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Some great points here, just to add has anyone heard or know of a homeopathic hospital? Sadly, yes https://www.uclh.nhs.uk/ourservices/ourhospitals/rlhim/pages/historyofrlhim.aspx I can't be bothered to go back over this interminable thread, but to note that homeopathy (which does nothing) was often safer than interventive medicine in the 19th century which did something, but often something bad (it is better to 'cure' syphilis with water than mercury). That all changed by the 1950s and certainly into the 21st century when medical interventions are genuinely beneficial. Homeopathy (still water, if beaten against a saddle) does no direct harm (save where it is preferred to actual medication). No does it do any good better than the placebo effect - which isn't in itself nothing - people genuinely do get better or at least improve through sugar pills or water, but then the body is an amazing self-healing mechanism - think how cuts and bruises get better without any intervention save to keep them (cuts) free of infection.

If you are local, your children are school age and have no disabilities If you have to walk more than 20-25 minutes, particularly if one child is in a push chair (even if another is school age) then you will not feel that much like 'enjoying' the park when you get there, particularly with the walk back ahead of you. Neither will your children. Mind you, as a policy it will keep out those awful extended families, people with dogs, the elderly, all those ghastly people who cannot afford to live nice and close (within easy walking distance from a park). Effectively keeping out the hoi polloi (anyone who can't readily afford the parking fee, even) is a wonderful policy for the council to pursue. It will be Dulwich parks for Dulwich people. It will make the parks so much more private for those with adjacent houses. And once the parks are unused enough, well we can get rid of them.

There are numbers of causative factors which might lead to apparent confusion and lapses of memory other than dementia (Alzheimer's and vascular dementia are the most common, but not the only 'senile dementia diseases'). These include some forms of depression, responses to acute or chronic pain, as well as, and probably most commonly 'having a lot on your mind' - i.e. simple distraction and, as above, forms of tiredness and exhaustion. Dementia is not contagious (some forms may be genetic however) - but I have noted that aberrant behaviours can be copied, possibly unconsciously. If these behaviours become annoyingly habitual it is worthwhile seeking professional help, but the very fact that they are being noticed by you at all is probably a good sign. 'Forgetting things' (names, why you walked upstairs) may be annoying but it is very often a sign-post to nothing important at all.

Much as I dislike the Mayor's ULEZ - this will do far more to achieving clean air than the CPZ - you can quickly show this by asking how much of a contribution to clean air will not allowing 'foreign' electric or hydrogen powered vehicles to park in ED make? Clearly none. Yet these are covered by the CPZ as are all other vehicles. When this is forced on us (the CPZ) I would bet a pound to a fly-button that any ensuing improvements in air quality will be credited to the CPZ by Southwark, and not the ULEZ.

countdown to August 12th commences That's grouse - Pheasant season is 1st October to 1st February. Where this one is, and being now at least a season old, he's actually pretty safe.

There are 3 ways of legally occupying a property - freehold, where you own the property and land outright and can sell or give away those rights, leasehold where you buy access to a property for a given term (normally over 70 years initially for domestic property, although I have known as little as 25 years, and frequently much less for commercial property). You can sell or give away your leasehold to a third party. A leaseholder will normally be required to pay for the upkeep of the property, and it is normal to pay up front for the leasehold (a full negotiated price, as for purchase of a property outright) and additionally pay the freeholder some form of annual rental for that freehold. Finally there is rental. As a renter you may have a fixed term (common in commercial agreements) or it may be open ended - but you cannot sell on or give away your rights and the rental agreement is with you alone. Rental agreements allow you, or your landlord, to terminate the rental agreement under certain, stipulated, circumstances. You will pay monthly (commercially often quarterly) rental and may additionally (often in commercial rentals) take on some repairing or maintenance liabilities. Commercial leases, (but they are not quite like domestic leasehold as such) may have break points or points where the rentals can be reviewed. Where the commercial lease has time-terminated the freeholder has no requirement to extend the lease or offer the leaseholder a new lease. A leaseholder can offer their property to tenants, so you could have a property where the freehold is owned by entity A, a lease by entity B and is being rented by B to entity C. 3 separate entities can thus have an interest in one property, with different obligations and rights. Unless it is covered by a specific agreement in the leasehold, a freeholder cannot interfere in the relationship between a leaseholder and their tenant - even where the freeholder and tenant are the same entity!

