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Inittogether
I thought it needed to be returned to the results can be processed locally ?
I’m not surprised at the chaos as it was only announced yesterday but you would think they would have had a plan?!?
RoyReed
Must fly!
The pack my wife was given for me said to post the results, although she was told I should return it there. Maybe they gave her the wrong pack. Who knows? Hopefully all the results get collated anyway.
E2A - When you compare the vaccination programme organised by the NHS (which could hardly have been better organised) with this testing (whether it's Dido' mates at Serco or Lambeth) the difference is quite amazing.
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wurlycurly
diss member
They have run out of the takaway test kits in Brockwell Park. Hope to have some tomorrow but not guaranteed.
DietCokeGirl
Fishing in the rivers of life
Asking in the region of 328,000 people to attend a testing location "as soon as possible" seems a huge operation. It's a shame there isnt provision to deliver kits door to door, even if it was in batches, or to the far out parts of the borough or for high risk demographics.
Edit: as menioned on the covid thread, the accessibility (and capacity) could be improved so much by opening past 4.30pm even just for one or two evenings. Please take note and do a late evening if yer reading this, Lambeth council.
Edit: as menioned on the covid thread, the accessibility (and capacity) could be improved so much by opening past 4.30pm even just for one or two evenings. Please take note and do a late evening if yer reading this, Lambeth council.
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hiraethified
Where are they dispensing them from? Last I looked there was only the toilets left on the testing site.
snowy_again
Slush
At the house
jimbarkanoodle
Well-Known Member
That block beside the timber yard on Acre Lane, currently housing a charity shop, vintage shop and florist/cafe is set to be demolished and turned into flats.
Im amazed it hasn't been already, thats a prime spot for a developer to build some luxury apartments/'affordable' rabbit hutches.
Im amazed it hasn't been already, thats a prime spot for a developer to build some luxury apartments/'affordable' rabbit hutches.
Ol Nick
beer in Brixton
It’s been set to be rebuilt as flats for at least 10 years. There have been discussion about parking and schools but I’m not sure what the problem is.
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hiraethified
Lexadon have been trying to shunt some oversized profiteering shit in there for years
Lambeth refuse planning permission for the ‘excessive’ bulk of proposed Lexadon Acre Lane redevelopment
Local property developer and multi-millionaire Jerry Knight has received a second knockback on his plans to redevelop the former Diamond Hire site in Acre Lane, Brixton.
www.brixtonbuzz.com
urbanspaceman
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‘I’ve missed our customers’: Brixton barber back in trim after 115 days
Delight as Klassique, an African-Caribbean social hub in south London, reopens after lockdown
There's a story about Klassique Barbers reopening in the Guardian today.
David Clapson
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More riot anniversary stories. The Guardian one is a bit of a shocker:
www.theguardian.com
www.mylondon.news
How smouldering tension erupted to set Brixton aflame – archive, 1981
April 11 1981: On this day Brixton erupted in a riot which lasted several days. This is how the Guardian reported the news.
'We watched police banging truncheons outside our door as Brixton burned in '81'
On April 10, 1981, tensions reached boiling point across Brixton
friendofdorothy
Solidarity against neoliberalism!
I've never heard anyone mention this bit of the story before:
I always heard it was Operation Swamp and the ‘sus’ laws that sparked it.
anyone?
I always heard it was Operation Swamp and the ‘sus’ laws that sparked it.
urbanspaceman
Well-Known Member
I knew this - I don't think it's a novel revelation. Clearly the situation was ready to blow up, and if it wasn't this trigger, it would have been something else.
From Wikipedia:
"Public disfavour came to a head on Friday 10 April. At around 5:15 pm a police constable spotted a black youth named Michael Bailey running towards him, apparently away from three other black youths. Bailey was stopped and found to be badly bleeding, but broke away from the constable. Stopped again on Atlantic Road, Bailey was found to have a four-inch stab wound.[17] Bailey ran into a flat and was helped by a family and the police constable there by putting kitchen roll on his wound. A crowd gathered and, as the police then tried to take the wounded boy to a waiting minicab on Railton Road, the crowd tried to intervene thinking the police did not appear to be providing or seeking the medical help Bailey needed quickly enough. As the minicab pulled away at speed a police car arrived and stopped the cab. When an officer from the police car realised Bailey was injured he moved him into the back of the police car to take him to hospital more quickly, and bound his wound more tightly to stop the bleeding. A group of 50 youths began to shout for Bailey's release, thinking the police were arresting him. "Look, they’re killing him," claimed one. The crowd descended on the police car and pulled him out.
