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What's happened to the links, from the forum thread indexes to the actual most recent post in each thread?

Thanks. I've just had a look at my own photo of the 4:00 pm one, just to check that that wasn't a label too. [ETA 13/5/24 I've had a look for the OL determination in Paul Brown's case mentioned in the following post. No trace of it, so presume he was successful in his representations to Southwark.]

I see that the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has been looking at some of their acquisition/mergers, on the ground that they may unduly reduce competition in some localities.: https://www.gov.uk/cma-cases/independent-vetcare-limited-ivc-slash-multiple-independent-veterinary-businesses-merger-inquiries, with a helpful press release at https://www.gov.uk/government/news/takeover-of-eight-vet-businesses-could-increase-costs-for-animal-owners.

You wanna get yourself transported mate. Try nicking a few tinnies from your favourite offie, that should do it.

For the record, it's now back to 4.30. The label on the back still says May 2022, so I assume it's the same one given a retouch. Didn't have my phone with me, but to plain sight I couldn't tell it had been changed.

Working my way up through the chain of companies having a controlling interest eventually landed me on two companies named IVC Acquisition Topco Ltd incorporated in December 2016 in England and Guernsey. The English one was wound up in May 2017.

Was the prompt informative reply in response to your own direct contact, or to intervention by a councillor? And if the former, to whom? Maybe the complaints page at https://www.southwark.gov.uk/council-and-democracy/complaints-comments-and-compliments/making-a-complaint, or something else? It would be useful to know.

I've a recollection of some time ago seeing one bus gate info. sign on that stretch lying damaged on the pavement. I'm not sure at all that it was one of this type, but vandals can be persistent. Whatever, damage by some means is the only reason I can think of why the one in your screenshot needed to be replaced. The current, erroneous one has the above label on the back, showing that it was apparently made 'in-house' in May 2022, which gives us an earliest possible date of replacement. I think I've seen other newish street signs around SE22 with similar labelling, which could possibly provide some evidence of the range of intervals between construction and installation. The corresponding advisory sign on Calton Avenue seems, from so far just an indistinct photo, to have only what looks a like a different manufacturer's specification table - I can just make out the word 'retro-reflective'. But anyway, as you say, Southwark should be able to provide full details. My Saturday webform input got a personal email reply on Monday morning from Environment Department saying: "I have forwarded your enquiry to the Street Furniture team and the site will be inspected within the next 5 working days. Any problems found will be dealt with as soon as possible."

sandyman wrote: > I presume Southwark Council would have a record of when it was changed from 4.30pm to 4pm. Nothing has been changed. Someone, either the council or the signmakers, made a mistake on this one sign. Even the corresponding advisory sign on the Calton Avenue approach has the 4.30pm correctly. Nothing could have been changed without a lot of formal kerfuffle and the making of a new TMO, most probably accompanied by scores of posts in this place. The "DS Timed bus cycle taxi only routes" one of 21 Oct 2021, https://www.southwark.gov.uk/assets/attach/66569/DS-Timed-bus-cycle-taxi-only-routes-notice-dated-21-Oct-2021-.pdf, is still on the list of current TMOs at https://www.southwark.gov.uk/transport-and-roads/traffic-orders-licensing-strategies-and-regulation/traffic-management-orders?chapter=5. > I'll leave it at that and cross my fingers. I'll use your link to complain too. The finger crossing, and possibly the complaining, suggests you're still partly attached to the hope that there was a formal change to 4pm. I think you'd be better off forgetting it. I can though see one virtue in your using the complaints process. I didn't use it myself because I had no personal complaint to make. But I did write to the highways department on Saturday and Sunday, by online form and email, to let them know of the problem and of the interest here. The template response to the email said "our standard response time is 10 working days," I feel bad about the fact that Southwark seems to have erred, at least in not checking the sign content before installing it. But what I'll really be judging them by is the speed and efficiency with which they deal with the (probably small) problem now. Possibly at least one post sent into the Complaints channel might make it more likely that it's looked at sooner rather than later. And if you have, on your PCN, the contact address of another department dealing with the enforcement, I think it would be great if you contacted them, to ensure that they're aware of the problem.

Can anyone say when the new sign was put up? Sandyman, did you see it on Boxing Day?

> Anybody seeing that would quite reasonably take it as correct!! I agree. Some might then be inclined to pay less attention to the legend on the actual regulatory sign. Our highways department should be told about it so that they can correct it. I'll be doing so. I'm not sure that a high court could or would allow the discrepancy to negate the unambiguousness of the sign at the start of the bus gate, but at the tribunal which these appeals go to I've seen enough variance to think judgments there might go either way, in the case of an appellant who says they were misled by the falsely informatory sign.

