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If this wasn't another anti-democratic academy I'd be in favour of it, but I am against the selling off of our schools for a fraction of their cost for businessmen to control, so am not a fan. If it was a proper state school, run by the local education authority, I'd be all for it because I had to send my older kids all the way to Pimlico in Westminster (was a good school and has just gone into special measures) to get them a place and I would have kept my kids home rather than send them to Kingsdale - it's a really bad school and no alternative.

Try this site. I used them a couple of years ago to find a site in Whitstable, but you can search all over the UK and in France too. You can also do an advanced search to get places with a pool, or adult only etc. http://www.ukcampsite.co.uk/ They do members site reviews too which is very helpful.

Just got a letter from my daughter's school (not the Dulwich Hamlets one) warning us to watch our kids to and from school, so it looks like everyone is taking this seriously. The one I mentioned at Elephant last year (that was a man and a woman incase anyone is interested) didn't get the same response, I think you ED guys are pretty good at making people take notice.

Not sure I could handle that many supermen! I should really have a go at fixing it myself, but i'm just being a bit girly and don't want to get covered in oil

It's in the South London Press http://icsouthlondon.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/0200southlondonheadlines/tm_headline=curly%2Dhaired-creep-grabs-10%2Dyear%2Dold%26method=full%26objectid=19374967%26siteid=50100-name_page.html

DPF - I hope my post won't upset anyone, but I'd like to clear up a misconception. This is not usually about mental illness as far as I can see, although maybe the sad f***s who download it might be considered mentally ill, but the kidnap and abuse is most often part of organised crime. I used to work for a solicitors doing outdoor clerking, before and during my degree, and one of the clients we had to defend, as part of a big sting. He was a sad, disgusting peado who had been caught with downloads of kids (including babies) being raped. He pleaded guilty to having the stuff (had no choice really) and distributing it on one of those P2P sites but tried to say he was trying to gather evidence for the police, so we had to do what is called a Newton Hearing, sort of like a trial to see if his excuse was valid. I had to read his file and interview him in a tiny room at the courts, and I would have had to sit through the actual downloads at the Newton Hearing if I hadn't called in sick. Just reading the file and talking to the sick c**t traumatised me but finding out about how organised the abuse is was even more traumatising. If it was just about sick peados (who in this case look like a typical sick peado) it would possibly be easier to spot, but knowing that the people snatching the kids often are part of a criminal gang is what scares me.

My skills - aerobics instructor (bit fat now - but still know my stuff!), can ride a bike and walk the dog at the same time, immigration & asylum advice, handy with a pick axe and garden fork, I can type about 15 words a minute, not much else that I can think of, but I'd like someone to help me fix my daughter's bike please cos can't get a cheap enuf replacement.

DPF - Yes, why do you ask? I just finished Uni last month. Kind of proud of myself too.

This is very scary stuff. A similar thing happened outside my daughter's school about a year ago when I was living in Elephant & Castle, and we were told by the police that attempts like this are not as rare as many people think, and the perpetrators are not always the ones who abuse kids, they are sometimes junkies or other people who get paid to snatch the kids for the organised abusers. This is about very sick criminals making huge amounts of money from the kinds of stuff Gary Glitter got caught downloading. I don't want to scare anyone, but this is often about money and organised crime. As a mother, this scares the crap out of me.

Brendan - as in kick you in your 'crass'?

Just to depress you all even more, did you know the Gulf Stream stopped a few times last month, that was why the weather was so bad, and it's been slowing down over the last couple of decades, so we are facing a possible ice age too! Couldn't find anything more up to date, but check this http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn8398

SimonM - class rhymes with crass as far as I'm concerned

I'm glad I have a council house, 3 bedrooms, front and back garden, garage and it only costs ?92 per week. I couldn't have been any kind of incomer if I'd had to buy, unless I'd pitched up my tent in Dulwich Woods!

What about poor incomers? Also I'm an incomer to London too, I was brought up in Birkenhead but cos my dad is originally a Bermondsey man am I still a Northerner and when my 8yr old gets older, will she still be an ED newcomer?

Brendan - I'm disapointed, I thought it was this exciting all the time.

Keef - So Chavs can't appreciate a decent beer then??

SeanMG - I might pop along to claim the beer you promised. Do they sell Leffe or Hoegaarden?

I'm shocked! JennyUK may not be real. I think JimTC and Jonboy are right. She joined, posted once and that was it. I should have clocked that not even ED residents could be that dozy!

I know there has been a lot of talk about ethnic (social) cleansing in East Dulwich, so I'd like to know if this is a toffs or chavs do, cos I'd hate to inadvertently wander into the enemy camp

I'm an anti-consumer myself, don't believe any eco-product hype, so prefer to opt out as much as possible (that's why I walk about looking like shit!)

I had the same problem, their penalty notices have no legal authority, so I wrote and told them this, and they have left me alone.

Finally a bit of cage fighting in East Dulwich. Count me in, brings back childhood memories!

Hi - It's more an issue of climate change than simply global warming, manifested in weather like the floods, tornado and storms hitting the UK in the wettest July on record. There are very few experts who believe that this is merely cyclical weather changes, and they are non-peer reviewed pay-as-you-go scientists employed by oil companies and their friends. The other serious issue we need to look at is peak oil. We are now at a time when oil will start to cost more and more to extract, and shipping stuff around the globe will become more costly. We don't grow or manufacture stuff. We sell services and import most of our food and manufactured goods. What will happen to the cost of food as the oil price rises? How expensive will it get before we start investing in food production in this country? Who is going to feed the millions of people in the cities? How is that food going to be transported in to feed the millions in the cities? What will happed to crime levels as people are unable to pay for food? Cuba had an artificial peak oil crisis in 1990, and was initially economically devastated. They managed to pull together by using every available bit of space in the cities to grow food, and returned to a less energy intensive way of life. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_Crisis_and_The_Power_of_Community:_How_Cuba_Survived_Peak_Oil We need to start thinking about our own impending Peak Oil crisis as well as climate change.

Isn't it the same incident?

Plus if you go with Fusion you get all their fitness, yoga and other classes; their gyms, saunas, etc included in all of their centres accross Southwark; Seven Islands, Elephant, Camberwell, Peckham, Harris Academy and Dulwich.