CCTV & The Law:

If you’re a CCTV user that has installed a system in your business premises then the Data Protection Act 1998, CCTV Code Of Practice will apply to you and this must be upheld and followed. However, the Code of Practice does state:

“Security equipment installed in home by individuals for home security purposes.”

– Part 4 of the Data Protection Act 1998 covers Domestic Use:

Domestic purposes: (36) “Personal data processed by an individual only for the purposes of that individual’s personal, family or household affairs (including recreational purposes) are exempt from the data protection principles and the provisions of Parts II and III”.

So you or your neighbour using domestic CCTV may not be directly affected by the CCTV Code Of Practice, but read on for more information in Part II.

Human Rights?

It is possible that CCTV usage could well be viewed as a possible infringement/invasion of your Human Rights under the Human Rights Act 1998.

So what do you do if your Neighbour is pointing their CCTV at you?

The Human Rights Act of 1998 could assist you and we would advise you to fully investigate this with a solicitor who has expert specialist knowledge in this area.

e.g: “Article 8: The Right to Respect for Private and Family Life, Home and Correspondence” could well infringe on your privacy by your neighbour

We have an overview of the Human Rights Act currently available.

The HRA is superior to all other legislation and should always take first preference. We advise you to seek specialised knowledge from a Solicitor who is an expert within Human Rights Issues and Legislation, it is an extremely complex area of legislation.

via CCTV, You and The Law: Help Sheet – Part I.

KATE NICHOLLS IN BRIGHTON

Katie Nicholls has recently moved into a new eco building in Brighton. She has been assigned one of 28 mini-allotments on the roof. These measure 1m x 1.5m and are built as raised beds.

Katie describes herself as a novice gardener who has, up to this point, been experimenting with growing chillies and tomatoes on her balcony. Now, she and her fellow allotment-holders are keen to get to grips with the basics of food-growing.

Katie’s garden will first be featured on Gardeners’ Question time on Friday 23rd July.

via BBC – Radio 4 – Gardeners’ Question Time – Listeners’ Gardens.

Now there’s an idea for Sussex Heights roof!

YouTube – Derek at the men’s health clinic – The Catherine Tate Show – BBC comedy.

Diogenes syndrome, also known as senile squalor syndrome, is a disorder characterized by extreme self-neglect, domestic squalor, social withdrawal, apathy, compulsive hoarding of rubbish, and lack of shame.

The condition was first recognized in 1966 and designated diogenes syndrome by Clark et al. The name derives from Diogenes of Sinope, an ancient Greek philosopher, a Cynic and an ultimate minimalist, who allegedly lived in a barrel. Not only did he not hoard, but he actually sought human company by venturing daily to the Agora. Therefore, this eponym is considered to be a misnomer, Other possible terms are senile breakdown, Plyushkin’s Syndrome (after a character from Gogol’s novel Dead Souls), social breakdown and senile squalor syndrome. Frontal lobe impairment may play a part in the causation (Orrell et al., 1989).

via Diogenes syndrome – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Sussex Heights, St Margaret’s Place, Brighton, City of Brighton and Hove, England. Brighton’s tallest building, this residential tower block was built by R. Seifert & Partners in 1966–68. This picture was taken from the north, looking down on the building from the higher ground of the St Nicholas’ Garden of Rest, Dyke Road.

via File:Sussex Heights, Brighton (from St Nicholas’ Garden of Rest).JPG – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia450px-Sussex_Heights,_Brighton_(from_St_Nicholas’_Garden_of_Rest).JPG

I understand that people on drugs can do terrible harm — wreck lives and hurt people. But that’s true for alcohol, too. But alcohol prohibition didn’t work. It created Al Capone and organized crime. Now drug prohibition funds nasty Mexican gangs and the Taliban. Is it worth it? I don’t think so.

Everything can be abused, but that doesn’t mean government can stop it, or should try to stop it. Government goes astray when it tries to protect us from ourselves.

Many people fear that if drugs were legal, there would be much more use and abuse. That’s possible, but there is little evidence to support that assumption. In the Netherlands, marijuana has been legal for years. Yet the Dutch are actually less likely to smoke than Americans. Thirty-eight percent of American adolescents have smoked pot, while only 20 percent of Dutch teens have. One Dutch official told me that “we’ve succeeded in making pot boring.”

It would also save our local police time if they didn’t feel the need to write letters like this one: https://sussexheights.org/wp/cannabis-users-suspected-within/

via John Stossel: War on drugs worse than drugs – Tuesday, Jun. 22, 2010.

sussex heights, originally uploaded by garageowns.

thumb looks interesting…opened up…JAYSUS…it er…it…well it hits you in the face, makes you stop for a second or two, blink, blink again…, sort of half-gulp, and then look again, and it’s her to avert my eyes……brilliant……

almost like It’s Alive.

Sussex heights #4, originally uploaded by baxcarias.

St Margaret’s Place, miniaturised by Sussex Heights, the tallest building in Sussex. At the end of this regency street once stood St Margaret’s chapel, one of the best classical churches in Brighton, until 1959 when the chapel and huge surrounding area was demolished to make way for the Metropole Exhibition Halls, Sussex Heights, and a 250-space car-park…

Old photos of it can be seen http://regencysociety-jamesgray.com/volume29/source/jg_29_066.htm#mce_temp_url#: