Penguin68

Marmora, Scutari etc. residents had better start brushing up their Russian for posting on Crimea sites.

And Forest Hill/ Honor Oak Park on the Overground all the way up to North London (or as an access point to the Jubilee Line). The issue about the links is more about their unreliability (which is addressable) than about their existence. That is, the problem is a management and maintenance rather than a capital investment issue. If the trains ran, and on time, and the buses didn't keep being cancelled or changing their destinations (that is, if you could rely on what was being offered on paper actually being delivered) then you could look to see what improvements could be made (or were then actually needed) in the basic transport offer.

has anyone explained why the school coaches can't park on the drive in front of the school itself? That whole sweep was secured behind locked gates - in fact it would be possible to open the gates but seal the carriage sweep from the rest of the school (I think fencing is already there, but if it isn't it would be easy enough to install) in order to retain security and protect the students - but maybe that's too much bother when the public street access can be grabbed on behalf of the school's needs.

Dr. McColl was my GP for just under 30 years - an excellent clinician and a compassionate doctor she will be sorely missed at the Practice and even more by her family. I had minor skin surgery with her (as well as normal GP type contact) - couldn't have gone better or been better performed. A tremendous loss to the area. And a great role model for women GPs.

The attached link suggest that 5,900 Londoners die annually as a consequence of air pollution (early deaths) - slightly more than London knife crime fatalities I would suggest. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/jan/06/london-breaches-toxic-air-pollution-limit-for-2017-in-just-five-days

If you bought and installed your bulbs all at the same time it may be that they are also dying at the same time as well. Although 4 rooms where this has happened does seem excessive. If they all went at once then it does seem more likely that one bulb failed and tripped a circuit. Some of the circuit breakers are very sensitive (which is probably a good thing!)

'Good' road, refurbished with parking - single level which may be good for older/ disabled in an area where that's uncommon (so premium for rarity) - quite well placed for public transport and close to Horniman. Someone local with a bigger house to sell might well downsize here and stay in the area. I can see how they'd get close to their asking price.

In general I would avoid answering the door in the early hours, unless you have good reason to suppose that someone legitimate might be calling. If you don't have a door viewer it is worth getting one installed so that you can see who's there (and a chain so you don't have to open a door fully, if you have to open it at all). A collection of moped riders outside your house at 3:00am and ringing your door would warrant a 999 call in my view. This was, at least potentially, an active incident.

This is how the daughter of the man who was attacked described them . If this is how someone close to the attack described the attackers I think it is legitimate to use the term, perhaps more helpful in retrospect if the description was put in quotes - perhaps saying 'described as ...' To someone who is in their mid seventies (I am pushing towards that) the relative youth of the attackers may have been a salient point - being attacked by 'boys' may be more worrying than being attacked by grown men - although a bearded boy does leave me slightly confused. Some adolescents nowadays do seem to have straggly beards I have noticed. Amended to add - even someone in his mid-seventies, unless he was either an American from the South or South African, would be unlikely to use the word 'boy' as a general pejorative to describe someone of African descent. It is not UK usage, I would have thought.

Can I suggest that many posters are (probably) leaping to conclusions about the OP's ethnicity (and indeed age) in their comments. His posting name (Peckhamguy) suggests he is male, but otherwise we know nothing about him, other than that his elderly mother has been brutally attacked. I wish her well.

Whilst James is right that the statutory requirements are for 150m height, the recommendations are for a lower (91.4m - 300ft) trigger. Any structure within 6kms of an airfield or aerodrome (which would include a heliport) over 10m is required to be notified. Relevant links appear to be http://www.mantiscranes.ie/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/CPA-TCIG-TIN-039-Issue-C-140108.pdf and http://www.londonheliport.co.uk/community/safeguarding/

If it is a spam advert I don't think much of the level of spelling/grammar they're providing! Presumably they were intending (if it's spam) to address a demographic which needed help. A perfectly drafted request might have led one to wonder why help was needed. This one makes it perfectly clear. If it is 'secret spam' it is actually good secret spam on that account, and maybe well targeted. Except the ED Forum probably has relatively few potential customers for the service as its readers. So actually, well targeted in terms of content, but not in terms of channel.

If it is I hope potential customers are reading these responses. Cheating is shameful. Anyone who proposes cheating should be ashamed. Anyone offering cheating services leaves their clients open to significant sanctions if discovered. Universities, certainly, are using increasingly sophisticated methods to identify plagiarism. Luckily the 'coursework' elements of many secondary qualifications are being reviewed and reduced.

If you get someone to write your essay then you will be cheating (plagiarism) - cheating those in your place of education and cheating yourself. It is fine to ask for advice and guidance - that's what education is about - you learn from others and then apply your learning. But using someone else to write your coursework is something which, if discovered by e.g. a university, could lead to your expulsion from the course. And rightly so. Any qualification you otherwise gain will not be yours but the essay writer's. How would you feel if you found yourself being treated by a doctor who had got someone else to sit his/ her exams and do his/ her course work? Reassured? Happy?

