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‘Thrown out of restaurant because of his facial disfigurement’

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having a giraffe! is this a banksy in walworth? See page 6

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‘CounCil to Consider putting 2nd lane on lower road’ See page 4

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Council official denies mishandling complaints from leaseholders hit with £2,500 heating/hot water bills

By Robert Firth

A town hall official has denied he mishandled residents’ concerns about problems with a heating system serving over 700 households, that means families are charged £1,000 more than average for their energy bills.

Tom Vosper, who is responsible for heat networks at Southwark Council, rebuffed suggestions his response to an investigation by leaseholders which showed their communal boiler system was using three times more gas than typical was incorrect.

The high consumption means residents on the North Peckham estate were slapped with bills of over £2,500 for heating and hot water by the Labour-run council earlier this year. Unlike most households with individual boilers, residents on heat networks are not protected by energy regulator Ofgem’s price cap which currently limits bills to £1,568 for the typical household.

Speaking at a council scrutiny meeting on Wednesday, September 18, Mr Vosper admitted he responded ‘slowly’ to residents’ concerns but argued this was unavoidable due to the complexity of the matter. He said: “I think it was handled quite slowly but I wouldn’t say wrongly.

“We had to have multiple site visits, photographs of the meter and the corrector and then multiple meetings with the suppliers and meter asset manager. […] I felt that I didn’t want to give a response to residents before going through that extensive system of checks.”

Mr Vosper added that the typical property on one of Southwark Council’s around 100 heat networks used 19,000 kWh of gas annually, significantly higher than the 11,500 kWh of gas that Ofgem estimates the average three bedroom house with an individual boiler consumes in a year.

Explaining why this is the case, he said: “[It’s] simply because [of] losses in the boiler house, losses in the heat network.

Often due to the fact they’re older heat networks which don’t have heat meters, the heat consumption in the dwellings can be higher as well.”

Councillor Sam Foster, chair of the housing scrutiny committee, said it was clear that the maintenance and management of heat networks had been neglected before the

Max Templer outside a building on the North Peckham estate in July

council published a heat network strategy three years ago. He added: “Prior to 2021 things should have been done that were not done and post 2021 we’re now in a phase of improving things.”

Max Templer, the resident who uncovered excessive gas consumption on the district heat network that supplies heating and hot water to his property, said he was pleased the council was finally admitting there was a problem.

He said: “I’m really glad to see that after ‘ROYAL PECKHAM’

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years of stonewalling and denial Southwark are finally acknowledging the issues with the North Peckham district heating network. However, even when they are acknowledging the problems with the network, the council continues to minimise the severity of the issue.

“Based on the current usage of the network North Peckham is likely losing somewhere in the region of 65 to 80 per cent of the heat generated at the boiler house before it gets to people’s homes. This is indicative of

decades of failure by the council to maintain these networks.

“Leaseholders should not be made to pick up the tab for council failure on this issue. The council needs to put a service charge cap in place to protect leaseholders from the excessive gas costs associated with networks like this. And the council’s leadership should also issue a formal apology for the years of under performance and spiralling costs they have subjected leaseholders to.”

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By Herbie Russell

plAns HAVe been submitted to build a hostel with 570 ‘asian style’ pod bedrooms in walworth.

Elephant & Castle Projects Ltd has asked architects CoDE to install their ‘signature’ bedrooms in its upcoming venue on Rodney Road.

Photos of the rooms appear to show tiny alcoves just big enough to fit a single bed.

CoDE Hostels boasts that its pods offer ‘privacy, security and a great sleep’.

Elephant & Castle Projects Ltd originally submitted plans to build a 126-bedroom hotel, approved by Southwark Council in February 2023.

But the developer has now applied to alter the internal layout to accommodate mainly pod spaces instead of standard hotel rooms.

The new plans feature 570 bed spaces and 30 standard hotel rooms and 6 wheelchair accessible rooms.

As in the original plans, the first floor will host a community space. The Arts Network, a locally-based charity, is expected to occupy the space.

The nine-storey building will be built on the site of a former laundrette, takeaway and convenience store called Tigris Supermarket.

CoDE Hostels wrote in a design statement: ‘CoDE offers an urban experience that focuses on providing travellers with a convenient central location and a topnotch sleeping environment.

‘Its distinctive feature is the innovative Asian-style pod design, complemented by secure keypad entry systems, which inspired the name “CoDE.” ‘We maintain a set of essential brand standards that include clean rooms, comfortable highquality mattresses and linen, and a satisfying breakfast.

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Emergency services attended the incident on Rye Lane, Peckham

Council 'to consider second traffic lane on controversial Lower Road' Those behind the new Lower Road cycle lane met politicians and business owners on site in May

Man stabbed on Peckham high street

By Herbie Russell Police are investigating after a man was stabbed on Rye Lane.

Officers found the man collapsed on the high street street at 5.15am on Sunday, September 15.

The man was hospitalised although his condition is not lifethreatening.

Met Police officers, who were first on the scene, performed emergency CPR until the London Ambulance Service arrived.

Road closures were imposed while emergency services attended the crime scene.

No arrests have been made. Police enquiries continue.

A Met Police spokesperson said: ”Police were called at approximately 05:15hrs on Sunday, 15 September to reports of a man stabbed in Rye Lane, SE15.

"Officers who were first on scene found the man collapsed in the street; they performed emergency CPR until the arrival of London Ambulance Service. The man was taken to hospital for treatment – his condition is not life threatening.

"No arrests; enquiries into the circumstances continue. Road closures were put in place while the scene was dealt with; these have now been removed but a crime scene remains in place.”

Anyone with information that could assist is asked to call 101 or ‘X’ @MetCC and quote CAD1491/15Sep. You can also provide information anonymously to the independent charity Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111.

By Herbie Russell A torrent of complaints has forced Southwark Council to consider installing a second traffic lane along Lower Road, a local councillor has claimed.

Furious local residents have complained about congestion and safety ever since Southwark Council and TfL tore out a motor lane to accommodate a new 1.3km cycle route in March.

Libeal Democrat Cllr Adam Hood said the council had promised to review its proposals, which include removing parking to accomodate a second lane.

He also said Southwark Council was reassessing the cut-through at Cope Street and looking at introducing a traffic monitoring system.

Lower Road's dramatic redesign has proven one of Southwark’s most

controversial transport issues in years, with locals claiming it has hit businesses, ruined their family lives and worsened pollution.

On X, formerly Twitter, Cllr Adam Hood wrote: "The council will review Lib Dem proposals for a second lane of traffic and reassess the cut-through at Cope Street."

Speaking to this paper, he said: "It’s what we are asking for at the moment, but whether the council follows through is another question."

Cllr Hood said the Lib Dems have suggested removing parking along the southbound section and reinstating a second traffic lane in its place.

He added that Cllr McAsh had committed to considering the idea during a behind-closed-doors meeting with the Lib Dems. A similar motion was previously put forward by the Lib Dems at Council Assembly but rejected by

Labour councillors.

Cllr Hood also mentioned that TfL is looking to introduce a high-tech monitoring system that would adjust signal timings based on traffic flows, as reported by this paper in May. The Lower Road debacle also drew criticism from Neil Coyle MP in May. He claimed that TfL and Southwark Council “rushed the scheme” without prioritising safety.

His criticism followed revelations that the hastily implemented design was because of funding issues faced by TfL and Southwark Council.

The original plans, costed at £10 million, would have used part of the pavement for cycle lanes and removed traffic islands, widening the road in certain areas.

However, post-pandemic funding issues led to the decision to remove a

southbound traffic lane to make room for the cycle lanes.

Intersections where cycle lanes and traffic converge have also been criticised for allegedly endangering cyclists and pedestrians.

In March, a cyclist was hospitalized after a collision with a car on Lower Road in Rotherhithe.

Neil Coyle MP said at the time that he was shocked to learn a TfL spokesperson was unaware of the collision, as well as another incident that had occurred since the redesign.

He said: “It is unacceptable that Transport for London and the council admit they did not prioritize safety, rushed a scheme without fully examining its impact, and allowed changes to be implemented without adequate systems to monitor accidents affected by the new road layout.”

By Herbie Russell

for The Partnership Trophy 2024 in Manchester.

Harry, a hostel resident for fifteen months, said: “I have liked football all my life and when I learnt that there was this competition I wanted to be involved and to bring the trophy home.”

The nineteen-year-old, who shares the hostel with other young people aged sixteen to twenty-one, will play alongside other staff members and residents.

The tournament, now in its thirteenth year, promotes positive and independent living for service users.

This year’s competition will

be personally attended by John Hartson, the former Arsenal and Celtic striker.

30 teams from across the country, and all from The Salvation Army’s homelessness services, will take to the pitch on Thursday, September 19.

Lieutenant Rachel Baker, Trainee Service Manager at Southwark Young People’s Service said: “Our annual Partnership Trophy celebrates everyone within our homelessness services, acknowledging the journey they are on to be the best version of themselves while recognising the challenges that many have had to overcome."

Homeless teens in admired tournament Homeless teenagers in Camberwell are to play in a football tournament known to be admired by Pep Guardiola.

England footballing heroes John Stones and Peter Shilton attended The Salvation Army's annual Partnership

The Man City coach is a huge supporter of The Salvation Army’s annual football tournament and sent video messages to winning team members in 2022.

The three-time Champions Leaguewinning manager even participated in the 2019 competition through his family’s Guardiola Sala Foundation.

Now, young people living at the Southwark Young People’s Service, a hostel in Camberwell, will play

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New art school opens in Bankside

By Isabel Ramirez

A brand-new art school has opened on Bankside, including a gallery which is open to the public.

Art Academy’s brand-new campus was opened last week, Wednesday September 18, next to the Tate Modern.

It provides art courses for all levels, from BA to Foundation Degree to evening, weekend and short courses.

The school is just one part of JTRE London’s development Triptych Bankside - a £450 million mixed-use scheme at 185 Park Street, SE1.

The new 15,000 sq ft. campus, designed

by Squire and Partners and developed by JTRE London, is set over two floors with teaching facilities including nine studios, an auditorium and specialist workshop spaces for local artists and the local community.

It also has an onsite art supplies shop, as well as a 2,000 sq ft gallery which is open to the public.

Nigel Fleming, Managing Director at JTRE London, comments: “The opening of Art Academy at our landmark scheme, Triptych Bankside is a huge milestone for JTRE London and further highlights our commitment to shaping the spaces that we operate in for the better. We are thrilled to have worked with the team at Art Academy to bring their vision to life through the creation of this stunning new campus, adding to the strong artistic credentials of the local area and ensuring

Art Academy’s new campus and the gallery and now open to the public. that Bankside remains a beacon in the global art world.

Rob Pepper, principal at Art Academy, comments: “Opening our new campus at Triptych Bankside, just moments from Tate Modern, marks a significant milestone in our journey. This expansion provides more opportunities than ever before and allows us to deepen our connections with the Southwark community. It has been a pleasure to collaborate with the team from JTRE

London, and we eagerly anticipate welcoming our students at the start of the new year. We are committed to continuing our outreach programmes for the community and to inviting new visitors to our gallery and events spaces.”

Tim Gledstone, Partner at Squire & Partners, comments: “It has been a privilege to accompany the Art Academy in the creation of their new Bankside campus, from concept design through to inception. Squire & Partners has relished

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the opportunity to assist the charity in realising their vision for a new, generous home which provides their extremely talented students and staff with the resources, space and environment to dream, create and inspire one another.

“This new asset not only reflects Art Academy’s incredibly important presence in the art community but will also ensure continual growth by bolstering their ongoing hard work in making art accessible to all.

“As a Trustee of the Academy, it’s an honour to support their expansion and ensure their presence in the heart of this creative hub, surrounded by landmarks such as the Tate Modern and Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre. When designing the wider Triptych Bankside development, we set out to create homes, workspace and amenities that contribute to Bankside’s appeal, and Art Academy is the perfect addition to this exciting and animated cultural quarter.”

Tilda and LOVO Unite to Promote Women’s Empowerment and Celebrate Cultural Diversity

Tilda is proud to announce its partnership with Ladies of Virtue Outreach CIC (LOVO), a non-profit organisation dedicated to engaging, equipping, and inspiring women and their families. As part of this partnership, Tilda will donate £10,000 to support LOVO’s initiatives over the next 12 months. In addition, the partnership will involve multiple joint community initiatives aimed at celebrating cultural diversity and empowering women.

Ladies of Virtue Outreach CIC (LOVO) is at the forefront of community empowerment, tackling challenges such as poverty, unemployment, and domestic violence.

LOVO nurtures individual potential through its core pillars: Community, Growth, Gratitude, Self-Care, and Wisdom. A cornerstone of LOVO’s mission is their weekly global lunch in Peckham, where women from diverse cultural backgrounds come together to share traditional dishes.

Given that rice is a common ingredient in these meals, Tilda’s support aligns perfectly with LOVO’s celebration of

Tilda x LOVO collaboration will include a series of community events in 2024, engaging local communities and providing valuable support and resources. The first joint event in June featured a vibrant community gathering in Peckham, with activities such as a Zumba class, a nutritionist talk, and a well-being session.

Looking ahead, the partnership will continue with a second major event in September, promising to further amplify the impact of this collaboration.

“We are honoured to partner with LOVO on its mission to empower women now and in the future,” said Jean Phillipe, Managing Director of Tilda. “At Tilda, we are committed to supporting initiatives that align with our belief in the importance of strengthening our community and cultural diversity.”

Tilda’s B Corp certification in 2023 underscores its commitment to meeting high standards of social and environmental responsibility. cultural diversity and unity.

The £10,000 donation from Tilda will fund LOVO’s English language programmes and the weekly global lunches for 12 months, expanding their ability to reach and support more women in need. “This partnership with Tilda is a significant step

forward for our organisation,” said Ola Olive Stephen, Founder & Director of LOVO. “The funds will enable us to reach more women and provide them with the tools and support they need to overcome their challenges and lead fulfilling lives.”

In addition to financial support, the

This partnership marks a significant milestone in Tilda’s ongoing efforts to contribute positively to society by supporting organisations championing diversity. Together with LOVO, Tilda looks forward to making a tangible difference in the lives of women and their families, creating a future where life in all its flavours can thrive.

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'Giraffe painting outside my Walworth home could be a Banksy', says TV magician

Banksy has not said the artwork is his

By Herbie Russell

said, 'I’m not selling my f**king house, I like living here!'

“I asked Sotheby’s if they were interested in chipping a Banksy off the wall but they said I'd need official verification.”

Banksy has been spraying animals all over London recently - including a howling wolf, monkeys, a goat and a rhino.

But questions remain over the giraffe's authenticity. The guerilla artist usually posts photos of his work on his Instagram page but the giraffe is yet to feature.

The elusive artist has also been known to attract copycats - including one who painted ostriches by a Post Office in Newham.

But locals have been getting caught up in the excitement. On Facebook, one person wrote: “The head looks very banksy…be ready with the Perspex sheets Simon!!!"

A TV magician believes a Banksy artwork may have miraculously appeared outside his Walworth home.

Simon Drake said he was “50/50” on whether the giraffe is a genuine Banksy, admitting that somebody could be “winding him up”.

The 68-year-old, best known for his 1990s Channel 4 magic show The Secret Cabaret, lives in a converted pub - restyled as his ‘House of Magic’.

Mr Drake said: “I woke up this morning (Wednesday, September 18) and there it was. Is it real? I’m 50/50. It could be somebody winding me up like a prank.”

He added: “Somebody told me my house is worth millions now and I should sell it. I

Simon Drake has ruled out selling his property even if it is ‘worth millions’.

Another said: “Wether [sic] it's A Banksy or not I think it's fantastic, if it is imagine the free advertising for you Simon!"

But Mr Drake, who has worked with stars like Harvey Keitel, Kate Bush and George Harrison, insists it is no advertising stunt.

“I’m not talented enough to actually do a thing like that,” he said. “We don’t know who did it! I swear on a stack of Bibles. I

think it’s somebody local!”

The giraffe is significant given the area’s historic connection with the long-necked mammals.

The Surrey Zoological Gardens, now Pasley Park, is right next to the mural and is believed to have been the first English zoo to display giraffes.

Victorian zoo founder Edward Cross

imported them from Egypt and had to find a way to sneak them from the Rotherhithe docks to Walworth without alarming locals.

In 1836, he reportedly led the animals along the Thames towards the zoo in the dead of night to avoid inciting a riot.

Banksy’s team has been approached for comment.

removing bikes and larger fines - it could pass the new banning order on October 31.

This is not the first time Ben Spencer has called out the E-Bike scourge on social media.

When a shocking photo of e-bikes blocking a road crossing by London Bridge went viral on social media, Mr Spencer Lime must be “held accountable”.

Lime introduced its electric bikes to London in 2018 as part of its global expansion, capitalizing on the city's growing demand for eco-friendly transportation options.

Since launching, Lime bikes have become increasingly popular in London, with over 12 million rides taken between 2019 and mid-2023.

A spokesperson for the Mayor said: “We know that poor e-bike parking can cause significant safety issues for some Londoners, particularly disabled and older people.

"Our experience from the existing e-scooter trial shows that well-managed and regulated schemes can be successful in mitigating such issues while still providing an attractive green transport

alternative.

