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Random pic 1 December 2025

I'm not sure what this chap was doing in Covent Garden - separating tourists from their money? https://flic.kr/p/2qpUa3a

Michael Ixer ● 10d1 Comments ● 10d

Pavements - URR

I think the state of some of the pavement on URR is pretty bad. I reported one bit of pavement to the Council about 2 months ago. I was walking along and a paving slab I stood on was loose, in fact it wasn’t stuck down at all to the ground below and rocked from side to side. 2 other paving stones next to it were sticking up out the ground. This wasn’t a residential street, it was on URR, outside a shop. It made me wonder who was responsible for the pavement at that point, The Council, TFL or the shop owners? Also, I also tripped on a manhole cover, fell over, and face planted on the pavement a month ago on URR pavement in another location. Just wondered if I’m the only one troubled by the poor state of the pavements on URR.

Martine Guy ● 14d16 Comments ● 10d

The Centre for Migration Control - good old Google AI

People seemed recently to be having trouble finding the Centre for Migration Control on the web, Google AI shows it:-"The Centre for Migration Control (CMC) is a UK-based, right-leaning advocacy group and blog that describes its purpose as "controlling and reducing migration to Britain". It is known for publishing data analyses and reports critical of current immigration levels and their perceived impact on the UK. Key details about the organization:Structure: It operates under the company name Athelney Campaigns Ltd and appears to be largely run by one person, its founder and research director Robert Bates, who is a Reform UK activist.Political Links: The CMC is associated with figures and groups from the pro-Brexit and Reform UK campaigns, including Nigel Farage and Richard Tice. It has been cited by high-profile Conservative and Reform UK politicians.Methodology and Scrutiny: The group primarily uses Freedom of Information (FOI) requests to gather data. However, its analyses and claims have been disputed and fact-checked by media outlets, the Migration Observatory, and other groups for using selective data, muddled statistics, and making potentially misleading claims. The organisation itself has been criticised for a lack of transparency regarding its funding, employees, and research methodology.Activities: The CMC publishes reports and commentary via its website and a Substack blog called "Migration Central". It frequently highlights alleged negative impacts of migration on crime, public services, and the economy. It is an advocacy organization rather than a governmental body, a neutral research institution like the Office for National Statistics Centre for International Migration, or an academic centre like the Centre for Research on Migration, Refugees and Belonging at the University of East London." And its own website shows up on ordinary Google:-https://centreformigrationcontrol.com/Mr Bates appears on GB News quite often, I think.

David Ainsworth ● 10d1 Comments ● 10d

Tom Stoppard

Tom Stoppard has passed away, Amy who used to live next door, put it on facebook as she is married to his son Ed Stoppard. Amy was Terence Stamps niece.

Barbara Stevens ● 11d2 Comments ● 11d

The Budget

Suggestions from MailOnline.ALEX BRUMMER: 13 things Reeves could do in the Budget to fire growth - but won't because Socialists don't understand economicsBy ALEX BRUMMER, CITY EDITORPublished: 23:20, 24 November 2025 | Updated: 23:20, 24 November 2025https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-15322467/ALEX-BRUMMER-Reeves-Budget-fire-growth-wont-Socialists.htmlAnyone willing to provide Chancellor Reeves with further advice ?

John Hawkes ● 16d46 Comments ● 11d

Reeves On The Brink After Lying About Fiscal Gap In Order To Raise Taxes

Reeves on the brink after 'misleading' public with 'smoke and mirrors' over £20bn Budget black holeThe Chancellor has been accused of using 'smoke and mirrors' to justify tax hikes in her Autumn BudgetRachel Reeves has been accused of giving the public a misleading picture of the nation’s finances while preparing a £30 billion tax increase - to protect herself and the Prime Minister.Tensions escalated between the Chancellor and the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) on Friday night after the watchdog released a detailed account of its conversations with the Treasury ahead of this week’s Budget.The Chancellor had repeatedly talked down the state of the nation's finances in the build-up to her fiscal statement on Wednesday.According to the OBR, recent comments from Reeves and her team overstated the size of the fiscal gap, setting the stage for her planned tax rises and changes to welfare spending.She placed the blame on Brexit, Tory austerity and Donald Trump for a downgrade to the UK's predicted economic productivity, which would therefore make it harder to meet her own spending rules.The positions of both Ms Reeves and Richard Hughes, the OBR chairman, came under scrutiny after the Treasury criticised his decision to reveal the “private space” in which officials discuss forecasts and assess policy impacts.https://www.lbc.co.uk/article/chancellor-rachel-reeves-budget-latest-5HjdNd2_2/

