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katie1997 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > (apologies in advance) > > my treacle thread> your treacle thread > > katie Jnr But neither has yet been awarded a sticky tag.

Tom> surely you agree with protesting where people see injustice Why are you protesting, if that's what it is, specifically now?

> although the electoral register is publicly available. There are two versions, the full and the edited. People can choose not to be included in the edited one. Notwithstanding the full register's availability for public inspection, there are strict conditions attached. The 2001 regulations as amended include, for example: "A person who inspects the full register and makes a copy of it or records any particulars included in it otherwise than by means of hand-written notes shall be guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale."

I've just seen a film that mixes up bits shot in SE1, SE5, SE15, SE17, SE22, SE24, and maybe others. Some themes that will be familiar to forum readers too -- lost and dead cats, fierce dogs in parks, muggings and beatings-up, prostitution and sex in cemeteries, fraudulent use of plastic card, noise pollution, door-to-door work, cafes, having a dream, A&E departments, making do, personal generosity, and the attractiveness of kittens; and it was good to see cat allergy taken seriously. Otherwise, I'm afraid, I found it awfully inconsequential, whatever good intentions the screenplay might have had. It's not on any more locally anyway.

> Yep, now on Bellenden Road! Looks as if it might be a pincer movement. I hope they pack up for the night soon. I'm running out of coloured pins to go on the wall chart.

Dulwich College is a charity. I don't think that would have gone down well with the Commission. I have memory of talk at the time of a gift, but the great preponderance of opinion is that it was sold to her by a Mr Pretty of Barratt, who later went on to become its CEO.

>We have had one chap object to the last five years accounts. Each of these objections has cost the >council MANY tens of thousands of pounds for the audit commission to investigate. Well, looking at just the Annual Audit and Inspection latter of March 2009, I see there were two objections noted: "31 Two electors have given notices of objection to the Council?s 2007/08 financial statement in respect of: - a query as to whether the cost of a street sign has been correctly charged to the HRA or the general fund; and - an enquiry regarding how the Council has computed claims for the award of costs for summons and liability order applications in respect of council tax demands. The audit cannot be formally concluded, and an audit certificate issued, until these issues and legality matters arising from the audit have been resolved." I'm not an accountant, but those questions don't on the face of it look to me necessarily difficult to answer. Could it be possible for even a vexatious objector to occasion great expense, if the accounting systems and procedures are in good shape? Whereas, on the council's side, the auditor wrote: "28 The financial statements were presented for audit on 25 June 2008 in accordance with the statutory deadline. Not all supporting working papers were available from the outset of our audit. The quality of the working papers and supporting audit trails, and the arrangements for providing responses to audit queries, require improvement. Consequently there were significant delays in the completion of our audit work. The audit team worked with your officers to resolve the issues arising from the above and to agree a revised audit timetable. However, as reported to the Audit and Governance Committee on 25 September 2008, the Council could not respond to the audit queries in sufficient time to enable the team to complete the audit by 30 September 2008."

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James Barber Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Searching for Section 52 returns the latest I could find were for financial year 08_09 i.e. two years ago. > Local Authorities are always slow to produce annual accounts as the Audit Commission has to sign them of and they > don't work to the Gregorian calendar but something very other worldly. But I would expect FY 09_10. They should be available now to anyone who wants to go to Tooley Street. http://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/forum/read.php?5,699353

The online public review has no specified closing date.

Has anyone made use of this inspection facility?

It's largely a categorisation problem, isn't it? FWIW, here's an artist's impression of my thinking when I decided to add to the old thread yesterday. Is there a previous thread? Well, yes, I contributed to it, though I can't remember when. Never mind, a precautionary search will find it and any other thread in less than thirty seconds. http://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/forum/search.php?4,search=treacle,page=1,match_type=ALL,match_dates=30,match_forum=ALL Ah, it's been lounged. Do I want to override the principle of not multiplying threads unnecessarily by starting another thread in the main ED section? Well, personally no, as I don't think it's substantively much more about East Dulwich than, say, the vanity threads about which purportedly notable people are seen in the local shops, bars or caffs. But subsequently there have been two threads started in the ED section, one of them now lounged. So there are clearly folk who think of it as an ED-interest topic. If that's the case, I wonder if the best resolution would be to keep one thread here, including a clear reference and link to the original one at http://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/forum/read.php?20,541742,706211.