"We are working with London Councils to explore a coordinated scheme to manage dockless e-bikes and e-scooters and additional enforcement mechanisms for poorly parked e-bikes.”

A spokesperson for Lime said: "We're really sorry that Ben experienced this, and we never want Lime vehicles to obstruct anyone's journey. Poor parking is an issue we take very seriously and we are committed to making London a more accessible and inclusive city for everyone, particularly as demand increases and parking bays become overcrowded like this.

"Users that break the rules and park inconsiderately are fined and banned from using our service.

"We are working closely with councils, partners and other operators to address the issue of overcrowded parking locations - such as Ben experienced - by identifying and offering funding from Lime to create additional parking bays.

"We also regularly gather feedback from charities on our Disability Advisory Board in order to continuously improve our operations.”

By Herbie Russell A furious disabled Millwall fan has demanded Sadiq Khan “sort out” e-bikes blocking roads “once and for all”.

Ben Spencer, a former bouncer, encountered a huge Lime bike pile-up in the middle of the pavement near Tottenham Court Road on Sunday.

In an impassioned video that got over 200 reposts and 25k views, the 51-yearold said: “Why? Why? You need to sort this out!”

The Millwall season ticket holder added: “Enough already! Wheelchair users… and people with mobility issues - how are they supposed to get past this lot?”

Mr Spencer suffers from Ataxia, a degenerative neurological, affecting muscle movement and speech.

He has overcome huge challenges since his diagnosis, including conquering Mount Snowdon and the London Marathon, but discarded e-bikes remain a huge bugbear.

Mr Spencer is a London transport enthusiast and met former Millwall manager Gary Rowett while doing a

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Disabled Millwall fan demands Mayor 'sorts out' e-bikes' in passionate video after huge pile-up in Central London

Mr Spencer is a seriously big fan Millwall fan. He encountered a horde of e-bikes blocking the pavement (Inset) in Central London sponsored circuit of all London's 272 tube stops.

Lewisham-raised Mr Spencer said: “I’m actually pro cycling because I do it with my triathlon training, My issue is people leaving them all over the shop!”

He added: “I think a good idea would be to make sure they are parked in designated spaces and then people

are fined if they don’t do it. Where the hotspots are, there tends to be a lot of spaces but people can’t be bothered.”

In north-west London, Brent Council is so sick of the plastic two-wheelers littering streets it is poised to ban them.

If Lime does not agree to the Labour council’s demands - which include dedicated parking bays, resources for

By Harrison Galliven Local Democracy Reporter Here is the first glimpse of the Victorian subway in Crystal Palace, which has re-opened to the public after multimillion pound restoration project.

Last Saturday members of the public were able to see the historic subway following years of extensive restoration work.

The reopening of the subway on its 160th anniversary marked the first step in the wider regeneration of Crystal Palace Park.

The subway, which dates from 1865, used to link Victorian passengers from the now-demolished high-level Crystal Palace Station with the iconic Palace. It is the most substantial survivor of the huge Crystal Palace complex which was dramatically lost to fire in 1936.

The Crystal Palace, famous for holding the great exhibition, was moved to Sydenham Hill in 1865 from its original home in Hyde Park. Following the fire, the shelter was later used as an air raid shelter during World War II and then as the setting for The Chemical Brothers’ 1995 Setting Sun music video.

However, the subway had become largely overgrown and partly inaccessible in the last few decades. As part of the subway’s £3.5m restoration, a new roof over the east courtyard and extensive repairs to the walls, floor, steps and entrances have taken place to ensure it is suitable for public use.

The project was carried out with experts at Historic England, who have taken every measure to ensure the subway reflects the best of Victorian architecture with the benefits of modern sustainable building.

Even the subway’s flooring matches the original design adopted in 1865.

The project, led by Bromley Council, has been made possible with the help of the Friends of Crystal Palace Subway volunteer group (FCPS).

Karl Richter and Jules Hussey, Cofounders of FCPS, told Local Democracy Reporting Service: “Fourteen years ago the Friends of Crystal Palace Subway began the journey to realise the reopening of the subway.

“Over the intervening years, countless individuals, groups, and local businesses in Crystal Palace have lent their support to this restoration project, whether through donating funds or their time by volunteering on open house days for the public.

“The support of Bromley Council and Historic England has been pivotal to the successful realisation of this new era for the subway and we are indebted to all those in the surrounding communities who determinedly backed the project to reach this incredible point.”

Funding for the project comes from the City of London’s Strategic Investment Pot and Historic England, as well as from several private donors. The council is now hoping to secure more funding and investment to eventually turn the subway into an arts venue in the coming years.

Bromley intends for this recent renovation will kick start the wider regeneration £52m plan for the grade II listed Crystal Palace park. The next stage of the plan will see the park’s famous dinosaur statues and Italian terraces restored and the bust of Joseph Paxton, who designed the Palace, moved.

Councillor Yvonne Bear, Executive Councillor for Renewal, Recreation and Housing, said: “This is the incredible moment that we have all been waiting for as this beautifully restored marvel of history is unveiled in an incredible milestone for our regeneration plan to transform the park.

first glimpse at Crystal palaCe’s 160-year-old subway

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TOP: The floor design is a faithful reproduction of the original flooring from Victorian times.

LEFT; The Subway was initially used to take people from the former site of the station to the Crystal Palace.

ABOVE; The overgrown Crystal Palace subway back in 1988 Photo by Harrison Galliven

“Much like the Victorian passengers who once used it, visitors to the subway will now be guided into a new era for this incredible park, with this astounding restoration providing a glimpse into the park’s bright future, as we continue to protect its remarkable history by pressing forward with our planned regeneration.”

Funding from the National Lottery Heritage Fund is supporting this stage of the plan, with wider funding for the regeneration plan coming from various sources including the sale of Rockhills

and Sydenham Villas residential developments next to the park.

The regeneration plan received outline planning permission in 2021. Additional grant funding opportunities are also being sought on an ongoing basis and are still required to deliver the full regeneration plan.

Victoria Pinnington, Chief Executive of Crystal Palace Park Trust said: “The completion of the subway restoration project couldn’t be a better gift to mark the one-year anniversary of the

Trust’s custodianship of this incredible historic landscape. We would like to extend our gratitude to the passion, dedication and hard work of those in our local community who campaigned tirelessly, under the leadership of the Friends of Crystal Palace Subway, for this restoration to happen. We can’t wait to open the doors and welcome people from our surrounding five boroughs, as well as those from further afield, to visit this beautiful space.”

Lord Mendoza, Historic England

Chairman, said: “The subway’s restoration has been a labour of love. The rejuvenation of this extraordinary space was made possible by the determination of the local community and the commitment of partners and funders.

I applaud those involved. Heritage brings people together and the subway, this beautiful example of Victorian construction, will do just that for many as a new venue in Crystal Palace.”

More informationcan be found at www. crystalpalaceparktrust.org/

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Annual Members’ Meeting Tuesday 8 October 2024 Everyone is welcome to join us for our Annual Members’ Meeting on Tuesday 8 October.

The meeting will run from 5.30-7pm and is being held in the Weston Education Centre at King’s College Hospital, Cutcombe Road, London SE5 9PJ. Doors open at 5pm.

Find out about the work that we do through a series of presentations about our services, as well as a round-up of the past year.

There will also be an opportunity for you to ask questions at the meeting.

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family-of-three left in leaking flat for three years and only moved out when Ceiling aCtually Collapsed The council's offices on Tooley Street

By Herbie Russell SoUTHwaRK CoUnCiL took three years to decant a family from a leaking, damp home and only stepped in when their ceiling collapsed.

When the council finally moved them out they were put in a property 'full of mould'. The shocking incident, which saw the two children develop asthma, was singled out by the Housing Ombudsman in a recent report.

Cllr Victor Chamberlain, Southwark Liberal Democrat Leader, said the council was "once again" making "national headlines with its appalling housing record".

Southwark Council accepted the Ombudsman's findings and claims to have made significant changes to its repairs and housing processes since the case came to light.

The Southwark tenant, a father-oftwo who has been kept anonymous, reported a leak that was making his home inhabitable.

His energy bills were higher due to cold and damp conditions and he lost earnings because he was often returning home to replace buckets catching overhead leaks.

He also said that the toilet light had not been working for a year and the door could not shut as it was swollen from water absorption.

Southwark Council failed to act for three years and only moved the family out when the ceiling collapsed.

But when they moved the family out, their new home was full of mould, the report said.

Southwark Council was ordered to pay £2,030 in compensation and provide a written apology to the resident after being

SINCE THE CASE, SOUTHWARK COUNCIL SAYS IT HAS: • • • •

Set up a Repairs Improvement Board, which is constituted of and chaired by a resident, to help us work through key issues affecting the service and how we can improve Created a new dedicated Housing Complaints and Quality Assurance team Undertaken a review of our repairs service with the view to changing our structures to ensure it is fit for the future and in line with our housing portfolio Commissioned independent reviews of a number of our teams, including leaks, to look at how we can move to a more joined up and proactive service

found culpable of severe administration.

A Southwark Council spokesperson said: “We apologise for the delay in addressing the repair at this property.

We acknowledge that the situation could

have been managed more efficiently, and the need for relocation would have been unnecessary had the leak been repaired in a more timely manner.

“We accept the Housing Ombudsman’s

who missed the winter fuel payment because their pension is worth £3 more than the cut-off point.

Previously, the winter fuel payment was available to all pensioners to help with energy bills. Now anyone with an income over £218.15 a week is

excluded.

A retired NHS nurse living in Southwark, who wished to remain anonymous, said: “I’ve been working since I was 18, serving the country as a nurse in the NHS. And now they’re taking away these fuel payments over

findings in full and we have made a formal apology to the resident and agreed to the compensation.”

Cllr Victor Chamberlain said: "Once again we see Southwark make national headlines with its appalling housing record. Southwark Labour can continue to bury their heads in the sand, but all the while residents are continuing to suffer

from unacceptable living conditions and being treated with contempt when they ask to move.

"That the ombudsman also had to call out the paltry compensation relative to the harm suffered only makes things worse. It couldn’t be clearer that Southwark Labour are a landlord no-one should vote for.”

just £3. It’s insulting really.”

Her pension is worth £221 each week - £3 over the £218.15 a week that would make her eligible for pension credit and therefore the winter fuel payments.

She added: “I’m going to have to really cut back on spending, or ask for help from family, but I can’t do that without losing my independence”.

The Lib Dems have claimed that nationally, 85 per cent of pensioners in absolute poverty will lose the payment.

This is based on the fact that, of the 1.4 million pensioners in absolute poverty, just fourteen per cent were receiving pension credit - the most common method of receiving winter fuel payments.

Across Southwark, around 30,000 pensioners are set to lose the payment.

However, many of those pensioners now set to miss out could actually be eligible for pension credit.

According to the UK government, an estimated 880,000 eligible pensioners are failing to claim pension credit therefore missing out on a host of benefits.

Cllr Stephanie Cryan, Stephanie Cryan, cabinet member for equalities, democracy and finance, said: “Since 2021, Southwark’s cost of living fund, to which we have added Government Household Support fund grant, has supported more than 50,000 residents in a wide range of ways.

“Most support was given to those with the lowest incomes and most vulnerable to the impacts of the cost of living crisis.

“Support included free school meals for children during the holidays, alongside healthy food and activities for children of all ages, also during the holidays.

“It included help with energy bills, and practical emergency support for people facing a crisis and our successful ‘warm hubs’ programme which meant people had somewhere to go when it was very cold.

“This year, we are making one-off payments of £250 to more than 1500 residents who are moving to Universal Credit. With rising debts, rent and fuel costs, we continue to find ways to help those who need it most.”

Labour-run Southwark Council refuses to commit to replacing lost winter fuel payments for pensioners

By Herbie Russelll tHe liBerAl democrats have piled pressure on Southwark Council to replace winter fuel payments taken from pensioners by the new Labour government.

Labour-run Southwark Council refused to commit to replacing the scheme. It said it was still finalising its range of support for people this winter.

It comes after Stockton Council, which includes 20 Labour councillors, unanimously voted to condemn the government’s policy.

Liberal Democrat Leader Cllr Victor Chamberlain said: “We’re calling on Southwark Council to do the right thing by our pensioners.

“Our Labour MPs and government have already let them down, but we can show that Southwark cares about its vulnerable elderly people this winter, by offering its own, targeted, fuel payment scheme.”

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By Herbie Russell if You steal someone's phone in Southwark, there is less than a 0.3 per cent chance of being caught by police.

Phone-snatching is rising across Southwark, with some areas emerging as key hotspots for this increasingly common crime.

Our comprehensive analysis of police data reveals where these incidents are most frequent, highlighting the borough's most dangerous areas.

The data also exposes shockingly low conviction rates - a terrifying prospect for residents who already say phonesnatching is not taken seriously by police.

THE WORST AREAS IN SOUTHWARK

analysing Southwark on an area-byarea basis Local neighbourhood policing teams are organised into areas known as wards which we have used for our analysis. They are typically served by at least three police officers who are supposed to be a visible presence, set local policing priorities, and act as an intermediary between the community and the Met's higher echelons.

'Mini city centres' as hotspots Southwark Council recently said that phone-snatching hotspots tended to be transport hubs and heavily pedestrianised.

They are sometimes known as Southwark's 'mini city centres' - places where businesses, infrastructure and culture combine to create hustle and bustle.

Unfortunately, that hustle and bustle can be rich pickings for phone-snatchers.

The data backs this up. The north of the

next to zero chance phone snatchers will be jailed, shocking analysis shows

borough is where most transportation hubs are most common. Around North Walworth and Chaucer, stations include London Bridge, Elephant and Castle's two stations, Borough station and Southwark station. Rotherhithe and South Bermondsey, although slightly less densely packed with commuters, still contains Bermondey underground, Rotherhithe overground and South Bermondsey overground.

Mobile phone thefts in Southwark's Safer neighbourhood wards (September 2023 to august 2024) • north walworth: 474 incidents (37.0 per 1,000 people) • Chaucer: 376 incidents (30.4 per 1,000 people) • Rotherhithe: 259 incidents (15.4 per 1,000 people) • north bermondsey: 211 incidents (14.9 per 1,000 people) • South bermondsey: 161 incidents (9.3 per 1,000 people) • old Kent Road: 177 incidents (8.9 per 1,000 people) • Faraday: 136 incidents (8.4 per 1,000 people) • Rye Lane: 127 incidents (7.9 per 1,000 people) • Surrey docks: 103 incidents (7.1 per 1,000 people) • Goose Green: 76 incidents (6.5 per 1,000 people) • Camberwell Green: 99 incidents (6.4 per 1,000 people) • St Giles: 88 incidents (5.6 per 1,000 people) • Peckham: 77 incidents (5.6 per 1,000 people) • Champion Hill: 55 incidents (5.2 per 1,000 people)

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newington: 60 incidents (3.6 per 1,000 people) dulwich Village: 43 incidents (3.5 per 1,000 people) Peckham Rye: 21 incidents (1.7

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per 1,000 people) dulwich wood: 5 incidents (0.5 per 1,000 people) dulwich Hill: 3 incidents (0.3 per 1,000 people)

SHOCKINGLY LOW CONVICTION RATES 99.7 per cent chance of getting off scot-free How often are snatchers convicted? The

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Sonny Stringer (Below), ‘London’s most notorious phone snatcher’, pictured riding through Central London

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short answer is: very rarely. Of the 2,551 incidents recorded, just eight resulted in a positive outcome. So if you steal somebody's phone, the chances of being caught are roughly one in 318. But the true figure could be even lower.

Here are the different definitions of a 'positive outcome': • Community resolutions: A resolution to a less serious crime or anti-social behavior incident that is reached through an informal agreement between the parties involved.

• Finalised outcomes: The final outcome of a case, which can include charges, summons, cautions, and more.

Positive action: Actions taken to protect victims and children, while holding offenders accountable.

Positive performance: When a police force is deemed to have performed well in terms of crime against society or violent crime.

Some involve charges and cautions but others don't. So the conviction rate for phone thefts could actually be even worse that one in 318. Furthermore, this is only the proportion of reported thefts that receive a positive outcome.

Southwark Council told us that underreporting is a significant problem.

Police fail to solve every case that goes unreported.

IS SOUTHWARK ANY WORSE THAN OTHER BOROUGHS?

Southwark Council's community safety lead, Cllr Natasha Ennin, has emphasised that phone-snatching is an Inner London problem - not simply a Southwark problem. But is this backed up by the data?

Broadly, yes, the closer you are to the city centre, the more common phone thefts become. It is telling that Westminster is by far the most prolific area, with a staggering 85.4 reported crimes per 1,000 people. With its 32 tube stations, this backs up the idea that phone-snatchers target areas with lots of transport infrastructure. Camden, with its seventeen tube stops (the third most of any borough) comes second.

But this only tells part of the story.

For example, boroughs like Brent (21) and Hillingdon (15) also have lots of tube stops but appear far down the list.

Meanwhile, boroughs like Lambeth and Tower Hamlets - lots of transport infrastructure, inner city - may have high rates but they do not reach Southwark levels.

