South London Weekly - April 19th 2024

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Patients have ‘queued outside a South London GP surgery for over an hour in attempt to see doctor’

Patients have claimed they queued outside a south London GP surgery for over an hour in an attempt to see a doctor. around 40 people are said to have lined up at hilly Fields Medical Centre in Ladywell, south east London from 7am on Wednesday morning (april 10) to secure an appointment.

Patients said it was practically impossible to book to see a doctor at the surgery by phone or online and said receptionists had advised them to try queueing outside before it opened at 8am. But half an hour after the practice opened on Wednesday morning, they were told by a staff member not to bother waiting any longer as the surgery had run out of emergency appointments.

Anna-Maria Cahalane, 50, who arrived in line at 7:30am, was one of the patients to be turned away after waiting for over an hour. She said: “Getting a face to face appointment is like gold dust. If you can get an appointment, it’s a phone appointment, but it’s very lucky to get that.

“Everybody is waiting by their phone at 8am and either it’s engaged or you go automatically into a queue. My average wait is an hour and 10 minutes. They advise you to come and queue [in person].”

She added: “Everybody is so stressed.

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You’ve got elderly people in the queue. You have got parents trying to get help for their babies. Because you’re so close together [in the queue] there’s no personal privacy. Last time there was a lady going through a miscarriage and she’s going through all the trauma and having to share that with everyone.”

Ayca Ozturk, 40, who was also turned away, joked that she’d consider arriving at 6am next time.

She said: “One hour I waited in the queue. It used to be online to get an appointment but there’s never anything there [any more].

“On the phone you can’t talk to them. There’s 30 people in the queue. They say ‘come and queue at 8am’.

“She [the receptionist] was rude and said there’s no appointments, just telephone appointments. When I accepted that, she said there’s no telephone appointments as well.”

Both patients said seeing a doctor had become much harder since the onset of Covid-19 in 2020. Ms Cahalane, whose former GP practice closed down at the beginning of the pandemic, said she would never have to wait more than 10 minutes on the phone to get a face to face appointment at her previous surgery.

She added: “I find it so stressful to get through the system. How bad does it have to get someone to see me? It’s pushing people to A&E.

“There’s always a different answer [to why you can’t get an appointment]. Sometimes it’s that the app is not working. Even the little things: you can’t get a blood test printed off because the printer is broken. It’s massively concerning.”

Speaking anonymously, a staff member at the surgery blamed the long waits patients were experiencing on a lack of staff. They said: “We are short of staff. We don’t have enough. There’s only two working on reception.

“They [patients] can see it everyday they come here. It becomes really delayed on the phones. We are also short of doctors. We do the best we can.”

The Lewisham Care Partnership, which runs Hilly Fields Medical Centre, was contacted for comment but had failed to reply at the time of publication, but a spokesman for the South East London Integrated Care Board, overseeing primary care in the area, told The London Evening Standard: “Hilly Fields Medical Centre apologised for the inconvenience patients experienced today.

“The practice is planning to implement a new call hub in the next 10 days which should improve their response to phone calls, and they will be launching an online triage system soon, which should also make it easier for patients to contact the practice.

“These actions are part of local work to implement the National Primary Care Access Recovery Plan.”

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Photos: Around 40 people lined up at Hilly Fields Medical Centre in Ladywell, South East London from 7am on Wednesday morning (April 10) to secure an appointment.

Hilly Fields Medical Centre patients Ayca Ozturk (left) and Anna-Maria Cahalane (top). Credit: Robert Firth

Elephant & Castle gym owner ‘cut his salary in half’ when he swapped banking for boxing back in 2018

By Isabel Ramirez

the oWner of an elephant and Castle gym, who went from banking to boxing, said he took a ‘50 per cent pay cut’ but is not looking back.

Mani Johal runs Fight City Gym on New Kent Road, which he said has ‘its own community’ despite only being open for 18 months.

Before running gyms, Mani was working as a financial analyst in the city - but ‘always loved’ combat sports.

“I’ve always loved them - I was doing Muay Thai at the time,” he told us.

But the dad-of-two said he struggled to find any gyms that had everything in one place.

“Most of them had great coaches, but the facilities were in a bit of disrepair, leaky roofs, mould, you wouldn’t go in the changing rooms.

“They didn’t have the gym equipment. So you had a separate membership at a gymwhich ends up being expensive.

“And all of them focused on one main discipline which was usually the owner’s background - so I just thought it could be brought into one.”

With his two partners, personal trainer Ross and professional Muay Thai boxer Leon, the first Fight City Gym was built in Moorgate.

Mani said although it thrived - he was still at his job during the day. “It was more of a passion project at first.”

He said even though the money was good, his job wasn’t really fulfilling him at the time.

“I couldn’t see my kids much and we were working long hours.

“So in 2018, I fully quit my city job when we decided to open the second gym in Balham.”

Asked if his salary took a hit when he switched from his job in banking, he said: “I took a 50 per cent pay cut. And since then, that’s never gone up.”

So if it isn’t money driving him to open these gyms - what is it?

“The impact we’re making,” he said. “I believe in this idea.

“One of the kids’ parents emailed us a few months ago to thank all the coaches.

“She said her son was being bullied at school and the classes have made him more confident.”

Not only that, Mani said the boy was pushed at school ‘by a bully’ but because of what he’d learned in jiu-jitsu he didn’t get hurt.

“He landed and broke his fall. That’s one of the first things we teach them - how to fall properly.”

“Feedback like that is why we do this job.

The feedback I get from our members is that we’ve created a community and each gym has its own.

“We have parties for all our members in the summer and at Christmas.”

At the New Kent Road gym, Mani said their clients are young professionals who have moved to the area and live around Elephant Park.

“Some people come here and they don’t know anyone so it’s a good way to come and meet people.”

Southwark is known for grassroots boxing clubs - but many of the volunteerled gyms are struggling in recent times.

We covered the story about the Lynn AC club last year, which had closed after falling into disrepair and then had to be saved by Eddie Hearn’s company, Matchroom.

Mani commented on this: “At these clubs, people are paying five pounds per sessionand I know lots of people wouldn’t be able to afford to come to this gym.

“But to be sustainable we have to charge a bit more - whilst offering more facilities and different sports.”

They currently teach classes in Jiu-Jitsu, Mixed Martial Arts, Muay Thai and Boxing. Members can take part in any of the classes.

He added that it was ‘very important’ they kept it at a price point where enough people could still afford it - so as many could attend as possible. “We have off-peak memberships which are a lot cheaper than regular ones.”

In a bid to get more of the community active, they are holding free ‘Mums of Steel’ classes for parents whose kids attend the gym.

“We have a lot of parents who bring their kids and some of them have requested it,” he said.

“But I know at the moment people are struggling so the classes will be free for three months.”

The Mums of Steel classes will start next week. Register your interest by contacting the gym at fightcitygym.co.uk/contact

The gym is at Fight City, Elephant Park, 62 New Kent Road, SE1 6TJ

Mani Johal.

thirteen candidates vie to be London mayor

By Noah Vickers Local Democracy Reporter

thirteen CanDiDates are standing for election in May 2nd’s London Mayoral contest.

Labour candidate Sadiq Khan is seeking an historic third term as mayor, having served in the role since 2016.

He has championed his free school meals programme and the fact that he has frozen Transport for London (TfL) single pay-asyou-go fares five times during his mayoralty, “saving Londoners hundreds of pounds”.

He said in 2023 that he was standing again “so we can finish the job of reforming the police service, we can finish the job of cleaning the air in our city, we can finish the job of the post-pandemic recovery, we can finish the job to build far more genuinely affordable homes that Londoners desperately need – and much more”.

Under the supplementary vote system used in the 2021 mayoral election, Mr Khan received 40 per cent of first preference votes, rising to 55.2 per cent once second preferences had been counted. This year’s election will be conducted using first past the post however, meaning that Londoners will only be able to vote for one candidate.

Conservative candidate Susan Hall has served as a member of the London Assembly since 2017 and as a councillor in Harrow since 2006.

Ms Hall has pledged to remove the outer London expansion of the Ultra low emission zone (Ulez) “on day one” of her mayoralty, arguing that it has “been absolutely devastating for people who cannot afford to go to work, get to the hospital or visit their family”.

She has said her campaign will be focused on delivering “safer streets and more money in your pocket”. The candidate has promised to invest £200m into the Met Police and to set up specialist units within the police to tackle burglaries, robberies, and thefts.

On housing, Ms Hall has promised to “build a lot more homes in the right places… homes that people want to live in, which do not disrupt existing communities or the Green Belt”.

She believes that most low traffic neighbourhoods “just create congestion and worsen air quality” and has said she would encourage councils to remove them, while removing 20mph limits from main roads controlled by Transport for London (TfL).

The Conservatives’ 2021 candidate, Shaun Bailey, received 35.3 per cent of first preference votes, rising to 44.8 per cent once second preferences had been counted.

Green Party candidate Zoë Garbett is a councillor in Dalston, Hackney. She pledges to deprioritise the policing of cannabis and to make public transport more affordable – including free bus travel for under-22s. A

vocal opponent of the Silvertown Tunnel’s construction, she says it should be repurposed for public transport and is a “blight” on Mr Khan’s climate record. Ms Garbett would also lobby for rent control powers, boost council housing and address “huge failings” in the Met Police. The Greens came third in 2021’s mayoral election, winning 7.8 per cent of first preference votes.

Liberal Democrat candidate Rob Blackie says he will “get the police to focus on serious crimes and

earn the respect of Londoners”. He believes the Met is “wasting time on low level drug offences like laughing gas” and should be freed up “to investigate rapes and serious sexual offences properly”. He has pledged to help undocumented Londoners by providing legal support to secure their British status, as well as cleaning up the capital’s rivers and boosting solar power on rooftops. The Lib Dems came fourth in 2021, securing 4.4 per cent of first preference votes and losing their £10,000 deposit.

climate and biodiversity crises in all decision-making.

Count Binface of the Count Binface Party is again throwing his “lid into the mayoral ring”. In 2021’s contest, he promised to rename London Bridge “after Phoebe Waller” and for no shop to be allowed to sell croissants for more than £1.

Natalie Campbell was originally longlisted to be the Tory candidate, but failed to make the party’s shortlist. Not long afterwards, she announced that he would be running as an independent, setting out her stall as a “centrist, middle of the road candidate”. She has said she would look to progress the Bakerloo line extension into south-east London, and would create more ‘mayoral development corporations’ to ensure the right homes are built “in the right places”.

Social Democratic Party (SDP) candidate Amy Gallagher says she will “push back on woke ideology”. She also pledges to “depoliticise the police” and make transport free for under-25s.

Tarun Ghulati, an investment banker running as an independent, has pledged to “get London moving again”, while strengthening community cohesion and improving policing. He has promised to completely scrap the Ulez and to remove the congestion charge on weekends, as well as pledging to re-open closed police stations in areas with high crime rates.

Independent candidate Andreas Michli is a gym owner from Haringey who has promised to provide free gym memberships for all Londoners, paid for by City Hall. He has also said that he would impose “significantly higher physical standards” for new Met Police recruits, which would be “closer to military standards”. Police officers would also all be trained “in defensive martial arts”. He has proposed abolishing the capital’s net zero targets.

Reform UK candidate Howard Cox is founder of the FairFuelUK campaign. He has pledged to scrap the entire Ulez and “extensively increase policing visibility 24/7 to cut crime and make streets safer for all”. He would also “massively increase affordable housing numbers, particularly for young and low-income families”. Femy Amin is the Animal Welfare Party’s candidate. She’s promised to fight for what she calls a “liveable planet”, including a commitment to prioritise the

Brian Rose is another 2021 candidate who is standing for a second time. He stood under the banner of his London Real party in the previous contest, receiving 1.2 per cent of votes cast. Mr Rose has pledged to ensure “freedom of speech is protected” and wants to “make London a ‘crypto-first’ city” by “positioning it as world leader for blockchain technology”. He has also said he would privatise Transport for London and abolishing the Ulez.

Finally, there’s Britain First candidate Nick Scanlon. He claims London is “fast becoming a Third World cesspit” and has promised to eradicate knife crime and to house homeless veterans.

Photos: clockwise from top leftr: Labour's Sadiq Khan, Rob Blackie of the Liberal Democrats, Conservative Susan Hall, Green Party candidate Zoe Garbett, Count Binface and Reform UK's Howard Cox.

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Why DoES thiS PECkham StatuE havE a SWorDfiSh on itS hEaD?

By Herbie Russell

PeCKhaM is one of south London’s most vibrant and chaotic areas - so standing out takes some doing.

But one reliable way to grab people’s attention is to erect a massive statue of a mystical figure with a swordfish for a head.

Swordfish Masquerade, a sculpture created by local artist Sokari Douglas Camp, was erected outside the Hanover Park residential block in 2000.

Sokari, who has a studio in Walworth, said the piece was inspired by Kalabari ritual celebrations seen in her birthplace of Nigeria.

She explained: “My country of birth is Nigeria and I come from a particular tribe called the Kalabari and their men dress up with wooden carvings on their head and if you look at the top of this sculpture there’s a swordfish.”

Although she grew up in Devon, she often visited Nigeria during holidays where she’d witness and film these spiritual ceremonies.

She added: “Peckham is quite West African so it seems to suit Masquerade.”

But Peckham is only Swordfish Masquerade’s latest stop on what has turned out to be a cross-channel tour.

Sokari was originally commissioned to create the piece by the Mayor of Paris to bring in the millennium.

That year, it was displayed on the Champs-Élysées before moving to Westminster Bridge Road outside Morley College.

Eventually, the developer behind Hanover Park decided to buy the unique sculpture and it’s been outside there ever since.

Sokari’s work has graced some of the UK’s most prestigious establishments, including the British Museum and the V&A.

With permission from Southwark Council, she now hopes to get six bronze figures installed by Burgess Park. Named All the World is Now Richer, and having previously been displayed in the House of Commons, the pieces are set to land on a patch of land on the Camberwell side of Burgess Park.

the six giant bronze statues set for Camberwell

By Herbie Russell

siX Giant bronze figures could soon greet Camberwell residents on their way to Burgess Park.

Next month, Southwark Council will decide whether to allow renowned local artist Sokari Douglas-Camp to erect her striking sculptures on a patch of land on Bowyer Place.

The artwork, called ‘All The World Is Now Richer’, commemorates the abolition of slavery and was once displayed in the House of Commons.

Celebrities and local residents are among those backing the figures, which are between 6ft 2 and 7ft 1.

In online comments, people have described them as a ‘handsome’ and a ‘really exciting’ use of ugly, vacant land.

Former BBC presenter and Labour peer Joan Bakewell said it was a “piece worthy of London”.

Dr Marion Wallace, a renowned historian of Africa, said Burgess Park would be ‘very lucky’ to have the pieces on its doorstep.

Each statue represents a different character including a plantation man, a Caribbean domestic woman and a business man.

The statues would be placed on long bases made from terrazzo and stainless steel each with sentences written across them.

The phrases, inspired by the words of liberated ex-slave William Prescott, include ‘We survived’ and ‘We were bought sold and used’.

The bases would be anti-slip meaning the public could walk and

skate freely over them.

According to documents submitted by the artists, the sculptures are ‘smooth, ‘not easy to climb’ and ‘without sharp edges’.

One comment wrote: ‘What an incredible opportunity to have such a poignant sculpture, by an internationally renowned artist, placed on a piece of unused land in Camberwell.’

Another said: ‘This is a work of art that lifts and honours the local community. It gives meaning to the future and and defines the past.’

Of the 108 responses the proposals received, 82 were positive. Southwark Council aims to make decision on whether to approve the statue on May 19.

An illustration of what it would be like on site

The artwork’s proposed location off Bowyer Place

‘All the world is now richer’ by Sokari Douglas Camp in the Houses of Parliament

© Southwark Planning Documents

Swordfi sh Masquerade outside Hanover Park by Sokari Douglas Camp

By Herbie Russell

iMaGine GoinG years without showering in your own home, or months without stepping outside your front door.

It’s a bleak existence and one faced by vulnerable people all over Southwark and south London.

That’s because hundreds of disabled and elderly people are enduring prolonged waits for home adaptations and occupational therapy assessments.

Data obtained by this paper has revealed the shocking waiting times people face while needing vital equipment - such as hoists, ramps and stair lifts - to be fitted with their homes.