One thing that possibly goes against you, unfortunately, is that the first sign, as in your photo, isn't actually the 'regulatory' sign that gives the order, but what seems to be called an 'informatory' sign, of which Advance Direction Signs are one type. This I've got from the Traffic Signs Manual, which is the 'user' guide to the larger Traffic Signs Regulations and General Directions which contains all the formal prescriptions. Before February 2022, incidentally, I see that the order's hours of application were 8-10am and 3-5pm rather than the current 8-9am and 3-4.30pm. https://www.southwark.gov.uk/transport-and-roads/improving-our-streets/live-projects/streetspace/dulwich-review

Malumbu 15 Mar 2023, 18:46: > There is not data on whether collisions are on pavement or on road. Table 3?

I got my own bank's phone app recently, after mislaying my debit card, solely to enable me to put an immediate hold on withdrawals from it. The hold is easily reversible if you then find your card. The bank's browser online banking doesn't provide that facility, so the only other alternative is a phone call, and I suspect that would probably result in the cancellation of the card. The hold, btw, excludes extablished regular, etc payments.

> Maybe Kelvin 506 would be an alternative title You've got a good set of potential easily-remembered passwords or components there. Don't forget Réaumur either. I've just discovered that it's not so easy to represent recurring decimal fractions, using the conventional spot(s) above the delimiting digit(s), in HTML or bbcode. The vinculum seems to have been adopted as an alternative. But I think I'll stick with something like 232.777... Celsius. PS And with an approximation like yours, in almost all contexts. I can imagine someone including a recurring fraction in a title if they had good reason for doing so, but don't think I've ever seen one.

> Picturehouse (a chain) had problems pre-pandemic due > to underpaying staff and generally being a poor company In what ways?

> Fascinating how frequently pipes are bursting, despite > seemingly years of work and disruption locally. What are your reasons for finding it fascinating?

> undated medicines When did anyone last see a prescribed or over-the-counter medicine without an expiry date? The latest (2012) regulations require them. Lloyds Pharmacy have a web page advising people to take their unwanted medicines to their nearest Lloyds Pharmacy. https://lloydspharmacy.com/blogs/prescriptions/disposal-of-medication.

Contacting the NHS 111 helpline seems to be the prescribed course now, for all instances short of those where a 999 call or A&E visit would be fitting, where the GP surgery isn't contactable but help is needed. They can advise and assess, and I believe they can arrange access to Seldoc, for after-hours cases, or otherwise the Extended Primary Care Service, if they think it's needed. Both of those are housed at TJMS. Seldoc do home visits. I recently was able myself to see an EPCS nurse practioner late on a Sunday afternoon at TJMS, by appointment.

"1.9.2.  Section 23 of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 requires authorities establishing, altering or removing Zebra or Puffin crossings to consult with the local chief of police, and give public notice of the proposals. Notification to the Secretary of State is no longer required following the Deregulation Act 2015. " -- Traffic Signs Manual, https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/851465/dft-traffic-signs-manual-chapter-6.pdf If there is any possibility of different road users reaching and acting on different conclusions about the existence of a controlled crossing, isn't there a safety issue? The beacons are a prescribed component: item 27 in https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2016/362/schedule/14/part/2/made#text%3DZebra

How, generally or in this case, are "n% affordable" conditions enacted, regulated and enforced ? Is there scope for drift over time?

I can see the promo video now. People emerging form the side streets off LL, singly or in twos and threes at first , making the odd excited chirp, then merging into columns as they move along LL, their stridulations mounting to a frenzy as they reach Poundland's door.

HN, can you clarify please. I can understand news media always emphasising items that have just 'broken': they seem to think it's their prime duty to be really really up-to-date and first with the news. So I'd expect it to appear on the tickertape thing at the bottom of a TV ppicture (as a pretty routine and expected piece of news, but very topical and with much public interest). But are you saying you got something labelled as an alert, maybe as a text on your phone?

The sample size was said to be about 42,000, There are about 3,000 postcode districts (eg SE22) in the UK.

[Restored to original draft] At https://www.southwark.gov.uk/bins-and-recycling/christmas-period-tips-reduce-reuse-and-recycle there's this (see bottom of post) and a link to an online request form. ========== "Christmas tree recycling " We’ll collect and recycle your real Christmas tree for free! Simply remove all decorations, including any pot or stand, and do one of the following: "Put out your Christmas tree with your food and garden waste containers on your collection day "If you don’t have a food or garden waste collection, you need to request a free collection "You can also bring your Christmas tree to our Reuse and Recycling centre " "Request Christmas tree collection"