Sue Hammond ● 12d8 Comments ● 11d

Random pic 30 November 2025

St Magnus (Magnus the Martyr) Church, Egilsay from Rousay, Orkney https://flic.kr/p/2rvRwPy

Michael Ixer ● 11d0 Comments ● 11d

Paul Costelloe

Paul Costelloe a well known Irish fashion designer has recently died, aged 80. His London home was in Putney.

Lucille Grant ● 17d4 Comments ● 12d

Random pic 29 November 2025

Stationers Hall, City of London https://flic.kr/p/2ruEcrM

Michael Ixer ● 12d1 Comments ● 12d

Random pic 29 November 2025

Stationers Hall, City of London https://flic.kr/p/2ruEcrM

Michael Ixer ● 12d0 Comments ● 12d

Net migration falls nearly 80% from it's 2023 peak

Something we can finally congratulate the Labour government on? Right?

Michael Brigo ● 14d14 Comments ● 13d

Motor bikes

If you own a motor bike and it's in the road, becareful as a young man working very hard on the house that was burnt in chelverton road, had his bike stolen yesterday afternoon. Another person helped him get away, he was on an electric scooter and was holding onto the handle of the motor bike. They were meant to have then gone down Quill lane. A neighbour video it happening and shouted to the builder to call the police.

Barbara Stevens ● 13d0 Comments ● 13d

Random pic 28 November 2025

The Snowflake (Artificial Intelligence) Polar Bear Mascot at Big Data LDNhttps://flic.kr/p/2rwdskZ

Michael Ixer ● 13d0 Comments ● 13d

M&S Foodhall - Fulham

Just re-opened. It’s in a different location than before. Opposite NatWest.

Martine Guy ● 17d1 Comments ● 14d

Random pic 27 November 2025

Park Lane https://flic.kr/p/2rFfXWt

Michael Ixer ● 14d2 Comments ● 14d

Trump: Ukraine peace plan isn’t my final offer

From The Telegraph rolling news:6.14pm "Donald Trump has suggested he is willing to negotiate the 28-point peace plan presented to Ukraine, saying the proposal is not his final offer.The US president had given Volodymyr Zelensky, his Ukrainian counterpart, until Thursday to accept his deal, which would see Kyiv surrender key territory and cut the size of its army.Asked if the plan, which was rejected by European leaders, was his final offer to end the war with Russia, he said: “No, not my final offer.”“We’d like to get to peace. It should’ve happened a long time ago... We’re trying to get it ended. One way or the other we have to get it ended,” Mr Trump added.Questioned on what will happen should Mr Zelensky reject the proposal, he said: “Then he can continue to fight his little heart out.”A US delegation led by Marco Rubio, the secretary of state, and Steve Witkoff, the White House envoy, are preparing to meet officials from Kyiv, Britain and Europe in Geneva.US sources told Axios that the deal would be a “collaboration” between the US, Ukraine and Russia and that the agreement may change."Mind boggles!

Ivonne Holliday ● 19d45 Comments ● 14d

Random pic 27 November 2025

Park Lane https://flic.kr/p/2rFfXWt

Michael Ixer ● 14d0 Comments ● 14d

Random pic 26 November 2025

Are the neighbours from Ireland? https://flic.kr/p/2rCrLkA

Michael Ixer ● 15d1 Comments ● 14d

Felsham Road

I am not sure if anytbing has been posted on this forum in recent weeks but i am really concerned about all the traffic racing up and down Felsham Road to cut into the roads further up the Lower Richmond Road particularly Weiss Road. I know that this as a result of all the traffic but i have seen children, adults and myself with my dogs nearly being mown down by cars in the mornings. I have spoken to the Headmistress of St Mary's where my children were at school and she is so worried about the children crossing the roads all along Felsham Road. I dont want to put any more pressure on the Lower Richmond Road but surely it should only be used by residents of SW15 and not used as a race track for speed and abusive behaviour. Does anyone know if this is something being discussed with the Council? Please be kind.