Across Southwark, Lewisham, Greenwich and Lambeth, over 2,000 people are on waiting lists for occupational therapy assessments or housing adaptations, our Freedom of Information (FOI) request revealed.

The data showed that 146 people have been waiting over a year for adaptations although individual cases suggest some are forced to wait far longer.

We also found that Lewisham Council was not even tracking individual waiting times despite government rules stipulating nobody must wait longer than eighteen months.

Council figures and charities say local authorities have been hamstrung by a shortage of occupational therapists and pandemic-related backlogs.

hoW aRe PeoPLe BeiNG aFFeCTeD?

Disabled and vulnerable people face a long drawn-out process before they get the home adaptations they need.

First, they must book an assessment with their local council where an occupational therapist reviews their situation and decides whether to recommend adaptations.

Once the adaptations are recommended by the occupational therapist, eligible tenants can apply for a Disabled Facilities Grant (DFG) worth up to £30,000.

The DFG application process is supposed to take a maximum of 18 months – six months to approve and a year to complete the work.

But Jackie, who also lives in Bermondsey, claims she’s been waiting 22 months since an occupational therapist recommended a bathroom adaptation.

Suffering from arthritis and recovering from a knee replacement, she gets a lift to her sister’s home in Dulwich every time she needs a wash - a forty-minute drive away.

Jackie, who has had a knee replacement, claims an occupational therapist first visited in June 2022 but a mix-up meant the council lost her records.

It meant she had to reapply for an adaptation in June 2023 which she is still waiting for.

Inclusion London, a charity supporting deaf and disabled people, said those waiting on adaptations were often forced to rely on family members.

A spokesperson said: “Many disabled people are forced to be reliant on their family members or partners to assist them in the home meaning if they’re not there they can’t cook, wash themselves or sometimes even leave the house.

“This massively impacts people’s ability to live independent lives.”

Karen Jordan, from Bermondsey, uses a wheelchair. She’s only waited four months for a ramp so far but even this is severely impacting her life.

When she needs to leave the house, she either needs a neighbour’s help to lift her

rEvEaLED: thE ShoCkinG WaitinG timES DiSaBLED PEoPLE faCE for homE aDaPtationS in South LonDon

wheelchair out, or drags it out herself using “pure willpower”.

Karen, 66, says: “All they see is a ramp. They forget there’s a human being sitting here… I cry and I swear. It’s a nightmare.”

Largely unable to get her wheelchair outside, she has to rely on expensive taxi fares, meaning she rarely visits friends and family.

Bermondsey councillor Rachel Bentley said Karen and Jackie are not alone, and that her case work is dominated by people in similar situations.

She said a “severely disabled man” on Bermondsey’s Arnold Estate has been waiting over twelve months for an accessible bathroom.

“Delays in occupational therapy assessments have left too many families in a completely unacceptable place,” she said. “Every week I have messages from people in dreadful conditions stuck in their homes. Sometimes even the most desperate families are told by our council that their needs are ‘non-urgent’.”

The FiGuReS occupational therapy assessments

In Southwark, 155 people are waiting for an occupational therapy assessment with 62 waiting for between three and six months.

Figures show waiting times have been spiralling out of control in recent years.

In 2020, the average waiting time for an assessment was 75 days but this increased 144 per cent to 183 days in 2023, our FOI revealed.

The situation is similar in neighbouring

boroughs. In Lewisham, 51 people have been waiting over three months, and there are 99 in Greenwich.

However, Southwark Council says it’s working hard to reduce waiting times and has made a good start this year.

In February 2024, the average waiting time for an assessment reduced to 71 days, down from 129 days in February 2023.

Southwark Council credited its new occupational therapist recruitment and retention strategy as having a “very positive impact on its staffing levels”.

Council-employed occupational therapists have also been offering residents temporary equipmentincluding ramps and grab rails - while they await permanent installations.

hoMe aDaPTaTioNS

after people get their assessment, they need to apply for their DFG and then wait for a contractor to install their adaptations once it’s approved.

In Southwark, there are 242 people on the waiting list. There are roughly 267 in Lambeth and 342 in Greenwich.

In Southwark, 50 people have been waiting for over one year according to FOI response data.

Southwark Council also claimed nobody had waited longer than the recommended eighteen months, although Jackie disputes this.

In Lambeth, 36 people have been waiting for over a year, a figure rising to 60

in Greenwich.

Worryingly, between one and five people have been waiting over five years in Greenwich. The borough council was not more specific in its FOI data reveal.

In Lewisham, 101 people are on the waiting list but the authority said it doesn’t track individual waiting times.

This is despite the fact the government insists councils deliver adaptations within eighteen months of DFG applications being submitted.

Councils are only obliged to record average waiting times. Experts fear this means vulnerable individuals are falling through the gaps.

Lewisham Council was approached for comment.

WhaT’S CauSiNG WaiTiNG TiMeS?

occupational therapist shortages

A national shortage of occupational therapists has been identified by both Southwark Council and Inclusion London as a key reason for waiting times.

In 2019, ‘occupational therapist’ was added to the UK’s skilled shortage list amid huge pressure on the 4,100-strong workforce.

A survey by the Royal College of Occupational Therapists found 78 per cent of the workforce agreed their team wasn’t large enough to meet the demand. 63 per cent felt they were too busy to provide the level of care they’d like, the survey found.

While the UK population is ageing, recruitment isn’t keeping up. According to

Bursting with Potential, an occupational therapy provider, not enough universities are offering courses and prospective students aren’t often aware about the career path.

Since 2020, the Home Office has offered fast-track visa route for occupational therapists coming from abroad.

Covid-19

According to Southwark Council, Covid-19 created a backlog of cases that it’s still working through.

While demand for occupational therapy assessment declined during lockdown, it said the post-pandemic recovery period had seen a spike in demand.

However, industry experts have been warning about a shortage of occupational therapists, and unsustainable demand, since before the pandemic.

Poorly-designed accessible homes

Some developers aren’t building accessible homes to the correct standard, according to Inclusion London.

The charity’s spokesperson said:

“Another issue that we have heard from local authorities themselves, is that when developers agree to build accessible properties they don’t build it to the accessibility standard agreed upon and then councils themselves bear the cost of adapting it to make it fully wheelchair accessible.

“Disabled people move into properties after facing hefty waiting times which are supposed to be accessible and then aren’t.”

Karen Jordan is among the Southwark residents desperately needing adaptations to her home

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St GEorGE’S Day PartiES in WEStminStEr, BorouGh anD BErmonDSEy

By Isabel Ramirez

here’s hoW to celebrate the national patron saint’s day, including an all-day festival in trafalgar square with Morris Dancing and sea shanties.

saturday, 20 april

st George the Martyr Church, Borough Head to this church for an early St George’s Day party - with a

bouncy castle, popcorn and portrait magnets.

A child’s ticket to this event includes all of the above, as well as face painting, crafts and much more. There will be food and drink available to buy - plus a raffle.

Where: St George the Martyr Church, Borough High St, SE1 1JA

When: 10am - 1pm admission: Adults - free; children - £3 Go to sgtm.churchsuite.com to buy a ticket.

the Blue Market, Bermondsey

Take part in some early festivities to celebrate St George’s influence around the world.

St George isn’t just the patron saint for England. He also holds this position for Aragon, Catalonia, Georgia, Lithuania, Palestine, Portugal, Greece, Germany, Moscow, Istanbul, Genoa and Venice.

To celebrate this, The Blue is having an afternoon of activities this weekend with belly dancing displays, music and arts and crafts.

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Where: The Blue Market, Bermondsey, SE16 3UQ admission: Free

sunday 21 april

st George’s Day Festival, trafalgar square

An all-day festival for St George’s Day is taking place on Sunday - if you’re not afraid of crowds.

Coinciding with the London Marathon, the event invites people to dress up in their best medieval wear and celebrate the feast of England’s patron saint.

If you saw the St Patrick’s Day Festival last month it will be similar, with live entertainment throughout the day.

Singer Harleymoon Kemp will be hosting the main stage, where acts throughout the afternoon include Folk Dance Remixed, The Snottledogs, West End Kids, She’s Got Brass and Britain’s Got Talent’s Twist and Pulse.

There will also be a Morris dancing lesson and the chance to write your own sea shanty. For refreshments, there will be food tents and a beer, Pimm’s and gin tent for the grown-ups. The kids will stay busy with face painting and a carousel.

Don’t forget to grab a quick selfie with London’s famous Pearly Kings and Queens.

Where: Trafalgar Square, WC2N 5DS

When: Sunday 21 April, 12pm - 6pm.

admission: Free

the old Bank, Bermondsey

To anyone walking down the Blue, they’d see the flags outside The Old Bank and think it was St George’s Day all year round.

But they’re hosting an early bash to nod to St George, with music from DJ Noel from 2pm -7pm.

Where: The Old Bank, 239 Southwark Park Rd., SE16 3TT

admission: Free

Tuesday 23 April (St George’s Day)

If you’re traditional and want to mark the day itself, then get yourself down to these local pubs.

the victoria, Bermondsey

For the last 30 years, The Vic has been celebrating St George’s in style - ‘before anywhere else in the area was’ said coowner Mike.

He and his brother Pat, who are both

St George’s Day Festival Trafalgar Square.

Irish and English, have been running the pub for 40 years this year.

Their well-known St George’s Day party - which they said attracts crowds from all over the countrywill start in the afternoon and go on until late.

“There’ll be music all day - all the British classics. It’s always a good gas.” There will also be a huge free buffet from 5 pm.

Where: The Victoria, 68-70 Page’s Walk, Bermondsey, SE1 4HL admission: Free

Blue anchor, Bermondsey

They’re hosting their annual ‘knees up’ and you’re encouraged to dress upwith a singer at 5pm and bar food.

Where: Blue Anchor, 251 Southwark Park Rd., SE16 3TS admission: Free

Prince of Wales, elephant and Castle

This boozer in SE1 will be serving up specials of British pie/sausage and mash, plus a selection of seafood. There’ll be music from 5 pm from DJ Pat.

Where: Prince of Wales, 51 St George’s Rd, SE1 6ER admission: Free

The Good Intent, Walworth

There will be a band on and food specials of pie/sausage and mash.

Where: The Good Intent, 24 East St, SE17 2DN admission: Free

st George’s Cathedral, Borough

Not forgetting the true meaning behind the celebration - there’s a commemorative mass at the Cathedral at 6 pm on the day.

Where: St George’s Cathedral, Cathedral House, Westminster Bridge Rd, SE1 7HY admission: Free

Friday 26 april

sea shanty Party, Bermondsey

Better late than never - this taproom in the Arches is putting on a lively evening of sea shanties.

A regular event with a St George’s twist - with a live sea shanty band covering the classics, along with mass singalongs.

Where: Hiver Taproom, 56 Stanworth St, SE1 3NY admission: £6

WaLWorth PiE anD maSh ShoP’S 110th BirthDay

By Herbie Russell

a WaLWorth Pie and Mash shop

celebrated its 110th birthday with a special visit from a Pearly Queen last saturday, april 13.

The story of Arments Pie & Mash began in 1914, at the dawn of WWI, when William and Emily Arment bought their first pie shop.

The piemaker marked the special day with a lucky dip, raffle, and an oldfashioned sing song with Diane Gould, the Pearly Queen of St Pancras.

Visitors were also given freebies, Arments souvenirs and sweets.

Arments opened its first shop at 386 Walworth Road complete with traditional glazed tile walls, marble table tops and a sawdust-covered floor.

In 1979, a shop at 10-12 Westmoreland Road was closed and relocated to larger premises across the road at number 7-9 where it remains today.

Arments has regularly featured on TV including in the documentary Elephant Days and a Danny Dyer series

In recognition of its place in the community, it received a Blue Plaque as part of this paper’s ongoing scheme in 2013.

The pie shop has also had a local building named after it – Arments Court – on the new Aylesbury Estate.

All money raised will be going to the Young Lives vs Cancer and Great Ormond Street Childrens’ Hospital charities.

Learn more about the big day on the Arments Pie & Mash website.

The no.386 branch closed in the mid1960s and a store at no.278 closed in 1974.

Customers enjoying the Arments 110th birthday celebrations

Photo: Arments

Owners Roy and Cheryl by Photo of Emily Arment 1914 Arments

Arments Pie and Mash has been on the scene since 1914

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‘i’vE LoSt a Day’S Work a WEEk WaitinG in LoWEr roaD traffiC’

a FrustrateD resident is pleading for change after saying he has ‘lost a day’s work a week’ waiting in traffic in rotherhithe.

Mike Ranson, a self-employed handyman and railway signal engineer, said he’s reached his limit with the congestion - admitting to having had a ‘breakdown’ one day when it just got too much.

The Lower Road traffic has caused an uproar among businesses and residents alike - ever since the lanes merged into one when the new cycle lane was constructed.

Construction of Cycleway 4 – an unbroken cycle route between London Bridge and Greenwich – began in July 2019.

Since then, the route has gradually been built in phases, with the final stretch along Lower Road officially unveiled by Southwark Council and Transport for London (TfL) in March.

“As soon as they put the first shovel in the ground,” Mike told us. “When they closed off the lane - that’s when this started.”

It is all part of City Hall’s drive to get Londoners on their bikes and out of their cars, a policy pioneered by former mayor Boris Johnson and taken up by Sadiq Khan

Locals give their views on the new Cycleway 4

- which has seen cycle lanes quadruple to 360km since 2016.

But like many others, Mike is not convinced it is a fair policy. “I have to drive for my job - my car is full of tools and machinery.”

When asked how many hours he believes he typically spends waiting in traffic every week, Mike replied: “I’ve lost about a day’s work a week just trying to get in and out of Rotherhithe.”

Having lived on the Rotherhithe Peninsula for the last twenty years, Mike and his wife said they are ‘trapped’ on weekends - having to wake up at the crack of dawn on a Saturday just to be able to do

By Herbie Russell & Joel Davis

the DraMatiC redesign of rotherhithe’s Lower road has proved one of southwark’s most controversial transport issues in years.

Transport for London (TfL) and Southwark Council have partnered to build the 1.3km segregated cycle lane along the thoroughfare, unveiling the new-look road last month.

But removing a southbound traffic lane for Cycleway 4, and reconfiguring multiple traffic lights, have been criticised by local politicians and residents.

Many say it’s worsened congestion and is unsafe for cyclists and drivers, while others have hailed the new route as making London greener. So this paper visited Lower Road and asked locals what they thought of the new layout.

PauL: ‘SuRReY QuaYS ShoPPiNG

CeNTRe iS a No-Go FoR ShoPPeRS NoW!’

Paul Pearce used to drive to Surrey Quays Shopping Centre from New Cross - but not anymore.

Since the road changes, the 57-year-old said he avoids the area “like the plague”. “This really almost now is a no-go area for shoppers,” he said. “I avoid the area like the plague now really because it’s just a nightmare to get in and out.”

He doubts the cycleway is good for the environment: “I think what you’re looking at is an increase in pollution. Because look at the traffic now! It’s completely backed up!”

DaNNY: ‘i’ve GiveN MY CaR aWaY!’

Danny Reed said changes to Lower Road had forced him to “give away” his car.

The 56-year-old said: “I don’t drive no more because of this. I gave my car away!”

“It’s crazy. It’s absolutely crazy. It’s gridlocked every night,” he added.

Asked what would solve the problem, he said: “If we got rid of Sadiq Khan! He’s the bloke that’s caused all this.”

SuSaN: ‘We’ve GoT To SuPPoRT CYCLiNG!’

Susan Wainwright, from Bermondsey, said the segregated cycle lane had made traffic worse but it’s worth it to support cycling.

a food shop.

“If we don’t make it out by 8 am, we are stuck. We can’t just have a leisurely weekend anymore.

“We’ve had to change our lives to suit the traffic jams.”

Mike is calling for TfL to ‘get it back to two lanes’: “Every junction is blocked because of a cycleway and the pavement is too wide for its use.

“This is a main artery with four major roads - there has to be two lanes.”

He added: “The other night I had a mental breakdown on the way home. I’m a strong person but it got too much for me.”

The 72-year-old said: “We’ve got to support cycling. I mean I’m a driver and my cycling days are long over but I think we’ve got to back what they’re doing. Without these special cycle lanes it is unsafe!” She added: “As a driver, I’ve got to realise I’m not the only person the road’s for!”

