ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
Although frankly if the punting for places at "good schools" continues as is, the UK could very well come to reflect the US.
Brixton news, rumour and general chat - May 2015
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Although frankly if the punting for places at "good schools" continues as is, the UK could very well come to reflect the US.
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hiraethified
There are the PR people that Champagne and Fromage use for their press. They must have quite a tidy PR budget.
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hiraethified
Interesting Brixton snippet from this book: The Gang and Beyond: Interpreting Violent Street Worlds
By Simon Hallsworth from 2013
By Simon Hallsworth from 2013
gaijingirl
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well another "I love Brixton" day today.. I had a swim and a sauna in the Rec where we were discussing weight loss, amongst other things. Anyway, in a fit of guilt for recent over-indulgences I decided to buy some low-cal meals in M&S - where I very rarely shop, so a bit of a treat. I had to balance the bags on my handlebars as my usual basket was not on my bike today. So I bought one of those bags for life - which promptly burst in the middle of the road outside A&C - all my shopping! Four people rushed to my aid, including the A&C lady who brought lots of bags for me to repack my shopping. FOUR! So so kind. I also managed to get my watched fixed for £3.. Stuart the watch guy has kept my watches going for a very long time now. Between the kindness of strangers, the helpfulness of local shops and the social vibe in the Rec, I came away reminded of how much I love the place.
leanderman
Street Party: July 2
You get a good idea of intake by looking at the free school meal rate, which is recorded every year for Department for Education stats.
You get quite a range around here
Evelyn Grace (Ark): 61%
Charter (Just the other side of the tracks): 15%
Primaries
Jubilee: 42%
St Johns: 36%
Sudbourne 26%
Corpus Christi 10%
leanderman
Street Party: July 2
Brixton Hill newsflash...Penh An Chinese takeaway has re-opened
Apparently the new cafe by Negril is very good. Huge garden too.
David Clapson
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Shift change.
Manter
Lunch Mob
Yes: Pro rata means that is the full time equivalent salary (sometimes called nominal salary). So someone who works 50% of the normal full time hours will get 50% of the normal full time pay, so their actual pay will be £8,340; but for reporting/comparator purposes you use the fte.
Lambeth have been a living wage employer for a couple of years (you can find employers and what the requirements are to be able to describe yourself as one here http://www.livingwage.org.uk) which means all directly employed staff are paid the living wage, and sun contracts/outsourcing deals have to either pay the living wage or have an agreed plan to move towards those pay levels in place, approved and documented by the living wage foundation. That plan is legally binding but often I discoverable under foi as it contains commercially sensitive information.
Manter
Lunch Mob
Nope, US school system works the other way round. You get a place in your local school. Doesn't matter when in the year it is, or what you'd prefer; you go to the school whose zone you are in. Edit to add unless there is a zone less school in the area as has happened in Brooklyn and Portland to try and reverse white flight
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That lightning strike was just a few meters away from me and it went off like bomb.
xsunnysuex
Life is a horizontal fall.
Nearly shit myself lol
xsunnysuex
Life is a horizontal fall.
brixtonblade
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Wow - that's some storm
Baby not very impressed
Baby not very impressed
arggh! ... just a flesh wound ...
Rushy
basically a scrotum
It was one of those truly massive bangs rather than a rumble.Sounds impressive judging by the various reports! Any landmark hit by it?
ETA: the lighting, not the portaloo
Anyone remember the one which happened about 5 mins after the brixton bomb in 99? I remember early reports saying there had been two explosions. I was stood on the high street opposite Iceland and recall loads of people throwing themselves on the pavement.
brixtonblade
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Nice... lovely sky
Gramsci
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GLL/ Better who manage the Brixton Rec are not living wage employers.
Even though they have been managing the Rec for some time. From what I know they are endeavouring to move to LLW. The problem is that they keep pushing this to some time in the future.
They are also getting rid of staff like the security for the sauna insisting users police themselves. I'm not going to argue with a 16 stone body builder who wants to get in for nothing and is banging on the door because he hasn't got the pin code because he never paid.
Gramsci
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This has been raised with Better/ GLL. They say that incidents have gone down and that they will train existing staff in conflict management.
Seems to me more of cost cutting measure.
On the other hand I am not keen on seeing security everywhere. There is even one in the small Coop shop in LJ. I think there is to much of it. I find it intrusive.
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