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> By the way, for Dylan fans, if you haven't come across it, check out dylanradio.com. Thank you for that. I'm currently listening on it to a segment of Daniel Mark Epstein's The Ballad of Bob Dylan: A Portrait.

Have a look at the website, http://dulwichlaser.co.uk/. They're at 2a Lordship Lane. It's owned by Dr Ali Reza Nadjafi, a dentist (registered 1998) who owns and works at Dulwich Dental Clinic at 78 LL. Both businesses were set up over five years ago. [2nd edition] And here's an enthusiastic article, written several years after a course. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dina-mikhails/all-you-ever-wanted-to-kn_b_7683978.html Anyone wanting to DIY, it looks as if you can pick up a machine second hand for maybe ?10-15,000. [3rd edition] The hair removal photographs on the website that I've checked seem, btw, to be library photographs, used across the web, rather than of work actually done at the clinic

The actual article is http://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/manpower/how-to-solve-the-perennial-problem-of-seat-hogging. I expect DF probably googled something like "hogging seats in cafes" and lighted just on the image. There are several articles available, though none of them specific to ED. I'm sorry the OP's question hasn't always been respected and that the thread has been diverted, and for my own part in colluding with that. I think I was drawn in just by my dislike of having the illustration forced on me. I may even have believed at the time that this was already in the Lounge. Enough.

It's Starbucks in the Bishan Community Club, Singapore. Mr Fox will be able to provide more details.

Rubbish was dumped on at least three different parts of the EDH site, all between Monday afternoon and last night. Possibly there could be more that's not visible from outside. I'm attaching a photograph of the largest one I could see, taken from East Dulwich Grove. It also shows the fence, between the hospital and the school sides of the site, part of which was broken down. At least seven of the vehicles that left the site this morning were waste collection trucks like the one in the second photograph. [The edit was to replace photo 2 with a version with registration number blanked]

rendelharris Wrote: --------------------- > At 20MPH 90% of pedestrians survive, at 28MPH+ 50% die. That's a > plain fact which is rather difficult to ignore. Rospa cite 2010 figures of a 7% pedestrian fatality rate at 30mph. http://www.rospa.com/road-safety/advice/drivers/speed/inappropriate/ That seems to be based on a 2010 DfT paper. A 2011 literature review paper (Rosen et al.) referred to in http://www.swov.nl/rapport/Factsheets/UK/FS_Speed.pdf [PDF, 279kB], has a 50% fatality rate reached at 50mph. There are other research papers out there too. What is your source? Rospa also say "The risk of a pedestrian who is hit by a car being killed increases slowly until impact speeds of around 30 mph. Above this speed, the risk increases rapidly". That seems to me congruent with the attached risk curves, from the SWOV paper. Thirty mph is about 48km/h.

What was the council's legal basis for any action, once it was established that the coach wasn't abandoned? It's taxed and MOT'd, and I've seen no mention of evidence of its being operated for the carriage of goods or passengers

Lowlander Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > 1. Hasn't it been 20mph for years? The original order was made in 2014 and can be downloaded from https://www.southwark.gov.uk/downloads/download/3116/frequently_requested_traffic_orders. It specifies roads by bounded areas, apart from some explicit exceptions. The current proposed order amends that one "so as to positively identify all roads, streets and parts of within the London Borough of Southwark in which the maximum speed limit of 20 miles per hour will apply, that is:-", and thereafter follows a list of ?hundreds of roads. It's at https://www.southwark.gov.uk/downloads/download/2558/traffic_orders. Whether they differ at all in effect, I don't know. Quite possibly not. A note says that "This change is at the request of the Metropolitan Police Service, and is intended to provide a robust basis for camera enforcement of the speed limit." There are interesting national sample statistics on compliance with speed limits in free-flowing conditions. Those for 2015 included 20mph limits for the first time. "For all vehicle types, 20 mph roads had the lowest level of speed limit compliance in 2015." 84% of cars observed were over the 20mph limit. https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/free-flow-vehicle-speeds-in-great-britain-2015

