Penguin68

I'm still unclear, are we talking about wood pigeons or the descended rock doves (the Trafalgar Square pigeons). I hear wood pigeons a lot and one pair has nested in my garden this year, but I rarely see rock doves at all, and haven't for many years.

That's simply not true. In New York, famously they introduced a zero tolerance policy and substantially decreased the incidence of crime. I remember a time when the UK police used to make arrests of shoplifters, even attend reports of such crime. Now they don't. 30 years ago the police used to respond to reports of burglaries. Now they just issue a crime number for the insurance. Indeed virtually the only crimes it seems regularly responded to are thought crimes nowadays, which very much are the remit otherwise of totalitarian police states.

I've just had notification, as a customer, that EE are doing work in Honor Oak on Tuesday 16th (next Tuesday). This will also impact anyone with a virtual mobile operator who uses EE as their underlying operator. Just a heads up that service may be problematical then.

Sadly the actions as described (unprovoked frenzied attack by a stranger) suggest psychotic behaviour, possibly drug induced and therefore, if so, possibly not the result of an inherent wickedness. If he is locked away for a long time it may be section not sentance which achieves this.

Council decisions such as the introduction of CPZs should be in the public domain, yet a councillor appears to have made a public statement to the press which has no available confirmation from the Council itself, in the public domain. The OP has every right to complain, publicly, about this. And to ask, publicly, what it's all about. I understand that those who have drunk deep of the council Kool Aid find this is difficult concept, but there you go.

Unless you live in the ward where one councillor is in maternity leave and the other apparently (see relevant thread) never answers.

So your remedy for anyone harming an animal, amongst which I assume you include at least all insects, is, well, to kill an animal. Good and logical call. Hyperbole only gets you so far, you know.

Slim to none - unless you can demonstrate force majeur like hospitalisation.

This was the height of the Covid lockdown period - where nothing was normal

You don't welcome them, you think they shouldn't be welcomed, but evidence suggests that some will welcome them.

What may be defamatory is not asserting, Rockets, that you are One Dulwich, or know who One Dulwich is, but that you are being duplicitous (lying) when you assert the opposite. To publically accuse someone of lying is defamatory. It is not in fact defamatory, although it may be innacurate, to say that someone belongs to, or supports, a legal political party. Or a legal local action group.

The problems my daughters faced when they were 18 was finding a venue to celebrate their birthdays where they weren't already known as customers! But that was 20 years ago!

Some P13 drivers appear very risk averse. I live in Underhill and on that road drivers are forced to back away, often considerable distances, from buses to allow them to pass, even when the bus has an immediate space it could back into. The driver at the time said that buses 'weren't allowed to back'. So reports of cars 'blocking' P13s might mean simply that the car was legally parked but the road too narrow,or the bus driver not prepared to risk advancing. NB some P13 drivers are both skilled and courteous, but not all.

I believe Conway;s has a call-off contract with Southwark (and perhaps many other boroughs) - this nominally avoids the costs of tendering for each job (costs for the Council as well as for Conways) - the idea being that Conways has competitively tendered for an unspecified range of jobs (either to an overall annual sum or perhaps at a ceiling cost per job) which includes 'emergency work' which allows for a quick response and which in theory gives the council some budgetary control, although that depends on them exercising that control and remembering that construction work has always been an area as regards Council (and many other operations) where corruption is rife and back-handers very common. It's an industry, not an employer issue, in the main. I am not suggesting Southwark is corrupt (save where it has been shown to be) I am saying that construction is an area where corruption, in general, is common. Please note I am not saying that call-off contracts are necessarily corrupt (although the frequency of the tendering process to let such contracts may be an issue) - I am saying that they need proper, effective oversight which includes an assessment of how good the job was that was done. How quickly did, e.g pothole repairs, then fail?

Mal, like everyone else on this forum,makes sensible choices for him which are wholly justified to him, the difference is he chooses also to be the arbiter of our choices. And to decide, himself, which are good or bad. And he's not even been elected with a mandate, whatever that is taken to mean (again, for some folks, quite a flexible definition).