London motorists charged £630k in fines in just five months on aLbert bridge
By Adrian Zorzut
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London motorists have been fined more than £630k for breaking a three-tonne weight restriction on Albert Bridge.
A Freedom of Information (FoI) request by the BBC’s Local Democracy Reporting Service (LDRS) found Kensington and Chelsea Council issued drivers 11,766 fines worth £130 between January 9 and May 27.
The penalty, which came into force on January 11, is meant to deter heavy good vehicles from using the popular West London bridge.
The LDRS found more than half – 68per cent – of motorists had their fine reduced to £65 because they paid within the 14 day window. At least 2995 fines – or just above 25pc – were forced to pay the full amount. Another 737 fines worth between £195 and £260 were handed out.
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The rest have either not been paid or challenged by drivers. The FoI showed all fines were issued to vehicles travelling southbound.
The council has been asked to explain why a fine was issued before the scheme’s start date of January 11 but has no provided a comment. The motorist was not charged.
In January, Kensington and Chelsea Council said it would fine hauliers £130 if they broke a three-tonne limit for goods vehicles using the bridge.
According to Gov.UK, motorists have 28 days to pay off their fine or face a “charge certificate”. This means the driver will have 14 days to pay the original fine plus 50pc more.
At the time, councillor Cem Kemahli, lead member for planning and public realm, said he did not want the bridge succumbing to the same fate as Hammersmith Bridge, which has been closed to motor traffic for five years because of a structural fault.
He said: “The bridge is structurally sound and perfectly safe, but it is a listed structure
and an important river crossing so we need to make sure we protect both the surface and the structure for the long term.” The West London council said it previously relied on width restriction barriers to deter heavy goods vehicles from using Albert Bridge – a rule that has been in place since 2012 and recently spent £100k resurfacing the deck in October.
It said drivers regularly using the bridge had been given advance notice, with warning signs on the street and more than 1,400 warning notices issued since December 6, 2023.
Goods vehicles over three tonnes that are fined under the new scheme can have it reduced to £65 if it is paid within 14 days, according to the council’s website. The weight of your vehicle is usually listed in the vehicle’s owner’s manual or you can check the specifications on the DVLA website.
A Kensington and Chelsea spokesperson said: “We want to protect the surface and
structure of the listed Albert Bridge for the long term and the weight restriction has been in place since 2012 to help us achieve that.
“Motorists using Albert Bridge are warned about the weight enforcement by a number of warning signs on the approach, a sign at the point of enforcement and temporary notices warning of camera enforcement. We also installed warning signs on the street and issued more than 1,400 warning notices ahead of introducing the enforcement in January this year.
“Drivers always have an option to appeal traffic violations or parking fines. We initially implemented the scheme on the basis of warning drivers rather than issuing fines.”
The LDRS understands revenue from the fines is being used to pay for the maintenance of the Grade II listed bridge, which the council has spent £10m doing since 2012. It also understands there have been no cases of motorists successfully appealing fines because of inadequate signage
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whom to caLL when you need to find 25,000 bees a home?
EXCLUSIVE
By Isabel Ramirez
A rotherhithe man has found a new home for thousands of bees in Southwark Park.
Tamir Ikhagvaa got a call from Team London Bridge ‘about a week ago’ that there was a swarm in Bermondsey that needed his help.
The 45-year-old, who lives in Surrey Quays, told us: “The bees had ended up on a tree in Queen Elizabeth Gardens.”
Tamir was the perfect man for the job - an experienced beekeeper looking for a chance to get back into it. “I used to keep
‘Oi Gareth’: Rapper calls out England boss in Euros freestyle at Kirby Estate
EXCLUSIVE
By Isabel Ramirez
A grime artist has released a Euros-themed freestyle, calling out the England manager, which he filmed at the Kirby Estate.
Tommy B’s ‘A message to Gareth’ went live on social media just days ago and has already got people talking in the area.
In the video, he can be seen giving England manager Gareth Southgate some tongue-in-cheek advice about how to make sure the team steps up their game into the European championships. Despite starting off strong in their first match against Serbia, winning 1-0, England drew in its last two games. The uninspiring scores and play had left lots of fans disappointed.
Tommy B references this when he says: “Question - how do you p*** off a whole country? Easy - score one goal and then sit back.”
Asked about the choice to film it in Bermondsey, he said: “It wasn’t planned. We were a the studio in Peckham throwing around ideas.
“I did some euro freestyles before so we thought of doing that.
“So I made the beat on the spot and wrote the lyrics on the spot, then memorised it.
“One of my friends thought of the Kirby as it was just a mile down the road.”
He is from Essex but says he’s known about the famous patriotic estate for years.
“The Kirby is legendary,” he told us, “I love how they do the England flags. I’m proud of it.”
He said he’s been rapping since he was young: “I started writing my own lyrics when I was nine.”
Describing his style, he said: “It’s social commentary. I try to tap into the opinions and funny stuff that I see.”
“Grime is my foundation. That’s where I started.”
He added that he thought football could bring everyone together and hoped to bring back some of the community spirit that has been lost.
Go to southwarknews.co.uk to hear the rap more of Tommy B, including his debut album, Spiritual Hooligan, which dropped last year, can be found on his You Tube channel.
hives in east London and before covid I had planned to make it into a project for young people,” he told us.
“But it didn’t work out and the bees didn’t survive lockdown.”
As if meant to be there were two hives at the back of Southwark Park, behind The Lodge Space yoga cafe. “So we moved the bees in there. I named the queen bee ‘Elizabeth’ because of where they were found. Queen Elizabeth is already thriving,” he commented.
Tamir caught another swarm in east London during Ramadan (their queen is ‘Eid’) and now it sits beside the other colony. There are around 25,000 of them and when the queen has reproduced
there will be double that.
Unfortunately, anyone wanting honey will have to wait another year. “It’s usually advisable not to harvest it in the first year until the colony is stronger.”
He explained the swarming is ‘part of the bees’ natural cycle.’
“They usually swarm during early summer-late spring. It’s how they reproduce. Then beekeepers go and collect them.”
They either find the current hive too small or the queen not fit for purpose, i.e. she is not laying eggs.
Like a real-life version of DreamWorks’ ‘Bee Movie’, each bee has a job to do. In the first week, they are cleaners, then nurses, then guide bees sitting by the entrance guiding the other bees who leave the hives. “In the third week they start foraging.”
He said: “The worker bees spend their whole lives working, the summer ones only live for six weeks.
“Their whole life is living for the good of the colony.”
Originally from Mongolia, Tamir said beekeeping in London helps him stay connected to nature. “The sounds of buzzing bees remind me of my childhood being in the countryside.
“And it has come at a perfect time for me,” he continued, “I have had a hard few years in my personal life and this relaxes me. You have to be gentle with them so it’s good for your mental health.”
When asked if he’s ever been stung he said: “Oh hundreds of times,” but that hasn’t seemed to put him off.
Anyone can see the bees on the right, outside The Lodge Space in Southwark Park.
Tamir Ikhagvaa and his beehive
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Tommy B at the Kirby Estate
ProPer bermondsey send-off for russeLL dryden
By Kevin Quinn
oVer four hundred people flocked to St James’ Church on Monday afternoon, July 1, and crowds poured on to Southwark Park road in Bermondsey, to say a final farewell to the area’s most beloved fishmonger
Russell Dryden’s sudden death shocked locals, who had come to see him as the face of the Blue Market after running his stall there for 36 years.
Aged just 64, this larger-than-life character died from a heart attack last month at his home in Rotherhithe.
It is a double tragedy for the close-knit Dryden family after Russell’s wife and childhood sweetheart Janice passed away just six months ago, and they leave behind sons Ben and Alfie and daughter Carly, grandchildren Kittie and Isla.
But in true Bermondsey style hundreds came to show their love and support to the family, as they gathered for a tearful but uplifting service at St James’ Church, accompanied by music including a track of Russell singing one of his own songs.
His son Ben, who has been running the family fish stall with his dad for the past ten years, had the mourners laughing as he regaled them with his childhood memories of Russell climbing trees in Southwark Park. In a very poignant but heart-warming
moment he recalled that after losing his mum last year he turned to his father and said: “It’s just us now Dad - we are like the Steptoe and son of the fishmongers.”
Russell’s granddaughter Kittie delivered a tender speech with word play where she called her beloved grandfather more of a dad who helped bring her up, saying: “He always told me to be brave and I have made it my life’s work to make him proud.”
Her moving speech was made just moments after the choir of Boutcher
Primary school took to the altar of the large church to sing ‘Goodness of God’ to a standing ovation from the congregation. A painting of his fish stall by one of its pupils stood proudly by his coffin.
The imposing church was used as a large crowd was almost guaranteed for a man whose connection with the area went far deeper than that of a fishmonger. His family ran Crazy Prices shop that was a landmark on Southwark Park Road for many years. He also championed local bands as part of Bermondsey Beat, showcasing them and eventually running the annual Bermondsey Carnival in Southwark Park.
A vocal champion for businesses, he founded the Blue Business Improvement District (Blue Bermondsey BID) in the hope of
transforming the ailing fortunes of the traditional Bermondsey town centre. And at that special place, which for the past week has seen many floral tributes laid to Russell, hundreds more gathered as the funeral cortege made its way past the market square en route to another service at Honor Oak Crematorium.
Conducted by Albin’s funeral directors, doves were released to live music at the square as the cortege passed. And as the hearse drew up to his market pitch, a seagull swooped and circled the place where this great fishmonger and Bermondsey legend was such a charismatic and integral part of local life.
teenager jailed for life after he killed a man over an e-bike in Peckham
By Isabel Ramirez
A teenAger who killed a young father for his e-bike in Peckham has been jailed for life.
Yusuf Kallon, nineteen, stabbed Rohan Trotman to death in a “senseless attack” in June last year. Alongside an accomplice Kallon left Rohan bleeding in the street near Nunhead Green with multiple stab wounds.
The self-confessed “career criminal”, who is from Peckham, planned to escape to Sierra Leone after the murder.
Detectives investigating the fatal stabbing arrested and charged 19-year-old Yusuf Kallon within just two weeks of the killing.
Detectives proved Kallon had dumped his phone shortly after the murder, and spent hundreds of hours on intensive CCTV trawls to identify him as a suspect.
Detectives also revealed that Kallon was making desperate plans to flee, by making credit card payments to a holiday company in Spain, booking a flight to Sierra Leone and paying for a new fast-tracked passport.
On Monday, 3 June, a jury convicted Kallon of murder and two counts of
robbery. He was sentenced at Inner London Crown Court on Friday, 28 June to life imprisonment with a minimum term of 28 years.
Detective Chief Inspector Laurence Smith, who led the investigation, said: “Rohan was a much loved son, partner, and brother. Put simply, he was killed by Kallon for his new electric bike in a senseless attack that has devastated a family.
“I am glad that the jury saw through Kallon’s lies, and I would like to thank my team for their diligent work which allowed clear and incontrovertible evidence to be shown in court. The sentencing reflects the seriousness of this offence and it is right that Kallon will spend a significant period of time in prison.
“My thoughts and condolences remain with Rohan’s family, and I hope they can find some small measure of comfort in that fact Kallon has been jailed.”
Rohan’s mother, Debra, said: “I would like to thank the exemplary efforts of the police in bringing Kallon to justice.”
Twenty-six-year-old Rohan was stabbed on the evening of Sunday, 25 June 2023 in Gordon Road near the
The
The court was told that Kallon’s accomplice fled the UK before police
left Rohan bleeding in the street with multiple stab wounds, and he died the next day in
Kallon was also charged with two counts of robbery and possession of an offensive weapon. He was also found
junction with Nunhead Green, SE15. The court heard that he had been cycling home from Croydon on his new electric bike, when he was attacked by Kallon and another man, who fled the country shortly afterwards.
could link him to the murder and make an arrest.
pair
hospital.
guilty of the two robbery charges.
The court heard that both Kallon and his accomplice had committed a robbery earlier that day, shortly before the murder, stealing a motorbike from the Waterloo area.
Kallon was found not guilty of possession of an offensive weapon.
Yusuf Kallon
Russell Dryden with a regular seagull visitor to his stall in Bermondsey
Victim Rohan Trotman
Stand-off outside Rotherhithe yoga cafe as ‘bailiffs smash window after eviction notice’
By Isabel Ramirez
eArLy morning customers were shocked to find a standoff between police, bailiffs and owners at a little community cafe in Southwark Park this week.
On Monday morning, July 1, at around 7am, a group of bailiffs arrived at The Lodge Space on Lower Road. The cafe had been served an eviction notice on 14 June, however they claim they had appealed it and therefore the eviction was ‘unlawful.’
It is believed it is all over a dispute surrounding mortgage payments
After being refused entry by owners, staff claim the bailiffs ‘smashed one of the windows with a crowbar.’
General Manager of The Lodge Space, Ollie Hawkins said: “We said they couldn’t go in because we had appealed the eviction and one guy said ‘we don’t care, we’re coming in anyway.’
“They smashed the window with a
crowbar. So many of us are bleeding. I’ve got glass in my shoes, my feet are ripped to pieces.”
