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Thread: Why have Tom-Tom recalled 1.5 Million Devices
Post: Why have Tom-Tom recalled 1.5 Million Devices
| Because neither England nor Scotland could be found in Europe.
Think about it! |
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25-11-2007, 12:53 AM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Rail Station
Post: RE: Apologies for the inconvenience
| I telephoned their helpline twice to report the locked gate - and the inadequate signage - I got to the top of the stairs yesterday morning in the dark before realising the thing was locked.
Intere... |
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30-11-2007, 10:17 AM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Rail Station
Post: RE: Apologies for the inconvenience
| I agree with the levels of discontent expressed here.
The absence of any coherent response from Southern is of concern, especially in light of the e-mail response to "Forester" in which a conflicti... |
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jgdoherty |
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30-11-2007, 10:34 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Rail Station
Post: RE: Apologies for the inconvenience
| A very succinct point.
And it still escapes comprehension why in these circumstance Southern put up a notice the alluded to maintenance work. |
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jgdoherty |
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02-12-2007, 12:07 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Rail Station
Post: RE: Apologies for the inconvenience
| Heyyyyyyyy
I don't feel left out anymore - got my obligatory four paragraph short note from Southern in letter form today.
They chose to replay the "passenger count....forthcoming gating strateg... |
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jgdoherty |
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03-12-2007, 11:36 PM |
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Thread: Bell Green gasholders Savacentre development
Post: RE: Bell Green gasholders Savacentre development
| So HSE might advise that the adjacent gasholders are a risk.
Planning authorities must deliberate on the suitability of applications near major hazard sites, including gasholders and particularly i... |
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06-12-2007, 12:12 AM |
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Thread: Bell Green gasholders Savacentre development
Post: RE: Bell Green gasholders Savacentre development
| I don't believe these particular gasholders have been listed. None of the plans throughout this planning consent phase has ever proposed their removal.
I think that British Gas/Transco or whoever t... |
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06-12-2007, 03:55 PM |
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Thread: SE23.com's 5th Birthday
Post: RE: SE23.com's 5th Birthday
| Old newbie here !!
I'm on the walking wounded list -so I'll be the bearded Scots guy on a single crutch (please note the spelling).
It's also super-Sunday for the footie fans, so I might be dire... |
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jgdoherty |
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12-12-2007, 11:14 PM |
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Thread: SE23.com's 5th Birthday
Post: RE: SE23.com's 5th Birthday
| Well that's too close for comfort - and I do mean the bearded Scot part.
My comments were intended to maintain this thread as a child-free zone.
AIO/Foresters is child-friendly, however Connect-... |
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jgdoherty |
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13-12-2007, 12:12 AM |
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Thread: SE23.com's 5th Birthday
Post: RE: SE23.com's 5th Birthday
| It all sounds very grand having an entourage.
It was a real pleasure to meet friends and family of forum members.
We ate later than robwinton and ananas - and we enjoyed our meal too, the roast... |
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jgdoherty |
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17-12-2007, 09:51 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Rail Station
Post: RE: timetable at Forest Hill station
| Oops - Southern get it wrong again.
It is mandatory for the operator to display timetable/posters in appropriate locations. Wonder how long it will take Southern to fulfill their obligation.
Per... |
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jgdoherty |
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31-12-2007, 02:16 PM |
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Thread: Savacentre
Post: RE: Savacentre
| Could it be that JS Sainsbury are only removing all the loose stuff in the building before implementing the instant relocation plan referred to here:
http://www.se23.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=24... |
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jgdoherty |
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23-01-2008, 09:19 PM |
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Thread: Who Do You Love in Lewisham?
Post: RE: Who do you love?
| Hmm -for food only:
All Inn One/Foresters
Honor Oak
Elachi - eat-in and home delivery
Perry Hill Fish Bar - assuming it qualifies. |
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jgdoherty |
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06-02-2008, 09:34 PM |
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Thread: Footpath to Forest hill station
Post: RE: Footpath to Forest hill station
| Good find.
Railway property is strictly regulated and station entrances and exits cannot be closed without Regulatory authorisation.