JohN: ‘WhaT aBouT MY KiDS’ SWiMMiNG LeSSoNS?’

John, from Rotherhithe, said the removal of a southbound car lane had been “very detrimental” to his family’s life.

Speaking outside Surrey Quays Shopping Centre, he said: “It’s made me totally rethink every car journey.”

He explained that it had affected his kids’ swimming lessons, “visiting friends” and getting to the east of England.

“It’s been absolutely awful,” he added. He said the congestion was so bad that Surrey Quays Tesco, normally heaving, was “totally dead” on Saturday mornings.

iDa: ‘i CaN FiNaLLY CYCLe To WoRK!’

Ida Williams, who works in London Bridge, said she would finally buy a bike thanks to the cycle lane.

She said the new layout had slowed local buses down but it was worth it to make the roads safer for cyclists.

The 50-year-old said: “I like the cycle lanes because I work in London Bridge and I’m planning on getting a bicycle because it’s easier to get around!”

veRoNiCa aND PeTeR: ‘i FeeL SoRRY FoR The KiDS aND The eLDeRLY!’

Veronica and Peter Davenport regularly shop at Surrey Quays, meaning they see the “mayhem” daily

Veronica, 66, said: “You see the kids crossing that road and a bike came up the other day and missed them by inches. People are not aware of it [the cycle lane]!

She added: “I feel sorry for the kids and the elderly people crossing that road that are not aware of the dangers.”

Peter, 72, agreed that the new layout had made Lower Road “a lot worse” and cyclists were “jumping the lights”. The solution? “Take it all up and put

We asked TfL for comment on the issue, but they said they could not respond - citing the restriction in the ability to comment on anything deemed political during the run-up to elections.

However, when it opened, Helen Cansick, TfL’s Head of Healthy Streets Investment, said: “Our continued work in expanding the Cycleway network throughout the capital unlocks access to cycling for many more thousands of Londoners.

“The new section of Cycleway 4 is the final piece of the puzzle connecting London Bridge all the way to Greenwich.” Southwark Council did not respond at the time of going to press.

it back to how it was,” Veronica says, “There, I’ve solved it for you!”

DaNTe: ‘Give CYCLiSTS LeSS SPaCe!’

Dante, who works in Surrey Quays, says the same problems troubling Surrey Quays were being seen around his home in Wandsworth.

He said: “In Wandsworth, there’s the same issues! We’ve got a lot of cycle lanes that are too big - in Battersea as well. I think it’s a wider issue. It’s not just in Surrey Quays.”

He added: “I think the cyclists don’t need that much space… the cars need more space, the cars need more priority in my opinion.”

SuSaNNa: ‘i’M ToTaLLY FoR CYCLiNG’

Susanna, who commutes to Surrey Quays from outside London, said: “I’m actually in favour of cycling. I’m totally for cycling.

She explained: “Because it’s much better for the environment, it’s much better for human health, for the planet’s health. In a place like London, you should be able to cycle!”

Lee: ‘TheY’ve CoMPLeTeLY RuiNeD The RoaD!’

Lee Johnson said TfL and Southwark Council had “completely ruined the road” with the “ridiculous” layout. The 60-year-old form Bermondsey said: “They’ve just ruined the road, completely ruined it. The way they’ve put cycle lanes in, somebody’s gonna get injured. It’s just chaos. Absolute chaos”. He thinks TfL road planners should have taken the cycleway via backroads rather than along “a major route into Kent.I get that you can have cyclists but now you’ve got cyclists going against the traffic. It’s just ridiculous,” he said.

KaMRaN: ‘The JuNCTioN iS CauSiNG hiCCuPS!’

Kamran Yalchi, from Rotherhithe, said the junction layout outside Surrey Quays station was causing “hiccups”. The 21-year-old said: “It has caused a couple of points of congestion. It does add the bikes and everything like that which is nice but I’m not really a fan of it that much.”

Dante says cyclists don’t need as much as space as cars

Isabel Ramirez

Mike Ranson

Paul Pearce said he now avoids Surrey Quays Shopping Centre ‘like the plague’ Danny Reed said he’d been forced to ‘give away’ his car

Ida Williams said she was ready to buy a bike thanks to the cycle lane Veronica and Peter Davenport worry about people’s safety

Susan Wainwright says ‘we’ve got to support cycling’ John said Surrey Quays Shopping Centre was ‘dead’ since the road changes

Susanna said: ‘I don’t even cycle but I’m pro-cycling’ Lee Johnson said Lower Road had been ‘ruined’ Kamran is concerned by the ‘hiccups’ the junction by Surrey Quays is causing

London Marathon 2024

t E aC hE r i S runninG for kiDS at hE r oLD SC hooL

By Isabel Ramirez

a Du LW i C h teacher is running the London Marathon to raise funds for her old primary school - which she also works at.

Anna Townsend, the Music Lead at Goose Green Primary School, is lacing up her trainers ready for this Sunday.

The 42-year-old teacher, who went to Goose Green as a child, said she had planned to do the Marathon in 2021.

“I had trained for that one,” she told us, “But when it was cancelled that all went out the window.”

When they were able, Anna ran a virtual marathon with some friends from Bristol to Bath - although she admitted she ‘hates running.’

However, a special cause is just what she needed to be inspired to enter this year.

“I’m raising money for the music department,” she told us.

“There’s a company that makes human-powered music sets - but they’re expensive so I’m trying to fundraise for one at our school.”

BErmonDSEy air hoStESS, 19, haS BEEn traininG

‘aLL ovEr thE WorLD’ for firSt LonDon marathon

By Isabel Ramirez

a BerMonDsey air hostess has been training all over the world to prepare for her first London Marathon, which she is running for her sister.

Tayler Heppell said she had never really run before - so she was surprised when she got into the race after more than 500,000 people applied.

The 19-year-old told us: “I wasn’t expecting to be accepted. I wasn’t a runner so I’ve been training hard.”

Tayler said she works on long-haul flights all over the globe, so she has been trying to fit in a run any chance she’s got - in some exciting places.

“I’ve been training all over the world - Central Park in New York, Florida, Jamaica, Mauritius. I go away around four to five times a month.

“Then on my days off I train locally around London and Tower Bridge.”

When asked about her inspiration for this year’s race - Tayler said: “My sister, Haylie.”

Haylie, 17, was born with a very rare condition called Trisomy18Qwhich means she experiences speech and language delays, Hypotonia and learning difficulties.

Tayler’s chosen charity Mencap, helps people like Haylie to become

independent - such as breaking down the barriers for them to find a job. She has managed to raise over £1,500 so far, commenting: “Hopefully, it can go towards helping someone else in the future.”

On how her little sister feels about her racing, Tayler added: “She’s excited about me running - and will be there to cheer me on!”

You can donate to Tayler’s cause on the London Marathon website tcslondonmarathon.enthuse.com by searching ‘Tayler Heppell’

The sets, made by the company Electric Pedals, teach kids about science whilst making music on the built-in instruments.

“They also give kids the chance to ride a bike - something lots of them have never done before.”

As well as the new equipment, the rest of the money raised will go towards kitting out their refurbished school library with new books.

To chip into the pot, 100 children from the school will run the minimarathon on Saturday 20 April.

Thinking back to her time as a pupil, Anna said it’s ‘not something’ she had the chance to do. “We never had a playground - it was all concrete. Running was never something we did.”

With a whole school behind her, Anna said she’s motivated by her students - “They’ll be tracking me during the race on the Marathon app and lots have said they’re going to come and meet me at various checkpoints too. The kids are relying on me.”

Donate to Anna’s cause at justgiving. com ‘Anna Townsend.’

Which roads in South London will be closed for the London Marathon?

By Isabel Ramirez

h ere are all the road closures around southwark for the London Marathon, this weekend.

The much-awaited race will take place this Sunday 21 April. To ease the disruption from the road closures, the London Underground, London Overground and the Docklands Light Railway (DLR) all have extra services on Marathon Day.

Tube services in central areas will be running as usual, but please be aware they may be extremely busy.

The Jubilee, Circle and District lines, and DLR, have stops close to the marathon route and are likely to be busier than usual.

Buses travelling on roads affected by the marathon will either be diverted or will not run the full length of their route until after the event.

The following roads will closed on Sunday 21 April from 8am-4pm (unless stated otherwise):

• Romney Road, Greenwich (7am-3pm)

• King William Walk, Greenwich (7am-3pm)

• Creek Road, Greenwich (7am-3pm)

• Evelyn Street, Deptford

• Surrey Quays Road, Rotherhithe

• Lower Road, Rotherhithe (part closure - see map)

• Salter Road, Rotherhithe

• Brunel Road, Rotherhithe

• Jamaica Road, Bermondsey

• *Tower Bridge will be closed from 8am-7pm.

FoR RoTheRhiThe PeNiNSuL a ReSiDeNTS:

Anyone living on the Rotherhithe Peninsula will be able to exit the area while the event road closures are in place.

Bacon’s College on Timber Pond Lane will provide a free, secure, overnight parking facility on its premises for residents to use.

Residents requiring access should use Hawkstone Road, Lower Road, Surrey Quays Road, Needleman Street, Poolmans Street and Timber Pond Road and may leave their cars at Bacon’s College until the roads reopen.

There are also 21 vehicle crossing points throughout the race, where you can cross the route. Find the full list on tcslondonmarathon.com.

The car park will operate from 4pm on Saturday 20 April until 5pm on Sunday 21 April. Residents can leave their cars securely parked and return on foot at any time during the road closure period to collect vehicles and exit the peninsula. From the college, the route out is via Timber Pond Road, Poolmans Street, Needleman Street, Surrey Quays Road and Lower Road.

Tayler (L) with sister Haylie (R)

London Marathon road closures - Rotherhithe

morE LoCaL PEoPLE to ChEEr on aLonG thE routE London Marathon 2024

CaNDY haZeLDeN, 40, BeRMoNDSeY

She is raising money for Charities Mind UK and Parkinson’s UK –the latter for her nan who has Parkinson’s.

Candy said: “She is my world so for her I will run the marathon and knowing that I’m doing it for her I know that if my legs get tired I will run with my heart.

Search Candy Hazelden on justgiving.com to donate.

BeN SCaNLaN, 39, RoTheRhiThe

He is raising money for the Twins Trust - a charity that has provided them with a community.

Ben said: “My wife had twins just before lockdown and we got a lot of emotional support from other parents of multiples. They also do amazing work supporting parents who lose kids or have early births.”

Search ‘Ben Scanlan’ on justgiving. com to donate.

aLeXaNDeR LaNGLe, 35, RoTheRhiThe

He is raising money for Get Kids Going! – a charity that inspires disabled youngsters to compete in sporting events.

Alexander said: “I now run a Marathon per year. I believe that running will give me extra time in future to have a healthy life to enjoy with my family, the ones that matter to me.”

Search ‘Alexander Langle’ on justgiving.com to donate.

JeN WiNTeRhaLDeR, 43, eaST DuLWiCh

She is raising money for Save the Children.

Reason for running: “It’s such an amazing charity, currently raising awareness and funds for children in Gaza and Ukraine. And I’m trying to beat my personal best!”

Search ‘Jen Winterhalder’ on justgiving.com to donate.

PaTRiCK (PaDDY) haWeS, 27, heRNe hiLL

He is raising money for St. Christopher’s Hospice - in memory of his Mum and Dad.

Paddy said: “I will always be grateful for all they did for my Mum and Dad and I’d appreciate it if you could help me in raising money for them so they can continue to help others make the worst of circumstances more bearable.”

KaTie ThoMPSoN, 44, PeCKhaM

Search ‘Paddy Hawes’ on justgiving. com to donate.

She is raising money for Myeloma UK – in memory of her mum who she lost in 2017 to the rare blood cancer. “It’s my third marathon after running Paris and Berlin last year, and it means a massive deal as it’s my hometown race!”

Search ‘Katie Thompson’ on justgiving. com to donate.

SoPhie PaRRY, 28, PeCKhaM

She is raising money for Place2Be – a children’s mental health charity based at the primary school where Sophie works.

Sophie said: “I have seen the fantastic work that they do to tackle the evergrowing mental health crisis and I am excited to raise money for such a worthy cause.”

Search ‘Sophie Parry’ on justgiving.com to donate.

Millwall fan Kevin insists that 35th London Marathon ‘will be the last’

By Isabel Ramirez

a MiLLWaLL fan, who is about to run the London Marathon for the 35th, insists this year’s will be his last.

The last few times Kevin Downey has run the race, he has dedicated it to Millwall superfan, Harvey Brown (pictured). Now, 15, he suffers from the ultra-rare Morquio syndrome,

which affects skeletal growth. The money raised by Kevin, a lifelong Millwall fan himself, will go towards supporting children with rare syndromes like Harvey’s. He’s hoping to raise £2,500.

“It’ll be the third time I’m running for him,” the 65-year-old from Bermondsey, insisting this Marathon will be his last.

“My right knee can’t take it anymore.”

Over the years, he has raised over £140,000 for children’s charities.

As it’s his last year, Kevin said his son, Ross, will be running alongside him.

“It’ll be an emotional dayespecially when we cross the finishing line together.”

Go to justgiving.com/page/kevindowney-35 to donate.

Candy Ben Jen

Katie Sophie Alexander

Kevin with Harvey

Storm ‘hit LikE a tornaDo’

By Isabel Ramirez

a Giant Willow tree in rotherhithe plummeted to the ground after a storm ‘hit like a tornado’ last Monday - just half an hour after school pick-up.

Resident Steve Cornish caught the aftermath on camera - showing the giant tree, located on the fringes of Russia Dock Woodland, spread across the pavement.

It was the doing of Storm Kathleenwhich has been sweeping across the UK causing endless amounts of damage to people’s cars, homes and streets.

Steve told us: “There was a calm before the storm hit like a tornado within seconds at around 4:45 yesterday afternoon.

He said ‘several more’ trees were destroyed in the area and explained that Southwark Council came out later with chainsaws to open Somerford Way - which had been blocked by the fallen tree.

Steve mentioned that the road was a school-run route and just 30 minutes earlier would have been busy. “Luckily no one was injured.”

The council confirmed there were another six trees across the borough that also fell yesterday, along with several incidents involving fallen branches. A spokesperson added: “All of which were attended by our tree team to make it safe.”

Hunt for South London venue to cook 190 meals

By Herbie Russell

the hunt is on for a south London venue with space to cook nearly 200 meals for the homeless.

The venue would need to host 50 to 80 guests and have enough space to prepare 190 meals in a single morning.

Team Tactics, which provides “alternative” corporate team-building activities, said Clapham is the ideal location although it would consider elsewhere.

Tina Benson, Managing Director at Team Tactics, said: “Cooking for the homeless is a great alternative to traditional team building exercises or corporate events and a great way to give back to the community.”

“We’re on the lookout for a spacious, flexible venue that we can hire to make this happen,” he added.

The dream location would be accessible

from 7am till 12pm - enough time for preparing, cooking and packaging.

The food would be delivered to the Clapham homelessness charity Ace of Clubs, covering their day’s meal service.

Rough sleeping in London was 34 per cent higher between October and December 2023 compared to last year, according to the Combined Homelessness and Information Network.

Charlie Glynn, senior support worker at Ace of Clubs, said: “We’re only able to offer our lunch service because of donations from the community, but if Team Tactics was able to find a suitable venue for its larger cooking event, the meals produced would likely cater for all our service users for a day – and possibly on more occasions moving forwards.” For further information visit https:// www.teamtactics.co.uk/blog/cookingfor-the-homeless-team-building-event/ or contact Team Tactics to discuss suitability and hire rates.

© Steve Cornish

Russia Dock Woodland, Rotherhithe

Somerford Way, Rotherhithe

naiL BomBinGS viCtimS to ComE toGEthEr to rEmEmBEr 25 yEarS SinCE thE attaCkS

By Adrian Zorzut Local Democracy Reporter

it Was a warm late april’s evening in 1999. the admiral Duncan pub on old Compton Street in Soho was filling fast. Drinkers were keen to kick off the Bank Holiday weekend. Music blared, people got lost in conversation, the bar was getting busy. Everyone was beginning to unwind after work.

Unbeknownst to them, self-confessed neo-Nazi David Copeland had visited the pub and placed a bomb laced with 1,500 nails at the foot of the bar, according to the BBC. At 6.37pm on April 30, the bomb exploded, tearing through the popular Soho bar, killing three and injuring at least 70 people.