> Lila's (Jeweller on LL) kindly confirmed it's pewter. I'd already decided it wasn't pewter, as I thought it looked too coppery, so I might as well go for broke. My six pennorth, as a qualified numpty, is on late C19th or early C20th, maybe an early repro (of which there were later plenty around, even up to the 1960s). I'm still somehow against pewter. I see that the markings at http://www.pewterbank.com seem generally impressed rather than cast in relief. The maker's mark here reminds me of an Arts & Crafts font and decorations. See for example the W in http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0BgBreCHyQw/T9HaJtimvjI/AAAAAAAAAIM/VlsOB5YLAe4/s1600/William+Morris,+Golden+typeface,+1888+%E2%80%91+90.png. It's also in some of our computer fonts, such as Goudy Old Style and Garamond. The ear/handle's a bit crude, but aspiring to decorativeness. So, it's probably an apprentice piece, ceremonially tossed into the Thames at the end of a drunken Saturday night graduation celebration.

As part of the transition to Individual Electoral Registration, registered voters' details have already been automatically verified against the DWP CIS database, so there's normally no need to ask them for their NINo. A NINo _is_ asked for to help verify the identity of potential new registrants. More details are available in the guidance at http://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/i-am-a/electoral-administrator/running-electoral-registration I referred to above, particularly in Part 4.

The Electoral Registration Officer has a duty to get information, and to make visits, in some circumstances. Have a look at section 4 of the Part 3 - Canvass guidance document at http://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/i-am-a/electoral-administrator/running-electoral-registration on how they deal with responses to the Household Enquiry Form that they send out. Just one example: "4.53 If you have given a third HEF and had no response, you are required by law to make at least one visit to the address for the purpose of obtaining the required information if you have not already done so." There's also a summary of the Canvass procedural timetable http://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/__data/assets/word_doc/0018/170433/Summary-sheet-sending-HEFs.doc. I haven't checked the getting of NI numbers. The last time I looked it up, I think it may have been that they were used for initial validation of new entries, and were not retained after six months. Fwiw, I've been resident at the same address for some years and continuously on the register, and my HEF showed me as currently listed. As there was no change in household details all I had to do was to confirm that fact, without providing any additional information. The NI number question didn't arise, and hasn't, at least for ER purposes.

It's less likely that anything will affect a fixed external aerial. You could check with your neighbours, especially any in the same building, whether they've exerienced a similar recent problem with that multiplex or know of any recent possible source of interference. Have a look through a "Possible causes of interference" checklist like this one. https://at800.tv/useful-guides/. I'm not recommending the filter btw; it's just that it's a clear guide. If you do find that others in the wider neighbourhood are experiencing similar interference, I'd be wondering whether a local 4G telephone base station had recently changed its behaviour.

There is no reported problem at the transmitter: https://ukfree.tv/transmitters/tv/Crystal_Palace. There are only these two reports of a problem. That suggests something very local to you affecting reception of the signal. If you have an indoor aerial, I assume you've tried changing its orientation. I did have to rotate mine a little to get that multiplex clearly. Perhaps you two could check with each other to see if you're closely located or along the same bearing from Crystal Palace, or even have the same TV or Freeview model.

Aggravated burglary definition: essentially, having a weapon wth you when burgling. Maximum penalty, life imprisonment.

When I saw the thread title, I imagined a gang with some sort of weapons threatening the staff. That's what the crime of robbery entails, the use or threat of force. Was it actually, as now seems more likely, just a plain burglary/break-in? I hope so.

Why is there not a section just for cats?

It's beyond my understanding then. I'm not now sure how much of what I said is even relevant, and will bow out. Apologies for any presumption, and good luck.

I'd like to see The Roads to Freedom again. I seem to have missed a BFI screening, in 2012, but at least that means there's still a copy around somewhere.

