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Maybe no need to use Denmark Hill. If the walk up the slope to the up platform is negotiable, if you go from ED to Peckham Rye, typically a train to Clapham will leave from the adjoining platform four or five minutes later. But if Px is on Peckham Rye, they may find getting to Peckham Rye station in the first place easier anyway.

FWIW, I downloaded the file named ACA PRESS RELEASE 7 October.docx, using its link https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/applications/core/interface/file/attachment.php?id=121617&key=2ad3b20cf9d62e82315a3607eee83ec7 at 17:08 and submitted it to https://virusscan.jotti.org/en-US/scan-file# , which reported "Found nothing". I then uploaded it to https://acrobat.adobe.com/gb/en/word-to-pdf, and saved the PDF version that created as file ACA+PRESS+RELEASE+7+October.pdf, which I now attach. Added: the second file attached in the OP turns out to be another Word document, containing a QR code image and a link to https://www.crowdjustice.com/case/acapeckham/. I don't understand why this link couldn't have simply been included in the OP. PS Apologies. I've removed the attached PDF file. It's an incomplete copy of the Word file. I'd failed to create a free account with Adobe. Several online Word to PDF converters are easily findable via google. PPS: File reattached as was ok after all. ACA+PRESS+RELEASE+7+October.pdf

The answer will doubtless be documented somewhere, but does anyone know offhand why the three named exceptional 'non-AURN' London measuring sites (including Loampit Vale and Brixton Road) could be excluded from the figures?

I don't know much overlap there will be between that and the material listed by: https://www.google.com/search?q=private+eye+use+of+UK+for+money+laundering

The BBC File on 4 programme has been reporting on the phone theft industry this week. Apparently there's a large market in Shenzhen where wiped stolen mobiles can be got for up to a few hundred pounds. The programme highlights a major trigger for phone thefts: immediate access, on unlocked or shoulder-surfed phones, to their loaded financial account apps and data. Accounts can be cleaned out even before the victim has reported the theft. Locked phones can take longer. Pickpocketing and distraction thefts (eg, at a table in cafe or pub with phone on table, being oddly engaged by stranger) are available as alternatives to snatches. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002jsqv

Which think tank? Why no link to what they have to say?

I've recently learned of someone else, who a couple of weeks ago received a penalty notice two days after expiry of their annual permit. They complained to Southwark that they had not received the customary email reminding them of the due renewal date, and promptly received a reply saying the penalty would be refunded. ed_pete, how have you got on?

A councillor is not the council.

Following on from Sue's post, this document looks useful as a single information source about the continuation of the Poundland brand: https://www.pepcogroup.eu/media-news/pepco-group-completes-sale-of-poundland/. From it I get that Pepco, the pre-sale parent company of Poundland, will have a minority share in the business (the CH record for the acquiring company seems to me consistent with that) and that "Under this new ownership, the business will be led by Barry Williams, currently Managing Director of Poundland. The business will continue to operate under the Poundland brand in the United Kingdom (and under the Dealz brand in the Isle of Man and Republic of Ireland)."

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.

When you dig into the site, there's an ancillary domain also involved in the system: neighbourhoodalert.co.uk; and one pointed to by the latter as an example, stayintheknow.co.uk, which seems to have been set up by Lancashire. All three long validated by Nominet and with same registrar. metengage_etc_whois.txt