Those who died would be later named as John Light, 32, Nick Moore, 31, and Andrea Dykes, 27, who was pregnant at the time.

Copeland, who had carried out attacks on Black and Asian communities in Brixton and Brick Lane earlier in the month, was arrested and sentenced to six life sentences for the heinous attacks.

As the 25th anniversary of the attacks draw near, the Local Democracy Reporting Service (LDRS) spoke to survivors and community members about that horrific day.

‘inCreDiBLe sense oF DooM’

Westminster City councillor Patrick Lilley, 64, ran a gay nightclub in Brixton and worked in Brick Lane at the time. He recalls hearing about the bombing through the radio. He said: “I had an incredible sense of doom because this heavy dark wave of hate had washed up where I ran my club and where I worked. I noticed being surrounded by this awful situation of terrorist incidents coming closer and closer.”

The West End ward councillor said he was in “total shock” and immediately began to cry. He said the attack felt “very personal”, saying: “Like so many people who have been bullied in their lives, you have a pretty sensitive heart for these sorts of incidents… So many LGBTQ+ people have experienced that.”

He said the attack took place at a time when the gay scene in Soho was thriving. To this day, Patrick still wonders what had been running through Copeland’s head.

Patrick said the bombing only encouraged him to campaign harder for LGBTQ+ rights and was partly behind his decision to go into politics. He is now the LGBTQ+ champion for Westminster City Council.

Patrick said: “It made me the queen I am today and it certainly did instill a sense of duty to help others who have been victims of prejudice.”

Richard Torry, 64, remembers being ordered out of his Old Compton Street flat by police. Richard, who has lived on the busy London street since 1980, said he walked past the pub moments before the explosion.

He said: “I thought it had gone off in Leicester Square because it was so loud. I realised later [the explosion] had echoed off the buildings. I looked out the window

and saw people running down Wardour Street. I thought they were running away but they were running towards it.”

He said police had arrived within minutes and began evacuating buildings in case there was a second bomb. Richard hid in the back of his apartment waiting for a sign to leave.

He packed a bag full of clothes and rushed off to a friend’s place, unsure of when he’d be able to return.

He says he can still picture people strewn across the street covered in bloody clothes.

‘i saW a BriGht BLue LiGht FLash’

Gary Fellowes, 65, arrived at the Admiral Duncan around 6pm after finishing work in Whitehall later than usual.

He was meeting friends and sat at the back of the bar when the bomb exploded. He said if a friend hadn’t stopped him for a chat, he would have probably died.

He said: “I was about to go to the bar to get a drink when a friend introduced me to a friend of his and I thought ‘I can’t be rude. Let’s chat for a few minutes before I go and get a drink’. It must have been what saved me because the bomb was at the bar.”

The next thing he remembers is seeing a bright blue light flash. He said: “At first, it sounded like metal hitting the ceiling and then I heard someone say ‘oh s***’. I thought someone had split beer on the jukebox and caused it to smoke up but the next thing I knew was there was this deafening silence and the smell of sulphur.

“There was so much smoke swirling around and that’s when I knew it was a bomb.”

Gary began to worry he may never see

his parents again. He eventually stumbled out and made his way up the road to the King’s Arms where staff called an ambulance. He noticed his boots were singed with metal and his shirt was covered in someone else’s blood. He was treated for a burnt hand and face.

Gary would find himself in the Hatfield rail crash 18 months later where he sustained a broken leg.

The 65-year-old, who calls himself a “resilient guy”, said he has been humbled by these events which he said allows him to understand the angst and fear families of loved ones caught in disaster feel.

He’s also no stranger to pushing himself. He became a British Airlines cabin crew member despite being a nervous flyer. He said this helps him connect with other nervous flyers.

He said moments like the 7/7 bombings give him flashbacks and that he keeps an eye on unattended bags and isn’t afraid to “kick off” if they’re not moved.

To this day, Gary refuses to mention Copeland’s name. He said this is to rob the deranged killer of the notoriety he felt Copeland craved from his actions.

It’s a rule fellow survivor Mark Tullett also follows. Mark was also standing at the back of the bar when the bomb exploded.

In his book Berwick Street to Barcelona, Mark described thinking a lightbulb had popped and following his partner Tony out of the pub.

The couple would eventually marry and move to Spain in 2004. Tony died of cancer eight years ago.

Mark told the LDRS that Tony was “outed” at work as a result of the bombing. In his book, the 63-year-old said Tony had shows his boss at the Ministry of Defence a newspaper photo of him at the Admiral

Duncan to explain why he might be a bit jumpy. His boss asked if a female friend in the photo was his partner.

The passage reads: “Tony told him no, the guy behind was. His boss expressed a little surprise, but no more. Happily, it was the same with all his colleagues.”

Almost 25 years on, Mark says he “very aware” of packages being left out and says he scopes out of place “to make sure there are no threats”.

Every anniversary, he calls Kath, the friend who was at the bar with him that evening. He said: “We have a little chat about it but we prefer to forget about it because some of the memories that night were quite horrific, which is why I don’t want to talk about it, because it gives me panic attacks.”

stronGer in the LonG run

Mark Healey runs the anti-hate crime charity 17-24-30 National Hate Crime Awareness Week. The charity holds remembrance services for the bombings every year and has the dates of each bombing in its title: Brixton on April 17, Brick Lane on April 25 and the Admiral Duncan on April 30.

The charity, which he created in 2010, will mark the 25th anniversary of the bombings at each site. To remember victims of the Soho attack, he’s arranged a procession from the pub to St Anne’s Gardens.

For Mark, the anniversary is a chance to stand in solidarity with those affected for “as long as is needed”.

He mentions meeting three men who were drinking nearby when the bombing exploded and who ran home instead of staying. He said: “I would tell them what

they did was normal. You were in a fight or flight mode and it’s ok to run away.”

As a victim of homophobic attacks himself, Mark says it’s important to steer the conversation about hate crimes. He said: “There is initial shock and horror and outrage but then there’s a desperate need to turn something bad into something good for the community.”

He added: “The biggest deterrent [for terrorists] is knowing they will make our community stronger in the long run.”

Copeland’s terror resulted in the deaths of three people and injured 139 more. He was arrested shortly after the bombing and sentenced for six life sentences in 2000 for three counts of murder and three counts of causing explosions in London in order to endanger life.

Copeland would go on to admit the killings. When police raided Copeland’s home, they found a Nazi flag hanging on his bedroom wall along with clippings of the newspaper coverage of his attacks.

Photos: clockwise from top left:

Westminster City councillor Patrick Lilley, 64, outside the Admiral Duncan on April 8, 2024. Patrick said the attack felt 'very personal'.

Mark Healey outside the Admiral Duncan on April 8, 2024. Mark runs the National anti-hate crime charity 17-24-30 National Hate Crime Awareness Week.

Richard Torry, 64, outside the Admiral Duncan on April 8, 2024. Richard lives across the road and said he was forced to evacuate from his flat on the day of the bombings in 1999.

Gary Fellowes outside the Admiral Duncan on April 8, 2024. Gary was drinking in the Admiral Duncan when the bomb went off. Credits: Adrian Zorzut.

By Joe Coughlan Local Democracy Reporter

BroMLey Parents have asked the council to add zebra crossings outside two primary schools, claiming the school run feels like an ‘accident waiting to happen’. residents have started a petition urging Bromley Council to add traffic calming measures outside Crofton infant and Junior schools in Petts Wood, orpington.

The petition, signed by 1,436 people, was started by Karina Malka-Tollefsen, 36. The mum said she began the campaign when she started walking with her two year old child to the school last September to drop off her five-yearold when they started at Crofton Infant School.

She told the Local Democracy Reporting Service (LDRS): “I realised there is no official crossing and the traffic is so intense. Obviously that was quite surprising, that there are no security measures around such a big school.”

She added: “[When crossing the road] the car on the right will let [parents] go and when they are already in the middle of the street with children, the car on the left doesn’t stop and goes by just in front of them. It’s very dangerous and it occurs almost every day to someone.”

The petition was discussed at a Bromley Council meeting on March 11. Conservative Councillor Nicholas Bennett, portfolio holder for road safety, confirmed that funding from Transport for London had been approved to carry out a study on road safety in the area around the schools.

The portfolio holder said the study would determine what type of improvements in the area would be

most beneficial, but council documents maintained that adding formal crossings was not certain. Ms Malka-Tollefsen said she and other petitioners were not satisfied that budget constraints was a relevant reason for not adding the crossings.

She said: “There are always other expenses. So with the budget constraints, I don’t think that really speaks to us. There’s so many children attending the school that covers a large portion of the community here.”

Data from Crashmap.co.uk states that six incidents involving serious injuries had occurred since 2018 on Crofton Lane

and Towncourt Lane, which the schools sit on. Data collected by the petitioners also stated 76 parents at the school had experienced near misses when dropping their kids off or picking them up from the schools.

One parent said in their response to the petition: “I was a witness and immediate first aider to a pupil’s father knocked down by a car, driven by a grandmother transporting her grandchild. He was hospitalised with head injuries. Needless to say, I was not surprised this happened.” Charlotte Grievson, 40, was also involved in organising the petition and has two children attending the

schools, aged five and eight years old. She said Bromley Council had asked the petitioners to acquire more data on traffic movements outside the school when initially responding to the petition.

Ms Grievson told the LDRS: “I feel like the council is making unreasonable requests of us for data and making us jump through hoops. It’s just all part of this thing that makes us feel like they’re just trying to get rid of us.”

She added: “The school run at the moment is really stressful and it’s not the council’s responsibility to make it less stressful for us… But it’s our job to keep our children safe and to let the council

know if there’s something dangerous. It’s not our job to actually find the data, it’s ridiculous.”

Ms Grievson said parents were open minded about potential traffic solutions proposed by the council. She also said she felt the council could focus money better on the issue.

She said: “Their financial management is shocking, and then to be told there’s no money for a basic crossing outside a kid’s primary school. It’s insulting.”

She added: “It just kind of manifests in feeling really anxious on the school run and holding the kids tight and seeing near misses. It feels really stressful… People fly down the road. The roundabout causes a lot of problems and you see people cutting the corners. It’s an accident waiting to happen.”

A Bromley Council spokesperson told the LDRS that the borough had a good road safety record and reducing casualties, particularly deaths and serious injuries, remained a priority to the council. They said the authority was committed to completing the traffic study on the roads around the Crofton schools before October this year.

They added: “The council works with schools across the borough to support school travel plans, which also includes the Crofton schools as well. We recognise the concerns outlined by some parents and other local residents and the key message is that we will carefully examine all these concerns as part of the promised study, with the location outside the infants school being a particular focus.”

Picture: Charlotte Grievson, 40, said she and other parents have felt ‘really anxious’ while dropping their children to school due to the issue.

‘accident waiting to happen’ – parents want zebra crossings outside two primary schools homeless families 'serve eviction notice' on Gove

By Robert Firth

Local Democracy

Reporter

hoMeLess LonDon families

marched on government offices and served housing secretary Michael Gove an eviction notice. around 80 protesters from campaign group housing action southwark and Lambeth (hasL) gathered outside the Department for Levelling up, housing and Communities on thursday morning (april 11).

They called on Gove, who they accuse of pHomeless London families marched on government offices and served housing secretary Michael Gove an eviction notice. Around 80 protesters from campaign group Housing Action Southwark and Lambeth (HASL) gathered outside the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities on Thursday morning (April 11).

They called on Gove, who they accuse of presiding over the biggest homelessness crisis in Britain’s history, to commit to investing in more quality three, four and five bedroom council homes.

Demonstrators held placards

demanding homeless

was broken.

One of the protesters, Danil Brana, said he had been living in a Travelodge in Lewisham with his wife and two daughters for a month, after Tower Hamlets Council placed him in temporary accommodation.

The dad-of-two, 31, said: “It’s very difficult. I have to take my daughter to school and back in Tower Hamlets by bus. It’s too far away and it’s too expensive. There’s no kitchen and when I have appointments with the council in Tower Hamlets it takes an hour for me to get there.”

Hiwet Solomun, also 31, said she shared a kitchen and toilet with six other people in her hostel for homeless women in Westminster.

She said: “I’ve been there almost two years and five months. It’s very difficult living there. I struggle to cook because there’s always someone using the kitchen. My doctor has recommended I be placed in a higher band for rehousing

because of my health issue but I’m still waiting.”

Aster Tewolede and her teenage daughter said they had been living in temporary accommodation organised by Lambeth Council for 13 years.

The 46-year-old said: “The house is not good. It has damp problems and the room where my daughter sleeps is the size of a baby’s room. My daughter had grown up there. It’s been 13 years. Why don’t they give us a house?”

Mum-of-two Lily Assefa said she and her family had been living in temporary accommodation in Sydenham, Lewisham for two years after Southwark

Council moved them out of their former home in Elephant and Castle due to repair problems.

She said: “My kids’ schools and my work are near Lambeth North [Underground station] which is far from Sydenham. You dress up when you come out here, but clothes are nothing. You have to have a peaceful place to sleep.”

Analysis by London Tenants Federation of City Hall’s housing data has found that only 2,465 low cost four bedroom and larger houses were delivered between 2012 and 2022, compared to 21,997 one and two bedroom low cost homes.

Elizabeth Wyatt, a HASL member, said:

“This devastating housing emergency is ruining the lives of over 140,000 children in England. This is a political choice that has been made by this government for the last 14 years and it is absolutely unforgivable.

“But this can be turned around, it’s really that simple. We can solve the homeless crisis instantly with investment and expansion of high-quality, safe, secure, family-sized council homes that our communities need and deserve.”

A Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities spokesperson said: “We are building more homes and boosting social housing supply. Our £11.5 billion affordable homes programme will deliver thousands more affordable homes to rent and buy across the country. £4 billion of this has been allocated to the Mayor of London to deliver much needed affordable housing in the capital.

“We are giving councils £1.2 billion over three years to help provide financial support for people to find a new home and move out of temporary accommodation, including £568 million for London.”

families stop being forced out of London, blew whistles and cheered as a piñata representing overcrowded temporary housing

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Couple take on London Marathon for hospital that saved their niece’s life

AN AUNT and uncle are running their first ever marathon for Evelina London Children’s Charity so that other families can benefit from lifechanging care.

Sarah and Danny Singh were inspired to put on their running shoes for their niece Sophia Singh-Chauhan. Now seven, Sophia had life-saving brain surgery at Evelina London Children’s Hospital when she was four-years-old.

At 18-months-old, Sophia was diagnosed with GNA01, a neurological development disorder that causes seizures and continuous involuntary movements (dystonic-choreoathetosis). At its most severe, the rare genetic condition caused Sophia to experience life-threatening movements, known as movement ‘storms’ (status dystonicus), that require treatment in intensive care.

Sophia had deep brain stimulation surgery in August 2021, which involves fine electrodes being implanted deep into the brain to target areas that control coordination of body movements and posture, acting as a ‘pace maker’ for the brain. The surgery was performed by a specialist multidisciplinary team including paediatric neurosurgeons from King’s College Hospital.

Two years after her life-changing surgery, Sophia is able to enjoy being a seven-year-old – she loves swimming, reading, cooking, and cheering on her football team, Leicester City. Although she continues to have much milder involuntary movements, these are less frequent, and she no longer needs continuous sedation medication.

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Sarah and Danny, 44 and 40, are taking on the 2024 TCS London Marathon to raise awareness of Sophia’s condition, whilst raising money which will enable children, like their niece, to get the incredibly specialist care and support they need. The whole family, including Sophia

and her four-year-old sister Savannah, are travelling from Leicester to London on 21 April to cheer on the couple.

Dr Jean-Pierre Lin, consultant paediatric neurologist, said: “It is wonderful to see Sophia so happy and enjoying life. At Evelina London we are always looking at new ways to collaborate and spearhead research so that we can improve care and the quality of life for children with GNA01, like Sophia, and many other rare genetic disorders.”

GUY’S AND St Thomas’ trialled an e-cargo bike to test whether it will help staff beat London traffic to get to patients faster – while reducing carbon emissions from travel.

The pilot scheme saw nine members of the @home service at Elmcourt health centre in West Norwood use the e-cargo bike instead of pool cars, public transport or personal bikes to visit patients in their homes.

