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I think that's only through the central section. Pretty sure that the Thameslink service from Denmark Hill remains fairly unchanged.

You would hope so, but they did vote in Bush, and he is (bizarrely) very popular.

It's different if they're taking up more than one seat, but if they're just sitting apart, you can still sit down next to either of them.

Front runnder for nomination to the Republican leadership! WTF! I thought that with George 'Dubbya', we'd hit the bottom of the barrel, but Trump - seriously? What the hell is wrong with conservatives in America?

The sushi place on the Lane is very good IMO

What happened to innocent until proven guilty? surely were talking about 'alleged victims' until a case has been substantiated?

I think the police should listen to people and thoroughly investigate claims of abuse. That is different from asking people to speak to them anonymously and then briefing the press.

If there were other seats available I don't think it really fair to ask them to move.

I fear that some senior police may be more interested in appearing transparent than getting at the truth.

No one has suggested that victims are to blame for the abuse they've suffered, or that crimes shouldn't be investigated.

Transport in Camberwell (I lived there for a long time) isn't great, but it's better than ED. If you're in North Camberwell then you can pick buses up into town really easily and they're a lot quicker from North of the Green. South, you've got Denmark hill and East, you're within easy relatively easy reach of Oval Tube. also, it's about half the distance to the Southbank compared with Ed, which makes cycling that bit easier. Still needs a tube / metro system with high speed and high frequency services, but that's true of virtually the whole of SE London. As things go in SE, it's about as good as it gets for transport.

... and it's not often I agree with a Telegraph comment piece.

I love our part of London - Only thing which does annoy me is the terrible transport, but generally, it's great and getting better all the time.

Government cover-up assumes that Ted Heath is guilty, which I think is far from proven. Just seen this article in the Telegraph about it, which I think I broadly agree with: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/11784844/The-Edward-Heath-witch-hunt-is-the-stuff-of-Hitlers-dreams.html

Nostradamus eat your heart out.

???? Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Oh behave...maybe Camberwell people are a just a > tiny winy bit defensive...I can't see much > snobiness on this thread? > > In my experience loads of SE22 people (including > me) have lived in Camberwell too. > > I love Camberwell. I spent 15 years there - it has > always been much funkier than SE22 ALWAYs. It has > generally bigger houses in the posh bits it has > marginally better transport links (but to call > them amazing is a bit OTT Come on!!). It's > recentish food rennaissance is great. > > But with a young family rather than a younger > single/couple give me slightly more sedate, > slighly more school choice and a bit further out > SE22. I could have written this myself. Totally agree.

The relationship between the press and the police is far too cosy for my liking. Why are the police holding press conferences outside a dead man's former home?

Is anyone else feeling rather uneasy at the trial by media which is taking place?

A long time ago, I tried to give up fags, but keep smoking weed. I had to take up tobacco again for the sake of my health. Eventually, I had to accept that the only way I'd ever give up the fags for good, was if I quit smoking altogether (which I did). It's a shame, because I still quite fancy the occasional spliff, but know it would lead me back to smoking fags all the time.

I saw a neighbour walking his 4(ish) year old out the house today with a spliff in hand. I'm generally pretty laid back about these things, but taking your kid to nursery, spliff blazing, is a little brazen.

You can park on Quorn Road, or St Francis for free.

One big chain selling predominantly processed foods, replaced by another. meh.

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Penguin68 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I wish the Council would ban front garden parking > spaces > > This would then put more cars parked on the > streets - with fewer passing places on narrow > streets (off street parking in effect normally > creates a passing space) - and more likelihood of > accidents/ damage/ vandalism (all of which has a > cost). It would be reasonable, however, to require > hard standing for cars to be made out of water > permeable materials, either gravel over membrane, > bricks laid over sand (bricks are water permeable, > unless specially treated) or whatever (you can get > a grid which sits over lawn and will support cars, > allowing a lawn to grow through it). It is > concrete or asphalt which cause environmental > problems, creating run-off etc. > > Of course well-tended front gardens with flowers, > shrubs etc. are 'nice' (and are still achievable, > depending on the size of space, when where cars > are parked-up) but banning parking cannot mandate > pretty front gardens - so there is no necessarily > aesthetic advantage in such a ban. I don't' agree with this. I think there is an aesthetic and even psycho-spatial argument against cars parked up in front of houses. They often involve the removal of the front wall and so the feeling of walking through a safe pedestrian space is undermined. It effectively draws the road up, over the pavement, towards the houses. It removes the feeling of separation and 'free', uncontested space.

It's definitely true that the hopper buses have a different, more friendly vibe (and everyone thanks the driver). Funny really.