>> How many fellow 'share of freeholders' are there?...> > eight others. I own the freehold of two of the flats. I'm not sure I understand the situation from your description. I think clarifying that is a necessary first step. Does the following possibly get it right? I think it's more likely that you own the leaseholds of two flats, and a corresponding share of the company (call it FC) which owns the freehold. I'd expect the directors and shareholders of that company to be the owners of the leases of all the flats (how many?) in the building, including yourself. It's that company that's ultimately in charge of the building maintenance and the engagement of any others to do it, and it's the directors that are in charge of the company (with maybe some role stipulated for shareholders). So you have a role to play, and rights and responsibilities, as ?director/shareholder. Are you named at CH as both a director and shareholder? You also have rights and responsibilities as a leaseholder. Some of those rights are assertable against the owner of the freehold, which is presumably the company of which you are ?one of the several directors. This is a good place to start for getting an idea of those, and of types of arrangement generally: http://www.lease-advice.org/advice-guides/. And then there's the property management company (call it PM) you mention. Is this company nothing to do with the owners of the flats? Given that it's ?named as company secretary of FC, does that mean that it's a third party company to which FC has perhaps contractually assigned general responsibility for running everything? Who got PM to do the work? Did it qualify for Section 20 consultation (as in the lease-advice guides)?

The only time I've had trouble with the library machines was when I was trying to return a book and the system reported an illegal action. Tried backtracking. Same result. Tried a totally fresh start. Ditto. So I decided to give up and report the defective system to an assistant. I had a quick look at the book first, to see if maybe it had lost its RFID tag. I think it was then that I noticed its title, Illegal Action. I'd recently read it too.

Minitoots Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- Here?s the link to the vote- it's very quick to vote! [bit.ly] Voting is always quick if you're only given one candidate and the ballot paper. There are 583 other entries. They may not all live in East Dulwich or have promotion skills, but I expect any of them would be glad of a vote too if you like their work. http://www.nationalopenart.org/gallery.php?sf=1&2016-GALLERY-2-6 "We welcome you to engage, browse and vote for one or as many of your favourites as you wish"

Did it appear empty, or otherwise? How did he carry it on the bike?

"Special enforcement area", which appears above and within the full wording of PCN contravention code 27, "Parked in a special enforcement area adjacent to a dropped footway". seems to be just the latest name for any area where parking enforcement is the responsibility of the local authority rather than the police. So no argument with that. The London Local Authorities and Transport for London Act 2003, s.14(4) vetoes the issuing of PCNs for parking adjacent to a dropped footway that provides access to a single residential driveway "unless requested to do so by the occupier of the premises". I've not found anything suggesting it's not still in force, and a Merton guidance note suggests that it is: "A vehicle parked outside a residential premises with its own drive requires a complaint before issuing with a penalty charge. All other drop kerbs: shared, business, crossings etc do not." Do the gates mentioned in the OP give access to a residence? The Explanatory Note to s.86 of TMA2004 begins "Dropping the level of a footway, cycle track or verge to the level of the carriageway assists pedestrians crossing a road, cyclists entering or leaving the carriageway and vehicles crossing a footway, cycle track or verge in order to access off-road parking." Might it be argued that the dropped kerb mentioned in the original post isn't providing any of those functions, and that enforcement is not helping it to do so?

rendelharris Wrote: -------------------------------------------------------> > Yes, just tried that number (thanks Sue, a sign of > how internetted one's become that I searched all > over for an email address without even thinking to > use the obvious telephone number!) and "number not > recognised." The lack of email on the coachwork > probably does reveal it's getting on. May have to > give Southwark a bell... It does look as if it's probably no longer part of their fleet. http://cochranetravelbathgate.co.uk/coach-hire/3695726

I'm not speaking for Admin, but do you know if it is a continuing thing? I've just sent myself a test PM, and duly received the notification email. If that test fails, I'd suspect your mail delivery or collection. Check first whether the notification is maybe ending up in a junk or spam mailbox. A further test/stratagem might then be to try changing your registered EDF email address so that you get it via a different server.