April 30th, 2015

CAMBERWELL GRANDMOTHER ESCAPES FROM DEVASTATING EARTHQUAKE

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A 71-YEAR-OLD Camberwell grandmother has described how she was caught in the huge earthquake which has brought devastation to Nepal, sleeping rough in case aftershocks brought her hotel down.

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shop in Kathmandu on Saturday after travelling to the South Asian country with her Camberwell Thai Chi club.

She heard a loud rumbling under the floor, which she described as sounding like a tube train passing below, and moments later the shop floor “heaved up” and “everything was going sideways and falling out of the shelves” as the 7.9-magnitude earthquake hit.

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Lion hearts

HE TEAR-JERKING story of 27year-old Courtney Terry we published last week, who needs to bring her ‘fairytale wedding’ forward after doctors said she wouldn’t make it to the planned Novermber date, tugged on your Lion hearts and we have been inundated with offers of help.

The young mum’s appeal to Millwall FC fans to help rearrange her wedding at short notice and give her fiancé and their five-yearold daughter Dolcie a wonderful memory has gone national, with offers of support coming in from football clubs up and down the land.

The brave family has smashed their £20,000 target, as well as receiving offers of free wedding services from a number of touched business-owners. This is a sad story indeed and with so many families affected by cancer, it will have a deeply personal significance for many.

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Who benefits?

EGENERATION IS fast becoming a by-word for social cleansing, with campaigners focusing on the Aylesbury Estate as an example of how London councils are selling off chunks of their housing stock in a bid to improve the living standards of their residents.

When planning permission was granted for the Walworth estate to be knocked down and replaced with new homes on Thursday night, the arguments epitomised the crux of this ongoing debate – who will benefit from the regeneration? One faction argues they are being forced out of their homes so that “rich yuppy people” can live there instead. Another says they are tired of living in damp, dilapidated flats, with broken lifts and heating.

Twenty years is a long time to wait to see if the council and Notting Hill Housing Trust will stick to their word. A commitment to offer tenants the option to return and a promise of 37.5% of new flats set at council rents levels will hopefully see a good deal of Aylesbury folk able to stay put – or at least come back when it’s all finished in 2035.

To stop regeneration being synonymous with gentrification, those leading the way need to prove they are doing it for us and not for profit.

They could start by openly publishing the ‘good deals’ they do behind closed doors.

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Informed decisions N THIS edition you will find a comprehensive guide to next Thursday’s General Election.

We will set out in our next issue why we believe all News readers should take the trouble to vote - but even if you don’t, at least have a read and make up your own mind about who is vying to run our country, rather than just claiming you can’t be bothered.

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Reborn Lions

ILLWALL HAVE been relegated, but nonetheless, there’s a curiously upbeat feel among fans.

Why? Because, even though we’d rather be playing in the higher divisions, the club have got it right with the manager this time - Neil Harris is one of our own, and in just seven weeks he has shown that he knows what it takes to make the club tick.

Roll on next season.

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JUMBO ELEPHANT WOULD MAKE STAMP ON AREA

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But developers say ‘not on your nelly’ to proposed 10-storey-high building EXCLUSIVE

By Amelia Burr

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A TEN-storey-high elephant made of earth has been proposed as an “unmistakeable” monument for the new-look Elephant and Castle.

The 40 metre monolith would be sculpted from the ground dug up from developments in the area and compressed to form an elephantshaped building.

The lower floors would house a branch of the London Museum showcasing the borough’s history and a viewing tower would be the ‘castle’ sitting atop the mammoth mammal.

Artist Dominic Snow has been developing the idea since he first rode through the Elephant and Castle in 1991 and was disappointed not to see a significant landmark of the same name.

“The Elephant and Castle is one of the most unique names in the world - it deserves to have something which represents it in an unmistakeably unambiguous way,”

said Dominic, who has been disappointed at the lack of enthusiasm shown by Elephant Park developers, Lend Lease.

“This is crazy. If people knew they could have this... but developers want to have something relatively generic,” said the builder and university lecturer. “They’ve got

some nice ideas but nothing to blow your socks off. I want to give them something to blow their socks off.

“For me it’s inconceivable that the developer of an area with such a gift of a name as the Elephant and Castle is not proposing to build a giant elephant,” he added.

Dominic, who lives in east London, is convinced the jumbo-sized earth elephant would bring tourists from far and wide to the future Elephant Park, where the Heygate used to be.

But Lend Lease says the design is unsuitable for their development.

A Lend Lease spokesperson said: “Throughout our consultation processes we have received various proposals from the community.

“We welcome these contributions, but given the size of this proposal it would significantly impact on our plans for Elephant Park, which already has Outline Planning Approval. It therefore wasn’t suitable.”

Dominic has made 27 carved elephants in total in search of the right design, with ten of the latest made using the experimental rammed earth method to get the right mix for the elephantine spectacle.

Artist Dominic Shaw and two of his rammed-earth elephant sculptures, and the proposed 40 metre monolith, which he would like to see in the new-look area

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NEPAL DISASTER

Former councillor fled Kathmandu shop as floor ‘heaved up’ below her

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By Amelia Burr

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A 71-YEAR-OLD Camberwell grandmother has described how she was caught in the huge earthquake which has brought devastation to Nepal, sleeping rough in case aftershocks brought her hotel down.

Veronica Ward, a former Southwark councillor, was in a shop in Kathmandu on Saturday after travelling to the South Asian country with her Camberwell Thai Chi club.

She heard a loud rumbling under the floor, which she described as sounding like a tube train passing below, and moments later the shop floor “heaved up” and “everything was going sideways and falling out of the shelves” as the 7.9-magnitude earthquake hit.

The shopkeeper shouted for everyone to get outside, where the grandmother-of-two saw people running for cover and a telegraph pole crash down on to a moving car.

“I was shaking,” said Veronica, who served as a councillor for South Camberwell from 2002 until she stepped down in 2014.

In the eerie calm following the initial quake, Veronica made her way back to her hotel.

One of Veronica’s party was in the badly hit Durbar Square, where she saw a tower fall, killing people trapped beneath. “It was a frightening experience,” said

Veronica (at front, left) on holiday before the quake struck

“We were in the ‘old town’ the day before the earthquake and now it’s gone. People lost their lives there and we were there just the day before” Veronica, who was impressed by how quickly the Nepalese services responded. Almost immediately she saw the police, the ambulance service and even girl guides and scouts out in their uniforms on the streets, helping to cordon off unsafe areas.

Thankfully Veronica’s hotel was still standing, but with numerous

aftershocks registering up to six on the Richter scale, it was not safe to go back inside.

Veronica and her group stayed the night on a scrap of wasteland close to the hotel, open to the elements but at a safe distance from nearby buildings.

“You’ve got to get to a point where nothing’s going to fall on you,” she

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The devastating effects of the earthquake

• More than 5,000 killed death toll expected to reach 10,000 • Eighteen killed in Everest avalanche • In some villages, 90 percent of the houses have collapsed.

• The 1934 earthquake in Nepal killed 8,500 people – Nepal’s worst disaster to date.

• 90 percent of Nepal’s 100,000 troops are now involved in the search and rescue effort • The UN says more than 1.4 million people are in need of food assistance said.

A neighbouring shop-keeper came around with a bunch of bananas for the group and the hotel staff stayed through the night and made tea for them on a gas stove on the Sunday morning.

“People were sharing what they had. They were wonderful. They all had their own families to worry about,” said Veronica, who was able to get a text to her family in Camberwell, to let them know she was safe.

“I was worrying about how my

family would manage if I didn’t come back,” said Veronica.

“Whatever you have, in those situations you can very quickly have nothing. That makes you really stop and think about what’s important in life. That people have concern for other people whatever happens – nothing else really matters actually.”

On Sunday evening Veronica was taken to the airport, where thousands of people amassed in the hope of escaping the carnage.

“There were a lot of people and just a few Nepalese staff, who were working to the point of dropping and they must’ve had their own family concerns. I’m full of admiration for those people,” she said.

Veronica arrived back to her two grandchildren in Camberwell Grove on Monday morning and saw the extent of the devastation on the news.

“It’s much worse than I thought,” she said, after finding out some of the places she had visited on her two week holiday had been largely flattened.

“It’s very sad,” she said. “We were in the ‘old town’ the day before the earthquake and now it’s gone. People lost their lives there and we were there just the day before. We were very lucky,” added Veronica, who is now appealing to the people of Southwark to give generously to the Nepal earthquake emergency fund, as it is “absolutely vital” that help be sent to the millions of people who have been left without food or shelter.

To donate, visit www.dec.org.uk/appeals/nepal-earthquake-appeal

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Unexploded WW2 bomb found on old Fisher ground EXCLUSIVE

By Joey Millar

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ROTHERHITHE: An unexploded World War Two bomb was discovered on the old Fisher football ground last week, less than a month after Bermondsey was thrown into chaos by the discovery of an unexploded WW2 device.

The device was found on Thursday in Salter Road at the site of the former Surrey Docks Stadium, which is now being turned into housing. Police, fire and ambulance crews arrived at the scene just after 5pm.

Unlike the explosive found at Grange Walk, the device caused little disruption other than temporary closure to a section of Salter Road and disruption to the C10 and 381 bus routes. A bomb disposal unit arrived at 6pm and the device was quickly taken to Greenwich. Police cordons were re-opened within an hour.

A police spokesperson said the bomb was ‘1 foot long, 4 inches in diameter and shaped like a bullet’. Paul Noblet, a former Lib-Dem councillor, said: “I was out canvassing for Simon Hughes with Cllr David Hubber when we stumbled across the whole scene. Police were putting a cordon in place and told us a suspected unexploded bomb had been found. We couldn’t believe it!”

In the aftermath of last month’s Bermondsey bomb scare, the News called on Southwark Council to reconsider its planning policy to place a greater emphasis on on-site bombdetection. Council Leader Peter John said that as it was a ‘very unusual occurence’ no change would take place, a stance he stands by. He said: “I think the way the emergency services handled the bomb last week was fantastic. There was no need to evacuate residents, and other than some impact on traffic, the whole episode passed without drama or disruption. Clearly, all the necessary processes are in place to calmly deal with such, thankfully unusual, situations.”

Crumbs, another toast mystery!

PECKHAM: An abandoned miniature Taj Mahal made of toast had Twitter in a jam last week as admirers tried to track down the artoast responsible.

It transpires the crumby creation was the work of events company The Robin Collective in East London who made it for a photoshoot to promote their event, House of Toast.

Peckham photographer, Abi Green, rescued the ‘Toast Mahal’ from being thrown away and took it home to show her mum before leaving it for others to admire outside Queen’s Road station in Peckham, as reported in the Standard.

Inspired by the Warbuton’s wonder, a toasted Coliseum appeared the next day with the message ‘#Don’tMuteRep’ written on a slice of bread at the centre.

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WIDOW, 81, ‘DISTRAUGHT’ AFTER CONMEN STEAL PRECIOUS WEDDING RING

ROTHERHITHE

Callous pair also make off with victim’s mum’s ring after blagging way into home

By Joey Millar

joey@southwarknews.co.uk

AN 81-YEAR-old widow has been left ‘distraught’ after heartless conmen stole her wedding and engagement rings, as well as a 100-year-old diamond ring that belonged to her mother.

Janet Gentleman was robbed when the pair tricked their way into her Rotherhithe home on April 21, telling the great-grandmother that they were investigating a leak.

She told the News: “I am normally so careful, but we have had leak problems recently so I believed them. One of them was messing around under the sink and then the other must have slipped away while I was distracted and gone into my bedroom. They took every piece of jewellery I own, some of which had huge sentimental value.”

Janet didn’t realise she had been swindled until the following day, when she noticed the door to her cupboard was open and all her jewellery was missing.

She has lived in Rotherhithe for 40 years and has always felt safe, but has been nervous and afraid to leave

Janet Gentleman and the jewellery which was stolen (right)

the house since the theft.

She said: “I normally feel completely safe, but now I don’t know. I won’t just open the door to anyone again unless I am expecting them. I have lived by myself since my husband died in 1997 and we have been robbed three times now, but this has been the worst. They were clearly professionals – they

knew what they were doing.”

While she is distraught at losing her priceless pieces of jewellery, she hopes that publicising the theft will stop others facing the same fate.

She said: “If we can stop this happening to someone else, at least that’s something. The police have been handing out leaflets warning about it and my step-daughter has

“They took every piece of jewellery I own, some of which had huge sentimental value”

told a lot of people, so hopefully some good will come from this.”

A police spokesperson described the suspects as ‘two white men in their early 20s’. No arrests have

been made and enquiries continue.

Anyone with information should call Southwark CID on 101 or Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.”

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Terminally ill Millwall fan ‘overwhelmed’ as donations pour in to help raise over £20,000 for her dream wedding

By Joey Millar

joey@southwarknews.co.uk

A TERMINALLY ill Millwall fan is ‘overwhelmed’ after the country’s football community came together to help raise over £20,000 for her ‘fairytale wedding’.

As first reported by the News last week, 27-year-old Courtney Terry was planning to marry her fiancé Billy in November before doctors warned her she would not make it that far.

The mum appealed to Millwall FC fans to help rearrange a wedding at short notice and give her fiancé and their fiveyear-old daughter Dolcie a wonderful memory.

Fans of clubs across the country were quick to put aside sporting rivalries to join together in helping the family realise their wedding dream. Donations poured in and hundreds of people left messages of support.

She said: “I am so overwhelmed by everyone’s kindness and help. Thank you so much from the bottom of my heart.”

Bill added: “We have been simply overwhelmed by the love and support of everyone. It is truly humbling. I am speechless.”

Little Dolcie was invited to be a prematch mascot for Millwall before their game last Saturday, while Courtney and Billy watched on proudly from an

“I am so overwhelmed by everyone’s kindness and help. Thank you so much from the bottom of my heart”

executive box.

Millwall chairman John Berylson said: “This is a heart-rending story and we can only salute the bravery and determination of Courtney as she battles this awful disease. We are only too pleased to be able to help in some small way.”

As well as receiving thousands of pounds of donations, the family also received offers of free wedding services from a number of touched businessowners, including Richard Dannaher of Discologic. He said: “I am a wedding DJ by trade but I have countless contacts – photographers, toastmasters, venues in the business. I’ve been doing this for

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Courtney Terry with her family (main); and Dolcie at her day as a Millwall mascot

many years and every now and then you read a story that really touches you.

“You wish you didn’t see stories like Courtney’s but if there is something you can do, if you can help make a happy

ending somewhere along the way, then you want to do what you can.”

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Mum makes appeal after son’s body found in river ROTHERHITHE

By Joey Millar

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THE MOTHER of a man found dead in the Thames near Rotherhithe has urged anyone with information to come forward, as police release CCTV images showing his last known actions.

The photos show Borex Tatsa on bus N149 and then walking through Southwark between 1.19am and 2.19am

on February 8. Later that day his rucksack was found in a bin outside The Old Thameside Inn in London Bridge.

The eighteen-year-old was found dead in the river on February 28, with nothing known about his actions during the intervening three weeks.

Borex's mother said in a statement: “Borex was a much loved member of our family. He was a quiet person with a lovely smile. If anyone knows anything at all about what happened to him please

come forward and tell the police as we are desperate to know what happened to him.”

A police spokesperson said: “The circumstances surrounding the discovery of Borex's body in the River Thames remain unexplained at this stage, with all options remaining open. I would like to appeal to any witnesses or any person who has

information in relation to this incident, to come forward and speak to a member of the investigation team.”

Anyone who may have seen Borex is asked to contact the investigation team at Hackney CID on 0207-275-3404 or Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800-555-111.

Borex (above); and pictured on CCTV on the bus

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MAN ARRESTED AS MURDER VICTIM NAMED

Teenager in hospital after being found stabbed

By Amelia Burr

amelia@southwarknews.co.uk

A MAN has been arrested after a 20-year-old was shot dead in the street around the corner from his old youth club in Peckham last week.

PECKHAM: A teenager was hospitalised after he was stabbed in Peckham Park Road last week.

The police were called at around 9.30pm on Thursday April 23 to reports of a fight near the junction with Old Kent Road.

Officers and London Ambulance Service attended and found a man, aged eighteen, suffering stab injuries.

He was taken to a south London hospital where he was said to be in a stable condition and his injuries were not believed to be lifethreatening.

Officers from Southwark are investigating but no arrests had been made at the time the News went to press.

Anyone with information is asked to call Southwark CID on 101 or Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.

Victim Ola Raji

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LAST WEEK’S article ‘Are Jack and Dorothy Southwark’s oldest twins at the grand old age of 92?’ mistakenly stated that Jack Baker had recently moved into a care home. He has actually moved to a new house in Kirkwood Village, Kent.

Flowers left at the scene

Ola Raji was a regular at the Damilola Taylor Centre in East Surrey Grove, a haven of safety just yards away from where he was set upon by two suspects on Tuesday April 21.

A week after the 20-year-old was found shot, stabbed and lying unconscious on the pavement, the police reconstructed the scene of the crime on Tuesday night to prompt witnesses to come forward with information.

A 24-year-old Peckham man was arrested in connection with the incident on Monday and taken to a West London police station, where he remains in custody.

Detectives believe that on the night of the murder, Ola made his way onto the estate riding a push-bike. He was confronted by two people, who shot and stabbed him at around 10.30pm.

When police officers arrived they found the former Sacred Heart pupil in a critical condition and he was pronounced dead shortly after arrival at a central London hospital that night.

A post-mortem examination took place at Greenwich Mortuary on Thursday when the cause of death was found to be a single gunshot wound to the chest.

Steve Verrall, who runs the Damilola Taylor Centre, said Ola used to go to

the centre a few times a week, mostly for football sessions, when he was younger. “He was well known to all the staff and young people,” said Steve.

“We were shocked and greatly saddened to hear that he has lost his life in such tragic circumstances.”

Immediately following the murder, the suspects left the scene on foot in the direction of Sumner Road via a cut through from Cator Road.

Officers are keen to speak to the driver of a car who was travelling down Rosemary Road at around 10.30pm and would have seen two people running in the opposite direction.

Detective Chief Inspector Will Reynolds of the Homicide and Major Crime Command, who is leading the investigation, said: "We believe that there were witnesses to this incident and I would like to encourage anyone who has information that could assist our investigation to come forward. We believe that after being shot Ola may have had some property stolen from him.

“It is likely that he was wearing a small pouch or bag under his body warmer. This has not yet been found.

"One week on from Ola's death, I would like to urge local people and anyone visiting the estate at the time of the murder to think about where they were and what they saw. It is essential that we piece together his movements that evening and understand why he was in East Surrey Grove at that time.”

Anyone with information is asked to call the incident room on 020 8721 4205 or call Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.

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By Joey Millar

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POLICE HAVE released a CCTV image of a man they want to speak to in connection with the collision between a cyclist and a pedestrian last week.

As reported by the News, Andrea McVeigh was left ‘extremely traumatised’ and possibly scarred for life after she was allegedly hit by a speeding cyclist on the pavement, who then fled the Tower Bridge Road scene, it is claimed.

Her husband gave chase but the cyclist refused to stop and even turned around and smiled at Andrea’s desperate spouse as he sped away through Bermondsey Square, he alleged.

The 44-year-old said: “I just hope now that the cyclist is caught. I also hope it's a warning to other cyclists that their bikes can be a dangerous and potentially deadly weapon when they cycle on the pavement. I never thought this could happen to me, but it did. I thought I was safe on the pavement, but now I'm so shaken up and scared I'll not feel properly

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comfortable for months, if ever.

“I'm still battered and bruised almost two weeks after the accident and still off work sick. I've still got a sprained and swollen ankle and foot, so I'm walking with a limp and my face still shows the deep cuts I sustained. These forehead cuts will be scars for life, which is very distressing as they will be daily reminders of what happened to me.”