The Trust worked with EAV, an e-cargo bike supplier, which provided the bike for the trial. Staff were given on-road cycle training sessions with an instructor from Bikeworks ahead of the trial.

The @home service includes nurses, therapists, doctors, pharmacists and social workers who support patients to get home sooner or avoid hospital altogether, freeing up hospital beds at Guy’s and St Thomas’ and King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.

EvelinaLondonChildren’sCharityhelps support the compassionate, trailblazing care of Evelina London, which includes training for play specialists that help ease anxiety by bringing joy to the bedside, and helping push boundaries with ground-breaking equipment to improve treatment.

To support Danny and Sarah’s fundraising, visit www.justgiving.com and search for Sarah Singh or Danny Singh to make a donation.

Harriet Slade, deputy service lead for the @home service at Guy’s and St Thomas’, said: “It’s great to have taken part in this trial as it could mean our staff are able to reach patients homes faster and provide the vital treatment they need, while using alternative, sustainable modes of travel that improve our carbon footprint.”

Tim Le Rougetel, sustainable travel officer at Guy’s and St Thomas’, said: “E-cargo bikes can travel through areas restricted to general motor traffic including low traffic neighbourhoods, parks and open spaces. There are no parking restrictions or permits required. It also has up to 150kg storage capacity – more than enough to fit the @home service equipment including bulky items like commodes.”

Find out more about Guy’s and St Thomas’ green travel plan at www. guysandstthomas.nhs.uk/about-us/ sustainability

Join patient and carer panel

GUY’S & St Thomas’ Charity is recruiting people who are passionate about improving healthcare to its Patient and Carer Panel.

The charity, which supports the staff and care provided at Guy’s and St Thomas’, wants to make sure that the projects it funds reflect the needs of patients, families, and carers. The charity is looking for a diverse range of people to join its panel. Participants will receive training and support, as well as expenses and recognition for their time and commitment.

The deadline for applications is Wednesday 15 May 2024.To find out more visit gsttcharity. org.uk/panel.

If you have any questions please email sara.ronzi@gstt. nhs.uk or call 020 7188 6808.

Get vaccinated as measles cases rise

EVELINA LONDON is urging families and carers to get vaccinated as cases of measles increase across London. The hospital said that anyone who is concerned that their child may have measles should contact their GP or ring 111 before attending appointments.

Measles can spread easily and may cause serious problems for some people including young children and people with weakened immunity.

Vaccination is the best way to protect children against measles and other life-changing diseases. Families and carers will be contacted by their GP practice when a child is due for routine immunisation. If a child has missed any vaccination, then they should speak directly to their GP.

For more information visit: www.guysandstthomas.nhs.uk/ measles

Sarah (left) and Danny (right) with their niece Sophia

A clinical nurse practitioner from Guy’s and St Thomas’ with an e-cargo bike

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mELanChoLy, maDnESS anD mark mCGoWan

i MaDe my way to the Bethlem Gallery and Museum of the Mind where i was meeting Mark McGowan to discuss the exhibition he has curated - Bethlem Live Lounge. as i entered he was telling the office staff how he ate a corgi: ‘it was minced and made into meatballs,’ writes Michael Holland...

Mark McGowan first made bleeps on my radar when I wrote about the performance art pieces he was putting on in the borough. Almost every tabloid in the land portrayed them as stunts and invariably posed the question, ‘Is this art?’. Really did they actually include the artistic reasons for the performances.

Growing up in Peckham and supporting Millwall formed his early life until the 80s arrived and Ibiza beckoned: ‘I went out there in 1982 and came back in 1994,’ he says. But years of drug taking had not prepared him for life back in SE London and he was soon in the Royal Bethlem Hospital detoxing from addiction. While there he attended art therapy classes and created numerous drawings and paintings. ‘You’re really good,’ the therapists judged. His ceramic of a man holding his head in his hand was put in an exhibition and more plaudits came. At the end of his stay, aged 37, he went straight to Camberwell College of Art. ‘It was all kids there; they thought I was a teacher,’ he laughs. But it was there that ‘Mark the mad smackhead from Peckham’ was informed that art was not just drawing and painting. ‘They told me that I could do “whatever I want” - Anything!’ It was at this point that Mark began ‘creating interventions into the media, pushing peanuts to Downing Street with my nose, rolling across London… framing them as art projects. Now I could express myself through these extraordinary things and not get my collar felt!’ Mark used the media’s headlines to preview his art. ‘The narrative begins with the media creating public outrage, then the event, then after the event,’ he says, still surprised at how the papers fell for it every time. ‘I’d put out a press release saying I was going to eat a corgi and the papers would be all over it!’ His performances have, however, brought attention to war and knife crime and are often politically charged.

Yes, some saw his work as a waste of money and time, but if you listen to his explanation of what he is doing it all makes sense. Yes, his attitude might appear as if he is mocking the art world, but McGowan is a very serious artist who uses his talent to broadcast his feelings to all who want to hear it. ‘My work has touched on loneliness, a lot of it is shamebased.’

The downside to this is that his family never knew what to expect next with all the media attention.

Another disadvantage was that not enough people realised the seriousness of his art or knew what the message behind his pieces was. ‘When I catapulted the 71 year old woman outside the college it was to try to get old and young people respecting each other…When I crawled From Goldsmiths College to 10 Downing Street, that was about tuition fees that had just been brought in by New Labour… Now, since Covid, you don’t get the teaching hours or the facilities, students pay nine grand a year for a library card!’ he exclaims. ‘It’s a business now, they’ve bought up all the property round the colleges and rent the places back to

From Millwall to Milan

ever WisheD that you were somewhere else? ever wished that you were somebody else?

Then Body 115 is for you.

Escaping the rain, a journey on the London Underground becomes a descent into the underworld in this award-winning show.

Summoning a spirit guide in the form of ‘Body 115’, we follow our poet-hero down and out through the sewers and tubes of Kings Cross Station to the heart of Italy. Part invocation, part rain dance, this poetic odyssey is delivered with a contemporary kick. From the terraces at Millwall to fashionable Milan expect

shadowy encounters, iPhone selfies, dodgy connections and chance meetings with a host of poet ghosts.

Body 115, written and performed by Jan Noble, was the winner of the London Pub Theatre Awards for ‘Best Innovative Play’ 2023, and received an Offie Commendation, 2023.

Jan Noble is an award-winning poet making work in theatre, film and audio formats. His poetry has been recorded by producer Craig Leon at Abbey Road studios and featured on the album ‘Cesarians 1’ (2009). His ongoing collaboration with composer Donna McKevitt includes ‘This Is What I Wanted To Give You’ (2016). He

the students! Universities are property magnates!’

After graduating, the artist spent many years teaching at various art colleges while also driving a taxi, a move that became the catalyst for his online Artist Taxi Driver persona for the last 14 years. Behind sunglasses he rants about the day’s news and the state of the nation. But this move to social media has not stopped him from facilitating workshops at Bethlem, teaching and continually creating art: ‘The Artist Taxi Driver is performance art,’ he admits. For years he has berated this government for their austerity measures and the current cost of living crisis via his alter ego. ‘The Taxi Driver reflects all that stuff, I don’t imagine it.’

Some time ago Mark heard a radio ad for bowel cancer testing and after going along he unluckily found he had bowel cancer. Luckily it had been caught early and was cured. He now strongly advices everyone to get tested and promotes mandatory tests. Having gone through that trauma he says that ‘it makes you think about how much time you’ve got left and makes you want to make more art - and quicker!’

Since the cure, he advocates everyday

has performed at the ICA in London, The Nuyorican Poets Cafe in New York and Teatrino Di Palazzo Grassi in Venice. In 2023 he was awarded the ‘Silver Wyvern’ at Poetry on the Lake with Carol Ann Duffy.

The Creative Team: Directed by Justin Butcher; Lighting: Tom Turner; Sound Design: Jack Arnold.

Jack Studio Theatre, 410 Brockley Road, London, SE4 2DH from Tuesday 7 – Saturday 11 May 2024 at 7.30pm.

Box office: www.brockleyjack.co.uk or 0333 666 3366

(£1.80 fee for phone bookings only)

Tickets: £17, £15 concessions (14+)

Sixty minutes with no interval www.jannoble.co.uk

being the ‘best day of your life’ and to perform the most mundane of chores in the best way you can.

He pondered the age of his father’s death, Elvis’s and more recently Joe Kinnear at 77 - ‘F**king hell, I ain’t got long left…’ He recently gave a 10-hour performance of a poem he’d written about his mother called: ‘What’s going to happen to all my stuff when I die?’ It was something she had said to him.

He talks about a Bethlem Community, people who have all come through the hospital - ‘We are artists first and even though we’ve all had mental health issues we come here and support each other as well as get support for anyone who wants to make art.’

It is also the venue for Live Lounge, a 3-month collaborative exhibition that puts the visitor front and centre by providing a safe space where they can come and sing, dance, recite poetry and do whatever they want - and be recorded doing it. Mark has already recorded twenty-two voices of the Bethlem community. ‘I’m working with a guy called Gowan Hewitt who, with all his machines, has made a soundscape from them.’ This will be on an album that is just

about to go to press. Pointing at the two statues behind him that once crowned the gates of the original Bethlem, he says, ‘One side of the album is called Melancholy and the other is Madness.

The opening of Live Lounge will be various performers doing their thing, and over the opening weekend Martin Ware of Heaven 17 will be giving a lecture/workshop of his ‘Top 30 Tips for making a Hit Record’ and Jools Cunningham, a Sadler’s Wells’ dancer, will run a workshop for ‘people who can’t dance’. A‘mini-Glastonbury’ will close the exhibition in June. But in between it will mainly be open-mic days for anyone to come and use the equipment.

“We’ve got wall-hangings, rugs, sofas, two synthesisers from Martin Ware, a double bass from the Everly Pregnant Brothers, loads of instruments and recording equipment.’ His excitement was real. ‘We don’t wanna create an exhibition as such, but a space for people to come and make music, and dance and sing - It’s gonna be amazing. It’s ephemeral, it’s an event that happens and then it’s gone, not like a sculpture or a painting that will stay on the wall for years, it will be the stories people tell before, during and after the event.’ Mark had a lot to say about the numbers of autistic people in jail, Brain worms, art as therapy and music being great for mental wellbeing. But with the art of The Masters still hanging in galleries around the world after many centuries, he is constantly trying to make something extraordinary to surpass them.

It could be easy to mistake Mark McGowan as a chancer who has blagged his way to where he is now. As The Artist Taxi Driver , in between deriding politicians and war, he shows articles written about his projects and laughs and comes across as someone who doesn’t take art seriously. He does. It’s himself he doesn’t take seriously and being constantly surprised at his standing in the art world manifests itself as laughing at the art world he lives in.

Bethlem Live Lounge, Bethlem Gallery, Bethlem Royal Hospital, Monk’s Orchard Road, BR3 3BX from May 8th - June 13th.

Admission: Free.

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Bethlem Mark McGowan between the Melancholy and Madness statues

Photo by M. Holland

History

The Surrey View Tavern in the past and today

t hE P uBS of South Wark’S GranD Surr E y Cana L

t he GranD surrey Canal was a four-mile waterway that supplied southwark with all manner of goods from 1800 until around the 1960s, writes The Peckham Society...

As a lively artery of commerce, it’s unsurprising that pubs sprung up along its banks, providing canal workers with much-needed grub and drink.

But they were more than just watering holes. These taverns also played a vital role in civil society, hosting inquests and, in some cases, becoming mortuaries for people who drowned in the water.

While the Grand Surrey Canal was vital to the economic health of

Southwark, it always held a sinister reputation for claiming the lives of people who fell in.

When it was drained in the 1970s, a journalist wrote that the ‘stinking water… has to be dredged every time a child goes missing’.

Wary of London’s drowning problem, Physician William Hawes founded the Society for the Recovery of Persons Apparently Drowned in 1774, today named the Royal Humane Society.

As well as offering cash payments to those who attempted to save people from drowning, the society would pay pubs one guinea - roughly £140 todayif they allowed a body to be treated on the premises.

Pubs and taverns were also long established as local meeting places. In addition to auctions, political and Vestry meetings they hosted inquests. A committee was appointed in 1892 to investigate more suitable venues for coroners’ courts. As a result, the practice of holding inquests in public houses in London had ceased by 1901.

TaveRNS oF The CaNaL

Watermans Arms

The Watermans Arms at 41 Willowbrook Road, the junction of Willowbrook Road and Colegrove Road, closed in the 1920s and was later demolished. It hired out rowing boats.

A dark narrow lane led down to the canal. In 1876, a reward [from the Royal Humane Society] was given to Robert Henchley, landlord of the Waterman’s Arms, Hill-street, Peckham.

He had received Ellen Taylor to his house, successfully “restoring [her] to animation”. She had attempted suicide by jumping into the Surrey Canal and was dragged out by Henchley on November 18.

Surrey View Tavern

This tavern originally stood at 137 Commercial Way. In the 1930s the terrace of houses was rebuilt and the pub incorporated into no 135.

As the canal was so close, almost ‘in view’ to customers, there were many newspaper reports of incidents. It was the scene of Richard Farris’ attempted rescue of Eliza Arlott in 1878. The couple both drowned. It was trading to at least the mid1980s and hosted the Surrey View Dance and Social Club in the 1940s, later becoming a café, and is now a

The approximate site of the Watermans Arms on Willowbrook Road before it was demolished

mini-supermarket.

The Globe Tavern

The Globe at 58 Peckham Hill Street was in business before 1818 when back garden backed onto the canal. It closed in January 2003 and was converted to flats by 2005, but the façade and signage has been retained.

Kentish Drovers

This pub formerly stood on at no. 74 on the south side of Peckham High Street on the east side of Jones & Higgins. It was the centre of the annual August Peckham Fair, last held in 1826.

The final licensee, George Morgan, died in 1951 aged 84 after 20 years service. The pub was sold in 1952 and converted to a shop, showroom and two flats the following year.

However, the name continued when Wetherspoons opened another Kentish Drovers opposite on 24 May 2000.

This article first appeared in The Peckham Society, Issue 174, Autumn 2023.

The Globe Tavern has now been converted into flats

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The family are sad to announce the passing of Tony. His funeral is on 7th May at 1pm at Honor Oak Crematorium.

All are welcome.

After at the Surdoc Social Club to celebrate his life. Funeral Announcement

LONDON BOROUGH OF LAMBETH ROAD TRAFFIC REGULATION ACT 1984 - SECTION 14

TEMPORARY ROAD CLOSURES, ONE-WAY SYSTEMS AND BAN ON PARKING, WAITING AND LOADING – VARIOUS ROADS IN CONNECTION WITH THE GLA (MAYORAL AND LONDON ASSEMBLY) ELECTIONS 2024

1. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Council of the London Borough of Lambeth with the agreement of Transport for London, intend to make an Order, the effect of which would be:-

(A) in the vicinity of Lambeth Town Hall and the Lambeth Civic Centre to temporarily:

(i) ban vehicles from entering: (a) Buckner Road; (b) Porden Road, provided that the ban on vehicles entering Buckner Road and Porden Road would not affect vehicles collecting or delivering ballot boxes to or from Lambeth Town Hall or the Civic Centre or vehicles requiring access or egress to properties only accessible from those roads, as directed by a traffic marshall or a police constable in uniform.

(ii) ban parking, waiting and loading, including waiting for the purpose of loading or unloading a vehicle in:(a) Porden Road (including the parking places); (b) that length of Acre Lane which lies on the north-west side, between a point 20 metres south-west of Trinity Gardens and Brixton Road;

(iii) impose a one-way system in Porden Road, in a south-easterly direction (towards Buckner Road);

(iv) suspend the Order that imposes the one-way system in Buckner Road in so far as that Order bans permitted vehicles proceeding in that length of road from travelling in a direction other than towards Porden Road. The Council would impose one-way working for vehicles in Buckner Road in a direction towards Acre Lane instead;

(v) suspend that length of the north-eastbound bus lane on Acre Lane which lies between a point 20 metres south-west of Trinity Gardens and Nos. 4 and 6 Acre Lane;

(B) in the vicinity of the Kia Oval Cricket Ground, Kennington to temporarily:-

(i) ban vehicles from entering or waiting (including the parking places) in that length of the north-eastern to north-western arm of Kennington Oval which lies between the northern kerb-line of Harleyford Road and the north-eastern kerb-line of Harleyford Street;

(ii) ban vehicles from entering the entire lengths of:

(a) Bowling Green Street; (b) Clayton Street; and (c) Vauxhall Street,

provided that the bans would not affect vehicles delivering ballot boxes to The Kia Oval Cricket ground or vehicles requiring access or egress to properties only accessible from those roads, as directed by a traffic marshall or a police constable in uniform.

