Wikio - Wandsworth

Glasshouse (Dinner Diary)

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 14:55:27 GMT

Last night, we had dinner at Glasshouse in Kew which is owned by the same people that own Chez Bruce in Wandsworth and La Trompette in Chiswick. They categorise themselves as largely French influenced but leaning heavily on Spanish and Italian influences too. We arrived at 7.30 and the restaurant was fairly empty but it [...]

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Wandsworth 3 AND Crossings of the River Thames 15: Wandsworth Bridge (el director)

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 00:22:00 GMT

My brief wanderings around Wandsworth are coming to an end, and so here we are by the River Thames at Wandsworth. And to be honest, Wandsworth is a dump. Yes, I ay have tried to sell it as something more than it is, but this is one lousy suburb of London and this was the one bridge I was not looking forward to. Unfortunately, my recent visit to Wandsworth proved my point....

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Wandsworth 2: The pretty bits (el director)

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 09:39:00 GMT

Okay, this may come as a shock to many readers, but Wandsworth does have its pretty side. No, not by the Thames, but by thw Wandle. The Rver Wandle is an industral river. Due to its history of flash floods, there has been very little residential development along its banks. Instead, it is a ribbon of industry and out-of-town shopping that cuts its way through the South of the capital like a...

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Is the mobile phone mightier than the gun in London? (iTWire - Latest Headlines)

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 00:34:47 GMT

... involving more than 200 young people from some of the toughest parts of the London borough of Wandsworth. One of the first projects to be funded by the Mobile Learning Network () it uses hand held technology to ensure collaborative working amongst the teenagers who are spread across six secondary schools as well as the South Thames College.MoLeNET is the UK’s, and quite probably the world’s,...

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Wandsworth 1: Gateway to South London (el director)

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 14:37:00 GMT

For some strange reason, I have spent a long time in Wandsworth over the past week. For the uninitiated, Wandsworth is a beautiful suburb set amongst the riverside of London at the confluence of the elegant Wandle and the mighty Thames. --- For us Londoners, it is a shithole. --- The main reason is that many people in London do not actually stop in Wandsworht, but merely drive through...

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Online postage and post office closures (Mary to Many)

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 13:43:47 GMT

The Post Office has decided to close all eight of the threatened branches in Putney and Wandsworth, despite the fact that the main post office is overloaded, the population is growing and they got thousands of responses from people wanting the post offices to stay open. In fact they were due to close by the end of June. Wandsworth Council is doing its usual good job (not ironic - yes,...

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Bank robber was caught red-handed (BBC News)

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 14:55:07 GMT

James Reilly, 45, of Wandsworth, south London, was jailed for at least four and a half years at Hove Crown Court. He was detained attempting to board a bus in Brighton, soon after robbing a branch of the Royal Bank of Scotland.

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Property in London: First person (The Telegraph)

Sat, 28 Jun 2008 00:01:00 GMT

... my flat may be forbidding, but inside, it is anything but.My road has many names. North Side Wandsworth Common is just one of them. A sweetly astute estate agent, Ninah, from Kinleigh, Folkard and Hayward, first persuaded my partner and me out of our comfort zone to view the flat.We were certain we wouldn't. The red route was a big disincentive. I didn't realise quite how big until I looked...

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WANDSWORTH = FUN? (el director)

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 01:09:00 GMT

Yesterday I spent the bulk of my day in Wandsworth. Not the world's greatest place, but believe it or not, there are some pretty parts to the town centre itself. It may not seem obvious if you are racing through South London's most notorious one-way system, but get beyond the death trap that is road rage, and it can seem like almost a pleasant place to live... Ah, but more to be revealed next...

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Train robber Ronnie Biggs targets release from prison next year (The Guardian)

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 08:36:01 GMT

He escaped from Wandsworth prison in a furniture van after serving just 15 months. Biggs spent more than three decades on the run in Spain, Australia and Brazil before returning to Britain voluntarily in 2001. On his return, Biggs was imprisoned in Belmarsh high security jail, in south-east London, and he was later transferred to a unit in Norwich.

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Wimbledon parking permits sold (BBC News)

Mon, 23 Jun 2008 13:12:54 GMT

Residents living near the Wimbledon tennis venue have been caught copying and selling their parking permits on the internet.

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i hate the world we live in (Blue Soup)

Wed, 18 Jun 2008 19:13:07 GMT

The Mechanic asked me to take photos of the damage and text them to him. “Baby,” he said as I cried to him in the car park at B&Q Wandsworth after the blokes on the helpdesk said that as it was metal I would need to get it welded back on and no adhesive would hold it, “I am sure I can fix it somehow if you let me look at what is wrong with it.”

