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Yes, if you look closely a label that says "4.30pm" has been stuck over where it said "4pm" last week. In answer to your previous question I got a quick reply from Richard Leeming via his email address.

Interestingly this echoes our experience with a different local vet (I won't name and shame but they are also a big one) . My daughter picked up some flea treatment for us last summer and paid on the spot. When we went there a few months later they said we still owed £55 for the flea treatment. I showed them a text from my daughter with the precise amount coming out from her account on the day the flea treatment was picked up according to their own records but they still insisted that we send an email stating this. Every business wants to make money and balance their books, but I can't ever recall having to go through the same laborious process when I've simply bought something somewhere else. Like below it doesn't reflect well on customer service.

Thanks, I did that yesterday and got a pretty prompt reply saying the sign with the incorrect time went up after my PCN was issued. I've asked for a more specific date.

sorry, the sign has definitely been changed from 4.30pm to 4pm at some point in the recent past. I've just gone on street view and screengrabbed this image where the same sign that currently says 4pm clearly says 4.30pm.

Having paid the fine i'm not going to get obsessed by it. i think I'll probably just fire off an email to southwark and maybe cc Helen Hayes, and Southwark News (as someone suggested earlier) with the pictures attached. I'll leave it at that and cross my fingers. I'll use your link to complain too. Thanks.

I don't think I saw it on Boxing Day, it's that period of the year when you lose track of the days and I think as we were going out for a late family lunch in my head i thought it was a Sunday and the times didn't apply. I imagine i wasn't the only one. I presume Southwark Council would have a record of when it was changed from 4.30pm to 4pm. But I've got no doubts that there has been a discrepancy between the two signs for at least a fortnight and I would presume that if people are being fined for driving through the bus gate between 4pm and 4.30pm while they've been like that they'd have a pretty persuasive case for having the fine cancelled. (it's possible they are currently not fining people after 4pm I suppose).

At great personal expense I revisited the scene today and took a picture of the second sign further down the road to confirm it says 4.30pm rather than 4pm on the first sign. See first post and attached picture below. I also made a short film to show them together but am unable to attach - available on request! Now, does anyone know who I should send them to at Southwark News? And does anyone know a friendly ambulance-chasing lawyer?

Yes, I agree with Sue, you may well be right that it's a different kind of sign but any reasonable court in the land would surely accept that if you passed that first sign at 4.22pm and saw on it that the restrictions were from 3pm - 4pm you wouldn't then be expected to check the next sign to see if the times were different. And if you did spot that the times were different you could surely argue that you thought the first 4pm sign you saw was correct and the second 4.30pm sign you saw was incorrect... Edited to add - thanks for Southwark link, i knew the times had been reduced once so actually seeing the 4pm sign I thought maybe they'd reduced the times again but have failed to change both signs. Can't see anything on website about further changes though. Anybody seeing that would quite reasonably take it as correct! Anybody seeing that would quite reasonably take it as correct!

I've actually tried to appeal to get a refund but Southwark's automated website won't let me - it says that once you've paid you've admitted liability and the case is closed. This seems harsh for someone who may not live in the area and is unable to check the signs/location etc (I know you could use google maps but they are not always up to date).

Can anyone shed any light on this? I thought the afternoon restrictions were from 3pm - 4.30pm - I received a fine on Boxing Day Bank Holiday Monday for driving through at 4.22pm. I paid as although I felt it was pretty unreasonable I was bang to rights. I just walked down Townley Road and the first sign says restrictions are 3pm - 4pm while the one further down (not very clear in pic) says 3pm- 4.30pm. I don't know if they've always been like this or the times are changing and the people changing them have lost interest mid-job, but I would imagine if you receive a ticket for driving through at the same time as me you've got a pretty strong case have having the fine overturned due to inconsistent signage.

