Penguin68

These aren't minor crimes though - theft with use (or threat) of force is Robbery. No, of course they aren't minor to the victims, but they don't seem to hit the police's buttons. It's hard enough to get a live police person to even visit a scene of crime nowadays, let alone collect forensic evidence that might be used in a case. So long as they can issue a crime number (necessary for insurance claims) over the phone or on-line and send you a victim support leaflet, their job is done.

Who?s the ?underlying carrier? for Vodafone ? Vodafone (with EE, 3 and O2 (Telefonica)) are all primary mobile carriers. All other mobile phone providers are MVNOs (Mobile Virtual Network Operators) and buy capacity wholesale from the primary carriers.

So the police know who they are but can't prove it ? Sadly sometimes they could prove it (they have been given clear, and in some cases good, photographic evidence - this to my certain knowledge) but claim they don't have the resource (or, I'm guessing, the will) to bother. The courts are often very lenient on the young, so that - without deterrent sentences - there is little point. And police priorities are not necessarily placed on relatively minor (no one died) crimes against property or individuals, unless some form of 'hate' can be attributed.

EE (my underlying carrier) seems consistently fine (4G) on the south side of Camberwell Old Cemetery - and indeed generally across ED although I have had drop-outs coming down Dog Kennel Hill and up Sydenham Hill - though not recently.

Bicknell Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > bye bye dulwich shops > > dont our councilors care about this? > > https://www.onedulwich.uk/news/does-southwark-real > ly-care-about-the-high-street No, all capitalism is theft. Don't you know that? Our councillors do.

Is this burst where Thames Water have been disrupting traffic for months to replace the old main? Or a knock on consequence of that work? What a shambles!

I am hearing that it's a shortage of staff to sort letters in the DO - so they are concentrating on parcels and registered post. Clearly holidays/ pindemic may be partly to blame, but also a drop-off in recruitment and retention. I'm aware there are also problems of cupidity (allegedly) which may have led to staff being let go.

The staff are good, though and I hope they manage to stay employed. I would imagine those directly employed will be covered by TUPE. However those coming in as 'free' contractors - to take classes for instance, but not directly employed - and for whom Everyone Active does not pay employer's NI contributions - won't be covered by TUPE. Unless Southwark massively changes 'the offer' to clients however I would expect those roles to remain.

KidKruger is absolutely right - signal strengths for different carriers will be impacted by topology and where their masts are. If you expect the greatest usage to be from your home, for example, locally, then check, if you can, which carrier offers the strongest signal there (remembering that new masts are erected on occasion, when not blocked by locals objecting, and equipment fails - which means that what is 'best' now may not be in 6 month's time. Most people's experience is that signal for any single given carrier will be 'patchy' across the whole of SE22 and adjacent post codes - but patchy in different places. Annoying, really. If you are choosing an MVNO (Mobile Virtual Network Operator) - i.e. not directly with EE, Vod, 3 or O2 - then find out who their wholesale carrier is underlying their network offer, which will be one of those 4.

No formal announcement yet but press speculation is that all over 50s will receive a third (booster) vaccine by Christmas, starting with over 70s and targeting approximately a 6 month interval from the second vaccine being administered. I am assuming that those clinically vulnerable who were in the first wave (if under 70) will also be included in that new first wave, but those details haven't been disclosed (neither have they about key, e.g. NHS, staff). I am over 70 and anticipating an October jab, based on that.

Chronic post viral syndromes are very common - typically after e.g. glandular fever and other viral infections (flu?) in some people. They have been given many names - ME for instance - and the very severe Guillain-Barr? syndrome, but they appear to have very many commonalties - particular muscular weakness and fatigue, as well as some (e.g. anosmia) which may be initial viral infection specific. I would not over-worry about finding a group which is just Covid-19 (long Covid) specific - most of these groups will be helpful at suggesting remedies or alleviations (and support) for many common symptoms.

For example, I'd like to see large multiples of council tax levied on properties that are empty and not actively being renovated for letting. Where houses have been inherited, possibly by a number of siblings, agreeing how and whether they are disposed can be a long-run event - this can leave them empty for some time, as can finalising an estate and then finding funds for e.g. renovation to lettable standards. Some properties clearly are simply being held empty, but for many closure following death can be a long-run (and quite traumatic) event. Forcing properties into the market against the will, desire or capabilities of those who own them sounds somewhat draconian. There will already be being estates duty on them (if appropriate, as it often is on locally over-values properties) as well as normal council taxes etc. - when the public costs associated with empty private property (no call on water, sewage, rubbish collection, education, health, road use etc.) will be minimal.

Day Lewis directly contacted those it issues prescriptions to, mainly I'm guessing from the Forest Hill Road Group practice. They (the practice) also directly contacted me and I had the flu jab yesterday.