Mobile phone thefts across London boroughs (September 2023 to august 2024) • westminster: 22,253 incidents (85.4 per 1,000 people) • Camden: 6,533 incidents (26.3 per 1,000 people) • Southwark: 5,049 incidents (15.7 per 1,000 people) • Kensington and Chelsea: 1,922 incidents (12.2 per 1,000 people) • Hackney: 3,387 incidents (12.0 per 1,000 people) • islington: 2,642 incidents (11.1 per 1,000 people) • Lambeth: 3,048 incidents (9.1 per 1,000 people) • newham: 3,128 incidents (8.9 per 1,000 people) • Tower Hamlets: 2,507 incidents (7.9 per 1,000 people) • Haringey: 1,762 incidents (6.2 per 1,000 people) • waltham Forest: 1,169 incidents (4.1 per 1,000 people) • Hammersmith and Fulham: 650 incidents (3.5 per 1,000 people) • brent: 1,100 incidents (3.3 per 1,000 people) • Lewisham: 912 incidents (2.9 per 1,000 people) • Redbridge: 816 incidents (2.7 per 1,000 people) • barking and dagenham: 418 incidents (2.0 per 1,000 people) • Kingston upon Thames: 329 incidents (1.8 per 1,000 people) • Greenwich: 522 incidents (1.8 per 1,000 people) • wandsworth: 583 incidents (1.8 per 1,000 people) • enfield: 557 incidents (1.6 per 1,000 people) • Harrow: 411 incidents (1.6 per 1,000 people)

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ealing: 552 incidents (1.6 per 1,000 people) Hounslow: 423 incidents (1.5 per 1,000 people) barnet: 488 incidents (1.2 per 1,000 people) Croydon: 354 incidents (0.9 per 1,000 people) Hillingdon: 273 incidents (0.9 per 1,000 people) Merton: 174 incidents (0.8 per 1,000 people) bromley: 267 incidents (0.8 per 1,000 people) Havering: 191 incidents (0.7 per 1,000 people) Sutton: 101 incidents (0.5 per 1,000 people) Richmond upon Thames: 88 incidents (0.4 per 1,000 people) bexley: 59 incidents (0.2 per 1,000 people)

How is phone-snatching categorised and prosecuted?

Understanding the extent of phonesnatching in London is difficult for one important reason. The Met Police does not record phone-snatching as its own crime.

Instead, when somebody's phone is stolen, it is broadly put in one of either two categories; phone robberies, or phone thefts from the person.

Generally, a phone robbery is when force is used or threatened to steal a mobile from a person. Theft, on the other hand, is when something is taken with your permission without the use of force.

Generally, phone-snatching appears to be categorised as phone theft even though incidents can be traumatic for victims.

Sonny Stringer - 'London's most notorious snatcher' In August, Sonny Stringer was jailed for two years after he snatched 24 mobile phones in a single morning.

However, he was convicted for thefts rather than robberies.

The 28-year-old, accompanied by an unknown accomplice, sped around the

City of London on electric motorbikes on March 26, grabbing phones from people's hands, including an iPhone 15 from a woman on Blackfriars Bridge.

Control Officer Lynn Newins, who witnessed the crimes on CCTV said they were 'going like the clappers' and that people were 'having to avoid being hit by them'. Clearly, this was a terrifying incident for those affected. Yet theft, rather than the more serious crime of robbery, was the charge.

why not robbery?

To understand why 'theft' is used over 'robbery', we need to take a look at a previous criminal case.

In the 2012 case P v Director of Public Prosecutions, the court ruled that a man who snatched a cigarette from a complainant's hand without direct physical contact had not committed robbery.

The court determined that the act was simple theft because the snatching was not considered "force" as defined in the Theft Act 1968, section 8.

But this can be a grey area, illustrated in the R v Clouden (1987) case. In this instance, the defendant approached the victim from behind and wrenched her shopping basket down from her grasp and ran off with it. The defendant was convicted of robbery under section 8(1) Theft Act 1968.

The defendant appealed against his conviction claiming the wrenching of the basket did not constitute the use of force on any person. The defendant’s conviction for robbery was upheld.

The wrenching of a basket from a victim’s hand could constitute the requisite use of force under section 8(1) Theft Act 1968.

Nowadays, guidance issued by Crimestoppers indicates that phonesnatching will be regarded as theft

rather than robbery. The charity urges people to watch out for 'thefts' specifically 'snatch thefts'. In the UK, the maximum sentence in Theft cases is seven years' imprisonment.

an unrecorded crime?

The fact that phone-snatching isn't considered a distinct crime is problematic for both journalists and police. How can we know the extent of the problem if nobody is recording how often it happens.

In June 2024, a member of the public submitted a Freedom of Information (FOI) request about phone-snatching in London. They wanted to know how often these crimes resulted in a conviction or charge.

The Met Police data team said they could not fulfill the request.

The officer said: ‘There is no ‘flag’ or code that can be used to record data in relation to phone snatching therefore this information is not held in an easily retrievable format. To try and answer your request, every crime reported within the time frame mentioned above would need to be manually read to see if it falls within the scope of your request.’

Southwark News has encountered similar problems. In researching this article, Southwark News submitted several information requests to the Met Police. After several weeks, we received a call from a Met Police Data officer. It was illuminating.

He also pointed out that phonesnatching was not being recorded, instead directing us to the rates of phone robberies and thefts. He also said he would struggle to tell us what the conviction rates for these crimes were.

He explained that officers would mark on police records when a case resulted in a 'positive outcome' but would not generally specify whether this had been a conviction.

"We do everything up until the charge and then it’s up to the courts and tribunal service," he said. "It’s a little bit disjointed in getting that final bit of the jigsaw."

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Man with facial disfigurement speaks out after claiming he was denied entry from a restaurant EXCLUSIVE

Oliver Bromley, 42.

By Isabel Ramirez A man with a facial disfigurement has decided to speak out after he says a restaurant asked him to leave because he was ‘scaring customers.’

Oliver Bromley suffers from Neurofibromatosis Type 1 (NF 1), a genetic condition that causes tumours to grow on nerve endings.

In the UK, the condition affects around 1 in 2,500 births.

In some people like Oliver, it causes disfigurements.

At the time of last month's incident, the 42-year-old was getting specialist treatment. Tired of hospital food, he said that day he was 'feeling better' so went to a local restaurant to get something different to eat.

"I went in and saw a 'cash-only' sign so I went to get some cash out," he continued, "I then went back into the restaurant to place my order and the gentleman behind the counter said 'Unfortunately there's been some complaints about you - the way you look, you're scaring the customers.'

Having lived with the condition for many years, Oliver said he often had people staring and even taking a step back from him. "But I've never been treated in such an overtly discriminatory way before.

"They asked me to leave and that was obviously very upsetting.

"I hadn't been in there long enough for people to make any complaints about me so that was hard to believe."

Oliver said he left very upset and went to sit in the local park to gather his thoughts. "I called my mum and my wife who are very supportive. My wife came down and comforted me.

"People assume it's contagious, and I can understand why one might think that, but it's not.

"It's just more obvious than an illness that is hidden."

Regarding what Oliver claimed happened to him, we asked Trading Standards and Southwark Council if they could help, but they said it was for the police to deal with.

He reported it to the police, who categorised it as a hate crime. But a Met

Police spokesperson said they could not do anything other than make enquiries and document it.

"They told me with all the best will in the world they couldn't take it further so it feels like there's not many options available," he said.

"It's often the case that if we have this condition and we are treated similarly to

By Herbie Russell Transport for London has announced plans to scrap the 118 bus route from Brixton Police Station to Morden.

To make up for it, the 45 bus route would extend to Morden, essentially taking over from the 118.

The 45 would however be reduced at its northern end, leaving from Camberwell Green/Denmark Hill rather than Elephant & Castle.

The 59 route would also be altered to finish at Clapham Park/Atkins Road rather than Streatham Hill/Telford

Avenue.

TfL says that more buses are operating between Brixton Hill and Streatham than are needed by customers.

Fewer customers are relying on the 45 route’s final stretch of the journey from Camberwell to Elephant and Castle, TfL added.

TfL said the changes would “simplify the bus network” and help it make “financial savings that can be reinvested in other parts of the London bus network”.

There is still time to share your feedback on the proposals with TfL. Visit https://haveyoursay.tfl.gov.uk/4559-118-proposals to have your say.

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118 bus route to be axed under TfL plans

Proving that a restaurant is guilty of contravening the Act is difficult and police resources are unlikely to be used for such an incident.

He explained: "I'm not interested in gaining anything out of this, I've got no grudge against them I'm not trying to name and shame them - or get any form of retribution. I was angry at the

how I was, we just have to grin and bear it."

For Oliver Bromley, the issue is not so much a witch hunt against the restaurant but more a point of educating people working in establishments that it is not only morally wrong but also against the Equalities Act to discriminate against anyone just because of how they look.

time, but let's try and prevent it from happening again.

"Someone suggested that I reenact the situation with a hidden camera but I'm not too sure I would be comfortable doing that."

When the News got in touch with Nerve Tumours UK, the national charity, that supports people living in the UK with a diagnosis of Neurofibromatosis Type 1, they confirmed that Oliver's experience was not an isolated incident.

They wrote to the restaurant offering to train and educate them about the illness but unfortunately, they received no response.

Karen Cockburn, Charity Director of Nerve Tumours UK said, “We were extremely disappointed to hear news of the dreadful, but sadly not uncommon, incident that Oliver Bromley experienced whilst attempting to purchase lunch.

"We work tirelessly to raise both the profile of the condition and the work that we do to help patients, but also to educate the wider public about the condition. If Oliver felt that he had been discriminated against, he could have a case under the 2010 Equalities Act, in which ‘severe disfigurement’ is a protected characteristic.”

On a more positive note for the NF community, the trade association UK Hospitality expressed that whilst the restaurant in question was not a member of theirs, they were interested in working with the charity to raise awareness across the hospitality industry and ensure this does not happen to anyone else in future.

As for how he feels people should approach anyone with this condition Oliver said: "In my experience, it's better not to be reminded of it on a daily basis," he continued, "but if you are genuinely interested or are a campaigner you might do so gently."

"However, on the whole, I don't think it's appropriate to be asking questions.

You know, you don't ask somebody in a wheelchair 'Can you tell me a bit about how you landed in a wheelchair’ - you just speak to them normally.

"We need to start normalising disability and difference."

For more information on neurofibromatosis and other similar conditions please visit nervetumours.org. uk

Four hospitalised after Tower Bridge incident

By Isabel Ramirez Four people were rushed to hospital following a road incident on Tower Bridge last weekend.

On Saturday evening, September 21, emergency services attended the scene on Tower Bridge Road, after reports of a traffic collision.

Ambulance crews treated four people before taking them to hospital. One of the four was taken to a major trauma centre.

No arrests were made.

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Tom Cleaver said the steps are ‘facing the wrong way’

By Herbie Russell CoMMUTeRS and tourists say a “terrible” slanted stairway by London bridge station is “dodgy” and “the worst in London”.

The bizarre steps leading down to the South Bank offer pretty views of the Thames - but bemused pedestrians insist they are “not practical”.

Tom Cleaver said: “Well, they’re facing the wrong way. They are sort of slanted in a way which makes it a bit difficult.”

The 25-year-old, who works as a journalist in Cyprus, added: “Thankfully, nobody has quite stacked

Lisa Maechling and Victoria Lesca, two medical students in France, had just been discussing the weird walkway.

it yet, but that’s because most people seem to be quite focused on the job.”

The strange design received huge attention after an X user’s comments slamming the stairs went viral.

The post branded them the “worst staircase in London” and received nearly one million views.

Neil Clayton, a solicitor, said he used the steps twice a week and was “used to it” but had heard of colleagues tumbling down.

“It’s just not very well designed,” the 47-year-old said. “It looks lovely, doesn’t it? But stuff can look lovely but be dangerous.”

Nick, a 50-year-old stockbroker,

thought they looked “aesthetically, quite cool” but agreed they could be difficult to traverse.

He said: “It sounds a bit weird, but because of Covid I don’t like to hold the handrails, so when I come down I have to be careful. I sound like an old man!”

Lisa Maechling and Victoria Lesca, two medical students in France, had just been discussing the weird walkway when approached by the News.

Lisa, 20, said: “The stairs were terrible. Not practical… they are not good!”

Victoria, 22, said: “They are great [to look at], but with the angle of the stairs it’s difficult to walk, and you need to

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Pedicab storage unit catches fire in Borough

By Herbie Russell

The storage unit was housing

concentrate.”

Anthony Agbelusi, visiting from the US, said: “I found it interesting, kind of interesting the way it’s angled. I thought it was funny.”

The 45-year-old added: “You almost have to step sideways… even if you’re rushing.”

A Canadian tourist rushing along with family only gave his name as Alan - but still had time to say they were "dodgy".

The stairs leading down to Queen’s Walk could have competition for the title of the capital’s worst.

Nancy’s Steps, named after Nancy from Charles Dickens’ novel Oliver

A London Fire Brigade spokesperson said: “Personal light electric vehicles, such as pedicabs, along with e-bikes and e-scooters, can be a fun and sustainable way of getting around London.

“However, e-bikes and e-scooters in particular have become one of London’s fastest-growing fire risks which is why London Fire Brigade has been running its #ChargeSafe awareness campaign.

"From previous investigations, we know many of the fires we’ve attended have involved second-hand vehicles or the bike has been modified using parts

bought online. It’s important to get a conversion carried out by a professional or a competent person.

"It’s also important to make sure the conversion kits, batteries and chargers you’re purchasing for the bike is from a reputable seller.

“At this time, there is not the same level of regulation of products for e-bikes and e-scooters sold via online marketplaces or auction sites when compared to high street shops, so we cannot be confident that products meet the correct safety standards.

Twist, are just metres away on London Bridge’s western side.

In the 1968 film adaptation, she is brutally murdered by her husband Bill Sikes on a set of stairs leading up to the bridge.

A plaque claims the scene of the killing in the original novel is Nancy’s Steps. In reality, the novel version had the killing take place in their home.

In fact, people have pointed out that the current London Bridge was only built in the 1970s – 130 years after the novel was written.

Despite enquiries with property companies about people's complaints, the News did not receive any response.

Launderette fire damages sixstorey building in Waterloo

By Herbie Russell A lAunderette fire damaged a six-storey building in waterloo with around forty residents evacuating.

A storAge unit containing pedicabs caught fire believed to have been caused by lithium batteries failing in borough.

Three people escaped including one who jumped from a first floor on Saturday. One person was taken to hospital London Fire Brigade (LFB) said lithium batteries can cause “ferocious” fires and issued safety advice.

The incident took place on Union Street from around 4.55pm to 5.50pm on September 21.

The ground floor, used for pedicab storage and repair, was destroyed by fire. A first floor was damaged by heat and smoke.

‘The most likely cause for the fire is believed to be the catastrophic failure of multiple lithium batteries,’ LFB said.

The batteries, often used to power e-bikes, e-scooters and pedicabs, store large amounts of energy in a very small space.

If that energy is released in an uncontrolled way, it can cause a fire or explosion.

Six fire engines and around 40 firefighters were deployed from Dowgate, Dockhead, Whitechapel and surrounding fire stations.

Neil Clayton, a solicitor, said he used the steps twice a week and was “used to it” but had heard of colleagues tumbling down

London Fire Brigade (LFB) tackled the incident on Waterloo Road from around 7.27pm to 8.36pm on Sunday, September 23.

The fire is believed to have been accidental and caused by self-heating textiles. There were no reports or any injuries.

Crews from Lambeth, Dowgate and Soho fire stations attended the scene.

An LFB spokesperson said: "These types of fires often involve textiles that become contaminated with oil,

most commonly linseed, massage and cooking oil on tea towels, tablecloths and chef whites. Make sure you check the manufacturer's cleaning recommendations of your textiles before washing.

"Sometimes when materials are cleaned and put in tumble dryers, the heat from the tumble drying cannot escape. This can result in a high enough temperature allowing it to build up to a point where it smoulders and eventually ignites.

"If you are washing and then drying on a hot cycle, always use the cooling cycle on the tumble dryer so it cools down and allow the heat to dissipate properly, before stacking laundered items together.”

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By Herbie Russell trAders At swanky borough Market have won a hard-fought battle against £900,000 antiterroism barriers that would have stopped delivery trucks driving right up to their stalls.

Max Secci, owner of L’Ubriaco Drunk Cheese hard warmed that the closure would be ‘messy’ for businesses

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After the 2017 London Bridge Terror Attack, police and Southwark Council drew up plans to close Stoney Street to stop potential terrorists from running down innocent civilians.

Reacting to the news, Maxi Secci, a cheese trader, said: “Oh that’s fantastic. That’s great to hear. At least we can do nighttime loading so that’s grew news to us!”

Cllr David Watson, who backed the traders in negotiations, said the council’s decision to ditch the 24/7 vehicle ban was “a win for residents and businesses”.

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Stall-owners at the artisanal covered market, which dates back over 1,000 years, feared for their businesses when the closure was looming.

Several traders, including Maxi Secci, an Italian cheese merchant, said banning nighttime deliveries would make running the business “impossible”.

“If Stoney Street gets closed at night, we get a lot of our deliveries at night, so it’ll make it pretty much impossible for us,” he said.

Lamor Hilton, an oyster seller, agreed: “In the nighttime, after hours, we have some deliveries come in and yeah we need it.”