The social media manager added that she was disappointed that police were slow in investigating the matter and releasing the CCTV image, and only seemed to respond after significant media coverage.

Chief Superintendent Zander Gibson, Borough Commander for Southwark, expressed his ‘heartfelt sympathy for what she went through’ and apologised for the ‘delay in investigating the matter.’

He added: “The vast majority of cyclists are decent honest hardworking people but in this case I think the person responsible for knocking the victim over needs to explain their actions to us. I’d encourage them to get in touch at the earliest opportunity.”

Anyone who has any information should contact Southwark police on 0207 232 6220 or call Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555111 quoting CRIS 3010559/15.

Social media manager Andrea McVeigh before and after the collision

Choir that includes partially deaf singers will be a ‘fantastic show’

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By Joey Millar

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WITH LESS than two weeks to go until the spectacular Weighting circus show comes to Dulwich Park, things are rising to a crescendo for choir leader Colin Rea.

“Choir rehearsals are well under way and we can’t wait to premier the show on May 9,” he told the News. “We’ve got a fantastic show planned and an excellent group of singers.”

The choir members, like the circus performers, are completely integrated and reflect the show’s aim to ‘celebrate every body, disabled or not.’

Some partially-deaf singers will take part using both their voice and sign language, while a huge numbers of local residents and members of Southwark community choirs join in too.

“It is all-inclusive and absolutely everyone can get involved,” said Colin.

“We have a real mixture of experience.

Some of our singers are very, very good and others have only ever sung in the shower. There is a real mixture.

“Singing is a great leveller. We have people taking part from all walks of life and all backgrounds. The camaraderie is excellent and you can see the excitement among the singers at what we are putting together. This isn’t some

The choir in practice and choir leader Colin Rea (left)

amateur production, we sound very good and the quality is very high.”

Organisers are appealing for volunteers to help out over the two days – if you are interested in being a part of

the event please contact events@southwark.gov.uk The shows will take place in Dulwich Park at 2pm and 7pm on May 9 and at 2pm on May 10.

Get the full Weighting programme in next week’s Dulwich & Herne Hill Southwark News and available at the three performances

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‘I love giving them a boost’

By Amelia Burr & Joey Millar news@southwarknews.co.uk

WITH A dodgy knee and a pulled muscle, a loving brother persevered to complete the London Marathon in five hours nineteen minutes in the name of his sister’s baby boy, who died at 26 days because of heart problems.

Peckham-born Daniel Marsh, 31, has raised over £2,000 for the Evelina Children’s Hospital, where he met his little nephew Corey for the first time and sadly had to say goodbye to him a year ago.

“It feels fantastic to know that I've run for an amazing cause”, said Daniel, who despite not being able to walk is already planning to run the Paris Marathon next year. “I must be insane,” he added.

Daniel said the crowds were “absolutely amazing” as he started to flag near the end. “The last four to five miles they really will you on and give the encouragement to dig deep hearing the roar after you get going when they've been shouting your name is nothing short of inspirational.”

THIRTY FIVE years after first standing on top of a taxi with a record player and a microphone, Robert ‘Bobby’ Roberts is still urging on marathon runners in his own unique way.

For decades he has been a constant fixture on marathon day in Rotherhithe, creating a party atmosphere with floor-shaking tunes and humorous commentaries as runners pass by.

He said: “I love giving them a boost when they come through. It means a lot to them and you can see Daniel Marsh

Jo, one of the mayor's team, with Chris Evans

THE MAYOR of Southwark’s runners have so far raised more than £6,000 for his chosen charities after running the marathon at the weekend.

Cllr Sunil Chopra said he was “very grateful” to the nine council employees who donned their running shoes on Sunday for two Southwark homelessness charities - UK Homes4Heroes and the Robes Project.

Former Mayor of Southwark, Abdul Mohamed, who ran the Marathon for his chosen charities last year, came back for more this year and has so far raised £415 for his successor.

Natalie Gewitzke (who recorded a time of 5:07:57) said: “It was amazing, the best experience. It was totally incredible and I’m still on a high. Thank you to all the Southwark News readers who were so generous with their donations.” She raised £496 for Sands.

Jermaine McFarlane (4:27:00) told

Bobby Roberts gives the runners a boost

Runners pass the Adam and Eve Jermaine McFarlane

the News: “It was one of the best experiences of my life. I saw some amazing people in the race and the energy and encouragement from the thousands of spectators was truly motivating. I really enjoyed it! I'll be back for more...” He raised £667 for Get Kids Going Carl Newbold (6:14:01) and Ricky

Kids celebrate dockers

PUPILS AT Redriff Primary School in Rotherhithe embraced the area’s docking past with a special Dockers’ Day celebration

it on their faces when I call out there name or get everyone to chant ‘oggy oggy oggy.’ I’ve had people come up to me and say that this is the best bit of the whole route, that the mood really helps them get into second gear and push on for the rest of the race.

“I enjoy probably just as much as them. I love it, it’s my special day in a way. I was up at 6am and just buzzing. I’m already looking forward to next year. I’d also like to thank everyone for helping out, especially Tara Grimes and the Homes 4 Heroes crew.”

last Friday. They set up a special docking museum in their classroom, dressed up in special clothes and went mudlarking.

Natalie Gewitzke

Jordie (5:45:00) said: “It wasn’t easy, but we’re ex-soldiers so we got through it. I would definitely do it again, it was a great experience” “It was great, I really enjoyed it. The atmosphere was fantastic, and it was great to see the Homes4Heroes banner across the track in Rotherhithe”.

They raised £1100 for Homes4Heroes.

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Lisa Rajan (5:32:00) said: “It was an amazing day and, once again, the best crowds were in Rotherhithe and Bermondsey. Running through Surrey Docks ward is very special for me and one of the best bits of the race. I was also thrilled to have Amy, a little girl from Southwark who has Rett syndrome, come out to support me.

Seeing her cheer me on was a huge boost to keep going.” She raised £2200 for Reverse Rett.

CUSTOMERS AT a Bermondsey cafe were left stunned on Monday when staff took on a man allegedly attempting to rob the eatery.

The alleged incident happened at around 3.30pm at the Pop Inn Cafe in Southwark Park Road.

One witness said: “I couldn’t believe it. There were a crowd of people outside the cafe and I looked in and he was being restrained. The staff were just sitting on him and he couldn’t get up.”

A man has been charged in connection with the incident.

The scene after the incident

Michelle Thorpe (Homes 4 Heroes) with Carl Newbold

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‘Shame on you’ protestors shout at Aylesbury meeting

PROTESTORS SHOUTED “Shame on you” as Southwark Council approved plans for the Aylesbury Estate to be demolished and replaced with new homes, writes Amelia Burr...

The meeting at Tooley Street was packed out on Thursday night last week as the Planning Committee considered detailed plans for 830 new homes on the First Development Site, facing Burgess Park, and an overall masterplan for the remainder of the three acre Walworth site.

The chair had to call the meeting to order on several occasions, as leaseholders who feel they are being forced out of their homes to make way for “rich yuppy people” heckled speakers from the Notting Hill Housing Trust and Faraday ward councillors Dan Garfield and Lorraine Lauder, who spoke in support of the scheme.

An objection from Jerry Flynn, of the 35% campaign group, secured a clear definition of ‘social rents’ to be written into the legal agreement between the council and NHHT, so there is no future flexibility on the rents that can be charged.

Phases two, three and four under

Protestors at the meeting

the masterplan will see 2,745 homes built, as well as a new public square and a health centre.

Overall, 50 per cent of the new homes will be ‘affordable’ (up to 80 per cent of market rents) and 75 per cent of those will be at ‘social rent’ (usually up to 40 per cent of market rents).

Cllr Mark Williams, Southwark Council’s cabinet member for regeneration, planning and transport, said: “The regeneration is all about improving the lives of the people who live on the estate, with new homes, better open spaces and community facilities.

Half of all new homes will be affordable – higher than any other similar scheme in London, and we are working with Notting Hill Housing so Aylesbury residents can stay in the local area.”

‘ALCATRAZ’ FENCE WILL STAY Residents look through the Aylesbury Estate’s ‘Alcatraz’ fence

Security review will not consider barricades - council EXCLUSIVE

By Amelia Burr amelia@southwarknews.co.uk THE CONTROVERSIAL security fence surrounding parts of the Aylesbury Estate is staying up no matter what, Southwark Council has revealed.

A review of security arrangements was promised last month, after residents complained that security guards would not let them in the gates nearest to their homes, likening living

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there to being held prisoner in Alcatraz.

But Cllr Mark Williams, Southwark’s cabinet member for regeneration, has exclusively confirmed to the News this week that whatever the outcome of the review, due to be completed in May, the fences will not come down.

“We are reviewing security needs on site,” he said. “The fencing, which will also be hoardings for when work begins, will remain, as it is important for remaining residents to feel safe walking through this largely empty site. But we are looking how to make

the area accessible to those remaining, while still maintaining a secure site.”

The fences cost the council £140,000 to erect and an additional £10,000 to repair, after campaigners, who oppose the demolition of the Walworth Estate, ripped whole sections of it down in a demonstration earlier this month.

A report on the security review will be submitted to the Aylesbury Regeneration board on May 7 and then the issue will come to the council’s cabinet members for discussion, before a decision is made on how the security gates are managed.

Public inquiry into council’s home buy-outs on estate

A FOUR day public inquiry into the compulsory purchase of properties on the Aylesbury will come to an end tomorrow.

The Aylesbury Leaseholders Action Group is objecting to the forced sale of flats to Southwark Council, enabling the demolition of the estate on the grounds that it is “forcing us out to make way for luxury housing that none of the existing tenants or leaseholders will be able to

afford.”

A planning inspector has been hearing testimonies from expert witnesses and will consider statements put forward by the objectors and Notting Hill Housing Trust and Southwark Council. He will then submit a report to the Secretary of State for Communities, who will have the final say on whether the compulsory purchase orders for the £750million scheme can go ahead.

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Glasses raised to St George

SOUTHWARK celebrated St George’s Day last week with events across the borough.

A colourful dragon entertained the crowd at Borough Market, while Bermondsey’s Kirby Estate proudly displayed dozens of flags. Patrons and staff at the Queen Vic in Southwark Park Road, Bermondsey, and Good Intent in East Street, Walworth, also got in on the fun.

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Southwark is the creepy crawly capital of Britain

Mice, bed bugs and cockroach call-outs push borough to top of list

By Amelia Burr amelia@southwarknews.co.uk

SOUTHWARK IS the creepy crawly capital of Britain, according to a new survey.

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The borough has scurried from second place in to first since last year for the number of pest-control call-outs for rats, mice, cockroaches and bedbugs.

The figures released by the British Pest Control Association (BPCA) this week show that Southwark dealt with 1,820 pest-related call-outs at a rate of 6.31 per 1,000 residents – the highest of all 407 authorities in the UK. Mice were by far the biggest little problem in the borough, with 5,250 calls to get shot of the rascal rodents. There were 1,820 calls for bedbugs, 1086 for cockroaches and 636 for rats in the year 2013-14.

Richard Moseley, technical manager for the not-for-profit BPCA, said Southwark’s high number of pest-related pleas was most likely down to being one of the largest social landlord in the country with a sizeable pest control division.

“It’s not about a black mark for Southwark,” said Richard. “Southwark

has a massive amount of local authority properties. Any city centre with large communal blocks, as soon as you get a pest into one of them, they pass through them quite easily.”

Councillor Richard Livingstone, Southwark’s cabinet member for housing, said: “Whilst other councils have scaled back their pest control service due to local government budget cuts, we’ve continued to invest and even offer a range of pest treatments at no cost to tenants, which also inflates the number of reports we receive.

“With pests continuing to be an issue across the country, I would much rather residents, especially our most vulnerable, took advantage of our offer than suffer in silence,” he added. The third study of its kind also revealed that bedbugs were infesting London in record numbers, with experts putting the increase down to increase in overseas travel and rapid growth of multiple-occupancy premises in the capital.

BOROUGH

Chaucer by-election nears

By Joey Millar

joey@southwarknews.co.uk

THE BY-election to determine a replacement councillor for Chaucer ward will take place at the same time as the General Election on May 7.

Five candidates have been put forward for the vacant position, which became available after Labour’s Claire Maugham surprisingly stepped down last month.

The News revealed that Ms Maugham is thought to have resigned following strong criticism from Labour hierarchy, after a letter slamming the council was written by her husband and published in this paper.

Anti-poverty campaigner Helen Dennis will aim to reclaim the position for Labour and has vowed to ‘improve local housing, create more jobs and apprenticeships, and get better transport links.’

William Houngbo, the Liberal Democrat candidate, said he was ‘fighting for new

jobs from building the Bakerloo Line extension down the New Kent Road, for affordable homes in every new development and for mental health to be given the same priority as physical health.’

Gareth Rees is the Green Party candidate and has outlined social housing, the London Living wage and green energy as his three priorities.

Former Labour councillor Piers Corbyn will run as an independent, although he is being endorsed by TUSC [Trade Unionist & Socialist Coalition]. He said he was running on an ‘anti-social cleansing’ platform and claimed ‘major parties offer nothing but lies.’

Security officer Dean Conway is UKIP’s candidate and said he would offer ‘a better, fairer deal from their local council representative than all the tired old political parties can offer after so much of their failure.’

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Tributes paid to ‘grandad’ of Fisher boxing

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Bermondsey man to cycle from St Thomas’s to St Petersburg

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BERMONDSEY: A Bermondsey man will cycle 2,000 miles from St Thomas’s Hospital to St Petersburg, Russia, as part of a gruelling charity stunt.

Gavin Tiffin, the hospital’s head of hospitality, hopes to raise awareness during the three-week, ten-country trip about how the arts can help make patients’ lives better.

He said: “My mission is to promote and raise awareness of how we can use music and the arts to make people’s lives better. They have amazing healing powers and play a huge role in the recovery of patients at Guy’s and St Thomas’ and Evelina London Children’s Hospital.

“The money I raise from my challenge will go to Breathe Arts Health Research, MediCinema and Evelina London Children’s Hospital.”

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Stalwart of club for over 50 years ‘was the last of his kind’

By Joey Millar

joey@southwarknews.co.uk

SOUTHWARK’S BOXING community is mourning the loss of Terry Sullivan, the ‘grandad’ of Fisher Amateur Boxing Club, who died at the age of 82 last Thursday.

The club stalwart, who lived in Dockhead in Bermondsey all his life, had been deeply involved with the running of the organisation for over 50 years. Terry was also a familiar face on the touchline at Downside Fisher FC, where he managed the U12, U14 and U16 teams.

Danny Carr, a 25-year-old boxer at the club, said he was the ‘nicest bloke you could ever meet’.

He said: “He’s a bit of a legend. He was always supporting us and making the boys laugh, and making new boxers feel welcome and comfortable. He looked after us all and made everyone feel at home - he was kind of the grandad of Fisher.

“Even when he was sick in hospital he was thinking about us. He rang me on Monday, three days before he died, and wished me luck for my fight. He rang us up when we were in the gym and spoke to five or six of us. That’s what he was like, always thinking about us.”

Steve Hiser, head coach of the club, echoed these sentiments.

He said: “Terry was the last of his kind, an integral part of the club. He did everything from liaising between

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the club and the Amateur Boxing Association, to sweeping the floor of the gym.

“Everyone loved him and everyone

connected to the club will miss him.

He was a friendly man who bled black and white – they don’t make them like him anymore.”

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Mayor lays stone at birthplace of brave Walworth sergeant

By Amelia Burr

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A WALWORTH war hero was honoured last week as a paving stone bearing his name was laid near his birthplace.

The plaque commemorates 100 years since Walworth-born Lance Sergeant Frank Edward Stubbs earned his Victoria Cross (VC) medal with an act of astounding courage on the beaches of Gallipoli.

On April 25, 1915, Stubbs landed just south of Cape Tekke in Turkey on a narrow stretch of beach hemmed in by steep cliffs. Showered with Turkish gunfire from above and with three rows of barbed wire to fight through, it was against all odds that Stubbs helped to capture the Turkish positions.

The memorial stone was unveiled by the Mayor of Southwark, Councillor Sunil Chopra at the entrance to Pasley Park near Chapter Road, where Stubbs was born.

Children from St Paul’s Primary School sang ‘It’s a long way to Tipperary’ at the ceremony on Friday morning where Cllr Chopra said: “One hundred years ago, a soldier of Southwark demonstrated bravery of the highest honour on the opening day of Gallipoli.

“We honour this hero by setting in stone our eternal appreciation for what Sergeant Frank Stubbs risked and sacrificed that we might have this day.”

Stubbs is one of eleven Southwark First World War VC winners to be honoured with a commemorative paving stone 100 years after their medal was awarded.

Southwark mayor Sunil Chopra unveiled the plaque (right); while children from St Paul’s Primary sang (above); Sergeant Frank Stubbs (left)

Crimewatch appeal offers £20k reward

By Amelia Burr

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A MAN with links to Camberwell and Peckham appeared on Crimewatch last week as the police offered a sizeable reward for his capture.

Anyone with information leading to the arrest and prosecution of Andre Chambers was offered up to £20,000 on the BBC One programme airing at 9pm on Thursday night.

Detectives from the Specialist Crime and Operations Command want to speak to 32-year-old Chambers in connection with drugs and firearms offences. He is described as a black man, around six feet tall and well built. He has a scar on his face and has a tattoo of a crucifix on his left arm.

Anyone who sees Chambers should

Andre Chambers

not approach him, but call police on 999.

If you have any information as to his whereabouts you should call officers from the Specialist Crime and Operations Command on 020 8721 4054 or call Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.

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IT WAS good to read that Steve Harley and Cockney Rebel, Nine Below Zero and other acts have been confirmed for the Bermondsey Carnival on 4th July.

In this age of austerity Southwark Council should be commended for their continued support of our very popular festival.

Our thanks also to Phil and Russell of Bermondsey Beat who always provide us with artists to make us smile, and the Council’s Events Team who do so much to make things go well on the day.

Pat Kingwell, Secretary of The Friends of Southwark Park

features all the cards from each individual club in the series.

I am inviting a historian of each club to involve themselves in the project, primarily to: 1. Write short bios of each of the players featured plus an abbreviated club history from inception until the mid 1920’s i.e. the date of the cards issue, and 2. Supply some club related images; action shots, postcards, team photos of the club in the 1920s for the inside, front and back covers I contacted Dulwich Hamlet FC too see if they would be able to help me with the production of the Dulwich Hamlet version of the publication?

Unfortunately both John McInroy and Jack Lawrence, who are historians of the club were unable to help me.

I was wondering if you could place an SOS out for someone to help me with this.

I would imagine that there will be someone, somewhere in Dulwich who had a relation who played for DHFC at that time or may have some memorabilia.

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All parties have let Do you have Dulwich us down on housing Hamlet football cards? YOU CAN tell there’s an election

MY NAME is Paul Days and I am a historian of Sunderland AFC. Working with historians for other football clubs in the UK I am putting together a series of short A4 sized books looking at the Godfrey Phillips football Cards that were issued in the early 1920’s.

Each publication is about 32 pages,

coming because both the Lib Dems and Labour are again trying to convince us that they, and only they, are the true champions of council housing (Southwark News, “Clegg slams ‘hypocrisy’ on visit to Elephant’).

The Deputy Prime Minister accuses Labour of destroying the

Heygate council homes and not replacing them, whilst Labour’s Council Leader Peter John says Clegg’s intervention is “desperate” and that the biggest threat is the Tory/Lib Dem government pushing Right to Buy. Sadly, they are both right.

