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Ah, sad to see there hasn't been much demand for the bowling.

Wtf with the minimising of such crimes on this thread? The photo of the mugger on Gilkes Crescent is awful. So sorry to hear of teens having their confidence battered and the police apparently unable to do anything about it.

954m for Charter ED? that excludes an awful lot of SE22 then (as predicted).

I went to Superdrug today ... in Forest Hill. At least in Forest Hill I can get 1.5 hours guaranteed parking free of charge. Won't be able to say the same in East Dulwich soon, sadly.

?30.00 p/a. ?1.15 every two weeks to have a brown wheelie bin full of garden waste taken away. Doesn't seem bad value to me.

I'm with you NXJen - such an inordinate amount of fuss over almost nothing. Where my Mum lives (a city but not London) the council still doesn't even collect glass for recycling.

Yes Dimples, 1 blue bin, 1 small green bin, 1 brown kerbside caddy (kept outside the back door) therefore 2 bins in my front garden. We got rid of our large brown bin years ago as it is an eyesore and not needed.

Sandyman - you'll have the smaller one because food waste collection will still be free of charge. If you don't fill your large brown bin with garden waste every week then ask the council to take it back. If you have such a large garden that you generate a lot of garden waste, then you'll have room for a compost bin or compost heap. The rest of the time you can use the paper sacks. My small brown bin sits outside the back door until collection day so we only have 2 bins (and the green one is a small size one despite us being a family of 4 adults yet somehow we manage) in our front garden now. It's not rocket surgery.

Yes, siblings automatically getting a place on the first sibling's lucky outcome in the lottery. Odd.

"The solution is to make all the schools as desirable as the most popular ones ..." easier said than done, I think! The removal of the sibling priority would make the whole process fairer (and yes, in an area with many single sex schools it's an oddity in itself) and would discourage the adroit moving into and out of rental properties that we all know goes on. Also, Kingsdale should not operate a lottery system in a vacuum. Either all schools in a borough do it or none do. But I and many other parents were saying all this back in 2011 - so good luck with your petition Oscar 38!

This has been an issue in East Dulwich for years! It's a shame that the new Charter school (with virtually the same catchment as Charter 1) doesn't appear to have alleviated the problem and there are still black hole areas. I think the removal of sibling priority would help but as motorbird says, when all the schools are in charge of their own admissions and there is no overall Local Authority control, then an "I'm all right Jack" mentality prevails. Automatic sibling priority doesn't even apply equally to all children in the borough. It's a mess.

I think if you have a garden in SE22 and need a brown bin emptied weekly to deal with all the cuttings, then you probably can afford ?30 per year for having that waste taken away. I'm not sure I know what a Corbynista agenda is but local authorities have to find a way to pay for schools, social care and everything else while having their budgets cut and cut again under the Conservative austerity "we're all in it together" policy.

I love this thread - but I'm sorry for your dilemma JW! We once moved a 3 seat sofa bed into a tiny Devon cottage. It had to go over a 5ft high wall into the rear courtyard and in through the back door. One of the movers who achieved this feat was little more than 5ft himself. I'm sorry, I know that's not helpful.

EDPineapple - we asked to swap our large brown wheelie for a kerbside bin several years ago. We also swapped our green bin for a slightly smaller one. It was done within a week. Iirc it just took a phone call to the Council. You could probably just fill in an online form now.

We don't have a brown wheelie so we use the paper sacks (plus a compost heap in our garden). I'm sure it must be possible to work out a fair way to charge people for garden waste collection. What did we used to do before the brown wheelies? Hopefully they can recycle all the old brown bins into smaller kerbside bins which people can keep outside their kitchen doors and therefore off the pavements/front gardens. We (family of 4 adults) put out one small bag of food waste per week, so even our kerbside caddy is never full. I'm aware I'm sounding like a right smugarse here, but we need to think hard about reducing waste generally.

Good. Hopefully people will get rid of their hideous large brown wheelie bins now and the streets and pavements will look a bit nicer. I'm convinced most of them contain 1 small bag of food waste most weeks anyway.

Hi, we've been to quizzes at The Great Exhibition, Watson's General Telegraph, The Herne Tavern, The Clockhouse and The Picturehouse (for a rather niche movie quiz at which we performed dismally despite having some proper movie nerds on the team). Of these I think we all rated The Clock House as the best - for having an entertaining quiz master and interesting questions. We quite liked the quiz at Watson's but the drinks prices just seemed crazy there. Perhaps we were glugging more than normal that night.

How awful! Those poor dog owners.

Many cyclists come to a point in their lives when they need to transport 2 or 3 children and a partner around all at the same time and find that a car comes in handy for that. Or, they may have done a lot of car driving and enjoy the solitude that a lovely long cycle ride provides. Or they may be car owners but commute by bike because it's quicker and cheaper than the bus and congestion charge. In any event, I find it entirely plausible that a significant majority of cyclists also hold a driving licence and drive occasionally or frequently.

Was this feature included on the BBC London news tonight?

So shocked that a pint is ?5.

edcam Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > This thread isn't helping anyone. It's just > ghoulish speculation and this forum at its worst. I disagree. The thread might not be helping anyone, but do all threads on here have to "help"? At the very least it is a place where people can express their sorrow and condolences.

I'll admit to feeling less secure knowing that this man has not yet been arrested. Is there even a description? CCTV? It feels odd that there has been so little information shared about the suspect. Perhaps there are reasons for that, I know nothing about police procedures. I was at Finsbury Park tube station the night Jonathan Zito was killed and it was the most shocking thing you can imagine. Everyone knows random murderous attacks are very rare but that doesn't mean it isn't disconcerting when it happens on your doorstep.

A crowd of Mr Anderson's family and friends were gathered outside the shop this afternoon. Heartbreaking for them all. I can't see from any of the reports, or have I missed it, but has there been an arrest? Or is the murderer still at large?

Maybe something to do with the murder in ED last night.