Stefano Troiani, a honey retailer, said the disruption to deliveries would impact “very negatively” on business.

However, not all traders were completely against the plans. Tom Ward, a butcher, said the morning motor traffic was

“generally quite chaotic”.

But following a new traffic regulation order, Stoney Street will remain open from midnight until 10am, allowing deliveries to come through.

However, it will be closed, as before, throughout the rest of the day meaning shoppers can peruse the shops in peace.

Plans to close Stoney Street permanently were backed by counter-terrorism police and Southwark had set aside £900,000 to follow them through.

Southwark Council conducted a consultation with traders in October 2022 but did not explicitly ask them whether they were for or against the Stoney Street closure.

However, the council’s research did show that, of the 50 businesses surveyed, 45 were reliant on motorised vehicles for deliveries.

David Watson, Liberal Democrat Councillor for Borough and Bankside, said: “This is a win for residents and businesses around Borough Market. The Council had sought to close Stoney Street permanently, which was almost universally opposed by the local community.

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‘Southwark should be able to recruit more police and have dedicated ward officers under new government’

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He first Labour conference as the Party of Government since 2009 has created a sense of optimism.

It is astonishing that our country sank so low under the Tories that £700 million was sent to Rwanda for nothing, whilst Ministers failed to build the prisons we need, the homes we need, or to tackle NHS waiting lists or provide sufficient police.

Thankfully, the scandal of Tory neglect is over, although I am mindful that the Lib Dems are also culpable for that shameful period as they propped the Tories up for 5 years hitting Southwark with damage that Labour must now resolve.

Labour have had a busy 12 weeks in Government so far too!

The main legislative agenda was

set out in the King’s Speech and I’m proud it includes: securing energy independence with GB Energy; cleaning up UK waterways; ensuring fiscal responsibility after the chaos of Truss and the Tories; public ownership of railways; and mental healthcare reform.

Sadly, many local people are still feeling the cost-of-living crisis exacerbated by the Tories’ recklessness with our economy.

Locally, Citizens Advice ran an excellent ‘Cost of Living Roadshow’ at the beautiful ‘Appleby Blue’ in Bermondsey to help. This new building is an ‘almshouse’ providing 57 wonderful homes at affordable rates for older people. I ran a stall at the event where people asked me about housing, parking,

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MP for Bermondsey & Old Southwark benefits and more. I enjoy running extra sessions across the local community, as well as my weekly advice ‘surgery’ in my Bermondsey office to help local people.

Given how accessible I try to be, I was surprised that one rather pathetic man attacked my team and office with eggs last week. I hope News readers will help identify the coward as no MP should be prevented from seeing constituents because of idiots who cannot articulate their concern but choose to throw insults, fists or produce instead. He didn’t say what his

grievance was, just broke the door, scared innocent staff, volunteers and constituents, and legged it.

If anyone wants to talk to me about issues they’re welcome, but I won’t tolerate attacks like this. But even if similar incidents have led other MPs to end advice sessions or close offices, no one will prevent me seeing the people I have the privilege to represent in Westminster and who have elected me four times to serve our community.

One priority for the new Government is tackling antisocial behaviour, so I hope the weird

egg-man is identified soon as part of that agenda!

Southwark should be able to recruit more police and have ‘dedicated ward officers’ under the new Government: police who stay local and know the hotspots for problems that need tackling. I’m keen to see this delivered, as well as our ambitious plans for more homes.

The post-war Labour Government built the most homes in UK history – one million in five years. Labour now promises 1.5 million and I hope we get our share of affordable new homes in Southwark!

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The way Oliver was treated was abhorrent - but why is no one doing anything about it?

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man with a disfigurement who says he was told to leave a restaurant because of the way he looked deserves better - but why can't authorities do more?

Oliver Bromley suffers from Neurofibromatosis Type 1 (NF 1), a genetic condition that causes tumours to grow on nerve endings. The 42-year-old has lived with NF his whole life - but he said he has never been treated in that way before.

At the time he was getting treatment nearby and was just trying to have a break from the hospital food.

Oliver went down to a restaurant and claimed he was told: 'Unfortunately there's been some complaints about you - the way you look, you're scaring the customers.'

Hearing about his experience really concerned us at the News and we commend his bravery for sharing it. No person should be treated in this way and you would think there would be something you could do in cases of discrimination like this. Especially as it is a clear violation of the Equalities Act 2010.

But when we followed up on the incident with various authorities, we were shocked to find there was nothing Oliver could do himself to get action.

Both the council and Trading Standards directed us to the police, who despite classifying it as a hate crime, said they were unable to do anything either.

Aside from this, the restaurant itself never responded to our requests for comment. Oliver does not want this to be a witchhunt against the establishment, so pushing to name and shame them might simply distract from the bigger picture.

There should be a mechanism in place that stops businesses from gaining a licence if they exhibit any form of discrimination like this. And if there is one, then it should be enforced by the authorities designed to protect us.

All businesses dealing with the public must be aware of the Equalities Act, so if they do not have basic common sense and the decency not to discriminate against someone because of their appearance - they should know it's against the law.

As it stands, it would appear that unless a victim has a wad of cash to throw at a lawyer, they are forced to grin and bear being treated in this way.

And that just isn't fair.

We must not leave it up to the individual to feel they are fighting on their own for a basic human right. It is up to the police and other authorities to come together and work out a viable way forward - to ensure people who are already suffering because of a medical condition are not being discriminated against in such an abhorrent way.

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what’s on

Anne Odeke’s Princess Essex opens with the staff of well-todo Mrs Bugle singing, ‘I do like to be beside the seaside’, with her maid Joanna at the front, who introduces us to her hometown of Southend with news that we are not beside the seaside because the water is an estuary - ‘That’s the River Thames’ - she roars, then updates us on who Southenders hate: people from Kent and Cockneys, writes Michael Holland.

Joanna escorts Mrs Bugle to the town’s Kursaal, a wonderful place of entertainment and joy for locals and visitors down from London. The Great Batwa is the latest attraction, a pygmy brought from Africa by the intrepid explorer, Colonel Harris, to be paraded around for the rich and the paying public. He is a savage dressed in a grass skirt who can only grunt and eat scraps of bread thrown at him.

Joanna, a black woman, sees herself in Batwa, feels sorry for his plight and sets out on a mission to rescue him.

When she manages to get him alone she finds a well-dressed, well-spoken man who is in no need of being rescued, and puts poor Joanna in her place by calling her a half-caste with no real roots.

While at the Kursaal, Joanna hears that there are plans for a Beauty Pageant at a time when she feels a need for being loved and wanted, so she and Batwa conspire to get her a place in the line-up but not as a local servant girl - Joanna is going to be Princess Dinubolu, a name she chose ‘because it sounds Africanny’.

Of course, there is opposition to having a ‘negro’ girl in the contest that is actually called an International Beauty Pageant, with contestants from the USA, Japan, Germany, etc. ‘Let one in and we’ll be swarming with ‘em every time’, says a local councillor. But there are many people who want her in,

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Princess Essex promotes working-class and womanhood

namely Mr Bacon, the Kursaal owner who knows this will boost muchneeded funds for his ailing business.

King Edward VII appears via a song - Dirty Bertie - that announces him as a gadabout and womaniser. He wants to see this exotic lady and try out his oleaginous charms on her.

They do not work, and when she refuses his advances he calls her a ‘pathetic novelty’. The crowd booed him off stage and out of town.

Beware the Underwhelming Hologram Frida was excited by the promise of a futuristic take on Shakespeare’s bloody tale of Julius Caesar. An evening of doomed ambition, megalomania and betrayal lay in wait for us at Southwark Playhouse as we falteringly negotiated the traffic at Elephant and Castle, our very own Rubicon moment.

Emperor Caesar would have rebuked us no doubt, ‘Ambition should be made of sterner stuff!’ but look where that got him, write Frida Gray and Ed Gray.

Safely inside the Playhouse the houselights dimmed before the buzzing audience and we were transported to NeoRome, a futuristic vision of the UK, for the

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Playhouse Julius Caesar

Review: Julius Caesar - Southwark Playhouse

in Southwark

feast of Lupercalia. Hunger Games-meetsMad Max leather clad actors cavorted lustily with one another as the stage lit up with screens flashing messages between the actors as they summoned up their own Bard-speak captions in neon text with a single gesture. It was clear that this was to be an unorthodox interpretation of Caesar’s downfall.

Anne Odeke has written a good play based on a true story that allows her to promote the working-class and womanhood at every opportunity, plus getting the Globe audience to catcall in all the right places whenever the male characters say something misogynistic - Great fun, actually. And as Odeke also plays the Princess she can show off her massive stagecraft skills.

Eloise Secker is quite brilliant as Violet, having the audience laughing

with just a look as she displays excellent comedic traits. Matthew Ashforde as the spivvy Mr Bacon also excels.

For me, Princess Essex falls into the syrupy waters of schmaltz at the end, but going by the sighed ‘Aaaaaaahhhhs’ it was evident the crowd loved the sentimentality.

Founded by director Max Lewedel, Icarus Theatre Collective have been developing the concept of Creative Captioning for the last few years with the help of the Arts Council England in an attempt to make theatre more accessible and inclusive to audiences, whether hearing or deaf, especially those who might be daunted by the prospect of engaging with the language of Shakespeare.

Initially it was a somewhat confusing way of telling the story as our attention flitted from actor to screen. After some time, we began to engage with the magic of the dynamics which meant that sometimes we read the screens, reflecting on the poetry of Shakespeare’s written text and the abundances of quotable lines within, and sometimes we watched the actors and listened to their words.

Frida particularly loved the projected animations that appeared alongside the text to illustrate the storytelling.

‘Men willingly believe what they wish’ declared Caesar, and indeed the timing of this production is excellent given recent historic events, from the January 6 storming of the Capitol to the rise of fascist autocracies and assassination attempts on the former President/ Republican presidential nominee, all of which has been broadcast to our young people on mainstream and social media.

Back onstage, much fake-news trickery occurs as loyalties in the neoRoman Capitol are tested to the limit and the Republic must be saved at all

costs. Therefore, the Ides of March scene where Caesar comes-a-cropper feels sanitised and underwhelming as he is played as a hologram. Rioters are roused by Mark Anthony as he manipulates the mob and the dogs of war are let slip, but they are meekly tame, akin to watching people playing Tour of Duty or laser quest, especially when you’ve recently watched a president get shot in the ear on live TV. Not wishing to stab anyone in the back, we both felt this production was laudable in its intention to ping Shakespeare into the 21st Century via new technologies for modern audiences. Icarus even has further plans to incorporate British Sign language into future productions.

Full credit must go to the cast and projection designer Will Monks who keep pace with all the technology onstage. We both agreed that this bold production will certainly appeal to screen-savvy youngsters studying Shakespeare. ‘As long as they can stop TikToking long enough to enjoy the play!’ added Frida. Or, as Caesar puts it best, ‘The fault, dear Brutus, is not in not in our stars, but in ourselves’.

Shakespeare’s Globe, Bankside, SE1 until 26th October.

Admission: £5 - £75.

Booking: www.shakespearesglobe.com

Southwark Playhouse Borough, 77-85 Newington Causeway, London SE1 6BD until 5th October.

Box Office: southwarkplayhouse.co.uk/ productions/julius-caesar 020 7407 0234 Admission: £24-28 Standard; £20-24 Concessions

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this house of Cards Crashes

Old Vic Real Thing James McArdle (Henry) and Susan Wokoma (Charlotte)

Young Vic Ramin Karimloo and Anoushka Lucas

a fun evening out with great music in A Face in the Crowd, Marcia Jeffries (anoushka Lucas) has one main ambition: to use her morning radio show for good; to medicate the loneliness of ordinary people, and to hear those who are usually ignored.

The starting point of this musical, then, is a happy one: that popular ideal among journalists that everybody has a story to share, if only you let them, writes Mary Bradshaw.

It is on this quest where she will meet ‘Lonesome Rhodes’ (Ramin Karimloo), in custody for drunk and disorderly behaviour, and perpetually ‘on the road’. She manages to convince him that ‘freedom is overrated when you’re hungry,’ and before long his natural affinity behind the studio microphone gets him a regular slot on the show.

The tale is a remake of a 1953 film of the same name, adapted into a musical by playwright Sarah Ruhl and Elvis Costello (music and lyrics). It is directed by Kwame Kwei-Armah, The Young Vic’s Artistic Director, and will chart Lonesome’s transformation.

From the get-go his is an antiestablishment voice of the people, speaking to those who feel disenfranchised, so you can probably see where this is going. Yes, his influence will catapult, he’ll be put on TV, and little by little he’ll forget his distaste for a money-grabbing mainstream media. Things will get dangerous as he becomes obsessed with his ability for mass control. And yes, in the outside world, the 2024 US presidential election is looming.

Politics and entertainment now start to collide, Lonesome becomes a campaign-trail coach, and begins spouting whatever nationalistic nonsense comes into his head. It’s a world of slogans and showmanship where the showmen are addicted to the spotlight and just won’t stop talking.

One of the most impressive aspects of this Young Vic musical is Anna Fleischle’s 1950s-style set design, flexible enough to be a TV studio, a moving train carriage, a swimming pool and a jail, with minimal changes.

The orchestra are in full view, and their jazz, country, and rock tunes do much to keep the momentum and the

cheer. The lighting and costume, too, are a sight to behold.

The show is, thankfully, never overacted (often the danger in musical theatre), and Lucas and Karimloo make a good pair. Yet they go too far the other way: their tumultuous emotions, which should keep us on the edge of our seats, lack gumption, and the second half begins to feel a bit flat just when things should be coming to a head.

But where this musical misses the mark in places, it makes up for with good humour – including ‘The Ajax Sisters’ trio, singing clichéd commercial harmonies – and its stunning set and costumes.

Overall, A Face in the Crowd lacks energy and sincerity at times, but is a fun evening out with great musical numbers.

A Face in the Crowd runs to 9th November 2024 Monday – Saturday, 7.30pm Matinées on Wednesday and Saturday, 2.30pm Booking: https://www.youngvic.org/ whats-on/face-the-crowd

‘MeT HiM on a Monday and his name was bill, a do ron ron ron a do ron ron…’ is how Tom Stoppard’s The Real Thing opens in his tale of who’s doing who in a ménage à trois, quatre or even cinq, writes Michael Holland.

Max(Oliver Johnstone) builds a house of cards as he awaits the return of his wayward partner Charlotte (Susan Wokoma) from a business trip that Max knows was actually a tryst with her lover. She enters and the cards crash to the ground in a tumble of metaphors.

Cut to playwright Henry (James McCardle) stressing out to his partner over an upcoming invite to Desert Island Discs where he has to choose a number of records that he would want to be castaway with and doesn’t want the world to know his musical tastes only reach as high as cheesey pop. First World Problems already at their peak here.

Annie(Bel Powley) arrives and we soon find that she and Henry are lovers and Annie is on the verge of admitting everything to all concerned so they can be together. Annie is visually fizzing as she decides on her next move.

The drama levels rise rapidly as we believe that at any moment now the whole sordid business will be made public and lives and relationships will come crashing down.

But she does nothing. The drama is replaced by a conflict between how men and women think differently

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told through witty dialogue and the odd rambling speech. Something that has been done many times before.

And, of course, it was done before

by Stoppard when this awardwinning play first opened in 1982, so we can’t blame him for it being resurrected for a modern audience who will not get all the references from those times.

But all is not lost, there is still the witty wordplay of Tom Stoppard, always a joy if sometimes too wordy, and the play within a play provides an excellent gotcha near the beginning. Plus, there is a little something to be said for the set(Peter McKintosh) even if it hardly changes.

Max Webster directs his cast as best he can when they have only to sit around talking most of the time, hence, perhaps, getting the stage crew to add some movement to proceedings during scene changes.

Others arrive to join in the flaunting and flirting but, ultimately, I’m not sure if by the end anybody cared about who was doing who.

The Real Thing does show the tawdry business of infidelity but with this group of oh so clever people taking it all very well, cheating on a loved one hardly looks such a bad thing at all.

Old Vic, The Cut, SE1 until 26th October.

Admission: £15 - £75.

Booking: www.oldvictheatre.com

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What's coming up in south London

Bafflingly Optimistic Comedian Andy Parsons has a brand new tour, and it’s coming to Blackheath Halls this October.

As a regular on TV show Mock the Week for 10 years, with six sell-out national tours under his belt, as well as multiple other appearances, Andy is a household name.

He’s brought ‘Bafflingly Optimistic’ to over 100 venues this show run.

He said on this Instagram: “It’s always wonderful to see your name up in lights at some of the country’s most beautiful theatres – although there was one recently when there was a letter missing and the sign read ‘FOR ONE NIGHT ONLY: ANDY ARSONS’.”

Saturday 19 October 2024 Tickets: £17 23 Lee Road, Blackheath, SE3 9RQ www.blackheathhalls.com/whats-on

Laugh on the Thames Uber Boat by Thames Clippers presents the first-ever run of comedy shows on the River Bus. For three nights this season, you can enjoy evenings of stand-up comedy while you sail past London landmarks, including the Cutty Sark and the Royal Observatory Greenwich.