(iii) impose a one-way system for vehicles in that length of Kennington Oval which lies between:-

(a) Harleyford Road and Clayton Street, in a direction towards Harleyford Road;

(b) Bowling Green Street and Clayton Street, in a direction towards Clayton Street; and

(c) Bowling Green Street and Harleyford Street in a direction towards Harleyford Street;

(iv) impose a one-way system in Clayton Street, in a direction towards Kennington Oval;

(v) ban vehicles proceeding in:-

(a) Vauxhall Street from turning left into Kennington Oval;

(b) Clayton Street from turning left into Kennington Oval;

(c) Bowling Green Street from turning right into Kennington Oval;

(C) in Streatham Common South to temporarily:-

(i) impose a one-way system in the entire length of Streatham Common South in a north-easterly direction (towards the Rookery Car Park);

(ii) ban vehicles entering or exiting Braxted Park at its junction with Streatham Common South;

(iii) ban vehicles entering or exiting Copley Park at its junction with Streatham Common South;

(iv) ban vehicles entering or exiting Covington Way at its junction with Streatham Common South.

2. The one-way systems, banned turns, road closures and waiting and loading restrictions are necessary because of the likelihood of danger to the public caused by an increase in pedestrian and vehicular traffic in the vicinity as a result of the safe transit and unloading of ballot boxes for the GLA elections.

3. Alternative routes would be available for vehicles affected by the bans described in paragraph 1 above via adjacent roads as indicated by traffic signs.

4. The one-way systems, road closures and waiting and loading restrictions would only apply at such time and to such extent as shall be indicated by the placing and covering of the appropriate traffic signs.

5. The Order would come into force on 29th April 2024 and would continue in force until 3rd May 2024. In practice it is anticipated that the restrictions referred to in paragraph 1(A) above would have effect at certain times between the 29th April and 2nd May 2024, the bans referred to in paragraph 1(B) above would have effect on 2nd May from 4 pm until 1 am on 3rd May 2024 and that the restrictions referred to in paragraph 1(C) above would have effect on 2nd May from 4 pm until 1 am 3rd May 2024 but if it is deemed necessary in the interest of public safety, the Order may also have effect at other times between 29th April and 3rd May 2024.

Dated 19th April 2024 Ben Stevens Highways Network Manager

Notice is given that: In The Park Events LTD, 86 – 90 Paul Street, EC2A 4NE has applied for the Variation of a Premises Licence for the following premises: Highams Farm, Sheepbarn Lane, CR6 9PQ

It is proposed that the following Variation to licensable activities will take place at the premises: Retail sale of alcohol (on sales only) and provision of regulated entertainment Saturday 27th July 2024 and Sunday 28th July 2024 from 13:00 until 21:30. There shall be no licensable activity on any other day nor any other events at the location during the period of the existing license.

If you wish to make any representations in relation to this application, please do so in writing, no later than 15th May 2024. (last date for making representations):

Licensing, Public Protection, Civic Centre, Stockwell Close, Bromley, BR1 3UH.

Application details can be viewed at Licensing, Public Protection, Civic Centre, Stockwell Close, Bromley, BR1 3UH.

Monday to Friday by appointment (except bank holidays), or online via www.bromley.gov.uk

It is an offence to knowingly or recklessly make a false statement in connection with an application. The maximum fine on summary conviction for such an offence is £5000.

Notice of application for a Premises Licence.

Notice is hereby given that Chi Hang Mok has applied to Wandsworth Council for a new premises licence at Ding Ding, unit 9 Tooting Market, 21-23 Tooting High Street, SW17 0SN for selling and serving alcohol. Any person who wishes to make a representation in relation to this application must give notice in writing by May 9, 2024 stating the grounds for making said representation to: Wandsworth Licensing Authority, Regulatory Services Partnership (Serving Merton, Richmond and Wandsworth Councils) Merton Civic Centre, London Road, Morden, Surrey, SM4 5DX or by email: licensing@merton.gov.uk

The record of this application may be inspected Monday to Friday (except Bank Holidays) by prior appointment at the offices of Wandsworth Licensing Authority, Regulatory Services Partnership (Serving Merton, Richmond and Wandsworth Councils) Merton Civic Centre, London Road, Morden, Surrey, SM4 5DX between the hours of 10.00 a.m. and 4.00 p.m. Information on all new and variation applications received by the Licensing Authority can be viewed on the Council’s website www.wandsworth.gov.uk

It is an offence, under section 158 of the Licensing Act 2003, to knowingly or recklessly make a false statement in or in connection with an application, punishable upon conviction by an unlimited fine.

To place a public notice, please email em@cm-media.co.uk Deadline is 3pm every Wednesday

1. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that to enable filming to take place in Durand Gardens, the Council of the London Borough of Lambeth intend to make an Order the effect of which would be to temporarily ban vehicles from entering that length of Durand Gardens which lies between No. 17 Durand Gardens and the western kerb-line of Liberty Street.

2. It is anticipated that filming would be intermittent, so pedestrian access to and from premises in the above length of Durand Gardens would be maintained.

3. Alternative routes for vehicles affected by the road closure would be available via (a) Durand Gardens (the north-easterly arm), Hackford Road, Caldwell Street and Clapham Road; and (b) Durand Gardens (the north-westerly arm), Clapham Road, Caldwell Street and Hackford Road.

4. The ban would only have effect at such times and to such extent as shall be indicated by the placing of the appropriate traffic signs and they would not apply to any vehicle or person connected with the filming.

5. The Order would come into force on 29th April 2024 and would continue in force for a maximum duration of 1 day. In practice it is anticipated that filming would take place between 9 am and 7 pm on 29th April 2024, but if the filming cannot be completed during that time, the order may also have effect at other times on that day.

Dated 19th April 2024

Ben Stevens Highway Network Manager

1. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that, to enable carriageway resurfacing works to be carried out, the Council of the London Borough of Lambeth, with the agreement of Transport for London, have made an Order the effect of which will be to temporarily ban vehicles from entering Railton Road between Hurst Street and Herne Place.

2. Alternative routes for affected vehicles will be available via (a) Railton Road, Rymer Street and Dulwich Road and vice versa and (b) Regent Road and Dulwich Road.

3. The ban will only apply at such times and to such extent as shall be indicated by the placing of the appropriate traffic signs.

4. The Order will come into force on 22nd April 2024 and will continue for a maximum duration of 1 month (to allow for contingencies) or until the works have been completed whichever is the sooner. In practice, it is anticipated that the works will take place between 22nd April 2024 and 24th April 2024, but if the works cannot be carried out or completed during that time then the Order may have effect at subsequent times within the maximum period of 1 month.

Dated 19th April 2024

1. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that, to enable telecommunication works to be carried out, the Council of the London Borough of Lambeth has made an order the effect of which will be to temporarily ban vehicles from parking and waiting (including waiting for the purpose of loading or unloading the vehicle) at any time in that length of Broxholm Road which lies between No. 2 Broxholm Road and No. 22 Broxholm Road (both sides of the road).

2. The ban on parking and waiting by vehicles in the length of Broxholm Road referred to above will only apply at such times and to such extent as shall be indicated by the placing of the appropriate traffic signs.

3. The Order will come into force on 29th April 2024 and it will continue for a maximum duration of 1 month (to allow for contingencies) or until the works have been completed, whichever is the sooner. In practice it is anticipated that the works will be carried out on 29th April 2024 between 11.30 am and 5.30 pm but if the works cannot be carried out or completed during that time then the Order may have effect on subsequent days up to the maximum period of 1 month.

Dated 19th April 2024

Ben Stevens Highway Network Manager

Ben Stevens Highway Network Manager LONDON BOROUGH OF LAMBETH

1. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that, to enable local residents/communities to hold a special event (Play Street Day), the Council of the London Borough of Lambeth intend to make an Order the effect of which would be to ban vehicles from entering Briarwood Road (the whole length) on Saturday 27th April 2024.

2. Alternative routes would be available for affected vehicles via Abbeville Road and Crescent Lane and vice versa.

3. The ban would only apply at such times and to such extent as shall be indicated by the placing of the appropriate traffic signs on 27th April 2024. In practice it is anticipated that the road would only be closed between 3 pm and 6 pm but if it is deemed necessary in the interest of public safety, the road may also be closed at other times on that date.

Dated 19th April 2024

Ben Stevens Highways Network Manager

TRAFFIC REGULATION ACT 1984 – SECTION 14 TEMPORARY TRAFFIC RESTRICTIONS

Crescent which lies between the north-eastern wall of Maytree Nursery school and the north-eastern wall of Nos.140 to 154 Clarence Crescent (approximately 30 metres).

2. Alternative routes for affected vehicles will be available via Clarence Crescent, Clarence Avenue and vice versa.

3. The ban will only apply at such times and to such extent as shall be indicated by the placing of the appropriate traffic signs.

4. The Order will come into force on 27th April 2024 for a maximum duration of 2 months (to allow for contingencies) or until the works have been completed, whichever is the sooner. In practice, it is anticipated that the works will be carried out between 27th April 2024 and 28th April 2024 with backup dates between 4th May 2024 and 5th May 2024 and 11th May 2024 and 12th May 2024, but if the works cannot be carried out or completed on those dates then the Order may also have effect on subsequent days within the maximum period of 2 months.

Dated 19th April 2024

Ben Stevens Highway Network Manager

LONDON BOROUGH

1. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that, to enable works to be carried out, the Council of the London Borough of Lambeth, subject to the agreement of the Council of the London Borough of Wandsworth, intend to make an Order, the effect of which would be to temporarily ban pedestrians and vehicles from entering that length of Windmill Drive which lies between a point 75 metres south-west of the north-eastern wall of No. 10 Windmill Drive and the borough boundary with the London Borough of Wandsworth.

2. Alternative routes for pedestrians and cyclists would be available via footpaths on Clapham Common. No alternative route is available for motor vehicles as this section of Windmill Drive is a no through road for motor vehicles.

3. The ban would only apply at such times and to such extent as shall be indicated by the placing of the appropriate traffic signs.

4. The ban on vehicles entering the length of Windmill Drive referred to in paragraph 1 above would not apply to any vehicle requiring access to or egress from premises accessible only from that length of Windmill Drive, providing that vehicle does not interfere with or disrupt the works.

5. The Order would come into force on 29th April 2024 and would continue for a maximum duration of 6 months (to allow for contingencies) or until the works have been completed, whichever is the sooner. In practice it is anticipated that the works would take place from 29th April 2024 for 20 weeks but if the works cannot be carried out or completed during that time then the Order may have effect at subsequent times within the maximum period of 6 months.

Town and Country Planning

LONDON

1. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Council of the London Borough of Lambeth made an Order under section 247 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 (“the Act”), entitled the London Borough of Lambeth (Stopping-Up of Highways) (Leake Street) Order 2024.

2. The Order stops-up the area of the footway on the north-east side of Leake Street, between a point 7 metres south-east of the southeastern kerb-line of York Road and a point 21 metres south-east of that kerb-line and is authorised only to enable the development described in the Schedule to this Notice to be carried out, in accordance with the planning permission granted on 18th February 2021 under reference 19/01477/EIAFUL. The area to be stopped-up is shown on the plan attached to the Order (the “relevant plan”).

3. If you have any enquiries, please telephone the Council’s Development-Related Works Team (Highways) on 020 7926 5784 or email: Drw@lambeth.gov.uk

4. A copy of the Order and the deposited plan giving detailed particulars about them are available for online at: www.lambeth.gov.uk/traffic-management-orders and at the offices of Lambeth Council’s Parking and Enforcement Group (Parking, Network Management and Fleet), 3rd Floor, Civic Centre, 6 Brixton Hill, London SW2 1EG, between 9.30 am and 4.30 pm on Mondays to Fridays inclusive (except on bank/public holidays), until the last day of a period of six weeks beginning with the date on which the Order is made. To arrange inspection please telephone 020 7926 0209 or email: Trafficorders@lambeth.gov.uk

5. If any person wishes to question the validity of the Order or of any provisions on the grounds that it or they are not within the powers conferred by the above Act, or that the requirement of that Act or of any instrument made under that Act has not been complied with, that person may, within 6 weeks from the date on which the Order is made, apply for that purpose to the High Court.

Dated 19 April 2024

SCHEDULE PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT:

Ben Stevens Highways Network Manager

Demolition of the existing building and all structures on the site, the construction of a new building ranging between 12 and 31 storeys (plus basements) to provide office and flexible floor space, creation of new pedestrian routes and public realm and works to Cab Road, Mepham Street, York Road, and Leake Street.

LONDON BOROUGH OF LAMBETH

Notice Under The Town and Country Planning Acts

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Council is considering applications as set out below under the following categories; FUL – Full Planning Permission

P3MA – Prior

referred to the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government. Confidential comments cannot be taken into account in determining an application.

Application plans can be viewed online at www.lambeth.gov.uk/searchplanningapps — search using the reference number at the end of each application listing.

22 Orlando Road London Lambeth SW4 OLF Refurbishment of townhouse, new internal timber stair, installation of new platform lift from basement to ground floor, removal of existing walk-on skylight and installation of Juliet balcony and balustrade at ground floor rear, replacement of ground floor doors at front elevation, installation of 2x heat pumps on second floor roof. 24/00898/FUL

249 St Thomas' Hospital, Lambeth Wing Westminster Bridge Road London Lambeth SE1 7EH Installation of new plant items involving 4x condenser units to roof and associated pipeworks. 24/00746/FUL

444 Brixton Road London Lambeth SW9 8BH Change of use of the ground floor retail (Use Class E(a)) to a delivery for blood transfusion centre (Use Class E(e)), comprising the installation a heating and cooling plant system on the roof of the site and replacement of the ventilation louvre to the front elevation. 24/00481/FUL

356 Kennington Road London SEll 4LD Application for Prior Approval for the change of use of existing first, second and third floors from commercial (Use Class E) to residential (Use Class C3), providing 1x 3 bed self-contained flat. 24/01115/P3MA

The South Bank Centre Belvedere Road London Lambeth SE1 8XX Permanent retention of existing cafe on the level 3 Roof Garden at the Queen Elizabeth Hall and installation of new awning, pergola and shipping container. 24/00801/FUL

162 Barcombe Avenue London Lambeth SW2 3BB Erection of a single storey ground floor side extension. Replacement of timber sash windows to front and rear elevations. Replacement of hard landscaping to the front and rear of the property. 24/00489/FUL

156 Lambeth Road London SE1 7DF Replacement of wooden framed single glazed windows and doors with wooden framed double glazed windows and doors at lower and upper ground floors (Flat 1). (Please note: The reference number for this Listed Building Consent application is 24/01014/LB but there is also an associated application for Full Planning Permission related to these works with reference number: 24/01015/FUL). 24/01014/LB

210 Acre Lane London Lambeth SW2 SUG Bathroom refurbishment at first floor level, involving the removal of the storage and internal walls, and the removal of the wall to the rear bedroom including the replacement of the bedroom door. 24/01027/LB

4 Lansdowne Gardens London Lambeth SWB 2EG Erection of a single storey lower ground floor rear extension and replacement of ground floor rear extension including replacement of garden steps to match existing, replacement of rear ground floor window and door. 24/00929/FUL

Land Bounded By Upper Ground, Cornwall Road And Doon Street, Waterloo London Erection of a temporary marquee and use of the site as an events venue (Period from 10 June 2024 to 24 July 2024). 24/00886/FUL

1C Ravensdon Street London SEll 4AQ Alteration to fenestration including the insertion of a window to the rear and side elevation at ground floor level. Installation of railings to the front elevation. 24/01007/FUL

149 Rosendale Road London SE21 8HE Installation of a bin and bike

ROAD

THE (RESTRICTION OF TRAFFIC) SPECIAL EVENTS ORDER 2024

1.The Council of the London Borough of Southwark hereby gives notice that it has made the above named Traffic Order under section 16A of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 for the purpose specified in paragraph 2. The effect of the Order is summarised in paragraph 3.