So it's a great pity that it would seem from the condition of th... |
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jgdoherty |
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01-03-2008, 10:38 PM |
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Thread: Christmas Events in SE23
Post: Christmas Fairs in Forest Hill - 6 Dec 2008
| Linda and I had the pleasure of visiting two Christmas Fairs today in Forest Hill; the charity Sydenham Gardens' in Champions Hall in Champion Road and the Forest Hills Traders Association held at All... |
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jgdoherty |
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07-12-2008, 01:48 AM |
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Thread: Perry Vale old fire station to be redeveloped
Post: RE: Perry Vale old fire station to be redeveloped
| Extract from Colliers CRE auction document:
"The Old Fire Station is a significant grade II listed building situated between Dulwich and Sydenham on the Perry Vale road (B227) linking the South Cir... |
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jgdoherty |
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14-12-2008, 12:06 AM |
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Thread: BT Broadband - Forest Hill Exchange Upgrade
Post: BT Broadband - Forest Hill Exchange Upgrade
| In August 210 BT announced that a major upgrade would be undertaken at their Forest Hill exchange and that this would provide an up to 20mbps for all users connected to that exchange.
Since that ti... |
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jgdoherty |
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04-10-2010, 09:25 AM |
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Thread: BT Broadband - Forest Hill Exchange Upgrade
Post: BT Broadband - Forest Hill Exchange Upgrade
| Infinity due December 2010 - but may have tech difficulties at FH - so not holding my breath.
Cable did not pass all our front doors - so we are without any significant alternatives re-performance ... |
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04-10-2010, 11:22 AM |
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Thread: BT Broadband - Forest Hill Exchange Upgrade
Post: BT Broadband - Forest Hill Exchange Upgrade
| Thank you NewForester.
Had taken numbers from the HomeHub and BT's IP Profile and calculated that my line would get 12.5 to 14Mbps into which BT's estimate of 13 meg fitted bang in the mid-range.
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04-10-2010, 05:49 PM |
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Thread: BT Broadband - Forest Hill Exchange Upgrade
Post: BT Broadband - Forest Hill Exchange Upgrade
| Gabriella, I believe the August upgrade at the exchange is complete and whilst the upgrade to the Infinity product is scheduled for December 2010, neither the duration of the works nor a completion da... |
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07-10-2010, 08:30 AM |
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Thread: Oyster Cards - Curious
Post: Oyster Cards - Curious
| They can see a full history of the cards use - if you press your card on an Underground ticket vending machine you will see a similar report of all your trips. On some Overground ticket machines (not ... |
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20-10-2010, 09:38 AM |
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Thread: Forest Hill to Beckenham Junction - so near yet so far...
Post: RE: Forest Hill to Beckenham Junction - so near ye...
| The 352 service runs at 20 minute intervals to North Bromley from Savacentre. It is an 8 to 12 minute run to the bus stop at Bouverie Lodge at the end of Blakeney Road. This is just four minutes walk ... |
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jgdoherty |
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09-11-2010, 06:57 PM |
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Thread: Perry Vale old fire station to be redeveloped
Post: RE: Perry Vale old fire station to be redeveloped
| The response is well thought out and considered.
However with regard to site layout and site size, "pint-pot" comes to mind and given that it is unlikely that the site can be extended or altered in a... |
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jgdoherty |
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17-11-2010, 12:10 PM |
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Thread: Strategic Planning for Lewisham
Post: RE: Strategic Planning for Lewisham
| These are useful Michael.
As regards the former Bell Green Gas Works (Phases II & III), Perry Hill Sydenham, SE26, LB Lewisham remains remarkably silent on one or two very significant issues.
T... |
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jgdoherty |
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26-11-2010, 01:37 PM |
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Thread: BT Broadband - Forest Hill Exchange Upgrade
Post: BT Broadband - Forest Hill Exchange Upgrade
| Interesting update from OpenReach.
The web-site Samknows has also revised its estimated date for FTTC to March 2011 - see link at http://www.samknows.com/broadband/exchange/LSFOR. The estimate in A... |
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jgdoherty |
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07-12-2010, 02:27 PM |
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Thread: Internet Connection in SE23
Post: RE: Internet Connectiopn in SE23
| Good morning
Can you let us know who your provider is please - BT/O2/TALKtALK/Virgin?