But it’s even worse than that.

Those of us with inconveniently long memories can recall both that the Lib Dems had a hand in the destruction of the Heygate and that the last Labour government kept the Right To Buy. The unpalatable truth is that the hypocrisy and desperation is quite evenly spread amongst all establishment political parties - both locally and nationally. None of them have solved the housing crisis. They have all made it worse.

Over the last seventeen years Southwark Defend Council Housing has petitioned, leafleted, demonstrated and lobbied to prevent our council homes being sold off, privatised and demolished. Our latest action was a protest outside the Planning Committee on Thursday 23rd April, at the Council’s Tooley Street offices. This was called in response to the Council’s scheme to demolish more than 500 of the Council’s rented homes on the Aylesbury Estate-to be replaced by just 277 “social rented” homes.

We are fighting for the right of all working class people simply to live in London in a decent, secure home at a rent we can afford. Most people in London don’t have this right. We won’t stop fighting until they do; no matter which politician is in office.

Tanya Murat, Chair, Southwark Defend Council Housing

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AT THE last general election, Southwark had three of the longest-serving MPs in the country, who romped home with a combined majority of around 35,000 votes, clocking up an impressive 88 years in office collectively.

But the winds of change are blowing through the borough this year with former Olympics minister, Tessa Jowell, stepping down from her Dulwich and West Norwood seat and a predicted national collapse in the national Liberal Democrat vote leaving Simon Hughes fighting Labour’s Neil Coyle to keep his seat in Bermondsey and Old Southwark.

A swing from both the Liberal Democrats and Conservatives to Labour predicted across London is expected to have an impact on Mr Hughes’s 8,500-strong majority, but experts say it’s just too close to call.

“I wouldn’t write Simon Hughes off even though the Labour party is confident it can win the constituency,” warns Tony Travers, a London politics guru at the London School of Economics.

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“The thing about the Lib Dems is they do have an extraordinary capacity to cling on against the odds. Simon Hughes is a particularly well-known Liberal Democrat nationally and locally, who’s positioned himself often against the council and development and gone for the community vote.

“This constituency is going to be pretty tight and the Liberal Democrat vote will fall back and the Labour vote will rise. It’s much more marginal than in the last general election,” added Professor Travers.

Nationally the electorate is tiring of the two party system and voters are turning to the smaller parties in protest or turning away from politics altogether.

“UKIP and the Greens are both going to make some in-roads into voting in London,” said Professor Travers, adding that although both parties were doing better in Southwark than in the past, they

were unlikely to pose a real threat to the big hitters.

In Camberwell and Peckham Harriet Harman managed to increase her majority at the last election to over 17,000, making it one of the safest Labour seats in the country.

The contest there will be for who gets silver and bronze. Professor Travers thinks the Greens may be able to “nibble away at the Labour vote” but says the real question is if the practically non-existent Conservative vote in the middle of the borough might increase as they steal votes from disillusioned Liberal Democrats, who came second last time.

For Dulwich and West Norwood it’s all to play for with an empty seat for the taking. Or is it? “Tessa Jowell is clearly a popular figure,” said Professor Travers. The London Mayoral hopeful had a majority of over 9,000 at the last election and even with a fall off from her departure , any loss could be met by a London-wide shift towards Labour.

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THIS IS one of the closest election battles in the country.

Labour are slowly but surely gaining on the Lib-Dems, who just hold the lead.

It is truly a two-horse race, with no other party expected to get anywhere near the front-runners.

It is going to be neck-and-neck right into the final straight.

UKIP could be dark horses here, although they and the Greens and Tories aren’t expected to make any serious challenge.

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UKIP and the Tories are bringing up the rear.

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Again, the focus is on second place, with the Tories, Greens and Lib-Dems battling it out to be ‘best of the rest’.

UKIP look set to be the lone stragglers.

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‘I MIGHT BE A NICE CHAP, BUT PEOPLE VOTE ON PARTY LINES’

BERMONDSEY AND OLD SOUTHWARK

NEIL COYLE

LABOUR

By Joey Millar

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NEIL COYLE is clearly enjoying his first General Election campaign.

His Tower Bridge Road office is plastered with home-made banners, letters of support and a forest of red rosettes.

He points out a ‘Vote Neil Coyle’ poster painted by local nursery children – “They may have had some help...” – with obvious pleasure. Politics is serious stuff but he seems to be revelling in it.

When it’s time for business, however, the Labour candidate for Bermondsey and Old Southwark does not mess about.

When asked to outline his three priority issues for the borough – “homes, jobs, the NHS” – he launches into a polished housing strategy with scant hesitation.

“Council homes for those who need it, genuinely affordable homes to buy for those who can. If people want more council homes and more mixed accommodation across the borough, the only way that that is going to happen is with a Labour government.”

He has similar chiselled routines prepared for employment, education and health issues and, while at times it can feel as if he is verbally copy-and-pasting passages from the Labour manifesto, his passion clearly shows.

He makes job guarantees for young people and promises especially to help black, minority and ethnic people in the borough, who face disproportionately high unemployment. He slams the introduction of student fees and is scornful of A&E waiting times and the maternity ward struggles at King’s College hospital.

“King’s has had to shut its maternity ward because babies are being born! It shouldn’t be such a surprise - we do usually have nine months to plan for that.”

He becomes particularly animated when it comes to local spending cuts. When pushed on how Labour would reduce the deficit without introducing similar austerity measures, he becomes almost exasperated.

“It’s not just about cuts though, is it?

This government has framed it all about ‘we must take away’, instead of saying that there are people out there who could be contributing more. That is a false narrative that has been delivered by Lib Dems like Nick Clegg, Danny Alexander and Simon Hughes, and the Tories.”

He suggests using the bankers’ bonus

NEIL’S KEY PLEDGES

 More council/affordable homes  Protect and support NHS

 Job/apprenticeships guarantees for young people

 Stop unfair local spending cuts

 Raise pay and tackle zero-hour contract abuse tax to pay for employment opportunities for young people, and the mansion tax to pay for doctors and nurses.

When confronted with off-manifesto topics, however, he seems a little less talkative. He refuses to accept responsibility for the fate of Heygate Estate residents struggling to find affordable homes in their neighbourhood – “that’s a council issue – we’re going into a general election” – and is equally reluctant to acknowledge Labour’s role in the recent ‘shared’ garden saga at One Tower Bridge, pointing out that many Lib-Dem councillors also voted in favour at the planning committee meeting.

Mr Coyle finds his voice again, however, when the conversation inevitably turns to his Liberal-Democrat opponent Simon Hughes. When asked to contrast himself with the Westminster veteran, he almost struggles to find a place to begin, before settling on integrity and work-rate.

“I can stand as someone who has not broken promises to local people. I think people see a different MP here now than they did fifteen, twenty years ago - look at the work rate, look at the caseload! I have had people come to my office in Tower Bridge Road and get in touch with me

personally because they cannot get an appointment to see that MP.” He also claims that he genuinely cares about local issues, while Mr Hughes only becomes involved when press photographers arrive.

“On the Bakerloo Line extension, which Southwark Labour has been fighting on for donkeys’ years, when that Freedom of Information request went into City Hall there was nothing! Not a phone call, not a letter, not an email from Simon Hughes [to Boris Johnson] and there he is pretending it was him that got the Bakerloo Line agreed to.”

The message, it seems, is that he is on the rise while his opponent is on the way down. After a brief chat with his campaign organiser regarding rumours that Mr Hughes has already bought a retirement home in the Isle of White, [vehemently denied by the Lib-Dem] he returns to the original question.

“People are going to be questioning who will fight for this bit of London best over the next five years – is it this young bloke who’s got the track record of doing it, or is it the guy who’s been backing Cameron and Clegg without standing up for us?”

He claims that Mr Hughes has voted for everything the Tories have asked him to –

“Much as I’d love it if 90,000 people went out and said that Neil Coyle is a nice chap, I don’t think that’s how people are voting. In general they are voting based on how people percieve the values of those political parties.

The Lib-Dems are even taking their own name off the posters and leaflets”

“except gay marriage” – and that the constituency deserves an MP with a stronger backbone.

With Harriet Harman and Helen Hayes expected handily to win the other two seats in the borough, Southwark may be faced with a situation in which its national and local representatives are overwhelmingly Labour. Would Mr Coyle be able to hold a council – dominated by members of his own party and headed by his current boss Council Leader Peter John – to account?

“You can do both! You can be a councillor and challenge your council.

You can be an MP and challenge your council. If I’m an MP and I think the council has done something wrong I will certainly be acting on it.”

He stresses that he should not simply be seen as a councillor but as a representative of a party he believes will give Britain a brighter future.

“Much as I’d love it if 90,000 people went out and said that Neil Coyle is a nice chap, I don’t think that’s how people are voting. In general they are voting based on how people perceive the values of those political parties. The Lib-Dems are even taking their own name off the posters and leaflets. They’re ashamed of their own brand - imagine how the rest of us feel!”

This neatly encapsulates the decision voters across the country will face on Election Day: will they vote along party lines or for the candidates’ profiles and personalities?

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EVEN AFTER 32 years as a Member of Parliament, Simon Hughes seems far from finished.

Deep into his eighth General Election campaign, he is not ready to hang up his yellow tie or park his famous cab just yet - despite persistent retirement rumours.

“I’ve been asked this question at every election. Labour love to say ‘Oh, Simon, is this your last election?’ I will fight for as long as I want to fight, as long as I feel energetic and well enough – and I feel as energetic and as well and as fit and as keen as ever.”

While the Liberal-Democrat candidate for Bermondsey and Old Southwark refuses to offer a definitive answer on the rumours – “I’ve always fought one election at a time” – he certainly doesn’t seem to have lost any of his old vigour, especially at election time.

“I’m enjoying it,” he says as he settles down in a quiet corner of a pub near his Bermondsey office. “I always enjoy election campaigns.”

Whether or not that is strictly true, he’s certainly had enough practice. The veteran MP was first elected to parliament in 1983 and has successfully navigated a further seven campaigns since. In terms of results, at least, he has definitely enjoyed himself – and he wants his Labour opponent Neil Coyle to know that.

“Every single Labour candidate I have fought against has only ever fought one election and then gone away,” he says with a smile. “One has gone to the Greens, one to the Trade Unionist alliance and another has become a Tory peer. Of eight candidates, three have disappeared.”

Whether Mr Coyle will face a similar fate remains to be seen, but what is certain is that this election will be different from any Mr Hughes has taken part in yet. In 2010, for the first time in his career, the Lib-Dems entered government as part of a coalition. This is therefore the first campaign in which he has had to defend his record in power rather than opposition – and that might not necessarily be a good thing.

Backing the bedroom tax and tuition fees while in government proved controversial to say the least, but Mr Hughes – and perhaps this is only natural for such a long-standing MP – is quick to switch the focus back before the most

‘OF COURSE I’M NOT ASHAMED OF MY PARTY I DRIVE A YELLOW CAB!’

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SIMON HUGHES

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SIMON’S KEY PLEDGES

 Bakerloo line extension

 Improvements to mental health treatment  More affordable homes  Fight for future of NHS

“I had a Labour councillor canvassing with me the other day because I am the best person to get elected. There are people who are Greens, or Tories, or UKIP supporters who understand the score: in the end you choose the best person ”

 New bridge and pier for Rotherhithe recent administration.

“Labour as a majority government introduced tuition fees. Then they said they wouldn’t increase them and they did.

They didn’t have to battle anybody, it was their own party. Twice they’ve broken their own promises! We had to do a deal because we didn’t have a majority. I am sorry we didn’t have a majority.”

This response is indicative of his selfappraisal: he is more than happy to apologise if necessary, but these apologies more often than not come with a qualifier.

“I’m really sorry we haven’t been able to deliver all the things we wanted. Because of the economy we haven’t been able to,” he says. “I’m really sorry we haven’t been able to deliver – due to reasons outside our control – more affordable housing in the country, all sorts of things.

But we were less than 10% of all the MPs in the House of Commons.”

He refuses to accept that his role in the government should be seen as negative and is frustrated at the criticisms he and the Lib-Dems have faced for going into a coalition with the Tories.

“Don’t tell me everything’s gone wrong!

We’ve had the biggest economic crisis since the Second World War. Labour left us and said ‘there’s no money left’. I could have run away from the challenge, I could

have said to my colleagues ‘we’re not going to go into government’. What would people have said to me? They would have said: when it came to the fight, you ran away. But I didn’t! I went into government. And now the economy has the best growth rate in Western Europe.

“In this community there are thousands of people who have had the benefit of our biggest contribution, which is lifting the tax threshold – the average saving in a family budget is nearly £1000. We’ve put more money into primary schools to help youngsters from difficult backgrounds in a way that has never been done before.

We’ve made sure that we have kept pace with the investment needed for the health service, so I’m proud of our record.”

He points to other results of his time in government – from the planned Bakerloo Line extension to a reduction in women prisoner numbers, to helping people with criminal records from their youth get jobs in later life – with genuine pride.

In truth, Mr Hughes will likely not be judged solely on the record of his political party. The tens of thousands of people who have backed him over the decades are clearly not all Lib-Dem supporters, but instead are fans of the man himself.

While he denies trying to distance himself

from his party – “look at my office, look at my cab” – he is still aware that it is his reputation, not his party’s, that attracts voters in the north of the borough.

“There are people here who vote for me who are Labour party supporters - but they will vote for me. I had a Labour councillor canvassing with me the other day because they think I am the best

person to get elected. There are people who are Greens, or Tories, or UKIP supporters who understand the score: in the end you have to choose the best person.”

Whether or not voters still see Simon Hughes as the best person, after a turbulent debut in government, remains to be seen.

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JP FLORU

CONSERVATIVE

By Joey Millar

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WHILE JP Floru claims it is ‘just over the bridge’, Hyde Park is really a world away from the constituency he seeks to represent.

The Conservative candidate for Bermondsey and Old Southwark is not a local politician, instead living and working as a councillor in Westminster – not far from ‘where Tony Blair lives’, as he points out.

Indeed, his political involvement with Southwark only stretches back to midJanuary, when he was selected as a Tory candidate – although he does add that ‘a lot of my friends live here’.

It seems unlikely that this will be enough to sway the constituency’s voters.

The Belgian is out at 100/1 to win the seat according to the bookies, but he stresses that his impact will stretch beyond this campaign.

“We are laying the foundation for future growth. If the Lib-Dems collapse, which has already happened at the local elections, fewer Conservatives will vote Lib-Dem tactically, which is what they’ve done for the last 30 years. We will grow. It looks good, the future looks very good. We are fighting here. It is probably a long game, but we are fighting here with some seriousness.”

Mr. Floru does not shy away from his underdog status, instead embracing it with some enthusiasm.

“Because this is not a target seat we get no help from Central Office. I can be as libertarian Conservative as I want. The pressure is not so much on. There is no agent, no office, no money. You learn everything, you get thrown in at the deep end.”

But while he accepts that it is unlikely that he will be elected, he nonetheless feels that his presence as a candidate is essential for the electorate.

“Otherwise the choice for the people of Bermondsey would be between the left, the hard left, the far left and the extreme left. Even UKIP is turning left – they oppose Right to Buy. So I’m the centre right candidate, I’m the non-Socialist choice for Bermondsey.

“My issues are based on aspiration, their issues are based on envy. For me, I try to put forward a positive message, getting people onto the housing ladder, getting people into jobs rather than being stuck on welfare – the aspirational message for

JP’S KEY PLEDGES

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JP SAYS EVEN UKIP ARE TURNING LEFT AND HE IS THE CENTRE RIGHT CANDIDATE

“The choice for the people of Bermondsey would be between the left, the hard left, the far left and the extreme left. Even UKIP is turning left - they oppose Right to Buy. So I’m the centre right candidate, I’m the nonSocialist choice for Bermondsey”

Conservative

 Get people on property ladder and end ‘social housing spiral’

 Reduce benefits – get people into work instead

 Expand Right to Buy

 Reduce unemployment

 Reduce deficit by managing local spending people who want to work hard and play by the books and get on in life. I’m the only candidate who is saying that.”

It’s a nice sentiment, but Mr. Floru stumbles when it comes to specifics. He is uncertain about the exact level of unemployment in Southwark – ‘I can email you the figures’ – and many of his other examples are non-specific to the

borough.

Despite this, he is clearly knowledgeable about Tory policies and speaks passionately about the big issues, especially housing, benefits and spending. “We have introduced Help to Buy and Right to Buy, which we want to extend to Housing Associations. 5.2m people live in Housing Association

homes – that’s a fantastic aspirational message: people who may never have aspired to own their home, we can give them that right. Home ownership should be a right for the many, not a privilege for the few.”

Again, the examples are national rather than local, but he is earnest and sure of himself. He also speaks vigorously about benefits, leaning heavily once more on his buzzwords of aspiration and encouragement.

“We are in favour of a safety net but not a safety hammock. So that’s why we introduced benefits capping. It was introduced so that going out to work always pays more – it’s still pretty high I believe it is £26,000 and we want to reduce it further to £23,000.

“Both the Lib-Dems and Labour want unlimited benefits. We have the situation where we have a few people who have got up to £106,000 in benefits. We capped it. You still get help but it encourages you to work. If you go to work you will earn more, so that’s an encouragement, rather than having people stuck on benefits.”

He becomes particularly animated when defending the local spending cuts imposed on the borough by the government since 2010. “For thirteen years the Labour government lived above its means, it spent more than it earned. In 2010, the last year of the Labour government, out of every £4 spent, £1 was borrowed. They were having a party and sending the bill to their children.

“Instead of having the party today and

sending the bill to our children, we’re trying to tackle the deficit and do something about it. Labour bankrupted the economy. It was a dire economic situation, but we took the unpopular but necessary decision to do something about it. It has paid off – we have the highest GDP in the G7, we have created two million new jobs.

“I hear the other candidates during the hustings saying ‘Oh we’re going to spend this, that and the other’ – the money isn’t there! Where is it going to come from?”

Mr. Floru has few comments to make about his rival candidates, but his choice words are biting. He sarcastically references ‘good old Simon Hughes’ and his role in ‘the most dirty election in modern British history’ and describes the Lib-Dems as ‘almost indistinguishable from Labour’. In Scotland, he compares the choice between the SNP and Labour as a choice between ‘plague or cholera’ – he didn’t specify which was which while for UKIP, he settles for a brief: ‘they are strange people.’

Despite his unflattering views on his opponents, Mr. Floru is sharp enough to realise that he will be unlikely to win the election this time around. Nonetheless, he clearly believes in potential of the Conservative party in the borough. If he wants to ride this wave, however, he will perhaps need embed himself a little deeper into the borough.

Or, perhaps not. As he says with a reluctant smile, ‘neither Margaret Thatcher nor Churchill were selected in the place they were born.’

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PECKHAM AND CAMBERWELL

HARRIET HARMAN

LABOUR

By Amelia Burr amelia@southwarknews.co.uk

SITTING IN a coffee shop around the corner from the now fenced in Aylesbury Estate, Harriet Harman defiantly defends the council’s regeneration scheme, which has hit national headlines of late and come to symbolise what campaigners are calling the ‘social cleansing’ of working class communities from London.

The Labour parliamentary candidate for Camberwell and Peckham, who has been the sitting MP for more than 30 years, says most of the leaseholders knew what they were getting into when they bought their properties.

The council needs to buy the properties back from leaseholders who bought their homes through Right to Buy, before they can knock the blocks down and build new ones.

A tribunal last year found Southwark had offered under the market rate for some properties but Ms Harman is standing by the council, which she says has acted within the law every step of the way.

“When you buy a place in the middle of an estate you know that’s the situation you are buying into and people have known there’s going to be redevelopment on the Aylesbury for a good twenty years.

