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Parents' expectations also influence children's achievement and it is well known amongst teachers that Asian students have strict home rules about school work and these students succeed. Since in some areas of the UK there are families of 3rd generation benefit claimants and therefore the children have never lived with anyone who has had a job, where do these children acquire a work ethic or aspirations?

They are earlier than that. I wear ear plugs at night and was woken up at 04.45 yesterday morning. You are right lardshiplone- when windows are open it is worse. I doubt if there are other options- apart from moving house.

I was voicing my thoughts on 2 separate issues because the thread seems to have deviated from the original.

According to Wiki Huguenot, over 15% of Canadians are of Scottish descent and that is an underestimation. Those injustices do go back a long way.

Whenever I've looked at their I.D. they have come from Dagenham! Casualties of our dwindling car manufacturing industry?

(anything to do with footie makes me feel sick and angry. but that's me.) i love good tats so go ahead in my opinion- but around this immediate area you may have a lack of custom so you had better be good to draw in outsiders. (or draw ON outsiders lol!)

Taking the cynical,conspiracy theory angle- a)all Scots politicians in England are desperate to wreak revenge on England for past injustices. b)By publicising right-wingers as less intelligent automatically controls right-wingers who wish to appear intelligent and therefore will keep quiet.

He knocked on mine- I looked through the spy hole but didn't open up. Just said no thanks.He was rabbiting on but I went away from the door and he went away.

A couple of years ago the Pope sent an emissary to Africa to tell them that 1) condoms do not prevent the spread of the HIV and 2) promoting the use of condoms was the West's way of trying to control the population in Africa. This is the 21st Century ffs. Since thousands of Mexicans (mostly Catholic) try to get into the US all the time Obama has a vested interest in promoting the use of contraception any which way. '...man thinks things divine because he does not understand them....' so said a Greek philosopher of BC. This still suits the church today and thousands are kept in ignorance!

You'd be better off reading Richard Dawkins!

According to Yahoo News, a man with a machete was trying to steal a car in Elsinore Road at 5.40 am. The police were called, he threatened them with the machete (in Stanstead road) and he got shot and he is critical but stable.

Domino's did not get permission for change of use- in the South London Press today

The place where loads of people cross, (including a very elderly lady with a walking stick), is at the junction of Heber Road and LL opposite the northbound bus stop. It is narrow there, you can see down to the bend and there is a lull in the traffic coming from the Plough because of the traffic lights; and where you cross, by the southbound bus stop, there are no parked cars. As far as I know there has been only one serious car/pedestrian collision there.

Sorry to resurrect this but I was hoping 'it' would go away. The 'muriel' itself has been tagged- it is horrid-the whole thing. I live close to it and I am embarassed by it.Probably the thought that people visiting the area may think that the locals like it- I know some do but more don't it seems.

I know for a fact that a sports club has its AGM there and holds quiz nights there.Also there are other quiz nights there but not often.

I was hoping that would be a Waitrose where they put the Sainsbury's local at the Plough.

I had a chat with one of the guys in the Sylvester Road sorting office some months ago about these types of problems and he told me that they are not doing the usual stringent security checks that they used to do when he was appointed. Also they use agency staff- one of these in my road asked my daughter where a house was because he didn't understand the odd/even numbers on different sides of the street!

As regards the CPZ issue; it was interesting to note that there were no parking restrictions in the road nearest to Sainsbury's in Forest Hill when they had a LibDem/Conservative controlled Council the election before last, and then Labour got in 5 years ago and put parking meters in that road!

About time. I was on the 12 once when a uniformed inspector got on, went up to a young hooded gentleman who stood up to get off. The inspector asked for his ticket/Oyster etc and the young gentleman tried to get past him. The inspector asked again, the lad head-butted him in the face and ran off the bus. He was spotted by the other (plain clothes) inspector getting on a bus behind. The inspector said we'll get him at Downing Street (there's a policeman there). They must have radio-ed the bus he was on to prevent him getting off and at Downing Street the Transport Police turned up and caught the thieving little scrote!>:D

Frequently we've had post, including bank statements, put through our door with other people's names and addresses on it. So much for our efforts at trying to avoid identity theft Post Office!

Easy solution to all this crime and rioting: read 'Children of Men' by P.D.James- there is an island where the criminals are dumped with no supervision and they have to survive in a society of their own creation.>:D