The line-ups include two BAFTA nominees, a Taskmaster winner, a Mock the Week and QI panellist and a record-breaking adventurer who once paddled a paper boat along the Thames.

The 4 October event sees Ben Norris, Sarah Kendall and Tim FitzHigham, 8 November features Mike Gunn, Jimmy McGhie and Michael Legge, and enjoy the likes of Keith Farnan, Jenny Collier and Funmbi Omatayo on 5 December.

Extra date added for Yiruma at the O2 For his first-ever European Tour, South Korean composer and pianist Yiruma promises an exceptional performance at Indigo at The O2. He will perform his music on piano, accompanied by musicians.

Known for his captivating and romantic melodies, Yiruma has become an essential presence in classical music over the past 20 years, in particular through his piano compositions, including the song, “River Flows in You”.

Enjoy an evening with one of today’s most streamed classical artists.

Tuesday 15 October 2024 Price varies 205 Peninsula Square, SE10 0ES www.theo2.co.uk/events/detail/yiruma

Friday 4 October, Friday 8 November, Thursday 5 December 2024 Tickets: £20 Round trip from Embankment Pier www.thamesclippers.com/whats-on-and-offers/river-bus-comedy-night

Introduction to Kung Fu Come and learn the basics of Kung Fu with the Confucius Institute for Dance and Performances at Goldsmiths University’s free taster workshop on Friday 27 September at the Deptford Lounge.

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An Evening Without Kate Bush

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Friday 27 September 2024 Tickets: Free but it is recommended you book a slot online 9 Giffin Street, Deptford, SE8 4RJ deptfordlounge.org.uk/whats-on/event/introduction-to-kung-fu-workshop

Swan Lake

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Heathcliff, it’s me. Except, it’s not.

Kate Bush won’t be at this show, but you can be. Howl with the “Hounds of Love”and dance on the moors with “Wuthering Heights”.

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History

western and wolland

By Debra Gosling in 1865, the quiet inhabitants of Grange walk must have been mildly alarmed at the new ginger beer factory in their midst. behind the walls of the building, all they could see were fluffy clouds of steam – and all they could hear was the whoosh and the whirr of machinery.

Where once had stood ramshackle cottages was now a large factory, complete with chimneys, stables and workers scuttling around in white aprons. It was a hive of industry, with the clunk of stoneware bottles being filled and loaded into wooden crates, ready for dispatch to corner shops and ale houses. The chimney churned out warm aromas of yeast, ginger and lemon that drifted across the district, mingling nicely with the vinegar, tan and cow dung!

Western and Wolland (W&W) is a company long forgotten and largely overlooked until now. It is hard to believe a firm that had successfully traded for 40 years has just disappeared without a trace, save for the odd excavated bottle.

The story begins in Cullompton, a tiny village in Devon, where the Westerns and the Wollands originated. Both families were in trades connected with yeast; Thomas Campion Wolland was a licensed victualler, running a pub called The Dolphin. His son John was a master miller, and the rest of the family were bakers. William and Eli Western’s folks were maltsters and corn chandlers, supplying all bakery needs.

Both families upped sticks and moved to Bermondsey in the late 1850s. Why? Surely rural Devon, with its green fields and relaxed ways, was preferable to smoky, dirty, smelly Bermondsey? That was not quite how it was.

Cullompton had earlier suffered a huge fire, wiping out many homes and businesses, which were followed by

riots over speculative corn prices. On top of all that, incidents of disease and epidemic were on the up in this small village. Its tanning industry did plenty of business with the London leather trade, so already there was a connection.

The mid-Victorian era was a time of great change, as the Industrial Revolution had produced the railway, time-saving machines and a sense of enterprise. It was the Great Exhibition of 1851 that inspired many entrepreneurs to try a different career. There was a revival of drinking mineral water and the new machines could make it fizzy, add flavours, refresh and revive. The young men of Cullompton wanted a piece of the action.

In 1855, W&W started their ginger beer and lemonade enterprise in Shoreditch, working from old, tired premises while negotiations were underway to buy land in Grange Walk.

It was a good site for the industry, as the ginger root needed for the drink was easily at hand with the spice trade so close at Shad Thames.

By 1865 the factory was up and running in the new building, with houses attached to accommodate the Cullompton families.

The younger members of the Wollands became travelling salesmen, extolling the virtues of their ginger beer, lime seltzer water and lemonade.

Ten years after moving to Grange Walk, the firm expanded by renting premises at 211 Grange Road, where they had offices and a corn chandlery, selling sacks of

grain and flour to the general public. Two decades later the chandlery would become Samson’s Castle pub, so still, it had a link to yeast and beer!

In the earliest years, the ginger beer was bottled in stoneware containers, with the W&W logo (horse’s heads enclosed in a horseshoe) impressed on the side. The inspiration for the logo came from William Western, another family member, who brought his saddlery from Cullompton to Duke Street in the West End. The trouble with stoneware bottles is that they are porous, which meant the bubbles escaped and the ginger beer would be flat upon opening. How could the fizz, like a genie in a bottle, be captured?

In 1875 Hiram Codd, a cork salesman, had the answer. He invented a glass design featuring an inbuilt marble with a rubber ring to keep it airtight. It worked by filling the bottle upside down, whereupon the bubbles would force the marble to the top of the bottle and ring, thus making an airtight seal. It could only be “opened” by pushing the marble down into a chamber within the bottleneck.

Dirty hands and filthy fingernails made bottle opening a bacterial nightmare, so a wooden cap that flipped to reveal a bottle opener was sold.

Sadly, very few of these caps have survived but the term “soda pop” derives from the noise the bottle made upon opening. They were popular with kids, who liked to break them to get the glass marbles out to play with, forcing Codd to use ovalshaped marbles that did not roll. The design inspired the term “Coddswallop” a derogatory term used by hardened beer

drinkers to refer to the soft drinks in the “Codd” bottles.

Deposits for returnable bottles were only introduced quite late in the ginger beer industry. Before the idea was enforced, W&W had to rely on its customers to return bottles but of course many did not bother, or they were smashed, which lost the business money. Again, Codd came to the rescue with his idea of a bottle exchange.

For a small fee, bottles were collected from around London and deposited in a bank, where they could be collected, washed and reused.

Such a bank existed in St Thomas Street, beneath the arches. A quick means of identifying the bottles was needed. W&W had their name engraved, but for the bottle collector, a quick identification was needed. In 1891 they began to sell their wares with colour-coded lips, with each mineral water maker in the area having their own colour. W&W chose a lovely cobalt blue and as they are very rare, they

now sell for a king’s ransom.

Making lemonade and ginger beer was a pleasant enough job but it was still a dangerous occupation. The fizz in the bottles sometimes escaped by exploding, especially in the summer. All that gas and the heat of the glass combined was a risk.

It was not unusual for a worker to sustain injuries from shattered glass or go home with an eye missing.

The fizz finally ran out of business in 1896, by which time Eli Western had retired to Gloucestershire and the younger members of his family had jobs on the railway. The Wollands continued to live at Grange Walk but they too had joined the railway; given that they knew much about steam engines it was the obvious choice.

The premises of Western and Wolland remained in the family’s estate until 1930 when Bermondsey Borough Council purchased the ground, demolished the old and fire-damaged factory and built the Aylwin Estate in its place.

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Thursday, September 26th 2024

LONDON BOROUGH OF SOUTHWARK

LONDON BOROUGH OF SOUTHWARK

ROAD TRAFFIC REGULATION ACT 1984 SECTION 14(1) (WEBSTER ROAD, ALBERT WAY, ALBERTA STREET, BERMONDSEY WALL EAST, THURLAND ROAD, BULCHER ROAD, OTTO STREET, KNATCHBULL ROAD, DALE ROAD, JANEWAY STREET, COLOMBO STREET, CARTER STREET)

ROAD TRAFFIC REGULATION ACT 1984 SECTION 14(1) (BERMONDSEY STREET, LYNTON ROAD, PARK STREET, ST MARYS ROAD, STEEDMAN STREET) (TEMPORARY PROHIBITION OF TRAFFIC, WAITING & LOADING RESTRICTIONS

(TEMPORARY PROHIBITION OF TRAFFIC) 1.

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

2.

Whilst the works are in progress, or whilst the authorised traffic signs/road markings are displayed, no person shall cause any vehicle to enter, proceed, stop, wait, load or unload at any time in: (a) Webster Road, outside Wesley Court located between Clements Road and Storks Road (b) Albert Way, between Studholme Street and it’s blocked end (c) Alberta Street, between Braganza Street and No’s 97/122122 (d) Bermondsey Wall East, between Loftie Street and No’s 200 (e) Thurland Road, between Frean Street and Old Jamaica Road (f) Bulcher Road, outside Comber House to it’s blocked end (g) Otto Street, between Kennington Park Gardens and Cooks Road ` (h) Knatchbull Road, between Station Terrace and County Grove (i) Dale Road, between John Ruskin Street and Hillingdon Street (j) Janeway Street, between Emba Street and Scott Lidgett Crescent (k) Colombo Street, between Paris Gardens and Meymott Street (l) Carter Place, between Walworth Road and it’s blocked end

1.

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

2.

Whilst the works are in progress, or whilst the authorised traffic signs/road markings are displayed, no person shall cause any vehicle to enter, proceed, stop, wait, load or unload at any time in: (a) Bermondsey Street, between Lamb Walk and Tyers Gate (b) Lynton Road, between Reverdy Road and Beatrice Road (c) Park Street, between Park Street and Emerson Street (d) St Marys Road ‘at any time waiting and loading restrictions will be introduced on both sides of the carriageway between No’s 12 – No’s 14 and No’s 22 (e) Steedman Street, cycle lane suspension, between Walworth Road and Marlborough Close

3.

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

4.

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

5.

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

3.

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

4.

The existing ‘one-way’ working in Thurland Road, will be made ‘two-way’ for access and egress purposes for (2e)

6.

The works will be in operation for (2a) 7th October – 30th November (2b) 7th – 15th October (2c) 7th October (2d) 7th – 11th October (2e) 9th – 10th October

5.

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

7.

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

6.

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

Dated this 26th September 2024

7.

The works will be in operation for (2a) 7th – 14th October (2b) 7th October (2c) 7th October – 27th October (2d) 7th – 18th October (2e) 7th – 18th October (2f) 8th – 9th October between 22:00hrs and 06:00hrs (2g) 9th October (2h) 10th – 11th October between 22:00hrs and 06:00hrs (2i) 10th – 11th October (2j) 11th – 15th October (2k)12th October and 19th – 20th October (2l) 14th – 15th October

8.

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

Dated this 26th September 2024 Ian Law Traffic Manager London Borough of Southwark Network Management Environment, Neighbourhoods and Growth 160 Tooley Street PO Box 64529 London SE1 5LX Ref: (2a) SEC50/WEBSTERMCA (2b) 95323839 (2c) 99450983 (2d) BER2-BWAE100-01 (2e) BER4THUR109-01 (2f) LBSCR13594 (2g) 68142076 (2h) LBSCR13500 (2i) 26896661 (2j) BER2-JAST15201 (2k) LBSCR13372 (2l) LBS13637

Ian Law Traffic Manager London Borough of Southwark Network Management Environment, Neighbourhoods and Growth 160 Tooley Street PO Box 64529 London SE1 5LX Ref: (2a) 54136033 (2b) BER89-LYNT583-01 (2c) WF9MDD2DSB (2d) 8110157341 (2e) bridgeinspection

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Thursday, September 26th 2024

LONDON BOROUGH OF SOUTHWARK TOWN & COUNTRY PLANNING ACT 1990 (as amended) PLANNING (LISTED BUILDINGS AND CONSERVATION AREAS) ACT 1990 (as amended) The planning applications listed below can be viewed on the planning register at https://planning.southwark.gov.uk/online-applications/ You can use facilities at your local library or 'My Southwark Service Points' to access the website.

How to comment on this application: You should submit your comments via the above link. Comments received will be made available for public viewing on the website. All personal information will be removed except your postal address. Online comments submitted without an email address will not be acknowledged and those marked 'confidential' will not be considered. Written comments can be submitted to; Southwark Council, Chief executive's department, Planning division, Development Management, PO Box 64529, London SE1 5LX. Reason for publicity. The applications are advertised for the reasons identified by the following codes: AFFECT - development affecting character or appearance of a nearby conservation area; OR development affecting setting of a nearby listed building(s); DEP - departure from the development plan; EIA - environmental impact assessment (these applications are accompanied by an environmental statement a copy of which may be obtained from the Council - there will be a charge for the copy); MAJ - major planning application; STDCA - development within a conservation area; STDLB - works to or within the site of a listed building; 4 STONEY STREET LONDON SOUTHWARK SE1 9AA (Ref: 24/AP/2653) Display of externally illuminated fascia lettering and non-illuminated projecting sign. (Within: Borough High Street CA) Reason(s) for publicity: STDCA (Contact: Susherrie Suki ) OPEN LAND REAR OF 1-51 PECKHAM HIGH ROAD BOUNDED BY SUMNER AVENUE AND MELON ROAD, OPEN LAND ADJACENT TO 59 PECKHAM HIGH ST AND SUMNER HOUSE LONDON SOUTHWARK (Ref: 24/AP/2252) Variation of Condition 9 (Hard and Soft Landscaping) and Condition 14 (Delivery and Servicing Management Plan) for planning permission ref no. 20/AP/0433 for 'Minor material amendment to planning permission 16/AP/4018 [Approval date: 15.11.2019] 'Redevelopment of the site to provide four buildings to deliver 168 residential dwellings (Class C3) and flexible retail floor space (247m2) of flexible A1/A3/A4; The works include the conversion and extension of Sumner House (Block A) from office use (Class B1-c to provide 44 no flats and 4 no townhouses and partial demolition of boundary wall; the erection of a part 4, part 6 storey block to provide 39 no flats on Sumner Avenue (Block B); part 4(Block B); a part four, part 6 storey building to provide 72 no flats on Jocelyn Street (Block C); and a four storey block providing 9 flats on Melon Road (Block D), with 247m2 of flexible A1/A3/A4 use at ground floor level together with car parking, hard and soft landscaping, and other associated works incidental to the development' consisting of: - One change to the design of Flaxyard Block B: - Switching the balcony/terrace balustrades from glass to solid panels; - Changes to the design of Flaxyard Block C, including: Enlargement of building footprint on floors 04 to 05; - Small number of fenestration changes; Reduction in size of the external cycle store, but with a separate supplementary store to now be provided; - Changes to the design of Flaxyard Block D, including: - Enlargement of building footprint on floors 01 to 03; - Reduction of floorspace of the commercial unit from 247m2 to 224.5m2; - External door changes; - Changes to landscaping and car parking arrangements.'

(Within: Rye Lane Peckham CA) Reason(s) for publicity: STDCA (Contact: Andre Verster 020 7525 5457) 41 COLLEGE ROAD LONDON SOUTHWARK SE21 7BA (Ref: 24/AP/2668) Regularisation of internal alterations dated from 2002-2023 (Within: Dulwich Village CA) Reason(s) for publicity: STDLB (Contact: Richard Craig 020 7525 0436)

73 PECKHAM ROAD LONDON SOUTHWARK (Ref: 24/AP/2447) Full replacement of existing single glazed timber sash windows with new single glazed timber sash windows. Design is to be like for like as existing. Colour, glazing bars, horns, fenestration to match existing. (Within: Sceaux Gardens CA) Reason(s) for publicity: STDCA (Contact: Sandy Ng 020 7525 5000) SECOND FLOOR AND THIRD FLOOR FLAT 72 BERMONDSEY STREET LONDON SOUTHWARK SE1 3UD (Ref: 24/AP/2724) Internal remodellling of the 2nd and 3rd Floor Flat. External alterations to unclude the replacement of the existing rooflight and introduction of two additional rooflights to the rear roofslope.. (Within: Bermondsey Street CA) Reason(s) for publicity: STDLB (Contact: Tracy Chapman 020 7525 1948) 4 STONEY STREET LONDON SOUTHWARK SE1 9AA (Ref: 24/AP/2652) Installation of 2 air conditioning condenser units to rear elevation of building. (Within: Borough High Street CA) Reason(s) for publicity: STDCA (Contact: Susherrie Suki ) SECOND FLOOR AND THIRD FLOOR FLAT 72 BERMONDSEY STREET LONDON SOUTHWARK SE1 3UD (Ref: 24/AP/2723) External alterations to 2nd and 3rd Floor Flat, the replacement of the existing rooflight and introduction of two additional rooflights to the rear roofslope. (Within: Bermondsey Street CA) Reason(s) for publicity: STDCA (Contact: Tracy Chapman 020 7525 1948) 24 SURREY SQUARE LONDON SOUTHWARK SE17 2JX (Ref: 24/AP/2561) Listed building consent for the works include the installation of a capillary trench for the prevention of moisture at the lower ground floor level of the property as part of the ongoing restoration measures to improve internal air quality and prevent damp and mould issues currently affecting the property. (Within: Thomas A'Beckett And High Street CA) Reason(s) for publicity: STDLB (Contact: Eleanor Heagney 020 7525 5403) 73 PECKHAM ROAD LONDON SOUTHWARK (Ref: 24/AP/2448) Listed building consent for the full replacement of existing single glazed timber sash windows with new single glazed timber sash windows.