Argos is owned by Sainsbury's - with the Peckham branch more difficult to get to it makes sense to use space at Dog Kennel Hill, and it may bring customers in who would not otherwise come, and who will buy groceries. Parking is much better there as well. This is not the same as sub-letting to another brand, although actually Laura Ashley was in Homebase at a time it was successful, and moved out before the collapse. [And Sainsbury's used to own Homebase, but sold it off].

At the moment, if you are in the street and passed by BT (everyone is) you will be able to get service from all operators (who have a legal right to use BT Infrastructure) apart from NTL/ Virgin. If you are passed by Virgin you will also be able to get it from them. If you are 'passed' by Southark's chosen suppliers in an estate you will only be able to get service from them over their infrastructure - they are not obliged to wholesale their network to 3rd parties (BT Openreach is). So you may possibly have a monopoly provider with no alternatives.

Agree with cycling for short journeys when possible - I know you add 'when possible' but NB there are people who are old, people with poor sight, people with other motor disabilities, people who would have to cycle through quite substantial hills in the old borough of Camberwell often with substantial baggage of one sort or another - people who rely on powered transport not on 2 wheels. I suspect quite a few journeys could not, reasonably, be completed by cycle. By making life possible only for cyclists (or walkers) - clearly the aim with no nod towards even basic reliable public transport - many rely on buses when the roads are constantly blocked by different works - Southwark is excluding increasing numbers from participating in life outside the house. I use public transport a lot, but I have to drive to get on it in the first place (not even a bus goes to my 'best/ most useful' orange line station from where I am, and it's a hilly 20-25 minute walk for me). Not a good or relaxing start to an evening out.

There's a lot of issues I am getting in my broadband, You need to take these up with your retail broadband supplier. And probably be a little more specific when you contact them.

Also avoid walking along the edge of the pavement with a phone held in the 'outside' hand - that's making a drive by grab that much easier. If you have to walk and talk, use a headphone and microphone and keep your phone in your pocket. Google maps (etc.) can talk directions if you're using it as a walking sat nav.

Does anyone have any clues about when and why the management took a turn for the worse? Like all GP surgeries, this one has been plagued by losses in the senior partners, through retirement and very sadly long term illness and death. This has put huge pressures (because of inner city GP recruitment issues) on GP availability and appointments (as well as losing GP managerial direction); the surgery has tried out many schemes to address this, most have failed although currently the system they are working on (using telephone 'appointments' and GP based triage) seem to be working. Their use of outbound communications (to notify of prescriptions being available, to request routine telephone appointments for test results etc.) has also been a useful innovation, as has requests for routine measurements (such as BP) now that so many have, or have access to their own monitors. The recruitment of a practice pharmacist and better use of practice nurses has also taken the pressure off GPs (but must have taken time to achieve). Reminders about appointments are also helping. We all want to be seen immediately, but now the urgent cases are seen urgently, and the routine appointments have to wait. Which doesn't seem too bad. And there's always the Lister and SelDoc out of hours. I've been a patient there for 30 years; it's had its ups and downs, but my perception is 'up' (relatively) at the moment.

Just for clarity, I raised the mental health issue not as a speculation about this dreadful case, but as a reflection that we would often prefer to see mental health issues as a cause, rather than wickedness. Because you can't help being ill, but you can help being wicked. If something happens because of illness, you neither wish to lay blame, nor to consider that what happened is symptomatic of a locale or particularly group. If lightning strikes it is random and without blame. Of course the mentally ill are more frequently victims.

Theresa May is openly loathed by the rank and file police (and also by the higher ups though on the quiet) because she gutted them financially when she was Home Sec and now they have to carry the can for rising crime. I think you'll find she is hated because she stood up to the police unions and, more particularly, because she tried to stop indiscriminate stop and search. As Home Secretary she would have been bidding for more funds - it was Osborne and the Treasury taking them away. No spending Minister tries to reduce their spend unless forced. Their spend is how they judge their worth. It was the stop and search move which really rankled - which she did for the best reasons as that was still a practice where discrimination against minorities could be exercised by the Met. And was.