When we arrived there were around 15 people inside The Lodge, including staff and customers - standing behind a huge shattered window. They had barricaded the window with furniture for protection from the broken glass.
The Lodge Space has been fundraising for survival for the last few months after falling into financial issues. The cafe and yoga spot, which offers affordable and free classes, has become quite a hub for the community, with dozens of people flocking to support their space today
The bailiff company, Wilson and Roe, has been approached for comment.
A Met Police spokesperson said: “Police were called on the morning of Monday, 1 July to a disturbance at an address in Lower Road SE16. Officers are in attendance to prevent a breach of the peace.
“No arrests were made.”
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ashLey waLters to narrate a new bbc series about young bmX riders
Ashley Walters
By Isabel Ramirez
A tEn-PArt BBC documentary about young BMX riders from Peckham is coming this July, narrated by So Solid Crew and top Boy’s Ashley Walters.
Starting Monday 1 July, BMX All Stars follows young riders from one of the most successful clubs in the UK, Peckham BMX.
The series tells the story of the young riders from Peckham BMX throughout a season of adrenaline-fuelled racing as they endeavour to make it to the world championships in Glasgow.
Families and young audiences can follow the next generation of Olympic hopefuls as they unite a community in a unique home-grown story of battling to be the best.
Also featuring are Olympians Kye Whyte, Beth Shriever, Charlotte Worthington and freestyler James Jones who share tips and skills. World and National Champion Quillan Isidore and British National Champion Tian Isidore also share their pro skills including how to “take a berm”, which is a bank and a turn in the race track.
Actor, director, producer and recording artist, Ashley Walters, who is from the area himself, says: “Growing up in Peckham, I saw many of my peers lose sight of their goals and dreams, often due to the lack of positive creative outlets. I was fortunate to discover acting and music, but not everyone finds their passion.
“The BMX club embodies what
has been missing: positive role models, discipline, and a reason to work hard. This is why I support it wholeheartedly.”
In the first episode, we meet 11-year-old Ti, who last year became UK number one in his age category. His success earned him a sponsorship deal from the USA. Though now, Ti has a problem: his results so far this season are poor and he battles with the feeling of being targeted by other competitors who want to beat him.
Former World number three Tre Whyte is Ti’s coach and he’s got a plan. At the forthcoming Manchester Nationals Ti needs to “get his elbows out” and be more aggressive. Will the plan work and can Ti regain his
number one title?
Fourteen-year-old Adele is currently serving a one race ban after losing her temper with another rider during a recent race.
Nigel, Adele’s coach and dad of BMX sensations Kye Whyte and Tre Whyte, needs her to focus on her training and ignore other distractions before her comeback race in Bournemouth. But Adele is heading for a showdown with her coach after non-stop chat with her friends during their session. How will she cope after being scolded by Nigel in front of her parents? And can she get back to her winning ways on the track in Bournemouth?
BMX All Stars starts Monday 1 July at 5:35pm on CBBC and BBC iPlayer.
Rio saves struggling music studio from closure
By Isabel Ramirez
EX-PrEMiEr LEAguE footballer and Peckham boy rio Ferdinand has stepped in to save a struggling music studio in the area he grew up in.
Through his Foundation and partnership with Warner Music Group, Rio has offered £6,000 to Peckham Studios so it can continue supporting disadvantaged kids.
After twenty years of service, the free music studio for young people found itself with a critical shortfall in funding.
The funds from Rio will allow Peckham Studios to stay open over the summer of 2024 and continue receiving young people for creative music sessions.
Since its opening in 2004, Peckham Studios—a project run by the social and environmental charity Groundwork London—has supported over 600 young people from London’s disadvantaged communities through music workshops, mentoring, and free access to its wellequipped multi-room studio facilities.
But more than just a place to make music, Peckham Studios offers young people a safe place to express who they really are. It provides an environment for creativity and expression, which in turn creates a sense of community.
Unfortunately, due to cuts in previously
available funding, Peckham Studios had to reduce its opening hours to only four hours each week until it almost closed for good in June 2024.
In addition, the partnership between Groundwork London and the Rio
Ferdinand Foundation, which starts on June 24th, will provide the project with staff and expertise through its on and offsite pastoral support services.
Jade is one of the young people who uses the studio. The 23-year-old
commented: “The writing process helps me process what I am going through because it makes me more self-aware of my situation. We must keep Peckham Studios open to give young people a platform.”
Rio commented: “The Rio Ferdinand Foundation ‘Into the Music Industry’ partnership with Warner Music is all
about supporting young people to build the skills and the networks for young people to flourish in any number of roles within music.
“Access to grassroots facilities is crucial and building a partnership with Groundwork to support the Peckham Studios and develop a sustainable hub for music development in Southwark is key for us in South London.”
Founder of the Rio Ferdinand Foundation, he said they would continue to work with the charity to keep the facility open, adding: “We encourage anyone interested in supporting young people or music artists in Southwark and South London to get involved and do the same.”
The contribution from the Rio Ferdinand Foundation is part of a more comprehensive national programme with Warner Music. This partnership supports young people in building skills and developing careers in the music industry.
Despite receiving the much-needed cash injection, Peckham Studios still needs further support.
They are aiming to raise £60,000 which would allow them to stay open for at least two days a week for the next year. To discuss funding and partnership opportunities, please get in touch with us at: shabaz.ferozdin@groundwork. org.uk
Young BMX riders from Peckham
Rio Ferdinand
Peckham Studios
Legal adoption, apply for a child dependant visa & immigration
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2. If you intend to adopt a child from abroad, you will need to follow the legal adoption process
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1. Hague Convention. Usually, a parent would engage an agency to identify a chid in a particular country for adoption.
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Lambeth counciL's chief eXecutive charged with drink driving and drug offences
Bayo Dosunmu, chief executive of Lambeth Council
By Robert Firth Local Democracy Reporter
t h E B o SS of a London council has been charged with drink driving, possession of a class A drug and failing to stop after a road accident.
Bayo Dosunmu, chief executive of Lambeth Council, was arrested by police on Sunday (June 23) in Westminster over the incident.
The Met said Dosunmu, 46, of Hammersmith was charged on Monday with possession of a class A controlled drug, failing to stop after a road accident, driving above the prescribed alcohol limit, and using a motor vehicle in a public place
without third party insurance.
He will appear at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on August 1. Dosunmu has been chief executive of the council since April 2022, taking over from Andrew Travers.
He joined Lambeth in 2019 from Homes England and was previously the council’s deputy chief executive and strategic director for resident services.
A council spokesperson said: “Lambeth Council chief executive Bayo Dosunmu is currently away from work and the council has put in place interim leadership arrangements. We are unable to make any further comment due to an ongoing police investigation.”
Residents appeal to build café and toilets in park
By Charlotte Lillywhite Local Democracy Reporter
tW iCKEnh AM r ES idEnt S are urging the community to help them clear the last hurdle in their 10-year fight to build a new pavilion in their local park.
Charity Moormead Community and Sports Pavilion has crowdfunded more than £20,000 in just two weeks to put towards replacing the derelict, boardedup pavilion at Moormead Park with new facilities, including toilets and a café.
If they can hit their initial £35,000 target they believe it will show other organisations with the ability to grant them the remaining cash they need, that the community is behind the project. The original pavilion has been condemned,
Summer plans are filling up your diary, but we predict you’re going to want to save room for these local festivals
By Eliza Frost
CULTURE
WEEkEND
London’S BurgESS Park is playing host to a two-day Culture Weekend, a festival that gets hands-on and up-close to what makes our lives so rich, vibrant and playful.
The weekend is a celebration of arts, culture, heritage and legacy of the global south through food, drink, dance, music, language and art –creating space to express cultural identity. And Sunday will see a celebration of generations at the Windrush Festival event.
Saturday 22 and Sunday 23 June 2024 tickets: Saturday £23.46 and Sunday £12 –weekend tickets also available Burgess Park, SE5 0AL UK radiatefestival.com
BaTTERSE a PaRk IN CoNCERT
and was already unusable except for storing sports equipment for many years, while the park does not have any toilets or a café. Trustees of the charity told the Local Democracy Reporting Service (LDRS) they want to turn the new pavilion into the ‘heart of the community’, with facilities to make the park accessible, tackle loneliness and help residents become more active.
The charity must apply for grants to build the pavilion and has already secured £150,000 from the council. It is now crowdfunding to show the strength of support from the community to help it unlock grants from bigger charities.
You can find Moormead Community and Sports Pavilion’s Crowdfunder page www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/ moormead-pavilion
A long summer’s weekend of open-air picnic concerts is coming to Battersea Park this August bank holiday.
Enjoy Proms in the Park on the Saturday with the Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra and hosted by special guest Myleene Klass – going out with a bang with a firework display finale.
Next in the schedule is A Night at the Movies with the Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra again for the Sunday. With All new songs and music for 2024, sing along to family favourites: Chicago, Rent, The Greatest Showman, Grease, Mary Poppins and more.
Finish off the long weekend jamming to Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Orchestra, the
big band direct from Soho’s legendary club, with Paul Simon’s Graceland and re-imagined by the London African Gospel Choir.
Saturday 24, Sunday 25 and Monday 26 August 2024 tickets: Adults £43.10, children £18.86, under 5s free – weekend and family tickets available Battersea Park, SW11 4NJ www.batterseaparkinconcert.com
BIG SmokE FESTIVaL
A one-day festival with two stages of live music, the Big Smoke Festival is coming to Crystal Palace Park this July to bring you an ultimate line up of special guests.
There will be a live stage hosted by Más Tiempo, plus showstopper performances by Skepta, The Streets, Mahalia, plus loads more acts to light up your weekend.
Saturday 6 July 2024 tickets: From £72.80
Crystal Palace Bowl, Crystal Palace Park, SE19 2BA www.bigsmokefest.london
UPToWN FESTIVaL
Following its inaugural show last summer, uptown Festival is returning to Blackheath for a day of family festival fun.
Madness will be headlining for their only London show of 2024, plus The Zutons, Lightning Seeds and London Soul Choir.
The Little Town area of the festival will be back, too, and it will be bigger and better to keep the whole family entertained.
Sunday 28 July 2024
tickets: From £47.50 for adults, £27.50 for children and £15 for babies. Family ticket bundles are available Blackheath Common, Goffers Road, SE3 0UA london.uptownfestival.co.uk
LoVE moTIoN
South Facing Festival – which hosts a series of music events in Crystal Palace Park each year –is hosting Love Motion, a brand new disco, soul and electronic all-dayer this July.
Pop culture babe Grace Jones will take to the Crystal Palace stage alongside a supportive line-up of talent – including Irish singer and dance-pop star Róisín Murphy and party-starters Horsemeat Disco.
Friday 26 July 2024
tickets: From £55.45
Crystal Palace Bowl, Crystal Palace Park, SE19 2BA southfacingfestival.com/event/lovemotion
CLoUD X
EACh yEAr, Cloud X Festival aims to curate an inclusive space for pioneering creatives telling their stories in bold and original ways. Championing soul, r&B and alternative sounds, the festival is an intimate affair, hoping to give you a soulwarming day out.
Line-up highlights include Ghetts, Kamilla Rose, Bellah and Berwyn –plus lots more to keep you moving and grooving from day to night.
Friday 2 August 2024
tickets: From £39.27
Crystal Palace Bowl, Crystal Palace Park, SE19 2BA
four-year-oLd ameLia was born with a tumour the size of a Lemon on her heart
By Isabel Ramirez
A Four-yEAr-oLd girl, who was born at Evelina hospital with a tumour ‘the size of a lemon’ on her heart, is fighting through her condition.
Amelia Kan has a rare genetic condition called tuberous sclerosis complex which causes non-cancerous tumours to grow in different parts of her body.
Now four years old, mum Weeta Kan describes her as a “fighter who is my hero.” As well as her condition, she was treated for a rare kidney cancer last year which she also overcame.
Having truly defied the odds, Amelia is preparing to start school in September.
Her family is thanking clinicians at Evelina London Children’s Hospital for saving their daughter’s life.
When doctors were treating her, they said she had some of the biggest tumours they’d ever seen, with one the size of a lemon.
The one on her heart was first identified during mum Weeta’s routine antenatal scan when a sonographer noticed a dot on the left side of Amelia’s heart and referred her for further investigations at Harris Birthright Centre at King’s College Hospital.
This led to routine investigations weekly so they could monitor Amelia’s condition.
Weeta, from Bromley in Kent, said: “It became routine during my pregnancy that we had scans on a Tuesday and blood tests on a Friday.
“Sadly, we kept being told the tumours were multiplying and growing.
“It was just bad news every time. As the scans continued, we realised how serious Amelia’s condition was.
“She had so many tumours, one was squashing her lungs and another on the mitral valve in her heart. We decided on the name Amelia as it meant fighter – and she’s lived up to her name.”
Amelia was rushed to Evelina London’s neonatal intensive care unit for urgent treatment, where she spent several months receiving chemotherapy to reduce the size of the tumours.
The effects of the tumours and chemotherapy damaged a valve in Amelia’s heart, resulting in her needing three open heart surgeries when she was one year old.
