I understand that up to 80% of Germans live in rented accomodation. This is given as one of the main reasons why that country has weathered the economic meltdown of the past few years in a much better manner than has been the case here.

If any one of you so called house owners wish to find out who owns your property just renegue for two or three months on your payments to the bank/building society and you will soon find out.

My middle son gave an ex. soldier,not previously known to him, a lift to Aberdeen, during the long drive they talked of many subjects, one of them being the miners strike of the 80s. This man told my son to watch any film of the confrontation between the miners and the police, he stated that those, although dressed in police uniform but wielding longer battons than the others, were in fact soldiers and that he to his sorrow had been one of them.
Perhaps a FOI request could find out if there was any truth in this mans assertion.