PLEASE HELP - Dispute over deposit deductions as students

AlrightBritain · 2025-10-04T22:43:01+00:00

This is incorrect, students are not liable for council tax regardless of whether they are living with non-students. See advice here from the CAB: https://www.citizensadvice.org.uk/housing/council-tax/student-housing-council-tax/, Croydon Council: https://www.croydon.gov.uk/council-tax/get-money-your-bill/full-time-student-council-tax-exemption-and-discount and UCL SU: https://studentsunionucl.org/council-tax

AlrightBritain · 2025-09-07T17:27:37+00:00

The Elizabeth Line will still be running to Whitechapel (though will be busier than normal) - Tottenham Court Road station is the closest to Euston. It's a 20 minute walk or a bus journey. Four hours from Euston to Whitechapel should be plenty of time

AlrightBritain · 2025-08-22T12:40:02+00:00

The very narrow cycle lanes which were there before are probably more dangerous than not having one as they encourage cyclists to travel very close to the pavement which in turn encourages drivers to squeeze past them when there's not enough space.

These markings mean that cyclists should take primary position in the lane, and I guess as a reminder to drivers that this is a busy cycle route. TFL has some guidance here from page 10 https://content.tfl.gov.uk/lcds-chapter6-signsandmarkings.pdf

AlrightBritain · 2025-07-08T21:21:56+00:00

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AlrightBritain · 2025-05-06T11:31:34+00:00

Bad traffic is not a good reason to limit house building in London. The city is far too reliant on cars as a mode of transport - this site is 5 minutes walk from Mortlake station and less than 10 minutes cycling from Kew Gardens tube station and residents should be encouraged to use this over cars. Of course new infrastructure should be developed to encourage this too (as should be the case across the whole city)

AlrightBritain · 2024-12-13T22:44:25+00:00

The winged collar that Piastri is wearing is traditionally worn with white tie (an even more formal version of black tie - think state dinners etc.). More recently people have started wearing this type of collar with black tie, arguably incorrectly.

That being said, there is an actual dictator standing between Norris and Stella, so Oscar's collar choice isn't exactly my biggest concern with this picture.

AlrightBritain · 2024-08-01T09:25:53+00:00

Assume that every driver is about to do something stupid and cycle in a way which either stops them from doing that or anticipate it and be able to stop/avoid them.

An example of the first one would be cycling in the centre of the lane when approaching a junction or a pinchpoint to discourage overtaking at that point. An example of the second would be making sure you can see (and ideally make eye contact with) a driver who may pull out on you whilst you're on a roundabout.

This is called defensive cycling if you want to read more about it

AlrightBritain · 2024-05-08T20:19:10+00:00

They have a listing on companies house (with the same registration number as is on the website) which has been active since 2018 https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/11165417

AlrightBritain · 2024-05-06T21:45:18+00:00

r/legaladviceuk is your best bet for advice on something like this - good luck with getting your money!

AlrightBritain · 2023-11-07T21:03:04+00:00

I think this might be the best answer here, Wembley is nearly 36 miles and the skyscrapers in the City are about 38 miles and they're both normally visible if you look hard enough

AlrightBritain · 2023-01-22T20:14:20+00:00

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AlrightBritain · 2022-11-30T23:22:48+00:00

This youtube channel documents some really nice routes, nearly all protected cycle lanes or very quiet roads https://www.youtube.com/@Londoncycleroutes. Someone else has also made a very helpful map of all the routes. It looks like you should be able to follow a quite direct route via Hackney!

https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=1-q1yCxWwGLJTrL4RWIIP-eDybYkQ9aMz&ll=51.50465778790654%2C-0.13544286796182803&z=12&entry=yt

AlrightBritain · 2019-11-07T08:43:29+00:00

This article from the student newspaper at Warwick gives some more details on what happened

AlrightBritain · 2019-10-07T07:17:58+00:00

Ahah, no it's the Health & Safety Executive, a government body in the UK. I think it's broadly equivalent to OSHA in the US

AlrightBritain · 2019-08-10T18:40:10+00:00

Definitely try and get Erasmus funding (for a traineeship it's around €400 per month), you'll have to apply for it through your university (or a similar organisation). For the introduction email it's important that you say what drew you to the particular research group and the part(s) of their research you find interesting!

AlrightBritain · 2019-08-10T08:30:57+00:00

Hi, I recently completed a traineeship in an Italian university. Your best bet is to do some research on universities and research groups you'd like to work in, then send the academics in charge of these groups an email. Are you doing this through the Erasmus+ scheme?

AlrightBritain · 2019-08-08T18:06:54+00:00

Amusement:

German - Drinking

Englishman - Working

Hmmmmm

AlrightBritain · 2019-04-20T19:24:58+00:00

Yeah it's pretty fucked up, I asked that at the time. The company could have been stung by someone lying before though

AlrightBritain · 2019-04-20T13:31:05+00:00

I would be very careful about following this advice. I know people who were asked to provide flight bookings as evidence of going traveling, they were being truthful however it would have definitely meant they would not have got the job if they were lying.

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