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I can provide one data point. I was one of the guilty who looked at that one. I looked at it specifically to see if it might be from the same person who had done several such bench refurbishments previously and sold them on the forum.

[My response removed for being overhasty, garbled and product of inadequate reflection]

LIKED the halo (once I'd copied it to google, to confirm it wasn't a happy goldfish bowl). Can I just push my typographical luck once more, this time about folk pasting in 'rich text' copied from other sites, usually of grossly inflated font sizes. The forum software does provide conversion to forum standard fonts -- just click the "Paste as plain text instead" at the bottom of the edit pane, as in the screenshot below, after you've pasted it in. The edit pane also always gives you a choice of inserting a link to an external page, rather than the page itself.

Funny you should say that, Sephiroth. I somewhat oddly still remember passing though Gloucester at the tail end of a cycling holiday decades ago, and getting the feel just from the street activity, cycling through the centre, that I didn't even want to stop and look around. Tewkesbury, otoh, just up the road, I'd had plenty of time for. How 'justified' my Gloucester vibes then, who knows? Chalk and cheese, of course. Horses for courses. ...

I found it useful.

Upper case. Capitals. It's also been used on the internet for yonks to represent shouting, though I didn't interpret it as such here. In this case I couldn't even easily distinguish the full stops, which I think made it even more difficult for me, as a generally fast reader. Thanks for asking. :)

Maybe prompted by the new TfL poster campaign? https://newsfromcrystalpalace.wordpress.com/2025/09/17/new-transport-for-london-poster-campaign-tells-cyclists-they-must-always-stop-at-red-traffic-lights/ https://tfl.gov.uk/info-for/media/press-releases/2025/september/tfl-launches-new-poster-campaign-to-raise-awareness-of-highway-code-rules ps No all UC please. It's not so easy to read.

> There was a previous thread about them about 6 months ago. https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/360001-warning-we-r-blighty-outside-ms/ (April 2025)

Thanks very much for that. I think the better informed we are, the better our discussions will be. The article contained: "That arrest had quite an impact on the [phone theft] numbers for the following month,” said Green. Here's another indicator, admittedly a piece of police PR, of how well-targeted police efforts, mostly invisible to us, can when successful seriously affect offending figures: https://news.met.police.uk/news/met-police-drive-down-theft-and-robbery-by-84-percent-in-battersea-and-nine-elms-500495.

And you are now offered a link to https://www.nhs.uk/give-feedback-about-the-nhs-website/find-out-how-to-review-an-nhs-service/

BTW https://www.londontribunals.gov.uk/eat/understanding-enforcement-process/parking-penalty-charge-notice-enforcement-process is a useful information source. More items are available from the menubar Environment and Traffic Adjudicators header.

Just to check: what is actually meant by "in Calton"? > was up by 180% in Dulwich Village, And ditto, for "Dulwich Village" And "London City".

Stop Trump Coalition wrote at 19.53 on 15 September: > Many of you have also asked, though, > about how you can help ‘welcome’ > Donald Trump to Windsor when he > arrives there tomorrow (Tuesday) > evening. So here’s the plan: You presume. Why are you posting this here?

WHAT meeting? WHAT consultation papers? Why haven't you said? What are you hiding from us? Why?

If an appeal went as far as the tribunal stage, the adjudicator wouldn't have the power to allow it without proof that the PCN was unlawful -- eg through inadequate signage or doubt as to time of the alleged offence; but not, I think, failure to renew before expiry. :) I don't see why though you couldn't go through the initial phase of representations to the council, apologising, maybe explaining, and seeking their exercise of discretion. I don't think it would be at all unreasonable in the circumstances for you to ask and for them to cancel it; maybe with a warning not to be so grievously lax next time? Make sure that it gets done asap. I _think_ they extend the deadline for reduced payment if they eventually refuse your request, but am not sure. Can anyone here confirm that from their own experience? PS: An afterthought. Might there just be possibly applicable case law, convention , whatever, as to whether payment at any time today had effect for the whole of the day? I wouldn't count on it, but I'd be looking/inquiring.