i think you'll find Manchester isn't in the countryside! It's a buzzing city, and has some extremely nice places nearby. Cheshire (the next county) is the northern equivalent of Surrey, and is an extremely wealthy area with some beautiful places. Maybe i'm biased though, as my Mum has lived in Knutsford since i was 12. Lee

- No, you're not teaching me to suck eggs.. We are desperately trying to get the old forum, along with data and memberships. However, we fear the worst and are 99% sure it all got lost. alivewww are being as unhelpful as ever in trying to recover anything, but we are trying to badger them daily. Lee

Hi Stephen Is there any way you could contact your card issuer and ask if it's on the current billing cycle? I'd be interested to know! Many thanks Lee

Manchester is a fantastic City. I'd recommend it to anyone. I do live not too far from London, and go there frequently - and while it edges Manchester on attractions i must admit that Manchester is a much more friendly and welcoming place to be. However, i'm certainly not saying London isn't friendly. I just find that in most central parts

jandyt: Do you remember your rendition of "O Sole Mio" after the Happy Penguin? Andy T. ummm. no. (ahem....)

britops: I'm very interested. I would love to hear some Beolab 5's, I've still never heard any playing my music. I also wonder if we combine it with the Beoworld prize draw live. (How actually do you make the draw? Names in a hat?) Random generator (given the Gold membership numbers between 1 and the last member to join at that time), then

All done. Thank you for pointing this out! If you have any more corrections, please do let us know as we always like to make sure every bit of info is correct. You can use this form to do so, and all comments are welcome! Many thanks again Lee

Now that BeoWorld is starting to settle down a little, and we have experienced very few gremlins for such a complex and new site - i thought it time to address an issue that has been mentioned before.. Although you may think you don't care, smileys/emoticons can be great fun to use, and express feelings often words cannot on a thread. They can also

Well... he'd probably pay me £900 to go away... Lee

As far as i'm aware, it doesn't affect the rankings at all... This was the furthest thing from our minds when the idea cropped up though! - The idea was to get people looking around the main site, and above all enjoy themselves! We love a bit of fun on here, and hopefully there will be plenty more of this type of thing to come! Thanks Peter