Aaron Bell, paediatric cardiologist and head of service at Evelina London Children’s Hospital, said: “Tuberous sclerosis complex isn’t common, we typically see around six children a year with it. However, Amelia had some of the biggest tumours that we’ve ever seen, and
there was a real concern that she wouldn’t survive being born as some of the tumours were compressing her lungs but Amelia surprised us from day one.”
Weeta continued: “Amelia is now four… and she’s grown into a crazy little monkey who doesn’t listen!
“She’s my amazing little hero who has a very strong character. All of the teams who have cared for Amelia are amazing. It’s because of Evelina London that she’s alive.”
“In particular Sujeev Mathur from the cardiology team is incredible, we’ve had to make lots of difficult decisions but we agree with everything he has said.
“Pankaj Mistra from the urology team treated Amelia like a VIP from day one. Trying to make friends and put her at ease.
“We are so lucky to have them on Amelia’s team, without them she wouldn’t be here.”
Last year, Amelia developed a rare kidney cancer known as renal cell carcinoma, after a tumour was found in her kidney. In August she underwent an operation to remove the tumour and part of her kidney, in a procedure known as a partial nephrectomy.
Amelia will continue to be monitored under the different specialist teams across Evelina London as she grows up.
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We are committed to early conversations with the community to inform our design process for both Plot B and the Albion Bridge, in order to ensure the design meets locals needs and ambitions.
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Amelia Kan, now 4.
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By Michael Holland
Woody PyKE was born and bred in Peckham, where he still lives and works at running his own catering company, but he did not get to where he is through conventional routes.
The young Woody went off to university to get a degree in Maths but says that after graduating “none of the traditional graduate options or routes appealed to me’” With no doors opening for the young mathematician he went to Amsterdam to work in kitchens and enjoy the lifestyle in that city while opening doors himself to his own future. After some time there a return to London beckoned where he once again immersed himself in the stressful world of kitchen work. He reveals that, “I think techniques and prowess were picked up in doing restaurant work but fundamental ideas about what’s good or not comes from my mum! We had a house where food was so important to us and brought us together every evening without fail. Things like this have given me a strong idea of what food can be and what style of food resonates with me.’
There was always a desire for Woody to run his own business so when the chance to go out on his own he did so: “Luckily, I have been able to keep working for myself without needing to go back to
Virginia Ginny Wanjiro, intensive care unit sister
w oody is bringing Peo PL e t ogether through food
where the stress levels are undoubtedly high - although I do miss the hum of a busy service and the feeling of being in a restaurant creating amazing food.”
Reflecting on his decision, Woody says the motivation came from, “a combination of good fortune with some amazing clients and contacts who have supported me, and to fundamentally represent myself.”
He describes his company, called Shoots & Leaves, as one that “works for a range of different events creating bespoke menus for clients. These could be lunches for offices, canapé and drinks receptions, weddings, private dining parties or retreats!”
You would think Woody has got everything covered there for a full and busy work life but he takes out precious
time to devote to giving something back to the community. He can regularly be found in Copleston Community Centre where he and the centre’s volunteers cook a lunch for anyone who goes there on Wednesdays. If they have no money they can eat free, whereas others (I’m a regular there) donate something that will go into keeping this brilliant project going.
There is also cooking-based projects at Future Dreams House and Restorative Justice For All. I attended his monthly stint at Appleby Blue, the new almshouse in Bermondsey where they run a men-only scheme to get a group together to cook and eat together while talking together as well as getting out to socialise. A project that is free and open to everyone, not just the residents.
Sir Jack Petchey, who invested millions into young people, dies at the age of 98
By Isabel Ramirez
Sir JACK Petchey CBE, who invested millions into young people, including £2m for Southwark youths has died.
The philanthropist and businessman passed away on Thursday 27 June at his home in Wapping aged 98.
Sir Jack founded the Jack Petchey Foundation in 1999 to recognise the positive contributions young people make to society and to support them in achieving their potential.
Following his death, a spokesperson said: “He will be greatly missed by friends and family and by the many young people, teachers and youth leaders whose lives have been impacted by the work of his Foundation.
“Messages have already started pouring in from the young people and families whose lives he touched.”
Southwark has received funding of around £2m from the Jack Petchey Foundation since it started. Kids would receive a £300 grant and a medal for going the extra mile.
From humble beginnings, Sir Jack left school aged 13 without any qualifications.
Through his entrepreneurial spirit, he became one of Britain’s most successful businessmen. This enabled him to achieve his ambition of giving young people the opportunities and confidence he lacked as a child.
As he always told young people ‘If you think you can, you can.’ His charitable trust, The Jack Petchey Foundation, has to date invested over £170 million in youth projects.
Southwark Council said it was ‘saddened’ to hear of the death of Sir Jack. A spokesperson said: “His
foundation did lots of work in Southwark and many young people in the borough won a prestigious Jack Petchey award to recognise exceptional contribution to the community. Our thoughts go to his family and friends.”
Sir Jack received his knighthood in the 2016 New Year Honours for his work through the foundation.
He had previously been made an OBE in 2004 and a CBE in 2011 by Queen Elizabeth II, both times for charitable services.
His legacy will be the continuing work of his Foundation supporting young people. Contributions in memory of Sir Jack can be made via the condolence page or via the Jack Petchey Foundation website jackpetcheyfoundation.org.uk
A private funeral service will be held for family and friends. An event to celebrate his life is to be announced in due course.
In fact, there was only one Appleby resident amongst us, the others were from all over the borough.
Woody walked us through a delicious paella that we then, under his watchful eye, created as a group; preparing vegetables, fish and seafood, making a fantastic fish stock from scratch, while learning that certain aspects of the task were needed to be done to create flavour.
Woody also provided us with shortcuts or alternatives so we could go away and recreate those aromas and tastes ourselves.
Enough paella was made to share with the office staff there and all the talk around the table was what to cook next month.
I wanted to know what Woody gets from projects like this: “I have created
a balance of some things that are financially beneficial and some projects that are good for my soul. That’s why my community work is something I don’t want to give up - ever! I find it brings me back to the true essence of why we cook - to nourish people and bring them together.”
And the future? “Keep growingespecially into corporate spaces and to look for ways in which I can continue to drive community projects forward and engage more and more people in community spaces to bring them together over great food and good company!
Men Only - Man With A Pan - Project: It’s free and on every month. For more details: applebyblue@ustsc.org.uk or call 0207 671 1851.
Sir Jack Petchey
Woody at work
s outh facing f estiva L : grace jones, f uture i s L ands and y ussef dayes in L egendary L ine-uP
By Herbie Russell
South FAC ing Festival will return to the Crystal Palace Bowl this summer for eight days of music featuring legendary artists including grace Jones, Future islands and yussef dayes.
The renowned, open-air concert series will showcase an eclectic range of genres throughout July and August. Find out more about the festival, the line-up, and important dates here:
WhaT IS SoUTh FaCING FESTIVaL?
South Facing Festival is a criticallyacclaimed music festival held at the iconic Crystal Palace Bowl in south London. Although only in its third year, the festival continues the Bowl’s longstanding tradition of hosting legendary music acts at this historic venue, which has seen performances from Elton John, Bob Marley, Vera Lynn, and the Sex Pistols.
Who IS oN ThE LINE-UP?
The 2024 line-up for South Facing Festival boasts a varied mix of artists, including several huge names. Headliners include disco legend Grace Jones, who will lead the new all-dayer event called Love Motion, along with
on July 27, while dancehall superstar Popcaan will bring his Unruly Fest to the stage on July 28.
Hip-hop enthusiasts can look forward to performances by The Roots, De La Soul, and The Pharcyde on August 1. Amapiano pioneers Major League DJz will showcase their Balcony Mix London on August 3. Jazz luminary Yussef Dayes will present
isstory L ine-uP announced for bL ackheath this juLy
By Isabel Ramirez
the fuLL line-up for southeast London’s best old School Anthem’s festival has been announced.
KISSTORY is returning to London’s Blackheath Common on Saturday 27 July, with Fuse ODG, Wayne Wonder, Artful Dodger and more.
The event promises a full day of nostalgia and vibes, hosted by KISS Breakfast’s Jordan Banjo and Perri Kieley.
The pair, who rose to fame after winning Britain’s Got Talent in 2009 with their dance troupe ‘Diversity’, said: “We can’t wait to bring KISSTORY back to the UK this Summer, get ready for all the festival vibes, the biggest Old Skool tunes and –hopefully – non-stop sunshine!”
With a little bit of luck, the weather will be incredible as festivalgoers dance the night away to their favourite songs.
New KISS presenters Marvin Humes and Alex Scott will also be taking to the stage, as well as the VOXI Presents KISS
Chosen one Winner, Sam Sax. Tickets are on sale now at KISSFMUK. com and start from £56.
ThE FULL-LINE UP:
Alex Scott
Alison Limerick
Artful Dodger
Baby D
Big Brovaz & Booty Luv
DJ Ace
DJ Luck & MC Neat
DJ Pioneer
Elisabeth Troy
Fuse ODG
General Levy
Hyperactive MC
Jake Thomson
Kele Le Roc
Kyla
Lisa Maffia & Mc Romeo
Martin 2 Smoove & Andy Purnell
Marvin Humes
Matchstick
Matt Jam Lamont
Oxide & Neutrino
Phats & Small (Ft. Rick Live)
Ramz
Rat Pack
Sam Sax (our VOXI Presents KISS
Chosen one Winner)
Selecta Jay
Shola Ama
Shortee Blitz
SL2 - SLIPMATT
Special MC
Wayne Wonder
Wideboys
Hosted by Jordan Banjo and Perri Kiely
Pyramid, will close out the festival on August 10.
WhEN IS IT?
The South Facing Festival 2024 will take place over several dates in the summer, specifically on July 26, 27, and 28, and August 1, 2, 4, 9, and 10. Each day promises a unique musical experience with different headliners and supporting acts. Gates open for weekday events at 4 PM, while weekend events will start between 12 PM and 2 PM. Detailed set times will be available closer to the festival dates on the South Facing Festival website.
hoW Do I GET TICkETS?
Tickets for South Facing Festival 2024 are currently on sale and can be purchased through the festival’s official website.
General admission prices range from £55.45 to £64.40, with VIP tickets available from £89.05 to £111.
Summer Dayes on August 4, featuring contemporary jazz and additional cultural activities.
Pop sensation Jess Glynne is scheduled for August 9, and reggae royalty Damian Marley, alongside Steel Pulse and Kabaka
Special discounts are offered for children on select nights, as well as for local residents, who can get tickets for £39.20 to £44.25. Early entry and group deals such as the 4-for-3 ticket offer are also available. For the latest information on ticket pricing and availability, visit the South Facing Festival website.
Tower Bridge’s iconic glass walkway replaced in painstaking operation
By Herbie Russell
t oWE r Bridg E ’ S iconic glass walkway has been replaced after ten years.
Expert glazing specialists worked twelve hours, 42 metres above sea level, to install the new panels from Monday, June 17.
The high-level transparent walkway allows visitors a unique birds-eye view when the Bridge lifts.
The six panels, comprised of six layers, can withstand the weight of
six elephants each.
Rob Woollard, principal attraction manager for Tower Bridge said: “Since they were installed almost ten years ago, the Glass Floors in our High-level Walkways have been a huge hit with visitors.
“We’re thrilled to be able to share this intricate process which ensures everyone who visits can continue to experience the best views possible through the iconic Glass Floors and enjoy a memorable day out at London’s defining landmark.”
Irish dance-pop star Róisín Murphy and Horse Meat Disco. Indie favourites Future Islands are set to perform
Workers replaced the six glass panels from Monday, June 17
Photo: Tower Bridge
By Isabel Ramirez
ovEr 100 angry residents chanted and protested outside the Aylesham Centre to fight against what they said were ‘misleading’ regeneration plans.
The plans, being executed by Berkeley Homes and designed by architects dRMM, propose around 878 homes to be built near Peckham Rye Station. New shops, restaurants and public space would also be created, which would see 13 new buildings up to 20 storeys high built.
A total of 25 per cent of the homes would be available at the cheapest social rents.
If the proposals are approved, work on the first stage of the redevelopment is due to begin in 2025 and complete by 2029.
On Tuesday night June 25, residents and business owners came together in a show of force to protest against Berkeley Homes current plans to redevelop the much-loved and historic Peckham town centre - described as ‘gentrification on steroids’ by local campaigners.
A crowd of 150 strong individuals united to battle big business at Berkeley Homes’ final public meeting - the last time the developer will engage with the public before submitting their major planning application to Southwark Council in July.
Local residents’ group Aylesham Community Action have been at the forefront of the campaign, working closely with Peckham Vision.
Their biggest issue with the plans is that they claim they have been ‘misled’ throughout and there is not enough affordable housing.
Eileen Conn, Peckham Vision founder and community activist said, “The amount of green space they’ve promised is totally misleading – half of it includes the roads and pavements.”
“We are fighting for the right investment and development for the area - one which meets local needs and is in keeping with the character of Peckham. It is gentrification on steroids.”
