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Maybe too late now, but you should all get together and refuse to let these cowboys on your property each time they come. Demand that Southwark gets rid of Saltash immediately for breach of contract - there are enough complaints about the shoddy 'work' with photos to prove it - and promises in writing to employ professional builders and workmen. As to the suggestion to simply buy your freehold, not all of us are as wealthy as our councillors.

Hah. Quite Zebedee Tring - oh how i love your name. However, look at Rod Stewart's lyrics: "Knowing that you lied straight-faced while I cried, Still I look to find a reason to believe". With Southwark residents being told they no longer live in their homes because there is 'reason to believe' they don't. That is plain wrong. N'est-pas?

But these people have returned their forms on being asked to provide corrections to their circumstances. So what's going on?

Yes, they are incompetent, but they are also New Labour. Think about it. Why now? Having 'reason to believe' indeed.

Hi. I know a three-piece band called Without Words, "An incandescent piano trio" - John Fordham, The Guardian. As well as jazz clubs and festivals - and recently the Wigmore Hall! - they also do weddings, private parties etc. The double-bassist is a good friend of mine and lives locally. I'll find out what they charge.

Read this on Vox Political website from a commenter a week or so ago: "My 18 year old grandson fired up to vote for Corbyn, following all the issues, keen as mustard, has been knocked back because he was told that he is not on the electoral register. How come he was allowed to vote in the May General Election? By the time he got the email about this it was after the 14th August. Anything sinister in this Mike? I hope not. He lives in the constituancy of which you have ?local knowledge? and is very disappointed at not being allowed to vote." Mike Siviersaid:August 20, 2015 at 8:19 pm "A few people have been getting this, all over the country. His best bet is to check the electoral register ? that?s with his county council ? and if he isn?t on it, ask what happened to knock him off." http://voxpoliticalonline.com/2015/08/14/labour-will-discount-leader-election-votes-after-theyve-been-cast-wont-that-encourage-vote-rigging/

Call me a conspiracy theorist, but it's strange it should be happening now, when the voting for Labour leader is still open. Southwark is after all Blairite New Labour and they are getting desperate...

Peckham Bazaar! In Consort Road just before you get to Nunhead. See Fay Maschler's review in Evening Standard. Chef John is amazing and a great team. Food unbelievably and consistently scrumptious and prices reasonable for the quality: http://www.standard.co.uk/goingout/restaurants/peckham-bazaar-restaurant-review-8951717.html

Thank you for that Huggers. It's a huge scam. But this one in Lordship Lane seemed adept at it, and even 'paid' an accomplice 'witness'. Damn their eyes! Be on your guard, East Dulwichians! And take photos. Unfortunately, I didn't have my mobile with me to do that.

I've just had a run-in with a car crash scammer. I'm wondering if anyone else might have had a similar experience. I parked opposite the Co-op in Lordship Lane (10.15pm) where I was going to buy some dog food. I started parking behind a man, with plenty of room behind me, but he then indicated he was pulling out, so I waited until he did so and went into his space easily, so I was nowhere near the car behind me. Actually, even if he hadn't pulled out I would have had plenty of room to park. When I got out, a man, who looked more Middle Eastern than Turkish though, with black hair and was quite smartly dressed in a black suit) said to me: 'You hit my car'. I laughed and said I was at least a meter away from it and could in no way have hit it and I then had a close look at the front of his car, to make a point, and told him it didn't even have a mark on it. When I came out of the Co-op, a white accomplice of his, or someone he'd paid with a beer (he was drunk and had a newly poured pint of beer on his table outside the restaurant) said to me: 'You hit his car twice, I saw it.' I then laid into him for lying and asked if his full beer glass had just been bought for him by the scammer. Interestingly, a waitress came out of the restaurant and told this man to sit down and shut up, so he obviously had form, bless him. I then thanked her and drove off. The man who made the initial accusation was nowhere to be seen at this point. It might have been a one-off, but do watch out. I shall be warning my insurer tomorrow.

Couldn't find a thread here about La Scala, the lovely coffee house on the way to ED station, so apologies if there is one already. Apart from the fact that these wonderful Italians serve the best coffee in East Dulwich, if not London, which saves my life most mornings - and you can buy it on the premises to take home - I also had today for the first time one of their amazing quiches. It's a great little place - bright and cheery. And you can sit outside or in their garden also. La Dolce Vita right on our doorstep!

Oglander Road was all out, but just for 5 or 10 minutes. I rushed to 99-year-old next-door neighbour who was most confused, as she didn't realise we were all affected, but unlike me, had torch which she always keeps next to her (old Blitz habits die hard!). Is this the beginning of the outages the electricity companies have been threatening us with? I thought that was only going to happen if Labour got in and started freezing prices...

For someone called Grace, you seem to be lacking in it. Do you ever have nice thoughts? Try it. It doesn't hurt.

Why, Mr Tudor, was it funny? Someone has been murdered. I imagine that because the person arrested has not yet been charged, it's best, from a potential libel or contempt point of view, that there's no discussion on it as yet, which is why I didn't mind my thread being removed.

