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It’s a number that could save your life. To many people, dialling 999 is the first thing that comes to mind when faced with an emergency or crisis. But what happens if you have little or no signal, or if you have to use somebody elses phone, where the keypad is locked, or without credit?A video is trending on YouTube explaining the merits of a different emergency number – 112. This has several advantages over the standard 999 number, in that it can be recognised in 70 Countries worldwide – and can often connect to an operator even when there is no signal on your network.

Our new blogger Nick Speed has been in great form lately but just how did he do this week? Saturday 2/2/13. Lindholme Lakes, Bonsai, 25 pegs. Well yet another windy day at “Windholme”, and to make it worse I drew Peg 9 on the narrow bank, this is a good draw but the wind was going to make this a difficult day. Especially when I need to fish 15 metres tight against the island for F1s and Mirrors, if I want to stand a chance of extracting enough weight to frame.

Franke Gianoncelli argues that commercial fisheries hold the furture for match fishing. I have had a lot of friends that have started fishing, only to stop after a few weeks and completely forget about it. Does fishing have enough appeal about it to compete with technology like game consoles or the internet for example?I fear this is happening right now to thousands of young potential match anglers and with the distractions like Facebook, x-box and playsations - match fishing will suffer as a result. The only thing that I can think of that will save match fishing in the future is commercial fisheries, and in particular big money events like Fishomania and the Maver 'Match This'.

Joe Carass was staring down the barrel at the weekend but a blinding last hour saw him come good! The matches are coming thick and fast at the moment thanks to the arctic weather that put paid to the planned Winter League schedule. However it does mean more fishing which is certainly not a bad thing! Once again it was to be another round of the Winter League at Tunnel Barn. Regular readers of my blog will know that last week our Match Fishing Drawbags team took the lead in this extremely difficult league. So this week was all about keeping in front! Jon Arthur was yet again in charge of the draw but this week his drawing arm wasn’t quite so good.