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My daughter has just come down to tell me about this - she heard it on Capital Radio. I feel very upset this tragedy, both for the family of the young man, and for our community (which is generally such a lovely, safe place to live). So sad.:(
my husband has just gone to the drs and has seen that there are men in white suits (crime scene people) outside mark and sons newsagents on grove vale. theres also police scattered all the way up the road up till sainsburys. the park and sainsburys are still shut.

norman Wrote:

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> yes this is a safe place to live.its a shame this

> as hapend in uor lovely east dulwich


As has been said a million times before, it's as safe / unsafe as anywhere else. It's London for God's sake.


Sad news indeed.

As Keef says - ED is a nice place to live but it is in London and as in most places comparative wealth and comfort live cheek by jowel poverty, inequality and the resulting societal fractures.


Lets not paint ED as a war zone, but lets not over-romaniticise it either.

Michael Palaeologus Wrote:

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> As Keef says - ED is a nice place to live but it

> is in London and as in most places comparative

> wealth and comfort live cheek by jowel poverty,

> inequality and the resulting societal fractures.

>

> Lets not paint ED as a war zone, but lets not

> over-romaniticise it either.


I agree with Michael above. You know what I think, the climate is already sombre, very hard times scheduled ahead for most. With all these cuts to ALL Services, times are going to get harder,harsher, and crime WILL soar!

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