Design is to be like for like as existing. Colour, glazing bars, horns, fenestration to match existing. (Within: Sceaux Gardens CA) Reason(s) for publicity: STDLB (Contact: Sandy

Ng 020 7525 5000) 76 - 78 CAMBERWELL ROAD LONDON SOUTHWARK SE5 0EG (Ref: 24/AP/2139) We intend to repair and strengthen the wall that lies with in propriety, to make it safe and secure.

Reason(s) for publicity: STDLB (Contact: Hajnalka Berwick-Sayers 020 7525 3701) 27 BEAUVAL ROAD LONDON SOUTHWARK SE22 8UG (Ref: 24/AP/2609) Construction of a side and rear extension including the installation of glazed sliding doors on the rear elevation, 1no. skylight to flat roof and 4no. conservation area velux windows to the side extension. (Within: Dulwich Village CA) Reason(s) for publicity: STDCA (Contact: William Tucker 07925 637 210) 100 BELLENDEN ROAD LONDON SOUTHWARK SE15 4RF (Ref: 24/AP/2644) Construction of single storey side infill rear extension and glazed garden canopy (Within: Holly Grove CA) Reason(s) for publicity: STDCA (Contact: Alex Lambert 020 7525 1353) 1 PICKWICK ROAD LONDON SOUTHWARK SE21 7JN (Ref: 24/AP/2400) Installation of AC unit within side passageway.

(Within: Dulwich Village CA) Reason(s) for publicity: STDCA (Contact: Louise Dinsdale 07513137967) 55 CALTON AVENUE LONDON SOUTHWARK SE21 7DF (Ref: 24/AP/2749) Variation of Condition 1 for full planning application 23/AP/2601 dated 08/11/2023 for Proposed works to replace the existing conservatory with a new single storey side infill extension; increase the height of the rear outrigger roof to create a new bedroom within the attic space, with associated roof lights. The reconfiguration of the outrigger's first floor window and door to the terrace, and the replacement of the second floor rear dormer with a wider dormer window. Window replacements to front, rear and side elevations.

Removal: As Dulwich Estate have asked for amendments to the window surrounds at the ground and first floor levels to the rear of the outrigger, we have had to alter the design in order to get their permission to proceed with the works. The Dulwich Estate would not allow us to include pre-cast stone surrounds to the windows at first or second floor level. This variation to Condition 1, the Approved Plans Condition, seeks to change the record set of drawings in the planning application to reflect this change and therefore what is to be built. The drawings that form the basis of the Approved Plans

Condition should be updated to be the following: (Within: Dulwich Village CA) Reason(s) for publicity: STDCA (Contact: Agneta Kabele 07548097486) 298 OLD KENT ROAD LONDON SOUTHWARK SE1 5UE(Ref: 24/AP/2738) Shopfront replacement to front elevation and insertion of 2no. bathroom windows to rear elevation at first and second floor level. (Within: Thomas A'Beckett And High Street CA) Reason(s) for publicity: STDCA (Contact: William Tucker 07925 637 210) Dated: 24 Sep 2024 - comments to be received within 21 days of this date.

STEPHEN PLATTS - Director of Planning and Growth

PUBLIC NOTICES 35

Thursday, September 26th 2024

LONDON BOROUGH OF SOUTHWARK CYCLE HANGARS – 24/25 BATCH 1 The London Borough of Southwark (Charged-for parking places) (Cycle hangars) (No. *) Order 202* The London Borough of Southwark (Free parking places and Waiting restrictions) (Cycle hangars) (No. *) Order 202* 1. Southwark Council hereby GIVES NOTICE that it proposes to make the above Orders under sections 6, 45, 46, 49 and 124 of and Part IV of Schedule 9 to the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984, as amended.

2. The effects of the Orders would be: (a) to provide new cycle hangars on the carriageway, each 2.55 metres in length, 2.05 metres in width and aligned parallel to the kerb, at the following locations:ALSCOT ROAD south-east side o/s No. 105 Alscot Road; BASSANO STREET north-east side to the rear of No. 129 Melbourne Grove; BATH TERRACE south-east side, south-west of its junction with Harper Road; BRANDON STREET south-west side, south-east of its junction with Townley Street; BUCHAN ROAD north-west side, side of No. 63 Howbury Road; CADIZ STREET north-west side opposite No. 24 Cadiz Street; COLWORTH GROVE north-east side, side of No. 13 Browning Street; CRANSWICK ROAD south-west side o/s No. 24 Cranswick Road; CROXTED ROAD north-east side o/s No. 132 Croxted Road; CYRENA ROAD north-west side, side of No. 31 Silvester Road; DAWES STREET south-west side, south-east of its junction with East Street; DAYTON GROVE east side opposite No. 29 Dayton Grove; ELFINDALE ROAD north-west side opposite No. 96 Elfindale Road; GOLDSMITH ROAD north-west side opposite vehicular access to Jarvis House (next to existing hangar); HAMPTON STREET north-west side opposite its junction with Steedman Street; HENSHAW STREET north-west side opposite No. 4 Henshaw Street; HOLLYDALE ROAD north-east side opposite No. 165 Hollydale Road; KIMBERLEY AVENUE north-east side opposite its junction with Buchan Road; KING'S GROVE north-west side o/s No. 111 King's Grove; LANVANOR ROAD north-east side, north-west of its junction with Brabourn Grove; LINDEN GROVE south-east side o/s The Lodge Nunhead Cemetery; LODER STREET north-west side, side of No. 100 Astbury Road; LUGARD ROAD south-east side opposite No. 58 Lugard Road; LYTCOTT GROVE south-east side opposite Alleyn's Junior School; MACHELL ROAD north-west side, south-west of its junction with Kimberley Avenue; MELBOURNE GROVE north-east side opposite No. 68 Melbourne Grove (next to existing hangar); MONTPELIER ROAD south-east side, south of its junction with Meeting House Lane; NORTH CROSS ROAD south-west side, side of No. 92 Crystal Palace Road (next to existing hangar); NORWAY GATE south-west side opposite Nos. 4 and 6 Norway Gate; NUNHEAD GROVE north-east side opposite No. 54 Nunhead Grove; PELLATT ROAD north-east side opposite No. 83 Pellatt Road; RYE ROAD south-west side opposite Nos. 43/45 Rye Road; ST ASAPH ROAD south-west side opposite its junction with Bonita Mews; ST MARY'S ROAD north-east side opposite No. 24 St Mary's Road (New Cross Telephone Exchange); SURREY ROAD north-west side opposite No. 27 Surrey Road; SUTHERLAND SQUARE south-east side o/s No. 55 Sutherland Square; WHATELEY ROAD north-east side, north-west of its junction with Crystal Palace Road; (b) to provide a new cycle hangar (2.55 metres in length and 2.05 metres in width), on the footway of BRUNSWICK PARK north-west side o/s No. 22 Brunswick Park aligned parallel to the south-western edge of the footway area; (c) to relocate an existing cycle hangar on the footway in STORIES ROAD south-westward by 11m; NOTES: (1) The measures in 2 (d)-(p) are proposed to accommodate the provision of the new cycle hangars and in those locations in the carriageway, referred to above. (2) ‘permit’ refers to parking places for holders of valid parking permits within the Controlled Parking Zone (CPZ) listed, ‘shared-use’ refers to parking places in which holders of a valid permit for the CPZ listed or ‘pay’ paid ticket holders are permitted to park within the permitted hours. ‘DYLs’ refer to waiting restrictions which operate 'at any time' - all hours on every day of the week. (3) All measurements are in metres ‘m’ and are approximate. (4) Parking charges are listed on www.southwark.gov.uk/parking (d) in CPZ 'B' reduce existing 'permit' by 2.55m in GOLDSMITH ROAD (14m remain); (e) in CPZ 'D' split and reduce existing 'pay' by 4.55m in BATH TERRACE (total of 23m remain); (f) in CPZ 'E' reduce existing 'shared-use' by 3.55m in HAMPTON STREET (56.5m remain); (g) in CPZ 'GR' reduce existing 'shared-use' by 4.55m ALSCOT ROAD (12.5m remain); (h) in CPZ 'J' reduce existing 'permit' by 3.55m in SUTHERLAND SQUARE (14m remain); (i) in CPZ 'M1' (i) reduce 'permit' by 3.55m in COLWORTH GROVE (44m remains), and (ii) split and reduce existing 'permit' by 4.55m in HENSHAW STREET (a total of 40m remain); (j) in CPZ 'M2' reduce existing 'shared-use' by 4m in BRANDON STREET (38m remain), and by 4.55m in both CADIZ STREET (8.5m remain) and in DAWES STREET (11m remain); (k) in CPZ 'P' split and reduce existing 'permit' by 4.55m in ELFINDALE ROAD (total of 29.5m remain); (l) in CPZ 'OKR' (within existing CPZ 'OKR' permit-holders only past this point area) reduce existing unmarked 'permit' parking by 2.55m in CRANSWICK ROAD; (m) in CPZ 'QR' (i) split and reduce existing 'permit' by 4.55m in KING'S GROVE (a total of 48m remain), and (ii) reduce existing 'shared-use' by 3.55m in MONTPELIER ROAD (7.5m remain); (n) in CPZ 'S' split and reduce existing 'permit' by 4.55m in NORWAY GATE (a total of 72m remain); (o) add new lengths of 'at any time' waiting restrictions (double yellow lines ‘DYLs’) (i) a total of 4.2m in DAYTON GROVE either side of new hangar, (ii) 3m in MONTPELIER ROAD north of new hangar, (iii) 2m in CYRENA ROAD south-west of new hangar, (iv) a total of 1.5m in BRANDON STREET either side of new hangar, (v) 1m only north of new hangar in LODER STREET, west of new hangar in NORTH CROSS ROAD, north-west of new hangars in NUNHEAD GROVE, MELBOURNE GROVE and WHATELEY ROAD, south-east of new hangar in ST ASAPH ROAD, and south-west of new hangars in HAMPTON STREET, LUGARD ROAD and SUTHERLAND SQUARE, (vi) 1m either side of new hangars in ALSCOT ROAD, BASSANO STREET, BATH TERRACE, BUCHAN ROAD, CADIZ STREET, CRANSWICK ROAD, CROXTED ROAD, DAWES STREET, ELFINDALE ROAD, HENSHAW STREET, HOLLYDALE ROAD, KIMBERLEY AVENUE, KING'S GROVE, LANVANOR ROAD, LINDEN GROVE, LYTCOTT GROVE, MACHELL ROAD, NORWAY GATE, PELLATT ROAD, RYE ROAD, ST MARY'S ROAD, SURREY ROAD, and (vii) 0.5m either side of new hangar in COLWORTH GROVE; and (p) relocate an existing length of 1m ‘DYLs’ to the north-east of the new cycle hangar in GOLDSMITH ROAD (north-west side, opposite vehicular access to Jarvis House).

3. For more information about these proposals please contact David Bass of the Council's Highways, Transport Projects team: Highways@southwark.gov.uk .

4. Copies of the supporting documents (this Notice, the proposed Orders, and a statement of the Council's reasons for making the Orders) may be found online at www.southwark.gov.uk/trafficorders; paper or digital copies of plans showing the location and effect of the Orders and the supporting documents may be requested by emailing traffic.orders@southwark.gov.uk, or inspected by appointment only at: Highways, Southwark Council, Environment, Sustainability & Leisure, 3rd floor hub 2, 160 Tooley Street, London SE1 2QH - from the date of this Notice until the end of a period of six weeks from the date on which the Orders are made. Email traffic.orders@southwark.gov.uk (or call 077 3132 4742) for booking details.

5. Anyone wishing to make any representations either for or to object to the proposals, may use our consultation portal at https://consultation.appyway.com/southwark; or send a statement in writing to: Traffic Order Consultations, Highways, Southwark Council, Environment, Sustainability & Leisure, P.O. Box 64529, London SE1P 5LX or traffic.orders@southwark.gov.uk quoting reference ‘TMO2425-017 CH 2425 B1’ by 17 October 2024. Please note that if you wish to object to this proposal you must state the grounds on which your objection is made.

6. Under requirements of current access to information legislation, any letter, form or e-mail sent to the Council in response to this Notice may be subject to publication or disclosure, or both, including communication to other persons affected.

Dated 26 September 2024 Steven Grayer Interim Head of Service - Highways, Environment, Sustainability & Leisure

PUBLIC NOTICE OF INQUIRY The Town and Country Planning Act 1990 The Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1976 The Acquisition of Land Act 1981 The London Borough of Southwark (Elephant and Castle Town Centre) Compulsory Purchase Order (No.2) 2023 WHEREAS the London Borough of Southwark (the Acquiring Authority) has submitted to the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government for confirmation an Order made under section 226(1)(a) of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990, Section 13 of the Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1976 and the Acquisition of Land Act 1981, which would authorise it to acquire compulsorily the land and rights over land referred to in the Schedule hereto for the purpose of facilitating the carrying out of development, redevelopment, or improvement on or in relation to that land, namely a mixed use town centre redevelopment scheme including residential, retail, offices, education, assembly and leisure, a new station entrance and station box for use as a London Underground operational railway station, nightclub incorporating sound mitigation lobby, commercial, business and services, access and highway works, public realm and landscaping, car and cycle parking, plant and servicing and associated and ancillary works and structures.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a public local inquiry into this matter will be held by D J Board BSc (Hons) MA MRTPI at Room GB03 of the South Bank Technopark, 90 London Road, London SE1 6FE on Tuesday 15 October 2024 at 10:00am. The Inquiry is estimated to last eight days with two further virtual dates reserved.

A copy of the Order and of the map referred to therein are on deposit at 160 Tooley Street, London SE1 2QH and Southwark Heritage Centre and Walworth Library, 145-147 Walworth Road, London SE17 1RW and may be seen there, on application, at all reasonable hours.

A copy of the Order and map, and other documents, are also available for inspection on the following website: https://gateleyhamer-pi.com/en-gb/elephant-and-castle/ SCHEDULE Land to be acquired Land and property at Elephant and Castle within the London Borough of Southwark including: an area of Oswin Street and hardstanding and structures to the north-west of London College of Communication; two electricity substations within the London College of Communication; an area of hardstanding to the immediate north of Pastor Street which forms part of the southern access into London College of Communication; areas of hardstanding and structures to the north, north-west, west and south-west of Elephant and Castle railway station, Elephant Road; railway arch premises 113a and 120 and 113b and 121 Elephant and Castle Arches, Elephant Road; areas of hardstanding and structures to the immediate west of the railway arch premises 4 and 5 Farrell Court, Elephant Road; railway arch premises 4, 5, 6 and 7 Farrell Court on Elephant Road (and the fire escape route which bisects 4 and 5 Farrell Court); and an area of hardstanding and structures to the immediate west and south-west of railway arch premises 2 and 3 Farrell Court, Elephant Road (but excluding the railway viaduct and the Thameslink railway).

New rights to be acquired New rights are being sought over land and property at Elephant and Castle within the London Borough of Southwark including over: a half width of Oswin Street; parts of St George’s Road, Elephant and Castle highway, Brook Drive and the entirety of Pastor Street; part of Perronet House; part of the Metropolitan Tabernacle; land to the north of St Gabriel Walk; part of The Castle Centre on Brook Drive; parts of the railway viaduct and railway arch structures on Elephant Road (including those which enclose railway arch premises 113a and 120 and 113b and 121 Elephant and Castle Arches, and those which enclose railway arch premises 4, 5, 6 and 7 Farrell Court); and areas of hardstanding and structures to the west of Elephant and Castle railway station, Elephant Road (but excluding the Thameslink railway).

By way of summary, the rights being sought include (but not necessarily at each property) the right to: Oversail and/or sail a crane or cranes, loaded or unloaded, through the airspace over the land Enter upon the land to (among other things) demolish, construct and remove buildings which abut the land and the right to manage access to such parts of the land, and to enter onto land and buildings to carry out protective or reinstatement works to building facades Erect, use and remove scaffolding and/or hoardings (including signage) on the land In respect of certain parts of the railway viaduct and railway arch structures, carry out various works (as more particularly described in the order) which will facilitate (i) the creation of a public realm route through railway arch premises 6 and 7 Farrell Court, (ii) the refurbishment and conversion of use of railway arch premises 113a and 120 and 113b and 121 Elephant and Castle Arches and (iii) the construction of a sound mitigation lobby and associated works to adjoin railway arch premises 4 and 5 Farrell Court and the refurbishment of 4 and 5 Farrell Court Enter upon the land to carry out, repair and maintain hard landscaping works for public realm Gain pedestrian access to and egress from the adjacent Elephant and Castle town centre development, including to and from the Elephant and Castle railway station.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for the Department for Housing, Communities and Local Government James Bunten Case Officer

Date 30 August 2024

36 PUBLIC NOTICES

Thursday, September 26th 2024

LONDON BOROUGH OF SOUTHWARK

LONDON BOROUGH OF SOUTHWARK

CONTROLLED PEDESTRIAN CROSSINGS AND ACCOMMODATING MEASURES

EMERSON STREET AREA IMPROVEMENTS

The London Borough of Southwark (Free parking places, Loading places and Waiting, Loading and Stopping restrictions) (Accommodating measures for crossings) (No. 2) Order 2024 1. Southwark Council hereby GIVES NOTICE that on 26 September 2024 it has made the above Order under sections 6 and 124 of and Part IV of Schedule 9 to the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984, as amended.