Kate Umney ● 37d9 Comments ● 15d

Message to Ed

Ed, I'm sure it was you who complained about Dyers Lane, Sainsbury's well the Saturday before last, we had to turn round because of traffic going to Richmond, so we used Dyers Lane. Thought you might like to know, since I complained to Head Office about Sainsbury's, Werter Rd, I also said about Dyers Lane. Well the nice Manager man from Sainsbury's Werter road is now Managing Dyers Lane. When we got a bit of a trolly full, he actually took it behind the glass counter his side and rang the food up and handed it to use through the screen. I just asked in Werter Road and was told he his now Managing Dyers Lane.

Barbara Stevens ● 16d0 Comments ● 16d

rubbish collection

Am puzzled by arrangements re collections in West Putney. Today I put out a rubbish bin for collection, but half of the rubbish was left behind still inside the bin. I went online to report, but the template doesn't cover rubbish bins - only various types of plastic sacks. Are bins still acceptable? Also, the bin I used was a new one - the old one having disappeared without trace from the street two weeks ago. Who took it away? In the Council trying to tell me something?

Alexander MacLeod ● 16d1 Comments ● 16d

No more 424 buses across Putney Bridge

TfL is consulting on making the 424 a Putney only service that will no longer go down the High Street. Cut back to only every 45 mins and still starting on Putney Heath and travelling via the Telegraph it will turn right on Putney Hill, loop round Carlton Drive and then go back up to Putney Heath. https://haveyoursay.tfl.gov.uk/bus-424-putney-fulham

Adrian Pearce ● 24d8 Comments ● 16d

Random pic 25 November 2025

Broadband in Brighton https://flic.kr/p/XLdgrN

Michael Ixer ● 16d0 Comments ● 16d

Button Edgers

There is an article on Mail Online today regarding “Button Edgers”. These are people who refuse to press traffic light buttons. Some people don’t press the button because they are afraid of catching germs or some don’t know they have to. It’s a drivel article. However, do you think pressing the button at the crossings on PHS makes any difference? I have always thought that if the button isn’t pressed at the PHS crossing nearest to Sainsbury’s, then the lights give priority to the vehicles turning into the high street from Chelverton Rd, rather than pedestrians waiting to cross the high street?

Martine Guy ● 17d3 Comments ● 17d

BBC Bosses Before Government Committee Today

BBC bosses will be quizzed by MPs today over the corporation's misleading Panorama edit.Chairman Samir Shah, board member Sir Robbie Gibb and former editorial adviser Michael Prescott are expected to face a series of questions on editorial standards.The Culture, Media and Sport Committee wrote to the BBC with concerns following the selective editing of a speech made by President Donald Trump before the attack on the US Capitol in 2021.The committee will now quiz bosses in a session beginning at 3.30pm.It follows BBC board member Shumeet Banerji's announcment last week he would be leaving his role.Hopefully another 3 will go today!👉https://mol.im/a/15320159

Sue Hammond ● 17d2 Comments ● 17d

Random pic 23 November 2025

A Shelby Cobra, Suffolk https://flic.kr/p/2mtTxZp

Michael Ixer ● 18d2 Comments ● 17d

24 Nov, Putney Society public meeting, Who Looks after our Trees??

The Putney Society is hosting a meeting about our precious trees.7.30pm at the Community Church, Werter Rd (opposite Sainsburys'), SW15 2LLWandsworth's Arboricultural manager, Liam Hutton, and his team will explain how street and park trees are selected and maintained. Should be very interesting learning how many trees we have in Wandsworth, what the best ones to plant are given our increasingly warmer summers, how we can protect them etc. See you there!Refreshments available Disabled access

Putney Society ● 22d1 Comments ● 17d

Jimmy Cliff

Sad to see Jimmy Cliff has died, age 81. Saw him do a great set on the Glastonbury Holt stage in 2011.