“Of course it’s difficult if someone wants to stay there and the estate is being pulled down, but it’s the same if there’s going to be a new road built or a railway – it’s how compulsory purchase works.

The idea that the council is being mean to people, I don’t accept that. They are operating the law as it is.”

Ms Harman dismissed the accusation from her opposition that as a Labour MP, she had not stood up to the Labour-run council.

“I’ve always pressed the council to do everything they can to help leaseholders,” she said, adding that the building of 200,000 new homes across Britain would be one of Labour’s key priorities if they were elected in May. She believes Southwark Council has also demonstrated its own commitment to solving the borough’s housing crisis by pledging to build 11,000 new properties over the next 30 years.

“They’ve got the biggest house building programme of all the boroughs in London, including affordable housing.”

HARRIET’S KEY PLEDGES

 Abolish the ‘bedroom tax’  Raise the minimum wage

Aylesbury Estate Leaseholders: “Of course it’s difficult if someone wants to stay there and the estate is being pulled down, but it’s the same if there’s going to be a new road built or a railway - it’s how compulsory purchase works”

 Ban zero-hours contracts

 Extend free childcare hours

 Freeze energy bills

With a majority of more than 17,000 at the last general election in 2010, Camberwell and Peckham is considered to be one of the safest Labour seats in the country. Despite the overwhelming odds in her favour, Ms Harman says she treats “every election with the respect it deserves.”

“I have to earn people’s support and I’ve never believed in taking any votes for granted.”

For the last five years, Ms Harman has been the deputy leader of the Labour party as well as an MP, which she admits has meant she has had to spend more time out of the area (most recently in a pink battle bus, appealing for the female vote), but says the two roles feed into one another.

“It’s the needs of people in my constituency that I bring to my role as deputy party leader. I’ve never seen what I do at local level and what I do nationally as contradictory. “It means that I do travel around the country, but actually it’s important for me to be able to play my part in getting Labour elected - because above all what my constituents need is not David Cameron and not a Tory government.”

Ms Harman’s priority if Labour were to

be elected would be to abolish the ‘bedroom tax’, which she claims has hit Southwark the hardest out of every borough in the country.

The Labour party has also pledged to invest in more NHS staff, increase the minimum wage, ban zero-hours contracts, extend free childcare hours and freeze energy bills.

But questions have been asked about where Labour would make cuts to public spending, as they have promised to reduce the deficit while making spending commitments.

“I think we’ve been absolutely clear.

[With] everything we’ve said we want to do we’ve shown how we can do it.”

Labour is proposing a ‘mansion tax’ on properties worth over £2million, a tax on bankers’ bonuses, a pay cut for ministers, a freeze on child benefit and a stop on the winter fuel allowance for the wealthiest pensioners as some ways of making savings, but opposition leaders have argued more ‘hidden’ cuts to public spending in order to bring the deficit down.

“I don’t buy the Tory argument that it’s all about the virtue of doing cuts. The point is to get people better off, improve the services and be clear how you’re

going to do that.

“When I’m out and about on the doorstep nobody says ‘you know what, I just think you haven’t told us enough’.

You know, I think people can see what we’re saying and that we need to have less extreme spending cuts than the Tories are doing and we need to help the economy get going again.”

Asked if Labour would make more cuts than those outlined in their manifesto, Ms Harman said: “No... not that we’re saying that we think we need to right away.”

A spending commitment Ms Harman thinks is vital for the constituency is to make the two-route option for the

Bakerloo line extension a reality – bringing the tube to Camberwell, Peckham and down the Old Kent Road.

“They do two different things. One serves an existing, very densely populated community who are absolutely jam-packed on buses and trains, and the other is to open up and help develop an area which is still very underdeveloped and has a lot of potential for housing.

“I think we should have both, they’re not actually exorbitantly expensive. I’ll be pointing out it’s good value for money.

Compared to things like HS2 it’s small fry, but big in importance for the area.”

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THE YOUNGEST CANDIDATE SPEAKS OUT AGAINST HIS LEADER

PECKHAM AND CAMBERWELL

YAHAYA KIYINGI

LIBERAL DEMOCRAT

By Amelia Burr amelia@southwarknews.co.uk AS THE youngest candidate standing in Southwark, Yahaya Kiyingi is one of two contenders still living at home – epitomising the difficulties faced by today’s bright young things trying to get on the housing ladder.

But he is probably the only one who is keeping it a secret from his mum. “I didn’t want to put her through that,” said the 23year-old, whose parents don’t think politics is a place for a Ugandan-born Camberwell man.

The young Liberal Democrat grew up in Camberwell after his family moved to the area when he was four. He started his own social enterprise at the age of sixteen and soon found that the power and the money were in other people’s hands.

“The people who made the decisions were above me. If I could make a difference to my community, I would be the one to make the decisions.”

Working in market research by day, Yahaya has also helped to set up a charity to keep young people out of crime and a borough-wide youth magazine.

“Youth services have been cut and young people are looking for places to go and there’s nowhere. Money for youth services should be ring-fenced. Unless you get young people involved you’re going to see higher crime levels and low achievement in schools.”

With so many young people not interested in politics, Yahaya says he is fighting a one-man mission in Southwark, not only to campaign for youth provision, but also to show the kids that not all politicians look the same.

“When I visit schools they’re surprised.

They expect me to be a middle class old white man.

“Young people feel like so much is closed to them.”

Yahaya’s own party has been accused of damaging youth engagement in politics after the last election, when swathes of students voted for the Liberal Democrats as the only party opposing tuition fees.

Once in a coalition with the Tories, the policy soon went out of the window and a generation learned an unfortunate lesson about politics.

“I didn’t make that decision and I can’t defend it.

“So many people [in the party] didn’t think that was the right thing and didn’t

YAHAYA’S KEY PLEDGES

 Protect funding for young people’ services

 Build more homes

On tuition fees: “So many people [in the party] didn’t think that was right and didn’t think we should’ve been in the coalition either. I don’t stand by every decision made by Nick Clegg.

I think if you make a promise you should stick to it.”

 Bring the Bakerloo line to the Old Kent Road  Engage more young people in politics

 Cut less than the Tories, borrow less than Labour

think we should’ve been in the coalition either. I don’t stand by every decision made by Nick Clegg. I think if you make a promise you should stick to it.”

Standing in one of the most diverse constituencies in the UK, Yahaya says it’s not only his youth which makes him a symbol of hope for the disenfranchised.

“Camberwell and Peckham has been represented by a white woman for the last 30 years. I don’t think that’s an issue but what’s important is a symbol and what it represents. To see a young black person is a symbol more than anything.”

At the last general election, Ms Harman had a 17,000-strong majority and Yahaya, who has recently moved to Barnet, is realistic about his chances.

“For me, it’s not about winning or defeating Harriet, it’s what I can offer.

Speaking to young people in Peckham and Camberwell, it’s about showing them that a young black man can make it in politics. Everyone knows it’s a safe

Labour seat, but I’m seeing what I can symbolise for other young people.”

Yahaya’s main focus is on young people’s issues, but housing and the regeneration of areas like Peckham town centre and the Aylesbury Estate come a close second.

“The community really needs to say where it wants to go. Does it want to remain the hub for African communities, or does it want to see it grow into what Brixton has turned into?

“The lack of housing is a problem because we haven’t built enough homes.

If we’re not building houses, we’re not going to solve the housing issue,“ said the young entrepreneur, conceding that coalition government cuts over the last five years had “hit the people of Camberwell and Peckham hard.”

But he maintains the party line that “it would have been worse,” without the Lib Dems there to restrain the axe-wielding Conservatives.

“Their policies are so economically focused, we reminded them that they have a social responsibility.”

The Lib Dems are now pitching themselves as the party of the centre ground – cutting less than the Conservatives (£12billion instead of £25billion) and borrowing £70billion less than Labour.

On the issue of the Bakerloo extension, Yahaya has taken a controversial line, backing the route down the Old Kent Road, instead of through Camberwell and Peckham.

“I think both ideas are good, but the one down the Old Kent Road is more sensible.

Camberwell isn’t like the Old Kent Road, you’ve still got the Northern line at Oval and Stockwell - the Old Kent Road has absolutely nothing.”

Asked how he thinks the voters of Camberwell and Peckham would feel about that, he sticks to his young guns, saying: “If I had to choose, I think I would have to choose the Old Kent Road, because there’s absolutely no access other than by bus or car.”

With an air of determination, the young pretender reflects on the reason he is standing, saying: “Deep down I guess I’m doing this because I’ve been told I can’t.”

Just don’t tell his mum.

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PECKHAM AND CAMBERWELL

NAOMI NEWSTEAD

CONSERVATIVE

By Amelia Burr amelia@southwarknews.co.uk

NINE YEARS ago Naomi Newstead jacked in her job as a civil servant negotiating housing development deals, to be a full time mother-ofthree.

Now that the most infamous regeneration scheme in London is in the middle of the constituency she is campaigning to represent, her professional past has led her to take on the Aylesbury battleground.

With thousands of tenants and hundreds of leaseholders housed on the vast Walworth estate, opinions are divided on the benefits of the scheme for local people.

Residents who have been living with broken lifts, leaks and a dodgy heating system are behind the demolition of the old and the building of the new, but leaseholders who say they are going to be forced out of the area claim the regeneration is not for them.

“People who have lived in London their whole lives are now having to move out, even though it severs their connection with their family. I don’t think that’s right that that’s happening.”

Notting Hill Housing Trust has promised 50 per cent of the new homes on the site will be at affordable rents, which Ms Newstead says “isn’t a bad deal”, but adds that with housing associations receiving public subsidies, they could provide a lot more.

“I can’t see any good reason why the leaseholders on the estate couldn’t be given enough money so they could get one of the new flats - then they’d see some of the benefit of the regeneration.”

Ms Newstead has pressed Labour-run Southwark Council to allow totally independent valuations for leaseholder properties as standard. “I’m pushing to get the law changed so that every leaseholder gets an independent evaluation on properties. That won’t help people in the first phase, but the later ones could benefit from that change.”

In between the school runs, the Camberwell-born Conservative is also encouraging more employers to take on local school-leavers first.

“They have to compete with people all over Europe for jobs in London.

“It’s right to say to British companies to look at British teenagers and school leavers and give them a chance.”

NAOMI’S KEY PLEDGES

Conservative

 Give leaseholders independent valuations for their homes

 Give local jobs to local school leavers

Camberwell should take priority over the Old Kent Road: “There is public money to pay for one route... I put forward a strong case for Camberwell,” said Ms Newstead, after she went to see the Chancellor of the Exchequer

 Bring the Bakerloo line to Camberwell

 Pay employees of large companies a living wage

 Raise the minimum wage Unemployment is decreasing nationally, but opposition parties have questioned whether people in deprived constituencies like Camberwell and Peckham are struggling on zero-hours contracts and having to access food banks because their jobs are so poorly paid.

“I do hear a lot of concerns about that and I understand it.

“I can completely see with the cost of food and housing how people wouldn’t be able to manage on a low income.

“When it comes to foodbanks I don’t think it’s right that people have to go to a foodbank. That’s why is so important that wages do increase as the economy improves.

“No one wants to be doing that [zero hours contracts] when they have a family – those kind of jobs have to develop into something better.”

But Ms Newstead defends the cuts the Conservative government has made and the further £25billion it is proposing saving in the next parliament.

“The Conservative approach of getting the economy strong is vital and the only way to pay for the things we need. I believe as things pick up wages will increase.”

Ms Newstead is a believer in a reduced

state, saying: “I don’t think we should be trying to take as much as we can into the hands of the state and let the state deal with everything we need,” but she does believe in making big business pay its way. The stay-at-home mum is proposing legislation to force large companies to pay a living wage, which would stop the state subsidising pittance-pay with tax credits “so people don’t have to have three jobs and never see their kids.”

The Bakerloo line is a straight choice for Ms Newstead, who is now living in Forest Hill – Camberwell should take priority over the Old Kent Road route, favoured by the Mayor of London, Conservative Boris Johnson.

“I put forward a strong case for Camberwell,” said Ms Newstead, after she went to see the Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osbourne. “The need couldn’t be more acute because of the existing services – there’s overcrowding on the buses and Denmark Hill station is so packed now... People here are put at a disadvantage if they can’t get to work. “ There is public money to pay for one route and I think that has to be Camberwell, because the need is so much greater.

“I’m acting as if I’m the spokesperson

for the area,” said Ms Newstead, who admits she is at a disadvantage to Labour candidate Harriet Harman, who has held the seat for over 30 years.

Having spent three years supporting another Conservative candidate in

Eltham, Ms Newstead is aware of how much man (or woman) power is needed to make a dent in a safe seat.

“I’m knocking on doors all the time. I really don’t know. I want to win it and that’s how I’ve got to approach it.”

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HELEN SAYS SHE’S NOT JUST A SAFE PAIR OF HANDS IN A SAFE SEAT

DULWICH AND WEST NORWOOD

HELEN HAYES

LABOUR

By Joey Millar

joey@southwarknews.co.uk

UNLIKE MANY other candidates in the borough, Helen Hayes refuses to be drawn into a slanging match with her election opponents.

“There are different issues in different parts of the constituency and the opposition candidates are all working hard,” the Labour candidate for Dulwich and West Norwood says when asked to assess her opposition.

“They’re all making their case and we’re trying to make a better case. I’m not in the business of being negative to other candidates. It’s not a productive way to campaign and I don’t think it’s conducive to engaging the public in a general election campaign.”

This stance is admirable, but then again there seems less motivation for her to engage in the sort mudslinging seen further north in the borough. After 23 years with Tessa Jowell as MP, this seat looks set to be retained by Labour with little fuss – although try telling Ms Hayes that.

“I’m absolutely not taking the election result for granted at all. The result in 2010 was a very good result but it hasn’t always been a Labour one. The council seats have over the years, until very recently, been held by parties other than Labour. We are not taking it for granted.”

Again, this measured response is perhaps expected of a candidate who should win handily, so long as her run-in remains uncontroversial. Instead of bluster, Ms Hayes seems to want to let her record as councillor do the talking.

When asked to name two achievements from her five years as councillor in College ward, she points to education and road safety.

“I am really proud of the work I have done helping to turn around a primary school in my ward. It had been left to coast along under Tories, it was a satisfactory school and that was it – and we know that ‘satisfactory’ never actually means satisfactory.

“It wasn’t a school that I would have been happy to send my children to, and therefore it wasn’t a school that we should have accepted. We got additional scrutiny and support into the school and we got a change in the leadership and £3m of investment into the site. It’s now well on its way to being a really excellent school.”

She slams the Lib-Dems for the lack of

HELEN’S KEY PLEDGES

 Job/apprenticeship guarantee for young people  Build more social housing

“I’m absolutely not taking the election result for granted at all. The result in 2010 was very good result but it hasn’t always been a Labour one. The council seats have over the years, until very recently, been held by parties other than Labour”

 Block expansion of Right to Buy

 Ensure enough school places for local children

 Reduce unfair local spending cuts school places in the borough, and describes claims that they have been pushing for the introduction of new schools while Labour piggy-backed on the issue as ‘nonsense’.

“We inherited a situation in 2010 where the Lib-Dems had singularly failed to anticipate a spike in the birth rate and the increase in demand for school places.

They hadn’t done anything about it and that had left a huge number of families in the East Dulwich area in particular in a very, very, very difficult situation.

“My eldest daughter is nine - that was our generation and our experience, it was very, very, difficult to get a place in the local school. We have worked since that time as hard as possible to deliver and open new schools. Actually the LibDems have caused some problems - they were behind proposals for a Nunhead primary school which the government wanted to build on the Dulwich Hospital site, which would have compromised our plans for a new secondary school.

That’s nonsense, quite frankly.”

She also highlights her role in proposing that all council-run roads adhere to a 20mph speed limit, and excitedly announced the introduction of London’s first ‘Dutch-style’ roundabout

– in which cyclists are kept separate from cars – at the junction of Crystal Palace Parade, Sydenham Hill, Westwood Hill and Fountain Drive.

However, she says the two main issues affecting Southwark and Lambeth [which the constituency straddles] going into this election, are housing and local spending.

“We do have a crisis in housing locally.

It’s a Southwark-wide and a Lambethwide issue. We need to get more affordable homes and we need to intervene in the privately-rented sector to get people a better deal when they’re renting, which more and more people are doing in the area.”

Are the much-quoted 11,000 council homes that are to be built over the next 30 years enough? Labour-run Southwark Council was recently slammed by Bermondsey & Old Southwark LibDem candidate Simon Hughes, who said that many people on the waiting list ‘would be dead’ by the time the new homes were available.

“It’s pretty rich for Simon Hughes to comment on that issue when his government voted to cut the budget for new social house building by 60%. We were the first council ever to have

someone take an independent look at our housing needs and make a long-term plan, after years of councillors taking short-term decisions. That was where the plan for 11,000 new council homes came from. It was a realistic and affordable and deliverable commitment over 30 years.

If we can deliver more, we will. If we have a government that will make it easier and quicker to build more homes, we will do that.”

She also quoted the Daily Telegraph when discussing the Conservatives’ plans to extend Right to Buy – ‘economically illiterate and morally reprehensible’ – and slammed the level of local spending cuts imposed on Southwark and Lambeth councils by the government as ‘unfair’.

“The figures I have seen from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, an

independent body, shows that on average more deprived authorities had around £220 per head of population taken away, while the least deprived authorities had £40 taken away.”

Her facts are sound and her policies are well-researched - but attempting to replace such a well-established MP is always going to be tricky. While her quiet, uncombative nature may be enough to win election in a safe Labour seat, will this be enough, ably to represent her constituency in a possible minority government? Will she be able to escape the shadow of her predecessor?

“I’ll find my own way. On surgeries, for example, I think that continuity is important because the need is there and the system works well. But I am a different personality and I’ll have a different way of doing things.”

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DULWICH AND WEST NORWOOD

JAMES BARBER

LIBERAL DEMOCRAT

By Amelia Burr amelia@southwarknews.co.uk

“I WAS mortified,” James Barber said frankly about the moment he realised there was a school places crisis in Dulwich while his party, the Liberal Democrats, were running the show locally in 2009.

“We were caught out,” he added, and has been campaigning for new schools in the south of the borough ever since.

“I’ve really focused on education because I’d never want to be caught out without enough school places.”

A new Harris Federation primary is due to open in September on the site of the old police station in Lordship Lane and a “fantastic” new Charter secondary school has just been given the green light to open on the site of the old Dulwich Hospital next year.

“Philosophically I resisted the free schools programme, but it’s become a bit of a knight in shining armour,” said the father-of-two, who has been a local ward councillor in East Dulwich for nine years.

In a long-running spat with the Labourrun council, Mr Barber is keen to emphasise that it is the work of the Liberal Democrats which has secured three new schools for the area, in the face of some initial opposition from the council.

“If it hadn’t been for us we wouldn’t have had the Judith Kerr Primary, East Dulwich Harris or Charter and I’m really chuffed we’ve made that happen.”

Mr Barber puts some of the increased pressure on school places locally down to the improved quality of education on offer in recent years.

“In the past parents left just before primary or secondary school. Families choose to stay knowing their kids will go to a good or outstanding school. We have such a diverse community that the kids play off each other and really excel.”

It doesn’t take a maths teacher to calculate the likelihood of a Liberal Democrat victory this coming election and Mr Barber is a mixture of resigned and determined in the face of a national decline in his party’s popularity. “I’d be naive to say it wouldn’t have an impact,” he said, as he battles to make a dent in what has been a safe Labour seat for Dame Tessa Jowell for the last 23 years.