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My day in court (Tangential Ramblings)

Wed, 18 Jun 2008 19:12:55 GMT

... a defence (which the company filed) before the case is referred to your local court (in my case Wandsworth) for the hearing. My hearing was scheduled for 10.15 yesterday morning. No one from the defence showed, and after walking into the courtroom at 10.35am, I was out by 10.41am. When I say courtroom, I actually mean a guy's office laid out in a T-shaped table arrangement, him sitting at...

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Fighting IT skills shortage by educating prisoners (IT consultant's blog)

Wed, 18 Jun 2008 14:59:00 GMT

Wandsworth prison in London has a new vocational learning academy for the inmates, who will get a chance to acquire some networking skills while in prison. An IT training program was conceived to reduce the IT skills shortage gap and help prisoners learn the skills necessary to perform data cabling and network installation work. The demand for these skills outweighs supply by some 20 percent....

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brrr (T O T K a t)

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 18:58:20 GMT

It's amazing how quickly I get cold after stopping cycling. I got home just now after a little 8.5 mile trip and started dealing with the recycling for tomorrow morning as soon as I got in to the house, while still in my shorts and t-shirt (with a thermal vest underneath). To my surprise, after about 5 minutes I got pretty cold. I'm now wrapped up in a fleece and jeans. Neat little ride to Wandsworth...

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wandsworth council: stealing gypos (Blue Soup)

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 17:43:49 GMT

I don’t know if anyone reading this lives in Wandsworth, but if you do, be warned. If you have a car and pay for an on-street parking permit, it seems that the bastards in the Technical Services Department’s Parking Permits arm are trying to swindle borough residents. Recently, I posted back a renewal form for my [...]

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First tells Bristol terror police: Pay us £125,000 (Bristol Evening Post)

Sat, 14 Jun 2008 07:00:00 GMT

... uses the name Isa after converting to Islam, is due to face trial next year and is being held at Wandsworth Prison.He was arrested in April and three controlled explosions were later carried out at his flat.Many buses operated by First have CCTV cameras on board.Some bus stops also have cameras monitoring them.Charlotte Leslie, the Conservative prospective parliamentary candidate for Bristol...

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Martin Mills: 'Beggar' who does as he chooses (The Telegraph)

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 23:17:56 GMT

... for EMI's new private-equity owner, but more of that later. I journeyed to London's 'Deep South' -Wandsworth - to meet "the big man", as one employee aptly dubs Mills, a giant, avuncular, sandal-wearing Oxford graduate with a gentle voice, soft round features and a white wispy beard. Within Beggars' HQ, crammed into four distinctly 'low-fi' buildings along a quiet residential street, beats...

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UK prisoners offered data cabling training (The Register)

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 09:32:33 GMT

UK lags will be offered training in networking skills in a bid to bridge the skills shortage in IT.The scheme to establish a vocational learning academy at Wandsworth prison, London will be delivered by Cisco and the HM Prisons Service. Cisco reckons one in five jobs in data and network cabling go unfilled, a shortfall representing 61,000 jobs in the UK alone.The course lasts 70 hours and will...

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I can't understand early leavers (The Online Gooner)

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

... going to watch them play was whenever they played Wimbledon away, as I had some extended family in Wandsworth who were lifelong Dons. Then they got relegated in 2000 and there were all these changes with the ticket registration scheme and tickets became scarce. Even after I moved back to London in 2004, such were the difficulties for a non-member to buy a ticket that I found it nearly impossible...

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Wikio - Wandsworth

Glasshouse (Dinner Diary)

Wandsworth 3 AND Crossings of the River Thames 15: Wandsworth Bridge (el director)

Wandsworth 2: The pretty bits (el director)

Is the mobile phone mightier than the gun in London? (iTWire - Latest Headlines)

Wandsworth 1: Gateway to South London (el director)

Online postage and post office closures (Mary to Many)

Bank robber was caught red-handed (BBC News)

Property in London: First person (The Telegraph)

WANDSWORTH = FUN? (el director)

Train robber Ronnie Biggs targets release from prison next year (The Guardian)

Wimbledon parking permits sold (BBC News)

i hate the world we live in (Blue Soup)

My day in court (Tangential Ramblings)

Fighting IT skills shortage by educating prisoners (IT consultant's blog)

*brrr* (T O T K a t)

wandsworth council: stealing gypos (Blue Soup)

First tells Bristol terror police: Pay us £125,000 (Bristol Evening Post)

Martin Mills: 'Beggar' who does as he chooses (The Telegraph)

UK prisoners offered data cabling training (The Register)

I can't understand early leavers (The Online Gooner)

brrr (T O T K a t)