Michael Ixer ● 17d0 Comments ● 17d

Random pic 24 November 2025

Sunset from Fulham Pier https://flic.kr/p/2rEfgcG

Michael Ixer ● 17d3 Comments ● 17d

Gridlock Continued

I wondered if anyone had opinions regarding last Thursdays Transport Overview and Scrutiny Meeting with Wandsworth Council. Putney News describes the meeting as a masterpiece of evasion by the Council who don't want to acknowledge the mess or put it right. Certainly, the traffic is as bad as ever as my experience coming back From Barnes yesterday morning taught me. There was a queue which began at Barnes Common Cemetery gatehouse and a worrying scenario by Roskell Road when an ambulance needed to get past the traffic at speed. Regarding the Meeting, only one local councillor was reported as having got the message although they may all regret the fog which continues to roll over the subject when the Council elections come up next year.

Miles Thompson ● 18d10 Comments ● 17d

Xmas Lights

If you want to see Xmas lights with the WOW factor, can I suggest the Xmas lights in Bond Street, in the section by Burlington Gardens. We were walking through from Oxford Street to Green Park and the Bond Street Xmas lights are wonderful.

Martine Guy ● 17d0 Comments ● 17d

Trump shows his true colours (see the latest report in the Telegraph)

In the Telegraph today appears this:"The United States has threatened to cut off weapons and intelligence to Ukraine unless it signs Donald Trump’s peace deal by next Thursday.Sources said Ukraine was under greater pressure from Washington to bow to the US president’s demands than in previous negotiation efforts.'They want to stop the war and want Ukraine to pay the price,' one of the sources told Reuters."In his desperation to get his hands on the Nobel Peace Prize, this disgusting man is prepared to throw Ukraine under the bus. Has he no shame?https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2025/11/21/ukraine-russia-war-trump-putin-peace-deal-nato-live/#1763728007368 (paywall)

Richard Carter ● 20d42 Comments ● 18d

John Deacon ~ Queen Guitarist

Just read on a FB group that I follow that John Deacon has lived in Putney for decades together with his wife and 6 children. Does anyone know where their house is? He has been very happily married to his wife for 50 years and apparently wrote (You’re My) Best Friend for her, which is a beautiful tribute.❤️ The following is where I read the info about him:https://www.facebook.com/share/16XvyxpRzX/?mibextid=wwXIfr

Sue Hammond ● 19d3 Comments ● 19d

🎶Up, Up And Away🎶

#NeverHereKeir is off again today! This time to South Africa for whatever reason🤷🏻‍♀️who knows? On his recent jaunt to Brazil for Cop30 he took 200+ Labour ‘delegates’ (which included 100 civil servants) with him, presumably for moral support and to make him look important on a world stage that most other global Leaders didn’t bother to attend. Well at least he was the big fish in a very small pond so hopefully his ego was suitably massaged and the weather was good. I wonder now many Labour ‘delegates’ are going with him on this latest junket? This will be NeverHereKeir’s 18th overseas trip since he was catapulted into the top job that he is clearly not competent to do. He has personally racked up 167,00 air miles, so what does Mad Milliband the Labour Net Zero fanatic, have to say about that? Nothing, nada, zilch because he is just as bad, if not worse as the following article from the MoS reports:Labour’s Climate Hypocrisy https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15293885/Labour-government-Brazils-COP30-climate-conference-worlds-biggest-polluters.html

Sue Hammond ● 21d3 Comments ● 19d

Random pic 22 November 2025

Getting the emergency beer supplies from M&S at St Pancras for the journey home https://flic.kr/p/2rtgzRc

Michael Ixer ● 19d2 Comments ● 19d

The Daily Mail To Buy The Daily Telegraph

Owner of the Daily Mail strikes £500 million deal to buy The Daily TelegraphDMGT has signed an exclusivity agreement with RedBird IMI, which had stepped in to buy The Telegraph Media Group, to finalise the terms of the transaction and prepare the necessary regulatory submissions: if approved, the Daily Telegraph would join DMGT's diverse stable which also includes the Daily Mail, The Mail on Sunday, Metro, The i Paper and New Scientist.In a statement, DMGT said: 'For more than 100 years, DMGT has prided itself on being a responsible custodian of media assets, which it holds for the long term. The company plans to invest substantially in TMG with the aim of accelerating its international expansion. It will focus particularly on the USA, where the Daily Mail is already successful, with established editorial and commercial operations.'It added: 'DMGT places great emphasis on the editorial independence of its titles, and The Daily Telegraph would remain editorially independent from other titles in the group. The transaction would comply with the UK's Foreign State Influence regime as there will be no foreign state investment or capital in the funding structure. 'DMGT is confident any regulatory processes can be concluded swiftly and positively, as the case for approving the acquisition is compelling.https://mol.im/a/15315951

