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I would agree with sport and PTAs, also Residents Associations (which are usually very pro-active in what they do). The WI is what it is. Does it need to be anything different? Probably not.....if the WI is happy with it's limited appeal.

but you cannot dictate to DH how to run their business! You can when the license is breached. I have posted the licence DH have on this thread. There is NO other licence (and anyone who wants to verify that for themselves can call southwark licensing on 020 7525 5748). Along with hours the license contains specific measures for noise control that DH must take.

That would imply that you shouldn't give them subsidised rent as it discriminates against them. No it doesn't. Descrimination is understood as something that has a negative impact on a group. How can an affordable rent impact neagtively on anyone benefitting from it? Whereas forcing someone to move into accomodation that is less secure and costing more is definitely an act detrimental to the person affected. And plenty of people in the private sector have their rent subsidised to a far higher degree by housing benefit (and therefore tax payers).

Yippee.....I will take 1000 and 2000 respectively.

I want a bagel now ......damn you woof!

Yeah I wondered what was going on there lol.

So it's 10.45pm and I'm out of something and I think I know...Tesco Express on East Dulwich Road - open til 11pm. Will only take me a min or two to cycle down there and sure enough I am there at 7 mins to 11pm. I find the doors locked with two others outside who have been stood there a few mins themselves. In spite of the bright light advertising the opening hours of til 11pm the manager saw fit to lock the doors at 10.50 so that he could be out of there by 11 it seems. It's no big deal but what really annoyed me is that the security guard refused to get the manager or to give us his name so that we could complain. In fact they all ignored us. I won't be shopping there again.

Yes keep a diary, with dates and times and descriptions of disturbance, especially now that you know what the licence allows. It will help to get some action in respect to the areas that are breached. The licensing department can review/ suspend and/or cancel the licence swiftly upon complaint. I think James in his earlier post also suggested informing the SNT (Safer Neighbourhood Team) too. The Police can use powers where a breach in the licence for the sale of alcohol occurs under the Criminal Justice and Police Act of 2001. What this means is that a premise has 7 days to remedy the breach, after which the Police can apply to a magistrate for closure of the premises. So if it is the case that DH abuse the 11pm sale of alcohol condition, the Police can visit, and issue intent to close if the breach occurs again within 7 days. With regards to all other licence breaches, they have to go to the licensing department. My advice would be to speak with the licence holder. make it clear that you now understand the terms of the licence held and that you won't put up with the breaches that disturb you anymore. If DH ignore that and continue as before, involve the Police on the 'sale of alcohol' issue (don't take the nonsense that DH has a 1 am licence for that, because they don't) and use the licensing authority for the rest. They will act.

(c/o Reuters) Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said a woman condemned to be stoned to death would not be sent to Brazil, despite President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's offer to grant her asylum. The sentence imposed on Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani for adultery has caused an international outcry and become a surprise campaign issue in Brazil's October presidential election. "WESTERN PLOT" Murder, adultery, rape, armed robbery, apostasy and drug trafficking are all punishable by death under Iran's sharia law. Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast told a news conference the furore over the stoning case had been stoked by the West to damage Iran. "This is more a plot in order to create problems in the very close relations with Brazil and Turkey," he said. Brazil and Turkey brokered a proposed compromise deal this year on Iran's uranium enrichment work, which the West fears is a cover for developing a nuclear bomb, something Tehran denies. Relations with the rising regional powers are increasingly important for Iran which has been subjected to a new round of international sanctions over its nuclear program, led by pressure from Washington. Mohammadi Ashtiani was convicted in 2006 of having an "illicit relationship" with two men and received 99 lashes as her sentence, human rights group Amnesty International has said. Despite this, she was subsequently convicted of "adultery while being married," which Amnesty said she denied, and was sentenced to death by stoning. Tehran has suspended the sentence, pending a review by the country's judiciary but it could still be carried out. Last week, Mohammadi Ashtiani was interviewed on Iranian television, talking of her relationship with a man who killed her husband. Amnesty International says Iran is second only to China in the number of people it executes. It put to death at least 346 people in 2008. Is Iran the most insane country on the planet? Or just it's President?

