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Evening all - just had a young black male on bike knock on our front door. All lights were off. By the time my partner got to the door, the man had started the cycle away from the house and shouted back 'wrong house'. Anyone else had a knock close to Colwell this eve?

Whatever you do, don't register at Melbourne Grove practice. Totally unprofessional, in my opinion. Have had numerous unsatisfactory consultations with GPs there. Pretty sure they have lost my medical records as have been enquiring after them for 6 months and no response. Oh and it says 'enquires' over the reception desk. Rant over. Sorry!

Must be a different dog because this one was barking for about 3 hours solid last night and it's starting to drive me mad! I'm certainly not someone to complain over the small things and, as a dog owner myself, I'm all too aware that dogs bark. Happy to drop a note through a door before resorting to calling Noise Control or the police. Re the scooters.. I've had messages from a couple of others saying that it's not just the noise, but the behaviour of the riders that have been causing problems so will definitely be phoning 101 next time.

Thanks

Always been a lovely quiet street since I moved in. But in the last week there has been an innceaantly barking dog most nights somewhere nearby. Has anyone else heard it at night? And does anyone know exactly where it is so that I can report it? Furthermore, a couple of lads on scooters (one on a small motorbike with a white helmet) have been using the street as a bit of a circuit of late. Has anyone also noticed this? Can anything be done about it? I feel like I'm going mad through lack of sleep!

Hi all - I'm getting back into tennis and hoping to find someone for a knockabout at the weekends. I played when I was in my teens and can hold a decent rally... I'm 24, female. Would be nice to play with someone of similar ability, male or female. I know there's a dedicated site for this but I trust the lovely East dul forum users :)

Thanks to all for the advice. It's my first time renting so it's nice to have a sounding board and get a consensus of opinion. I know that we weren't given an safety certificate for the property when we arrived, but coincidently the letting agent sent a reminder email to the landlady, which I was cc'd in on, about having it renewed in August - so I'm confident that it exists. Anyway... we'll see what happens. But thanks again!

Hmm yes I agree. I don't think witholding rent would achieve anything. We definitely want to stay in the house for another 12 months and the contract renews in August, so don't want to jepordise anything regarding the tenancy. However, this isn't the first time the boiler has broken and the landlady has taken, what I consider to be, an unreasonably long time to arrange a repair. It just seems like she does EVERYTHING on a shoestring, and we're suffering because of it. I just got my dad, an ex plumber, to give her a call and 'make her aware' that there's a discrepancy with the certificate and that it would be in everyone's interests for her to look into it. He was very nice and gave her the benefit of the doubt, but just asked that she find out the installers registration no. But I just got an answerphone message from said dodgy installer (or pest controller?!) asking me to call him for a chat.... erm NO!

Hello all.. I don't know if anyone would be kind enough to advise. We live in a rented property in ED and had trouble with our boiler last week. Aside from the fact it took 3 whole days to fix... I had my suspicions about the bloke who came to install the replacement. His van said 'pest control' on it, and when asked for a copy of the installation certificate, he told me he'd fetch it from his mate and drop it round later. Today I received a copy of the certificate from our landlady. Sure enough, the details of the engineer on the certificate do no match up with the man who came to install it. Usefully enough, the unique ID can be checked online, and the name and photo do not match up. Can anybody advise where I stand on this matter? Someone suggested witholding rent on the grounds of a potentially unsafe gas appliance... Is this wise?! Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated.

Me too. Very disconcerting. They've been hovering really close to ours for a good half hour now :(