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As requested! https://www.carolinelucas.com/latest/letter-to-minister-about-rail-safety-concerns

Thing is privatisation in transport doesn't work! If you were running several rail lines to East Dulwich and you could get a Southern, a Thameslink or a SE train, then competition would drive efficiency, prices etc. Like water transport is effectively a privatised monopoly. I'm no Green, but Caroline Lucas has published some quite worrying correspondence , as to why some trains are not safe to only be staffed by a driver.

BigED Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > You could try the Ivy House, Stuart Road, SE15 > (close to the South East corner of Peckham Rye > park). Further afield (and a few years ago), a > few friends and I had a joint do upstairs at the > Horse by Lambeth North tube (on the 12 bus route). The Horse on Lambeth Bridge Road doesn't charge for Room hire either! I've been to a couple of good do's there in the past.

For a first film, on one of them they should show the Australian film 'The Castle' its about development and planning, but more importantly someone seeing their home as their Castle, and its a great family film too.

trying to find a place to rent in this area is pretty bonkers too. An estate agent told me "there are loads of people looking but hardly any supply"

I see mention of where the station should be and people saying Oval and Elephant aren't that far, and what about East Dulwich. All fair points. Perhaps we should take a leaf out of the Tyne and Wear metro and connect up more transport links/ and or relieve existing routes. What about a station underneath/connected to Denmark Hill rail station, that would relieve some pressure on the roads round King College. Its also one of the most air polluted places in London, according to recent stats. Its also only a few minutes from East Dulwich and Camberwell Green. Tied in with this, you could get some more money to strengthen the bridges at the station. You'd probably need to rebuild the newly (and poorly designed) built ticket office, with more gates, self service machines and reposition the monitors showing traintimes.

Intereting comments on the last couple of pages. Loz nice of you to stick up for James. About Buddug stalking him. But can I just point out one thing. James chose to stand for public office. That means he has to put up with people coming on here challenging him as well as saying how wonderful he is. If he doesn't like it, I think its time to not be a councillor. And James - good you've come on to talk about the Bedroom Tax. But I'm sorry "The tory part of the coalition have extended it to publicly owned accomodation." You can't pick and choose which bits of the coalition programme are yours or not. You are in coalition. Its your programme. Its like I get a bit sick and tired of reading Simon Highes platitudes in the Southwark News about the Health Service, Student fees and the Bedroom Tax. Yet when you read how the votes go, he either backs the coalition or worse abstains.

What it needs is the screens moving from being right by a ticket machine - everyone bunches up. Ideally it needs the ticketing machine moved, perhaps across to be nearer the offices. It also needs another ticketing machine - perhaps against the windows off the pavement. Its a poor design, I had hoped they would keep the old ticket office as a way in/out. At least if it was a way out, you wouldn't have the mad congestion now of people coming in and out, bunching round the screens and queuing for the ticket machine.

I've had the same letter too! Anyone going to it?

I know people who have had to pay ?500 holding deposit, plus an extra ?500 - this wouldn't be a problem if it went towards deposit, fees etc. But then they have been asked for 1st months rent, fees and then get some of the money back after they've moved in. If you are going to use this money towards your fees, and deposit etc. Do so, otherwise you are talking ?1000 (fees, deposit, holding fee), then ?300 (say for fees), then ?1000 (deposit, and finally ?1000 (1st months rent) thats a total of over ?3000 someone has to find, upfront. Then you pay back some of the initial ?1000 after they've signed the contract. Why? You may as well, genuinely include some of that in the first place. As for Spark Energy, people may be interested to know its a specialist energy company dealing with people in the private rented sector owned by a group of people who formally were...... estate agents.

In defence of AndrewFFF it might actually be wise for Sainsburys to have some cameras pointing back towards the store (and where the cycle racks are) - if someone comes running out having nicked something they can get them on camera. Pretty stupid for that reason, never mind it would also cover the racks.

From looking online - some people seem to think Ludlows Company director Susan Colledge is an MP. Well unless shes changed her name is an MP in another country, I can find no mention of a UK MP so-named.

This is disgraceful the holding deposit should either be given back to you, or used toward the deposit etc. These fees are just over the top. I had a similar thing a few years ago (Not Ludlow), where they told us, "You'll get the ?500 back when you move out" as we pointed out, why would our Landlord give us it back as they weren't passing that on to the Landlord. Eventually my flatmate asked for that to be put in writing (they didn't seem like they7 wanted to), and he said we are happy with it, as long as you put it in writing, then I can get my boss who is a barrister to check it. We then discovered they had 'made a mistake' and it was only if they were managing the property - in otherword they were trying it on. POLLA2256 - do you know which MP owns Ludlow Thompson?

A referendum on the snow perhaps, Vince Cable and Nick Clegg, could then change their minds on snow ;-)

Both MM & ???? have mentioned the bashing of the rich. I think it is more nuinanced than that, I think if you work hard and pay your taxes. You expect you are doing that within a fair and balanced system. For example if you pay your taxes from source under the the PAYE system. If however you pick up a newspaper and see schemes and scams (many of which are legal) being exploited by other people, perhaps wealthier people, quite rightly you are going to be angry and upset. I don't think 'the left' attack all businessmen, bankers etc. Small business is the bedrock of the economy and they are suffering and are equslly unhappy at the unlevel playing field. I do think though, if the single mum who works behind the counter in my bank branch isn't able to ask for her pay to go into a limited company and can't ask for her bonus to come in the following financial year, then someone working in the Invest bank arm of the same bank, shouldn't be able to either. Its a simple concept called fairness and if we are all in this together, then we should all make a contribution.