32M-43M kilometres per hour

[francis]

Arrgh - why so fast?! (http://www.newscientist.com/lastword/article.jsp?id=lw1098) "Darling (http://www.number-10.gov.uk/output/Page1386.asp), make the trains run faster will you, love?". Most kind...

*** on a sidenote, the NS site manages to evade popup blocking. Ggrr

[David]

Francis, the "pop-ups" on the NS site are not actually pop-ups at all, which is why your pop-up blocker didn't stop them. They are one of the new breed of Flash based pop-over or overlay (I think that's what they're being called) ads that are just about to ruin our lives. You'll need to turm off Flash if you want to get rid of them. See this link (http://www.gidforums.com/t-1101.html) for more.