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JAMES’S KEY PLEDGES

 Create more new school places

 Create more new nursery places

 Extend Victoria Line to Herne Hill

and modernise trains London-wide

 Secure a new police base in Dulwich

 Re-open the Maudsley Barber is hoping the Liberal Democrats can close the gap on her impressive majority of 9,000 in 2010.

“We anticipate we’ll come second but Labour are putting on a big campaign, so that gives us heart. There are possibilities in the long term because there’s huge amounts of non-voting.”

“That was a difficult call,” he says of the unpopular decision for the Lib Dems to govern with their near polar opposites, the Tories. But according to Mr Barber, some of the damage has been balanced out by others seeing them as more of a credible contender than they did previously. “It’s about even stevens.”

“We were caught out” the councillor said frankly about the moment he realised there was a school places crisis in Dulwich while his party were running the show locally in 2009 ... Now he claims the work of the Liberal Democrats has secured three new schools in the area

The Lib Dems are now pitching themselves as the party of the centre ground – cutting less than the Conservatives (£12billion instead of £25billion) but borrowing £70billion less than Labour.

Asked if the £21billion of cuts implemented by the coalition government had been detrimental to the people of Dulwich, Mr Barber replied candidly: “It would be impossible for cuts not to be detrimental.

“I wouldn’t say all decisions were perfect, but what do you do when there’s no money left?” he added.

The ‘Bedroom Tax’ - where council tenants were deducted housing benefit for properties with a spare room - is one policy Mr Barber admits the coalition did not get right.

“We think that was a mistake in hindsight. It should only be if you’ve been offered a place of an appropriate size. It shouldn’t have been for people who can’t move.”

But Mr Barber says government cuts

were not to blame for the loss of a police base in Dulwich.

“The Met have been trying to close it for a long time. We’ve led a campaign to save it for twenty years.

“At the moment they hold a surgery next to the photocopier in the library, which is really unprofessional,” added Mr Barber, who is currently trying to secure a more discreet space in an annex next to the library.

The overcrowded railway lines running through the constituency are also on Mr Barber’s agenda as he wants to push for modernised trains, all London services overseen by Transport for London and an extension of the Victoria Line to Herne Hill.

“The biggest drain on people working in London is their journey to work,” said Mr Barber, who committed to political lobbying for the necessary improvements, if elected.

It’s a big ‘if’ but with a cheerful defiance Mr Barber said: “We’re in it to win it, as they say.”

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TORY REBEL: ‘RIGHT TO BUY IS WRONG FOR SOUTHWARK’

DULWICH AND WEST NORWOOD

RESHAM KOTECHA

CONSERVATIVE

“I don’t think this policy is helpful to those people [on the waiting list].

There’s no point in doing it unless you’ve got the stock. . The Heygate and Aylesbury Estates are two examples of where the council has gone fully against local residents' wishes and sold off stock under the title of regeneration. What we need is thousands of new homes first”

By Amelia Burr

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PERHAPS IT’S because she is one of the youngest candidates standing in Southwark that Resham Kotecha took a rebellious stance on one of her parent party’s most controversial policies – Right to Buy.

Described as a voting bribe by the opposition, a proposed extension of the Thatcher policy would see Housing Association tenants able to buy their homes at a discount as council tenants can now. With more than 10,000 people currently on the Southwark Council housing waiting list, the 27-year-old Economics Advisor conceded it was not the right time for Right to Buy in Southwark. “I don’t think this policy is helpful to those people [on the waiting list]. There’s no point in doing it unless you’ve got the stock. The Heygate and Aylesbury Estates are two examples of where the council has gone fully against local residents' wishes and sold off stock under the title of regeneration. What we need is thousands of new homes first,” she said stridently, adding that her remarks might get her into trouble with Conservative Party HQ. “I will not apologise for saying what’s right and what will help people. I want to be the voice for the people here, not for Westminster.”

Despite her age, Miss Kotecha has already spent four years working in parliament as an advisor to the disgraced Conservative candidate for Braintree, Brooks Newmark. The married fatherof-five was “never anything but professional”, according to Miss Kotecha, after he sent half-naked photographs of himself to an undercover reporter.

Miss Kotecha concedes some may see her age as a drawback, but says there is a value in the “different viewpoint” she can offer.

“We need more diverse representation, we need more young people and we need more women. It’s people of my generation who will be paying for the decisions we make now. Everyone has a different viewpoint.”

Though living in north London with her parents at the moment, Miss Kotecha’s time on the doorstep in Dulwich has told her that the main issues concerning residents are school places

RESHAM’S KEY PLEDGES

Conservative

 Create more new school places  Build more homes

 Force rail providers to pay automatic

compensation for delays over 30 minutes

 Make work pay more than benefits

 Cut the deficit

and rail travel disruptions.

“We need schools where families want them,” she said, after the Conservative Free Schools policy was put to the test in

Dulwich when parents opposed a Harris Federation primary for Nunhead on the former Dulwich Hospital site. A petition to block the school gained hundreds of

signatures, after the Government’s Minister for Schools weighed in to support the proposal for a primary to be squeezed next to a secondary school and a health clinic.

“It’s about listening to families,” she said, following the withdrawal of the Harris application last month in the face of overwhelming public opposition.

To help keep frustrated commuters from going off the rails, Miss Kotecha is campaigning for any delays of over half an hour to be automatically compensated by automatic refunds. “To pay for a service and then not get it and then not get compensated for it is ridiculous,” she said, after finding out that last year Network Rail paid out £14million to providers like Southeastern and Thameslink, with just £1.4million of that passed on to inconvenienced commuters.

A hidden local issue of household debt came to light in the News last month showing Dulwich and West Norwood is in the top ten percent of constituencies making calls to National Debtline because of financial difficulty With £25billion of savings and cuts planned for the next parliament if the Conservatives are elected, on top of £21billion already cut over the last five years, Miss Kotecha says she stands by David Cameron on this one.

“I don’t think any party wants to do austerity, but we inherited a very high deficit.

“We’re making it so it never pays more to be out of work than in work.”

But left-of-centre politicians have

claimed austerity is a convenient way for the Conservative party to create a smaller state, rather than a necessity to keep the country afloat. “I believe in low taxes and low government intervention,” concedes Miss Kotecha. “We waste money taxing and giving benefits, it’s better to do neither.”

In Dulwich the cuts to the Met police have come at the same time as the loss of a police base in the area, with the nearest cop-shop in Camberwell. “We’ve had to make cuts but we wish we hadn’t had to.

Overall crime is falling in Southwark, though, and we do a discredit to our police men and women not to recognise that.”

Dulwich voters have elected Labour heavyweight Tessa Jowell for the last 23 years. After she recently stood down, does Miss Kotecha think she has a realistic chance of turning the constituency blue?

“I’m very realistic, but for too long we’ve had a dominant Labour party in this area. Tessa did some good things but I don’t feel she’s been very present here.

Our Labour MP has never said anything bad about the Labour council and we need an MP who will say people deserve better.”

Despite the odds, Miss Kotecha, who pledged to move to the constituency on May 8 if she were elected, said she would fight this election 100 percent because she is “keen to make a difference.”

“To be able to have a job where you can say ‘I’ve helped someone today’ or ‘I made someone’s life better’ – I want to do that.”

GREENS’ DEPUTY GOES HEAD TO HEAD WITH LABOUR’S NO.2 Southwark News, Thursday April 30, 2015

THE GREEN Party has doubled its membership in Southwark in the last year, which is giving their deputy party leader confidence that she can give Labour’s deputy, Harriet Harman, a run for her money.

Amelia Womack, second in command to Green Party leader, Natalie Bennett, is spreading the message that there is a real alternative to Labour and the Conservatives in Camberwell and Peckham.

“One of the things I’m hearing is people are voting Labour to keep the Tories out,” said the Environmental Technology graduate standing in one of the safest Labour seats in the country. In response to Harriet Harman’s 17,000-strong majority, Ms Womack said: “It’s only a safe seat if people are safe voting.” If the Camberwell and Peckham electorate voted for what they believed in, Ms Womack claims the constituency could turn Green, according to data collected by the website, voteforpolicies.co.uk.

As the Greens have positioned themselves as the protest party of choice for the left-of-centre this year, Ms Womack is hoping she will be able to overtake the Liberal Democrats Camberwell and Peckham to come in second to the Labour deputy leader.

By Amelia Burr

amelia@southwarknews.co.uk

“I really wanted to take on Harriet Harman and prove that other options are possible. I feel that a lot of people have been disappointed by the Labour party.

They are still talking about tuition fees and cuts to benefits for under 24s - cuts which will affect people at grass roots. I wanted to make sure that we provided a strong alternative in Camberwell and Peckham.”

The other two Green candidates standing in Southwark are William Lavin in Bermondsey and Old Southwark and Rashid Nix in Dulwich and West Norwood. Mr Lavin has been a Green Party member for 30 years and believes it provides “a true alternative to austerity and inequality.”

Camberwellborn Mr Nix is keen to promote civic engagement and responsibility and

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produced a ground-breaking political film recently called “Why Don’t Black People Vote?”

The Green Party won ten percent of the vote in Southwark’s local elections last year, but managed up to twenty percent in the wards in the middle of the borough.

With an air of optimism the three Greens are hoping that support will translate into votes this general election.

AMELIA WOMACK

Camberwell &Peckham

RASHID NIX

Dulwich & West Norwood

WILLIAM LAVIN Bermondsey & Old Southwark

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UKIP A SERIOUS PLAYER ON LOCAL POLITICAL MAP? 40 GENERAL ELECTION

THE HUSTINGS at Southwark Cathedral last Saturday was largely unremarkable.

The candidates alternatively made promises and sniped at each other, while the audience asked the same questions about the same topics.

The thing that made this Q&A unusual – other than the stunning gothic setting – was the make-up of the candidates.

Invites were only given to major parties and, for the first time, UKIP were included in this list.

The inclusion highlighted the party’s rapid growth over the last decade. The number of parliamentary candidates has grown from 495 in 2005 to 625 this year – including Andrew Beadle contesting Bermondsey and Old Southwark, David Kurten in Camberwell and Peckham and Rathy Alagaratnam in Dulwich and West Norwood.

While the party are not expected to win a seat in Southwark – they have been given odds of 100/1 in each constituency

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By Joey Millar

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– they are expected to steal votes from other parties and offer an alternative vote for disgruntled voters.

“We’ve had [Lib Dem, Simon] Hughes for 32 years, the last five of which he sat in government and became a minister, and so all the promises he has made over the decades came to nought and now Bermondsey’s people - the very best and no-one’s fool - know it,” Mr Beadle said.

“But lo, who is the real alternative? The media would have you believe it is a Labour/ScotsNats deal. What? The same Labour which has wrecked our economy and run an incompetent and incomprehensible Southwark Council?

Maybe the Labour elite in Southwark think it has sewn up Bermondsey but UKIP’s supporters beg to differ.”

Portraying themselves as the ‘common sense vote’, the borough’s candidates are focusing on leaving the EU, stemming immigration and reducing unnecessary spending.

Mr Kurten said: “People understand that more and more pressure is being piled onto the vital public services we all pay for - housing, schools, health, transport and the environment, and that until we tackle that challenge of uncontrolled EU immigration, there is no financial solution.”

DAVID KURTEN

Camberwell &Peckham

RATHY ALAGARATNAM Dulwich & West Norwood

ANDREW BEADLE Bermondsey & Old Southwark

Ms Alagaratnam added that ‘profligate waste such as overseas aid given to dictators, and undeserving countries, destructive vanity projects such as HS2, corrupt global corporatism and the bottomless pit of European Union waste’ must be stopped.

While it may be too soon for UKIP to mount a serious parliamentary charge in the borough, the votes they steal from the other parties may nonetheless have a tangible impact on results.

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WORKERS REVOLUTIONARY PARTY

NATIONAL HEALTH ACTION PARTY

THE WORKERS’ Revolutionary Party fights to build a leadership throughout the working class and youth to lead the struggle for the British and world socialist revolutions.

THE NHA Party was launched in 2012 by medical staff and members of the public in opposition to the coalition's top-down NHS reorganisation.

- Joshua Ogunleye

Camberwell & Peckham

- Rebecca Fox

Camberwell & Peckham

Joshua is campaigning to save the NHS and occupy hospitals to stop them closing. He also wants to defend council housing and put a stop to evictions and privatisation of council stock. He is against zero hours contracts, equating them to “slave labour for youth” and wants to put a stop to all immigration control.

We're the only party that is serious about fixing our NHS. The NHS has always been there to fix us when we're ill. Now it needs us to restore it to health.

We are the only party fully addressing the £30bilion NHS funding gap and the underlying problems facing the NHS. To ensure a health service free at the point of use, the NHA Party would invest £4.5bn immediately by increasing income tax by a penny in the pound while opposing any further privatisation of the NHS.

CANNABIS IS SAFER THAN ALCOHOL

WHIG PARTY

WE HAVE laws in our country that legalise some substance abuse, while others - that are potentially less harmful - remain illegal.

THE WHIG Party is Britain’s oldest progressive political party and it was based on principles that we think are still important today, like human rights, social justice, and open democracy.

- Alex Robertson

Camberwell & Peckham

- Felicity Anscomb

Camberwell & Peckham

Not only do current laws ignore the root cause of these problems, they punish people.

I want to see a serious debate between the main parties about our drugs laws, which are contradictory and have done nothing but cause more human suffering.

I’m campaigning for a Royal Commission to review the UK’s drugs laws. CISTA is proposing an evidence-based, cross-party, humane and non partisan approach to drug reform. Our proposals will do less harm, reduce human suffering and minimise the damage caused to the victims of drug-related crime and consumers of drugs.

I’m standing for election because I love Camberwell and Peckham and I believe in the immense importance of voting. I think a vote in a General Election should be a positive choice, and I want to provide that choice.

I’m not your typical politician, but by doing this I hope to encourage other people to get involved in our amazing democracy, and to contribute to the conversation.

REPUBLICAN SOCIALIST PARTY

INDEPENDENT

I AM the only candidate standing for real democracy and social justice.

I WILL oppose the TTIP pact which gives multinationals the power to sue governments.

- Steve Freeman

Bermondsey & Old Southwark

I have worked in Bermondsey for over 30 years and I know that many people here and throughout the UK want real change. Russell Brand summed up many people’s feelings saying: ‘Like most people I am utterly disenchanted by politics.

Like most people I regard politicians as frauds and liars.

As far as I’m concerned there is nothing to vote for. I feel it is a far more potent political act to completely renounce the current paradigm’.

Voting for me is a positive way of rejecting Westminster and the major parties – all committed to austerity and protecting an undemocratic and corrupted system.

- Robin Lambert

Dulwich & West Norwood

I promise to improve secondary schools and reintroduce polytechnics at tertiary level.

Libraries would not be sold unless a replacement was already approved. I would ensure that pensioners stay active by protecting the Oyster 60+ card from spending cuts. I would work with police, youth groups and residents to reduce crime. To protect smaller businesses, I would increase the minimum wage on a sliding scale between £8 and £10. I would only sell fire stations if a replacement has been confirmed. I would ensure that police, the judiciary system, the BBC and the civil service remained apolitical. Finally, I would abolish expensive police and crime commissioners.

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ALL PEOPLE’S PARTY - Prem Goyal

Camberwell & Peckham

- Donald Cole

Bermondsey & Old Southwark

- Amadu Kanumansa

Dulwich & West Norwood

THE ALL People’s Party (APP) is fighting for equality at the top so minorities, women, young people, working class people and disabled people are fairly represented on Southwark’s top political table.

APP will build 10,000 social homes in the next ten years and create 5,000 new jobs and apprenticeships by 2020.

APP will introduce safe segregated cycle lanes and aim for zero cyclist fatalities by 2020. We back the Bakerloo Line extension down both routes to Old Kent Road and to Camberwell and Peckham.

APP will make Southwark an older people and dementia friendly borough, open a 24-hour GP surgery and extend GP hours to seven days a week.

INDEPENDENT - Lucy Hall

Bermondsey & Old Southwark I AM the only candidate in the UK running on a manifesto of direct democracy.

I will give constituents the chance to vote on every bill that parliament debates through a website and an app. My position is one that suggests we do not live in an effective democracy. A vote twice a decade is not enough. We watch MPs break promises and tell lies, sacrificing their integrity and compromising their principles. My campaign goes hand-in-hand with a strong belief in the power of importance of political education, and I will work to set up free discussion groups and lessons in community centres, and put politics on the timetables in schools.

I want to give you your voice back. Join me in the fight for democracy.”

TRADE UNION SOCIALIST COALITION / LEFT UNITY - Nick Wrack

Camberwell & Peckham

- Kingsley Abrams

Bermondsey & Old Southwark

- Steve Nally

Dulwich & West Norwood WE ARE running under TUSC’s five key pledges.

The first is to end cuts and austerity.

We are fighting for a democratic socialist society run in the interests of the millions not the millionaires. The second pledge is to give trade union rights to fight low pay.

We want to introduce £10 an hour minimum wage now and to scrap zero hour contracts.

Thirdly, we want a massive council home-building programme and immediate introduction of rent controls.

Our fourth pledge is to scrap student fees. Free education should be a right for all.

Finally, we pledge to fight for democratic public ownership of our NHS, railways, public services, utilities and banks.

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Thank you

Theresa Howard (Nanny Theresa) 06.02.33 - 01.04.15

aged 82

We would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone for their kindness and floral tributes.

Thanks to Father Graham & Father Chris for the lovely service.

Lee, family tribute.

Soloist: Jay Britton.

Nancy at Greens the florist.

A special thanks to John & Simon and all the staff at Albins for their support and attention to detail at a very sad time.

Steve, Sue, Victoria, Charlie, Danny, Darcy, Sarah. Sisters: Pat, Pauline, Ellen & families xxx

Memorials

Remembering my lovely wife and our lovely Mum, Nan & Great Nan

Ellen (Nell) Milton 02.02.1930 - 30.04.2012

Birthday greetings for my dear husband

Ernie Bayfield 3.5.2015

A card I cannot send you, as heaven has no address, I can only place your flowers where you have gone to rest.

We love and miss you so very much.

You’re in our thoughts everyday, and in our hearts always.

Len, Larren, Ken, Sonya, Nick & Sophie x x x

Birthday

Murphie-Mae Fenlon Happy 18th Birthday Murphie-Mae. Lots of love Ritchie, Lex & little Ritchie x

2nd May

Happy 18th Birthday Murphie-Mae. Have a great day & night.

Love Kelly, Les & boys x

God Bless you Your loving wife, Dot x x x

My Dearest Friend

Lena

Happy Birthday!

Love & missed by many! Love & missed by me, Julie xxx

To place a family announcement contact Emrah on 0207 232 1639 or email emrah@southwarknews.co.uk

Happy 18th Birthday Happy 18th Birthday to my daughter Murphie Mae Murphie-Mae Lots of love Love you lots.

Ryan, Charlie, Ry Ry So proud of everything & Ronnie-Rose you do.

Lots of love, xxx Mummy, Ryan, Nanny Pat & Betsy boo xxx

Happy 18th Birthday Murphie Have a lovely day Love from Billy, Nicola, Macie & Maddie xxx

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Birthdays

Look who’s 30

Katie Robinson Hope you have a lovely day Love you always & forever, Peter x x x

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Well done

Jess Wentworth

Well done

who ran the London Marathon & raised over £3,500 for Barnardo’s

Ivy-Rose Reed Love from Katie & Maisie xx

1.9.1933 -18.3.2015

on completing the 2015 London Marathon and the money raised for Children With Cancer UK.

