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So some out-of-dateness then, thanks. I was relying on the "30 Sept 2025" date on their webpage. :)

For convenience, here are details of which mobile phone networks some individual ISPs use for 4/5G services. I've copied it from the Which reference above. EE: 1p Mobile, BT Mobile, Lycamobile, Spusu, Utility Warehouse O2: Giffgaff, Sky Mobile, Tesco Mobile Three: Honest Mobile, iD Mobile, Smarty Vodafone: Asda Mobile, Lebara, Talkmobile, Voxi I don't know that Plusnet use a mobile network but bear in mind that they're a ?subsidiary of BT. Virgin I don't see listed either, but I know they have their own dedicated fibre network.

Sophie, I have to thank you for bringing me squarely into 2025. I was aware of 4G/5G USB dongles for single computers, and of being able to use smartphones for tethering 4G/5G, but hadn't realised that the four mobile networks were now providing home hub/routers, effectively mimicking the cabled broadband suppliers. I'd personally stick to calling the mobile networks 4G/5G rather than wifi, so as not to confuse them with the wifi that we use within home or from external wifi hotspots. 4G/5G is a whole diffferent, wide-area set of networks, and uses its own distinct wavebands. So, when you're saying wi-fi, I assume you're actually referring to the mobile phone networks, and that it's not a matter of just having poor connections within your home local area network, or a router which is deficient. If any doubt, the best test will be with a computer connected directly to the router by cable; possibly trying different locations as well. Which really leaves me with only one maybe useful thing to say. :) The Which pages at https://www.which.co.uk/reviews/broadband/article/what-is-broadband/what-is-4g-broadband-aUWwk1O9J0cW look pretty useful and informative. They include local area quality of coverage maps for the four providers (including 5G user reports I think) , where they say (and I guess it too is pretty common knowledge): Our survey of the best and worst UK mobile networks found that the most common issues mobile customers have are constantly poor phone signal and continuous brief network dropouts – and in fact no network in our survey received a five star rating for network reliability.

More than half of that -- and of many links that get posted here --- is just unnecessary and confusing noise. All the stuff from the ? onward is private parameters for use by the server to deal with the particular circumstances pertaining to the person and system that requested, or just received, the web page, email, whatever, containing it. This clean link will do fine: https://ehq-production-europe.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/ce32459998ce01d44ce27d1f23c543bd84338c82/original/1759936980/3bc1b1bf3ec42ce77542fa4ddd82c87a_sl15-bus-stop-list.pdf? ETA: Snap!

https://airqualitynews.com/health/pm2-5-hitches-a-lift-on-red-blood-cells-to-spread-through-the-body/ looks like a good readable brief summary. There are others available. His team have produced an impressive number of papers over the last few years. The mention of personal differences in clearing of absorbed particles sounds particularly interesting and I look forward to seeing more research on that topic.

"Southwark Council has cancelled an undisclosed number of Penalty Charge Notices (PCNs), after a technical error meant permit renewal reminders were not sent to drivers throughout September and early October." 18 Oct. 2025 https://southwarknews.co.uk/news/community/exclusive-council-forced-to-cancel-pcns-after-technical-error-meant-parking-permit-reminders-were-not-sent/ See the article for more details.

The Guardian, on the parallel "No Kings" demonstrations taking place across the USA today: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/17/no-kings-protests-millions-trump

I've just checked my NHS record online. Gruelling process, but eventually found last week's immunisation records under Acute (short-term) medicines, after having looked at my Immunisations section and been told that the information was not there but was available from my GP's record. Anyway, my Covid vaccination at Day Lewis TJHC pharmacy last week was a Pfizer one. Krystal give me a little card with the vaccination details on it, and don't require any preliminary form-filling either. DL provided no record.

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Which reminds me of Williamson Tunnels: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Williamson_Tunnels, I had heard of them as just a philanthropic scheme to provide employment. "Rightly or wrongly, this theory has become so entrenched in folklore that it is taken by many today as the truth", say the Friends of Williamson Tunnels: https://williamsontunnels.com/introduction/.

Pesky things, viruses, that's what they do. My understanding's been that every year 'they' have to make a decision, early in the year, about what mix to make, to produce the mass of vaccine best suited to whatever configuration the viruses are likely to be in several months later. Not surprisingly, they can't always be making the best choice or something that seems like it. I remember a few years ago, being mildly amused to find that year's statistics revealing, iirc, that the over-65's who'd received the vaccine got more flu than them as hadn't.

It seemed quiet there, exactly a week ago. Expect a bit of preliminary form filling, even if you're not a walk-in. I guess demand will be picking up now, following the recent report of signs of an early flu season this year.

Krystal do, as do the pharmacy at TJ. You can check all available ones (from the following day on, I think) easily via the NHS booking online. You can backtrack after checking any individual pharmacy's available offers and slots without making any booking. The system does cater for joint vaccinations, whichever type's path you start from. https://www.nhs.uk/nhs-services/vaccination-and-booking-services/

Just to clarify the charges for requesting books. For getting them from Southwark library stock, it's now a still very reasonable 70p, which includes delivery and collection at any branch. I assume that includes new books which have been ordered for stock, and been assigned a catalogue entry, but haven't yet reached the shelves. Otherwise, Inter-library loans or purchase requests cost £4. See https://www.southwark.gov.uk/culture-and-sport/libraries/join-library/fees-and-late-return-charges. I belong to a few other London borough libraries too, which can quite often be useful, given that buying and stock retention is going to vary between them. PS And the free films, when running, are weekly (Mondays 1.30 pm iirc), with I think some sort of theme for each month. https://www.southwark.gov.uk/culture-and-sport/libraries/library-activities-adults

How do they do the "explain how"?

Not quite. First establish whether the 'picking-on' is itself a criminal offence; then determine that it was based on one of the specifed personal characteristics. "Any crime can be prosecuted as a hate crime if the offender has either: demonstrated hostility based on race, religion, disability, sexual orientation or transgender identity Or been motivated by hostility based on race, religion, disability, sexual orientation or transgender identity" https://www.cps.gov.uk/crime-info/hate-crime

Apropos the 20mph limit, while looking up one of our minor nobility who's got herself in the news again, I came across this recent Lords response to her written question about it. https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2025-03-25/HL6099/

Hope it's not Covid onset. If you google for just the 'cheese and pumpkin seed crispbread' you can compare ingredient lists in full at leisure. I see it's only Kargs that mention emmenthal! Even then, I don't actually see a universal appreciable price difference in the Kargs offering. Sainsbury's, for example, claims to have them at £2.70. Mme La Comtesse, if I may interject before I leave ... I purchase my almonds from Messrs Lidl. There I find the Turkish ones, sold for baking, do tend to be not as tasty as those sold in a big colour branded package for snacking at maybe a small extra cost. But perhaps the baking contributes?

https://www.dec.org.uk/appeal/middle-east-humanitarian-appeal

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?