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> Blackfriars station only has platforms 1 & 2 at the moment, 3 & 4 haven't been unveiled yet So this online map (they're available for all stations; mouse over the large version for photos) might well be up-to-date? http://www.nationalrail.co.uk/stations/sjp/BFR/stationOverview.xhtml

"The tabby tote is real". (Original model here, for those who haven't already seen it.)

Squirrels is well hard. http://www.maycontainnutz.com/

> I just wondered if anyone else has seen a red squirrel in the local area A queried sighting here (1st May): http://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/forum/read.php?5,246908,878911

I'd been wondering when the jubilee weekend was, so thanks for letting me know. I've only just heard, on News Quiz, that Tuesday's going to be a bank holiday as well. I had to check on a government website taht it's true. While I'm here, any news of Mafeking?

StraferJack Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > dunno about the scottish company not being linked The Scottish company called PARADOX PARANORMAL INVESTIGATION LTD was dissolved in July 2011. It has passed over. It is no more. Philip Wray was listed as director. > photos appear to show exact same car and logo paradox-paranormal.co.uk is registered to an unnamed individual who says they are non-trading. The website mentions Philip Wray as one of the team members and doesn't seem to show any updating or activity beyond 2010.

The Animal Welfare Act 2006 applies to protected animals and animals for which a person is responsible (which includes owning or being in charge of). It is an offence to cause unnecessary suffering to any such animal. An animal is protected for the purposes of the Act if and only if: (a) it is of a kind which is commonly domesticated in the British Islands, (b) it is under the control of man whether on a permanent or temporary basis, or © it is not living in a wild state. That would seem to exclude a squirrel. It is an offence under the Act to cause an animal fight to take place, where ?animal fight? means "an occasion on which a protected animal is placed with an animal, or with a human, for the purpose of fighting, wrestling or baiting". I think that would not include a dog's chasing and killing a squirrel. The only reference within the Act to wild mammals (other than those to the Dangerous Wild Animals Act 1976) is a clause amending the Wild Mammals (Protection) Act 1996. That clause simply defines redefines wild mammals as 'any mammal which is not a ?protected animal? within the meaning of the Animal Welfare Act 2006?'. The Wild Mammals (Protection) Act 1996, s.1 reads: "If, save as permitted by this Act, any person mutilates, kicks, beats, nails or otherwise impales, stabs, burns, stones, crushes, drowns, drags or asphyxiates any wild mammal with intent to inflict unnecessary suffering he shall be guilty of an offence." So proof of intent to inflict unnecessary suffering to the squirrel would be necessary to obtain any conviction. That would probably require compelling evidence, in examination and cross-examination, from more than one witness, as to the intent of the person in charge of the dog. The Dangerous Dogs Act 1991 makes it an offence to be in charge of a dog dangerously out of control in a public place. It has to be proved that a *person* has been injured by it, or put in fear or apprehension that they might be injured by it. That would exclude a dog's chasing and injuring a squirrel. The Dogs Act 1871 provides for the making of a complaint to a magistrate that a dog is dangerous and not under proper control, and empowers the court to order that the dog be destroyed or kept under specified proper control. For the purposes of this Act, "dangerous" can include being a danger to other animals. Any breach of the order can be dealt with under the Dangerous Dogs Act. As has been said here before, it seems that it's only the Dogs Act 1871 that has any possible specific application in cases, like this one, where a dog injures another animal, unless intent to inflict suffering can be proved. http://www.defra.gov.uk/publications/files/dogs-guide-enforcers.pdf (PDF, 160 kilobytes) provides a useful summary.

> I've decided to listen to Freddie King and make pasta instead. For a moment I thought you meant "make pasta".

That reminds me. I use South Bermondsey station very very occasionally, and at least twice I've had headaches from a weekday daytime waste fire burning in the adjoining industrial yard. Is it possible these fires are fairly frequent?

The ED Hospital site has been acquired by a local consortium. It's going to be the home of the largest cup cake manufactory in Europe.

languagelounge> Still don't know who Jeckyl and Hyde are, either. Jekyll and Hyde

Did you get anywhere with this?

You've not told us if any of the advice we offered was of any use, or what the outcome was.

>Dated Rated... Mated... Sated

It seems to be one of their staples. The wikipedia article about them mentions it being around in the late 1990s. The good news is that they're giving some away freely to people who attend their event on 13 May at any local UCKG HelpCentre..

Don't suppose Lely's Nymphs will get a look in? http://www.dulwichpicturegallery.org.uk/collection/search_the_collection/artwork_detail.aspx?cid=516

> These appear to be just the job if you are looking for daily/monthly whatever Just the ticket, thanks. Nicely complements the EA data sets I mentioned.

I came across this in the Daily telegraph when looking for records of actual rainfall (rather than forecast): April-could-break-rainfall-records-but-wont-end-the-drought.html If anyone does find a site routinely recording UK rainfall measurements please do post the URL. [Ed: the best I've found so far are the weekly and monthly water situation reports at http://www.environment-agency.gov.uk/homeandleisure/drought/31749.aspx.]

It sounds eminently sensible to me, given the shortage of hills around here, and the usefulness of fartlek training. I doubt that Sherlock Holmes would have been able to mark you out as a rugby player, but apart from that. ... ;)

> I'm with Bic Basher - damn handy website. Which, with cookies working, very satisfactorily remembers your own stops of interest, at least on a PC. It's much more convenient to know there's a 37 coming in five minutes than to set out from home and then spend twenty minutes standing at a bus stop wondering when the next one will arrive.

> Sure there was something on here a while ago (months) about this. http://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/forum/read.php?20,644421,873342,page=5

You've still not told us the make and model of the beast. If the tuning you've done involved a couple or so minutes of it reporting scans through 40 or so different possible multiplexes looking for signals, and probably listing stations found, by name or count, as it continued, your set does have a digital tuner. If that's so, have you told the TV, probably via an on-screen menu, to use the signal from its digital tuner rather than the analogue one?

Not one funded by Southwark, according to the Report New Events Programme 2011-2013 [PDF 115 KB] downloadable from http://moderngov.southwarksites.com/ieDecisionDetails.aspx?ID=2406

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>Wow! Well for a Southwark Circle member I just tried to retune her little >television and even after retuning, with her internal little aerial attached > to the 8 yr old digibox, we couldn't locate ITV3 C4 or C5! If it is an aerial/reception problem, you should find that _all_ of the channels contained within a multiplex are missing. You can see the new Crystal Palace multiplexes listed here. If that's her problem, it looks as if her set's not been able to tune to two of them, PSB2 and COM4. With an indoor aerial, it's probably worth the trouble of having several goes, with the aerial in slightly different positions. Once the TV or freeview box has found them, it will at least know about and remember them. If that's not the problem, I did find, on one freeview box (Medion or Tevion, I think), that a few channels had been inserted at numbers in the 1000+ channel list number range, rather than in the one starting at 1. Once I'd found them, I moved them to their usual places in the sequence.