Grant Shapps is going to be furious and there’s nothing he can do about it. 😁

I think the legal problem is how to fine Lime when it’s the end user who ‘litters’ the bike, and how to know whether the name on the payment method matches the end user. I’m sure if councils could legally seize and fine/destroy, they’d be doing it.

And I don’t know if Lime have updated the security but it used to be quite easy to override the locking mechanism and ride without paying, you just had to live with the really loud clicking noise the bike made. So if it’s been stolen and then dumped, Lime have no comeback against anyone.

Plans get lost, stuff gets bricked up, there were a number of bombs fell in that area during WWII (http://bombsight.org/?#16/51.5187/-0.1039), it can mean expensive surprises when doing building work.

When they were building the Eurostar tunnels down the road from me they found a load of disused wells that nobody had any idea existed, with unfortunate results.

Different political parties.

Red = Labour (new governing party).

Gold = Liberal Democrat.

Blue = Tory (former governing party).

Grey = Independent (but he used to be Labour and was leader of the Labour party for a bit).

Do not offer street homeless people shelter unless you have the skills, training and abilities necessary to support them long term, including dealing with the underlying issues which led to the person becoming street homeless in the first place and the subsequent issues which have kept them there.

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You’re right. I should have said something like “changing it to FPTP like other elections.”

by abolishing STV and putting it back to first past the post, they hoped the outer boroughs’ vote would be enough to swing it in the Tories’ favour. Fortunately, Susan Hall was so bad a candidate even large chunks of outer London went “nah, mate, not having that.”

It is, I’m really pleased.

And they somehow overpaid by £5,000. Just the sort of attention to detail I want in my elected representatives.

Yes - they couldn’t take over the lease with normal council funds, but the market is popular and busy and employs a lot of people, this seems like a really good compromise which will get it trading again.

Would there be an interest in a London Cycling community? I could look at setting one up.

Information about it (construction, technology, capabilities) was designated an official secret for a long time, due to its importance as part of the communications network, but its existence wasn’t a secret.

Apparently it’s the Liberty Line because the “we’ve spent far too much time trying to find something nice to say about Romford” Line wouldn’t fit on the signs.