The 83-year-old added that the height of the buildings was another source of contention as they didn’t want high rises in Peckham town centre.
Previous plans by architects Sheppard Robson to construct 1,050 homes on the site in buildings up to 27 storeys high were opposed by Southwark Council.
Eileen also complained about the ‘lack of dialogue and proper engagement with the locals’ on the development. Speaking to us after the meeting, she said: “It was extremely sad. There was no discussion
‘Peckham not foR Sale’: determined residents Protest against
berkeLey homes regeneration of town centre
just some badly presented slides, it was not pleasant.
“This is a community that is heavily invested in its local area and we want them to have some proper dialogue with Berkeley on what is suitable for that site.”
Berkeley Homes have been approached for comment.
A Southwark Council spokesperson said: “The Aylesham is at the heart of the Peckham community and it’s essential any new development works for that community. This means it needs to deliver homes that people can afford and benefits for local people.
They continued to say that whilst they don’t own the site, as a planning authority they can influence what goes there. “Our planning policies set out very clearly what we want from this site: roughly 850 homes (at least 25 per cent social rent and 10 per cent other affordable housing, including a community land trust), retention of the supermarket, job creation from new shops and businesses,
new public space, and buildings no taller than 20 storeys.
“These policies are part of the Southwark Plan, which was agreed following a lengthy consultation with residents. We’ve sent letters about the scheme to 22,300 people in Peckham, Nunhead & Queens Road and Rye Lane wards and also arranged regular community drop-ins.
“Once the planning application is submitted the council will undertake further consultation and engagement and there will be the opportunity to further consider the proposals before any determination is made of the planning application.”
Since 2014, Aylesham Community Action (ACA) has set up several petitions to oppose the regeneration, which have been signed by 25,000 residents.
Their latest one demands that at least 50 per cent of the flats are social housing and has attracted 3,860 signatures. Singer and podcaster Jessie Ware, who
By Isabel Ramirez
A gAiL’S bakery will replace Bobo Social in Elephant and Castle after it closed last month.
Bobo Social was a bar and restaurant on the corner of Sayer Street which shut its doors on June 3. It will soon be replaced by Gail’s - a British bakery and
lives in the area, showed support for the campaign on her Instagram.
This is not the first time Peckham’s community and the organisers have stood strong against redevelopment. Previous actions they have led include
cafe chain, with over 100 shops, mostly in London.
Famous for its sourdough, it also does pastries, sandwiches, coffees and iced drinks. The price of a cappuccino is £4.10.
Angela Brennan, Project Lead for Elephant Park: “While it is disappointing that Bobo Social has closed, we believe the addition of Gail’s to the lineup at Elephant Park complements and brings new product to the existing offer, which remains focused on local and community operators as our latest openings exemplify.”
She continued: “Demand for space at Elephant Park is incredibly strong, following the recent openings of NOKO and Filishack on Sayer Street, the signing of Arepa & Co on Ash Avenue, and the
to save spaces like
famous multi-storey car park (incorporating Franks, Bold Tendencies, Peckham Levels and Peckhamplex), the iconic Bussey Building and Copeland Park.
impending completion of its latest phase with a number of those brand-new units pre-let to an exciting array of food and beverage, retail, and social concepts.”
Despite some welcoming the new addition, other commenters on social media were not as pleased about the news. There was even a suggestion that it might create unwanted competition for the South American bakeries in the arches, such as Paula’s on Walworth Road.
One person wrote on X, “Horrid idea, no need for it. There are the lovely South American places in the arches and under the railway bridge for breads, snacks and Hana Coffee right in front of Bobo Social. Should be local businesses.”
The nearest location of Bobo Social is now in South Kensington.
numerous campaigns
Peckham’s
Residents take to the streets of Rye Lane to make their point heard.
Bobo Social in Elephant; Inset - Gail’s bakery interior
record high number of P eoPL e sL eP t rough in London over the L ast year
By Noah Vickers Local Democracy Reporter
A rECord high number of people slept rough in London over the last year – including more than 1,200 former private renters – new data revealed on thursday.
A total of 11,993 people were recorded sleeping rough by outreach teams between April 2023 and March 2024 –a rise of 19 per cent on the previous 12 months.
Included among that number were a minimum of 1,231 people who slept rough for the first time and for at least one night, having previously been renting privately. This was double last year’s figure of 540 former private renters sleeping rough for the first time.
The latest data comes from the Combined Homelessness and Information Network (CHAIN), commissioned and funded by City Hall.
London mayor Sadiq Khan pointed to the Government’s failure to ban ‘no fault’ evictions – despite having promised to do so before the general election – as the reason for that particular increase.
The Labour mayor said: “Rising rough sleeping shames us all, and Tory ministers most of all. After 14 years, the rising number of people sleeping on park benches and in shop doorways in every region of the country is a stark symbol of the Conservatives’ failure in Government.
“In London, I’ve quadrupled City Hall’s rough sleeping budget, investing in emergency accommodation, outreach teams and extra cold-weather support.
“However, it’s clear that much more is needed, starting with ending ‘no fault’ evictions and fixing the chaos in the asylum system which is seeing people moved out of Home Office accommodation and onto the streets.”
In the last year, 17 per cent of the capital’s new rough sleepers who had
information recorded about their last settled base, prior to rough sleeping, had previously been staying in asylum support accommodation.
Mr Khan added: “The last Labour government dramatically reduced rough sleeping across the country, and we now need a change of Government on July 4 so we can do the same again.”
Asked about the current Government’s
failure to ban no-fault evictions in an interview last week, Housing Secretary Michael Gove said that it “wasn’t a promise abandoned, it was simply something that was timed out by the election”.
He said there were “very good reasons for the election being called when it was”, but that it meant the Government wasn’t able “to complete the bill’s passage
the House of Lords”.
Addressing the 120 per cent rise in rough sleeping across England since 2010, Mr Gove admitted there have been “a number of challenges”, adding that pressure from the immigration and asylum system had played a role, and that there were “pressures on individuals who have challenges in their lives”, such as substance abuse.
He added that the homelessness minister Felicity Buchan “has managed to secure additional funding” for councils to tackle the issue and “if re-elected, will be in a position to work with London Councils in order to both boost housing supply, give money for temporary accommodation and deal with rough sleeping”.
The Conservatives went into the 2019 election promising to “end the blight of rough sleeping by the end of the next Parliament”, but Mr Gove said the Covid pandemic had thwarted this pledge, and that the party was now aiming to reduce rough sleeping to the “effective statistical measure of zero” in time for the next election, expected in 2029.
Commenting on the latest rough sleeping data in London, Nick Redmore, director of homeless services at the Salvation Army charity, said: “When the newly elected Prime Minister closes the door at Number Ten, just streets away, people will be trying to find a safe place to sleep for the night.
“He will be running the country at a time when rough sleeping is at its highest in four years [across England].
“However, there is still time to reverse the rise in homelessness and rough sleeping. The Salvation Army is calling for ending rough sleeping to be a priority for the next Government.”
John Glenton, executive director of care and support at social housing provider Riverside, said: “It is vital that whoever wins the next election provides ringfenced funding for council homelessness services to prevent cash-strapped local authorities from ending funding for homelessness and rough sleeping services at a time when they are needed the most.
“Ultimately, we can only prevent people from sleeping rough and reduce the number of adults and children living in temporary accommodation if we build more social housing and reform broken welfare rules.
South London shopping centre to get makeover
By Charlotte Lillywhite Local Democracy Reporter
FrESh PhotoS show what a South London shopping centre will look like once it has been upgraded with new entrances, lighting and seats.
Southside Shopping Centre, in Wandsworth, will stay fully open during the works, which start this week and are expected to continue until November.
The frontages of the shopping centre’s three entrances will be remodelled to better suit the town centre, after the scheme was approved by Wandsworth Council in January. Planning officers said the existing entrances are ‘extremely outdated’ and fail to draw customers to the shopping centre, while the revamp
will improve the venue and town centre.
The entrances on Wandsworth High Street and Garratt Lane will have looped metal arches and red brick features to pay tribute to the historic brick arched features at former greyhound racing track Wandsworth Stadium, which the site sits on, and Wandsworth Aqueduct. A new street art display will also be installed at the entrance on Neville Gill Close.
Another major change will see the upper level of the shopping centre redesigned and new seating introduced to encourage visitors to come together. New lighting and signs will be installed throughout the shopping centre to brighten and improve its appearance, while it will also have a free water refill station to cut single-use plastic consumption and water bowls for dogs.
The scheme aims to upgrade the shopping centre by honouring the history of the site and fit in with the town centre to create a ‘vibrant retail and leisure environment’.
It follows the completion of a £1million scheme to improve parking at the shopping centre, including installing electric vehicle charging points, premium
parking spaces and motorcycle delivery bays. It has also recently introduced a cycle hub, in partnership with Spokesafe, to provide spaces for cyclists to park their bikes when visiting Wandsworth.
Rebecca Ruddle, director of Southside Shopping Centre, said she wants to give visitors an ‘unrivalled experience’ at the venue. Lidl, Parthian Climbing, and Søstrene Grene are among the brands to have opened in the shopping centre over the past year, with more lined up –including Padel Social Club.
Ms Ruddle said: “Wandsworth is currently undergoing a significant regeneration, creating brand-new residential, leisure pursuits and business opportunities in the area, and with Southside being situated at the heart of the town, the refresh aims to provide visitors with enhanced facilities and create a new vibrant and welcoming atmosphere which complements the surrounding Wandsworth landscape.
“We look forward to rolling out these improvements over the coming months to create an even more inviting destination, whilst continuing to provide support to enhance the Wandsworth community.”
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Housing Secretary Michael Gove
CGI of the planned upper concourse of Southside Shopping Centre.
CGI of the planned exterior of Southside Shopping Centre
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Would you like to join an exciting and enthusiastic primary school that is accredited by the National Autistic Society?
Would you like to work with a highly skilled team that provides outstanding education to its children and invests in their staff?
Would you like the opportunity to receive Makaton foundation training, Elklan speech and language training and a 7 part full SEN induction in your first year? Would you like to provide care and support in teaching for some fantastic children across our ‘outstanding’ school
Are you someone who provides the highest possible standards of support to enable children with complex needs to access participate and achieve fully in school and community life?
We are looking for someone with experience or an interest in:
• Special Educational Needs (SEN) or Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND)
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Redriff Primary School (City of London Academy) is an outstanding school that has been accredited by the National Autistic Society and is a leading centre of excellence for autism. We are looking for Teaching Assistants with a background, experience or an interest in working with children with complex needs in a resource base or in mainstream classrooms. You will support children’s learning needs, social inclusion and independence. The ideal candidate will be enthusiastic self-motivated and respond well to the needs of the children.
You will work closely in a collaborative team led by the Assistant head for Inclusion and Resource Base Manager and receive a full induction and detailed training programme including Makaton foundation and Elklan speech and language awards. We are an enthusiastic and friendly team and part of an outstanding school. These posts are suitable for those pursuing a career in working with children and families, aspiring teachers or future school direct candidates. The role is also suitable for people with aspirations of working within the field of Educational Psychology or in other specialist settings
Starting salary will be on City of London Academies Trust payscale grade JE2, scale points 2-5. FTE salary is £27,306-£28,545. Actual annual salary is £21,319-£22,286. This position is fixed term for 1 year with the possibility of being extended.
Please see our latest Ofsted report from November 2023 here , where it is highlighted that “Pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND) are well supported. Everyone looks out for each other and behaviour throughout the school is calm and positive.” And “Staff are highly skilled at identifying and meeting pupils’ needs,
including those with SEND. Throughout the school, staff use a range of approaches consistently to support pupils’ learning. For example, staff use different communication systems which enable all pupils to share their answers, points of view and emotions.”
The successful candidate will have a minimum of a C grade in GCSE Maths and English and good IT skills. Although not required, it is beneficial to have experience of working with children with special educational needs.
A qualification in working with children, especially those with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities is desirable but not essential. He/she will be eager to apply evidence-based practice approaches and support the school’s achievement of various national accreditation programmes.
If you are interested in an informal discussion about the post, please email Rosa Eldred via office@redriff.southwark. sch.uk For more information about the school and to download an application pack, please see our website www.redriff.southwark.sch.co.uk. Visits are warmly welcomed. Please contact the school office to arrange a visit.
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Redriff Primary School is based in the heart of an evolving community in South East London and we value the diversity of our workforce. We welcome candidates from all backgrounds to join our team.
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JoE PEnhALL’S the Constituent is an excellent piece of theatre. it isn’t dragged out for the sake of adding minutes on but economically gets to the core of what a back-bench MP does, tries to do and has to tolerate, while also telling the story of a disgruntled and misunderstood constituent, writes Michael Holland.
This play is performed with the real backdrop of MPs being murdered in recent years just for doing the job they were elected to do in their communities, plus a trend of online vitriol from trolls and psychopaths hiding behind fake identities as they threaten and abuse those in politics, forcing some into needing 24/7 security.
