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Here's Mia Farrow and Vanessa Redgrave together at the event, and here are some photos of the GIs and others who were protesting:

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And as a borough, we've officially entered the Dark Purple of Doom zone (860 cases per 100,000, increase of 109% in the seven days). Some wards are even worse than that but OTOH there are still a few blue areas. Not convinced how accurate the numbers in those wards are and suspect they won't remain blue for long. Time to batten down the hatches. :(
 
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Fozzie Bear said:
Bit of hibernation for me I think. Plan is to get out of dodge for an Xmas with the in laws in North Wales so fingers crossed for that.
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Same here , apart from visiting my mum in Bath tomorrow, still planning on going , but Mrs21 isn't going , she doesn't feel safe about going , I get what she's thinking , but my mum is 79 and I don't know how many more Christmases she has , and if there is an official lockdown, I won't be able to see her for weeks/months. It's a fucker.
 
Some sort of incident near the Billet last night , saw 5 fire engines, ambulance, police at about 5pm. Southwold Road was cordoned off down to the garage. Went by at 10.30 & the Police were still there , maybe connected to the garage.
 
marty21 said:
Some sort of incident near the Billet last night , saw 5 fire engines, ambulance, police at about 5pm. Southwold Road was cordoned off down to the garage. Went by at 10.30 & the Police were still there , maybe connected to the garage.
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It was still blocked off yesterday, the guy in the shop said 2 people died I guess it was a fire but there is nothing in the news except this Southwold Road The road closed on Friday afternoon. Around five fire engines attended the scene. - Both ways
 
Passed by on the bus today, the police tapes are still there - didn't notice any signs of a fire but wasn't really looking at the buildings.
 
No I couldn't see any sign of it, just that article but there were def a lot of fire engines on the day. The garage on the bridge did look a bit messed up, but it always did anyway I can't remember if it was any worse than usual
 
Still nothing on the news though , seems strange , possibly the Police are not yet releasing info ?
 
rutabowa said:
No I couldn't see any sign of it, just that article but there were def a lot of fire engines on the day. The garage on the bridge did look a bit messed up, but it always did anyway I can't remember if it was any worse than usual
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It seems to be an old style dodgy backstreet garage . I use the one on Gunton Road which backs on to it . I have heard work being carried out in the garage late at night , which is strange. Lambros who runs the Gunton Road garage never works late.
 
Just spoke to a local source , apparently no one died but someone was seriously injured in the fire . It wasn't at the garage but in a lock up next door to the garage , and the reason the police are involved is not just the fire, apparently a big cannabis farm was found in the lock up. This lock up is unconnected to the garage but initially the staff in the garage were arrested & spent NYE in the cells.

Blimey !
 
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rutabowa said:
Ohh so I guess the fire was because of the grow lights. Thanks for investigating!
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It wasn't a big investigation, I saw someone in my street & had a chat 😅

Apparently the cannabis farm was stealing electricity as the lock up didn't have power . The person injured was living in the lock up. I've been to a few cannabis farms (after the police raid) as part of my job . On one of them , a Vietnamese man was tending the farm & managed to do a runner , 🏃‍♂️ The other was cuckooing, vulnerable drug & drink dependent son of a tenant. I suspect in this one , the injured man was paid to live on the 'farm'.
 
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