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I have worked as a mental health support worker for many years.

Since the major institutions closed do you think care in the community has been an overall success or a down right failure?

Bearing in mind confidentiality, are there any anecdotes or stories you would care to share, whether it be positive or negative.

Do you think it is a multimillion pound money spinner or a valuable tool that benefits it's service users.

All answers appreciated, sorry if this question appears more than once over the next 2 weeks as I'm doing a little research on the subject and want to obtain as many views as possible.

I have a 10 year old escort, high mileage but was a great work horse.

I have to let the engine run for 5-10 mins to heat it up before driving, which I really don't mind.

Now however it drives like it has "kangaroo petrol" One minute it will be pulling and then lose power, this happens in any gear and at any speed.

Is this likely to be the transmision giving up, or a simpler problem that might be easily remedied... I would like to get another 6 months out of it if possible, before scrapping it.

When hair touches hair; you're indefinitely!

Why do the anti-McCann clan believe that the McCanns are going to be questioned by the Social Work Department when they return to the UK.

As I see it there can only be 3 possibilities

1]They are so embroilled in their anger they are totally blind to the fact that since there was no crime commited in the UK and therefore the SWD have absolutely no authority to question them at all!

2]They think a couple of thousand people signing a petition will in some magical way have an immediate change in the law thereby allowing the SWD to question them. Total fantacists, under European legislation this is an impossibility! Bear in mind the million+ who signed a petition to stop us going to war, very effective indeed!

3]They are hard of thinking! Believing that just because they want something to happen, then it will!I totally agree that the McCanns were wrong to leave there children unattended and I know almost all believe this but that won't change the law, no matter how much you want it to!

With a BB contestant being evicted for using the "N" word, does this not defeat the purpose and originality of the show ie a reflection of human behaviour put under the microscope? If a person breaks the law I think they should be handed over to the police, but to evict because you use a word, and not necessesarily in a way which you deem to be offencive, then surely we are seeing a reflection of society, to then evict that person is surely gagging a part of society, who either rightly or wrongly behave in this manner?

I'm Irish by origin, so should I now call the police when someone calls me Paddy or Pat or just call the police when I hear an Irish joke. Where does it stop?! Must I refrain from tellING Irish jokes also, incase I offend my fellow countrymen? As a nation can we no longer laugh at ourselves? The world has gone PC mad, your thoughts please?

Did you hear the one about the Irish...........CENSORED UNSUITABLE FOR HUMAN LAUGHTER.................