There are no reported problems at the Forest Hill Exchange today.
I notice that you refer to your wifi be... |
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jgdoherty |
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14-12-2010, 11:34 AM |
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Thread: BT Broadband - Forest Hill Exchange Upgrade
Post: RE: BT Broadband - Forest Hill Exchange Upgrade
| This last week has seen some ups and downs on performance across the area served by the Forest Hill exchange.. After some gradual increases in performance from December, in the main it all slipped bac... |
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jgdoherty |
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02-02-2011, 09:56 PM |
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Thread: BT Broadband - Forest Hill Exchange Upgrade
Post: RE: BT Broadband - Forest Hill Exchange Upgrade
| Well - perhaps I should check out how the re-heat feature works on my toaster !
Can any one recommend a nice pot of jam - local produce is preferable. |
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02-02-2011, 10:25 PM |
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Thread: BT Broadband - Forest Hill Exchange Upgrade
Post: BT Broadband - Forest Hill Exchange Upgrade
| To BangorBen's question of whether anyone has complained directly to BT (and apologies for what is a summary of another posting/rant of mine).
I spoke initially to BT's Indian call-centre last August... |
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03-03-2011, 05:11 PM |
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Thread: Japanese Knotweed
Post: RE: Japanese Knotweed
| Interesting announcement made about DEFRA approval for this bug release made approximately one month ago.
http://www.cabi.org/japaneseknotweedalliance/?site=139&page=356
It remains to be seen wh... |
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jgdoherty |
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20-04-2011, 12:11 PM |
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Thread: English Usage
Post: RE: English Usage
| Fairly common use in Scotland - and its diaspora. |
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jgdoherty |
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06-05-2011, 09:16 AM |
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Thread: Undemocratic Liberals.
Post: RE: Undemocratic Liberals.
| The House of Commons is a British Institution, not formed exclusively for the benefit of any single member nation of the United Kingdom.
Historically and specifically pre-devolution, no elected par... |
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jgdoherty |
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09-05-2011, 12:28 PM |
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Thread: Undemocratic Liberals.
Post: RE: Undemocratic Liberals.
| There is no argument here, merely a point for debate.
However I put it simply - if the nation of England wishes to devolve these types of matters from the House of Commons - let those arrangements ... |
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09-05-2011, 04:03 PM |
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Thread: Olympic Torch Route in London
Post: Olympic Torch Route in London
| Just had a quick look at the map of the Olympic Torch Route for London - and there are only two stops south of the river.
Have London cabbies had an influence in restricting these recomendations an... |
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jgdoherty |
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18-05-2011, 04:25 PM |
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Thread: Olympic Torch Route in London
Post: RE: Olympic Torch Route in London
| Excellent point.
Have re-checked Olympic site and guess what, the information is still very thin.
However the one point that is emphasised is that it is a [i][b]relay [/b][/i]and to be a relay t... |
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20-05-2011, 02:01 PM |
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Thread: BT Broadband - Forest Hill Exchange Upgrade
Post: RE: BT Broadband - Forest Hill Exchange Upgrade
| Ho-hum.
BT broadband performance, for those of us who live south of the Forest Hill exchange at least, has improved by an average of 15% over recent weeks. It was interesting for a week or so where... |
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jgdoherty |
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22-05-2011, 12:46 PM |
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Thread: BT Broadband - Forest Hill Exchange Upgrade
Post: RE: BT Broadband - Forest Hill Exchange Upgrade
| Welcome to the area Moreno.
Not sure when Virgin plans their upgrade in this exchange area.
Two points though: - do you know whether your home has Virgin cable - not all properties in this area ... |
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24-05-2011, 11:54 AM |
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Thread: BT Broadband - Forest Hill Exchange Upgrade
Post: RE: BT Broadband - Forest Hill Exchange Upgrade
| Robin Orton
Congratulations - so long as Virgin delivers a service at speeds that meet your needs and is reliable , you should not have anything to worry about and why concern yourself about number... |
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25-05-2011, 01:29 PM |
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Thread: Postal Fraud (aka 419 Scam) Activity in Forest Hill
Post: Postal Fraud (aka 419 Scam) Activity in Forest Hil...
| I am deeply troubled by an early morning visit from an elderly neighbour in a state of some agitation.
