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You'll not have had your pee then, Dougal?

I'd have phoned 999, given them the facts, and left the prioritising decision to them. The case seems to me to fall within the third of these descriptions of when 999 is appropriate: ( http://www.met.police.uk/ccc/emergency_nonemergency_calls.htm ) - There is a danger to life or a risk of injury being caused imminently. Examples include serious road accidents, assaults or serious disorders. - A crime is in progress. Examples include assault, burglary, and theft or if an offender is still on scene, or has just left the scene. - Police attendance is required immediately such as to prevent a breach of peace, someone acting suspiciously or someone who is about to commit an offence. On your evidence a PC would imo have sufficient grounds to question such a person, and to search and arrest them if having due suspicion of an offence. If the person has any stolen property or burgling tools on them there might even be a result. At worst, the person is going to be made more aware that attempted opportunity theft has its risks, and the police will have the identity of a possible miscreant.

The online Southwark News has just: "EXCLUSIVE RED-FACED council wardens have said ?sorry? after forcing a caf? to bin some bagels hanging in its window ? just because they were in the shape of the Olympic rings. "The bungling Town Hall staff claimed the ?unauthorised? use of the symbol breached copyright rules." [That's all you get in the free version. Does anyone have access to the paid-for one?]

If it saved the ditching of a twelve week murder trial that was very close to conclusion, it may have had some merit. http://www.guardian.co.uk/law/2012/jul/19/riot-murder-judge-bbc-broadcast-documentaries Waiting a few more weeks to see the documentaries isn't going be a great burden or cost much, and the replacement documentary on wartime aerial reconnaissance was well worth seeing. A more probing reasoned assessment can now take place, and hopefully it will help inform any similar future decision.

> The firm in this instance is: PSG Surveys LTD ... which does not in fact exist! It does. It was incorporated in January 2012. You can check any UK registerd company here: http://www.companieshouse.gov.uk/info

Thanks for the reminder. I've just put my card provider's 24hr number on my phone. Do banks display their own number near their ATMs?

I wonder how much more difficult using security screws would make it. Far from insuperable, but it would mean a perp would have to have a choice of bits available, or switch to the brute force option. Is it normal for the hinge screws to be exposed, btw?

The novel opens with Lizzie Cree being hanged at Camberwell in 1881. Brixton ceased to house women in 1869 http://www.pbs.plymouth.ac.uk/solon/journal/issue%204.1/Davie%20crimes%20and%20Misdemeanours%20final.pdf (200kByte). Horsemonger Lane Gaol, in Newington, closed in 1878 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horsemonger_Lane_Gaol, when Wandsworth took over as the main hanging prison for South London http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=074-acc3444&cid=0#0. Ackroyd possibly didn't want to introduce any fictional detail for which there ought to be a real historical record.

The Dulwich Library Monday afternoon films are at http://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/forum/read.php?6,912586,912586. They get a bigger audience than the equivalent Picturehouse matinees. The Clapham Picturehouse can be effectively no further than the Brixton one, if you go by train. 13-14 minutes ED to PR to Clapham High Street, then a brisk seven minutes walk. It's also on the 37 route.

In the meantime you can still insert the BBCode tags, which is what the Editor Tools create, yourself. There are some examples here, bbcode.org examples page, and you can check your code in Preview before posting. Sue, that's the basic message parser. If I type just http:// it treats it as ordinary text; but if I add owt, the string gets treated as if an URL and so appears as http://owt.

> Failing to report an accident, more than just naughty: points and a fine or even a ban. s170 of RTA 1988, assuming this is the current version: http://www.cyclecraft.co.uk/digest/rta170.html: DUTY OF DRIVER TO STOP, REPORT ACCIDENT AND GIVE INFORMATION OR DOCUMENTS 1) This section applies in a case where, owing to the presence of a mechanically propelled vehicle on a road, an accident occurs by which - (a) personal injury is caused to a person other than the driver of that mechanically propelled vehicle, or (b) damage is caused - (i) to a vehicle other than that mechanically propelled vehicle or a trailer drawn by that mechanically propelled vehicle, or (ii) to an animal other than an animal in or on that mechanically propelled vehicle or a trailer drawn by that mechanically propelled vehicle, or (iii) to any other property constructed on, fixed to, growing in or otherwise forming part of the land on which the road in question is situated or land adjacent to such land (2) The driver of the mechanically propelled vehicle must stop and, if required to do so by any person having reasonable grounds for so requiring, give his name and address and also the name and address of the owner and the identification marks of the vehicle. (3) If for any reason the driver of the mechanically propelled vehicle does not give his name and address under subsection (2) above, he must report the accident. --- Any of the above to be proved, of course, beyond reasonable doubt.