Whilst robbery is clearly wrong, and victim blaming quite the wrong approach, I am concerned about the level of personal carelessness I come across - yesterday a young woman on a busy residential road (which is also a bus route), eagerly studying her phone screen stepped off the pavement in front of my car (back angled towards me) apparently oblivious of the morning rush hour traffic on that road. She made no attempt to look before crossing, and indeed, as I said, positioned herself so her back was turned to oncoming traffic. I didn't hit her (I did have to brake hurriedly) - but she was acting in a doubly risky manner - phone held out to the road and not looking for traffic before she crossed. If I was driving whilst studying my phone (and crossed junctions in my car without looking) I would be properly condemned for careless, thoughtless (and indeed illegal) behaviour. Some pedestrians (and I'm afraid some cyclists) appear to think that acting without forethought and consideration for other users is OK. In a society where you are at risk from robbers stealing phones (however much one condemns that behaviour) not taking any precautionary steps - indeed holding out your phone in front of you as you cross a road - is hardly the most cautious or careful behaviour. Nobody 'deserves' to be mugged but perhaps some people don't deserve it less than others?

Absolutely B&G - like 'subsidence' it is used by insurers (and hence lenders) to avoid risks which are frequently much exaggerated. At some time the 'scam' of reporting and then charging for clearing up numerous 'risks' - damp, woodworm etc. will be exposed - though not I fear in my lifetime. Of course each and every one of these might, on some occasions, be genuine worries, but the blanket knee-jerk risk aversion response to even the hint of these (and thus the lucrative 'cures' forced on house buyers) is a nice little earner for that claque of agents, surveyors etc. that make property buying such a misery.

Knotweed is a pest but can be cleared. If you are doing it yourself it may take 3-4 growing seasons - with it coming back weaker each year, but it will clear even with herbicides available to the general public. Professional killing is generally quicker. Its impact on the built environment has been somewhat exaggerated in my opinion. But unless treated it is both spreading and insistent. The structure of its stems, which are segmented (like bamboo), means that it takes time for the roots to be poisoned.

And even better - they are far less frequent, I understand, so will bother those they pass by even less! Roll-on Lower Southwark being wholly cut-off from the rest of London, but in a quiet(er) way. Tooley St. must be devastated that the ASLEF action may be being called off, and must rely on the RMT to keep up the misery.

it's ludicrous to say "cars, who needs 'em?" Irony alert?

A cynic might suggest that the complete traffic chaos around ED forms part of the local Labour (and indeed Lib Dem) war against drivers. If you create situations when only cyclists can 'get through' (mainly by jumping across lights and onto pavements) then maybe car drivers will give up and go away. Who needs 'em? It must be remembered that North Southwark is well served by public transport - and that is where the masters are based. South Southwark (with middle classes and even people who might consider not voting labour) can go hang.

On the basis that the school presumably is contracted with the coach company (even if it does not control the actions of the coach drivers) it might be worth writing to the school enquiring whether their insurance covers them for being sued should there be loss of property or life consequential on the blocking of access to emergency vehicles by the coach companies with whom they work, as the the problem of coach parking has been made clear to them on numerous occasions such that they could not claim ignorance of it. I doubt, based on some of the photographs I have seen, that fire engines could necessarily get through, and even where drivers moved to allow then to this would necessarily hold up their access. Institutions more frequently respond when their wallets, rather than their hearts, are tugged. Cross posted with Cora above - but - exactly!

When considering club finances do please remember that bar, health club etc. headline revenues are not the same as contributory profits. I don't know how profitable the bar itself is, but once wholesale costs of consumables, staff payments and other overheads are taken into consideration, net profit (which could be used to support the club) may be as low as 5%-7% of till receipts. A key issue here is what the beer etc. can be bought-in at. Even assuming a 100% mark-up on till prices there will still be significant overhead to take account of. Health clubs tend to depend on sign-ups with no real follow through after month 1. If the club is actually popular (i.e. people really use it) then the profits tend to plummet.

It was a weird power cut - some lights and my radio stayed on, but dimmed as if on low power. If some people did have a full power cut you may have had a consequent load reduction as a safety measure to avoid a circuit overload.

As long as it has the right certification 'Organic' is a more useful categorisation for eggs than free range, at least as regards animal welfare. https://www.daera-ni.gov.uk/articles/organic-poultry-and-eggs However it is worth noting (I have been told, so second hand information) that many millions more 'organic' eggs are sold each day than are laid. Go figure!

I?m sorry, but the LL Co-ops?s failure has nothing to do with the limited successes of the local M&S. Not only has that shop been long notorious for failures (well before M&S opened) ? but competition does not create poor service, poor management, poor planning, poor? well you name it ? amongst those being competed with. The LL Co-op had every opportunity of re-positioning itself as the go-to shop for branded goods and staples. The brand reputation of the Co-op is value (as M&S?s is quality) ? and that could have been played into. The shoppers who regretted the passing of Iceland locally could readily have been enticed into a store occupying a similar (value, people?s store) brand position. Instead of which a declining store simply chose to decline further and faster. This may be about the Head Office attitude to local decision making, of course, but this isn?t a worthy company suffering from unacceptable competition. This is suicide by neglect.