A survey of 4,000 elderly people by charity Age Concern found that "Almost half of those aged over 75 were too afraid to leave their homes after dark because they believed they would be subject to verbal abuse or mugging."

It began in 1979 when a group formed a silver monopoly to buy all the world’s silver. In a short period of time they had amassed more than 200 million ounces of silver, equivalent to half the world's supply. When this started silver was $1.95/ounce. It soon peaked at $54/ounce before it plummeted (FOFOA, The Story of the Hunt Brothers, September 2, 2008.)

• Email asks you to confirm/update/verify your account data at NatWest Bank by visiting the given link. You will be taken to a spoof website where your details will be captured for the phishers.



• NatWest Bank never send their users emails requesting personal details in this way.



• The REAL URL of the spoof website is disguised as "http://www7.nwolb.co.uk/default.aspx? id=31osdlcfdrrdnnDwcslbcreWycuOkhOvp".



• The spoof website this email links to was not online at time of this report, but variations of the scam which link to working websites are bound to exist, so be wary! The website may have been taken down or disabled by the hosts, but quite often these websites are hosted on the personal computer of the phishers, so may only be online at certain times.



• The REAL URL of the spoof website looks nothing like the actual NatWest Bank URL.

Alaska appears to be a wealthy state which gets more federal money per capita than most states. We will not, however, be able to assess Palin’s effectiveness as Governor until her term is over. That means there is no good yardstick to use to judge her competency to handle the top executive posts in our federal government.

The Gambling Commission has released a report that shows that the UK has over 250,000 problem gamblers. The figure currently represents about 0.6 per cent of the adult population. What this figure fails to show is the crippling effect a gambling addiction has on family life.