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The Dave Porter Blog
Sunday 3rd May 2026
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A load of, very old, rubbish
I've just been into a pub in Hurworth, near Darlington, with Helen for some lunch. It's a long story why we were there and has nothing to do with lunch, I'll not bore you with that. So the menu was good, not cheap, but good. I had a lovely pint of Jennings Cumberland...
Other supermarkets are available.
Goodbye Tesco. One mistake is acceptable, two seems careless, three, well it's time for one of us to do something. A few months ago now, I spotted what looked like a reasonable deal on a small TV in our local Tesco store. We were looking for a new TV for the kitchen....
PPI Insurance – You could be robbed again.
So the banks have to tell us if we have been mis-sold Payment Protection Insurance. The current TV and radio ads, from the low-life lawyers who also chase ambulances and want to claim for an accident you haven't had, tell you that they will claim it for you. For a fee...