I'm completely confused by the policy on policing whether it's the government or the Mayor. I would have thought that increasing police numbers is always going to be a vote-winning popular policy with anyone except criminals whatever the cost. So why have numbers been cut?

We are new to the world of vets and like others here generally find them good but expensive. This isn't a big issue so I won't name the vet but what do people think of this? when we had some treatment for our dog we were told the cost would be £250. When we picked him up the bill was £260. No explanation of extra £10 cost, they just expected us to pay it. We questioned it and they said they had to use more expensive medicine because the usual one was not in stock. Now, apart from the fact that the medicine they gave us was only around £3.50 a bottle online, do people think it's fair that the customer should bear a higher cost if the vet doesn't have the cheaper medicine available? not a big price hike but it did leave a sour taste (a bit like the medicine).

This explains something I was curious about - a few weeks ago I was told to go to A&E when I called 111 about a minor injury but when went I couldn't actually find any A&E at Kings - the place I was seen was actually called just "Emergency" I think. I was seen relatively quickly, two hours, but it was just a bare unattended waiting area as described.

EDT has beer garden too: https://www.instagram.com/p/Cciz_xgoNQx/ Sue Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > JohnL Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > The Cherry Tree has always been empty as long as > I > > remember except after football matches - when I > > first came to this area the then landlord was > not > > popular on here (that takes me back) > > > > I'm sad it never really got popular as its a > great > > space. > > The then landlord was not popular on here for many > good reasons. > > Including fake posts on here bigging up his own > pub and slagging off other local pubs. > > "Crushed and devalued" was how the fake poster > described s/he (not sure which, his wife was also > involved) felt after visiting another local pub, > can't remember which one. > > It was a running joke on the forum for a time. > > Then there was a lovely couple who were really > turning the pub around, and also brought in a > really excellent chef. It was them who renamed it > The Cherry Tree. > > The aforementioned unpopular landlord (who > unfortunately at that time also owned the pub) did > not seem to like someone else bringing in more > customers than he had, and he kicked them out. > > Either he also kicked out the excellent chef or > the chef left in protest/solidarity, can't > remember which. > > There was then a load of further argy bargy and > mudslinging on here. > > Oh those were the days 🤣 > > Then eventually Mr Unpopular sold the pub. Sighs > of relief all round. > > But as regards the EDT, I suspect the problem is > not just pricing but location. Also the EDT is > just generally a nicer pub, in my opinion. The > main advantage The Cherry Tree has is its garden.

It's abundantly clear that this issue is related to the closure of Sylvester Road. Two examples A couple of weeks ago I had to post a letter to someone in Essex, I decided to post it in Kent with a second class stamp at 4pm on a Monday - I'd have been happy for it to arrive that week, it actually arrived on the Wednesday morning. I wonder how long it would have taken if I'd posted it in SE22. And to highlight that in my experience this wasn't previously a problem - a couple of years ago I had to fly back from Glasgow the next day and realised that i had a penknife that they might not let me take on the plane, so I posted it in a suburban post box just in time to get the last collection and by the time i got home the following lunchtime it had already been delivered. I'm sure we could fill this thread with examples of how bad RM is in SE22 now and how reliable it used to be. In fact I think we already have

Not necessarily re travel - it may be that some posties supported the move because they live somewhere that was an easier/cheaper commute to Higshore Road. Unless they live further south than SE22 I don't see the change of commute costing them more. se22 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > nmh -That is completely wrong. The Posties got no > bonus for moving. All they got was increased > London Weighting which is mostly eaten up by tax > and travel costs.

I've noticed this more often recently too - I wonder if they are skipping a stage to speed things up or are so demoralised they can't be bothered - they've received the money either way, unless you go to the trouble of steaming the stamps off and reusing them maybe it doesn't really matter. Lynne Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Most of my cards weren't franked either.

There is this chap. https://news.sky.com/story/who-is-mr-loophole-lawyer-to-the-stars-to-represent-beckham-over-speeding-charge-11510038