the exchange rate variable, the financial results were on the whole reasonable.