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You have a lot of chances to finally put money in the bank instead of taking it out. You'll probably end up spending it again as this month is all about investing in your present situation and future plans don't really figure. Call now to view long-term options. Use the planet Mars to ride with the changes that are taking place around you. Close ones are not leaving you out of what is occurring; they are just trying to make you quicken your pace. Call me now to hear how Mercury wants to help ...

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Very Few Will Know Why Basso Wants to Exit City ; One Hopes That He's Not Been Driven by the Lure of Money That Taints Sport These Days

We can surely assume that very few of the Ashton Gate regulars, in or out of the dressing room, know why Adriano Basso announced that he wanted to leave City. Was he simply one of current sports' mercenaries, eager to move upwards and boost his salary in the process ? Or has he been listening too intently to those who professionally and legally advise him ? He has been one of the best goalkeepers in the Championship, frustrating opposing strikers and picking up awards en route. The fans - and...

Sport Quiz

SPORT 1 How much did Arsenal pay when they signed Kolo Toure from ASEC Mimosas in 2002? 2 Which cricket ground has the ECB confirmed will host its first Ashes Test in 2013?

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You've Got Mayall

It's been more than a decade since the quad bike accident that nearly killed him, but if you weren't familiar with Rik Mayall' s anarchic brand of humour before the accident, you'd swear the crash had knocked a screw loose! Throughout our phone interview, he's chattering 19 to the dozen, switching voices, sometimes talking in camp lovvie tones, sometimes shouting like he did in The Young Ones, sometimes whispering in a conspiratorial fashion. He often forgets names, shouting "Come on brain" a...

Strauss Gains Mental Edge

Good on Andrew Strauss for coming out with comments that were more Australian than anything the Australians have mustered on tour so far. The England skipper has, at times, appeared to lack the confrontational edge possessed by the great cricket captains.

Here's a Good Tip, Forget Predictions

The business of making predictions has long been fraught with the potential to end up looking very silly indeed. Even that early tipster, Nostradamus, tended to be as wayward as a particularly erratic Mitchell Johnson over, so it should have come as no great surprise that the Met Office made a bit of a blunder with their "odds-on for a barbecue summer" prediction.

Straight Talking

There are still five weeks until the start of the rugby season - but new signing Jason Spice has already given Bristol supporters a glimpse of what he is all about. In a day when sports people are often reluctant to publicly set any targets, the Kiwi scrum-half has bucked the trend by making his standards and expectations perfectly clear.

Player Trade Does Make You Wonder

How Seth Johnson came to negotiate a massive salary at Leeds United is one of the great urban myths of football's recent past. Johnson and his agent, or so the story goes, were discussing a forthcoming meeting with Peter Ridsdale, then the Leeds chairman, about the midfielder's potential switch from Derby County.

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A Chance to Join Rich and Famous - Iyou've Got Pounds 13m

A one-acre plot of wasteland on the exclusive Sandbanks peninsula in Dorset is on the market for Pounds 13.5 million. The site has beach access, but no property on it after a three- bedroom house was pulled down. The land that has the potential to have the biggest house in Sandbanks built on it and would cost Pounds 10,000 a square metre.

It's a Dog's Life for Abandoned Kittens ; Bath Dogs and Cats Home has Been Inundated by Young Moggies Who All Need a Home

You've heard the tale of the 101 dalmatians, but now there are 101 kittens in need of urgent help. The cute bundles of fur are all mewing for a good home, after an influx in the number of strays has left the Bath Cats and Dogs Home bursting at the seams.

Seahorse Midwife's Baby Boom

A seahorse baby boom is under way at Weymouth Sea Life Park. And according to her colleagues, it's all thanks to the talents of new seahorse 'midwife' Emily Madge.