Just for clarity - revenue (fines and charges) from the Southwark PCNs and CPZs (reflecting those who park or travel outwith Southwark regulations - i.e. parking zones and LTNs - goes to Southwark. Revenues from the congestion charge and ULEZ (and fines additionally arising) go to the Mayor - who may use these to fund TFL - although I don't think TFL are a formal party to the revenue collection, just a beneficiary at the Mayor's whim. I do not know whether the Mayor has access to pictures taken by Southwark enforcement cameras - or vice versa - but I suspect not. I believe it is most unlikely that these two authorities (Mayor and Borough) will act in concert over this. Indeed joined-up planning (viz Southwark's attacks on car usage locally without reflecting very poor - comparatively - provision of public transport locally) is a prime example of a lack of joined-up thinking.

Penguin18, he was definitely a postman as he delivered letters to several houses and had no van.. Postmen (the ones who deliver mail) do also deliver (small) parcels - Parcel Force only deliver large parcels, the Royal Mail does the rest. I get parcels delivered by two post-men - one of whom also does my (mail) walk. And I am 50 more than you grant me!

I noticed a postman deliver to a couple of houses half way up my road He was very probably delivering parcels - I had such a delivery today, but no mail since last Friday. Mail isn't being sorted, only parcels.

My PO mole suggests that the only things being delivered at the moment are parcels - there is no (or virtually no) mail sorting going on in Peckham due to staff shortages. My mole knows things are piling up on his walk, but he has nothing (other than parcels) to take out. If you have bills expected - watch out you don't incur interest charges (and as for PCNs!!!!)

It's a very strange situation and seems that all networks suffer from some significant not-spots in SE22/SE15 It's partly, at least, a function of the topography (very hilly) locally. Masts work on line-of-sight (with some leakage) so if you are in the shadow of a hill (between you and a mast) you may well lose signal/ signal strength. We need more masts than a flat area to offer the same coverage.

SO I suspect it will be ANPRS camera enforcement and wont be just boundary entry or exit, and a little bit like the TV licensing people saying we know you have a non ULEZ complaint vehicle. So expect investigators who may record if a non complaint vehicles is parked in different places and no charge paid. There may well be snap inspections on some roads, but I very much doubt that there will be continuous survey of local movements - Southwark simply isn't resourced for this, and does not get any direct income from the scheme anyway, so far as I can judge, or receive the fines. Yes, there will be fixed cameras picking up movement, but again other than at boundaries (ULEZ or Congestion Charge) there will not be many, and most will be on arterial routes, for obvious reasons. Moving your non-compliant car around local roads to re-park will almost certainly be risk free, in my view, and registering for automatic charging (should you be noticed) will obviate punitive fines. I believe that the majority of those who will pay will be leaving or coming into the area to/ from outside (where they will be caught) - moving into the inner congestion charge area or traveling on the major A routes. Of course, as we live on the edge of the ULEZ charging zone 'very local' movements for many will in fact be chargeable, whereas for those much deeper in to the zone they probably, in effect, won't be.

These are current typical pay scales for salaried GPs https://www.bma.org.uk/pay-and-contracts/pay/other-doctors-pay-scales/salaried-gps-pay-ranges

People collecting material for Afghan refugees might want it. There are always issues about used bedding of course, But the framework ought to be acceptable.

Southwark gains no fiscal benefit from the ULEZ zone extension. All monies I believe go to TFL. Or the Mayor.

...time will tell...

A very large number of South Asian restaurants in the UK are owned and operated by Muslims, as you have noted. Most are, in fact, licenced. Many Muslims (both people born into an Islamic culture, but not observant, and also 'practicing' Muslims) do in fact drink alcohol, though rarely, in my experience, to excess. They are far less likely however to consume pork, whether observant or simply 'cultural' Muslims. Many of those restaurants which are not licenced (themselves a minority) will allow customers to bring in alcohol. Apart from not cooking pork I have very very rarely seen any evidence of a South Asian restaurant attempting to impose Islamic (or indeed Hindu - where they would not cook beef) 'norms' on their non Islamic customers in the UK.

Having been regular complainer (back-in-the-day) I ought to note that in my neck of Underhill deliveries have been 'back to normal' now quite consistently for several months. When our regular postie is off (leave or whatever) coverage is patchy, but otherwise deliveries are fine (I did have a card and PIN intercepted earlier in the chain, probably in the delivery office based on where the first thefts occurred - but this has been an endemic problem for years). Most things posted arrive very quickly - the few 'lost deliveries' I have had (parcels) cannot be attributed to problems at the delivery end specifically - they may well have been further up-stream. I suspect they are still operating on a knife's edge regarding staffing and coverage, but they are no longer consistently appalling by any means, and when our postie is 'on' they are positively good and reliable (as they always used to be 'back-in-the-day' before the delivery office in Silvester Rd caught a cold and then closed).