A lot more good stuff happens than bad, it's just we focus on the bad. This seems to be a highly unusual incident and on the face of it doesn't fit easily into any 'typical' scenario. To attempt to draw conclusions about the incident to make general points about locale etc. is, at best just too early, and at worst plainly wrong. We can agree it's a tragedy and appalling, but other than that speculation is simply wasted effort. What we perhaps do need to do is to reassure others who have been impacted by this and become fearful that what has happened isn't any norm. It is possible that the perpetrator does suffer from some long-term or temporary mental imbalance - and we do know that services to support those with mental health problems are sadly wanting everywhere; but at the moment even this is simply speculation - it's just difficult to think (or want to believe) that it's the action of a wholly sane person.

Re references to Camberwell - an old Gazette would put the area in the old borough of Camberwell - absorbed into Southwark - hence Camberwell Old and New Cemeteries way south of Goose Green. ED was once Camberwell as it is now Southwark. Random acts of extreme violence can, sadly, happen anywhere. Until more is known of this terrible incident attempts to draw conclusions about its 'typicality' for the area must fail. 24 hour shops (which are really of value) will, by definition where they are not the norm, draw people in in the small hours who would not necessarily normally consider the area 'local'.

About 15 or 20 years ago I was confronted by a dozen police in full riot gear and carrying submachine guns in Underhill Road by the cemetery - they were filming The Bill, it transpired, and were 'resting up' in Underhill before running into shot in Langton Rise. Gave me quite a turn.

Silk Road has some of the most gloriously abrupt serving staff, and their cuisine is very different from Cantonese fare - but that's not to knock good Cantonese cooking (often seen as a high point of the different regional cuisines). I've not (yet) been to the new incarnation of Mr Liu - but if they deliver good quality versions of what's on their new menu that would be fine. It's pretty traditional 'London chinese' - but that's not necessarily a bad thing. Done well it's very satisfying. 'Completely authentic' chinese regional cuisine (away from Party Banqueting (and I mean CP when I say Party) is low on proteins and high on starch. And can involve the sort of beak to toes and things with too many or no legs ingredients (and textures) which westerners can find challenging.

I have just walked down the stretch of Underhill Road leading from Langton Rise to Melford Road. If no parking over dropped curbs is 'extended' by 2 metres on each side of the dropped curb there will be double yellows going down virtually both sides of the road (because there are a lot of entrances and dropped curbs). Although there is, as yet, no CPZ proposal for that stretch, the effect of the new rules anyway will be to reduce street parking to zero. There would not be an option to get 'passes' for services and deliveries, as it would be all double yellows allowing NO parking at all. As opposed to 1-2 cars being able to park between every dropped curb at present. This whole thing is complete madness and you can see there what the impact of the council policy is/ would/ will be.

Would rather pay to guarantee parking,... That's not what's on offer. You will be competing with all other 'residents' - which may, depending on the size of the zone, be quite a few, and include families with multiple cars, if they can afford it - for many fewer parking spaces, absolutely (because of the double yellows etc.) By all means vote for a CPZ but do not think that it offers any kind of guaranteed parking, and certainly not necessarily close to your home. The 'offer' of 40% additional spaces (once others have been forced out) is not based on any forecast or experience of ED - but is based on other studies -possibly of residential only areas close to stations where there is a high incidence of through commuters - and does not take into account the draconian imposition of extended double yellow everywhere.

This seems to be the actual website:- https://sarahtrinh.wixsite.com/148chinese

Actually, for something as controversial as a CPZ I think it does matter if you have a dog in the fight, or not.

I do appreciate that we need local workers but I am not sure the answer is to allow everyone to drive. The 'answer' would be good and effective public transport, including bus services which operate effectively East: West as well as North: South. Most of the (few) East: West routes are amazingly tortuous, take an age and often require changes. I used to work in Greenwich - it took me 15-20 minutes by car and 90 minutes by public transport. Guess which I used? Amended to add - the 90 minutes wasn't just travel time but included waits for changes. Which rarely matched any published timetable. I had to set off much earlier than the journey should have required because of this uncertainty.

London Road starts at the junction with Wood Vale. OK - I had assumed it was London Road when it was the A205 - which it is where the A205 swings round at the Grove Tavern. But Google maps supports London Road starting at Wood Vale.

Do you follow these 'commuters' to the station? There are many schools, hospitals etc. locally, which rely on incomers to service them. How many of these 'commuters' are here to serve our local ED needs - their timings of e.g. arrival and departure would be the same as through commuters using ED station?