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Navcorr

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There's a good clip somewhere of Courtney Walsh joining DS with a hop.

If there are a few cricketers on the forum - may I recommend watching Fire In Babylon. For anyone interested in sport and/or those who were kids in the 70s & 80s and were spellbound by the brilliance of WI cricket I would suggest it is essential viewing. A wonderful insight into the psyche of WI cricket.
 
midlifecrisis

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Can't believe that I've bowled over the forum, No David Shepherd he did 92, Dickie Bird 'only' 66.

The name I'm after has since retired.
 
MrMickS

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West Indian chap? Can't remember his first name but was the surname Holder? - brain isn't functioning too well in this weather.
 
midlifecrisis

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Correct with Steve Bucknor, Mick knew it but, like Paxman I'm going to be harsh as I needed a name...So Navcorr can set the next one, unless he wants to give it to Mick.
 
Navcorr

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Let's be generous and hand the bat to Mick. Also, coming in off a long run up, I had a yorker of a question lined up for delivery. It may just have stumped most though.

Over to MrMickS.
 
MrMickS

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Thank you kind sir.

Trying to stay current what is the highest recorded UK temperature? Bonus points for the country, county, town, and year if you know them.
 
spkennyuk

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If i recall correctly the record was broken during the heat wave that hit europe about 15 years ago.

It was i think a south coast town in England.

I think the sun newspaper carried a headline about it breaking 100 degrees on Brighton beach.

So my guess is Brighton about 15 years ago and 100.5 degrees.
 
outrun

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Got to be East coast Southern England somewhere. Kent? Norfolk? I reckon over 100deg but not by much.
 
MrMickS

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Kent is the county, so that sets the country as England. Temperature is over 100F, interesting to see that we work in F rather than C.

Can we get any closer?
 
spkennyuk

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We work in both centigrade and fahrenheit. If its hot then its fahrenheit and if its cold it then we tend to use centigrade. We seem to be one of the few places in the world that switch between the two scales.

If its over 100 F then i will go for 101F.
 
MrMickS

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I'll give it to you, its 101.3F. You were, to quote Ken Bruce, "one year out" on the year. It was 2003, so 14 years ago. In Faversham. The headlines at the time, predictably, called it Feversham.

The F/C thing seems to be age related. My kids have no idea about F at all.

Over to you.
 
CatmanV2

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allandwf said:
F went out with decimalisation surely. I work in measurement and control, C or K, never F these days.
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This

Oh, and if I hear one more 'weather forecaster'[1] tell me the temperature in centigrade, I may be forced to resort to violence.
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[1]Or 'liars' as I prefer to call them
 
BennyD

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MrMickS said:
I'll give it to you, its 101.3F. You were, to quote Ken Bruce, "one year out" on the year. It was 2003, so 14 years ago. In Faversham. The headlines at the time, predictably, called it Feversham.

The F/C thing seems to be age related. My kids have no idea about F at all.
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These days kids have no F 'in idea at all.
 
zagatoes30

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Apparently summer is now over and the temperature is about to return to normal so can we have a new question please?
 
MarkMas

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OK, I will step in....

What is the longest place name in Great Britain that does not repeat any letters?
 
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