It was featured in the first third of today's R4 Film Programme (repeated Sunday 23:00, and I expect it'll be available on iPlayer as well). The bit I heard was an interview with Jamie Thraves.

It's showing at the Clapham and Greenwich Picturehouses for the next week. lizzeee> Treacle Jnr has just won at the Dinard film festival, beating Made in Dagenham and Mr Nice. No. It shared the Grand Jury Hitchcock d'Or prize with Made in Dagenham.

>>does some dancing etc. >DOES SOME DANCING???? etc.????

Oh dear. I was planning to see TTOL tomorrow, then saw the above two comments and provisionally changed my mind. Then a look at the Wikipedia article, and changed my mind again. But it was David Cox's review in the Guardian that's decided me that I can wait until I'm in a truly curious and disinterested frame of mind, or it turns up on the box, or I find out who Jennifer Aniston is and that I like her work, before seeing it.

Loz Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Did you see that idiot ex-journo on newsnight the other night, when Steve Coogan laid into him? He > actually tried to defend hacking into people's phones. Do read Hugh Grant's NS article about him (as mentioned in my 26 April post on this page) if you've not already done so.

> Thanks Medley. The Peckham Rye to Clapham High st train comes twice an hour so am screwed if I miss it! > Peckham Rye to Clapham J will be better so might have to just hold on until then. Bear in mind that if you miss the 20/50 to Clapham High St, you can still get to Clapham Junction from Peckham Rye in 30 min via Sreatham Common, at 27/57.

> He was unsuspecting, he came in for a shampoo and blow dry... Any contributions expected from cosmetic surgeons?

> Squatters don't steal a gome they illegally 'occupy' it...there's a clear legal difference. It can come conceptually very close. Take the example we talked about here year or two ago, that of a large house bought by developers for conversion into flats, but then squatted. The squatters gained free accomodation. The developers, for each additional dead week in which they could do no work on it, suffered losses in the shape of any interest payments, other lost opportunities for investment, and absence of any rental or sales income. The squatters' gain was effectively the developers' irrecoverable, and most probably disproportionately greater, loss.

>So do we think it will happen or will the brown rice and sandles brigade find some other way round >what IS a criminal activity? I wear sandals and eat brown rice. What are my crimes?

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> I don't know when this particular project will end (it's been 3 consecutive weekends now) Southern's updated journeycheck page, which currently covers up to 29th July, reports for Sundays 17th and 24th: "Track improvements and maintenance are taking place on 17/07/11 between London Bridge and Streatham Common. Whilst work is taking place, buses will replace trains between London Bridge and Streatham Common via Streatham Hill between Streatham Common and London Bridge via Streatham Hill" Enquiries on the National Rail Journey Planner do show replacement buses from ED again on those two days. :(

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As last week, no train services from ED this weekend. Additionally, no Victoria London Bridge service on Sunday. According to http://www.journeycheck.com/southern: -- Track improvements and maintenance are taking place on 09/07/11 between London Bridge and Beckenham Junction. Whilst work is taking place, buses will replace trains between London Bridge and Streatham Common via Tulse Hill between Streatham Common and London Bridge via Tulse Hill between Crystal Palace and Beckenham Junction Beckenham Junction and Crystal Palace ---- Track improvements and maintenance are taking place on 10/07/11 between London Bridge and East Croydon. Whilst work is taking place, buses will replace trains between London Bridge and Streatham ----- Track improvements and maintenance are taking place on 10/07/11 between London Bridge and London Victoria. Whilst work is taking place, buses will replace trains between London Bridge and London Victoria via Peckham Rye ----- The timetabled replacement bus times shown on the National Rail Journey Planner for the ED trains (I checked for 10:00-12:00 each day) are: Saturday 9 July ED to London Bridge: 19 and 49 minutes past the hour ED to Tulse Hill: 10 and 40 minutes past the hour Sunday 10 July ED to London Bridge: 10, 27, 40 and 57 minutes past the hour ED to Tulse Hill: 05 and 35 minutes past the hour Peckham Rye departures - as above, with 7 minutes difference Stated journey time, ED to London Bridge - 25 min.