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"So the banks can't really keep branches open for fewer and fewer customers." No, not if they want to keep up their massive profits and bankers bonuses!!!! Every time I go in to Barclays to use a service that can only be done at the counter, (because the machines don't have the capability) there is always a long queue of people also waiting for services that can only be done at the counter. The closure of the last bank in East Dulwich is an absolute scandal and, be in no doubt, is done to maximise bank profits. Many of these bank buildings remain empty for a long time as they are difficult and expensive to convert to other uses. The departing banks should be made to provide funds to regenerate the buildings they leave empty and unused.

Spare a thought for those of us whose flats are very dark and have branches tapping against our windows because the trees are only rarely pruned. There are also issues with tree roots of these young but already very large trees causing damage to water pipes and foundations. Although the plane trees are beautiful trees, I think it was a poorly thought out plan when they were originally planted. They still have a lot of growing to do and will need ongoing maintenance. I'm all for trees but the right tree in the right place is really important.

There's been another waft of Saharan dust over us which might be relevant. You can see it on the cars since Saturday.

It is a useful message of public interest as a stark reminder that getting lawyers involved in disputes is to be avoided wherever possible as this will never be the cheaper option and you will have no control over the outcome.

I think it's miserable for children to have to start a daily commute at such a young age when there are perfectly good schools in walking distance of home. Commuting is miserable enough as an adult but for children....well I wouldn't have liked to do it for 6 or 7 years.

Anything metal usually gets picked up quickly by scrap metal pickers from outside the front of your house if you just leave it outside.

Interesting podcast about the effect of ultra processed food on our bodies and how the additives included can alter our metabolisms. It discusses parallels between the food industry and the tobacco industry. Important stuff in understanding obesity as a medical condition and really important for parents in understanding the effect of processed foods on children. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0c98s7r

https://www.gardenwildlifehealth.org/what-if/ A few council websites and this one say that if it's in your own garden you dispose of it yourself, double bagged in the bin. Good luck...not the nicest job to to do for the weekend.

https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/costochondritis/

I agree with Jenijenjen. I was reluctant to use the econsult service initially but, having used it, found that my issue was triaged and responded to by an appropriate person in an appropriate timescale...the next day for one issue and two weeks for a completely non urgent issue. There is the facility within the econsult to specify a particular staff member if you need to see the same person or request someone with a particular specialist interest. So I am now a convert to the econsult system. The only thing is that the time slot for a call is wide so you need to keep your phone near you for a half day.

Slightly dodgy ground suggesting religious schools instil higher values than non religious schools given the scandals exposed within various churches in recent years. People brought up in a secular education also hold good values and can appreciate the value of a belief in something. Good and bad exists everywhere. jazzer Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > No problem with you "having an issue with publicly > funded schools which then have discriminatory > admissions policies, based on a parent's > religion", that's your choice but for some having > their child taught in a religious school is > important. > > And; As I have already said it instils values that > are lacking from general society. And Yes, I did > go to a Religious school and it did me no harm. It > makes you a more "rounded" person with an > appreciation of the benefits of having a belief, > whatever that belief maybe.

It is sad that we don't seem willing, due to cost, to just make the most of the reduction in class sizes and use the opportunity to have improved teacher pupil ratios and improve the education provided. Thirty children in a mixed ability class is still alot to cope with when some children have additional learning needs. We could embrace the falling class sizes for the teaching and learning opportunity this could offer but we would have to pay more tax so I guess we'll close schools instead

It is a non fee paying, voluntary aided school. To my knowledge it was never the first choice of parents living in the immediate vicinity of the school unless they were Catholic. Its catchment area is therefore wide for people wanting a religion affiliated school. There is an excellent non religious school within 100m which has a secular admissions policy based on siblings and home distance and so has a smaller catchment and is very popular with families in the catchment area. The decline of Catholicism in general, preference of parents to have a good school near to home rather than a religion affiliated school for their children may be having an effect.

I use to think that obesity was about bad choices of the individual but it's now much clearer to me that obesity is a disorder of modern capitalis. It drives us to consume more and consume it more quickly so that we can maintain productivity. It then gets us to sign up to a billion (or maybe trillion) dollar diet industry driven by a patriarchial attitude that thinness is the one thing we need to achieve in order to be happy. Women and, increasingly men, waste years of their lives under the control of these very successful industries. As tax payers we then pay to treat the health consequences of this trap we've fallen in to while industry carries on feeding us fat then making us feel bad and pay to diet. The modern relationship with food is increasingly disordered and the industry is so powerful I doubt there is much the individual can do about it unless they truly understand the complexities of what is driving this modern eating disorder.

Rockets Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I do think the schools are massive contributors to > ......given most of the > councillors seem to be sworn enemies of private > schools and want to see then abolished. Unlike many senior Labour MPs who do NOT have the courage of their convictions on education and instead choose to send their children to fee paying independent schools. This is one big reason why there will never be truly equal access to good education.

Report it on https://www.southwark.gov.uk/street-care/dog-fouling

Really what is the point of all these leaflets? As I put another batch of leaflets in the bin it seems like another bad for the environment waste of paper that is no substitute for talking to a real person at the door and asking them what helpful thing they are actually capable of bringing about. Is there one leaflet that has influenced the way a voter votes? The promises on the leaflets are always grand but non committal pretending again that this time they'll actually make these things happen. Stop the leaflets!!! Save paper. Save the bin men time

Are then any MPs who are decent people who actually achieve anything of any importance? Not just write letters that have no effect. Or are the only things that MPs effectively influence and change are those things that are self serving and ego boosting. Is it possible to be an effective MP who achieves useful things of local or national importance without being self serving and egotistical. It's a genuine question, I'm trying to think of a good and successfully influential one.

Surely the test is just one measure of how much effort someone is willing to put in to become a British citizen given that even most current citizens would have to do specific revision in order to pass the test. The other measure being whether someone is willing and able to pay as it's not cheap to become a citizen.

Chick Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Lots of it Oakhurst Grove. Try reporting it on https://www.southwark.gov.uk/street-care/dog-fouling I did that once when there were 50 dog turds in a 40m stretch of road (I don't usually count dog turds but I couldn't believe the number myself!)and they came round same day with one of those doggy do vacuum machines and cleared it all away. Brilliant!

Is that frontal lobotomists? Seems a bit advanced for a GP practice! No wonder they couldn't retain them.

Just found this in my research too. Who'd have thought the green cross code man aka Darth Vader, was in north cross road in 1975 https://www.layersoflondon.org/map/records/green-cross-code-man-filmed-in-north-cross-rd-1975/gallery/1

The map was from 1946. I found this article in The Telegraph if anyone has access https://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/property/4809747/From-the-manor-torn.html Says the Kleinwort Benson banking family built it as a rural retreat and then the Colman's mustard family so there would probably be an archive somewhere to explain the plane. Maybe preston_johns OP should retitle the thread Durlestone Manor South Lodge aeroplane and see if anyone who knows the story recognises the place

The South Lodge of Durlestone Manor Hotel which I think is the photo above. Fascinating.

Could be this house? Map attached https://m.londonpicturearchive.org.uk/view-item?i=56290&WINID=1648543209902