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Let me see if I have it right. A circular from Nextdoor was delivered to your house (addressed to whom?). It purported to be an invitation from Nextdoor, signed by yourself, asking recipients to join. That looks to me, if anyone else has received that specific invitation (as anyone would normally assume would be the case) to be a breach of the Data Protection Act, unless you've given permission. And of Nextdoor's own privacy policy, in which they enjoin members not to share their Nextdoor neighbour's information without their permission. Do you have any confirmation that any other household received the invitation bearing your name? They also say: "If you decide to invite new members to join Nextdoor, you might share their residential or email address with us, or share your contacts (or social-media friends list) with us, so we can send an invitation and reminders on your behalf." That's in the "How do we use the information we collect?" section of the privacy policy, https://nextdoor.co.uk/privacy_policy/. Is there any possibility that you could have, maybe inadvertently or unknowingly, issued such an invitation or shared any such information? Unless I was convinced it was all my own responsibility, I think I'd write to Nextdoor senior management: - enclosing a copy of the invitation; - complaining of their use of your name in it without your permission; - requesting the following "personal information": a) all information and evidence they have that led them to believe that the use of your name in the invitation was authorised by you; b) full details of all mail distributions they or their agents have made of invitations bearing your name. The last two items are actually a Subject Access Request. You have a legal right to any such information as they have: https://ico.org.uk/for-the-public/personal-information/. If they want to act ungraciously they can write back requesting a fee of up to ?10, though I doubt they would.

In fact, after a mixed response to the consultation (even pedlars wanted the retention of regulation) only some minor procedural proposals were retained as far as pedlars go, and the Pedlars Act 1871 carries on substantially the same. See paras 6-13 of the government response downloadable at https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/street-trading-and-pedlary-laws-a-joint-consultation-on-draft-regulations-to-repeal-the-pedlars-acts-uk-wide-and-make-changes-to-the-street-trading-legislation-in-england-wales-and-northern-ireland. AIUI, anyone wanting to sell door-to-door, with a few exceptions such as foodstuffs, still requires an annual certificate, costing ?12.50, issued by the police. Peddling without one or using another person's certificate or a fake one are technically offences, as is refusal to show the certficate on request to a person you're trying to sell to, or on whose private land you are. I don't believe that includes promotional calls, roundsmen, or travelling salesmen. So, you can at least be fairly sure that anyone carrying tat for sale door-to-door without a certificate may not be wholly reliable. There are some explanatory pages available, such as https://www.police.uk/forms/pedlars-certificate/. Keep a few spare copies by the door? ;)

The South London Press of 13/3/1897 has a report of an inquest of a young woman found drowned in a pond in the Crystal Palace gardens. She was identified as one of the lady attendants at Fentum's ivory-turning department in the Exhibition, which had an ivory room. And in the 5/9/1891 issue, a report of an inquest into the death of "Martin Fentum, aged 65, an ivory turner, late of Norville, Alleyn-Road, Dulwich." He had been thrown from the dog-cart he was driving when the horse was pulled up sharply and slipped. An accidental death. On the properties side, nothing more found in the Dulwich area, but there is an account in the Evening Standard in 1865 of his being removed from a Mayfair district voters list. As well as having the Norville, Dulwich residence he said that he also occupied two houses in central London, at both of which he was registered and had voted. Did he also live in the Fulham area in 1853? There was a Martin Fentum assaulted on a Putney omnibus, after having taken the seat which another passenger had routinely 'reserved' for a consideration. The magistrates took some time deciding what seemed to them the main question, in what the press deemed "a case of considerable importance to omnibus passengers": whether seats on a public omnibus could indeed be reserved. Having decided in the negative, they then went on to find the other passenger guilty of assault and gave him a nominal fine of a shilling, with two shillings costs. A couple of other minor references, including the 1872 marriage announcement of the eldest son of Mr MF of London and Gipsy Hill. If you'd like images, PM me with an email address. Or you could subscribe to http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/.

Fowls

Interesting. Their website suggests to me integrity and decency, and I see that they say they don't "sell your personal information to third-party advertisers". So I'd surmised possibilities such as database theft and spoofing. My best bet now, though, would be that someone could have made an error in using mailing software, and has inadvertently specified Addressee's name in a Sender's field, and then not checked the output. That's enough to cause alarm, but at least wouldn't be any actual breach of confidence. I think I'd now be checking with others in my Nextdoor neighbourhood, to find out what form their received versions looked like.

Endowed

No more rowing to Croydon. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Croydon_Canal

Is there any possibility that Next Door's name has also been usurped?

How discriminating are they in the value of phones they steal?

There's a recent interview with police officers at https://www.southwarknews.co.uk/news/southwark-polices-lead-detective-moped-crime-whats-done-keep-ever-growing-menace-bay/.

