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  • 25: the number of pounds it takes to buy an opinion: Waltham Forest are paying residents to discuss how to improve the NHS.

  • 28: the number of fire service jobs under threat. The GMB are less than impressed and threatening action.

  • 85: the percentage of schools now using CCTV: this one in Redbridge has gone a bit further and has it in the classroom.

  • 20: the number of Durga Puja celebrations which are expected around the capital: the most traditional is at Belsize Park.

  • 12,000: the amount in pounds of monthly handouts given to a refugee family to live in a seven bedroom home because Ealing council had nothing of a more appropriate size to offer. Yep, that left us speechless too.

  • 4: the number of people bitten by a mad dog in Mitcham before it was shot dead by police.

    • New graffitum care of artofthestate’s Londonist flickr pool.

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