(30th April)

Happy Birthday

Charles Thomas Benson

Victoria

Alice Wentworth

All our love Mum, Dad, Helen, Sam, Alice, Dan, Erin & Flo x x x

Funeral announcement

Congratulations

Happy 18th Birthday

All our love, Mummy, Daddy, Sam & Jess xxx

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Love Mum, Dad & Laura xxx

Funeral to be held from 1 Dartford House, Longfield Estate, London, SE1 5RZ on 11th May 2015 at 1.30pm. Then onto Brenchley Gardens, Honor Oak Crematorium for 2.30pm.

HOW TO PLACE YOUR FAMILY ANNOUNCEMENT WITH US By phone: Call on 0207 232 1639

We accept:

By email: emrah@southwarknews.co.uk Cut of f is Tuesday, 12 noon

Funeral to be held by FA Albins

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John Herbert William Twynam (Jack Greens Florist)

Jack sadly passed away on the 22nd April and will be sadly missed by his wife Jean, his sons John & Allan, Grandchildren Nancy, Louise, Francesca & Gaby, and Great Grandchildren Charlie & Albie.

On Saturday 2nd May at 10am, the Funeral Cortege will drive through the Blue past his old Flower Pitch and flower shop on St James’s Road on its way to Honor Oak Crematorium for the 10.45am service.

We would like friends and family to join us to celebrate and share memories of a life well lived at the Blacksmith Arms, 257 Rotherhithe Street, SE16

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Birthday Happy 1st Birthday

Ivy-Rose Reed

Happy 1st Birthday to our beautiful Grandaughter Ivy-Rose Lots of love always, Nanny Sue and Grandad Mick

Happy 1st Birthday to our Beautiful Great Grandaughter Ivy-Rose We love you lots always and forever.

Nanny Mag and Grandad Pete

Happy 1st Birthday to our Great Niece and Cousin Ivy-Rose Reed We love you all the world and back again. Love Auntie Jo and Uncle Nick Teddy and Tilly-May xxx

Happy 1st Birthday To my great Niece and Cousin Ivy-Rose Reed Love Auntie Kelly and Billie-Jo xxx

Happy 1st Birthday Ivy-Rose Hope you have lots of fun today.

Love Donna, Georgie, Lilly, Harry and Baby Reggie x x x

Happy 1st Birthday To our beautiful girl Ivy-Rose Reed Hope you have a lovely day.

Lots of love Mummy and Daddy xxxx

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ALBINs Independent Family Run Funeral Directors

Established over 200 years

52 Culling Road, London, SE16 2TN

020 7237-3637/ 2600/6366

Happy Birthday to my little Sister Ivy-Rose on her 1st Birthday.

Lots of love, your big brother Max xxxxxxx

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Community notices Advice, Support & Homecare Services for Disabled Adults with physical or sensory disability

020 7701 1391 www.sdail.org Charity No. 801594

Southwark Disablement Association Healthwatch Southwark (HWS) is the independent champion for the patient & public voice.

We influence & improve health & social care services in Southwark. We want to hear your views & experiences on the services that you use. Share information with us and we can raise issues that are important to you!

T: 0207 3587005 E: info@healthwatchsouthwark.co.uk W: www.healthwatchsouthwark.co.uk

Time and Talents Association We Need Volunteers Like You.....

Time and Talents has a range of exciting volunteer opportunities: helping in our weekly groups for older people, supporting isolated older people in their home, assisting with our community gardening projects and a variety of other ad hoc roles that come up on occasions.

Please get in touch if you are interested by contacting Sam Dottin on 020 7232 5669 or samdottin@timeandtalents.org.uk

CAMBERWELL CONSOLIDATED CHARITIES Registered charity no 208441

• If you are over 65 years old

SURREY DOCKS FARM

• Have lived in the Old Parish of Camberwell (inc Dulwich and Peckham) for more than 2 years

It’s your local farm right on the Thames Path at 309.5 Rotherhithe Street.

Always something going on and getting better and better.

No admission charge. www.surreydocksfarm.org.uk / 0207 231 1010

• Receive only a state pension

THE TRUST COULD PROVIDE YOU WITH EXTRA FINANCIAL HELP

Please ask the Hon Clerk for an application form.

Janet McDonald Telephone: 020 7525 7511 Email: janet.mcdonald@southwark.gov.uk Level 2, Hub 5, PO Box 64529, London SE1P 5LX Please let other people know about us too

Dockland Settlements Rotherhithe Community Centre is now open.

Please call 0207 2317108 for enquiries or come and have a look around.

info@docklandsettlements.org.uk

To book your community notices please call 0207 232 1639

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Tina to a tea

By Michael Holland

MADCAP AND zany is a couple of crap words that Americans use to promote unfunny films, but they do seem rather appropriate for an evening of Pull The Other One entertainment.

PTOO have been doing comedy in The Old Nun’s Head for ten years now and over those years an impressive roster of top names have appeared on the tiny stage It seems that top comedians crave that gig as a means of testing out new work - along with an even more impressive list of funny people that get on that stage because they can. I’m not sure if their carers are allowed in free.

I have seen some hilariously odd turns in that now legendary place. Some of the female acts there, while I wouldn’t want to leave them alone with my mother, I wouldn’t mind them being my mother, as I would always be living in a house of fun, that’s for sure. There was the one with the keyboard ironing board and the telescopic arms, and the one that was so not funny she was hilarious. What’s not to like?

Last night’s show had the everpresent Pierette compering and she soon had a full house laughing with her tale of Tony Law, who was to head the line-up this month, but who had cancelled at the last minute for a gig in Norway! Ha!

GALLERIES

ANISE GALLERY 13a, Shad Thames, SE1 (07808-864653) Alignment Ian and Sachiyo’s meticulous use of etching & photography respectively take their work on different paths, ultimately, the two paths converge. Alignment examines the journey taken by these two artists’ work focusing on their shared intricacy. Anise Gallery, ThuSun 11am-5pm, ends May 10, free.

BOROUGH ROAD GALLERY 103, Borough Road, SE1 Hands Rhythm: Susan Sluglett - A Conversation With The Borough Group New paintings and drawings by Borough Road Gallery’s first Artist in Residence, Susan Sluglett, shown alongside works by members of the Borough Group from A David Bomberg Legacy - The Sarah Rose Collection. Borough Road Gallery, Wed-Fri 1pm-5pm, Sat 12noon-5pm, ends Jul 4, free.

CAFE GALLERY PROJECTS 1, Park Approach, Southwark Park, SE16 (020-7237 1230) Bottom Natures Featuring Anthony Green’s Absolute Redundancy, two graphite holes on a soiled page; this group exhibition, curated by Matthew McQuillan, explores the Bottom Nature of art and art making, a state which renders the viewer tongue tied or dumbstruck. Cafe Gallery Projects, Wed-Sun 11am-5pm, ends May 3, free.

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Hilarious. Norway! Stop it, you’re killing me… Turns out it wasn’t a joke. After that little wobble Pierette then had us all shouting with anticipation for Tina Turner Tea Lady who was just that. She came on with a wig and overall and mocked TT’s singing style while using the men in the audience as whims and fancies in her Sex Goddess act. And was dressed as a tea lady! That’ll do for me.

But, and much praise to PTOO, they had replaced the AWOL Law with two excellent acts. First up was Miles Jupp who had rushed over all the way from more or less across the road to perform his slow burn comedy that slowly draws you in to his cosy, comfortable, middleclass world that he sends up with consummate ease. Selfdeprecating to a painful degree we all loved him at the end.

Boothby Graffoe, of course, is a veteran of the comedy world and you always know you will be provided with a good laugh with him. And that did not change.

Pull The Other One, and its mix of established and new acts, has its regular fans, but every month half of the audience is always made up of new punters there by word of mouth. It is something that everyone must try at least once. www.ptoocomedy.com Last Friday of the month.

The Old Nun’s Head, 15 Nunhead Green, SE15 3QQ

CAMBERWELL COLLEGE OF ARTS Peckham Road, SE5 (020-7514 6300) In An Absolut World True Taste Comes Naturally Exploring the ways in which nonsense provokes a confrontation between meaning and non-meaning. Camberwell College Of Arts, Mon-Fri 10am-5pm, phone for Bank Hol closure, ends Jun 5, free.

CECILIA BRUNSON PROJECTS Royal Oak Yard, SE1 (020-7357 9274) Moussa Sarr: Works From The Marc Fassiaty Collection Sarr draws uncomfortable racial taboos out from under the carpet. His autofilmage vignettes confront the viewer with notions of the primitive that have been diluted or repressed by social mores but, as Sarr shows, are far from extinguished. Cecilia Brunson Projects, Tue-Fri 2pm-6pm, Sat 12noon-4pm, ends May 8, free.

COLEMAN PROJECT Space 94, Webster Road, SE16 (020-7237 9120) Ways From Here To There New commissioned exhibition from Mary Maclean, Rochelle Fry and Helen Robertson with a live performance on Saturday 16th May at 3pm. Coleman Project Space, Fri-Sun 12noon-6pm, ends May 17, free.

DKUK 135, Rye Lane, SE15 Alan Kane: Vanity Suite/Sorry A useable sculpture which responds to the unique environment of the hairdressing salon at the gallery.

DKUK, Wed-Sat 12noon-6pm, ends Jun 20, free.

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Making a stand

By Susan Hallissey

STAND IS the verbatim piece of six people and their real life stories of campaigning and activism, told in the most understated and gentle way.

Chris Goode in collaboration with the Oxford Playhouse invited people to come forward to talk about and celebrate stories, issues or people that had made such an impact on them they had been moved to take a stand.

Through six interwoven monologues we hear from activists in a surprisingly low key manner at odds with demonstrations and marches. Some of the pieces are funny and there are several laugh out

GXGALLERY 43, Denmark Hill, SE5 (020-7703 8396) Charlie Waite, Graeme Chilsholm And Iona Rowland A group exhibition of works by artists Charlie Waite, Graeme Chisholm and Iona Rowland.

GX Gallery, Mon-Sat 9.30am-6pm, closed Bank Hols, ends May 9, free.

HMS BELFAST The Queen’s Walk, SE1 (020-7940 6300) Hew Locke: The Tourists Art installation. HMS Belfast, Mon-Sun & Bank Hols 10am-6pm, ends Sep 7, £16, child £8, family £28 & £42, concs £12.80, art fund mems £8, under 5s/mems free.

IMPERIAL WAR MUSEUM Lambeth Road, Elephant & Castle, SE1 (0207416 5000) Fashion On The Ration: 1940s Street Style Explore the survival of fashion during the Second World War. Imperial War Museum, Mon-Sun & Bank Hols 10am-6pm, last adm 5.30pm, ends Aug 31, £10, concs £7, under 15s £5.

Holocaust Exhibition Documenting the Holocaust and the Second World War. Imperial War Museum, Mon-Sun & Bank Hols 10am-6pm, ends Dec 31, free.

Peter Kennard: Unofficial War Artist Examining the art and practice of one of Britain’s most important political artists. Imperial War Museum, From May 14, Mon-Sun & Bank Hols 10am6pm, ends May 30 2016, free.

Hew Locke Drawings, sculpture and wall reliefs. Imperial War Museum,

loud episodes as well as touching moments. With a sparse stage, just seats and manuscripts on music stands, we are left purely with the stories from a diverse group of people with varying causes to focus upon. Lawrence Werber is the elderly widower who believes in antivivisection and fights against cruelty to animals; Kelda Holmes believes so passionately in community workshops (amongst other things, including fracking) that I wanted to support her cause!

Her story about gluing herself to buildings and what ensued was unique to say the least.

Cathy Tyson's character gave some depth with her story of childhood and how she wanted to challenge rules.

Mon-Sun & Bank Hols 10am-6pm, ends May 4, free.

Visions Of War Above And Below A variety of media responses to conflict.

Imperial War Museum, Mon-Sun & Bank Hols 10am-6pm, ends Sep 25 2016, free.

War Story: Afghanistan 2014 Featuring the personal stories of those on the ground in Afghanistan. Imperial War Museum, Mon-Sun & Bank Hols 10am-6pm, last adm 5.30pm, ends Sep 6, free.

JERWOOD SPACE 171, Union Street, Bankside, SE1 (020-7654 0179) Jerwood Encounters: 3-Phase The artists Kelly Best and Georgie Grace present new solo shows. Jerwood Space, From May 13, Mon-Fri 10am5pm, Sat & Sun 10am-3pm, closed Bank Hols, ends Jun 21, free.

Giles Round And Phil Root: The Grantchester Pottery An artistic collaboration between the sculptor and the painter. Jerwood Space, Mon-Fri 10am-5pm, Sat & Sun 10am-3pm, closed Bank Hols, ends Aug 31, free.

Paul Schneider: Hanging Out To Dry New installation by the artist. Jerwood Space, Mon-Fri 10am-5pm, Sat & Sun 10am-3pm, closed Bank Hols, ends May 2, free.

The Grantchester Pottery: Backdrop Commission An artistic collaboration between sculptor Giles Round and painter Phil Root. Jerwood Space, Mon-Fri 10am-5pm, Sat & Sun 10am3pm, closed Bank Hols, ends Aug 31,

We are introduced to personal acts of courage (Gwyneth Strong), a mother adopting from abroad talks in a very low key way about her incredible act of love.

Stand is not loud or brash or 'in yer face' but more of a gentle nudge to wake up the audience and remind us that random acts of taking a stand is something that can be done by anyone of us.

In a subtle yet powerful way we are reminded that we can make a change without shouting from the rooftops - my usual method of getting heard!

Battersea Arts Centre, Lavender Hill, SW11 5TN Until May 9th Box Office: 0207 223 2223 – www.bac.org.uk £15, £12 concs

free.

PECKHAM PLATFORM 89, Peckham High Street, SE15 (020-7358 9645) Vote Art The UK goes to the polls on 7th May and to celebrate, Vote Art comes to Peckham Platform! Peckham Platform, Wed-Fri 11am-6pm, Sat & Sun 10am-5pm, ends May 7, free.

R K BURT 57-61, Union Street, SE1 (020-7407 6474) Laura Boswell And Ian Phillips Print Exhibition And Residency For two weeks printmakers Laura Boswell and Ian Phillips will be both exhibiting and working at the RK Burt Gallery, London. R K Burt, From May 12, MonFri 10am-5pm, ends May 22, free.

SOUTH LONDON GALLERY 65-67, Peckham Road, SE5 (020-7703 6120) Kapwani Kiwanga: Kinjiketile Suite Kiwanga’s versatile practice takes shape through installations, video, sound and performance.

For her first UK solo exhibition, she continues her research into the legacy of the 1905-1907 Maji Maji uprising against German colonial rule. South London Gallery, Tue & Thu-Sun 11am6pm, Wed 11am-9pm, ends Jun 7, free.

Dorine Van Meel: Between The Dog And The Wolf For her first solo show in a public institution Van Meel presents a video and sound installation which uses language to give voice to the desires of an inner world; where selves double whilst actions repeat, objects reappear and patterns unveil.

South London Gallery, Tue & Thu-Sun 11am-6pm, Wed 11am-9pm, ends Jun 14, free.

SOUTHBANK CENTRE Belvedere Road, Waterloo, SE1 (020-7960 4200) Paula Rego: Rego Retold Owen Lowery’s poetic responses to the work of artist Paula Rego. The Saison Poetry Library, Tue-Sun 11am-8pm, ends May 3, free.

SPACE STATION SIXTY-FIVE 373, Kennington Road, SE11 (020-8299 5036) Cockadoodle: The Erogenous Art Of Maurice Vellekoop A flamboyant new exhibition that uncorks the Canadian artist’s contribution to illustration, underground comics and contemporary erotica.

Space Station Sixty-Five, Wed-Sat 12noon-6pm, ends May 2, free.

THE CELLO FACTORY 33-34, Cornwall Road, SE1 Bridge Works inspired by the poems of Philip Larkin. The Cello Factory, Mon-Sun 2pm-6pm, ends May 9, phone for Bank Hol closures, free.

THE LONDON ARTS BOARD Vestry Road, SE5 Postcardwall #yearofthepostcard Written and Curated by Sophie Hill.

The London Arts Board, From May 10, Mon-Sun & Bank Hols dawn-dusk, ends Jun 10, free.

Waiting Room Fugue Collage by John Bunker. The London Arts Board, Mon-Sun & Bank Hols dawn-dusk, ends May 10, free.

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Got to get a Golem

By Michael Holland

GET IT, get it now, right now, say yes to progress, get your iPhone, get your iPad, get your iLife, quick, quick, quick, there’s not a moment to lose.

This is the message in Suzanne Andrade’s Golem. It lambasts the first world’s hankering of always wanting new things that are supposed to make our life better and better while machines do our jobs for us and free us up to, er, play with our machines.

Golems are those machines that initially make those with a Golem very happy, but then Golem 2 comes out and leaves those with the original Golem feeling distraught and left behind. Does

that ring any bells?

Quirky acting brings Andrade’s quirky script to cartoon life and leaves us in no doubt of how she feels life is going, though she does put the blame squarely on the gadgets that end up making decisions for us, rather than the media that hypes up these ‘musthave’ gizmos.

That said, her words have us laughing, feeling morose, wondering and, most importantly, reflecting on ourselves.

The star of the show for me is the animation that the actors are compelled to work with, rather than the other way round, which nicely highlights how technology can run our lives.

It is absolutely non-stop and I

was completely mesmerised by it all. Golem is like no theatre I have seen before. I found it brilliantly clever and cleverly brilliant, but it may not be for everyone.

It is an experience rather than just another piece of theatre, but was an experience I am glad I had.

This production from 1927, who combine performance, live music and animation, has maybe created something entirely new.

Golem transferred from the Young Vic after creating a storm there. Now I know why.

Trafalgar Studios, 14 Whitehall, SW1A 2DY until 22 May 2015 Tickets: £45.00, £20 Box Office: 0844 871 7632 www.atgtickets.com / www.1927.co.uk

The Twits turn into toffs

By Regeana King

Photo: Bernhard Maller

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BLUE ELEPHANT THEATRE 59a, Bethwin Road, Camberwell, SE5 (0207701 0100) The 56 This unique theatrical experience provides a truthful retelling of stories of those involved in the Bradford City Fire. Adapted solely from real-life testimonies and interviews with witnesses. Blue Elephant Theatre, May 1-3, 8pm-9.30pm, £10, concs £8.50, Southwark Residents £7.50.

CANADA WATER CULTURE SPACE 21, Surrey Quays Road, SE16 (0208692 4446) Benefit Three interwoven stories about social security benefit claimants.

Canada Water Culture Space, May 12 & 13, 7.30pm-10pm, £12, concs £10.

From The Cradle To The Bin From the Cradle to the Bin follows Mr Whitey, an affable English gent, who will spend his final days living on the edge of a broken care system. Canada Water Culture Space, May 21, 7.30pm-10pm, £10, concs £8.

Nina Written by Spanish playwright Jose Ramon Fernandez. Canada Water Culture Space, May 22, 7.30pm10pm, £8.

Puss In Boots With a host of puppets, a working windmill and an avalanche of fruit and nuts, come and see this classic furry tail. It’s the cat’s whiskers.

Canada Water Culture Space, May 23,

1pm-2pm & 3pm-4pm, £7, family £24.

Tony Jameson: Football Manager Ruined My Life Observational standup. Canada Water Culture Space, May 15, 7.30pm-10pm, £10, concs £8.

NATIONAL THEATRE: DORFMAN South Bank, SE1 (020-7452 3000) Rules For Living A new, dark comedy written by Sam Holcroft. National Theatre: Dorfman, May 8, 9, 11-13 & 21-23, 8pm, mats May 9, 12 & 23, 3pm (audio described mat perf May 9, audio described eve perf May 11, captioned eve perf May 13), ends Jul 8, £15-£40, Sat eves £15-£45, phone for availability.

