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"albeit in a quite compromising position" That's wonderful understatement Penguin. Thing stolen in middle of night turns up in pocket of known criminal, miles from home who is hiding under a car. That's not compromising, it's guilt. Maybe he was a nocturnal mechanic who fixes other people's cars for free so as to assuage the guilt he feels when handling stolen goods - which are passed to him by all those people walking the streets of Dulwich at 3am on a Wednesday. I do heed your point. The CPS should not waste money on cases which can't be won. But that raises the question, how did we get to a situation where there is such a total breakdown in reason that a brief could even suggest that these two were innocent.

They wrote to us to say the case is without fingerprint, dna or witness evidence. Which misses the salient fact, the guy had my wife's phone and the only way he could have that was having been in our house. There were two of them so there's some kind of question over which of them actually stole the phone. Which to my mind is kind of missing the point.

It's no surprise that some many house are being burgled. The CPS have just informed us that they're not prosecuting a man who was arrested lying under a car in ED, with my wife's phone in his pocket just one hour after we reported our burglary. If that snide git who did our house had peacefully invaded Fortum and Mason's he's be looking at court. However, he entered our home at night, lifted money and a phone and left my daughter (who saw him) upset for days. For that he gets nothing. He must be pissing himself with laughter, at the Police who so keenly arrested him, and at everyone who's ever been burgled and would like criminals who get caught to be prosecuted. The CPS are sending out completely the wrong message with this kind of decision. It flies in the face of our government's public statements on crime. They'd like us to believe they're into protecting us against criminals. They're not. It's just words. And disgraceful, pathetic lying words too. If you own stuff and you live in London expect to have it stolen and don't expect justice.

We were burgled a month ago. The perps made their way in through the back of the house as we'd accidentally left the back door open. The officers who attended said breaking in via the back of a house is now very common and advised to lock your back doors, your sheds, bikes and anything else out back that's worth anything. Because Our daughter saw the guy, police attended quickly and did catch the guys who'd been in our house just an hour later. Despite one of them having my wife's phone on him it seems it's not all that easy to prosecute. Can't say much else as the police have been pretty rubbish keeping us posted on what's happening with the case. The burglars were known to the Police, one was on bail but whether they'll actually be punished is up in the air. Almost makes want to start reading the Mail. Almost.

If you're planning a trip to the Walworth Road dump in a van you'll need two proofs of address to show you're a Southwark resident. I'm posting this as have only ever been there in a car before, so had no idea about this rule. The dump staff nearly turned me away but were willing to be reasonable and I could have been less fortunate. Taking a van load of waste home really would have been rubbish.

Apparently the clique mentioned by Lady Deliah are planning a coup at Goodrich! The new We speak for all of us regime is so damned middle class and self satisfied that they reckon they can run the school in all that spare time they have. Once they've taken over they will banish all lower income single parent families to the back garden of the Harvester. (edited for brevity)

Hello and thank you traveller1.

I mentioned racism, black and white and referred to the BNP as at the heart of this mess is an accusation of racism which I believe to be motivated by something other than a racist slur. Because some think that poster is racist the logic seems to run that it's fine to damn everyone who reads it differently. I read it differently because I have direct contact with the school and the individuals concerned. Without some inside knowledge you're supposing to know what has happened and asserting intellectual prowess over truth. If I had the slightest inkling that the poster was intended to as racist I would be perfectly happy to say so. It was not very well thought through, it was assumed that the authors reading of the image would be the one everyone else took. Clearly that's not the case. God awful mess ensues. (edited for clarification)

Huguenot, please? > I'm starting to get the real picture now. Is that Mail + Forum = Truth? > > A young capable ambitious head (who is not the old > head) has been trying to create a young capable > ambitious school. If you've had a conversation with her you'd know how bonkers that statement is. > > She has faced months of abuse, and eventually was > the recipient of hate posters scattered around > school by people who thought they could get away > with calling it a joke. What abuse? 'Hate posters' with pictures of white Charles Darwin on them and criticism of the performance of someone in a highly public position. That's not abuse, it's valid discussion. The Mail publishing the story is an abuse of the school's right to sort this out themselves but what else would we expect from that crappy rag? > > When that failed they went to the nastiest > dirtiest most racist gutter press with a twisted > story. When 'it' failed? 'It' has not failed because there is no 'it'. And who is the 'they'. This is vague gumpf. Factually speaking some parents aren't happy with the way the school is being run, quite a few actually, almost all the parents I know, to be specific (and I'm not a BNP member). One person taking a story to a paper cannot damn everyone who has a negative opinion about Mrs Patterson. > > When I say 'you dirty bastards' you know who I'm > talking to right? There's no dirt here and the poster isn't racist. It's ridiculous and ambiguous but it's not racist. That this conversation has lots of people accepting the idea that it is racist when it's not kind of implies we live in a postcode of trolls, busy stating, literally, that white is black.