The Constituent opens with Morrissey singing about ‘No hope, no harm just another false alarm’ and Monica(Anna
Who K nEW Chitty Chitty Bang Bang was so good? Well, 99% of the developed world by all accounts! i’m in the 1% who managed to swerve it for 60 years, writes Michael Holland. Yes, I had heard of Truly Scrumptious but I did not know she was heir to a confectionary fortune, and I knew the car could fly from clips I’ve seen on TV over the past decades, but I did not know that it was written by Ian Fleming, he of James Bond fame, or that there were more than the three songs that are played over and over on compilation programmes. Plus, I need to add, there is a great story to this.
The widowed Caractacus Potts, a zany inventor caring for his two lovely children Jeremy and Jemima, needs to raise thirty bob to buy an old wreck of a racing car from the junkyard because the children have become enamoured with its story of winning races.
He has the great idea of making a sweet that can be played as a penny whistle, which doesn’t go down well at the sweet
Maxwell Martin) trying to sort out her family life as her surgery ends at the end of a long day. There is only the electrician to deal with, Alec(James Corden), who has just installed hi-tec security in her constituency office in London. They went to junior school together and their parents are friends, though she hardly remembers this. She refuses his offers of taking cash for some of the work that she wouldn’t have to declare, or having a free panic button and rape alarm, explaining that Parliament rules will not allow such things. Monica talks of cutbacks and people losing jobs; about protests against a supermarket and a hit-and-run incident she is dealing with; all local issues, though we also hear of nationwide problems like waiting in A&E for hours and a lack of policing.
Alec tells Monica he is a war
i ron f ist or h e LP ing h and?
veteran who worked in intelligence in Afghanistan, who saw violence against innocent Afghans as well as POWs, and was himself beaten and abused by higher ranks for ‘whistle-blowing’. Returning to the UK, probably with some form of PTSD, his marriage failed and he was now struggling with a tough divorce and not seeing his children - a problem he would like her to solve.
The Constituent had begun quite lightheartedly, with Corden allowed some easy jokes that we know him for, but the mood soon darkens over several, quick time changes. Looking for a more helpful response from his MP he barks ‘Society is kept together by lollipop ladies and dogs!’
An MP cannot pick sides in a divorce so her refusal to ‘ask questions in the house’ angers Alec. She explains that his
Mister 1% has ride of his life
factory when it attracts every dog in the neighbourhood! I must admit I am not a little heartbroken that my life has been deprived for so long of Toot Sweets, the song sung as a selling pitch for the candy whistles.
Caractacus eventually manages to raise the money and the car becomes a member of the Potts family for picnics
and days out at the seaside where the vehicle also attracts the lovely Ms Scrumptious. Cue song.
But this is no ordinary car, it is a special car that floats on water and soars in the sky and the despotic Baron wants it. He sends his two bungling spies Boris and Goran to get it but as they are even more incompetent than the Chuckle Brothers
shouting is seen as violent behaviour, while he counters with the violence that he has suffered, both mentally - at home - and physically - at war.
As The Constituent reaches the apex of many shouting matches there is a feeling of impending horror and its rapid ride downhill culminates in an attack on her office while she is sleeping upstairs. There is only one suspect.
A Protection Officer (Zachary Hart) is called in to provide security and advice, which is to wear a stab vest and have Alec arrested, although she never actually saw Alec smash up her workplace and he says it was not him.
The audience is caught between a ‘did he or didn’t he?’ quandary. Needless to say, Alec’s situation worsens while Billy Bragg’s Between The Wars tells us, ‘I kept the faith, and I kept voting. Not for
it was evident their plans would not go well. They kidnap Grandpa Potts instead of Caractacus and his car and take him back to Vulgaria where children are despised by the Baroness, so are kept hidden away from the Childcatcher.
And so it goes on until we reach the inevitable happy ending after two hours of pure joy.
Yes, there were children in the audience but in the evening show it was mainly made up of Girls’ Night Out gangs, and men in matey threesomes getting themselves a nostalgia fix with a few beers. All good fun was had and with each song there was a clapping to the beat, singalongs to the most well-known, and a sea of heads bobbing along in time.
Seeing this was a beautiful thing.
The car and its flying skills were quite amazing and, for me, impossible to work out how they did it.
The cast are obviously enjoying themselves, the dancers are on top form, and the youngsters playing
the iron fist but for the helping hand’. There is no single theme here, Penhall balances out the mundane but crucial work of an MP with our own daily reality of headline-grabbing soundbites from those on the front benches. And there is no right or wrong answer to the problems within this play topped and tailed by two iconic songs from the 80s. Should politicians - or the Government - be the ‘iron fist’ or the ‘helping hand’? The Constituent does not end well but - conversely - it does end well with the house rising to its feet to acknowledge tremendous performances.
The Old Vic, The Cut, SE1 until August 10th. Times: Mon - Sat 7.30pm; Thur & Sat matinees 2.30pm. Admission: £15 - £180.
Booking: www.oldvictheatre.com
Jeremy(Ayrton English) and Jemima(Isla Ithier) are having the time of their lives. Charlie Brooks as the Childcatcher received the biggest boos (all done in the best possible taste), while Adam Garcia(Caractacus Potts) and Ellie Nunn(Truly Scrumptious) got the biggest cheers as the lovestruck couple. But, people were agog with surprise at the Baron (Martin Callaghan) and his Baroness (Jenny Gayner) when they had their little loved-up session. It took Chitty Chitty Bang Bang into the postwatershed stomping grounds, much to the pleasure of the six women with their large wines along the row from us, making this production, directed by the ever-wonderful Thom Southerland, a big hit for all the family. So catch it if you can as it will be playing around the UK into May 2025. Especially if you’re in that 1%…
Check tour details: chittyontour. com/#tour-dates
Photo by Manuel Harlan
Heading south - our pick of upcoming Summer events
Pride cabaret
Featuring some of London’s best drag talent; you will see drag kings and queens, burlesque, comedy and live singing at Woolwich Works’ pride event. The lineup includes Beau Jangles, Miss Terri Box, Charlie Wood, Cabbage the Clown, Ezme Pump, Indy Nile, Ella the Great, and Alex Beighton and is hosted by Sweet FA. This is a free event organised by LGBTQ Greenwich (an initiative by Skills for Development) and sponsored by The National Lottery Community Fund.
Date: Friday 19 July, 2024, 7:30pm
Tickets: Free, 18+ guidance
The Fireworks Factory, 11 No 1 Street, Royal Arsenal, SE18 6HD www.woolwich.works/events/woolwich-pride-a-queer-cabaret-variety-show
Shaken, not stirred
Set in the underground Cribbs Parlour of Greenwich’s Trafalgar Tavern, master mixologist Luka will teach you how to create three of the pub’s signature cocktails, including their “infamous” Greek salad gimlet, a staple of the boozer. So, for a fun evening of shaking, muddling and creating delicious drinks, book on to the cocktail masterclass to learn how to make your favourite tasty tipple.
Date: Thursday 18 July 2024, 7pm
Tickets: £35 Park Row, SE10 9NW www.trafalgartavern.co.uk/event/cocktail-masterclass-2
Grubby Little Mitts
Join sketch comics Rosie Nicholls and Sullivan Brown for their latest show at Greenwich Theatre, Grubby Little Mitts. The award-winning duo amplifies the normal to chaotic extremes, using slapstick and absurdism to point the finger at the everyday. Their signature hyper-real style is embellished with rapid dialogue, musical interludes and an aggressively red aesthetic.
Date: Friday 26 July 2024, 8pm
Tickets: £16 Crooms Hill, SE10 8ES greenwichtheatre.org.uk/events/ grubbylittlemitts
For teachers out of this world
Royal Museums Greenwich are inviting teachers, school staff and school governors to attend a celebration at the Royal Observatory to mark the end of term and look towards the new academic year. In addition to exclusive free access to a planetarium show, guests will also have the opportunity to meet and network with the learning teams from the National Maritime Museum, Cutty Sark, the Royal Observatory, the Prince Phillip Maritime Collections Centre and other learning providers from the Maritime Greenwich World Heritage Site. Plus refreshments, learning resources and more information on school programmes for early years, primary, secondary, post-16 and learners with SEND across all curriculum areas, including STEM.
Date: Tuesday 9 July 2024, 4:30pm to 7pm. Tickets: Free for school staff and teachers Romney Road, SE10 9NF. www.rmg.co.uk/whats-on/royal-observatory/teachers-evening-2024
Stand up and giggle
Gigl Comedy is hosting some of the best up-and-coming comedy stars at The Shirker’s Rest. So, if you’re looking for a cheap and cheerful way to spend your Thursday evening, the ‘pay what you like’ event is the evening for you – heavy on the laughs and easy on the wallet. You’ll find the stand-up sets every second Thursday of the month.
Date: Thursday 11 July 2024, 7:20pm
Tickets: Pay what you like The Shirker’s Rest, 9 Lewisham Way, SE14 6PP www.eventbrite.com/e/gigl-comedy-new-cross-stand-up-comedy-tickets-926956892017
Get electric
Unravel is back for a second instalment, this time curated by Deptford-based songwriter-producer Ammonite in celebration of her debut record ‘Blueprints’. Born out of a desire to find a home for electronic music and audiovisual experimentation, Unravel was founded earlier this year by four Deptfordbased music producers, performers and visual artists – Ammonite, jl.segel, Semi Precious, Yasmin Vardi – as a space for their community and beyond to be bold, experiment and present work as it progresses.
Date: Friday 12 July 2024, 8pm
Tickets: £12, 14+ guidance Douglas Way, SE8 4AG www.thealbany.org.uk/shows/unravel-2
‘Tales from The Oval is a chance to take a detailed look at South London home of cricket - with top names and extraordinary facts aplenty
WhEr E v Er you look in south London, whatever corner you walk around, there is incredible history. Some of it is more obvious than others. Wherever you dig, you are likely to hit gold writes Jon Surtees... It was in this spirit that the podcast ‘Tales from The Oval’ was conceived. A new series that, through eleven episodes, tells the story of Kennington, Oval and Vauxhall – both inside and outside the famous old Oval Cricket Ground, a true south London gem that has been in situ for 179 years.
Fortunately, another south London gem is the historian Tom Holland, a Brixton Hill resident. Tom has written many of this century’s bestselling history books and – for the last four years – has been at the helm, alongside Dominic Sandbrook, of The Rest is History, a juggernaut of a podcast that has taken almost permanent residence at the top of the UK charts.
As well as his status as a leading historian, Tom is a fervently keen cricketer. A regular for the Authors Cricket Club, he can often be seen crafting his art in the nets at Brockwell Park, Peckham Rye, Kennington Park, Southwark Park or in the indoor school located in the basement of The Oval.
So, much like The Oval itself, this is where the podcast sits. It is rooted in the community of Kennington, Oval and Vauxhall, telling stories of the area that date back to before the Domesday Book and looking at what has come before us. It goes onto look inside the walls of The Oval, examining the history of the ground, discussing the great cricketing names that have walked to the crease in the shadow of the iconic Kennington gasholders and going on a deep dive into some of the other extraordinary events that have taken place there.
Discover how The Black Prince, a collection of charismatic medieval Knights, Charles I, a celebrity highwayman by the name of Jerry Abershaw, a forger called William Badger, the founder of Methodism John Wesley and the Chartists all played vital and fascinating roles in the history of The Oval.
The first episode explores the ancient history of Kennington and Vauxhall and features an incredible roll call of the characters that have populated this part of south London for the last millennium.
cricket fans wi LL be bowLed over by historic
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garden, Oscar Wilde and the Marquess of Queensberry!
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Find out about the history of cricket on Kennington Common, the founding of The Oval in 1845, how Surrey CCC came to run the ground, the earliest Surrey games played and the Club’s first ever County Championship crown.
The episode features appearances from numerous Princes of Wales, a family of Otters, the Godfather of The Oval (a chemist from Brixton Hill), the River Effra, a few south London pubs, a smelly reservoir, a noxious market
EPISoDE 3 - ThE oVaL GIVES BIRTh To ThE aShES
Tom and Jon discuss Surrey’s contribution to England’s first ever tour of Australia; the extraordinary legacy of Charles Alcock – probably the most influential sports administrator of all time – and his vision to stage the first ever Test Match to be held in England, at The Oval, in 1880.
The episode also tells the story of the historic Tests of 1880 and 1882, the
Test that was so dramatic it ultimately created The Ashes – dwelling on some extraordinary parallels in cricketing history and truly laying out why The Oval is the most historically important cricket ground in the world.
E PIS o DE 4 - Th E m aSTER a ND T h E
G oaT
After rifling through a few candidates, Tom and Jon quickly name their choice for the greatest Surrey player of all time and proceed to tell their story in inimitable fashion. Without wanting to giveaway any
spoilers – and you will need to listen to find out their choice! – a small clue is that the podcast takes you from Parker’s Piece in Cambridge to a sports stop on The Strand, stopping off in a great many fascinating places along the way – and the player in question is so good he simply goes by the nickname of ‘The Master’.
