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Does anyone know of a maths tutor for Year 6 pupils? Happy to pay very good rates for: Good knowledge of SATS curriculum Experience of teaching SEN kids Availability for 2 hours a week at approx 10am Tues and Fri Will consider different hours if it helps. Please PM me if you have any recommendations, thanks.

I need a recommendation for someone to come and build my greenhouse. It's very small (4 by 4) but my builder has let me down. Happy to pay a good price to someone who can now come and do it properly and really knows what they are doing. I'm in Penge.

BTW there is a cash point in Dulwich Village - it's in the newsagents. I think you have to pay for withdrawals tho.

Sad to see people generally didn't like this shop. Every time I went in there I found nice things, not too expensive, and with really lovely helpful staff (lots of whom were volunteers). Always a shame when someone tries to do something well meaning and different and it doesn't work out. Hope they have luck with whatever their next venture is.

These cuts weren't in the manifesto, but worse, in the run up to the election Cameron expressly stated that they would not happen. Bleating now about fairness and the constitution seems a tad hypocritical. The argument "We are elected, it is our will and thus the will of the people" is a little dodgy when you lied to the people to get into power. Good on them, I say. At least someone kept the government to a promise...

LadyNorwood I'm so sorry to hear what happened to you, you must have been really upset. Awful, and really frightening.

I'd think about: Loan to value ratio (if you are about to significantly improve that go for a shorter term so that as soon as you can take advantage of improved L/V ratio you can) Your income - if it's unreliable or at risk or dependent on tax credits or other similar things then go longer if you can for greater certainty Your attitude to risk - do you really need to nail down where you are for the next five years on can you afford to gamble a little?

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I think it is the case that they had planned a row of houses with underground parking. Certainly there were lots of protests covered by the press from local schools that the amount of heavy machinery required to dig out basements would be unsafe. Not sure what happened in the end tho.

I might be you know. Tempted, that is.

Ooooh I really like Tandoori Nights *Tempted Face*

Penge = East Dulwich a decade ago. Get in while you can. Victorian housing stock, changing high street that's not too over gentrified, big parks. Penge West is on the London Overground making travel to East London or Docklands very simple (basically you are on the tube), plus the train goes into London Bridge. Penge East goes into Victoria and Blackfriars. Basically the travel from there is really easy. 176 bus to Lordship Lane if you miss it, no parking restrictions. For some reason Norwood has always had the potential to change but hasn't. Don't know why. (*disclaimer - I live in Penge so am biased. But Time Out this week agrees with me...)

I've been having my nails done at Glamorous Nails for years and never once had a problem. They are never rude, always fit me in when they are already busy and are reasonably priced. I guess every business makes mistakes or occasionally has a bad day or produces work that isn't perfect - that's life. Overall though they are the best around and a great little business. I'd happily recommend them.

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Nothing useful to add - except huge respect for the women brave enough to report this, and a sincere hope that he's caught before his already very upsetting behaviour gets worse.

I thinks lots of people do not realise how much rent now is on the Lane.

I agree Otta - and I've mentioned both those things. No blaggers, hence suggestion about registration, and if you are terrified then I'm sure cabin staff can make suitable arrangements so that you aren't next to one.

I feel a bit sad when I read threads like this. Basically, if someone really gets genuine help from something like a dog, what harm is there is a bit of live and let live? I mean, unless you are terrified or allergic, why is one persons inconvenience or dislike of something more important than someone else's comfort or happiness? You might think it's excessive or daft or indulgent, but it's not exactly hurting anyone, is it? Yes, register, have some sensible framework, and so on. But if you cope much better with life when you are accompanied by a dog/enormous hat/music in your ears/only wearing yellow, then what the heck. Do your thing. I'm struggling to see either what the problem is, or frankly why it's any of my business.

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Otta - I'd agree. Unchecked and untrained it's open to abuse and also might be of dubious help. But registered/organised/recognised properly seems acceptable? Which is what that particular organisation seems to want too (I haven't looked at others).

I think that might rather depend on the level of need? Pampered pooch in a handbag is really not the same as a person whose life is considerably enriched by a support dog, or who is enabled to do things that they might otherwise not be able to? And the affect on others similarly needs to be measured - for example I don't much care if you think they are unhygienic or you don't like them if they are doing measurable good, but I would be far more sympathetic to someone who has a bad allergy or asthma. Perhaps a definition of exactly what we are talking about would be helpful? By way of example, if there was a sensible way of registering these dogs so that the system is not abused, I would support a person recovering from depression using this method: http://dogsfordepression.org.uk/how-dogs-help-us.html

If there's a genuine need for an emotional support dog I'd personally have no issue with it.

"Do you really think that the sentence for a violent coercive rape of a child should be the same for a non-violent, non-coercive rape where factual consent is clear?" No I do not. That is why I made very clear in my example that the hypothetical child in question was forced to have sex, but suffered no physical harm. Where physical harm is also done, then a higher sentence is and should be imposed. That is because you are punishing both the rape and the physical harm. Much the same as there is a distinction drawn between say, robbery and aggravated robbery. If you beat someone as well as rape them you are punished for beating them as well as raping them. It is not the rape that is worse. It is the addition of the beating that attracts the higher sentence. The right question is - do I think that the coercive rape of a child should carry the same sentence as the non-coercive rape of a child. And yes, I do. By which I mean, in the scenario I originally set out, no leniency should be accorded JUST BECAUSE the child consented. They are a child. You cannot have sex with a child. Their consent means nothing in terms of mitigating either the rapists behaviour or his sentence.