Ok, I am going to confess to getting it wrong here so make the most of it
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I sat and had a play with the new Virgin channel last night (Ch 119) and was very impressed. Basically it has hundreds of programmes including the pic of progs from the main channels plus a lot or archived comedy, drama and documentary material.
I was able to choose whatever I wanted to watch, start whenever, pause it, fast forward or rewind or whatever and it gave me hours of entertainment without changing channel at all. I really enjoyed it.
Furthermore (sobs with the shame) it is free for the first three months to everyone and for people who have the full package (I do) it is guaranteed to be free forever!
Ok, I was wrong, the new Virgin Media might be better than the old NTL after all.
Furthermore, thanks to Richard Branson ensuring that he invested in quality trains for the mainline services, the terrible train crash last night resulted in (just) one person being killed and 5 seriously injured. It could so easily have resulted in massive loss of life and serious injury but the train, despite completely jack-knifing, running down an embankment and ending up doubled like a snake despite coming off the rails at 95mph, not even the drivers windscreen was shattered!
Respect to Virgin for making sure that safety was a major priority when investing in new technology, as with the tilting train.
Cheers,
Rob