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Is that where you got the "In deed" from too? 139 out of 167 postings of it here seem to be from you, as far as I can make out, according to the search engine.

The Commons Public Accounts Committee questioned both the CEO and MD of Capita's Public Service division yesterday, at their last meeting before the recess: https://committees.parliament.uk/event/25889/formal-meeting-oral-evidence-session/. In October they'd already expressed concern that Capita might not be able to efficiently take over responsibility for the administration within the timescale. Given the joint statement recently issued by Capita and the Cabinet Office I'm not sure that contacting an MP is going to add much, other than venting what I think most of us can probably appreciate of what those affected are likely to be thinking and feeling; unless perhaps, and I hope it's not needed, to report on deficiencies in the immediate rescue actions.

Quotation and/or reference please.

Nothing I can see to the contrary on the Companies House website. But their licence expires in four days, so you might want to check that some time. https://environment.data.gov.uk/public-register/scrap-metal-dealers/registration/E5019-879385-S/

https://www.which.co.uk/reviews/supermarkets/article/supermarket-price-comparison-aPpYp9j1MFin declares them to be next cheapest after Aldi and Lidl. Is it that the small Express ones charge more than the full-size ones?

According to the papers released in response to the FOI application the allegations of excessive traffic speed and volume were made in March 2025, with the ensuing automated trafic counts being made in the last week of April; so no obvious chance. I suggest you reserve at least some of your feedback to the council until some time into the first six months of implementation, when you'll be more likely to have the benefit of some knowledge of its effects.

Your own comment's just blown way over my head. What is it specifically you have in mind?

They can do what they want. It's an upper limit. I think most hits you get on searching for ET(R)O will tell you that. "9(3) An experimental traffic order shall not continue in force for longer than 18 months." Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1984/27/part/I/crossheading/experimental-traffic-schemes

How many have you made? [ETA:] And how many inquiries other than FOI requests?

I did the super techy thing of submitting your second sentence to a Google search, and got this "AI Overview", followed by a string of some offerings from more specialised forums. "To fix sound loss when switching to Netflix on a Virgin box, change the audio output settings from "Dolby Digital" to PCM (stereo or 5.1) in the Virgin menu (Settings > Audio & Video) to ensure compatibility. Also, perform a full box restart and check HDMI connections." Submitting another selection might lead to some different hits. The 'AI Overview' added "set the TV's digital output to Bypass." to one. I'd follow up marctt's suggestion about possible menu settings. And then, if need be, try the comprehensible bits of the AI Overviews, step by step, and also see if anything else suggested in the other search hits looks possibly relevant to your situation and at the right technical level for you. Be wary of false positives of course -- people confident that they have the right solution because it worked for them. I'm grappling myself with a difficulty one particular computer has with usually getting its HDMI audio output audible via one particular tv: next stage is to try a trial implantation into it of an EDID file telling it what signal formats the particular tv might reasonably be happy with.

I see all three orders are made as part of the School Streets Programme, but it's only the two in para.2 that are deemed to be school streets which specified permit holders may still use when others are barred. The one you've quoted, from para.3, the bus gate operating on entering Friern Road from LL to, seems to have much vaguer provision for authority to be granted to pass it at the times that it's operative. AFAICS the only exemption granted in a similar bus gate, like the one in Townley Road (latest order seems to be https://www.thegazette.co.uk/notice/3989894 wef 17/2/22) appears to be: "Exemption to the restrictions described in (a)-(e) preceding would be provided for emergency services vehicles, refuse collection vehicles, and (on a discretionary basis) disabled persons vehicles (registered to Southwark resident ‘blue badge’ holders), rapid response healthcare workers vehicles and SEND vehicles."

Who made the request and when?

Burin

Meanwhile, I'm withdrawing my previous high appreciation. Firstly there were my attempts three days ago to provide the detailed information they needed, to enable the technical team to check a specific post in their log and see the server responses. I found myself as if going round in circles. The bot eventually told me that it was Support I should be sending it to, rather than 'here in chat'. I'd been following the links to the numbered Ticket throughout and had not even been aware I was in a different part of the building. It was beginning to feel as if I was being gaslighted so I just gave up, and went off to educate myself on the latest requirements the biggies such as Gmail require in ther DNS security information. I've long had an SPF record, and it's now clear that I should be ready to install at least a DMARC, and preferably a DKIM one too, in my domain's DNS record. I'd not noticed any recent problem before the migration, so had assumed (but haven't yet checked) that Plusnet have been inserting their own secure identity confirmation items, for known subscribers like me who use their mail relay to send email as from their personal domain. Anyway, I've just had another try at giving the bot the required information, and that seems to have succeeded, so I'll see wait to see what the Greenby techs say about it all. On top of that, yesterday evening I was searching for a really important email which I had to reply to, which I'd purposely put in a separate Plusnet webmail folder. I found that all my added folders there were empty, just as in Vladi's reports, which I'm immensely glad of. Knowledge of his experience and a fairly quick and successful resort to his strategy worked for me too and helped ratchet down my alarm, which was present even despite the knowledge that somewhere I should be able to find another copy of the file. It could have been otherwise. A system fault like that, unreported and left uncorrected, could potentially contribute to doing people real harm. I remember two years ago, a single instant of deep fear, on hearing something on the radio about the dire legal effect that could result from an inaction similar to one of my own, that was immediately followed by a slight oddity in my hearing in one ear. I connected the two and measured my BP for a period shortly after. That more or less confirmed that there'd been a marked jag in my BP, occasioned by the moment of fear, that gradually declined. Two or three days later I woke up with a severe hearing loss in that ear. That led to a referral to an ENT consultant, but by the time that arrived the loss had thankfully been more or less reversed.

Mine still seem well populated. I assume the display filter is still acting as you'd expect with the other folders. I trust and hope it'll be a recoverable glitch, even if they did manage to delete or mislay the online copies. I had prepared a para. beginning "That's essentially reassuring, Vladii. Thanks." before managing to somehow remove the rest of it irrecoverably from the EDF message edit pane. Back on the Greenby side, I've narrowed down my own problem. Most of my email posts are 'From:' my own domain but posted via the PN relay. Maybe a couple of years ago an alarming failure of these to reach gmail addreses, without any non-delivery message, emerged. It seemed to be due to the absence of an SPF entry on its DNS record. Once that had been added all was ok again. The SPF entry is still there, but the symptoms have reapppeared. I've narrowed it down to email From that domain posted via both Greenby and Plusnet webmail. The same messages sent from the same domain via a mail client, via SMTP to the PN relay, seem all to get through ok. So does one sent by webmail using my official PN mailbox domain [me]@[myPNUsername].plus.com. I submitted a carefully written problem-ticket request last night, and find it got an immediate very detailed response from their bot, saying "Thank you for the detailed explanation - this is really helpful information...This is an interesting deliverability issue..." It then went on to enumerate and explain several possible factors which could have been involved, and asked me to submit a fresh ticket with details of a missing email's sender, time, and intended recipient, so that they could check their logs and diagnose further. I was actually impressed, for the first time, by the response's quality. I guess bots must benefit from high quality input from users. 😉