My neighbour has received a letter on un-headed notepaper allegedly from a South African barri... |
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27-05-2011, 09:09 AM |
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Thread: BT Broadband - Forest Hill Exchange Upgrade
Post: RE: BT Broadband - Forest Hill Exchange Upgrade
| Ho hum. Ho Hum !
I have been pointed in the direction of BT's announcements of its analysis of trial installations for the roll-outs of FTTP.
You may recall in one of my later posts I had specul... |
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jgdoherty |
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30-05-2011, 12:07 PM |
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Thread: Postal Fraud (aka 419 Scam) Activity in Forest Hill
Post: RE: Postal Fraud (aka 419 Scam) Activity in Forest...
| My neighbour has elected to pass the offending letter to CID in Lewisham.
A good decision I feel, particularly if the scammers have focussed their attention locally. |
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30-05-2011, 08:29 PM |
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Thread: BT Broadband - Forest Hill Exchange Upgrade
Post: RE: BT Broadband - Forest Hill Exchange Upgrade
| That is a very fine distinction Moreno and makes for an excellent question.
It is known with some certainty from local sources that the architecture for the cable infrastructure has been altered fr... |
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31-05-2011, 06:09 PM |
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Thread: BT Broadband - Forest Hill Exchange Upgrade
Post: RE: BT Broadband - Forest Hill Exchange Upgrade
| Moreno
I held the same view that as FTTC involved fitting new equipment at the cabinet and used the existing copper to reach the premise, then commissioning FTTP would mean running new fibre line t... |
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03-06-2011, 02:14 PM |
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Thread: High Paid Council Tennants should be evicted
Post: RE: High Paid Council Tennants should be evicted
| Numbers always help - at least a little.
Brian says he reads about "..5,000 nationwide. Not a great deal but could help 5,000 needy families.." It might be assumed he means this number of housholds... |
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05-06-2011, 07:34 PM |
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Thread: Olympic Torch Route in London
Post: RE: Olympic Torch Route in London
| Looks like our cheeky chinese chappies have had their chips.
It has been announced that 250-strong party will keep the Olympic Torch company on the 10-week journey round the UK. The super-fit hand-... |
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06-06-2011, 08:18 AM |
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Thread: High Paid Council Tennants should be evicted
Post: RE: High Paid Council Tennants should be evicted
| I think the application of the term obscene to these 5000 or so households is disproportionate and borders on the extreme.
Council housing always served many purposes including assisting in economi... |
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06-06-2011, 10:08 AM |
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Thread: High Paid Council Tennants should be evicted
Post: RE: High Paid Council Tennants should be evicted
| Ubiquitous Political Fallacies of Policy Wonks vs Democratic Priorities
Policy wonks should conduct their debates away in a policy caves and be reminded that some politicos and journos are only fa... |
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07-06-2011, 04:26 PM |
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Thread: High Paid Council Tennants should be evicted
Post: RE: High Paid Council Tennants should be evicted
| Satchers option does not seem unreasonable - and perhaps not as difficult to police as LA's have already been granted access to earnings information from HMRC.
Hot of the press - and an by way of a... |
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09-06-2011, 07:58 AM |
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Thread: High Paid Council Tennants should be evicted
Post: RE: High Paid Council Tennants should be evicted
| [b]Baboonery[/b]
Thank you.
Although unsure about what message you have and to what benefit scroungers you refer.
[b]jon14[/b]
Not sure, but thank you anyway - but I clearly missed who cal... |
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09-06-2011, 10:36 PM |
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Thread: The Royal Family: response to Roz
Post: RE: The Royal Family: response to Roz
| Robin Orton's view that "I think heads of state do need to have a degree of 'societal superiority' in that they need to command respect and to be in a position to give a moral lead in times of nationa... |
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