The Hard Problem Tom Stoppard’s journey through the world of evolutionary science, directed by Nicholas Hytner. National Theatre: Dorfman, May 1, 2, 4-7, 14-16, 18-20, 25 & 26, 7.30pm, NT Live May 2, 5, 16 & 27, 2.30pm, ends May 27, £15-£50, Sat eves £15-£55, phone for availability.

NATIONAL THEATRE: LYTTELTON South Bank, SE1 (020-7452 3000) Light Shining In Buckinghamshire Lyndsey Turner directs Caryl Churchill’s drama set in the aftermath of a bloody and brutal civil war.

National Theatre: Lyttelton, May 7-9, 11, 19-23 & 25-30, 7.30pm, mats May 9, 20, 23 & 30, 2.15pm (captioned eve perf May 27, captioned mat perf May 30), ends Jun 22, £15-£35.

Man And Superman Ralph Fiennes stars in George Bernard Shaw’s provocative and philosophical romantic comedy. National Theatre: Lyttelton, May 1, 2, 4-6 & 12-16, 7pm, mats May 2, 6 & 16, 1.30pm, May 3 & 17, 2pm (captioned eve perfs May 5, NT Live perf May 14), ends May 17, £15-£50, Sat eves £15-£55, phone for availability.

NATIONAL THEATRE: OLIVIER South Bank, SE1 (020-7452 3000) Behind The Beautiful Forevers David Hare’s drama based on the awardwinning book by Katherine Boo. The Beaux’ Stratagem George Farquhar’s uproarious comedy of love and money. National Theatre: Olivier, May 19-23, 25, 27 & 28, 7.30pm, mat May 28, 2pm, (press night May 26, 7pm), booking to Jul 19, £15-£35, May 19 & 20 previews £15-£25.

OVALHOUSE 54, Kennington Oval, Kennington, SE11 (020-7582 7680) Arch 468: Cuddles Vampire chiller written by Capital Award-winning young playwright Joseph Wilde. Ovalhouse, May 6-8 & 12-15, 7.30pm, May 10 & 16, 5pm, £10, concs £6.

Das Spiel: Are You Part Of The Game? A psychological immersive theatre show. Ovalhouse, May 12-16, 7.45pm, mat May 16, 2pm, £10 How To Win Against History A musical based on the tragic life of the fifth Marquis Of Anglesey. Ovalhouse,

FROM THE floor of a tumbledown set a cage rises from the floor holding four disgruntled Muggle-Wump monkeys.

Mr & Mrs Twit emerge and dance to the music, much to the amusement of the younger audience members; the hilarity added to when Mrs Twit feeds Mr Twit worms instead of spaghetti.

Throughout the show this gruesome pair spend a lot of time hitting each other in the face with frying pans.

The Twits have been turned into foul-mouthed toffs, much like the real life aristocrats The Fulfords.

Roald Dahl’s The Twits tells the tale of how three Yorkshire people who have been robbed of their fairground livelihood by the dastardly husband and wife team,

May 1, 2 & 6-9, 7.45pm, May 10, 5pm, £10, concs £6.

I, Myself And Me A contemporary drama about the pressure on single people to cohabit or marry. Ovalhouse, May 27-30, 7.45pm, £5.

Learning How To Die - Luca Rutherford (Visiting Work) This is a show about the actuality of dying and how an acceptance of our own mortality can drive a passion for life.

Ovalhouse, May 20-23, 7.45pm, £10 O No A psychedelic drama that pays homage to the woman accused of destroying the Beatles. Ovalhouse, May 20-23, 7.30pm, £10, concs £6.

Story #1 Contemporary physical theatre. Ovalhouse, May 1, 7.30pm, £8, concs £5.

SOUTHWARK PLAYHOUSE 77-85, Newington Causeway, SE1 (020-7407 0234) Carrie A musical adaptation of Stephen King’s novel. Southwark Playhouse, May 1, 2, 4-9, 11-16, 18-23 & 25-30, 7.30pm, mat May 2, 3pm, May 9, 16, 23 & 30, 3pm, £22, concs £18, previews May 1, 2, 4 & 5 £12.

Klippies A coming-of-age story set in South Africa. Southwark Playhouse, May 13-16, 18-23, 25-30, 8pm, mat May 16, 23 & 23, 3.30pm, previews May 13-15 £10, May 16, 18-23 & 25-30 £18, concs £16.

Scarlet The bleak yet comic tale of Scarlet, a young woman has her

and how they try to get it back with the help of the locked up monkeys. Much of the narrative is re-enacted as a backstory, which meant a lot of parents were explaining to their offspring what was actually going on for a lot of the time.

Even so, with a lot of sight and song, and a clever set to entertain, most of the younger ones managed to come out smiling, if not wholly aware of what they had seen.

The Twits is not a Matilda or another Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, but it has its merits.

Jerwood Theatre Downstairs, Royal Court Theatre, Sloane Square, SW1W 8AS Until Sunday 31 May 2014 Monday-Saturday 7.30pm; Matinees 2.30pm Tickets £35, £25, £16, £12 Mondays all seats £10

sexual history exposed, shamed and scrutinised on social media. Southwark Playhouse, Mon-Sat 8pm, mats Sat 3.30pm, ends May 9, £18, concs £16.

THE CAMBERWELL ARMS 65, Camberwell Church Street, SE5 (0207277 2601) Up In Arms Comedy Club May’s Up In Arms Comedy Club, upstairs at the Camberwell Arms, features Brian Gittins (as seen in Ricky Gervais’s Derek), Diane Morgan (aka Philomena Cunk from Charlie Brooker’s Weekly Wipe), Rhys James, Holly Burn and David Morgan MC. The Camberwell Arms, May 5, 8pm, £6.

THE CINEMA MUSEUM 2, Dugard Way, SE11 (020-7840 2200) London Sketchfest 2015 Alternative comedy from new, unsigned acts. The Cinema Museum, May 1, 7pm, May 2, 5.30pm, May 3, 5pm, times vary for individual events, £25-£65.

THE MENIER CHOCOLATE FACTORY 53, Southwark Street, SE1 (020-7378 1713) Buyer & Cellar Michael Urie stars in Jonathan Tolins’s award-winning comedy of modern manners. The Menier Chocolate Factory, Tue-Sat 8pm, mats Sat & Sun 3.30pm, ends May 2, £32.50, concs £25, Meal Deal £40.50, Premium Seats £35, adv £22.50-£30, Meal Deal adv £30.50£38, Premium Seats adv £29.50-£35.

UNICORN THEATRE 147, Tooley

Street, SE1 (020-7645 0560) Fight Night An immersive exploration of the intricacies and traps of voting systems and democracy in the media.

Unicorn Theatre, May 1, 11am, May 2 & 3, 2pm, £10-£16.

Henry The Fifth Kings need crowns and castles to prove themselves, and so does Henry. Henry the Fifth, that is, of England. But Henry is running out of cash and all he can think about is that his neighbour’s castle is bigger than his... Unicorn Theatre, May 17, 24 & 31, 3pm, May 19, 21 & 22, 10.30am, May 20, 10.30am & 1pm, May 23 & 2730, 3pm & 7pm, £13, concs £10.

YOUNG VIC 66, The Cut, SE1 (0207922 2922) Ah, Wilderness! Eugene O’Neill’s comical portrait of a Connecticut childhood. Young Vic, Mon-Sat 7.30pm, mats Wed & Sat 2.30pm, no mats May 13, no perf May 4 (audio described mat perf May 16, captioned perf May 21), ends May 23, £10-£35.

World Factory Zoe Svendsen and Simon Daw’s live multimedia show about the textile manufacturing industry. Young Vic, From May 11, Mon-Sat 7.45pm-9.15pm, ends May 30, £10-£19.50.

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THE LIFEBLOOD OF THE COUNTRY

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IN ENGLAND 8,000 people a day require a blood transfusion to stay alive and, aside from the generous donors, they have a Camberwell librarian to thank for establishing a national donor service back in 1921, writes Amelia Burr...

Percy Lane Oliver has slipped into relative obscurity since his death in 1944, but his actions will continue to help save the lives of millions of people worldwide as his pioneering blood donation service went from humble beginnings in south London to a global phenomenon.

Percy’s family moved from St Ives to London in 1883, when he was five years old. As a teenager he won a Science and Art Scholarship. He did well in his exams but was rejected by the Medical Board and the aspiring doctor ended up working as an assistant librarian with Camberwell Borough Council in 1893. In 1901 he was transferred to the Town Hall staff, where he remained until his retirement.

In the years leading up to the First World War, Percy was a founder member for the Camberwell Division of the British Red Cross and became its Honorary Secretary in 1910.

During the war, he served in the Royal Naval Air Service, stationed at Crystal Palace, but his contribution to the local war effort was far greater.

With the help of his wife, Percy set up and managed four refugee hostels in Camberwell for those fleeing persecution.

In 1918 he was summoned to Buckingham Palace to be awarded an OBE by King George V for his charitable work. But his greatest contribution was yet to come.

In October 1921, as the Honorary Secretary of the Camberwell branch of the Red Cross, he got a call from the nearby King’s College Hospital in urgent need of a blood donor. He went to the hospital and saw Sister Linstead, a Red Cross worker, become the first voluntary blood donor. He was so struck by this experience that he and his wife immediately set about organising a panel of blood donors locally, whose health and blood details were checked by the hospital and kept on record cards in his home in Colyton Road.

Someone manned the phones at all times and in the first year they received one call and registered four donors. Five years later there were 400 donors and they took over 700 calls.

Percy had to move house to cope with the exponential growth of the service he set up and he started travelling around London and the rest of the country to petition others to set up similar local blood transfusion volunteer services.

In 1926 the London Blood Transfusion Service got the official support of the British Red Cross Society and ultimately developed into the National Blood Transfusion Service which is so well-known today.

Hospitals were never charged for the service and the cost of running the organisation from his home in Nunhead was met by charging private clinics, some grants, and Percy’s own fundraising efforts.

As the service was on the brink of becoming national, not everyone was a fan of the idea, particularly as Percy was not a medical professional. Many donors felt they had to keep their involvement with the service a secret even from their families despite Percy’s unrelenting work giving talks up and down the country to encourage the establishment of more donor services.

In 1940 he gave a talk in his home town of St Ives and the master of ceremonies encouraged the audience “… not to stand in the way of would-be donors, but rather to go out and radiate the wonderful work that had been done and was being done by blood transfusion...”

Percy’s work attracted worldwide attention and many countries sent representatives to meet him and hear him speak who then set up similar organisations.

He did receive some recognition of his work in his lifetime, the highlight of which must have been when he was invited to deliver a talk on the subject at the palace by King George himself.

Almost 30 years after his death on

Photos: King’’s College Hospital

How a Camberwell librarian helped establish the lifesaving national donor service

April 16, 1944, a memorial portrait was unveiled in the entrance hall of the Haematology Department of King’s College Hospital, in 1972 by Her Royal Highness The Duchess of Gloucester. A framed copy of this is in every Regional Transfusion Centre in Britain, and another is in the Donor Centre in Rome.

In 1979 the Greater London Council provided an appropriate plaque on the house in Colyton Road where so much of his work was undertaken.

With thanks to Tom Richards and his article, Percy Lane Oliver founder of the voluntary blood donor service

A portrait of Percy Lane Oliver, which hangs at the entrance hall of the Haematology Department of King’s College Hospital (main), and its inscription (left) and a sign to the Oliver Ward, also in King’s (above)

Blood donation now • There are 1,900,000 blood donations each year • Over 8,000 units of blood are collected at golf clubs each year • Only 9% of donors live in Greater London • Each single blood donation can help as many as three people • In England, there around 8,000 blood transfusions a year Visit www.blood.co.uk for more information

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WWW.CHOPHOUSE-RESTAURANT.CO.UK THE CHOP House was one of the Butlers Wharf originals; it set the pace when the wharf was redeveloped in the 80s and it has remained at the vanguard of those riverside restaurants, writes Michael Holland...

It has done that by making itself welcoming and available to all tastes and all pockets and all backgrounds.

I took my Mum on her 83rd birthday and we found ourselves warmly greeted by several of the numerous staff that are there to cater for your every requirement.

We were offered a table with views out to the Thames and Tower Bridge, and after our coats were taken we soon had a glass of champagne in our hands. ‘Cheers,’ said Mum. Menus were provided and it was not long before we were both drooling over the choices. ‘Oooh,’ she said; ‘Mmmm,’ murmured I. ‘Can we have a few more minutes, please?’ said she when our waiter came for an order after several long minutes of this ‘oohing and aahing’.

The menu is a tribute to British food and drink, with details of where everything is sourced: Jensen’s Gin from a Bermondsey railway arch, beers from several South London breweries, and fine wines from all over Southern England. Of course there are wines from other nations to be had, but you won’t be getting any overseas meat here. In fact, I reckon they can nail down your rib-eye to an actual Speyside Angus cow if you needed to know.

Eventually we were able to choose from a wonderful selection with Mum going for the Morecambe Shrimps and me for the British Charcuterie with Homemade Piccalilli. The shrimps had the full taste of the seaside, while my meat platter could’ve fed two.

Our Sommelier had suggested wines that would complement our chosen dishes: Chablis for me, and a fantastic Ortega from Kent that we were both already aware of, having visited the vineyard after first discovering it at a previous visit to the Chop House.

As the spring evening drew to a close, the lights came up on Tower Bridge and the City Boys enjoying themselves in the bar area grew more boisterous. But who would deny young people having a good time? Not me.

As we sipped our wines Mum brought me up to speed on her hospital appointments and blood counts, and before we knew it her English Rose Veal Chop and my Halibut were presented before us, and what a beautiful sight they were.

Fine food as good as the riverside views

The veal really did fall off the bone and I felt very lucky that Mum let me have a taste. Plus, her Bone Marrow Gravy was truly the meatiest thing I have ever had the privilege to encounter.

My fish was almost as superb but the veal took the prize.

Our Triple Cooked Chips were fabulously crispy but, for me, twice cooked would’ve been ample. The Bibb Lettuce, though, had the most lettucey taste I ever remember tasting! I was actually getting excited over a lettuce. ‘Are you sure it’s not just the dressing you like, Michael?’ asked my mother, wondering why I was acting so strangely over a salad leaf…

Another glass of wine each was just right as we took some time to savour the main courses and leave a few minutes before dessert. The restaurant was very busy by now and everyone looked like satisfied customers.

Mum’s Lemon Posset came with a Tawny Port. I had the Blood Orange Jelly accompanied by a very nice French dessert wine from Bordeaux.

I had the jelly for the sole reason that I have not had jelly for as long as I can remember. That almostforgotten texture and taste took me straight back to innocent days as a boy on Silwood Estate when everyone had a jelly mould indoors.

Heaven. Wobbly Heaven.

THE DAMAGE

And so we had reached the end of a meal to remember. A big thank you to the staff who made it all a little bit special for mum’s birthday.

Yes, we did push the boat out but there is a Bar Set Menu where you can dine like Royalty for £12 (2 courses), and £15 (3 courses) and have Quail’s Eggs, Whitebait, Ribs, Soufflé and the same desserts I and Mum had amongst the many options.

Champagne x 2 £20.00 British Charcuterie £12.00 Potted Shrimps £9.00 Halibut £26.00 Veal Chop £34.50 Bibb Lettuce £3.50 Spring Greens £3.50 Chips £3.50 Jely £6.00 Lemon Posset £6.00 Chablis x 2 £17.50 Ortega x 2 £13.00 Ricard Loupiac £8.00 Tokay Royal Port £7.00 TOTAL

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TOWN & COUNTRY PLANNING ACT 1990 (as amended)

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The planning applications listed below can be viewed on the planning register at http://planbuild.southwark.gov.uk 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: ACA-development affecting character or appearance of a nearby conservation area; ALB-development affecting setting of a nearby listed building(s); CNA-development within a conservation area; DDP-departure from the development plan; LBA-works to or within the site of a listed building; MPA-major planning application; 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).

FLAT 3, 116-118 BERMONDSEY STREET, LONDON, SE1 3TX (Ref. 15/AP/1344) Replacement of rear single door with french doors; and the installation of a glazed juliet balcony. (within Bermondsey Street C.A.) Reason(s) for publicity: CNA (Contact: Shanali Counsell 0207 525 1770) TOP FLOOR FLAT, 145 BERMONDSEY STREET, LONDON, SE1 3UW (Ref. 15/AP/1317) Roof dormer extension at mezzanine level and roof terrace to provide external amenity space (within Bermondsey Street C.A.) Reason(s) for publicity: CNA (Contact: Shanali Counsell 0207 525 1770) ST PETERS WALWORTH C OF E PRIMARY SCHOOL, LIVERPOOL GROVE, LONDON, SE17 2HH (Ref. 15/AP/1430) Construction of new single storey extension to create a secure entrance to the school and a group/meeting room, together with a new school sign immediately adjacent to the boundary (within Liverpool Grove C.A.) Reason(s) for publicity: CNA (Contact: Ciaran Regan 020 7525 4877) 33 MANOR PLACE, LONDON, SE17 3BD (Ref. 15/AP/1084) Conversion of 33 Manor Place (Former Manor Place Baths) into 10 residential units (Class C3) and 2,254 sqm (GEA) of commercial floorspace (Class B1), along with internal and external refurbishment and alterations, including introduction of a mezzanine floor within the refurbished Pool House (in association with planning application ref.

15/AP/1062 for the wider redevelopment of Manor Place Depot) (Grade II listed building) Reason(s) for publicity: LBA (Contact: Helen Goulden 020-7525-5349)

197 MERROW STREET, LONDON, SE17 2NY (Ref. 15/AP/1363) (Householder Application) Retention of single storey rear extension to dwelling house (within Liverpool Grove C.A.) Reason(s) for publicity: CNA (Contact: Marina Lai 020 7525 5403) PECKHAM LIBRARY, 122 PECKHAM HILL STREET, LONDON, SE15 5JR (Ref. 15/AP/1322) Installation of new edge protection at roof level (within Rye Lane C.A.) Reason(s) for publicity: CNA (Contact: Alex Cameron 020 7525 5416) MANOR PLACE DEPOT SITE, COMPRISING 30-34 PENROSE STREET, 33 MANOR PLACE, 17-21 MANOR PLACE, UNITS 1-21 MATARA MEWS, 38A PENROSE STREET, LONDON, SE17 (Ref. 15/AP/1062) Demolition and redevelopment to provide 270 residential units (Class C3) within new buildings ranging from 2 to 7 storeys, a refurbished 33 Manor Place (Grade II listed) and 17-21 Manor Place and 3,730sqm (GEA) of commercial floorspace, comprising 1,476sqm (Classes A1/A2/A3/B1/D1/D2) within 9 refurbished railway viaduct arches and 2,254sqm (Class B1) within the refurbished Pool House and Wash House (Grade II Listed), with associated works including disabled car parking spaces, cycle parking, landscaping and access improvements.

