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It’s good practice to keep the oil topped up. When oil light comes on then it’s last chance saloon really.

On the dipstick there is usually a min mark and a max mark. Usually (but not always) the difference between min and max is 1 litre, most petrol stations sell the 1 litre top up size bottle.

Where does it go? Oil gets burnt away with the petrol but only in tiny amounts but over time it adds up and shows this on the dipstick. It’s normal to top up oil occasionally.

Go on euro car parts website, enter your reg number and the page will show every part they sell for your car. Go on service items/engine oil and it’ll show you a range of oils sutiable for your car. Petrol station oil is vastly overpriced, euro car parts is about the cheapest you’ll get.

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I’d imagine an MP will have a look at what’s going through the chamber in advance of turning up, or not as the case may be.

Whether or not they attend will depend upon whether the whips tell them to and if not, whether they feel they’re needed. In this case I imagine most thought the bill uncontroversial and as such it’s passage was assured. For that reason most would decide to get on with something that definitely did require their attention. It doesn’t mean they’re not interested or lazy.

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09gzjmv

Was part of r4 inside science, so I’d give it some credibility myself.

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Surprisingly a head shot isn’t always best to guarantee an instant kill on many animals. Skull thickness, small brains etc.. especially in species which use their head to battle it out for boss of the herd. But regardless of this the shooting of any elephant is deplorable.

Plenty evidence building through studies of trophy hunting to ‘fund’ conservation that it is having a negative effect, as generally the best trophies are also pack, or herd leaders and they are taking out those with the strongest genetics and leaving the weaker or smaller animals to breed. The ways in which man meddles just never ends.

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I know a Royal Marine sgt who was in the Falklands conflict. I remember how proud he was when he told me how, “his lads” performed brilliantly under extremely arduous conditions in the war. “And they were mostly 18-23 year old kids , when they went, but by God they were men when they came back”.

And I guess that will be the same always.

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Doubling up. When I first started work in the 60s a mate at work suggested exactly this to me. Foolproof, he said. We went to a casino with something like £20 between us (this was as far as I remember 1967 or 68). We came out that night with £110 each, which seemed a fortune at the time. So of course went back the next night… and lost it all. Yes, you have to have a huge amount of money to make it work, the casino has to have no limit to how many times you can double up and thirdly there’s always the chance that the ball lands on zero in which case the bank wins.

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