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Monetary policy is not the responsibility of the Chancellor, it rests with the BoE's Monetary Policy Committee. http://www.bankofengland.co.uk/monetarypolicy/Pages/qe/qe_faqs.aspx

Can't see anything in the regulations to that effect

Not always. Kenny Bjerre being the most obvious recent example

Fairly sure Ben Shields rode on Swedish licence, not sure about Adam.

A 1984 Reading programme has a Rivets fixtures list which gives 3 July for Weymouth v Reading. If so then it would have been the second half of the Weymouth v Stoke meeting. I'm now looking out for the programme for that meeting to see if that hypothesis is correct.

Somebody did: http://www.speedway-forum.co.uk/forums/index.php?showtopic=80529 oh! It was me!

According to the highly unreliable metric of facebook followers: https://www.facebook.com/481042952054722/photos/a.481042995388051.1073741826.481042952054722/672086182950397/?type=3&theater Hardly surprising the top 12 are all Polish, although how the no 13 team gets a polish flag beside it's name I don't know. Top 7 1 Zielona Gora 2 Stal Gorzow 3 Unia Leszno 4 Torun 5 Czestochowa (top team not in Polish Extraliga) 6 Unia Tarnow 7 Sparta Wroclaw Top GB Teams 13 Poole 15 Glasgow 16 Belle Vue 17 Wolves 23 Leicester 26 Hull (!!) 27 Newcastle 29 Lakeside 31 King's Lynn 34 Peterborough (Lowest EL track Swindon @ 61; Top NL track Cradley @ no 70) Top 5 Other Nations 20 Lonigo 24 Ventura (looks suspicious as this track only stages a handful of meetings) 25 Vetlanda 28 Dackarna 30 Fast Fridays (Auburn) Top 5 Southern Hemisphere 57 Canterbury (NZ|) 58 Pinjar Park (Aus) 74 Oreti Park (NZ) 83 Bellocq (Arg) 85 Mildura (Aus)

Yes - because it has happened before. Bernt Persson and Bengt Jansson both abandoned their teams mid season when the pound collapsed in 1976.

Champion still going https://www.speedwaybikes.com/res2016_e/Champion-160904.htm But no sign of Tuff since 2014

Presumably because he is in King's Lynn's named seven.

Happy to oblige: Memorial Rinat Mardanshin Oktyabrsky, September 24, 2016 1. Ilya Chalov (Balakovo) (3 3 3 2 3) 14 2. Renat Gafurov (Togliatti) (3 3 2 3 2) 13 3. Kirill Tsukanov (Balakovo) 3 1 3 0 3) 10 4. Mikhail Litvinov (Togliatti) (2 2 2 1 3) 10 5. Oleg Beschastnov (Balakovo) (2 2 1 2 3) 10 6. Alexei Guzaev (Oktyabrsky) (1 3 2 3 0) 9 7. Marat Gatiyatov (Oktyabrsky) (1 3 1 1 2) 8 8. Ivan Bolshakov (Togliatti) (0 2 3 0 2) 7 9. Arslan Fayzulin (Oktyabrsky) (r 2 1 3 1) 7 10. Vladimir Morozov (Balakovo) (1 1 1 3 1) 7 11. Sergey Darkin (Togliatti) (fx 1 2 2 2) 7 12. Vyacheslav Monakhov (Togliatti) (2 0 3 1 fx) 6 13. Semen Zuev (Togliatti) (3 0 0 2 0) 5 14. Maksim Sosnov (Balakovo) (1 2 0 0 0) 3 15. Alexander Khasanov (Oktyabrsky) (0 1 1 1 fx) 3 16. Nikita Zubarev (Oktyabrsky) (fx 0 0 1 0) 1

Wuffy started his career at Pinjar Park so Rye House and Wolverhampton were big tracks to him!

Dates back to the introduction of speedway in the UK. The sport arrived from Australia in 1928, the same time as greyhound racing from the USA. As a result 80-90% of speedway tracks were shared use with greyhounds and they often took the Saturday slot (Sunday's were not available due to religious based restrictions on commercial activity).

Brilliant finish from Fricke there

It is from the Ukraine. veteran's meeting at Vozneschensk, 11 September Under 55s Result: 1.Vladimir Kolodiy Jr. (Rivne) (3, 3, 3, N / C) = 9 + 3 2. Bakhtiyar Aliyev (Poltava) (3, 3, 2, N / C) = 8 + 2 3. Igor Davydko, (Poltava) (1, 3, 0, 3) = 7 + 0.53. Sergei Khoroshilov (Vozneschensk) (0, 2, 2, 2) = 6 + 0.5 older than 55 years (final not run): 1. Sergey Byelokurov (Vozneschensk) (2, 3, 3, 3) = 11. 2. Peter Fedyk (Chervonohrad) (2, 1, 3, 3) = 9. 3. Stanislas Moskovchenko (Poltava) (0, 3, 2, 1) = 6. There were also 5 races for current riders, the Vozneschensk Cup - won by Vitaly Lysak from Mark Leveshin Full report here: http://gorka-speedway.blogspot.co.uk/2016/09/11-2016.html

Here are some notable oldies active in 2015/16: Shawn McConnell 26-4-59 - riding regularly at Costa Mesa and Industry, including one round of AMA National Championship. 4th in US National Championship Bob Hicks 29-10-64 - regular at Auburn and Industry Charlie Venegas 12-2-67 - 11th in AMA National Championship Bart Bast 4-6-67 - Auburn track champion, 8th in AMA National Championship this year Piotr Swist 20-6-68 (1994 World Finalist, still rides regularly in Nce Speedway League - Poland's second division) Peter Karlsson 17-12-69 - EL and Elitserien (oldest active rider in both) Matias Kroger 24-5-69 (ever present for Brokstedt in Bundesliga for whom he has ridden for 26(?) seasons) Sandor Tihanyi 28-4-63 - ridden in SEC qualifyer and a couple of other meetings in Hungary this year Vladimir Trofimov 28-1-62 - rode in Ukraine last season (his father Viktor was a double world finalist and carried on riding until age 57) Alexandu Toma 10-6-68 - had a farewell meeting last season, but has continued riding in Romanian Championship this season Marian Gheorge 11-10-57 - currently second in Romanian Championship to Adrian Gheorge (his son?) and has ridden in Swedish league One a couple of times this year) Imre Fogas snr 8-9-56 - Hungarian but rides in Romania where he is currently 6th in national championship Arnt Forland 10-7-64 - Norwegian who rode in Swedish League One on a Swedish licence last year.

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No they don't.

Indeed, many self-employed people (me included) have had contracts that restricted their ability to work for third parties. What amuses me is the indignation on here from so many British posters, completely oblivious to the fact that this is exactly the same way the BSPA behaved in the 70s and 80s when we had the world's top league.

Where do they think they are? Stoke?

Sabrina Bogh 2001 Danish under 21 champion (also on the podium was Ulrich Ostergaard) is the leading example of a female national champion.

Given that the article seems to have been written entirely by reading the BSF and using the copy and paste functions I'd suggest that it is closer to hearsay than fact. All we have is speculation, some of it informed and some of it less so.

Somerset Rebels may be in the lower echelons of the sporting world but in speedway terms they are probably in the mid to higher echelons (good track, neat stadium [but beware the rabbit holes], professionally promoted and successful). Bet Brenda's devotion was tested last night though!

And Tom Bacon must now be a worry after his fall at Somerset (he wanted to continue but was withdrawn by the doctor last night)

Basically it is a full time job that was only offering part-time pay. Suspect that put some people off.