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All good points. even if we could defeat IS by bombing the civilian areas in which they are highly dispersed, where's Cameron's plan for what happens next? I cannot see it making us safer frankly, it'll just create more resentment, uncertainty and chaos.

This: "Once the car park is moved, the new play area will be built where the current car park is. The area is bigger and the new space can include an element of water play and hopefully sand play and fit for purpose play equipment." ..sounds good. The play area in PR is a bit rubbish at the moment.

It seems to be saying "we think our customers are all w*nkers". Interesting marketing strategy.

Tru dat

?4.18 million was originally allocated for the refurb, but the work overran by more than a year and ended costing an additional 2 million pounds (yes, more than 6 million!). It?s a terrible design ? ugly and impractical. Put together with frequently late running trains it is also now getting quite dangerous.

The entrance being on the main road is dangerous too.

wulfhound Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Boris Bikes are good for getting to the station, > because you don't have to worry about some little > scroat nicking your ride while you're at work - > the town centres with the best rail connections > around here are also hotspots for petty crime. So > for people who won't cycle more than three/four > miles, but are OK with the roads, they do help. > > Given that most of the anti's seem to be people in > their 50s, 60s & early 70s who insist that the > roads are absolutely fine, and that "all that's > needed is a dose of common sense", it might be > useful for PR purposes if nothing else. > > The Boris Bikes do seem to have created a couple > of new cycling cultures in central London (home > counties commuters cycling the last mile or two, > and young tourists out enjoying themselves), but > they're a fiendishly expensive way to do it. Unfortunately Boris Bikes (like the tube and cycle superhighways) don't exist in SE London.

Seabag Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I was quoted in the region of ?5 k Blimey, that is expensive. I was thinking of getting a new front door myself, but if that's the price I may have to rethink.

I agree a cash point would be good.

I don't believe for a second that stuff like this can only happen in London and it's not helpful to suggest that lot's of kids are carrying knives or that this is somehow routine. As already said, the perception that knives and stabbings are common place has the potential of becoming a self fulfilling prophecy. Thankfully, such events are extremely rare. Hope the kids are OK.

I've never found it particularly difficult to cross there I have to say. I think it would work as a Hotel, with a pub / restaurant attached.

it's a good location, next to the entrance to the woods and Dulwich Park. It's got a huge garden which could be a big draw for famillies. it would make a good hotel / pub restaurant. Just because people didn't like it when it was a Harvester, doesn't mean it's not viable.

I guess they've got to draw the line somewhere - they're pretty much on the border of three different postcode areas

The Dulwich Estate behaves like a bunch of feudal lords. The fact that they are recognised as a charity is ridiculous

It seems unlikely from the accounts I've heard that the motivation behind the attack was the individual's race. I suspect that they were abused because Clarkson didn't approve of the dinner he was served. It's shameful and pathetic behaviour, but a racially motivated attack?

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Sorry for typos, on phone

A lot of the universal benefits should go, it just doesn't make sense to take taxes off people, spend money on administering them and then give the same people some of it back. Hugely inefficient and pointless. Pensioners can't be ring fences for ever all though I do see the arguenent for protecting them. Tax credits are clearly crazy and I support what the Tories are trying to do by removing / reducing them. The problem how they're going about it. I personally do think that taxes need to be increased if we are to have decent health and education provision. The fairest way to do that is through a progressive tax, so that means raising I one tax (although I would possibly change some of the bands to ensure it was more progressive/fair).

If it's a real tree, it'll be dead by Christmas.

A letter like that from the prime minster is really revealing and should be big news. Instead we get ridiculous analysis of how deeply the leader of the opposition bows.

Loz, its really not a party political point. The medias treatment of Corbyn is getting absurd for all to see, regardless of what one might think of the man.

Really sorry to hear about this, you must be livid. How come the thieves didn't set of the alarm, I would have thought the movement would have triggered it?

Was it a roll up? Maybe it looked a lot like one of those jazz fags the young beatniks are into.

@DaveR - sure, that's of course true, but regardless of what one might think of Corbyn, some sections of the media seem to have completely jumped the shark. I heard someone on LBC calling for Corbyn to the charged with treason in all seriousness. It's quite breathtaking.

The media's treatment of Corbyn has got absolutely surreal. I thought this article sums it up quite well http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/saying-that-jeremy-corbyn-didn-t-bow-during-remembrance-sunday-isn-t-lying-it-s-even-worse-than-that-a6727106.html