The story is in essence true. The poster exists and whilst no masterpiece is hard to read as an image of a racist lynching of a black woman. The MAN in the middle of the mob is WHITE and has a BEARD. I feel that Mrs Patterson's reactions to the poster have been ill-judged and an over-reaction, the lack of Police action pretty much confirms this (unless they're part of a conspiracy). There was never a need to involve the Police, a Union or the LEA. What Mrs Patterson's motives were for crying 'lynch mob' will remain her own but if she genuinely thinks that's the sub-plot of this poster then Goodrich school has a problem. NowNo, I'm puzzled, what on earth does this mean "?she is the best person in this world. Trust me." Better than everyone else? Hmmmm.

Having been on both sides of this noisy fence I'm all for live and let live, so long as it's not every week. One person's knees up is another's deeply upsetting situation and so it has always been. However, dancing queen at 2.30am would cause me to start chopping heads off. Ultimate noise abatement.

Redwood could have worked with hundreds of slightly iffy businesses but to work with a business which Amnesty actually campaigned against (and Shell is still pictured as a target of campaigning on the Amnesty UK home page) should exclude them from being considered as partners to Amnesty. I believe that Amnesty bestowing a contract on Redwood is a morally wrong. Redwood will be pleased as punch to have them as a client as it seems to infer they actually support the much loved and well supported Amnesty. If they did actually support Amnesty they wouldn't work for Shell would they? So Amnesty either messed up or consciously decided to not mind who else Redwood work with. Working with organisations who are trying protect human rights, defend the environment or in gerneral make the world a better a place should be a priveldge bestowed on companies who actually care, not one's who seem to care when there's money in it.

Hello, I read yesterday that Amnesty International have commissioned the communications agency Redwood to revamp their members magazine. Redwood also list Shell Oil as one of their clients, the very same Shell Oil that Amnesty campaigned against over the imprisonment and execution of Ken Saro-Wiwa in Nigeria during 1995. I'm of the opinion that a human rights campaigners should vet who they work with and refuse to work with companies who have connections to businesses with less than spotless records on human rights. If you'd like to read more on this I've posted about it here.

What kind of world do we live in when: a) people can't bury dead animals themselves - our ancestors would probably would have regarded and animal popping off outside the cave as manner from heaven. We're all "oh, I can't touch it, it's dead and stuff". I think that's a bit feeble. b) Dead foxes are VAT-able?! I know we're in a recession but that is really messed up.

I like the monsters. Not so sure about the beetle bonnet girl tho.

Sorry to challenge you chuck but wasn't what you witnessed a young workman snagging the build of what has been an incredibly long winded construction process? Maybe I'm wrong and the young fella you saw was an authentic, north of the divide, authentic Belenden village, SE15 reprobate but maybe, just maybe the the folks building the stunning wooden adventure playground complex thingy simply ran out of dosh (because if Dave Cameroon et al) a few weeks back and so they had to improvise with local talent. Also, I encourage you to reflect on how likely your shouting from a passing car is to effect any real change in the pre-adult's carry on.

SimonM Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Most of them seem situated in sensible spots, but > I do wonder about the one halfway up the hill by > the cemtery fence on Underhill... It so oddly out of place, next a fence on the side of the road where there are no houses or shops. Who would want to lock their bike up there - maybe the one person a year who decides they've had enough of cycling up that hill?

I've observed it's often the same parents doing the drop off at Goodrich in the wrong place and parking dangerously so I don't think this isn't about one off days on which there's too much to do to walk. It would be perfectly possible for drivers to park half a street away from the school and walk the remaining 100m to reduce the traffic congestion near the school. I fear that effort may not sit well with a life lived in a sedentary position. I'm not against people having an easy life (well maybe I am but that's a different thread) but will it take a child being run over before people stop behaving like this? There is no excuse for endangering others. Not stress, not schedules, not unruly toddlers.

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Owen Coyle. He may have had and opt out but I think it's off walking away from a team in Burnley's situation mid season. Disloyal, lacking integrity even if he used to play for the Trotters.

Found it! The Tankaboo, "For the mum who just cannot let other people live like THAT".

Because the buggy wouldn't fit into my lens you can't see that buggy outside the deli actually has a gun turret. I'll google to see where to get them from.

I went for a walk this morning and you can see by the photos I took outside the baths, on Lordship Lane and in the Village, the author of that Statesman piece may have a point. It's getting like War of the Worlds out there, terrifying and stuff.

Maybe leave the lights on? A passing jet just might mistake Foxtons for a runway and take out the top end of LL. Inadvertent carnage aside, in years to come this might be viewed as a blessing. ... I'll get my coat.

Firezza is one for me. The menu's a bit meat focused - ham in all it's guises and no sea food - but that said the pizzas are brilliant. Fresh dough, great ingredients, fast delivery. They do a reduced rate before 6.30 in the week too!