11:26am, 30th November 2009
The map below details crimes reported in Wandsworth between 19 – 26 November.
If you have any information on any of these crimes you can get in touch with the local police on 020 7350 1122 or via Crimestoppers (anonymously, if you wish) on 0800 555 111.
You can click on the individual markers for more information.
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Category: Community Safety Tags: crime, crime mapping.
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10:55pm, 29th November 2009
Blogged: Tweets for week ending 2009-11-22 http://bit.ly/6SQ8qE #
Hold it. Jedward are out? #
Even worse, Jedward are out and we're using it for a childish poster. Why? What are we trying to say? #
Blogged: Crime briefing, 12 -19 November http://bit.ly/52xQHa #
Blogged: Jedward and the Conservatives http://bit.ly/5gAgRS #
MiniMe seems to be refusing all food except Marmite rice-cakes. [...]
Category: Twitter Tags: Twitter.
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5:55pm, 27th November 2009
Campaigning
I’m not sure why but it seems like campaigning seems to be taking up more and more time, although looking through the diary we’ve been keeping up a fairly stiff pace through the summer months. It is perhaps the onset of darker and considerably colder nights makes an evening on the doorstep seem a [...]
Category: Community Safety, Politics, Regeneration, Shaftesbury, Weekly report Tags: ASB, Awards, campaigning, Community Safety Division, elections, housing, Martin Linton, Sara Apps, SNT, Stratford, Westfield.
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2:41pm, 27th November 2009
The next of Wandsworth’s town centres to start getting the festive spirit is Putney, who are holding their annual festive market today.
The event starts at 3pm, with the Christmas lights turned on at 6pm by Paralympian and TV presenter Ade Adepitan MBE.
The market and events all take place in Church Square, near the northern end [...]
Category: Regeneration Tags: Christmas, market, Putney, town centres.
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12:42pm, 26th November 2009
The Shaftesbury Safer Neighbourhood Team are holding a drop-in clinic tomorrow (Friday 27 November), between 12 noon and 4pm in the old Peabody Offices on Eversleigh Road.
They will be there to discuss any policing, crime or anti-social behaviour issues you may have. If you can’t get along their contact details are available on the Met’s [...]
Category: Community Safety, Shaftesbury Tags: police, Shaftesbury Park Estate, SNT.
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4:38pm, 25th November 2009
2:33pm, 25th November 2009
One of the interesting things about blogging is the little things it throws up.
My post about the Battersea Park Act of Remembrance prompted an email about the state of the statue which, in turn, prompted discussion about the way the council ‘advertises’ the public art.
While we have various various publications about heritage trails around the [...]
Category: Blogging, Wandsworth Tags: art, culture, sculpture.
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11:50am, 24th November 2009
I commented on the £50 million investment for 10 stations, including Clapham Junction, at the end of last week.
Since then I’ve been trying to find more details. But I’ve failed. There just don’t seem to be any details out there. The best I’ve managed to find is on Martin Linton’s website is a suggestion [...]
Category: Politics, Shaftesbury, Wandsworth Tags: Adonis, Clapham Junction, investment.
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2:06pm, 23rd November 2009
For those that like symbolism today is just 164 days until the (or a) likely date of the general election.
While Brown could wait until 3 June next year – and there have been rumours that 25 March might be the date – for a long time the main betting seems to have been on a [...]
Category: Politics Tags: Battersea, Conservatives, electoral system, Labour, Martin Linton, polls.
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12:02pm, 23rd November 2009
The Conservatives are using their digital media sites to display a poster capitalising on the end of Jedward. (Actually, they are probably also astutely aware that they will get far more coverage using just a few poster sites and having a viral campaign as lots of people blog, tweet and email about their poster.)
And [...]
Category: Politics Tags: insults, Jedward, viral campaign, X Factor.
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