E PIS o DE 5 - E VERy T h ING B UT
C RIC k ET
From Victorian Pedestrianism, the world’s first international football and rugby matches and dalliances
EPISoDE 1 - FRom ThE BLaCk PRINCE To WILLIam BaDGER
EPISoDE 2 - ThE EaRLy DayS: EFFLUVIUm, PEDESTRIaNISm, RoWDyISm
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with Australian Rules Football, NFL, Baseball and Greyhound Racing, The Oval has always been run by creative people, eager to test the limit of what can be staged at the ground.
Away from sport the wide ranging episode ventures to Hollywood, Bollywood and draws in The Who, Rod Stewart and two fire breathing armadillos at the Vauxhall End.
E PIS o DE 6 – S URRE y’ S B EST (a ND Wo RST ) Ca PTa IN
Featuring special guest Daniel Norcross, from BBC Test Match
Special, Tom and Jon appoint their choice for the best ever Surrey captain.
Again, you’ll have to listen to find out who they choose but their story stretches from The Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines, encompasses one of the most controversial tours in cricketing history and features many era making clashes with conservative administrators from across the river.
Norcross also brings his perspective to the discussion, nominating his choice for Surrey’s worst ever captain and telling an extraordinary post-war
story that, up until now, has remained hidden the pages of cricketing history.
E PIS o DE 7 – Th E oVa L aT Wa R
Another special guest joins Tom and Jon, this time famed Second World War historian and podcaster James Holland (who also happens to be Tom’s brother!).
The three talk about The Oval’s requisitioning by the government in both the First and Second World Wars, tell the story of some of the names on the ground’s War Memorials and look at the damage inflicted on Kennington, the ground and the wider neighbourhood
during the German bombing campaigns of the early 1940s.
E PIS o DE 7a – T Wo E XTR ao RDIN a Ry oVa L mEN
A bonus episode with James stepping into his brother’s shoes to discuss Arthur Tedder, First Baron Tedder - one of the great British air generals of the Second World War – and Sir George Edwards, Experimental Department Manager at Vickers and one of the unsung heroes of the Barnes-Wallis team that delivered the Dambusters Raid.
Their connection? After the war, both were Oval regulars and ultimately became President of Surrey County Cricket Club, an honorary position given to the Club’s greatest servants. The podcast continues with episodes on the greatest ever innings played at The Oval, Surrey’s greatest team, the ground’s extraordinary relationship with the West Indies and the future of The Oval. You can listen to the podcasts on Apple, Spotify, YouTube and all good podcast platforms. New episodes come out every Wednesday until early August.
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1880 Test Match
Oval 1951 Hobbs
Notice of Application to apply for a Premises Licence made under the Licensing Act 2003
Please take notice that I / we Forty Acre Coffee Ltd
Have made application to the London Borough Of Wandsworth to apply for a Premises Licence in respect of: Retail Sale of Alcohol Full name postal address of the premises: 165 Tooting High St, SW17 0SY
The application is as follows: MONDAY TO SUNDAY 10am-11pm
A register of all applications made with the London Borough Of Wandsworth is maintained by: LICENSING SECTION, LONDON BOROUGH OF MERTON, 2ND FLOOR, CIVIC CENTRE, LONDON ROAD, MORDEN, SURREY, SM4 5DX
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Note: It is an offence to knowingly or recklessly to make a false statement in connection with an application. A person guilty of such offence is liable on summary conviction to a fine.
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ROAD TRAFFIC REGULATION ACT 1984
THE A40 GLA ROAD (TYBURN WAY, CITY OF WESTMINSTER) (TEMPORARY PROHIBITION OF TRAFFIC AND STOPPING) ORDER 2024
1. Transport for London hereby gives notice that it has made the above named Trafc Order under section 14(1) of the Road Trafc Regulation Act 1984 for the purpose specied in paragraph 2. The effect of the Order is summarised in paragraph 3.
2. The purpose of the Order is to enable water maintenance works to take place at A40 Tyburn Way.
3. The effect of the Order will be to prohibit any vehicle from entering, exiting, proceeding or stopping on Tyburn Way between its junctions with Cumberland Gate and Marble Arch.
The Order will be effective at certain times from 10.00 PM on the 12th July 2024 until 5.00 AM on the 20th July 2024 or when the works have been completed whichever is the sooner. The prohibition will apply only during such times and to such extent as shall from time to time be indicated by trafc signs.
4. The prohibitions will not apply in respect of:
(1) any vehicle being used for the purposes of those works or for re brigade, ambulance or police purposes;
(2) anything done with the permission or at the direction of a police constable in uniform or a person authorised by Transport for London.
Dated this 5th day of July 2024
Paul Matthews Co-ordination Manager, Transport for London Palestra, 197 Blackfriars Road, London, SE1 8NJ
Transport for London Public Notice
ROAD TRAFFIC REGULATION ACT 1984
THE A3 GLA ROAD (TOLWORTH RISE SOUTH, ROYAL BOROUGH OF KINGSTON UPON THAMES) (TEMPORARY PROHIBITION OF TRAFFIC) ORDER 2024
1. Transport for London hereby gives notice that it intends to make the above named Trafc Order under section 14(1) of the Road Trafc Regulation Act 1984 for the purpose specied in paragraph 2. The effect of the Order is summarised in paragraph 3.
2. The purpose of the Order is to enable service pipe repair works to take place on A3 Tolworth Rise South.
3. The effect of the Order will be to prohibit any vehicle from entering the Tolworth Rise South off-slip road connecting the southbound carriageway of the A3 Kingston By Pass with the Tolworth Roundabout at its junction with the A3 Kingston By Pass.
The Order will be effective at certain times between 10:00 PM on 19th July 2024 until 5:00 AM on 20th July 2024 or when the works have been completed whichever is the sooner. The prohibitions will apply only during such times and to such extent as shall from time to time be indicated by trafc signs.
4. The prohibitions will not apply in respect of:
(1) any vehicle being used for the purposes of those works or for re brigade, ambulance or police purposes;
(2) anything done with the permission or at the direction of a police constable in uniform or a person authorised by Transport for London.
5. At such times as the prohibitions are in force an alternative route will be indicated by trafc signs via A3 Hook Rise South (Kingston Bypass) southbound, Hook Junction roundabout, A3 Hook Rise North (Kingston Bypass) northbound, Tolworth Roundabout, Barnsbury Lane and Warren Drive South to normal route of travel.
Dated this 5th day of July 2024
Claire Wright
Co-ordination Manager
Transport for London, Palestra, 197 Blackfriars Road, London, SE1 8NJ
Perfected Lien Security Interest –Stephen William Rudman
I, a man, Stephen William Rudman, hold a perfected Lien Security Interest in and over the public indemnity insurance policy(s) and all real and moveable property of the following:
DAVID JOSEPH DUFFY, CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER, CLYDESDALE BANK PLC, 177 Bothwell Street, Glasgow, G2 7ER; and
CLYDESDALE BANK PLC, 177 Bothwell Street, Glasgow, G2 7ER.
Lien Debtors are jointly and severally liable for the total sum certain of £174,844,400.00. Interested parties should contact Stephen William Rudman, privately, via email swr@tidc1.com
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Please take notice that I / we TASTE HARMONY LTD
Have made application to the London Borough Of Merton to apply for a Premises Licence in respect of: LATE NIGHT REFRESHMENT
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The application is as follows: MONDAY TO SUNDAY 23.00PM TO 5.00AM
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ROAD TRAFFIC REGULATION ACT 1984
THE A3 GLA ROAD (MARCILLY ROAD, LONDON BOROUGH OF WANDSWORTH) (TEMPORARY PROHIBITION OF STOPPING) ORDER 2024
1. Transport for London hereby gives notice that it has made the above named Trafc Order under section 14(1) of the Road Trafc Regulation Act 1984 for the purpose specied in paragraph 2. The effect of the Order is summarised in paragraph 3.
2. The purpose of the Order is to enable electrical cable supply works to take place on the A3 Marcilly Road.
3. The effect of the Order will be to prohibit any vehicle from stopping: (1) in the Loading and Unloading Only Bay outside Nos. 1- 5 Marcilly Road; (2) in the Loading/ Unloading & Disabled Persons’ Vehicle Bay outside Nos. 12 – 20 Marcilly Road;
(3) in the Parking & Disabled Persons’ Vehicle Bay outside Nos. 57 – 59 Elsynge Road;
(4) in the Parking & Disabled Persons’ Vehicle Bay opposite Nos. 57 – 59 Elsynge Road
The Order will be effective at certain times from 7:00 AM on 6th July 2024 until 7:00 PM on 24th August 2024 or when the works have been completed whichever is the sooner. The prohibitions will apply only during such times and to such extent as shall from time to time be indicated by trafc signs.
4. The prohibitions will not apply in respect of:
(1) any vehicle being used for the purposes of those works or for re brigade, ambulance or police purposes;
(2) anything done with the permission or at the direction of a police constable in uniform or a person authorised by Transport for London.
Dated this 5th day of July 2024
Paul Matthews Co-ordination
Manager
Transport for London
Transport for London Public Notice
LONDON BOROUGH OF LAMBETH
ROAD TRAFFIC REGULATION ACT 1984 - SECTION 14
TEMPORARY TRAFFIC AND PARKING RESTRICTIONS –BRAESIDE ROAD
1. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that, to enable Thames Water to carry out maintenance works, the Council of the London Borough of Lambeth have made an Order the effect of which will be to temporarily ban vehicles from entering or waiting (including waiting for the purpose of loading or unloading a vehicle) in that length of Braeside Road which lies between the common boundary of Nos. 15 and 17 Braeside Road and the common boundary of Nos. 33 and 35 Braeside Road.
2. Alternative routes for affected vehicles will be available via Canmore Gardens, Bencroft Road, Donnybrook Road and viceversa.
3.
4. The Order will come into force on 15th July 2024 and continue in force 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 15th July 2024 and 19th July 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 5th July
LONDON BOROUGH OF LAMBETH
ROAD TRAFFIC REGULATION ACT 1984 - SECTION 14
TEMPORARY ROAD CLOSURE VIRGIL STREET
1. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that, to enable sewer connection works, the Council of the London Borough of Lambeth intend to make an Order, the effect of which would be to temporarily ban vehicles (including cyclists) from entering Virgil Street (the whole length).
2. The ban would only apply at such times and to such extent as shall be indicated by the placing of the appropriate traffic signs.
3. An alternative route for affected motor vehicles would be available via Hercules Road, Cosser Street, Kennington Road, Lambeth Road, Hercules Road and Carlisle Lane.
4. Cyclists to dismount and use the footway.
5. The Order would come into force on 22nd July 2024 for a maximum duration of 1 month or until the works have been completed, whichever is the sooner. In practice, it is anticipated that works would be carried out between 22nd and 26th July 2024, but if the works cannot be carried out or completed during those dates, the Order may also have effect on subsequent dates within the maximum period of 1 month.
Dated 5th July 2024 Ben Stevens Highway Network Manager
LONDON BOROUGH OF LAMBETH ROAD TRAFFIC REGULATION ACT 1984 – SECTION 14
TEMPORARY TRAFFIC AND PARKING RESTRICTIONS –LEIGHAM VALE
1. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that, to enable Thames Water to carry out sewer repair works, the Council of the London Borough of Lambeth intend to make an Order the effect of which would be to temporarily ban:(a) vehicles from entering or waiting (including waiting for the purpose of loading and unloading a vehicle) in that length of Leigham Vale which lies between its junction with Knollys Road and the common boundary of Nos. 1 to 28 Pembroke Lodge, No. 149 Leigham Court Road and No. 8 Leigham Vale; (b) vehicles proceeding in (i) Hitherfield Road; (ii) Palace Road; and (iii) Stockfield Road, from turning right into Leigham Vale (except for access).
2. The bans would only apply at such times and to such extent as shall be indicated by the placing of the appropriate traffic signs.
3. Alternative routes for affected vehicles would be available via Leigham Court Road, Glennie Road, Royal Circus, York Hill and Knollys Road, York Hill and Norwood Road and vice versa.
4. The Order would come into force on 24th July 2024 and would continue for a maximum duration of 6 months or until the works have been completed, whichever is the sooner. In practice, it is anticipated that the Order would only have effect between 24th July 2024 and 3rd September 2024, but if the works cannot be carried out or be completed during that time then the Order may have effect on subsequent days within the maximum duration of 6 months.
Dated 5th July 2024 Ben Stevens Highway Network Manager
LONDON BOROUGH OF LAMBETH
ROAD TRAFFIC REGULATION ACT 1984 - SECTION 14
TEMPORARY ROAD CLOSURE – COLDHARBOUR PLACE
1. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that, to enable telecommunication maintenance works to be carried out, the Council of the London Borough of Lambeth have made an Order the effect of which will be to temporarily ban vehicles from entering that length of Coldharbour Place which lies between a point 15 metres east of Coldharbour Lane and the southern boundary wall of No. 5 Coldharbour Place.
