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James Barber Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I very much doubt the present ground will be > developed for housing. That's very much what Hadley want, otherwise they wouldn't be interested in the site or 'saving' the football club. They laughably think they can move the current ground to the imprint of the current badly maintained 'all weather' pitch, thus not encroaching on the open land. This is nonsense, of course, as one glance at the plans will show.

Call me a maverick, but I'd recommend hopping on a train to Ostend (15-minute journey)? great bars, restaurants, cafes, shops and a fine promenade, None of the medieval prettiness of Bruges, but better at everything else and far cheaper.

Ice Age Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Am I the only one to find the title of this thread > annoyingly ignorant? > > The cuckoo is a remarkable creature and perfectly > entitled to take its place in the natural world. > The secret to its success is, of course, brilliant > mimicry. > > To take its name and use it as a slur against > private schools is really quite inappropriate from > a logical perspective. And as pointed out previously, Alleyn's was here before any of the state schools, so suggesting it's somehow muscled in parasitically and 'starved' them is disingenuous.

Tommy Cooper: "I had a good education ? my first school was special and the other was approved."

Robert Poste's Child Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > BrandNewGuy Wrote: > To be fair, the irk thread has only been around > for less than a fortnight, give it a chance. No, I want to strangle it at birth :-) > BTW (personal Q, sorry), do you ever think about > updating your user name? You must be practically > part of the establishment by now, surely? It's a Neil Young thing... "She's got a brand new guy. Looks like she's never coming back to me." Now back to your normal programming :-)

People using the ?things that have irked me today? thread when they should be using the ?Tiny Little Things That Cause You Irrational Rage? thread.

steveo Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > So the Half Moon is closed, Latest news I heard was more positive about the pub reopening, but Dulwich Estates are pressing ahead with the plan to convert the top floors to flats. That could, of course, spell the end of live music there...

Louisa Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Yes voters have been portrayed as being loud > anti-English despots, when in fact culturally it's > not unusual for Scottish people to be fired up by > pretty much most things, and for it to be politics > is great for democracy. That's entirely wishful thinking. Let's see whether or not in six months' time (regardless of the referendum vote) politics with a capital 'P' is firing up Scottish people...

david_carnell Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > At about 9pm it was utter chaos at Goose Green in > all directions. Took more than 10mins to negotiate > from the Bishop to the roundabout and up to Ondine > Rd. Crazy. Zippo's Circus were on the move. Ironically, the huge trucks managed the Goose Green roundabout fine - it was a couple of caravans that got stuck...

Louisa Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Although I despise the politics of the SNP and > other nationalistic parties, I do sympathise with > the anti-westminster sentiment. > If I were a progressive Scottish socialist I would > see the opportunities that would arise from > ditching London and going down a new route But that's such a short-term and contingent reason for breaking a three-hundred year union. What if (and it's a big 'if', admittedly) Westminster was currently under a mildly redistributive and non-belligerent Labour government ? would you want independence then? Basing the future of the union on tactical advantage seems to me to be wrong and potentially dangerous. > you could eventually leave behind the old guard of > fading British imperialism ... which benefited much of Scotland as it did much of England. Glasgow is an imperial port city whose wealth was based around the benefits that empire brought, including, in the early days, slavery. In that, it's no different from Liverpool, Bristol or, to an extent, London. Scotland's engineers, scientists, bureaucrats, shipbuilders and sailors were all vital cogs in the imperial project. > It's all rather > painful hearing the London elite singing the > praises of the union when it's tended only ever to > benefit that city anyway. See above.

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This from July 31st. So the workers rejected their union's recomendation? "A long-running pay dispute by south London cinema workers over demands for a living wage is set to be resolved. Union officials will recommend workers at Brixton?s Ritzy venue accept of a new offer by cinema owners Picturehouse, following months of industrial action. Staff are being offered an immediate pay rise from ?7.35 an hour to ?8, rising in stages to the London Living Wage of ?8.80 in September 2015." http://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/agreement-reached-in-ritzy-cinema-living-wage-row-9641254.html

No. You can buy a ticket, though, from either of the machines or the ticket office.

Because if you keep on moaning at the Council, they sometimes do something. Don't complain and they won't do anything.

Apparently so: "Passenger watchdog welcomes decision to extend contactless payments to National Rail services in London Published on 12 August 2014 London TravelWatch has welcomed the announcement from Transport for London (TfL) that contactless payments will be extended to National Rail services in London that participate in Oyster Pay As You Go (PAYG) later this year, in addition to the Tube, DLR and London Overground. The agreement between TfL and train operating companies comes just weeks after the independent passenger watchdog warned that failure to include national rail in the scheme would be confusing and unfair for passengers. " http://www.londontravelwatch.org.uk/news/view?id=487&x[0]=news/list

spanglysteve Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > If they do continue to LB why not just run it full > service in that case. It would only add a couple > of minutes for the train to disembark. No need to > run full service back (allowing time for boarding) > as presumably the demand is far less leaving LB in > the morning. It's those few minutes that add to congestion at that time in the morning.

spanglysteve Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I don't really see the point of stopping services > short at SB. In reality, who is choosing to ride > to SB and then continuing their journey from > there? Well some people are - I see quite a number of people normally get off at SB. Plus others want to go to QRP to change to the Overground. The short-stopping trains in fact do carry on (empty) to LB then come straight back out empty ? as there's obviously nowhere to turn round at SB :-)

No, but there's no reason to think they won't when the works are completed. The two morning trains are stopping short at South Bermondsey because of rush hour congestion at LB due to closed platforms.

Actaully, the 08.51 wasn't too crowded this morning. At some point I'm sure they'll restore the "every ten minutes-ish" frequency, but with all the work going on at LB, it's inevitable there will be inconvenient tweaks. Platforms 12 and 13 are now open and it looks like there's plenty of space on shared platform 13 and 14. I only hope the same will be true for platform 15 when they've completed work on the new side entrance.

Here's the relevant bit: The key peak services now will be: East Dulwich to London Bridge (curtailed services to S Bermondsey) marked as '-'): 07:09 07:20 07:30 07:40 07:50 - 08:10 08:20 08:30 - 08:51 London Bridge to East Dulwich: 17:10 17:25 17:40 17:57 18:10 18:30 18:40

I normally get the 8.40 (no longer alas) to LB, which means leaving the house at 08.30. Last week I left the house about 20 mins earlier than normal and walked to Lordship Lane to catch the 40 bus. None was remotely full (this was the Heber Road stop) and I arrived at LB pretty much on time. Yes, it took a bit longer but it wasn't remotely bad.

If this is the case, it needs to be challenged. IThis prevents a. people parking across the dropped kerb space with the agreement of the resident; and b. parking for an extra four metres on the street. It's a scam to reduce the amount of parking available so that residents cry out for a CPZ even though (as we've discovered before) the overalll amount of parking space is reduced. But, hey, the council make a mint, so that's OK.

Council scam - reduce parking space, get residents begging for CPZs, rake in the cash.

You might not like her (and I don't), but the general principle seems to be sound that if you're found not guilty you shouldn't be caned for legal costs.

Yeah, he'd worked there since the old Gateway days - fine quiff. I think he was in charge of deliveries ? and pelvic gyrations, of course.