adjusting private rents to suit people's budget is a silly suggestion But is it, when so many employed people in private rented accomaodation need tax payers money to fill the gap between their salaries and their rent. Tax payers are subsidising private Landlords too, only that money goes directly into the pockets of the Landlord whereas in social housing the money is reinvested in the system. If you are going to tamper with one it is only fair to tamper with the other, which is why I suggested early on the some kind of rent capping in the private sector is needed too. And as has been pointed out, the vast majority of those in social housing will never earn the kind of salary that would be considered the benchmark for the private sector, so the number of homes freed up wouldn't even scratch the surface of the waiting lists. Meanwhile millions of people will still be forced to live in private accomodation they can't afford whilst nothing is done to curb the ballooning inflation of the housing market. One can not impose any kind of measures for social housing without addressing the wider issues and doing something about them too. More than anything, what council wants to administer the vast mountain of reassessing all of it's tenants every five years? Salaries, medical needs and so on. Does anyone have any idea of how much work that would involve...followed by appeals and all of the other extremely time consuming processes involved, to actually force someone out of their home. It is just never going to happen. The right to evict from certain sectors 'based on salary' is never going to become law. The European courts would never allow such a descriminatory piece of legislation to happen.

That article is common sense. Unfotunately those in power are at the top of the tree and have little incentive to change anything. One of the best things Labour did however was to introduce a minimum wage...fiercely opposed by the Conservatives. Britian is without doubt a better place for it...but far more needs to be done to stop the ever widening gap.

The shame and indignity of crying like a baby in front of a teenager. Ah but had he shaved his pubes?

I don't mind the ones that run about so much but the ones that scream and cry at the drop of a hat.......grrrrrr. And I hate kids in pubs after 5pm......

My only experience of the WI was thirty years a go when I spent a day with them for the voluntary section of my Duke of Edinburgh award. We were sorting donated bags of jumble to go to various charities and that was a worthwhile exercise I thought. It had a purpose. To be fair, the WI has always championed things like jam making, cooking and sewing and because of that it has always had difficulty shaking off the traditional image it has. Many of today's women just are interested in home economics, nor are they interested in something that 'seems' to keep women more concerned with traditional ideas of a female role (i.e baking and sewing). I think that's what elderflower is alluding to. And it a fair point to suggest that in some ways the WI is outdated. That of course doesn't mean to say that it doesn't work for those that obviously enjoy being a part of it, but 200K members nationally is so small a fraction of the female population that it's very clear that it's appeal is extremely limited.

In Space, no-one can hear you scream!

How many numbers can we have? because I only have one at the moment :-S

note Hal said 'annus' not 'anus' ;-) Nose hair.....just no need for it.

It does sound organised to me. Kids normally steal from bikes and scooters because they are easy to steal from. Ripping a cap of a van to offload it's entire tank of diesel is a bit more determined.

You'll be fine playing both lol....just need to remember where the net is lol.

Thongs - I mean just what is the point... and Anal bleaching...!?!.....which will only last as long as it takes to do your next dump.

Nothing is impossible, just harder (Sidney Poitier)

Halal ia cruel to animals. We have strict rules about how animals are slaughtered to make the killing as humane as possible yet pamper to religious nonsense for other animals.

Petrol theft from scooters and motorbikes is very common, as they are so easy to steal from. The other thing you can do is empty the petrol tank each evening - which is easy to do on scooters/ bikes.

Just remember to keep your hands off the ball in footy and your feet off the ball in Netball....or it could get messy >:D

I once left my card in a cash machine at Sainsburrys and the machine did swallow it after several minutes. So link machines do swallow cards accidently left in them. When you withdraw money, your bank not only knows how much and when etc, it also knows WHERE you withdrew from. Every cash machine has it's own number so Sue is quite right in that with a few details a bank would be able to find the owner of the money. I think the OP is saying thst it's one of those cash machines inside or outside a shop in which case it will be owned by a private company that supplies and maintains those machines. They would be the people to contact and they would be able to read the data from the machine to locate the bank etc. It's a bit of a hassle and probably only worth doing if the money is a significant amount I guess.