DJKillaQueen

Extending the market from 20 to 30 stalls on a Saturday is unlikely to make a real difference to parking. 10 extra traders vans won't impact on local residents trying to park? More visitors to the market (if that is an impact) along with closure of Northcross Road won't impact on local residents ability to park outside their homes? Have you done any kind of survey to measure how many vehicles are parked in streets local to the market at any time of day/ night James? Whilst your support for local business is to be applauded it isn't credible when you make an assumption (which your comment above is) based on nothing but your desire to support the proposal.

Burglars can get the key Sue no matter how small the letterbox is. They can see if the key is in there from the outside and poke it out from the keyhole whilst having something through you letter box to trap it, wire, mirrors.....a net...it really isn't as difficult as you think. And if the door has a window..how long would it take to break that and be in? Even double glazed laminated windows are not impossible to break in less than a minute so if any window isn't at least that it will only take 10 secs max to break and be in. A key in a lock is always a burglars dream.

They use budgies and horses. I like the circus and go every time it comes but wouldn't want to see any of the animals poorly treated. Probably the only issue for the horses is that they travel so much but they are not kept in horse boxes all day and horses work in all kinds of fields whether they are racehorses, show jumpers, Police horses...so running around a circus ring for an hour each day is no different to that. What matters is how they are kept.

I went to London Fields last week which is the best food market I've been to (better than Borough) with great stalls but easy to walk around... we need an equivilant in ED. Do we really need it? The area is very well served for shops both in ED and neighbouring local areas. The question surely is whether local people want it. And there are some very good points being made above that show that it may not be the gerat idea it seems at first glance. But that is why it has been put out to consultation.

Fitting an alarm is also worthwhile. They are relatively cheap and easy to install these days.

Closure of the road would be a pain as it's a good cycle through route but in principle sounds like a nice idea. The existing traders might have a view on increased stalls though ;) esp if it doesn't automatically translate into increased customers. And also why are the council proposing it? Thinking of the extra revenue from ten extra stalls perhaps? Cynical I know (and probably reflecting a waiting list for stalls) but a bigger market isn't always about improvement to the existing one.

I never do naything for Easter though......not enough glitter and twinkling lights for me.

Saudi Arabia is intolerant of any other religion besides Islam. Essentially we are talking about religious fascism in those countries, but it is a fascism imposed by the views of the leaders - rather than being a symptom of Islam. Essentially a dictatorship is a dictatorship whatever the nationality or religion or otherwise.

Apparently you could still be hung in the UK for 'Arson in royal dockyards' in 1965.

I agree that peculiarity is not the sole preserve of religious fanaticism. There is indeed fog, created by the Iranina authorities it seems. She was never tried for murder, but instead retried for adultery (which supposedly happened after the death of her husband - so how can it be adultery?) even though she'd already been tried for it, found guilty based on a confession she gave under duress, and punished with 99 lashes (which were carried out). The retrial coincided with a trial for murder of one of the men she is supposed to have had an affair with and he was found guilty but somehow she was also found guilty of murder AND manslaughter (according to the Iranian authorities) but was handed the death sentence for adultery only. And then a warrant for arrest was put out for her lawyer so he had to flee. What kind of judicial system is that? Iran's response that it's some plot by Western governments to 'make them look bad' is infantile imo and the citing of the case in America of a woman given the death penalty for hiring two hit men to murder her husband so that she could claim insurance is a poor comparison given the differences in the two judicial systems and the burden of proof required in America compared to Iran.

I'd be interested to see this months crime figures because there seems to be a lot of burglary and robbery at the moment, and vehicle related crime. I wonder if it's up on the past months.

That must explain all the police cars and vans racing North through Peckham on my way home then. I'm guessing it wasn't a heart attack for that many Police to be zooming down there.