Rumours spread that a youth had been left to die by the police, or that the police looked on as the stabbed youth was lying on the street. Over 200 youths, black and white with predominantly Afro-Caribbean heritage reportedly turned on the police. In response the police decided to increase the number of police foot patrols in Railton Road, despite the tensions, and carry on with Operation Swamp 81 throughout the night and into the following day"
urbanspaceman
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"By now relations between the police and the black youth were very tense. Then, at 6.20pm on Friday, 10 April, a group of 100 black youths surrounded a police car in which a black youth, Michael Bailey, who had been wounded in a fight, was being held, and released him. Sixty police reinforcements, with riot shields and dogs, arrived and a 20-minute battle ensued. Two police vehicles had their windows smashed and the police, after making eight arrests, made a ’tactical’ withdrawal (Guardian 11.4.81)"
Found via "The 'riots'". Race & Class, 23(2-3), 223–232, using SciHub
Found via "The 'riots'". Race & Class, 23(2-3), 223–232, using SciHub
David Clapson
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I've read that bit in numerous places over the years. But I'm a bit of a news junkie, with time to waste.
David Clapson
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cuppa tee
Well-Known Member
thanks, that list has grown somewhat since this morning.
you can pick up home pcr tests in loads of places - I picked up mine at new park road.
Find where to get rapid lateral flow tests - NHS
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Inittogether
Lateral flow aren’t PCR and they don’t detect variantsyou can pick up home pcr tests in loads of places - I picked up mine at new park road.
Find where to get rapid lateral flow tests - NHS
maps.test-and-trace.nhs.uk
colacubes
Mr Hot Cookie
That’s lateral flow tests . They want people to do PCR tests so they can be tested in the lab to check the type of genomic variant if positive. Lateral flow tests literally only give you an indication of whether you have the virus. That’s why they ask you to do a PCR test if your lateral flow test is positive.you can pick up home pcr tests in loads of places - I picked up mine at new park road.
Find where to get rapid lateral flow tests - NHS
David Clapson
Well-Known Member
Just tried to book an appointment at the Somerleyton Road site. You can do that by dialling 119 if you don't have a mobile phone. There are no appontments available but there might be if I call back tomorrow morning.
Gramsci
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I was in Brixton in 81.
Operation Swamp was in your face policing. I remember groups of police on every street corner coming into Brixton. As I then lived in Central Brixton I eventually was stopped and searched.
This blanket form of policing aimed at one area of Lambeth where a lot of Black people lived inevitably was perceived as oppressive. Rather than making local community feel safer.
So after a week or so of this tensions had risen. One incident then could easily spark off what became a riot.
CH1
"Red Guard"(NLYL)
Here is a quirky article from the LSE about London riots through the ages.
The bit about Brixton 81 is succinct and I believe accurate:
In January 1981 the dreadful ‘Deptford Fire’ at a party attended by young black people killed thirteen. The cause was almost certainly arson though no one was charged with the crime. Many thought it was a racist act, made worse by what seemed an inadequate investigation by the Metropolitan Police. A ‘Black People’s Day of Action’ in March led to some fighting between marchers and bystanders in central London. That April the Special Patrol Group of the Met undertook – not for the first time – an operation against street crime in Lambeth. It was codenamed Swamp 81. The Brixton Disorders were the most sustained and serious riots of the century in London. They were sparked by a PC attending a young black man who had been stabbed, but whom passers-by assumed had been beaten by the police. Within half an hour a riot had broken out with the police as its target. Over the next day and night, 279 police and 45 members of the public were injured and 145 buildings damaged, 28 by fire. There was extensive looting. One in three of those arrested was white. That summer there were further anti-police riots in Lambeth, Southall, Wood Green, Dalston and in more than twenty other places in the capital.
http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/39388/1/bl...ity_and_injustice_is_always_likely_to_bre.pdf
The bit about Brixton 81 is succinct and I believe accurate:
In January 1981 the dreadful ‘Deptford Fire’ at a party attended by young black people killed thirteen. The cause was almost certainly arson though no one was charged with the crime. Many thought it was a racist act, made worse by what seemed an inadequate investigation by the Metropolitan Police. A ‘Black People’s Day of Action’ in March led to some fighting between marchers and bystanders in central London. That April the Special Patrol Group of the Met undertook – not for the first time – an operation against street crime in Lambeth. It was codenamed Swamp 81. The Brixton Disorders were the most sustained and serious riots of the century in London. They were sparked by a PC attending a young black man who had been stabbed, but whom passers-by assumed had been beaten by the police. Within half an hour a riot had broken out with the police as its target. Over the next day and night, 279 police and 45 members of the public were injured and 145 buildings damaged, 28 by fire. There was extensive looting. One in three of those arrested was white. That summer there were further anti-police riots in Lambeth, Southall, Wood Green, Dalston and in more than twenty other places in the capital.
http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/39388/1/bl...ity_and_injustice_is_always_likely_to_bre.pdf
David Clapson
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Just had the test at the town hall. Queue short, didn't take long.
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