2. The effects of the Order, the purpose of which is to accommodate a new raised zebra pedestrian crossing in SOUTHAMPTON WAY, the centre of which would be located at a point 10.5 metres southeast of the south-easternmost wall of No. 302 Southampton Way, are:(a) remove existing ‘at any time' waiting restrictions (double yellow lines ‘DYLs’) in SOUTHAMPTON WAY 25 metres on the north-east side (south-east of its junction with Charles Coveney Road) and 35 metres on the south-west side (opposite its junction with Charles Coveney Road); (b) amend existing ‘DYLs’ to accommodate slight kerb-line widening in CHARLES COVENEY ROAD on both sides at its junction with Southampton Way; and (c) in SOUTHAMPTON WAY add 7.5 metres existing ‘DYLs’ north-east side opposite Nos. 300 and 302 as an amendment to the Traffic Management Order map-based schedule (an administrative exercise to match the records more closely, note that there will be no physical changes at this location).

NOTES: (1) ‘at any time’ means at all hours on every day of the week. (2) All measurements are in metres and are approximate 3. Copies of the Order, which will come into force on 30 September 2024, and of all other relevant documents are available for inspection at Highways, Southwark Council, Environment, Sustainability & Leisure, 3rd floor hub 2, 160 Tooley Street, London SE1 2QH, by appointment only. E-mail traffic.orders@southwark.gov.uk or call 077 3132 4742 for booking details.

4. Any person desiring to question the validity of the Order or of any provision contained therein on the grounds that it is not within the relevant powers of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 or that any of the relevant requirements thereof or of any relevant regulations made thereunder has not been complied with in relation to the Order may, within six weeks of the date on which the Order was made, make application for the purpose to the High Court.

Dated 26 September 2024 Steven Grayer Interim Head of Service - Highways, Environment, Sustainability & Leisure LONDON BOROUGH OF LAMBETH AND LONDON BOROUGH OF SOUTHWARK UFFORD STREET, CHANGES TO PARKING PLACES, WAITING AND LOADING RESTRICTIONS AND THE INTRODUCTION OF A BAN ON VEHICLES TRAVELLING NORTH-EAST BEYOND THE JUNCTION WITH SHORT STREET. THE INTRODUCTION ON WEBBER STREET OF WESTBOUND ONE WAY WORKING WITH CONTRA-FLOW CYCLES BETWEEN UFFORD STREET AND GRAY STREET [NOTE: This Notice is about changes on Ufford Street to the existing parking places and waiting and loading restrictions, a ban on vehicles heading north-east past the junction of Short Street and entering that length of Ufford Street which lies between its junction with Boundary Lane and its junction with Short Street (its boundary with the Lonon Borough of Lambeth), and a banned left turn onto Webber Street from Ufford Street and a westbound one-way system on Webber Street between the junctions of Ufford Street and Gray Street with a cycle contra-flow and changes to the existing parking places and waiting and loading restrictions.

The London Borough of Southwark (Charged-for parking places) (Emerson Street area improvements) Order 202* The London Borough of Southwark (Loading places and Waiting restrictions) (Emerson Street area improvements) Order 202* 1. Southwark Council hereby GIVES NOTICE that it proposes to make the above Orders under sections 6, 45, 46, 49 and 124 of and Part IV of Schedule 9 to the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984, as amended.

2. The general effect of the Orders, within the existing Controlled Parking Zone (‘CPZ’) 'C1' in the vicinity of the development site known as No. 185 Park Street, the purpose of which would be to facilitate the priorities of the area and clear obstructive parking around the new access point, would be to:(a) in EMERSON STREET relocate an existing ‘pay by phone’ parking place (27 metres in length) from the north-west side to a new location on the south-east side (south-west of its junction with Park Street); (b) in PARK STREET south-west side (opposite Nos. 62 to 76 Park Street) install a new inset loading place (9 metres in length), which may be used ‘at any time’ and every day of the week without time limit for the purpose of loading only; (c) remove a total of 36 metres of existing ‘at any time’ waiting restrictions (double yellow lines ‘DYLs’) to accommodate the parking changes (in both roads mentioned in 2 a and b above); (d) in PARK STREET south-east side (opposite the vehicular access to the Tate Gallery of Modern Art) convert 26.5 metres of existing ‘timed’ waiting restrictions (single yellow lines ‘SYLs’) to new ‘DYLs’; (e) add new ‘DYLs’ throughout the kerb-line that is not designated as existing or new parking in both EMERSON STREET (entirety) and PARK STREET (between its junction with Sumner Street and its junction with New Globe Walk); (f) add 19 metres of new ‘DYLs’ in PARK STREET on the north-east side (west of its junction with Porter Street) to deter obstructive parking over access points to No. 1 Southwark Bridge Road; and (g) to amend the Traffic Management Order map-based schedule (an administrative exercise to match the records more closely after the removal of temporary suspensions of restrictions for the purpose of development works), by making changes in SUMNER STREET between its junction with Great Guildford Street and its junction with Emerson Street (i) north side add existing ‘DYLs’, and (ii) south side add 9.5 metres existing ‘DYLs’, add 16.5 metres existing permit holders' parking place, and extend another existing permit holders' parking place by 20.5 metres (new bay length will be shown as 28 metres), and add 6.5 metres existing ‘SYLs’ (operating between 8 am and 11 pm every day of the week) between the existing permit holders' parking places [note that there will be no physical changes at these locations].

NOTES: (1) ‘at any time’ means at all hours on every day of the week. (2) All measurements are in metres and are approximate. (3) Parking charges are listed on www.southwark.gov.uk/parking 3. Southwark Council hereby GIVES FURTHER NOTICE under sections 90A to 90I of the Highways Act 1980 and in accordance with the provisions of the Highways (Traffic calming) Regulations 1999, propose to construct a speed table of flat-top construction having a maximum height level with the surrounding kerb covering the entire width of the carriageway, in PARK STREET extending from a point 5 metres north-east of its junction with Sumner Street/Great Guildford Street north-eastward for a distance of 33 metres. These measurements include the ramps, and any existing traffic calming measures at the exact location above will be refreshed and replaced.

4. For more information contact the Council's Highway Development team Highways@southwark.gov.uk

1. NOTICE IS GIVEN that the Councils of the London Borough of Lambeth and the London Borough of Southwark on 19th September 2024 made the Lambeth (Charged-For Parking Places) (Amendment No. 43) Order 2024, the Lambeth (Free Parking Places, Loading Places and Waiting, Loading and Stopping Restrictions) (Amendment No. 47) Order 2024, the Lambeth (Moving Traffic Restrictions) (Amendment No. 3) Order 2024 and the London Borough of Southwark (Prescribed Routes) (Ufford Street) Traffic Order 2024. The Orders will come into force on 7th October 2024.

5. Copies of the supporting documents (this Notice, the proposed Orders, and a statement of the Council's reasons for making the Orders) may be found online at www.southwark.gov.uk/trafficorders; paper or digital copies of plans showing the location and effect of the Orders and the supporting documents may be requested by emailing traffic.orders@southwark.gov.uk, or inspected by appointment only at: Highways, Southwark Council, Environment, Sustainability & Leisure, 3rd floor hub 2, 160 Tooley Street, London SE1 2QH - from the date of this Notice until the end of a period of six weeks from the date on which the Orders are made. Email traffic.orders@southwark.gov.uk (or call 077 3132 4742) for booking details.

2. The general effect of the Orders will be to: (1) On Ufford Street (in the London Borough of Lambeth): (a) introduce a ban on motor vehicles (except for local access) travelling north-eastward past the junction of Short Street (except for local access); (b) remove a section of permit holder parking opposite the junction of Short Street and replace with no waiting at any time restrictions; (c) ban vehicles (except cycles) from turning left onto Webber Street;

6. Anyone wishing to make any representations either for or to object to the proposals, may use the form labelled 'Parking - Road traffic and highway schemes - responding to statutory consultation notices' at www.southwark.gov.uk/statutoryconsultationnotices or send a statement in writing to: the Traffic Orders Officer, Highways, Southwark Council, Environment, Sustainability & Leisure, P.O. Box 64529, London SE1P 5LX or by e-mail to traffic.orders@southwark.gov.uk quoting reference ‘TMO2425-016 Emerson St area‘ by 17 October 2024. Please note that if you wish to object to this proposal you must state the grounds on which your objection is made.

(2) On Webber Street (between Ufford Street and Gray Street): (a) introduce a westward one-way working with a contra-flow for cyclists; (b) ban vehicles from proceeding south-eastward past the south-east kerb-line of Ufford Street; (c) remove parking places and replace with no waiting at any time restrictions;

7. Under requirements of current access to information legislation, any letter, form or e-mail sent to the Council in response to this Notice may be subject to publication or disclosure, or both, including communication to other persons affected.

(3) on Ufford Street (in the London borough of Southwark):

Dated 26 September 2024 Steven Grayer Interim Head of Service - Highways, Environment, Sustainability & Leisure

introduce a ‘no motor vehicles’ restriction in that part of Ufford Street which lies between its junction with Boundary Lane and its junction with Short Street (a length of approx. 49 metres, which currently lies on the shared boundary of the London Borough of Lambeth and the London Borough of Southwark), except for local access.

Note: the moving traffic restrictions in Ufford Street and Webber Street, will be enforced by traffic signs and by camera.

3. The Orders are necessary to improve the environment for residents and the wider community by reducing through motor traffic, improving junction safety and maintaining and improving safe cycle and pedestrian access.

4. If you have any general enquiries, please email transportstrategy@lambeth.gov.uk.

5. A copy of each of the Orders and other documents giving detailed particulars about them are available online at: https://streets.appyway.com/lambeth or www.lambeth.gov.uk/traffic-managementorders and for inspection at the offices of Lambeth Council’s 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. To arrange inspection please telephone 020 7926 0209 or email: Trafficorders@lambeth.gov.uk. Documents are also available on request at Public Realm Projects (parking design), Highways, Southwark Council, Environment, Sustainability and Leisure, 3rd Floor hub 2, 160 Tooley Street, London SE1 2QH. Please telephone 077 3132 4742 or email: traffic.orders@southwark.gov.uk to arrange an appointment.

6. If any person wishes to question the validity of the Orders or any of their provisions on the grounds that it or they are not within the powers conferred by the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984, or that any requirement of that Act or any instrument made under that Act has not been complied with, that person may, within 6 weeks from the date on which the Orders are made, apply for the purpose to the High Court.

Dated 26th September 2024

Ben Stevens Highways Network Manager

To p l a c e a p u b l i c n o t i c e ,

p l e a s e e m a i l e m @ c m - m e d i a . c o. u k

Notice of Application for a Premises Licence made under Section 17 of the Licensing Act 2003 Please take notice that I / we SOUTH LONDON ARTS GROUP LTD Have made application to Southwark Council for a new Premises Licence in respect of RAILWAY ARCH 3, ALMOND ROAD, SE16 3LR The relevant licensable activities and proposed times to be carried on, or on from the premises are Days

Start time

Finish time

The retail sale of alcohol:

Monday to Friday Saturday & Sunday

12:00 00:00

02:30 00:00

The provision of regulated entertainment:

Monday to Friday Saturday & Sunday

12:00 00:00

02:30 00:00

The provision of late night refreshment:

Monday to Friday Saturday & Sunday

23:00 23:00

02:30 05:00

Opening hours:

Monday to Friday Saturday & Sunday

12:00 00:00

03:00 00:00

A register of all applications made within the Southwark area is maintained by: The Licensing Service, Hub 1, 3rd Floor, 160 Tooley Street, London, SE1 2QH A record of this application may be inspected by visiting the office during normal office hours by appointment on 020 7525 2000; details are also available on our website at http://app.southwark.gov.uk/licensing/licenseregister.asp It is open to any interested party to make representations about the likely effect of the application on the promotion of the licensing objectives. Representations must be made in writing to the Licensing Service at the office address given above (or by email via licensing@southwark.gov.uk) and be received by the Service within a period of 28 days starting the day after the date shown below.

Note: It is an offence to knowingly or recklessly make a false statement in connection with an application. A person guilty of such offence is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale.

Date of application: 16th September 2024

SPORT 37

surrey head CoaCh looks four-ward

By John Kelly

surreY HeAd coach Gareth batty has immediately set his sights on four-in-a-row after the Kia oval side became the first in 56 years to win three successive County Championship titles.

Kia Oval side clinch three-in-a-row

By John Kelly dULwiCH HaMLeT are up to fourth in the isthmian League Premier division table after their 5-2 win at home to Horsham last weekend.

Sam Curran took five wickets against Durham

Photo by Mark Sandom

Surrey defeated Durham by ten wickets in their last home game of the campaign before their closest rivals, Somerset, were beaten by Lancashire by 168 runs.

Surrey became the first team since Yorkshire in 1968 to win three titles in a row.

Surrey are second on the all-time list of title wins with 23, ten short of Yorkshire.

“It’s a whole squad, group of staff coming together and putting in a heck of a lot of work over a long period of time,” Batty said. “To do it three times in a row is very satisfying. We shall enjoy today and then start the hard work tomorrow to do it all again.

“Every time you get over the line it’s the hardest one because other teams are trying to close the gap, trying to improve their squads, improve their players.

“I feel like we are still keeping some distance, in a healthy, confident way, not in an arrogant way, because we’re working incredibly hard trying to improve our performances year in and year out.

“The T20 Blast we used 25 players in fifteen games and in the Championship it was 24 or 25. Some counties don’t have that size of squad.

“So to have the rotation of players, to have the tenacity, the belief, the skill set, to come in and still be playing as a wonderful XI is a credit to every single person. It’s the staff, it’s the players, it’s the drive.”

Alec Stewart is stepping away from his role as director of cricket at the end of the season.

Batty added: “He is irreplaceable.

Anyone who thinks they can do what Alec

Hamlet into play-off spots

Stewart has done here is delusional.

“He is the heartbeat, he is the brains - everything here comes through Alec.

Three on the bounce is fitting.

“Alec will be here for years and years, just in a slightly different capacity we hope, but I think it’s very fitting for a man who has dedicated a huge proportion of his life - and his family also - to this club.

“You don’t often get a cuddle and a bit of a tear from Stewie, but when the Lancs boys got the final wicket there was a big outburst of emotion.

“It was wonderful to see an iconic English cricketer get some rewards for

his dedication and the club will forever be thankful to him.”

Dan Worrall and Sam Curran took four wickets each as Surrey dismissed Durham for 177 in their second innings.

Surrey needed 25 to clinch their eighth win of the campaign and skipper Rory Burns and Dom Sibley hit the target in five overs.

Surrey had lost to Somerset in Division 1 and in the Vitality Blast semi-finals the previous week.

“Last week was a tough week losing to Somerset in the Championship and at T20 Finals Day but it showed the

character of the group that we were able to come back to The Oval and get a tenwicket win in three days on a good cricket wicket,” Curran, who took five wickets in the match, said.

“The message after last week from the coaches and Rory Burns was to forget about it and move on and I thought the reaction of the group was really impressive. The group is really close and we have bounced back. It shows why we’re such a good team. I thought Dan Worrall was magnificent, not just in this match but throughout the season. He’s a top bowler and an amazing guy.”

and I had to come through that. I was unstoppable tonight,” Dubois said.

“He could have thrown everything at me and I would have come through it.

“He was going to have to nail me to that canvass. It was a good firefight, I just enjoyed it. I enjoyed the whole moment, winning and coming through and fulfilling my potential, tonight anyway.

“It felt almost like a dream for me tonight in the ring. I just had to seize the moment.

“They were all saying I was going to get knocked out. We all saw who got knocked out. I did the business and I’m glad I proved everyone wrong. This is the start of my journey.”

Dubois initially gained the IBF belt when Oleksandr Usyk vacated it for his rematch with Tyson Fury.

Usyk, 37, holds the WBO, WBA and WBC titles.

Dubois lost to Usyk in controversial fashion in Poland last year. Dubois

dropped Usyk with what appeared to be a good body shot, but the referee deemed it a low blow and allowed the Ukrainian five minutes to recover. Usyk stopped Dubois in the ninth round.

“I want to get my rematch and to put the wrong right,” Dubois said.

He added: “It feels great. I feel like the champ. I’m going to keep this belt, just keep this train running. So on we go.”

Usyk and Fury were among a host of fighters at Wembley.

Dulwich were 3-0 up at the break thanks to a double from Danny Mills and Louis Ramsay’s goal.

The visitors made it 3-1 and 4-2 but Luke Wanadio twice extended the lead to give the hosts a comfortable win in front of an attendance of 2,919 at Champion Hill.

Hakan Hayrettin praised his side for a comprehensive firsthalf performance, but was disappointed not to get a clean sheet.

“What was important was we had them watched, we knew how they played. We stopped them from playing because they’re an exceptional team,” Hayrettin said.

“They like to rotate and come out with the ball from the back and through the thirds. We stopped that and they went a bit longer.

“Our game plan worked in the first half. We deserved to be in front, we scored some excellent goals, hit the crossbar as well. It was a good performance in the first half, in front of an amazing crowd, as usual, at Champion Hill.