2.The purpose of the Order is to facilitate the Elections, as indicated in the schedule to this notice.

3.The effect of the Order is to prohibit any vehicle from:-

(a) entering or proceeding in the length of street specified in the schedule to this notice on the date and hours indicated.

(b) waiting (including waiting for the purpose of delivering or collecting goods or loading or unloading a vehicle) in the length of street specified in the schedule to this notice.

(c) stopping in the 7 disabled parking spaces in Barnham Street located between Tooley Street and Crucifix Lane.

(d) stopping in the loading, unloading and disabled persons vehicle bay located outside No’s 160, A200 Tooley Street

(e) The existing one way working in Shand Street, located between Tooley Street and Crucifix Lane, will be made two way for access and egress purposes

(f) The entire stretch of permit holders bays, located on Shand Street will be suspended

4. The prohibitions will not apply in respect of:

(a) any vehicle being used for the purposes of that event or for fire brigade, ambulance or police purposes;

(b) anything done with the permission or at the direction of a police constable in uniform or a person authorised by the Council of the London Borough of Southwark.

5.The alternative route for affected traffic will be via: Crucifix Lane, Bermondsey Street, Tooley Street. Tooley Street, Tanner Street, Druid Street, Crucifix Lane or as indicated by the signs displayed.

For information regarding this order contact: Network Management at ttmo@southwark.gov.uk

Dated this 16th April 2024

Ian Law Traffic Manager

London Borough of Southwark, Network Management, Environment, Neighbourhoods and Growth, 160 Tooley Street

PO Box 64529 London SE1 5LX

Ref: TTOELECT/BARNHA2024/TTO/ELEC/SHAND2024

Notice of application for a Premises Licence.

Notice is hereby given that Valentino Di Geronimo has applied to Wandsworth Council for a premises licence at Enoteca Chiaia, 17 Garratt Lane, London, SW18 4ED to provide the following licensable activities:

Sale and consumption of alcohol

Recorded and live music

Take away

Any person who wishes to make a representation in relation to this application must give notice in writing by 10th May 2024 stating the grounds for making said representation to: Wandsworth Licensing Authority, Regulatory Services Partnership (Serving Merton, Richmond and Wandsworth Councils) Merton Civic Centre, London Road, Morden, Surrey, SM4 5DX or by email: licensing@merton.gov.uk

The record of this application may be inspected Monday to Friday (except Bank Holidays) by prior appointment at the offices of Wandsworth Licensing Authority, Regulatory Services Partnership (Serving Merton, Richmond and Wandsworth Councils) Merton Civic Centre, London Road, Morden,Surrey, SM4 5DX between the hours of 10.00 a.m. and 4.00 p.m. Information on all new and variation applications received by the Licensing Authority can be viewed on the Council’s website www.wandsworth.gov.uk

It is an offence, under section 158 of the Licensing Act 2003, to knowingly or recklessly make a false statement in or in connection with an application, punishable upon conviction by an unlimited fine.

Notice of application for a Premises Licence.

Notice is hereby given that OK13 Limited has applied to Wandsworth Council for a new premises licence at OK 13, 16A Tooting Bec Road, London, SW17 8BD for Sale of Alcohol On and Off the premises.

Sunday to Saturday 11:00 to 00:00

Late Night Refreshment - On and Off the premises.

Sunday to Saturday 11:00 to 00:00

Any person who wishes to make a representation in relation to this application must give notice in writing by 13th May 2024 stating the grounds for making said representation to: Wandsworth Licensing Authority, Regulatory Services Partnership (Serving Merton, Richmond and Wandsworth Councils) Merton Civic Centre, London Road, Morden, Surrey, SM4 5DX or by email: licensing@merton.gov.uk

The record of this application may be inspected Monday to Friday (except Bank Holidays) by prior appointment at the offices of Wandsworth Licensing Authority, Regulatory Services Partnership (Serving Merton, Richmond and Wandsworth Councils) Merton Civic Centre, London Road, Morden,Surrey, SM4 5DX between the hours of 10.00 a.m. and 4.00 p.m. Information on all new and variation applications received by the Licensing Authority can be viewed on the Council’s website www.wandsworth.gov.uk

It is an offence, under section 158 of the Licensing Act 2003, to knowingly or recklessly make a false statement in or in connection with an application, punishable upon conviction by an unlimited fine.

LONDON BOROUGH OF SOUTHWARK

ROAD TRAFFIC REGULATION ACT 1984 SECTION 14(1)

(ABBEY STREET, COBOURG ROAD,MELON

(TEMPORARY PROHIBITION OF TRAFFIC)

1.The Council of the London Borough of Southwark hereby gives notice that to enable various works to be carried out, it intends, to make, an order, the effect of which will be to prohibit vehicular traffic from entering part of the above named roads.

2.Whilst the works are in progress, or whilst the authorised traffic signs/road markings are displayed, no person shall cause any vehicle to enter, proceed, stop, wait, load or unload at any time in:

(a) Abbey Street, between Enid street and Jamaica Road

(b) Cobourg Road, between Neate Street and Loncroft Road

(c) Melon Road, between Peckham High Street to it’s blocked end

(d) Barnham Street, between at railway bridge, located between Crucifix Lane and Tooley Street

(e) Fenwick Road, between East Dulwich Road and Strickland Court

(f) Library Street, between Milcote Street and Borough Road

(g) Avonmouth Street, between No’s 6

(h) Warner Road, between Crawford Road and No’s 63

(i) Glengarry Road, between No’s 6-8 to JW Thorncombe Rd

(j) Thorncombe Road, between the side of 129 East Dulwich Grove and Glengarry Road

(k) Trossachs Road, between Glengarry Road and Thorncombe Road

(l) Hillsboro Road, between East Dulwich Road and Thorncombe Road, the LTN restriction will be lifted

(m) Boundary Lane, side of 57-67 Camberwell Road

(n) Fellbrigg Road, between No’s 13

3.The alternative routes for affected traffic as indicated by the signs displayed

4.Exemptions will be provided in the Order to permit reasonable access to premises, so far as it is practical without interference with the execution of the said works.

5.The restrictions will not apply to any vehicle being used in connection with the said works, or for fire brigade, ambulance or police purposes or anything done with the permission or at the direction of a police constable in uniform.

6.The works will be in operation for (2a) 4th – 5th May (2b) 6th – 7th May (2c) 2nd – 17th May (2d) 6th – 10th May (2e) 7th – 8th May (2f) 7th May (2g) 6th – 13th May (2h) 9th – 11th May (2i) 7th May – 11th December (2j) 7th May – 11th December (2k) 7th May – 2nd July (2l) 7th May – 11th December (2m) 7th – 13th May (2n) 7th – 13th May

7.Further information may be obtained by contacting Road Network Management at ttmo@southwark.gov.uk

Dated this 18th April 2024

Ian Law Traffic Manager

London Borough of Southwark Network Management Environment, Neighbourhoods and Growth

160 Tooley Street

PO Box 64529

London SE1 5LX

Ref: (2a) 68616268 (2b) 67940663 (2c) 77001021 (2d) LBSCR13445 (2e) LBSCR13487 (2f) LBSCR13444 (2g) W118399542-00120 (2h) 00338558-00000001 (2i) 9621-04 (2j) 9621-01 (2k) 962102 (2l) (2m) 61514469 (2n) 10402148

Notice of application for a Premises Licence.

Notice is hereby given that Mrs Saima Shahzadi has applied to Wandsworth Council for a new premises licence at UK Food & Wine, 184 Battersea Park Road, London, SW11 4ND for Sale of Alcohol Off the premises.

Sunday to Thursday 07:00 to 00:00

Friday & Saturday 07:00 to 02:00

Any person who wishes to make a representation in relation to this application must give notice in writing by 13th May 2024 stating the grounds for making said representation to: Wandsworth Licensing Authority, Regulatory Services Partnership (Serving Merton, Richmond and Wandsworth Councils) Merton Civic Centre, London Road, Morden, Surrey, SM4 5DX or by email: licensing@merton.gov.uk

The record of this application may be inspected Monday to Friday (except Bank Holidays) by prior appointment at the offices of Wandsworth Licensing Authority, Regulatory Services Partnership (Serving Merton, Richmond and Wandsworth Councils) Merton Civic Centre, London Road, Morden,Surrey, SM4 5DX between the hours of 10.00 a.m. and 4.00 p.m. Information on all new and variation applications received by the Licensing Authority can be viewed on the Council’s website www.wandsworth.gov.uk

It is an offence, under section 158 of the Licensing Act 2003, to knowingly or recklessly make a false statement in or in connection with an application, punishable upon conviction by an unlimited fine.

Notice of application for a Premises Licence.

Notice is hereby given that Chill N Grill Takeaway Ltd applied to Hammersmith & Fulham for the grant of a premises licence at Chill N Grill Takeaway Ltd 195 Uxbridge Road, London, W12 9RA for:

The Provision of Late-Night Refreshment - Both Indoors and Outdoors

Sundays to Thursdays 23:00 to 00:00.

Fridays and Saturdays between 23:00 to 02:00.

A register of licensing applications can be inspected at www.lbhf.gov.uk/licensing. Any person wishing to submit representations to our application must give notice in writing to the licensing authority at the web address above or licensing@lbhf.gov.uk, giving the grounds of objection by 10.05.2024.

It is an offence liable on conviction to a fine up to Level 5 on the standard scale under Section 158 of the Licensing Act 2003 to knowingly or recklessly make a false statement in connection with this application.

HILLSBORO ROAD, BOUNDARY LANE, FELLBRIGG ROAD)

SurrEy faLL Short in thriLLinG ChaSE

Midnight Train makes nightmarish prediction ahead of world title tilt

By John Kelly

Defending champions miss out on first win of season

By Bruce Talbot

surrey FeLL short in a fourth-day run chase against somerset at the Kia oval as their vitality County Championship match ended in a draw.

Chasing 209 in 19 overs, Dan Lawrence and Jamie Smith hit 32 off the seventh and eight overs to take their stand to 90 and set up the prospect of a first win of the season for the champions.

Smith twice hit Craig Overton back over his head into the pavilion and pulled a short ball from Migael Pretorius over mid-wicket for his third six, but trying to clear long on off the first ball of the ninth over he was well caught by Matt Renshaw running in from the boundary for 45 off 25 balls.

Ollie Pope slashed the second ball of the tenth from Kasey Aldridge over point for six but he was bowled later in the over attempting a repeat before three wickets in nine balls ended Surrey’s challenge.

Aldridge picked up two in the 12th over as Jamie Overton slogged one in the air and skipper Rory Burns was caught on the boundary for a four-ball duck. Lewis Gregory then held a steepler to remove Dom Sibley off his own bowling.

Lawrence was unbeaten on 53 from 34

balls when the players shook hands with five overs left.

Earlier, Gregory batted for 66 overs for 80 in Somerset’s second-innings 351 as his determination, the loss of 18 overs in the morning to rain and the effects of a slow pitch and a Kookaburra ball which offered little assistance blunted the Surrey attack.

Gregory had come in on day three with his side five wickets down and only nine runs in front, but he got good support from Aldridge (42) and Craig Overton (52 not out) in four-and-a-quarter hours at the crease.

Play didn’t start until 12.10pm and when Surrey took the new ball Somerset’s lead was only 100. Gregory did edge a delivery from Kemar Roach which dropped just short of second slip but otherwise both he and Aldridge were untroubled until Roach made the breakthrough in the second over after lunch to end a seventh-wicket stand of 94.

Roach went slightly wide of the crease and Aldridge edged a ball which straightened a touch as he pushed forward.

The lead was 113 and after 13 overs of seam with the new ball Surrey switched to an all-spin attack but neither Steel

Scotney unifies titles

By John Kelly

eLLie sCotney claimed the biggest win of her professional career as she scored a unanimous victory against her previously unbeaten French opponent segolene Lefebvre at the Manchester arena last weekend.

Scotney added the world superbantamweight WBO belt to her IBF title.

Catford’s Scotney, 26, was relentless over ten rounds and won 99-91, 9793, 96-94 on the judges’ scorecards.

Lefebvre, 30, was more experienced

in age and in the ring but Scotney handed her a first loss in nineteen professional fights.

Scotney has won all of her nine professional bouts.

nor Lawrence could break through. Overton survived an lbw appeal on 11 when he offered no shot to a ball from Lawrence which wouldn’t have missed leg stump by much. On 30 he pushed forward to Steel and the ball looped up off the top of his pad, but again umpire Richard Kettleborough turned down the appeal.

Back came the seamers and on 69 Gregory hooked Gus Atkinson’s short ball to deep square leg where Roach put down a difficult chance in the swirling wind. Surrey might have guessed then that their day was to end in frustration.

Gregory, whose 50 held Somerset’s first innings together after they collapsed, and Overton extended their stand to 89 and Gregory had just swatted a ball from Steel through midwicket to take the lead beyond 200 when his vigil ended somewhat tamely with a cut to point.

Pretorius’s ill-judged drive to extra cover and a quicker ball which pinned Shoaib Bashir gave Steel the final three wickets and match figures of 9 for 146.

Surrey took fourteen points, Surrey eleven.

Surrey’s Steel, who took nine wickets, said: “Lewis Gregory, Kasey Aldridge batted very well and Craig Overton

backed it up so it was a tough slog for us. All credit to them for the way they played on a good pitch.

“The pitch here tends to get flatter as the game goes on but I’ve got no issues with the pitch, that’s what we like to play on. We generally win games with the Duke’s ball by outbatting and outbowling teams over the four days but it’s harder taking wickets with the Kookaburra as it gets softer and softer.

“We would have chased whatever they set us but sadly we couldn’t get over the line although Jamie Smith and Dan Lawrence batted really well.”

Somerset head coach Jason Kerr added: “Apart from about 40 minutes on day one we have been outstanding in this game. We showed a lot of resilience. We were close to shutting the game down but then we gave them a bit of a sniff. But Lewis Gregory and Kasey Aldridge bowled really well and I thought a draw was a fair result over four days.

“Kasey has been outstanding today with his bowling and batting today. He showed a lot of maturity under immense pressure. He’s grown as a cricketer already this season.”

Surrey travel to Kent on Friday (April 19).

Hamlet’s promotion hopes over despite win

By John Kelly

DuLWiCh haMLet’s slim chance of finishing in the isthmian League Premier Division play-off places is over despite their 2-0 win at Canvey island last weekend.

Danny Mills and Ryley Scott scored the goals in stoppagetime at the end of both halves but Dulwich boss Hakan Hayrettin and his coaching staff can now

fully concentrate on plans for next season in the seventh tier. Dulwich needed to win their last three games of the season and hope for an unlikely set of other results to go their way to finish in the top five.

With two games left, the highest the Champion Hill side can finish is seventh.

The Hamlet travel to Folkestone Invicta this Saturday for a 3pm kick-off.

riCharD riaKPorhe has made a chilling prediction ahead of his potential next fight - as he has threatened his opponent will still be having nightmares about him in 20 years.

Walworth’s Riakporhe and Chris Billam-Smith, from Bournemouth, are expected to meet in a cruiserweight showdown later this year.

Billam-Smith is the WBO belt holder after his victory over Lawrence Okolie last year.

But ‘Midnight Train’ Riakporhe handed ‘The Gentleman’ BillamSmith his only professional defeat, a split-decision in 2019. Riakporhe is is unbeaten in seventeen professional fights, thirteen of the wins coming inside the distance.

“He’s got one loss on the record, on his impressive record,” Riakporhe said. “I’m just going to do it again, that’s the plan, I need to double that number, that’s the aim, that’s my goal.

“What makes it so much better and tantalising is that there’s a world title belt on the line. I have the confidence already because I beat him already. But because this world title’s on the line, I feel like I’m just ready to go to another place.

“I want to put on a performance that cannot be questioned. People are going to know the difference between me and The Gentleman. There’s a big difference - I believe that I’m a level above.”

Riakporhe belies he will be like a nightmarish fictional character haunting Billam-Smith many years from now.

He said: “There are fights that I’ve been in where I didn’t come with the intention to win the rounds, I just want the knockout. I actually want to knock out every single opponent I face.

“That’s my gift. I just know how to do it. Check my track record, my last five fights all KOs within the distance and that’s against decent opposition.

“I do believe that power is enough to deal with Chris BillamSmith. My power in particular is enough to deal with him. No matter whether he’s winning rounds or not. I just need to land the correct shot and he’s gone.

