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ED in the good old days was a wonderful manor. You could leave your back door open and nobody nicked your gear. But if they did, you could call in the Richardsons and Mad Frankie Fraser would give them slags wot done it some dentistry without anaesthetics. That would learn them. They were cruel but fair. Now we've got all them poncey hipsters with beards, craft beer and foreign food. And all them arty farty films at the new cinema. "On The Buses" was good enough for me- why not them?

I studied "A" Level Latin about 100 years ago. However, the world has moved on, and these days frankly GCSE Turkish is of much greater use since millions more people actually speak the language instead of making so called witty jokes in Latin (step forward, Boris) that very people can understand.

I hold no particular brief for Corbyn and fear that he probably won't produce a Labour victory. But Labour, whether under Corbyn or otherwise, are more likely to invest in public transport than the Tories, so not such a relevant topic for satire as, say, Corbynista stand on Trident.

Apbremer and penguin, have you been reading the Daily Mail and Telegraph recently? There is enough nonsense being written about Corbyn without you adding to it. Like the stuff about heterosexual 20 something Corbyn has relationship with heterosexual 20 something Diane Abbott shock horror

As I recall it the appeal would be against "deemed" refusal of planning permission and would therefore proceed as if the Council had actually refused permission, i.e. it would be on the merits of the original application.

The developers appealed against Southwark's failure to determine the application before the statutory deadline, which is usual eight weeks. This deadline has been in force as long as I can remember (I started working in local government 42 years ago).

You're right about Maggie Thatcher, dc. The reason that the Tories in the early 70s closed so many grammar schools was that these schools were very unpopular not just with working class parents but with middle class parents (i.e. potential Tory supporters) who were unhappy about the prospect of their own children going to very inferior secondary modern schools if they failed the 11 plus.

On a point of information, I don't think that either the Blair or the Brown Governments got rid of any grammar schools. However, I am in favour of comprehensive rather than grammar schools.

I went to Eton, mate. I was delivering the groceries there.

Come on malumba, tell us what you really think. Don't hold back.

Can you actually imagine the Dulwich College Estate leasing premises to a 99p Shop? I suppose that the answer to this is (in the words of the motto of Private Eyes' St Cakes School) "quis paget, entrat". In any case why all the fuss about the closure of Shepherd's? It isn't an independent since it's part of a chain, albeit much smaller of course than Sainsbury's

Cllr Smith, many thanks for your reply. I'd be grateful if you could do all that you can to ensure that contractors other than Conway's are given a fair crack of the whip.

Charlie Smith, if you want to serve the people of East Dulwich, you should start to ask some searching questions about the Council's dubiously close relationship with Conway's and the poor quality of the work that Conway's carry out throughout the Borough. For a start, how have Conway's been able to get away with taking such a long time to carry out the LL/Nrth X Rd junction works and if they haven't been penalised under the Council's contract with them for this work, why not?

Where have you heard this? Perhaps you're confusing it with the proposal to give Calton Avenue priority at its junction with Court Lane. At least I hope that you are.

Works will on for the remainder of this year? In the words of a famous tennis player, you cannot be serious?

It's certainly an unusual name, I'll give you that. Unlike, say, Bill Jones or Nora Smith. However, among the problems that I may have, your name sadly is not among them.

There's no need to be sarcastic, binkylilyput (what kind of name is that, for gawd's sake?). The trouble is that too few people take a similar attitude, in contrast to people in other countries such as the USA who expect a bit of service from the shops that they use.

Then don't use self scans. I refuse to do so on the basis that I am not being given a discount on my purchase because I am doing the job that the store staff should be doing.

One eye's 'igher than the other one.

All this praise for private schools presupposes that the parents can afford to pay school fees out of taxed income in the first place, especially these days with the soaring costs of housing and general job insecurity.

Extract from item on Townley/EDG junction works in latest edition of Dulwich Society eNews: "... there is agreement that the situation for pedestrians is much improved." What agreement? Who exactly has agreed this?

Extract from the latest edition of Dulwich Society eNews: "Sainsbury?s comes to Dulwich: The Dulwich Estate has confirmed that Sainsbury?s will be taking over from Shepherds at 88 Dulwich Village. They are likely to open early in the New Year."

Fairlawn and Eliot Bank are full of undesirables and members of the hoi polloi. I think that you will find that James Allen's Prep School (JAPS) for your purposes would be preferable although not as cheap.

I've already made the "hoi polloi" joke on this thread (last night at 9.04pm). But my classical Greek is virtually non-existent so I didn't get the "ton pollon" reference. I am more likely to understand a Latin reference.

Ton pollon? Qu'est ce que c'est?