2. An alternative route is available as Coldharbour Place is a no through 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 17th July 2024 and continue in force 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 9.30 am and 3.30 pm on 17th July 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 5th July 2024 Ben Stevens Highway Network Manager
LONDON BOROUGH OF LAMBETH
ROAD TRAFFIC REGULATION ACT 1984 - SECTION 14
TEMPORARY CLOSURE OF THE SLIP ROAD LINKING NORWOOD ROAD TO DULWICH ROAD
1. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that, to enable Thames Water to carry out repair and maintenance works, the Council of the London Borough of Lambeth intend to make an Order the effect of which would be to temporarily:-
(a) ban vehicles from entering the slip road that links Norwood Road to Dulwich Road, situated outside the Herne Hill entrance to Brockwell Park; and
(b) suspend the banned left turn from the main carriageway of Norwood Road into the main carriageway of Dulwich Road, to enable the use of the alternative route described in paragraph 3 below.
2. The above road closure and suspension would only apply at such times and to such extent as shall be indicated by the placing and/or covering of the appropriate traffic signs.
3. An alternative route would be available for affected vehicles via the main carriageway of Norwood Road and the main carriageway of Dulwich Road.
4. The Order would come into force on 16th July 2024 and would 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 would be carried out between 10 p.m. on 16th July 2024 and 5 a.m. on 17th July 2024, but if the works cannot be carried out or completed during this time then the Order may have effect at a subsequent time within the maximum period of 1 month.
Dated 5th July 2024 Ben Stevens Highway Network Manager
LONDON BOROUGH OF LAMBETH
ROAD TRAFFIC REGULATION ACT 1984 - SECTION 14
TEMPORARY TRAFFIC RESTRICTIONS – PRESCOTT PLACE
1. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that, to enable telecommunication works to be carried out, the Council of the London Borough of Lambeth subject to the agreement of Transport for London, intend to make an Order, the effect of which would be to temporarily ban vehicles from entering Prescott Place (the whole length).
2. The above road closure would only apply at such times and to such extent as shall be indicated by the placing of the appropriate traffic signs.
3. Alternative routes for affected vehicles would be available via (i) Clapham High Street, Clapham Manor Street and Cresset Street and vice versa; and (ii) Clapham High Street, Stonhouse Street and Cresset Street and vice versa.
4. The Order would come into force on 24th July 2024 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 Order would only have effect between 24th and 25th July 2024, but if the works cannot be completed or carried out during that time then the Order would also have effect on subsequent dates within the maximum period of 1 month.
Dated 5th July 2024 Ben Stevens Highway Network Manager
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 – PLANNING PERMSSION
LB – LISTED BUILDING
RUS – RUSH COMMON CONSENT
P3MA – PRIOR APPROVAL
Written representations should be made within three weeks of the date of this advertisement to the Director of Planning, PO Box 734, Winchester SO23 5DG. Any comments made are open to inspection by the public and in the event of an appeal may be referred to the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government. Confidential comments cannot be taken
to enable vehicular access to properties with off street parking facilities.
4. If you have any enquiries about this matter, please email: cpzconsultation@lambeth.gov.uk (quoting reference – Crossovers 6)
5. A copy of each of the proposed Orders and other documents giving detailed particulars about
at: https://streets.appyway.com/lambeth or www.lambeth.gov.uk/traffic-management-orders and at
are
for
Parking and Enforcement Group (Parking, Network Management & 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 Orders are made or, as the case may be, the Council decides not to make the Orders. To arrange inspection please telephone 020 7926 0209 or email: Trafficorders@lambeth.gov.uk
6. All objections and other representations relating to the proposed Orders must be made in writing and all objections must specify the grounds on which they are made (quoting reference: Crossovers 6), and can be made using our consultation portal at https://streets.appyway.com/lambeth or sent by post to Barbara Poulter, Parking and Enforcement Group (Parking, Network Management & Fleet), London Borough of Lambeth, PO Box 80771, London, SW2 9QQ or by email TMOReps@lambeth.gov.uk by 26th July 2024. Any objection may be communicated to, or be seen by, other persons who may have an interest in this matter. Dated 5th July 2024
Dated this Friday 5th July
TAVARES STRACHAN
THERE IS LIGHT SOMEWHERE
18 JUN – 1 SEP
Under-30s and Lambeth residents: £8 tickets available Tuesday – Friday and after 5pm on Saturday.
By Mark Baldwin
A BriLLiAnt 107 from ryan Patel, necessarily watchful at first but buccaneering by its end, built on Jamie Smith’s classy 70 and enabled Surrey to reach a second innings 278 and set Essex a formidable 361 to win the top-of-the-table clash with a day left at the Kia oval.
By stumps, they were 21 for two with Nick Browne edging Jordan Clark to keeper Ben Foakes – via a push-up from a diving Smith at third slip – to depart for nine, and nightwatchman Eathan Bosch bowled for one as he shouldered arms in Clark’s next over. Dean Elgar is 11 not out.
Patel thumped paceman Shane Snater for two legside sixes in an over and soon afterwards hit Simon Harmer’s off spin into the Bedser Stand during a 125-ball knock that also featured 15 fours – the 14th of them a stunning straight drive off Matt Critchley to complete the 26-yearold’s fourth first-class hundred.
Smith had earlier lit up a stop-start day as, for the second time in the match, he made sure Division One leaders Surrey stayed in control of a vital fixture against second-placed Essex.
With 35 overs ultimately lost to bad light and rain, across an infuriating five separate interruptions in the first half of the day, Surrey stretched their 126-run overnight lead to 360 as first Smith and then a 65-run seventh wicket partnership between Patel and Clark denied Essex a way back into the game.
Patel’s superb late hitting then saw him plunder the bulk of the 85 runs Surrey managed to score for their last two wickets. Overall, indeed, it was a great effort by Surrey, who began day three on 44 for three, and the only consolation for Essex was seamer Jamie Porter claiming his 500th first-class wicket by having Clark caught at third man, uppercutting, for 30.
Leading Essex by 12 points coming into the match, Surrey would stretch that gap to 29 if they go on to secure victory on day four and – if that does happen – they would chiefly have Patel and 23-year-old Smith to thank for a sixth win from nine Vitality County Championship outings so far this season.
Smith’s opening day 100 did much to take Surrey to 262 in their first innings and, resuming on 11, the player selected at the weekend to be England’s new Test wicketkeeper-batsman later this month again showed his sublime strokemaking skills even in such bowler-friendly conditions and with the need to keep starting again and again after each break for bad weather.
After an initial 30-minute passage of
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play, in which Foakes was dropped on nine at first slip off Porter as Surrey edged to 63 for three, there were three minisessions of 10 balls, one ball, and then another 10 balls, either side of an early lunch.
More rain then followed a 27-ball session, driving the players off yet again at 2.12pm, but after a fifth re-start of the day at 2.38pm there was at last a prolonged period of play – broken only by the tea interval – until stumps.
By then Smith had moved smoothly past fifty, despite seeing Foakes fall for 13 when he edged Snater and was smartly held above his head at second slip by Harmer.
Left-hander Sai Sudharsan, the India international, helped Smith to add 45 for
the fifth wicket, taking Surrey’s overall lead beyond 200, but it was Smith who was the main aggressor with a booming extra cover drive off Snater and a gorgeous on-drive off Porter perhaps the pick of his eventual 11 fours.
And Smith, who came in on 25 for two, had scored 70 of Surrey’s next 98 runs when he greeted left-arm seamer Paul Walter’s first ball by pulling it straight to deep square leg in the 38th over.
When Sudharsan fell for 12 in the next over, thin-edging Bosch behind, Surrey were suddenly 127 for six and Essex knew they had probably their last chance to stay in the contest.
Patel and Clark, however, both batted with grit and no little skill to defy the Essex seamers for almost 20 overs, and
Surrey’s lead had reached 274 before Porter’s dismissal of Clark was quickly followed by Bosch bowling Tom Lawes for a first-ball duck.
That was the signal for Patel, who had survived a caught and bowled chance to Bosch on 40, to press hard on the accelerator and although James Taylor (3) was bowled sweeping at Harmer he found in last man Dan Worrall a steady partner while a further 43 runs were added in, by now, bright sunshine and until Patel was bowled swinging at Critchley.
“I enjoyed that innings and, considering our position in the title race and where we were in such an important game, it’s probably the best hundred I’ve scored in championship cricket,” Patel said.
“Jamie Smith set things up for us today,
and for the second time in the match, by playing like he did in tough conditions from No 4, but it was nice for me to come in and get a few towards the end and get us up to a 360-run lead.
“Jordan Clark and myself had to put a partnership together when we were six down, and then batting with the lower order sort of forced my hand to go for my shots later on. It’s nice to show I can hit a few balls over the ropes too!
“I had complete trust in Frankie [Dan Worrall] to stay with me until I reached the hundred - he tells me that’s the tenth time in his career he has helped someone to a century from No 11! “Getting two wickets at the end of the day was also important and hopefully we can go on to win the game [on Wednesday].”
Stars smoked again as the Blaze claim second win in week
By Fred Akins
south eAst Stars lost to the Blaze by 133 runs (d/L Method) in the rachael heyhoe Flint trophy at Beckenham last weekend.
The visitors scored a mammoth 318-8, their highest List A score, even though the innings was reduced to 44 overs due to rain. Sarah Bryce top-scored with 81, Ella Claridge made a career-best 71 from 45 balls and Marie Kelly weighed in with 52. Heather Graham then claimed 6-39 as the Stars were bowled out for 185, despite a defiant 44 from Alice Davidson-Richards.
Just eight days after the Blaze eased to victory over the Stars in the Charlotte Edwards Cup final they repeated the trick with an equally comfortable win at the New County Ground.
Leaden skies may have persuaded the Stars to bowl first, but after the early removal of Teresa Graves, who was run out by Phoebe Franklin for nine, the Bryce sisters put on a 94-run stand that was only curtailed when Tilly CorteenColeman bowled Kathryn for 30. A hefty rain delay saw the game reduced to 44 overs per side and Sarah Bryce fell soon after the resumption, pulling a short ball from Alexa Stonehouse to Franklin at mid-on.
Graham made 28 before she was bowled by Kalea Moore and Kelly was the victim of a brilliant bit of fielding by Franklin, who in one motion, dived, scooped her up on the boundary and threw the ball in to allow Chloe Hill to complete the run out.
Michaela Kirk played a supporting role to Claridge but hit out in the penultimate
over and was caught off Franklin by Tash Farrant on the cow corner boundary for eighteen.
Farrant took two wickets in the final over: Claridge was caught by Emma Jones in the deep and Josie Groves bottom-edged her to Cranstone, but the momentum was maintained by a twoball cameo from Cassidy McCarthy, who finished on eight not out.
The target of 319 wasn’t adjusted despite the loss of six overs, but the Stars made a rocky start, losing skipper Bryony Smith for eleven, caught by Kirstie Gordon off Kathryn Bryce after a run of dot balls.
Moore also went for eleven, skying Graham almost vertically into Sarah Bryce’s gloves. Graham then had Farrant caught behind for 35 and Jones stumped
for a second ball duck.
Aylish Cranstone and Franklin put on 39 for the next wicket until the latter sliced Groves to McCarthy for thirteen.
Groves then had Cranstone lbw for 33, attempting to sweep, Gordon had Hill stumped for seventeen and Alexa Stonehouse was bowled by Graham for a third-ball duck.
Davidson-Richards went down swinging, trying to hit Graham out of the ground but slicing her to Kathryn Bryce at backward point and the result was sealed when Graham had caught Danni Gregory by McCarthy at mid-wicket for one.
South East Stars Johann Myburgh said their defeat the previous week wasn’t a factor.
“I don’t think so. I think the girls prepped really well,” he said. “It was disappointing
from our side, we didn’t play as well as we know we can and when you’re playing against a good side like the Blaze, if you give them opportunities to put you under pressure they certainly will do that.
“There was a green tinge to the wicket and obviously it was cloudy and we came off for rain so we thought the conditions were, if we were going to get any support with a bit of swing and stuff off the wicket we thought we could use that to our advantage. Unfortunately we probably didn’t get the ball in the right areas enough consecutively.
“And then once their batters got in there are some really good cricketers there that can put you under pressure.”
The Stars are at Lancashire Thunder in Blackpool at 10.30am this Sunday (July 7).
Ryan Patel
Dons sign ‘dynamic’ midfielder
By John Kelly
AFC WiMBLEdon have signed
Alistair Smith on a seasonlong loan from Lincoln City.
Midfielder Smith, 25, made 32 appearances for the Imps last season before joining League Two Colchester United on loan in January. He made fifteen appearances for the U’s, scoring twice, as Danny Cowley’s side avoided relegation by three points.
Yorkshire-born Smith started his career at Mansfield Town before loan moves to Kettering and Altrincham. He joined Sutton United in 2021 when he linked up with his new Dons team-mates
Omar Bugiel and Josh Neufville. Smith scored fifteen goals in 55 League Two starts in Sutton’s first-ever seasons in the Football League.
Smith joined Lincoln last summer.
“He’s a player that we’ve been looking at for a long time,” Dons boss Johnnie Jackson said. “He’s an energetic attacking midfielder, box to box, dynamic and he’s very experienced at this level. He fits right into what we’re doing this season.”