Sue Hammond ● 19d1 Comments ● 19d

Marianne Faithfull

Just on the News has passed away.

Barbara Stevens ● 315d14 Comments ● 19d

Child Killer's Wedding.

DOES ANYONE RECOGNISE ANY OF THE NAMES IN THIS NEWSPAPER ARTICLE A new bit of information about Abertillery child killer Harold Jones. From the Fulham Chronicle of 10 September 1948. BRIDE TOOK BOUQUET TO MOTHER'S GRAVE.After her marriage at All Saints Fulham Parish Church, a Fulham bride Miss Muriel Widdows of number 29 Hestercombe Avenue went to to Fulham cemetery, Sheen and placed her bouquet on her mother's grave. The bride is the second daughter of retired police constable John Widdows who was unable to attend the wedding owing to illness.The bridegroom Mr. Harry Stevens, an engineer comes from Newport Monmouthshire. The couple met a year ago.Given away by her uncle G. Widdows, the bride wore a pale-grey costume and white feathered halo hat. She carried pink carnations.Attendant upon the bride were Miss B.Trott, a friend, G.Ketteridge a nine year old cousin of the bride and her nine year old niece Patricia Crowe.Their dresses were pale of blue and they had floral headdresses.Miss Trott's bouquet was of scabious and tea roses.The young bridesmaids held posies of anemones Best man was George Crowe brides brother-in-law.The reception was at 29 Hestercombe Avenue Fulham.

Neil Milkins ● 21d5 Comments ● 20d

Random pic 21 November 2025

Edinburgh at night https://flic.kr/p/USSDqE

Michael Ixer ● 20d0 Comments ● 20d

Oops 🎶They Did It Again🎶

Newsnight accused of selectively editing same Trump Capitol riots speech as PanoramaThe Telegraph said it had found an edition of Newsnight from 2022 which contained a splicing together of the speech in a similar way. It did not appear that the edit alerted viewers to the cut.The Newsnight edit spliced together a section of Trump’s speech on the day of the riots, in January 2021, in which he urged supporters to walk to the Capitol building, with a later segment of the address in which he urged them to “fight like hell”.A former White House chief of staff, Mick Mulvaney, criticised the BBC on air at the time for splicing together the footage.“Your video actually spliced together the presentation,” he said. “That line about ‘and we fight and fight like hell’ is actually later in the speech.”A BBC spokesperson said: “The BBC holds itself to the highest editorial standards. This matter has been brought to our attention and we are now looking into it.”https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/nov/13/newsnight-accused-of-selectively-editing-same-trump-capitol-riots-speech-as-panorama

Sue Hammond ● 27d52 Comments ● 21d

Random pic 20 November 25

The Criterion Restaurant, Piccadilly is now a Masala Zone. Just think, had it been one in 1908, H G Wells could have had a veggie curry at the RCSA inaugural dinner https://flic.kr/p/2qiBWFD

Michael Ixer ● 21d0 Comments ● 21d

I find this very frightening

Russian spy ship pointed lasers at RAF pilots tracking it, says UK https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx24028k7edo Or, for the very sensitive: Russian spy ship fires lasers to blind RAF pilots https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/11/19/russian-spy-blinds-military-pilots-spy-ship-lasers/

Ivonne Holliday ● 22d2 Comments ● 21d

East Putney Community meeting with Councillors and Police 20 Nov

Local Councillors for East Putney, as well as the police, will be meeting with local residents tomorrow, Thursday 20 November at 7pm at St Thomas Church Hall, Santos Road, SW18 1NTThis is not an SNT meeting - that will probably be in early January, I gather. But it's a good opportunity to discuss concerns and issues you have within East Putney