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Agreed, Jazzer. If anyone wants to cast aspersions and/or praise to the skies, just hop on one for a short while and then report your findings! (I agree that it would be better if the buses were able to get to HOP but that is a different kettle of fish.)

Please report it to the Goose Green police, who seem reasonably keen on engaging with local folk. Sorry for your bad experience, and for your dog's. It could well be that similar episodes have taken place.

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Nice way to try to justify your law breaking. In the same way you seem to think you have a right to idle your engine (because it?s a bit nippy and you have offspring) I like to think I have the right to ask those doing the illegal, antisocial and polluting activity to stop. Difference is, I?m not breaking any laws and I do have every right to strike up a conversation with anyone, even though it may irk him or her.

Have a ride on one and see whether there is room. Looked plenty big enough to me.

They?re great - especially the sunroof! The windows are large, the seats have power sockets and bus stopping buttons and the visual display showing route and interchanges excellent.

RIP London?s first gay/first female commissioner.

then put those worries/accusations directly ot the GP surgery and say you will include their reply in your letter to an MP. At least then you will have done the most you can adn will have put your claims directly to the doctor or practice manager. I just think you are claiming a lot fo things without anything other than a supposition gleaned from a series of events you have decided add up to your conclusion. Such claims could worry other peopel who up till now may have not even thought about their health being hijacked by a "deliberate strategy" to manage the practice's backlog.

I purposely did not mention where the coaches were (apart from the Gallery Road ones) to at least try to stop it being a state/private school thing. The atmosphere is still polluted wherever the coach or car is sitting or going to/coming from. I think contacting the coach/bus/firm is a better idea and being constructive - ie. using it as an opportunity to remind all drivers everywhere of their legal obligations - is likely to have a better effect than a complaint with no suggestion of ways to improve.

To abuse an animal for "fun" is one thing. To put it on a well-used social media platform is another. To do both when you are an extremely well-known and (hitherto) respected sportsman is bizarre and very self-destructive. I hope he gets fined and loses his livelihood (for a short period of time).

Another one today - Clarkes near a school, on a DYL! I asked politely (please and thank you, thumbs up sign) but did not stick around to see whether the driver complied with the law. Endemic?

The fact we can bus hop for the price of one trip in any one hour helps do away with the idea of bus times, to an extent. I know sometimes you need a specific bus but given that the second, third, fourth etc. trip in the hour are free you can take one, get off and pick up another to get where you are going. I think the buses are on the whole pretty good but the drivers, I think, deserve a bit more pay.

I know some may think having one's bloods and sugars, height and weight a bit infra dig, but they can help in understanding what is going on with your body and what may happen to it; also, it helps build up a national picture. I am happy to go and be seen by a pharmacist, nurse, doctor, etc. for annual reviews, etc. If I have any questions about their qualifications or their role, I ask questions and if I don't get the answer I want, I ask to see a doctor there and then. No need for screeds and screeds of online venting. If you think your visit was sub-par, ask how you can feedback. Stay well!

I don't like to add oil to the fire but yes, I avoid thsi place and have done for months. I just think it is poorly managed, though I do understand it is likely that Covid-19 has played its part. It is a pity because there never used to be this kind of problem even at the height of the pandemic and hardly ever before it. (It also has shutters that have been vandalised and not cleaned for years which makes it stick out like a sore thumb on the generally pleasant N X Road.)

Delivery drivers (motorbike and vans) often idle the engines but only for small bursts at a time, but when you add up how many times they do so to do their jobs, it will be a sizeable period. Best to write an email or Tweet a complaint to say you have witnessed idling and want the firm to remind drivers it is wasteful, polluting and illegal.

it is not needed, unless you are extremely clinical vulnerable (eg. undergoing cancer treatment) Studies show that three shots within a certain amount of time are likely to do the job. Maybe a booster will be needed every other year or so, but as of yet, three is your limit (unless you are one of the small number of people who are deemed by specialists to need such extra protection).

Some of the coach drivers (who hang around Gallery Road of a morning) have been civil; others have ignored me and others again did switch off but with a sneery look on their faces. Just imagine how many gallons of fuel and how much carbon are being wasted over the UK just through idling engines...

How often (and where) do you experience any of the above (and personal use cars) letting their engines run as the driver (or, sometimes, an abandoned passenger) is parked up?

fishbiscuits - there is such a thing as professional and civic pride that cannot be measured against earnings, I think. Even if I did agree with you I would still wonder why the council does not do more to help such businesses. Other parts of the borough are much, much cleaner and have been, I think, systematically helped via some kind of intervention. Peckham deserves the same. tomskip - yes, it is a midden and looks/smells like the day after the end of days in parts. It is a great shame as it is lively and well-used and the shops are pretty varied and useful to many people.

As for their removal - perhaps they did not fit with current building/safety guidelines, or perhaps someone thought they were tatty or perhaps someone thought it not a good thing to, in their mind, "glorify" the war and best to let it lie...?

It is not antipathy towards cyclists that those who complain have, but only towards those who decide to disobey the law, perhaps citing common sense or having a child with them. More people are cycling (though it is hardly hear Netherlands levels and likely never will) and more are walking/using their wheelchairs, etc. so it stands to reason that there will be more examples of bad and illegal behaviour by all (and yes, that includes pedestrians crossing at non-designated points in the road, wearing all black when it is dark, etc.). So, to avoid that getting worse, just do your best to be rational and lawful. Every time a cyclist just nips through a red (see Dulwich Village) or rides on a footpath(everywhere) then it compounds the problem - people complain and are then branded anti-cyclist rather than anti bad behaviour from cyclists. If you are one of them, please don't.

Cora - why not complain to the centre itself, and why not check with them ahead of time to see whether your required services are offered? You only live a short way away, you say, so you could easily pop in. (The NHS is a great service but it can't provide a bespoke service or let us all know its options at all times.) I have had great service there but with any big, impersonal organisation I don't take it as read that things will go smoothly unless I do a bit of homework first.

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I disagree about C Green, Road. It?s much pleasanter there - much less muck and vandalism. Rye Lane is terribly under loved and the council seems to think it best to leave well alone which is a dereliction of duty to a poorer section of the borough.

N I raise is needed to fund our health and social care - abotu time too and I would gladly pay another 1%.