My first thought was to suggest you tried clearing your cache, as mentioned by Wino, though I held off as your problem seemed to affect two different machines. On reflection, however, I think you ought at least to try that. Edit: I misread the typo in your message, so hadn't registered that you've solved your problem.

All I can see in the July issue of SE22 is "we've approved ... Matham Grove street orchard", on page 44. You've clearly got other information sources that you've not mentioned, so I'll leave it at that. From what I've seen so far, I don't even know whether the application is a genuine project or a practical joke or scam. Why not contact the DCC support officer (link above), or one of your councillors, with your questions and concerns, and then update us?

I see, btw, that there are already community orchards in some small Southwark parks: Bird in Bush Park, Nursery Row Park, Warwick Gardens. Is there any public garden space in Matham Grove?

> Planting a proposed 35 apple trees in the front gardens as has been suggested by the council needs discussion. But it's not a council project. They've (I presume) simply responded to a grant application from (I presume) a local group of people calling themselves a collective. Has the collective not communicated with local residents? You seem to have information from someone.

Details of the application, ref. D1209, are in Appendix 1 to Item 14 on the agenda of the Dulwich Community Council Meeting of 26 June. http://moderngov.southwarksites.com/ieListDocuments.aspx?CId=176&MID=4290, when the recommendations were to be considered. The wording is as you say. The applicant is shown as "East Dulwich Orchard Collective". The full application details, considerations, and outcome, will all be public information, available on request if not published on the website. The minutes of the meeting probably won't appear until later, probably as For Approval in the agenda of the next DCC meeting. The DCC home webpage, with contact details, is at http://moderngov.southwark.gov.uk/mgCommitteeDetails.aspx?ID=176.

> "Fixing 400 errors - general" But that's about client problems, not servers. I'm a bit surprised that you're getting an Editor Tools error report for every "message ... loaded", whatever that means. But that's said in ignorance of the system architecture. But if they are there, they might be due to a simple configuration setting error, such as a wrong path name. Wasn't the last recent glitch a configuration one? I can't remember now. More of help, I think, would be a sample of the error reports; they could at least lead to the location in the open source code where the problem's showing itself, and possibly indicate relevant paths. If the problem's only been around since the latest boot, it might be worth trying a shutdown and cold restart at some quiet time. There might possibly be other quick and dirty fixes for the volume of error reports, if necessary. They boil down to ways of doing away with the error log.

Husker wrote yesterday at 18:46: > Heber school sent a text message that stated "a man tried to abduct a Yr 6 child" Husker wrote today at 20:45: > There is no inference - "attempted abduction" is the exact wording used by Heber School on their communication to parents. Could you please just copy from your phone, word for word, the full text of the message you received.

I'd add Bromley and Kilburn to the options for checking.

It has been inscribed in the Annals. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_1%27s_Big_Weekend

I eat my beas with honey, / I've done it all my life; / It makes the beas taste funny, / But it keeps them on the knife. (With apologies to Anonymous and mrs scoop)

Thirded. The event at DHFC that led to a shooting and a fatal stabbing also started out as a private 18th birthday party. Someone then advertised it, including on Facebook, and it was said to to have turned into a pay party. I don't like being a Jeremiah or alarmist, and things can presumably go without any trouble at all, but better aware than not.

I've not used anything that's not on the forum server. But i don't think I dare say any more. But while I'm here, can I at least gripe again about the way the forum software erroneously treats some ascii strings. Below is an arithmetic series. Look what it does to the bracketed 6 term. All that's needed to correct that behaviour is to change the mapping in the smileys file, or remove the entry entirely. I assume that not many people use the ascii form for input anyway, or that it's canonical for that particular smiley. (4) (5) (6) (7) (8)

Sue Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > RosieH Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > Why, Lord, WHY? > > xxxxxx > > Because they're fun! > > :)-D QED

Any relation to this one? http://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/forum/read.php?5,643734,page=1 I'm half wondering if this should be in the Nature Watch thread, along with the swifts.