“Of course I’m unhappy we conceded two sloppy goals but we’ll just have to keep working on that until we get it right.”

Dulwich have thirteen points from seven games. They travel to Bowers & Pitsea this Saturday for a 3pm kick-off.

Dubois on AJ demolition: ‘I was Daniel in the Lions’ Den’

By John Kelly

dAniel duBois said he felt “unstoppable” as he destroyed anthony Joshua to retain his ibF heavyweight title in front of 96,000 fans at wembley last weekend.

Greenwich’s Dubois, 27, dominated Joshua, 34, knocking him down a number of times before finishing him with a counter right hook in the fifth round.

“I became Daniel in the Lions’ Den

Usyk’s promoter Alexander Krassyuk has left the for open for a rematch with Dubois.

He said: “You never know, but why not?

“Some people had questions regarding the [first] fight. There was one moment in the fight which left some issues regarding the low blow.

“Why not if Dubois is still ready to go?

Double undisputed, triple undisputed?

Come on, this is the history in the making.”

‘Gutting end of an era’ for Stars as Sunrisers claim title South East Stars 212 lost to Sunrisers 121/3 by 27 runs (DLS method)

By Alex Smith soutH eAst Stars were beaten

by Sunrisers who completed their turnaround from perennial wooden spoon winners to become the last-ever Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy winners at Uptonsteel County Ground, Leicester last weekend.

Sunrisers failed to win a match in the first three editions of the competition – first held in 2020 – but Kate Coppack’s 4-27 and Cordelia Griffith’s half-century set up a 27-run DLS victory.

Coppack’s career-best ripped out the Stars top order to leave them 53-4, but Alice Davidson-Richards formed half-century partnerships with Aylish Cranstone and Phoebe Franklin on her way to 93.

Stars eventually reached 212, which Griffith attacked with her fourth 50 in her last five innings – and by the time

the rain came they were on 121-3 and comfortably ahead of the 94 DLS par score.

It meant Sunrisers are effectively eternal Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy with counties replacing the regions and the Metro Bank One Day Cup becoming the women’s 50-over competition in 2025.

“It is gutting,” South East Stars director of cricket Emma Calvert said. “It is the end of an era and a sad way to end that era. We wanted to go out there, put on a performance and win the trophy but we

have no control over the weather.

“DLS is a funny thing. I backed us to take those wickets and see it through to the end. But what happened happened and congratulations to Sunrisers. I have seen how much effort has gone in to building that program and it is an incredible end to that journey.

“Alice Davidson-Richards is an incredible player, we all know that. She is disappointed more than anyone because although she put on that performance her team didn’t win and that is what means the most to her.

“We are incredibly excited to become Surrey but in this moment it feels quite hard. The girls are so excited to start the journey with the three feathers on our chest.

“We have been on a journey and to get to two finals this year is an incredible end. November 1 is the official day we go live as Surrey, but before then we’ll have words tonight and have our awards and really celebrate what we have achieved.

“Although we haven’t lifted a trophy today, we have achieved a lot and I think it is worth celebrating that.”

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Jake Cooper against Michael Frey at Loftus Road

Loftus Road despite deserving more THE EFL CHAMPIONSHIP QPR - 1 Frey 40‘ Millwall - 1 Watmore 34’ Date: Saturday 21 September 2024 Man of the match: Duncan Watmore Referee: John Busby Attendance: 15,350 (away fans, 1,744)

By Ed Pracy at Loftus Road A strong away display from Millwall was not enough to record a second league win of the season and a first away from home. impressive performances from forward players would have encouraged Harris, but ultimately it was the Lions' game to win at Loftus Road.

Not a lot separated the two teams before kick-off. Millwall were in eighteenth position in the Championship table, while QPR were two points ahead in twelfth place. The west London club had drawn three of their first five league games coming into the match, while Millwall were hoping to improve upon their home defeat against Luton last time out in the Championship.

The opening ten minutes were cagey for both teams, with little creativity in either half. Duncan Watmore had a scuffed shot on the edge of the box after five minutes following a header back from Langstaff.

The pair connected once more down the left two minutes later, with Watmore having another tame effort at goal. Nicolas Madsen had the home side's best effort of the first fifteen, striking the ball inches over the bar from outside the area.

Just before the twenty-minute mark, Romain Esse shot from a tight angle in the box after cutting inside from the right wing.

The young winger found himself on the left

this time, connecting with Watmore before forcing a save from QPR keeper Paul Nardi.

Macaulay Langstaff then struck the ball just wide after Watmore found him with a clever pass into the inside channel. The lively away end, with their bellowing cries from the second tier, drowned out any noise made by the anxious home supporters.

Lucas Andersen then had the game's best chance. It started following a winding run from winger Koki Saito, who proved impossible to stop for Millwall's defenders.

Saito made his way into the box before finding an unmarked Andersen in the middle, who steered the ball well over the bar from seven yards out.

Joe Bryan's dipped cross from the left caused problems for Nardi, who unconvincingly punched the ball away from his goal. Nardi's actions were an ominous sign of things to come for QPR, as Watmore sent the away end into raptures in the 34th minute after a composed finish into the top right corner. Langstaff crossed the ball into the box from the right, which George Honeyman left for the prolific winger with a deceptive dummy. Watmore, in acres of space, had no trouble converting his fifth goal of the season.

Moments later, however, the number nineteen collided with Jimmy Dunne. It was a clash of heads between the two players, with the Millwall talisman evidently bleeding from his left brow. Despite the heavy knock to the head, a bit of tape was all it took to get the tricky forward up and running again.

The Lions' lead didn't last long. Michael Frey equalised for the home team following a pacey run and deft pass from Kader Dembele. The physically imposing Frey was left through on goal against Lukas Jensen, who left enough space at his near post for the striker to exploit. QPR's goal

was undoubtedly a shock for Millwall, who had played the first 45 minutes with far more adventure and intent than in their previous outing against Luton.

The second-half started just as the first ended, with Millwall looking more of a threat than their opposition. George Honeyman's curled effort from the left of the box went just wide before Romain Esse had a more tame effort at goal moments later. After that, little of note happened for either team during the subsequent ten minutes.

Millwall had a penalty claim twenty minutes into the half when the ball appeared to hit substitute Paul Smyth on the arm inside the box. The away players and supporters were adamant they had been robbed of an opportunity to double their lead from twelve yards.

Tanganga then came close to scoring an own goal from a QPR corner. The defender's glancing header went across his own goal, much to the frustration of Jensen who made his feelings known. The former Tottenham man made up for his errors by clearing a header from Dunne off his line.

The QPR right-back towered over Bryan and contorted his body to direct the ball past Jensen, who was well beaten.

Miraculously, Honeyman managed to

miss an opportunity from two yards out with ten minutes remaining. Esse drove into the box from the left and put the cross on a plate for the midfielder, who couldn't make sufficient contact with the ball.

Honeyman did well for the first goal of the game but should have converted to give his team a late lead.

Femi Azeez had a great chance in stoppage time, shooting inside the area but failing to direct his shot past Nardi.

Jake Cooper then found himself free at the far post. Joe Bryan's searching cross found Cooper perfectly, but the defender's outstretched leg couldn't guide the ball past QPR's keeper.

In the end both teams came away with a point, but for Millwall it felt like two had been dropped away from home.

Qpr : 4-2-3-1 - QPR: Nardi, Dunne, Cook, Clarke-Salter, Paal, Madsen (Varane 69'), Field, Dembélé (Celar 90+3'), Andersen (Lloyd 69'), Saito (Smyth 60'), Frey Subs not used: Walsh, Dixon-Bonner, Ashby, Morgan, Santos

Millwall: 4-2-3-1 - Jensen; Leonard, Cooper, Tanganga, Bryan; Saville, De Norre; Esse, Honeyman (Wintle 93'), Watmore

(Azeez 75'); Langstaff (Ivanovic 75').

Subs not used: Roberts, McNamara, Kelly

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George Honeyman in action against QPR

Millwall midfielder keen to get off the mark this season

EXCLUSIVE

By Ed Pracy “iT waS worth four chances, that one,” says George Honeyman on his late opportunity to clinch the game for Millwall at Loftus Road. when asked how his toe didn’t manage to find the ball, the midfielder replies: “To be honest, i haven’t got a clue.

There must have been a millisecond loss of concentration or something.”

These things happen in football, but Honeyman won’t let it slide that easily.

“When I went to go to sleep on Saturday, every time I shut my eyes I kept seeing the ball come across and it has been eating at me over the past couple of days,” he says.

“I love the lads, I love the staff and I want to produce wins for everyone. When it’s there on a plate, you kind of can’t believe that you haven’t done it.”

For the gaffer, though, Honeyman’s disappointment at his late miss is evidence of his elite attitude. “George’s anger at not scoring his goal just tipifies him as a bloke,” Neil Harris says. “When he came off he was so gutted he hadn’t

scored because he wants to win and that’s the attitude that I want from the players.”

The positive relationship between player and manager is palpable. They both only have good things to say about each other, and Harris believes it’s only a matter of time before Honeyman starts adding goals to his game.

“Neil’s been really positive,” Honeyman says. “The gaffer has always been great with me. He’s saying that I’m getting the chances and that I'm too good a player not to be scoring goals, so they’ll come.

“I almost need a goldfish mentality

where I forget about the last one and just make sure I put the next one in. It's a little bit easier said than done, especially when there’s a gap between games, but I feel the full support of the manager and I just want to repay him, the staff and the players with some goals in return. If we went and won the game, I maybe wouldn’t have felt as bad but the fact that we ended up drawing wasn’t ideal.”

The former Sunderland and Hull City player is keen to point out that scoring had always been a part of his game before moving down south: “Honestly, before

I came to Millwall, I was scoring four or five goals a season playing in different positions. I have had that luck in my career but I’ve just gone through some sort of drought at Millwall, which is not easy because you want to feel like you’re contributing in more ways than one. So, I’m very much looking forward to putting that right and I kind of have to.

“If I want to keep playing number ten for the team, I’m going to have to chip in with some goals throughout the season.

I’m under no illusions about that and the sooner I can get off the mark this season the better, and maybe it can just relax me a bit around the box.”

Instead of feeling the pressure that comes with playing in such a pivotal position, which requires both positional awareness and technical flair, Honeyman seems to be relishing his chance at playing behind the striker.

“I’m really enjoying it. I think we’re playing some really good football. We’ve got a good understanding with a few players of when I’m expecting the ball in the pocket. Obviously I’ve been playing with Duncan for years and how Rom and Macca have been getting on makes it easier. It’s easy playing in there with lads like that, with how well they move, how unselfish everyone is. It’s a team sport and as long as we’ve got that, then we’re going to produce some good performances and hopefully some good results. I like being in the middle of the pitch because I feel more involved in the game and I feel I can get the best out of me there, so I’m really enjoying being there.”

The fluidity of this Harris team when going forward is also something that excites Honeyman: “I think any Millwall fan will tell you I’ve played a number of positions for the club and Duncan and Romain are so good at finding space that we’re very natural together. If one wants to come inside, we’ll go on the outside, and the manager is very keen to have that as long as we keep our shape when we lose it. I think as long as I’m in there and there’s Rom and Duncan on the wing, that will just continue to happen and I think it should. It has a kind of natural flow to it.

You don’t (think) too much about it, you just kind of feel how the game’s going and where you can best get the ball at the time. I think it’s a good option to have because it keeps the opponent guessing, really.”

With the relationship Honeyman has with players on the pitch and staff off it, it feels like only a matter of time before good things happen to the mackem man this season.

Duncan 'taking each game at a time' after remarkable start EXCLUSIVE

By Ed Pracy MiLLwaLL’S STaR performer duncan watmore says he is taking each game at a time following his remarkable start to the campaign. watmore already has five goals to his name in the Championship — more than he managed for the whole of last season.

“If I’m being honest, I never really look too far ahead,” Watmore said.

“I think that if you do that, this game can punish you. I’ve learnt through my experience that you never can look too far ahead in this game. I always just focus on the next game. It's a cliche but it's actually something that I really do focus on and I stay as present as

possible because of the injuries I’ve had and your form always goes up and down. It’s the nature of the game.

It’s the nature of the business and I've experienced all that, so for me, I enjoy it when it’s going well but never look too much into it and just focus on the next game and keep trusting myself and the process.”

The winger also said he had no intention of setting himself personal targets, choosing instead to focus on where the next where his next goal comes from: “I never do that. My philosophy has always been one game at a time. In terms of targets, it’s the next goal rather than how many.”

While Watmore has proven himself as Millwall’s main attacking outlet this season with his productivity in front of goal, the number nineteen is keen to

not let the pressure get to him.

“There’s always a pressure to perform but I try not to buy too much into that,” Watmore said. “If you buy too much into expectation and pressure, that can affect your performance. So, I try to just focus on my job and also focus on encouraging the lads around me.

If I can use my experience to help the younger lads, that’s brilliant and it’s something I enjoy doing.”

The tactical approach from Harris this season has pleased Watmore, given his ability to start attacks from central positions as well as on the wing.

“I think the way I like to play wing is obviously to drift in and get involved,” Watmore said. “The manager has been great at giving me that freedom to get around the pitch and pick up positions

where I feel like I can be a threat and a positive influence for the team.

I do really enjoy scoring goals, it’s something I’ve worked on and I think I’ve gotten better at it as I’ve gotten a bit older. I just don’t really get too far ahead of myself and keep doing what I can to help the team.”

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Championship Saturday, September 28 (3pm) Possible Millwall starting XI: 4-2-3-1 Jensen; Leonard, Tanganga, Cooper, Bryan; De Norre, Saville; Esse, Honeyman, Watmore; Langstaff Match odds: Millwall 4/5 Draw 23/10 Preston 7/2

Duncan Watmore against QPR

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Neil Harris on the touchline against Luton

Lions are missing several players through injury EXCLUSIVE

By Ed Pracy millwAll mAnAger neil Harris said the club must “get on with and accept” the large number of injuries his squad has sustained so early in the season. Harris confirmed there are no updates to speak of regarding injuries to his playing staff, with several individuals out for the short to mid-term as things stand.

“There’s no change with the lads who are missing for a period,” Harris said. “Tom Bradshaw, Calum Scanlon and Josh Coburn are going to be missing for the mid-term, which we get on with and accept.”

Harris also gave the latest on Billy Mitchell and youngster Adam

Mayor: “They’re not going to be involved in the under-21s game today as they’re not at that stage yet. They’ve had a period where they’ve had a few days on the grass playing with us and training with the group. We’ll have a clearer picture in the next few days in terms of when the timescale is going to be officially.”

The Millwall boss refused to give an exact date on when loan signing Calum Scanlon will be back to full fitness, or whether he will feature for the Lions again following his injury last week. “He’s gone back to Liverpool to be treated, which makes sense for a young man in his first loan,” Harris said. “The plan in the short term is for him to be scanned again in six weeks and then have further discussions about what the extent of it is for him regarding

his injury timescale and whether he comes back to work with us or stays at Liverpool for a period. But it’s too early to discuss whether he’s coming back to us before Christmas or after Christmas.”

Mihailo Ivanovic made his debut on Saturday during the team’s away draw against QPR. Speaking about the young Serbia international, Harris said he is not quite up to full speed at this moment.

“He’s not at full fitness,” Harris said. “He only trained with us on Thursday and Friday before the QPR game, so that was his first involvement in four weeks since his last appearance for his club side in Serbia. He obviously had two very limited days with Serbia in terms of kicking a football and whatever. So we're very mindful of the fact he’s not at 100 per cent. We want to get

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him there as quickly as we can but we’re very mindful of where he’s been at prior to joining us.

Question marks remain as to whether Ivanovic will feature against Preston at The Den on Saturday, though Harris refused to dismiss any scenario at this stage. “I’m not ruling anything out.

Sometimes the situation dictates, but what I will say is that we’re taking things twenty-four hours at a time at the moment. Over the last few weeks, we’ve had some horrific luck with injuries.

“As much as you’re desperate for players to be involved, you have to be careful as well. I want to get Mihailo up to speed in a Millwall shirt as quickly as possible but I’m not prepared to damage the longterm plan with him for the sake of one half of football.”

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Harris: Lions fortunes ‘have to change’

By Ed Pracy neil HArris said his players “have to change” the outcomes of their next games after his side failed to pick up all three points against QPR at Loftus Road. The away side had the better chances in the match but couldn’t get the winning goal.

“We were the better team,” Harris said. “I knew we’d gone to a very difficult, hostile ground in a London derby and dominated the game. We were really pleased with the amount of chances we created and the amount of control we had.”

Despite a pleasing performance, Harris recognised a need to turn good performances into meaningful victories. “There was frustration that we hadn’t won he game. If i’m being honest, I feel like we’ve left at least four, maybe five points on the pitch comfortably at the moment.

“Sometimes you have to build small steps. We’ve progressed so far as a team since the end of last season. In most of our games we haven’t got the outcome that we deserved but we have to change that. We do have to alter it and make it results based as well as performance based.”

For Harris, small details have been the difference for his side so far in the Champiosnhip: “We keep working with the players and keep trying to make those percentage gains, but ultimately they’ve cost us in both boxes.”

The Millwall boss will be hoping his side can pick up their second win of the season this Saturday when they play a struggling Preston team at The Den.

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