Your local library is more or less certain to provide free access to http://www.ancestry.com, which contains census information. Other online genealogical sites and providers, such as http://www.findmypast.co.uk, are also available. I've got a subscription to the http://wwww.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk and could have a look for any mentions (rather unlikely though) next time I visit. Most such subscription sites usually also allow non-subscribers to do index searches. Sorry -- I've just realised the date. The 1911 census is the most recent one available at present.

> No, it's P not D. I got my hopes up there but seems I'm stuck with it.

> Wasn't somebody else robbed recently in that area by Goose Green in a similar way? April 19th: http://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/forum/read.php?5,1811201

Siduhe Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Is the ref Y782MHD (not P)? It is. On both front and back.

I'm looking for at least a very short loan of a an ATX power supply unit with 24 pin connector (fairly standard for PCs), to do a substitution test. My PC's developed a classic symptom - shutting down a second after power-on, just enough time to give the fans a quick whirl. I've narrowed the problem down to power supply or motherboard.

DVLA says of registration number YJ82MHD "Vehicle details could not be found".

This page makes it clearer: http://www.nhs.uk/NHSEngland/AboutNHSservices/dentists/Pages/nhs-dental-charges.aspx "You will not be charged for individual items within an NHS course of treatment. Depending on what you need to have done, you should only ever be asked to pay one charge for each completed course of treatment, even if you need to visit your dentist more than once to finish it." Note too where it goes on to say that even further courses of treatment within two months are lumped in with the previous one as far as charges go. There are clearly some bargains to be had. You could in theory have a dozen fillings one day, and a dozen extractions a few weeks later, all for a single Band 2 charge.

Yes. The system immediately reports successful 'attachment' of uploaded files, before you post the message itself. But if you try to post the message and it includes a word from the current 'bad words' list, the system simply discards it without providing any feedback.

red devil Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > It could just be a visual warning to cars that > they are approaching/crossing a road with a > designated cycle lane and to take care > accordingly... But there is no cycle lane. I agree with you, in that I think it's probably a warning to vehicles not to encroach unwittingly into a virtual lane where there are quite likely to be cyclists. Possibly the best they could do short of a give way or halt marking.

> Hornimans Museum is lame. If you want to shelter from the rain > or take a child somewhere to cry in a cafe, then maybe here will suit. Admittedly it doesn't have the hardcore attractions of somewhere like the Bramber Museum http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/gallery/2013/sep/13/curious-world-walter-potter-pictures-taxidermist-victorian/.

uncleglen Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Higher friction surfaces > www.standardsforhighways.co.uk/ha/standards/dmrb/vol6/section3/ta8199.pdf TY viz: DESIGN MANUAL FOR ROADS AND BRIDGES VOLUME 6 SECTION 3 ROAD GEOMETRY PART 4 TA 81/99 COLOURED SURFACING IN ROAD LAYOUT (EXCLUDING TRAFFIC CALMING) From which: "1.3 Coloured surfaces are not considered as signs or road markings and therefore have no legal status. They are intended to supplement the prescribed signs and road markings [see Paragraph 2.11]. ... "2.11 The purpose of coloured surfacing, as indicated in Table 2/1, is to supplement the prescribed signs/ markings: to improve contrast of road markings and discourage vehicles from encroaching on an area of the road [see Plates 1 to 6], or to highlight an area of the road intended for buses and cycles. [see Plates 7 to 9]." I see that they also specify the use of Light Colours to indicate high friction surfacing, but don't think this is an instance, and the colour is in any case more like Plate 8 than Plate 10; though it doesn't appear to me to be part of a designated cycle lane. Might the engineers have thought that even the possible uncertainty could only be beneficial?

Incidentally, I see there's a couples counsellor doing research on strategies for dealing with the "feeling that a relationship has ?lost its spark?, who's looking for participants in the study: see http://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/forum/read.php?20,1851911.

Perhaps someeone might post a link there. [winky smiley thingy]

Mark Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Stroke symptoms > http://www.nhs.uk/Conditions/stroke/Pages/Symptoms.aspx > Heart attack symptoms http://www.nhs.uk/Conditions/Heart-attack/Pages/Symptoms.aspx Epileptic fit symptoms http://www.nhs.uk/Conditions/Epilepsy/Pages/Symptoms.aspx#tonicclonic We've not yet heard evidence of the conversations with the ambulance emergency call centre. From TV documentaries I take it they're fairly practised at getting information on the patient's state, signs and symptoms, and in providing advice on and talking you through any immediate first aid action. They have, after all, to make a professional decision on the priority to assign to each call, and how to achieve the best possible outcome. They could even, I assume, have been able to advise whether bringing the patient to A&E yourself, if possible, would be best in the circumstances.

I was just curious. I'm wondering if you might get a better take-up if you also advertise in the Family Room.