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Can you please provide a link to the source of your information about a 5 mph speed limit for cyclists in Dulwich Park.

which is https://www.parksidemedical.co.uk/.

Radio 4 programme, available to hear online or download in mp3, at https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002n7p1: City Transport: Faster, Cheaper, Greener Rare Earth How we get around town has never been more political, with controversies over low traffic neighbourhoods and 15 minute cities, and rows about congestion charging and public transport breaking out all over the country. Tom and Helen are in search of the kind of consensus that makes things faster, cheaper and smoother for all of us. What works and what’s been a complete flop? Should we all stop moaning and get on our bikes? Who is the reshaping of traffic flows working - and not working - for? And could Milton Keynes have all the answers? With contributions from: Chris Boardman, Commissioner of Active Travel England. Stephen Potter, Emeritus Professor of Transport Strategy at the Open University Karen Lucas, Professor of Human Geography at the University of Manchester and Director of the Manchester Urban Institute Natalie Ashton. Senior Engagement Officer (North) at Transport for All Presenters: Tom Heap & Helen Czerski Producers: Beth Sagar-Fenton & Alasdair Cross Assistant Producer: Toby Field Editor: Alasdair Cross Rare Earth is produced in association with the Open University.

This week's edition of The Briefing Room I found really useful and impressively informative on the training aspect. David Aaronovitch has come a long way since his University Challenge day. 😉 It's available to hear online or download as mp3. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002n7wv In a few days time resident doctors -who used to be known as junior doctors - were meant to be going on strike. This would be the 14th strike by the doctors’ union since March 2023. The ostensible reason was pay but now the dispute may be over without more increases to salary levels. The Government has instead made an offer to do something about the other big issue for early career doctors - working conditions and specialist training places. David Aaronovitch and guests discuss what's going on and ask what the problem is with the way we in Britain train our doctors? Guests: Hugh Pym, BBC Health Editor Sir Andrew Goddard, Consultant Gastroenterologist Professor Martin McKee, Professor of European Public Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine Mark Dayan, Policy Analyst, Nuffield Trust. Presenter: David Aaronovitch Producers: Caroline Bayley, Kirsteen Knight, Cordelia Hemming Production Co-ordinator: Maria Ogundele Sound Engineers: Michael Regaard, Gareth Jones Editor: Richard Vadon

That was one that the BBC seem to have lost track of. But they do still have quite a few. These are some in their 60s archive. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0028zp6

Where is the assertion that they do?

Are the collectors on M&S property? Iirc it's previously been their practice to be on a shop's premises, even with permission, so as to avoid any action against them for street collecting. If so now, I think it would be for the shop to tell them to leave and enforce their doing so. I think in theory the police can be asked to come along and stand by in case of any resulting violence or breach of the peace from the collectors.

Rule 115 You should also use dipped headlights, or dim-dip if fitted, at night in built-up areas and in dull daytime weather, to ensure that you can be seen keep your headlights dipped when overtaking until you are level with the other vehicle and then change to main beam if necessary, unless this would dazzle oncoming road users slow down, and if necessary stop, if you are dazzled by oncoming headlights. https://www.gov.uk/guidance/the-highway-code/general-rules-techniques-and-advice-for-all-drivers-and-riders-103-to-158

How and at what stage did your information about the video reach the police?

I've looked up previous media coverage and gather that the school warned pupils of the risk of police 'fines' for assembly under the extant Covid regulations. Don't you think they might have felt it a duty, to both pupils and parents, to do so?

I'm glad that Barry's have posted. Their mention of the merger soon led me to (a) bushy-tailed PR guff about the new member joining the inpost 'family' and promising a bright happy world of lockers etc ahead. and (b) clear signs that the same problems related here seem to have been current and widespread even three months ago. That's just from looking at one thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/vinted/comments/1nlv3u2/yodelinpost_merger_issues/

How much space was available there, and how does it compare with what they have at Highshore Road? Are RM Parcels also having local difficulties with the size of the Christmas parcel stream?

An example or two would I think help.

Farage, like most of its pupils, wasn't a boarder.

The minutes of the licensing sub-committee meeting of 24 July are at https://moderngov.southwark.gov.uk/documents/g8329/Printed minutes Thursday 24-Jul-2025 10.00 Licensing Sub-Committee.pdf?T=1. The application was granted. Incidentally, the attached covering letter of 7 May does name Tesco as the applicant in all three of the planning applications I listed above in my 30 October post. 25_AP_1351-COVERING_LETTER-4061593.docx

> Was the penguin there? I like the penguin. I like the way he clacks his beak No, none of the others. Peregrine was in fact the only one I had time for. Maybe something about him of a proto-Victor Meldrew, or maybe a hint of Gilbert Harding? The only other one of whom I remember anything is the iirc rather tiresome Katy the Kangaroo. The Annette Mills WikiP article I found interesting. If you branch out from there you may eventually get to the 'official site' https://www.muffinthemule.co . Your browser might provide a small frisson if you take the necessary Advanced entry route to the latter, with warnings of possible danger if you proceed further. In fact apparently nothing more than an expired certificate.

Indeed. Evening News & Star 21 May 1965:

"High Value Council Tax Surcharge – The government will introduce the High Value Council Tax Surcharge a new charge on owners of residential property in England worth £2 million or more, starting in 2028-29. Local authorities will collect this revenue on behalf of central government. Revenue will be used to support funding for local government services, with further detail to be set out at the next spending review. The government will consult on implementation of HVCTS in the new year." https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/budget-2025-document/budget-2025-html#policy-decisions, which shows (Section 5.1, item 54) a projected revenue of £400m in the first year.

Very well. I have too an even dimmer memory of being made to represent the 'Muffin Man' in some kind of engineered entertainment at infant school. Afair, my role was to remain hidden - even then, my preternatural talent for remaining still and quiet had been recognised - behind a circle of my colleagues, who sang the song. At some stage in the proceedings the circle opened, to reveal me, with what I presume would have been my tray of muffins. God knows what they were. From that production it was an obvious natural progression to my most notable appearance, in another class production: 'the guy' (as in 'Penny for the ...').

I have met Muffin, and his keeper. Was in fact on stage with them, in Wimbledon. I remember being perturbed by the amount of powder on his keeper's face, and the possible damage that might be done to the grand piano's gleaming polished surface by his prancing about on top of it. My reward for the appearance, afair, was a book or two, and a jam tart.

The Wayback machine https://web.archive.org/ picked it up on 2 October.

A website operator does have a defence available to them personally, https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2013/26/section/5, against a complaint of a defamation posted by someone else on their website. They're required to deal with the alleged defamation by acting in accordance with the regulations at https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2013/9780111104620/pdfs/ukdsi_9780111104620_en.pdf. There's an Explanatory Note at the end of the regulations, that provides a plainer language summary of them.

>> As in the famous Monty Perl sketch? > That rings no bells! Do you have a link? D'oh!. Sorry. So many programming languages... > Did you mean Monty Python? [.....] That's the fellow! 🙂 Same mode perhaps, but a different commodity. https://www.google.com/search?q=python+spam

I suspect NewWave may be thinking of Honor Oak Park rather than Crofton. That's the route I used to take when walking to East Forest Hill. If you're starting from near SE23 I don't in my old A-Z see any non-A205 route crossing the railway line other than HOP. I'd then fairly soon turn east from Brockley Rise and try cutting across Blythe Hill Fields, which seems directly en route.