I think I know who the 'rude obnoxious and totally unprofessional building inspector' is. Do PM me his name. He's been in trouble before from Southwark for his superior way of looking down to tenants and treating them as though they're the scum of the earth.

Mutti - pure Italian-grown tomatoes (most 'Italian' tomatoes in supermarkets are only produced in Italy, not grown there. Big difference!). Franklin's Farm Shop on Lordship Lane sells Mutti tinned tomatoes.

A 34-year-old woman from Dulwich, south-east London, has been arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to murder. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-sussex-31886710

Without the demand from people like Charles Richardson there would not be abuse on such an industrial scale. The internet, wonderful though it is, has a lot to answer for in this case. The torture of children for viewing is a multi-billion pound industry. So how can anyone here say it's not the same as an abuser who physically tortures the children. Think of it this way, how is what Richardson did any different from the men who log in to a site - and there are many of these vile horrors, unbelievably - where they are able after paying to watch a child being tortured live and not only that, but to dictate in what way he or she is abused, in real time. Is that any better than the actual torturer? And it's a bit rum, isn't it, for people to be baying for Christians to be showing compassion towards him when he himself hid behind the mask of being a man of God. For me, and I only met him twice, very briefly, this is the ultimate betrayal. The opposite of everything that Christ stood for in that his actions were truly evil, and truly hypocritical. How on earth could anyone watch this stuff and not be anguished and chilled to the bone. Yet he, like far too many others, watched it for pleasure. Pure sadism. And yes, the pleasure these creatures get is sexual, again, unbelievably, but the acts themselves are only of torture and abuse. And please don't regurgitate the old "well, we're all flawed" nonsense, as the Church of England did as part of their usual cover-up. Yes, we're all a mixture of good and bad, and sometimes downright wicked. But most people, thank God, are never evil. This thread has become rather nauseating, so I'm bowing out.

You are wrong, Robert Poste's Child. And please stop calling it porn. It is nothing to do with sexuality, no matter how twisted, it is everything to do with child torture and sadism. Without the demand of these sickos, there would not be a need for the supply. Of course, paedophiles would continue to abuse children, as they always have done and always will, but the industrial scale of this horror, would not exist. What is it about this simple fact that you don't understand.

KK, are you blind? Loz just said: "I'd have hoped a Christian would forgive his sins of this life and pray his soul finds some sort of peace and redemption in the next. As in "and forgive us our sins, as we forgive those who sin against us ..." I take that to mean he is able, despite not knowing his victims, to forgive this man, and is castigating us for not doing likewise... Am I wrong?

It seems to be so easy for you, Loz, to forgive this man for his crimes and to castigate those of us, Christian or not, who can't while all of this is so fresh. You're as judgmental as the rest of us. I take it you have no children. If a child of yours was harmed in this way, and you knew certain men were downloading videos of this harm to watch for their sadistic enjoyment, you might feel differently, no? As people say, it is not for us, in the comfort of our safe homes, to forgive this most heinous of crimes. It is up to the victims, eventually, and those closest to them. If they can't, then that has to be respected, surely. I couldn't give a monkey's flying toss for this man. It's a shame he fooled so many people. I, like most people here, can think only of his victims at this present moment. He killed himself only when the net was closing in, and very likely not because of any self-loathing or guilt, but simply from fear of being exposed in his parish. Had he not been found out, it's probable he'd simply have carried on.

An excellent post, Rosie H. And forgiveness, if possible, indeed lies only with those abused. Unfortunately, most of these children - and thank God, many were rescued during this case - will have been terribly damaged and the rest of their lives blighted by what they've been through.

I'm not thinking clearly Robert Poste's Child?? There's no debating with someone who has made such a leap of faith that he now believes it not beyond the realms of possibility that this man actually might have 'protected' children locally. You mean from himself? This is nothing but fantasy. I'm not saying he acted out his perversions - not all these people do - but to say he might have been a protector of children is ludicrous in the circumstances. And he might not have enjoyed watching these videos? He paid to download them. They are not free. It is well-documented that the police who deal with these crimes have to have enforced breaks and counselling because they soon start to suffer from post-traumatic stress after viewing these heart-breaking videos, as would most people.

Mr Ben, how do I know: "...But days before he was due to answer police bail he appears to have killed himself by jumping off a cliff in St Margaret?s Bay near Dover." (Daily Mail). I'm saving my compassion for his truly tormented victims. At least he's no longer spending his Church of England wages on perpetuating their suffering. So, no, Robert Poste's Child, he was not a 'passive' consumer. Without him and the thousands of others there would be no demand needing to be met. And, again, it is not porn. It's the torture of children, which some people enjoy watching for pleasure. The most sadistic crime imaginable.

Mr Ben, he was not tormented enough to kill himself. He killed himself only when he was found out. And yes, we've all done bad things and are a complex mix in this way, but not to the extent of committing what surely most people see as the greatest evil.