Head of football operations
Craig Cope added: “We’re really pleased to land Alistair, he has been a target since I joined the club and we are looking forward to welcoming him to the group.”
enzo goes on the attack
Chelsea sign talented eighteenyear-old forwards
By John Kelly
EnZo MArESCA’S Chelsea revolution kicked up a few gears in the last week as the Blues announced the signing of two highly rated eighteen-year-old attackers and sold two players for almost £50million.
Striker Marc Guiu joined from Barcelona on a five-year deal for £5million.
Chelsea have also signed Omari Kellyman from Aston Villa on a six-year deal for £19million.
Guiu made his debut for Barcelona last October and scored a minute after coming on to clinch a 1-0 La Liga win over Athletic Bilbao.
The 6ft2ins forward followed that up two appearances later with a first Champions League goal in a 3-2 defat at Royal Antwerp.
“It's an immense joy to sign for Chelsea and I struggled to sleep ahead of the journey here because I was so excited,’ Guiu said. “Ever since I was
small, it was my dream to play in the Premier League.
“Now I have the opportunity to come here to Chelsea and I will work my hardest to be successful for the club.
“I think what's most important [at the start] is that I adapt to my surroundings, which I'm sure will be easy, and then of course I want to win the Champions League and the Premier League for Chelsea.
“On a personal level, I want to help the team as much as I can by scoring lots of goals and I want to become the best centre-forward in the world.”
Guiu was the top-scorer for Spain at last summer’s UEFA European Under-17 Championship, and played for the under-19s last season.
Guiu added: “I would say my strength is goal-scoring but I'm a humble guy and selfless. I like to give my all for my team-mates. I've always been that way and will continue to be.
“I also like to train so that I'm improving every day. I'm good at taking the ball up, holding possession, giving
space and of course scoring goals.”
Kellyman, meanwhile, had his Northern Irish mother, Paula, his Jamaican father, Marlon, and fourteenyear-old brother with him when he signed his contract at Cobham.
Kellyman, whose best position is as a No.10 but who can play across the front, spoke about the importance of his family to his career.
“Day-to-day, I just hope people don’t have a bad word to say about me and it is something that I think about quite consciously,” Kellyman said.
“It comes from my family. My family are the type of people who always help people out and that is where it comes from.
“It is special to have my family here and it is a big thing for me, to be able to see their faces. People don’t get to do this often so it is a big driving factor personally.
“The fact that I just want to make my family happy and proud has probably been my biggest driving factor and it gets me going every day.
“My mum helped keep me focussed at school and I knew how important my education was to her. I wouldn’t say I am clever but I did well in school.
“Growing up, I remember my dad would be working two jobs and always on the go. I have obviously seen that if someone else can work that hard, then I can. That is something which rubbed off on me.
“It is important to always remember your roots and where you come from. You also have to remember that there is always someone out there who is doing better than you and use that as a driving force.
“I want to be successful in the Chelsea shirt, to win games and hopefully trophies. Hopefully, I can become one of the faces on the side of the stadium. I want to become a big player for this club.”
Meanwhile, Chelsea have sold fullback Lewis Hall to Newcastle United for £28million and stacking midfielder Omari Hutchinson to Ipswich Town for £20million.
Sasu agrees new Wimbledon deal
By John Kelly
Aron sAsu has signed a twoyear contract extension with AFC Wimbledon.
Midfielder Sasu, 19, who played 31 times in all competitions last season, also has an option of a further twelve months in the agreement.
“I can’t wait to get back on the pitch and do my best for the club,” Sasu said. “I hit a lot of milestones last season, so it’s now all about building on that momentum.
“I’m really happy to extend my time here, I’m aiming to be a player that the fans can continue to get behind and cheer for.”
Johnnie Jackson said: “Sas is a player that we have really high hopes for. He’s got the potential to go to the very top of the game. He had a breakout season last season, we’re now hoping that he plays a big and important role in what we’re trying to do.
“It’s important that we’ve got him
tied to a new deal because he is a massive asset for this football club.” Head of football operations Craig Cope added: “Aron is another really exciting prospect who came out of our academy. We are pleased he has decided to extend his time with us and look forward to watching him develop further.”
Blues boss Enzo Maresca
Wimbledon boss Johnnie Jackson
EXCLUSIVE
By Kiro Evans
neiL hArris is confident that Millwall’s transfer window will soon heat up as pre-season enters July.
The Lions’ friendly match against Gillingham is just over a week away and the opening game of the campaign at home to Watford is now less than six weeks away but Millwall have yet to make a signing.
Asked how close Millwall were to securing their first deal, head coach Harris told our paper: “A lot closer. I’ve been very honest in my thoughts so far and again I think it’s important for fans to know I’m being very patient.
“We talk a lot about adding to the group and wanting players in early. Of course I do, every manager does. But I’m also appreciative of the group that we have in the building and the success we had with this group last year.
“Yes we do need to add players in vital positions and strength in depth as well. And we will, 100 per cent we will get our business done because we always do, but it is right we get the right players at the right value as well, and I really appreciate and understand that.
“There’s been huge progress in the last seven days. Whether that’s because teams are back training, players are getting nervous, agents backing off a little bit in demands… All
of the above, probably.
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harris patient over lack of Lions signings
“So things are progressing nicely, we will have players in the building and I’d love to have a couple players in sooner rather than later to add to the group. But in some ways it’s been really nice having a smaller group that were together last year.”
The Lions boss has also been reflecting on the mood in training after players returned to Calmont Road just weeks after the passing of team-mate Matija Sarkic at the age of 26.
Harris said: “The first thing I said to the players was it’s about being human beings and it’s about us remembering a friend, a colleague and a really, really good man. It’s moments like this that define us as human beings, not as
professional footballers.
“The players have found the balance between trying to be themselves and trying to be an upbeat changing room that’s carrying real momentum through the great finish last year, to being massively respectful to moments of sorrow where people have moments of reflection to losing Mati.
“So yes the last few days have been a little bit surreal. Moments where we catch ourselves as a group being normal and then reflecting on how we miss him and it doesn’t feel right without him. I’m sure time will heal that thought-process for us. But the lads have responded magnificently and with real strength of character and togetherness.”
Harris up for Spanish challenge
EXCLUSIVE
By Kiro Evans
neiL hArris said he is looking forward to getting his players “out of their comfort zone” as Millwall revealed their pre-season games to take place in Spain.
The Lions will face Premier League side Nottingham Forest on Tuesday July 23 before taking on Spanish third-tier side Real Murcia on Friday July 26. Both games will be hosted at the Pinatar Arena and tickets have been put on sale for fans.
Asked for the thinking behind the fixtures, Harris told our paper: “Convenience, availability and timing are of course three factors.
“I wanted to add ideally a Premier League opponent into our pre-season programme and Forest tick that box so we’re really looking forward to that one, it’s a real challenge.
“And while we’re away - I’ve always done it in the past - I like to play a foreign opponent. Something completely different, someone we know nothing about, they know nothing about us.
“Different style of play, different technical ability, different weather conditions, different pitches etcetera. It just takes you completely out of your comfort zone.
“It’s a morning kick-off as well so it’s completely random and that’s the beauty of the challenge. I’d expect Forest to be an absolutely superb outfit and Real Murcia to be the same but a different challenge.”
In terms of competitive fixtures, Millwall have been drawn to play Portsmouth away in the Carabao Cup first-round in August.
Alfie explains decision after leaving Addicks for Blues
By John Kelly
ALfie mAy revealed his decision to leave Charlton Athletic was for family reasons.
May, 31, has joined League One rivals Birmingham City on a three-yer deal for an undisclosed fee.
In his one season at The Valley following his £250,000 move from Cheltenham Town last summer, May won the League One Golden Boot with 23 goals, was named in the EFL League One team of the season, and claimed the Addicks’ player of the year and players’ player of the year awards. May scored 27 goals in 50 games in all competitions in 2023-24.
May handed in a transfer request after Charlton rejected an initial Blues bid for him. Charlton accepted a bid over the weekend and May agreed personal terms. Another side relegated from the
Championship alongside Birmingham last season, Huddersfield Town, had also bid for May.
“It’s a difficult one for me because I’m leaving my hometown, but it’s football and I’m doing it for my family,” May said as he addressed Addicks fans to explain his decision. “Hopefully I leave on good terms. It’s only been a year, but it’s a year that I won’t forget. I thank everyone for the support and the love they showed me since I first signed.
“The main one for me is that my wife and kids have moved back up north. We knew moving to the London area was going to be a big ask for my missus, it was something new for her. So that was a big one, she just couldn’t get settled down here, she missed her family, she missed her friends.
“The other reason was my eldest was going into big school and he got rejected from three schools and got tried to put
into another one. My wife and I sat down and had a good conversation regarding that and we made a decision that I needed to move closer to my family’s home. I think for me it was the right thing to do.
“To be closer to the wife and kids is massive for me. The age I am now I feel I don’t want to miss out on anything.”
Charlton manager Nathan Jones added: “Our focus is coming out of this transfer window categorically stronger than we were at the start of the window. We understand Alfie’s motivations for wanting to move on and we’ve been able to secure a really good deal for the club which allows us to reinvest in adding quality to our squad.
“Alfie did well for the club and myself last season. He worked hard throughout and scored some crucial goals, so we wish him all the best for the future.”
Alfie May addresses Charlton fans
Neil Harris is keen for Millwall to get some business done
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‘What did you just say?’ Gareth Southgate has been criticised for England’s displays
By John Kelly
EngLAnd BoSS gareth Southgate has the perfect motivational words to pin to the dressing room wall at the düsseldorf Arena this weekend - after Switzerland manager Murat yakin compared them to Scotland. England head into the tie after a poor tournament and needed Jude Bellingham’s 95th-minute overhead kick to avoid what would have been one of the worst results in their history against Slovakia last weekend. Bellingham’s brilliance rescued a 1-1 draw before Harry Kane scored the winner in extratime. The Swiss, on the other hand, have impressed. They have played some vibrant, attacking football - in contrast to
the drab fare from the Three Lions - and deservedly beat holders Italy 2-0 in their last-sixteen tie.
The Scots were even worse than England have been, exiting the tournament after picking up just two points in their group.
Yakin feels England have the better players, but is confident ahead of the fixture.
"If I compare the two teams, the value of the English players is much greater than ours,” former Switzerland captain Yakin said. “But it's going to be an open game. They've struggled against teams that are behind, it's never easy. We know England's strengths, but we also know their weaknesses.
"It will be a completely different game, with cultural differences. England have a vertical style of play, but if we push
great scot! Swiss boss fires up Three Lions with Auld Enemy jibe
them, we'll make it difficult for them. It's a bit reminiscent of what we saw against Scotland, with those long balls and second balls.
"It makes the match a little unpredictable. We can't train too much for that. We'll just have to find the right solution to deal with them."
Meanwhile, Southgate has been urged to start Chelsea’s Cole Palmer against the Swiss.
Palmer, 22, has made two substitute appearances in four games, coming on in the 71st minute of the 0-0 draw against Slovenia in the last group game and in the 66th minute against Slovakia.
That peripheral involvement comes after Palmer scored 22 goals and registered eleven assists in 34 league appearances last season.
England have struggled in attack, with little evidence of a coordinated plan.
Former England captain Alan Shearer said he would "definitely bring Palmer in”.
Another ex-England international and BBC pundit Danny Murphy said Palmer was, "one England player who is taking the most risks”, and added: "He is the bravest on the ball, as if to say, 'I don’t mind trying things and if it doesn’t happen, it doesn’t happen'.
"Some of the other England players are overthinking things but Cole Palmer isn't and that is the way he has played all season.
"He has to start the next game. For some of the players coming in, there is no pressure."
The match kicks off on Saturday (July 5) at 5pm UK time.
By John Kelly
ChELSEA BoSS Enzo Maresca has gone back to his former club Leicester City to sign midfielder Kiernan dewsburyhall.
Dewsbury-Hall, 25, has joined for £30million and signed a six-year deal.
The Foxes academy graduate scored twelve goals and provided twelve assists in 44 league games to help Leicester win the Championship. He was named the club’s player of the season and players' player of the season.
"It is amazing to be sitting here as a Chelsea player," Dewsbury-Hall said.
"This is a club people grow up watching and hoping to one day play for, so it is a privilege to be here.
“Last season was a positive year for me and I’m coming into this season feeling like a new player, full of confidence, full of motivation to get going and I don’t see a better fit than coming to Chelsea and testing myself against some top players and playing with top players.”
Blues pay their Dews addicks get God-send
By John Kelly
ChArLton AthLEtiC have signed Matt godden from Coventry City on a two-year deal for an undisclosed fee.
Godden, who turns 33 later this month, scored 50 goals in 156 appearances for the Sky Blues after joining from Peterborough United in 2019.
Godden has joined the Addicks after forward Alfie May left for Birmingham City.
Former Stevenage striker Godden scored fifteen goals as Coventry earned promotion to the Championship in 2019-20. He followed that up with six league goals the next season, Godden bagged a league goal every second game in 2021-22 with twelve in 24 as Mark Robins’ side finished twelfth.
Canterbury-born Godden scored the first penalty in the Championship playoff final against Luton Town in 2023 but the side lost 6-5 as they were denied promotion.
He scored nine goals in 41 games in all competitions last season.
