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Yes, I think it's the usual spelling in what used to be the Danelaw (and beyond)

Huh? Isn't that someplace Caesar conquered in 50BC? :D

You mean Londinium? That was 43AD bub, and it was Aulus Plautius who conquered it.

The rules of cricket are actually quite simple, and deftly explained here.

The Rules of Cricket as Explained to a foreign visitor

You have two sides, one out in the field and one in.

Each man that's in the side that's in, goes out, and when he's out, he comes in and the next man goes in until he's out.

When they are all out the side that's out comes in and the side that's been in goes out and tries to get those coming in out.

Sometimes you get men still in and not out.

When both sides have been in and out including the not-outs, that's the end of the game.

This description of the game is remarkably accurate.

England (capital E please) my be "small" but the population density is very high - but we do have plently of low-desity remote areas. Cable is being laid but only to the densly populated areas. Take up of cable has been very slow in the UK resulting in collapse and meger activity of the handful of cable companies. They are reluctant to lay more cable until the takeup improves. Also it can be hard to lay cable, York is a good example.. It is an ancient city, with a settlement dating back thousands of years. You have to get special permission before digging up anywhere to lay cable - in fact I beleive that you must have an archaelogist on site for ANY excavation withing the York city walls, and your work can be stopped and postponed pending firther archaeological excavation - in some cases, for years. The coppergate development being a prime example - so in circumstaces like that, they are even more reluctant to lay cable.

So yes, there is still a need for solutions like this in the UK.

It's not like London of 1605 was anything like the London of today.

Sixty one years later the Great Fire of London destroyed 80% of the city or "... over 13,000 houses, 89 churches and 52 Company (Guild) Halls. [including] Old St. Paul's Cathedral ..." Link

OK, it's not a blink of the eye, but it's almost the same length of time between the London of the Blitz and the London of today ...

Both of the above statements are wrong. The Jury does not have the power to have a law re-examined or repealed by issuing a verdict. However, the Jury DOES have the power, and the right, to find a defendent "Not Guilty" for any reason. Judges and Attorneys don't really like this, and Judges will usually try to dismiss Jurors if they express disagreement with the law as written before the trial, but once the Jury issues a Not Guilty verdict, they're pretty much stuck with it.

This actually happens, too. The most famous case in which the Jury blatantly refused to apply the law was the trial of William Penn for sedition in London in 1670. The Magna Carta reserved the right of conviction to Juries only, and a few brave men withstood imprisonment and starvation in the face of an angry judge trying to force them to change their verdict. The jurors, however, would not relinquish their right under Common Law to decide the verdict, and would not find a man guilty for peacefully holding a religious assembly, Conventicle Act or not.

William Penn later came to America, and founded Pennsylvania. He advocated the idea that a panel of Juror-peers would be the final arbiter of the law, and this was encoded into the U.S. Constitution and Law in this country. The institution of the Jury as the final check/balance on the Government has been eroded over time in this country, but there are efforts to bring it back. The Fully-Informed Jury Association is one organization which seeks to educate Jurors of their rights, responsibilities, and powers, as well as restore their political function. Common Sense Justice is an organization in South Dakota with a FIJA amendment on the state election ballot this fall. Read up on Fully-Informed Juries, and if you are called to serve as a Juror, take your rights and responsibilities seriously.