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I think this is pretty poignant, parking charges are definitely contributing to the demise of the high street

When will local authorities wake up

On that one, can safely say I've no idea! Only ever done English Language campaigns.

Aha, good old Tescos to the rescue

It's a shame, but I suspect not that many people are that surprised. With the explosion of digital technology in the camera world, and as Barney says combined devices that incorporate cameras, the traditional camera shop was always going to suffer.

They needed to sell themselves on stuff they could do better, customer service, advice, help. We took both of our kids to Jessops to get their passport port photos done (try sitting a 3 year old in a Photobooth!) But we only found out about this by word of mouth from other parents, and it wasn't obvious they offered this service when you went in the shop. But they couldn't have been more helpful.

Maybe the could have offered professional photo services, weddings etc, or editing amateur video from hapless people like me.

Oh well, another one bites the dust... such a shame.

Like or loathe old Mr Branson, you can't deny he's one clever cookie, and as soon as he saw which way the wind was blowing, he started dumping his Virgin Megastore Music Empire.

Years later, the former Empire has shrunk to some stores across the MiddleEast, a few in Germany, and the remainder in France, with the flagship store in Paris.

But it looks like the French majority owned operation is about to close it's doors as online competition from the likes of Apple and Amazon make it unviable, as they did in the UK and US.

BBC News - French mourn Virgin's 'funeral march'

It's a shame, I used to like going into the Virgin stores, but I guess the convenience and cost of online downloads was inevitable.

Too late Ray, I had to use it down my virtual pub and got virtually merry. Missus still doesn't believe me

Just set up a new laptop in the Office and been exposed to Windows 8 for the first time

After battling with the new layout, decided to download Classic Shell and it's reverted to a Win7 layout.

Much better and means people can get working quicker again with things in the places they expect them to be! But as remotetechs has said, it's pretty much Win7 under the covers anyway.

I'd imagine it's pretty good on a tablet, but for an office machine, shall stick with tried and tested

Your ad maybe showing, but on page 2 or 3 and not page 1. Don't forget, each click is a mini auction. All your competitors also want to be on the first page. Once you have had a few clicks, you should see some results in the average position column. This will tell you if you are pitching about right to stay on Page 1.

I'm not a CPC guru, just self taught, so can only tell you what works for me, but I look at the quality score. I try and aim for 8, 9 and 10, and use 7 as a cut off. Any keyword that has a quality score below this, I remove or pause. (you can improve quality scores by things such as relevance on your landing page).

The higher the quality, in theory the lower the CPC, and the more likely it will show up on page 1.

Hope that helps.

The vid's definitely very odd. A little slow for me, Clive shouted over that it sounded like a slowed down "absolute beginners"

Maybe it will grow on me... But he still sounds like Bowie

That's an experiment I'll gladly let someone else play with!

When you have an answer, let us all know

Now fixed!

I've just updated your profile, (you had the facebook URL in twice) and I've changed it to your business page, not your personal page.

Also a bit confused, you said your names Maxine, but your facebook page is Anita plus you signed another post as Anita?

So is it Maxine or Anita? Or both