She was sentenced to death for the adultery part under sharia law. She was first tried on May 15, 2006, by a court in Tabriz, pleading guilty under torture to the crime of an "illicit relationship" with two men; she has since recanted the "confession" made under duress. The so-called adultery was alleged to have occurred after the death of her husband, and no names have ever been documented for the two men. She was sentenced to whipping of 99 lashes, which was carried out in the presence of her son, Sajad Ghaderzadeh, when he was 17 years old. In September 2006, her case was again brought up when a separate court was prosecuting one of the two men for involvement in the death of Mohammadi Ashtiani's husband. She was illegally retried for the same alleged crime of adultery, convicted of adultery while still married, and sentenced to death by stoning. Ashtiani does not speak Persian, but instead only Azeri, and when her stoning sentence was handed down, she did not understand the sentence. Contrary to all documentation on Ms. Ashtiani's case, Malek Ejdar Sharifi, head of East Azerbaijan Province's judiciary said "She was sentenced to capital punishment for committing murder, manslaughter and adultery." The Iranian supreme court confirmed her death sentence on May 27, 2007. Reporters in Iran have been banned from reporting on the case. One of her lawyers, Mohammed Mostafaei, had to go into hiding in the country on July 26, 2010. His wife and brother-in-law were arrested in Iran and his wife's father was told that they would be released as soon as Mostafaei turns himself in. Mostafaei sought asylum internationally, first in Turkey, and then Norway, where he was reunited with his family on September 2, 2010. I could go on with more details of the two cases but under British Law the first would have been thrown out as the methods used for obtaining the confession were illegal and the second trial would never have happened as she was being retried for a crime for which she had already been punished. I don't care what Iran says...they are ruled by fanatics...and their judicial system stinks.

I love Christmas...I wish it could be everyday!

So he must be local then.

Never ever have keys and credit cards in a bag. Use a pocket with a zip. Obviously I am sorry the woman has been robbed and would be the first to berate the scumbag that took it but we don't live in a nice world. Common sense goes a long way to stopping thieves taking these things and it amazes me that many woman still use a handbag to carry valuables.

I never give money to anyone. If someone is begging because they are genuinely down and out, I'll by them a sandwich, but I'll never give them money. Most beggars want money to feed an addiction.

I'm pretty sure that admin don't have access to or control over pms - only the public message boards.

what would "elf & safety" make of it - the climber's technique in clipping off / on looked pretty dodgy to me. But he did have a guy beneath him, and I'm willing to bet that the guy below was clipped on (running a line) most of the time and he in turn was connected to that guy.

He was also brilliantly funny in person too. One of all time movie greats.

lol Mac :))

LOL....if only you knew HAL ;-)

Wow that's amazing. Not sure I could do that, but I did sail (as crew) on a tall ship (large brigantine) in my late teens, and climbing up into the crows nest at the top of the mast was pretty similar in all but height - without being able to harness on the way up - and while the ship is rolling in the sea beneath you (and no solid metal spikes to climb onto - all rope). But those guys must encounter some wind at that height.

I think part of what shaped the decisions on where things are held is the ease with which they can be travelled to. I remember a similar debate about the canoeing events and the worry being that spectators wouldn't travel that far (as though only Londoners are expected to go to the games - or rather Londoners are the only ones expected to be able to afford the tickets to the games). I am for having the games but like many people am baffled that Greenwich has been chosen for the horse events. In fact it's not the event itself that will cause the most damage/ disruption, but everything that goes with it...spectators/ media/ refreshemnts/ facilities and so on. I am also waiting to see what tickets will cost and am sure a whole new debate will emerge when londoners, whose taxes have in part paid for these games (along with the general taxes of the rest of the country) will find it expensive and difficult to get tickets for anything they really want to see. I wonder how many tickets will be corporate allocations and VIP for example?

And we also mustn't forget that France, Germany and some other EU countries face bigger issues with migration than we do. We could be forgiven for thinking that the UK is the only country in the world that has to deal with migration. The economic solution is to regulate immigration according to workforce requirements but that's difficult to manage within the EU where a free border policy exists, and within a free market system. More than anything, who can begrudge anyone that is prepared to move to seek a better future. We'd all do it if we could. Underneath there is also another question. The truth is that immigrants take some jobs because some british people can't compete for them. Why is that....?