Have to agree with Mercury here, I have noticed that it seems a lot worse this year, it was almost constant, and it irritates me totally. I donate monthly to the Welsh Emergency Helicopter Service, and a campaign that the St John's Ambulance are doing to try and raise money to get first aid etc taught during schooling, according to their statistics over 100.000 people die in the UK each year because witnesses, passers by do not know what to do or are not confident enough to help in an emergency, and Cancer Research!. I won't give a penny to the likes of Oxfam, Sally army(had my eyes opened as to the sally army in my early teens) or any of the other biggies as, like Scunner said I also don't believe that any of my money( and a lot of everyone else's) would actually go to the cause,,as there are too many fingers getting paid out of the donations.