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Froglander Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I checked if my car was compliant a few years ago > and it was. Also rechecked recently and it still > is and it?s an older petrol car. There has been a > fair but of notice in my opinion. It's been an active topic on discussion here since at least July 2016. /forum/read.php?5,1697790,1698204#msg-1698204

Musician (Saint Etienne) and journalist Bob Stanley buying jam jars in Farmers.

nivag Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > mrwb Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > Why do there seem to be so many burst water > mains > > these days? > > > > I've lived in London 30 years odd and don't > > remember these continuous problems till 10 or > more > > years agao. > > Lack of investment from Thames water over the > years due to paying the fat cats at the top more > money equals failing infrastructure. Actually backwards - investment while Thames Water was public sector was woefully poor. One of the conditions of privatisation price increases was that there would be massive increase in infrastructure investment and minimum spend year on year - regardless of how much "fat cats" are being spent. Privatisation of monopolies is generally a rubbish idea but under investment in water and sanitation infrastructure in London is evidence of the opposite argument!

Seabag Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > What happens if you take your number plates off? > > That?ll make it harder for them. > > And take the windows out too, that way nobody can > stick a ticket on your Windscreen. TFL HATES THIS ONE SIMPLE TRICK If you don?t drive, you don't have to pay the ULEZ fee.

Why do you think they couldn't get insurance?

🤷‍♂️ let us know how you get on.

JohnL Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > at > the moment don't have the resources to re-vet > police officers. The resources will come from the ?30-or-is-it-?300 fee we would be charged to get a card. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4707608.stm

Sydney Carton Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > > I don't see gazillions of cameras being installed 750 new cameras are being installed. https://uk.news.yahoo.com/london-installing-extra-cameras-2021-054618405.html

Much as I love our borough and Newham, I doubt many Kazakh, Nigerian or Venezuelan oligarchs are buying pieds a terre here and leaving leaving them vacant. In fact, looking at that list and applying common sense rather than any hard facts, the more desirable the borough to offshore investors, the fewer empty properties it has. The more shambolic and disorganised, the greater the proportion of empty housing stock. Of course, UK property and corporate records are so opaque it would be very difficult to prove that with real evidence.

Expect you'd feel differently if eg your car fell through the road surface because the subpavement had weakened/washed out due to the water leak.

https://tfl.gov.uk/modes/driving/ultra-low-emission-zone/ulez-road-signs

This is a perennial authoritarian solution looking for a problem, and each time it's shown that ID cards won't work, a couple of years later it's a new reason. It's to stop terrorism - no wait, it's to stop benefit fraud - actually, it's to save travellers the hassle of carrying a passport... Patel's apparent enthusiasm for it in the wake of an assassination where the full facts remain to be established is sickening but not surprising. Blair, Brown, Cameron and May managed to waste ?5 billion on this toss. Wonder which chum of the government will get the first contract? G4S, Serco, Capita, SopraSteria all rubbing their hands right now. https://www.thejournal.ie/id-cards-row-uk-public-services-card-3570026-Aug2017/

Confusing two issues really: foreign ownership vs land/buildings lying idle.

25 October 2021 is the first day. https://tfl.gov.uk/modes/driving/ultra-low-emission-zone/ulez-expansion

Good thing it's in the Lounge forum, then - "The place to relax and chat about anything". Course if no-one's interested, the thread will fade. Of course, some people might be interested in a live music venue that'd be a short bus journey away from East Dulwich. others might see an interesting community solution to the problem of a once-loved landmark pub that's been sunk by its unimpressive landlord- you know, like what has happened to the old Harvester in East Dulwich.

The butchering of the state's ability to administer education is a feature of academies, not a bug.

TheCat Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I tripped over in the street today. Bloody brexit. Expect to be tripping over many more unfixed pavement defects and stepping over more potholes - there's a 25 year peak in demand for labour in the construction sector but half of London's EU labourers have left and replacements can't just jump on a plane or coach to work here. The materials shortage isn't only a UK problem to be fair - but it's aggravated by Brexit. https://www.constructionnews.co.uk/brexit/uk-construction-loses-a-quarter-of-its-eu-born-workforce-22-01-2021/

Not an expert so correct me if I'm wrong but: Central government passed a developer-friendly planning law that says commercial property can automatically be converted to residential UNLESS the council say otherwise. This is the council saying otherwise, as it has done for commercial strips elsewhere in the Borough. Something will eventually be done with the property and the skatepark will have to go or at least move. However, on past (scandalous) performance it could be another 20 years so hopefully the skaters aren't too downcast. It's a very busy junction so I don't know if it's a great place for housing. It might be that in 10 years (by the time something is down) traffic will be noticeably cleaner and quieter because of more electric cars but even so... It's an outrage that such a big piece of land in one of the most expensive cities in the world has been left vacant and idle for so long. The Estate should be ashamed.

The British Red Cross has a (free) app that will teach you how to first aid AND it has an emergency section that will tell you exactly what to do in simple language if someone is bleeding, choking, having a heart attack etc. Download it and have a flick through today so you're not fumbling when you need it tomorrow! :)

I'm ancient and there was plenty of late night boozing and clubbing when I was a student. Maybe it matters more where you went than when you went? Anyway, the younger generation booze less and shag less and do drugs less than any previous generation. They also have worse mental health, are in greater debt, and have worse chances of ever owning a house or having a permanent job. The stereotype of students being a bunch of workshy dissolute deadbeats has never been less true. (It was definitely true in my case though).

malumbu Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I doubt whether few of > the current student generation would get up at 5 > to earn minimum wage. I doubt whether many of any generation are willing to get up at 5am. A lot of the older generations still in work won't show up before 9am for far more than minimum wage. Lazy white collar sods.

Don't think Johnson really cares unless Andrew starts to make more donations than the Tory pary base of Russian oligarchs and dodgy property developers. Private Eye reckons that Brenda (QE2) can't stand Johnson.

Bonfire night is literally a performance. @legalalien: I have no idea of numbers but they are around - quite a few people have firewood stacked in their doorways etc. There's a geezer on our street that has one and when he lights it the whole street smells of smoke. I have no idea if being within smelling distance of it also means being within coughing distance of it if you has asthma, COVID etc

Looks like a section of dual exhaust was dumped at the corner of Frank Dixon Way and College Rd today. I don't think it's just fly tipping as the section was cut out instead of being unbolt as a whole unit...

Funny you should say that: "?Eco? wood stoves emit 750 times more pollution than an HGV, study shows" https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/oct/09/eco-wood-stoves-emit-pollution-hgv-ecodesign