“I’m going for the KO, that’s all I want to do. Chris BillamSmith has made a big mistake. He’s going to be looking back 20 years from now, regretting taking this fight and I’m going to still be visiting him in his dreams like Freddy Krueger.”

Photo by Mark Sandom

Jamie Smith (pictured) and Dan Lawrence HIT 32 off the seventh and eighth overs

Ellie Scotney with her belts

Johnnie not throwing in towel yet

By John Kelly

Johnnie JaCKson believes there is “still a lot to play for” despite aFC Wimbledon’s 3-2 defeat to swindon town at the County Ground at the weekend leaving them outsiders to clinch a play-off place.

Joe Lewis put Wimbledon ahead in the second minute before Gavin Gunning's hosts scored three times in the second half through Aaron Drinan and Dawson Devoy's brace.

Lewis scored two minutes from time but the home side held on despite Udoka Godwin-Malife's dismissal a minute into stoppage-time.

It would take a remarkable mix of results for the Dons to finish in the top seven in League Two, but Jackson also stressed to the squad they are playing for their futures over the last two games.

“It’s hard to take because I don’t feel that they were the better team,” Jackson said. “We were in the ascendency for the majority of the game and had the best moments. We had to get a win. We tried to do that and that’s probably cost us because the game became chaotic. It all came from us letting them off the hook and giving them a really soft goal for the equaliser.

“The boys threw everything at it in the final moments and if we had an extra five minutes we probably would’ve got another goal as Swindon were hanging on.

“We had loads of great moments but the quality of our final ball at times was lacking. We chose the wrong option too many times, which is the most frustrating thing. The quality has let us down in the last little bit.

“There’s two games and madly, there’s still something resting on them. If we can get to 68 points, that asks questions of other teams. There’s still a lot to play for and that will help with our preparations for Tranmere. I’ve told the players that they have two games to show they want to be a part of what we’re doing.

“If we miss out this season, we need to be putting together a squad that is capable of mixing it with the teams vying for automatic promotion spots and playoff places. With that in mind, the players have got to be on it every game.

“We’ve progressed the football club hugely this season but we want to get promoted and get this club back to League One. If it doesn’t happen this season, it has to happen next season. We’ve got a good group of lads who give everything but sometimes that isn’t enough.”

By John Kelly

oLiver GLasner praised “fantastic” Dean henderson after the Crystal Palace goalkeeper pulled off two point-blank saves in the eagles’ stunning 1-0 win against Liverpool at Anfield on Sunday.

Eberechi Eze scored the only goal of the game when he finished Tyrick Mitchell's cut-back in the fourteenth minute.

Henderson raised a left hand to push the ball over the bar from Luis Diaz’s effort and then used his leg to deny Darwin Nunez.

Full-back Nathaniel Clyne and midfielder Jefferson Lerma were in an unfamiliar back three either side of Joachim Andersen. Clyne produced an outstanding block to keep out Diogo Jota’s attempt.

Left wing-back Mitchell arguably topped that when he blocked Mohamed Salah’s effort from inside the six-yard box in injury-time.

Anderson superbly led the defence and Lerma provided excellent cover when

By John Kelly

CharLton athLetiC are on their longest unbeaten run in almost ten years - but nathan Jones was far from happy after his side let another lead slip in their 1-1 draw at Cambridge united at the weekend.

The Addicks made it thirteen games unbeaten to match the sequence they set in the Championship in October 2014.

Connor Wickham scored his first goal for Charlton in the 23rd minute before Macauley Bonne scored against his

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Jurgen Klopp’s title chasers got in behind.

Henderson got his place back in the side after Sam Johnstone injured his elbow on England international duty in March.

“It is fantastic win, congratulations to the team for the performance in the first half in playing football and the confidence we had and the chances we created and how compact we were,” Glasner said.

“Congrats for the passion and the spirit in the second half, how we defend. We had a lot of pressure and a fantastic goalkeeper in Dean and an outstanding passion to defend as a team. That’s the reason we kept a clean sheet and won the game.

“It is not every time you win here and I think I will go to bed early today and get up and have my coffee.

“In the first half I really liked the confidence in possession as Liverpool put us under pressure. The first goal we had 20 passes and many players in the box, that’s what we are working on.

“In the second half we had one big chance where Alisson made a great save, but we didn’t have the situation we

former club five minutes after half-time.

“We’ve got to keep a clean sheet,” Jones said. “We’ve led at Fleetwood –comfortable. We’ve led at Northampton – comfortable. We’ve lead here –relatively comfortable apart from the wind. Yet we’ve dropped two points.

“We could be the highest pointstakers in the league in the last thirteen, fourteen games but something keeps happening. When we don’t score chances at the other end and put the game to bed, then that’s what happens.

“It’s a poor goal, [to concede]. He shouldn’t score from there with that

Goalkeeper produces stunning saves as Palace

shock Liverpool

created in first half in possession and transition. We defended as a fantastic unit.

“We showed who we are and how we want to play. The players did that from the first whistle. Maybe in the second half it wasn’t possible as the pressure from Liverpool was so high, but we defended them.”

It was a first league win in six games since Palace beat Burnley 3-0 at Selhurst Park in Glasner’s first match in charge.

"We can say we did it our way, you can always lose here, but it's about being able to express yourself and play with confidence," Glasner said.

"We cleared many situations under pressure with one, two touch. We scored an amazing goal. It's about confidence, team spirit, passion."

Henderson joked it felt like the game lasted “about a year”.

“Obviously coming to places like this you know you're going to be busy,” Henderson said on Palace’s website. “I'm really enjoying being back now.

“I feel good this time around. I'm

type of shot. There’s no doubt in my mind about that.”

Jones added: “The positives are it’s another point, undefeated, away from home, very difficult conditions – the wind is swirling, the pitch is rustic at best. And we created enough chances to have won the game. So those are the positives.

“The pitch didn’t allow too much good, fluent football. We went to Fleetwood the other day and it was just brutal. [Saturday] was brutal. The pitch is dry, they probably haven’t watered it in eight, ten years.”

delighted and to come in to keep a clean sheet - it's a team effort, of course - but I'm delighted with that, I'm buzzing.”

Henderson added: “We rode our luck many a time. The lads all dug in, they made save after save for me as well.

“When it comes to me, I do my job and it starts from the front and I thought we pressed really well and the boys showed a lot of courage here and we deserved that performance.

“I felt like I was out there for about a year and I didn't think it was ever going to end! But to be fair the boys just stuck in there.

“I think the lads believed we could do something here. You had that sense on the coach on the way in. The pressure's on them, we come here and we play our stuff, we've got some great talent in the dressing room, we've got bodies coming back in and the stuff we've been working on with the gaffer is coming out now.

“You've seen that, so we've just got to stick to the plan, points will come - once the bodies come back we'll be a good outfit.”

The result means Charlton are mathematically safe from relegation after they were only three points above the bottom four with no wins in twelve games when Jones took over in January.

Jones said: “That was the goal, but I never had any doubt in my mind that we wouldn’t [beat the drop], with the squad and how we work and how we do stuff.

“What I would really like us to do is really get some momentum pushing into next season.”

Charlton host Shrewsbury Town on Saturday.

Dean Henderson got his chance after an injury to Sam Johnstone

LEaDinG By EXamPLE

eXCLuSive

By Kiro Evans

neiL harris said he is delighted to retain the services of “huge characters” George saville, ryan Leonard and tom Bradshaw.

The trio were among the senior players whose deals were set to expire in June. But all three have seen their contracts extended after triggering a clause linked to the number of appearances made.

Between them they have 546 appearances for Millwall and are

among the most experienced squad members in the dressing room.

Harris credits them with “driving” the high standards he expects at the club.

Asked about Saville and Leonard, whose contract extensions emerged last week, Harris said: “They’re huge characters. Both are really, really good men and human beings. They care about people and are selfless in the way they train and prepare for matches. And by that I mean they put the club first.

“They understand that it’s about the

harris pleased with hat-trick of contract extensions

club’s philosophy and club-led. What’s best for this football club to retain Championship status? They’re two that are driving it.

“What they’ve done admirably is backed up that thought process with performances on the pitch. Training standards are very good and they lead with voice, presence and demand standards in the changing room. These are attributes that I demand as a manager so I’ve been really impressed and I’m delighted they’re here next year at the football club.

“The football club needs them

moving forward. We need that Millwall experience and the identity at the football club to help younger players when they’re coming through and players that sign for the football club that need to be led and they’re two characters that can do that.”

On Bradshaw, the Lions boss added: “When I talk about selfless characters that put club before personal gain, then Bradders certainly fits into that category. He’s a player - like Lenny and Sav - that has developed and adapted his game as he’s matured in age.

“Bradders has the fortunate knack

as a centre-forward of scoring goals at vital times. His work ethic and his desire to lead from the front is phenomenal. It’s made him an excellent Championship centreforward for the last seven years.

“Not having Bradders for the fiveweek period [due to injury] betwen Southampton and Leicester was a huge loss for us. Not only did it isolate Michael Obafemi as the only recognised number nine in the squad, we also missed his character, his personality and his smile in the changing room.”

Per-fect plan pleases Silva QPR manager: ’Stay calm’

By John Kelly

FuLhaM Boss Marco silva gave Andreas Pereira specific instructions against West ham united - and it paid off as the Brazilian midfielder scored both goals in the 2-0 win at the London stadium.

Pereira scored either side of the break and could have had more as the Cottagers completed a first league double over the Hammers since 1965-66.

“The plan was clear for him. We said for him to never be behind the two midfielders from West Ham, we wanted him always in the pockets in between the lines,” Silva said. “About him arriving more in certain areas, it’s something that

we have demanded from him.

“Before Andreas joined our football club, he was playing much more as a second midfielder. At Manchester United in some moments, sometimes as a wide player as well, in the other spells that he had around Europe as well, even in Flamengo in Brazil he played always as a second midfielder. Since he joined ourselves, he has been clearly in a different line, much more as an offensive midfielder there in the pockets, and that is something that we have been working with him on, to arrive more in certain positions.

“He’s probably one of the players in this league with more assists and all that stuff, he’s really strong in set-pieces, too.

In our team he’s clearly a player with

more assists, [but] sometimes you have to be more decisive when you play in that role in the team, score more goals as well.

“I’m really pleased to see him arrive in certain areas that are important, the way he believed in the first goal that the second ball would come for him, and of course the composure in that finish was really good.

“The way he arrived inside the box for the second goal, really pleased to see, because it’s something that we demand from them and we push them to do it. But of course when the things are happening in the game, it makes them believe more and for sure it’s going to be important for Andreas.”

Fulham host Liverpool on Sunday.

By John Kelly

Queens ParK

rangers

manager

Marti Cifuentes has called for calm after the r’s were dragged back into the relegation battle - pointing out their fate is still in their own hands.

After five wins and only one defeat in their previous eight games moved them up to sixteenth, six points above the bottom three, QPR have taken just a point from their last three games and are nineteenth, three points above Huddersfield Town in 22nd Cifuentes’ side lost 3-0 at play-off hopefuls Hull City at the weekend. Ozan Tufan and Fabio Carvalho scored in the first half before Jaden Philogene added a third after the break.

"I was really disappointed with the result.

We played against a very good team and they showed their quality after we made a good start to the game,” Cifuentes said.

"I am now not thinking about the narrative of this game, now it is time to move on. Now is the time to stay calm. We have three games to go - two of them at home - so it is up to us.

"I have been saying [the relegation battle] could [go] until the last minute of the season.

"Five months ago, perhaps even one month ago, we could only dream [to be in their current position]. People thought this would be a walk in the park but that is not the case.

"It's up to us. We need to remain together and keep pushing."

QPR host Preston North End on Saturday at the later time of 5.15pm.

George Saville, Tom Bradshaw and Ryan Leonard will all be Millwall players under Neil Harris next season

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Attacker hits four - including seventeen-minute hat-trick

By John Kelly

MauriCio PoChettino said he always knew Cole Palmer could be a goal machine after the Chelsea attacker’s sensational performance in the 6-0 demolition of everton at stamford Bridge on Monday night.

Palmer netted a seventeen-minute hat-trick before the break and added a penalty in the second half. He is level with Erling Haaland in the race for the Premier League Golden Boot with 20 goals this season.

Palmer had never scored a league goal before his move to Chelsea from Manchester City last summer. He showed his full repertoire against Everton.

Palmer’s first was a brilliant finish placed into the corner from outside

Ravens secure semi-final spot after City win

Pochettino furious after pen squabble

By John Kelly

the box after he had initiated the move and combined with Nicolas Jackson.

His second was a close-range header following goalkeeper Jordan Pickford save from Jackson’s effort.

Palmer completed his hat-trick with a brilliant 40-yard lob on his weaker right foot after he had intercepted Pickford’s attempted pass.

Palmer scored his fourth from the penalty spot.

There were some eyebrows raised when Chelsea paid City £40million for Palmer, who had made only three league starts in his career.

But Pochettino never had any doubts.

"It's always you expect the best. It does not surprise us but of course he is a player that always had the capacity to score goals when he was playing at Manchester City,” Pochettino said.

By John Kelly

“You were seeing he had the capacity to score easily, no?

"But in the way he adapts himself in the team and the club, the way he is performing, I think it's fantastic. He is showing that the club made the right decision finding him."

Palmer, who has eleven goals in his last six games, was pleased with how Chelsea reacted to their 2-2 draw at Sheffield United.

He said: "We started well and to score a hat-trick, I'm buzzing. I think the team needed that after last Sunday and some previous games. We did well tonight. It was a great game for the team and me."

Palmer added: "I think my first one was my favourite."

"My right-footed goal was a bit of a swinger, but my first one was probably my favourite. As an attacker, you always want to help the team

BroMLey CLinCheD their place in the national League play-off semi-finals with an impressive 3-1 win at oxford City on tuesday night.

The Ravens, who had already

with goals and assists, but my main focus was playing well and trying to get into the positions to score goals."

Jackson scored Chelsea’s fourth goal before the rout was completed by local lad Alfie Gilchrist with a half-volley past Pickford. It was the 20-year-old defender’s first senior goal on his eighth substitute league appearance.

"It was crazy. I joined in the attack when very rarely I do, but the one time I saw an opportunity, I just concentrated and smashed it as hard as I could,” Gilchrist said.

"Every time I have been here as a fan, you look up and you see the replay of other people scoring, so seeing myself there is a dream come true for me and my family."

Chelsea’s attentions now turn to their FA Cup semi-final against City at Wembley on Saturday.

secured a play-off spot, now bypass the quarter-finals as they moved a step closer to promotion.

Ben Krauhaus opened the scoring in the second minute and three minutes later Idris Odutayo scored his first goal for the club.

Corey Whiteley made it 3-0 in

MauriCio PoChettino said it was “a shame” after an embarrassing squabble lasting more than two minutes over who would take a penalty in Chelsea’s 6-0 win over everton at stamford Bridge on Monday night.

Cole Palmer had already scored a hattrick when he was fouled by Abdoulaye Doucoure with the Blues 4-0 up.

With regular penalty taker Palmer still down in the box, Noni Madueke grabbed the ball before an argument broke out with Nicolas Jackson who wanted to take it. Thiago Silva then spoke to the pair before Madueke appeared to think he was going to step up. Captain Conor Gallagher then approached Madueke and snatched the ball out of his hands to give it to Palmer.

But it didn’t end there as Jackson returned only to be pushed away by Palmer and Gallagher, who also pushed Madueke. Jackson and Gallagher continued to argue as Madueke showed his displeasure by petulantly raising his hand three times before it settled down and Palmer beat Jordan Pickford for his fourth goal of the game.

It was Palmer’s ninth successful penalty out of nine this season.

The incident took some shine off the win and Pochettino was asked about it afterwards.

"I can't accept this kind of behaviour," Pochettino said.

"I told them it's the last time I want to see this kind of behaviour."

"It is impossible to have this type of behaviour after this performance. If we want to be a great team, we need to change and think in a collective way.”

Blues players argue over spot-kick

the 64th minute before Harvey Greenslade pulled a goal back for the hosts eleven minutes later.

Andy Woodman’s side can still finish second and play their last game of the regular season at Gateshead, who will be in the play-off quarterfinals, this Saturday.

Cole Palmer with team-mate Nicolas Jackson