(Grade II listed building) This proposal affects the character or setting of nearby listed building(s):33 Manor Place. Reason(s) for publicity: ALB, LBA, MPA (Contact: Helen Goulden 020-7525-5349) 14 SYCAMORE COURT, ROYAL OAK YARD, LONDON, SE1 3TR (Ref. 15/AP/1261) Use of existing flat roof (at third floor level) as a roof terrace and installation of 1.1m high metal balustrades, 1.8m high green walls, bi-fold doors and 4 no. skylights to existing roof (within

Bermondsey Street C.A.) Reason(s) for publicity: CNA (Contact: Matthew Harvey 020 7525 4424) SAXON HOUSE, 48 SOUTHWARK STREET, LONDON, SE1 1UN (Ref. 15/AP/1360) Change of use of ground and basement from offices (Use Class B1) to gymnasium (Use Class D2) (within Thrale Street C.A.) Reason(s) for publicity: CNA (Contact: Michele Sterry 020 7525 5453) 7 TRAFALGAR AVENUE, LONDON, SE15 6NP (Ref. 15/AP/1203) Conversion of x2 one-bed flats at lower and upper ground floor levels into x1 maisonette; with associated works to include the erection of a single storey rear extension and internal alterations. (within Trafalgar Avenue C.A.) Reason(s) for publicity: CNA (Contact: Marina Lai 020 7525 5403) 115 WOODWARDE ROAD, LONDON, SE22 8UP (Ref. 15/AP/1365) (Householder Application) Single storey rear and side elevation; Rear dormer extension and reinstatement of chimney to front (within Dulwich Village C.A.) Reason(s) for publicity: CNA (Contact: Lasma Putrina 0207 525 7708) PREMIER INN-LONDON BRIDGE,127-143 BOROUGH HIGH STREET, SE1 (Ref. 15/AP/1427) Advertisement Consent for the display of 2 internally illuminated fascia signs, 2 externally illuminated projecting signs and 1 internally illuminated high level sign comprising letters and corporate logo. (within Borough High Street C.A.) (Grade II listed building) Reason(s) for publicity: CNA, LBA (Contact: Amy Lester 020 7525 5452) 179 EAST DULWICH GROVE, LONDON, SE22 8SY (Ref. 15/AP/1396) (Householder

Application) Partial demolition of the brick boundary wall and rebuild including new brick posts, metal railings and gates to resemble adjacent boundary walls (within Dulwich Village C.A.) Reason(s) for publicity: CNA (Contact: Lewis Goodley 0207 525 5976) 8 FRANK DIXON WAY, LONDON, SE21 7BB (Ref. 15/AP/1469) Erection of a new two storey dwellinghouse with basement and attic (within Dulwich Wood C.A.) Reason(s) for publicity: CNA (Contact: Lewis Goodley 0207 525 5976) 26 NUNHEAD GREEN, LONDON, SE15 3QF (Ref. 15/AP/1446) Installation of cash machine within external flank wall of shop (within Nunhead Green C.A.) Reason(s) for publicity: CNA (Contact: Matthew Harvey 020 7525 4424) 38-44 RYE LANE, LONDON, SE15 5BY (Ref. 15/AP/1443) Change of use of part of ground floor from Use Class A1 to to Use Class A2 and installation of shopfront (within Rye Lane C.A.) Reason(s) for publicity: CNA (Contact: Mumtaz Shaikh 0207 525 0585) 50 SOUTHWARK STREET, LONDON SE1 1UN (Ref. 15/AP/1604) Installation of replacement air conditioning unit on roof of building with acoustic screen. (within Thrale Street C.A.) Reason(s) for publicity: CNA (Contact: Robin Sedgwick 020 7525 3920) Dated 30 April 2015 - comments to be received within 21 days of this date GARY RICE Head of Development Management

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ROAD TRAFFIC REGULATION ACT 1984 SECTION 14(1) (MARINE STREET/FREAN STREET) TEMPORARY PROHIBITION OF TRAFFIC

THE LONDON BOROUGH OF SOUTHWARK (ELMINGTON ESTATE SITE D) COMPULSORY PURCHASE ORDER 2015 COMPULSORY PURCHASE OF LAND ON THE ELMINGTON ESTATE, SOUTHWARK, LONDON SE5

Notice is hereby given that the London Borough of Southwark has made the London Borough of Southwark (Elmington Estate Site D) Compulsory Purchase Order 2015, under Section 226(1)(a) of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990. It is about to submit this order to the Secretary of State for confirmation, and if confirmed, the order will authorise the London Borough of Southwark to purchase compulsorily the land described below for the purpose of facilitating the carrying out of development, re-development and improvement on or in relation to the land, in particular, for the purpose of securing the regeneration of that part of the Elmington Estate in Camberwell, London SE5 including the demolition of the existing residential units and the provision of a mixed tenure residential development and associated landscaping.

A copy of the order and accompanying map may be seen at all reasonable hours at the London Borough of Southwark’s offices, 160 Tooley Street, London SE1 2QH.

Any objection to the order must be made in writing to the Secretary of State at the National Planning Casework Unit, 5 St Philip’s Place, Colmore Row, Birmingham, B3 2PW before 27th May 2015 and should state the title of the order, the grounds of objection and the objector’s address and interests in the land.

DESCRIPTION OF LAND

All those land and buildings shown edged red and coloured pink on the Order Map to the West of Harris Street London SE5 and to the South and East of Benhill Road London SE5 comprising residential units being numbers 1-59 (inclusive) (odd) Benhill Road, Elmington Estate, London SE5.

Doreen Forrester-Brown Director of Legal Services on behalf of the London Borough of Southwark Date: 20th April 2015

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Southwark Council Environment & Leisure, Parking & Road Network Management, PO Box 64529 London SE1 5LX Ref: 2698

Goods Vehicle Operator's Licence

Alan Higgins trading as Kap Scaffolding (London) Limited of 7 Wotton Green, Orpington, Kent BR5 3PY is applying to change an existing licence as follows; To add an operating centre to keep 2 good vehicles at Manor Place Depot, Occupation Road, London, SE17 3BE Owners or occupiers of land (including buildings) near the operating centre who believe that their use or enjoyment of that land would be affected, should make written representations to the Traffic Commisioner at Hill Crest House, 386 Harehills Lane, Leeds, LS9 6NF stating their reasons, within 21 days of this notice. Representors must at the same time send a copy of their representations to the applicant at the address given at the top of this notice. A guide to making representations is available from the Traffic Commissioner's Office. www.transportoffice.gov.uk

The prohibition will be in place on the 11th May 2015.

Further information may be obtained by contacting Road Network & Parking Management on 0207 525 2014.

TEMPORARY PROHIBITION OF TRAFFIC

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.

Nicky Costin Road Network & Parking Business Manager

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.

ROAD TRAFFIC REGULATION ACT 1984 SECTION 14(1) (HOLLYDALE ROAD/BRABOURN GROVE)

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.

Dated this 30th April 2015

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.

LONDON BOROUGH OF SOUTHWARK

An alternative route for traffic would be via: Bethwin Road, Camberwell Road, Wyndham Road. Bethwin Road, John Ruskin Street, Camberwell New Road, Wyndham Road as applicable.

Further information may be obtained by contacting Road Network & Parking Management on 0207 525 2014.

An alternative route for traffic would be via: Jamaica Road, Sun Passage.as applicable.

Southwark Council Environment & Leisure, Parking & Road Network Management, PO Box 64529 London SE1 5LX Ref: 2699 LBSCR8292/1

(a) Crown Street approximately 30m from the junction of Sultan Street. (b) Crown Street at it’s junction with Sultan Street.

The prohibition will start on 9th & 10th May for (a) and 23rd – 24th May for (b) if due to adverse weather conditions then the restriction will be in place on either (a) 16th & 17th or (b) 30th & 31st May.

(a) Marine Street, between Old Jamaica Road and Frean Street. (b) Frean Street from it’s junction of Marine Street for approximately 30m (c) Sun Passage will be made two way for access and egress purposes only.

Nicky Costin Road Network & Parking Business Manager

TEMPORARY PROHIBITION OF TRAFFIC

The Council of the London Borough of Southwark and in consultation with Transport for London hereby gives notice that because of a crane operation by Baldwins Crane Hire Ltd it made an order the effect of which will be to prohibit vehicular traffic from entering part of the above named road.

Whilst works are in progress, and whilst the authorised traffic signs are displayed, no person shall cause any vehicle to enter, proceed, stop, wait, load or unload in:

Dated this 30th April 2015

ROAD TRAFFIC REGULATION ACT 1984 SECTION 14(1) (CROWN STREET) 1.

The Council of the London Borough of Southwark hereby gives notice that because of a crane operation by LTS Traffic Management to Eyot House, it made an order the effect of which will be to prohibit vehicular traffic from entering part of the above named road.

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The Council of the London Borough of Southwark hereby gives notice that because of Gas works by Southern Gas Networks it made an order the effect of which will be to prohibit vehicular traffic from making certain movements in the above named road.

Whilst the works are in progress and the authorised traffic signs are displayed, no person shall cause any vehicle to enter, proceed, stop, wait, load or unload in the northbound and southbound lane of carriageway between Lugard Road and Gibbon Road. The works will be carried out in phases as indicated below. (a) Phase 1: Northbound lane of carriageway in Hollydale Road, will be closed imposing a northbound temporary one way traffic flow between Brayards Road and Lugard Road. (b) Phase 2: Northbound lane of carriageway in Hollydale Road, will be closed imposing a northbound temporary one way traffic flow between Brayards Road and Brabourn Grove. (c) Phase 3: Northbound lane of carriageway in Hollydale Road, will be closed imposing a northbound temporary one way traffic flow between Brabourn Grove and Evelina Road. (d) Phase 4: Southbound lane of carriageway in Hollydale Road, will be closed imposing a southbound temporary one way traffic flow between Evelina Road and Gibbon Road. (e) Brabourn Grove will be closed from it’s junction with Hollydale Road for approximately 20m.

An alternative route will be via: (a) Lugard Road, Kirkwood Road, Brayards Road. (b) Hollydale Road, Dundas Road, St Mary’s Road, Evelina Road, Hollydale Road. (c) Hollydale Road, Dundas Road, St Mary’s Road, Evelina Road. (d) Gibbon Road, Evelina Road. (e) Lavanor Road, Brayards Road. .

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.

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.

The works will be carried out as part of a rolling closure between the 5th May – 16th October 2015.

Further information may be obtained by contacting Road Network & Parking Management on 0207 525 2014.

Dated this 30th April 2015 Nicky Costin Road Network & Parking Business Manager,

Southwark Council Environment & Leisure, Parking & Road Network Management, PO Box 64529 London SE1 5LX Ref: 2610

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Transport for London Public Notice

Transport for London Public Notice

ROAD TRAFFIC REGULATION ACT 1984

ROAD TRAFFIC REGULATION ACT 1984

THE A200 GLA ROAD (TOOLEY STREET, LONDON BOROUGH OF SOUTHWARK) (TEMPORARY PROHIBITION OF STOPPING) (NO.2) ORDER 2015

The A3200 GLA ROAD (STAMFORD STREET, LONDON BOROUGH OF SOUTHWARK AND LAMBETH) (TEMPORARY PROHIBITION OF TRAFFIC AND STOPPING) ORDER 2015

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1. Transport for London hereby gives notice that it has the for London hereby gives notice that it intends to make 1. made Transport above named Traffic Order under section 14(1), (5), (7) the and above 15(2) named Traffic Order under section 14(1) of the Road of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 and is satisfiedTraffic that these Regulation Act 1984 for the purpose specified in paragraph works will last in excess of 18 months for the purpose specified in 2.

The effect of the Order is summarised in paragraph 3. paragraph 2. The effect of the Order is summarised in paragraph 3.

2. The purpose of the Order is to prohibit and stop vehicles on certain sections of Stamford Street to enable works to take place.

2. The effect of the Order will be to prohibit any vehicle: 3. The effect of the Order will be to prohibit any person to cause any (1) except taxis, from stopping in the loading and unloading vehiclebays from entering, exiting or proceeding on A3200 Stamford situated at the southern kerb-line of A200 Tooley StreetStreet opposite between its junctions with Waterloo Road and Blackfriars Hayes Lane, Cottons Lane and Bridge Yard; Road, or Stopping on A3200 Stamford Street north side, between its junction with Hatfields and Broadwell and south side, between itsdisabled junction with Duchy Street and Coin Street.

(2) except local buses, from stopping in the loading and person s vehicles bay situated at the southern kerb-line of A200 Tooley Street opposite Battle Bridge Lane.

The Order will be effective at certain times from 16th May 2015 until 7th June 2015, every Friday 00.01AM until Sunday 11.59 PM or date when of the9th works have been completed whichever is the sooner.

3. The Order will be effective at certain times from the The prohibition will apply only during such times and to such extent May any as AM shall from time to time be indicated by traffic signs.

Saturday at 1:00 AM until Monday at 5:00 AM and from 1:00 any Public Holiday and until 5:00 AM on any day following a Public 4. The prohibitions will not apply in respect of: Holiday, until the works have been completed. The prohibition will apply only during such times and to such extent as shall from time to (1) any vehicle being used for the purposes of those works or for time be indicated by traffic signs. fire brigade, ambulance or police purposes; (2) anything done with the permission or at the direction of a police constable in uniform or a person authorised by Transport for London.

(1) any vehicle being used for the purposes of those works or for fire brigade, ambulance or police purposes; 5. At such times as the prohibition is in force an alternative route will be indicated by traffic signs via (for westbound traffic) (2) anything done with the permission or at the direction of a Blackfriars Road, St George s Circus, London Road, Garden Row, police constable in uniform or a person authorised by Transport for s Road, Westminster Bridge Road, Waterloo Road to St George London. normal route of travel. (For eastbound traffic) Waterloo Road, Westminster Bridge Road, St George s Circus, Blackfriars Road to 5. The Order will be revoked upon completion of these works. normal route of travel.

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The prohibitions will not apply in respect of:

Dated this 30th day of April 2015.

Dated this 30th day of April 2015

Mufu Durowoju, Transition Manager, Network Impact Management, Road Space Management Operations, Transport for London Palestra, 197 Blackfriars Road, London, SE1 8NJ

Mufu Durowoju, Transition Manager, Network Impact Management, Road Space Management Operations Transport for London, Palestra, 197 Blackfriars Road, London, SE1 8NJ

Notice of Application for a Premises Licence made under Section 17 of the Licensing Act 2003

Please take notice that we CH & CO Catering Have made application to the local licensing authority for a new premises licence in respect of The Hub, Unit 18-19 Bermondsey Trading Estate, SE16 3LL

The relevant licensable activities and proposed times to be carried on, on from the premises are

The supply of alcohol

The provision of late night refreshment: Opening hours

Days Mon - Sun

Start time 10:00

Finish time 00:00

Mon - Sun

23:00

00:00

Mon - Sun

10:00

00:00

A register of all applications made within the Southwark area is maintained by The Licensing Service, c/o Southwark Environmental Health and Trading Standards, 3rd Floor Hub 2, 160 Tooley Street, London, SE1 5LX 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 on our web site at www.southwark.gov.uk/businesscentre/licensing/currentapplication It is open to any person to make representations about the likely effect of the grant of the premises licence on the promotion of the licensing objectives. Representations must be made in writing to the Licensing Service at the office address given above 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: 23.04.2015

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LONDON BOROUGH OF SOUTHWARK DISABLED PERSONS PARKING PLACES The London Borough of Southwark (Free parking places) (Disabled persons) (No. *) Order 201* The London Borough of Southwark (Parking places) (CPZ ‘E’) (No. *) Order 201* The London Borough of Southwark (Parking places) (CPZ ‘EC’) (No. *) Order 201* The London Borough of Southwark (Parking places) (CPZ ‘J’) (No. *) Order 201* 1. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the council of the London Borough of Southwark (‘the council’) propose to make the above-mentioned orders under sections 6 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 would be:- (a) to provide new ‘at any time’ unlimited stay disabled persons parking places, 6 metres in length, at the following locations: [i] AMBERGATE STREET, the south-east side, outside No. 108 Ambergate Street; [ii] ASTBURY ROAD, the north-west side, outside No. 48 Astbury Road; [iii] ASTBURY ROAD, the north side, outside Nos. 88a/b Astbury Road; [iv] CARLTON GROVE, the east side, outside Nos. 6-76 Carlton Grove; [v] CASINO AVENUE, the northwest side, outside No. 109 Casino Avenue; [vi] DENMAN ROAD, the south-west side, outside No. 43 Denman Road; [vii] ROSEBERRY STREET, the south-east side, at the flank of Nos. 24-38 Galleywall Road; [viii] LORRIMORE ROAD, the north-west side, outside No. 54 Lorrimore Road; [ix] NAYLOR ROAD, the north-east side, outside No. 63 Naylor Road; [x] WELLS WAY, the east side, outside No. 129 Wells Way; and (b) to split or reduce in length existing permit parking places in AMBERGATE STREET, LORRIMORE ROAD and WELLS WAY so as to accommodate the provision of the new disabled persons parking places referred to above.

3. Further information may be obtained by contacting Mr. Michael Herd of the council's Public realm projects parking design team by telephone on 020 7525 2131.

4. Copies of the proposed orders and other documents giving more detailed particulars of the proposal may be viewed either: online at:- http://www.southwark.gov.uk/trafficorders or, for paper copies, upon request at Public realm projects, Environment and leisure, 3rd floor hub 1, 160 Tooley Street, London SE1 2QH. Please telephone 020 7525 2005 to arrange an appointment.

5. Persons wishing to object to the proposal, or make any other representations in respect of it may either use this online form: https://forms.southwark.gov.uk/ShowForm.asp?fm_fid=1081 or send a statement in writing (in the case of an objection, stating the grounds on which the objection is made), to: the Traffic orders officer, Public realm projects, Southwark council, Environment and leisure, P.O. Box 64529, London SE1P 5LX or via e-mail to: traffic.orders@southwark.gov.uk quoting reference PRP/ND/TMO1516-010 by 21 May 2015.

6. In the preparation of an objection and the statement of grounds of objection it should be borne in mind that the substance of any objection or representation may be communicated to other people who may be affected. Information provided in response to this consultation, including personal information, may be subject to publication or disclosure in accordance with current access to information legislation.

Dated 30 April 2015 NICKY COSTIN Road network and parking business unit manager, Public realm

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LONDON BOROUGH OF SOUTHWARK LOCAL PARKING ISSUES The London Borough of Southwark (Parking places) (CPZ ‘D’) (No. *) Order 201*, The London Borough of Southwark (Parking places) (CPZ ‘F’) (No. *) Order 201*, The London Borough of Southwark (Parking places) (CPZ ‘G’) (No. *) Order 201*, The London Borough of Southwark (Free parking places) (No. *) Order 201*, The London Borough of Southwark (Free parking places) (Disabled persons) (No. *) Order 201*, The London Borough of Southwark (Loading bays) (No. *) Order 201*, The London Borough of Southwark (Waiting and loading restrictions) (Amendment No. *) Order 201* 1. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the council of the London Borough of Southwark (‘the council’) propose to make the above-mentioned orders under sections 6 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 would be, in:- (a) ADYS ROAD, to introduce ‘at any time’ waiting restrictions on both sides at its junction with Oglander Road; (b) ARDBEG ROAD, to introduce ‘at any time’ waiting restrictions on both sides at its junction with Half Moon Lane; (c) BECKWITH ROAD, to introduce ‘at any time’ waiting restrictions on the north-west side at its junction with Wyneham Road; (d) BLANCHEDOWNE, to introduce a short length of ‘at any time’ waiting restrictions on the east side outside No. 48 Blanchedowne, in front of a vehicle footway crossover; (e) BLUE ANCHOR LANE, to make permanent existing ‘at any time’ waiting restrictions at its junction with St. James’s Road, introduced by way of a temporary order; (f) CADET DRIVE, to introduce ‘at any time’ waiting restrictions: [i] on all sides of the vehicle turning area located between Nos. 52 and 53 Cadet Drive, [ii] on the south-east side of the north-east to south-west arm of Cadet Drive at its junction with the north-west to south-east arm of Cadet Drive, and [iii] on both sides of the north-west to south-east arm of Cadet Drive at its junction with the north-east to south-west arm of Cadet Drive; (g) CLIFTON WAY, to introduce ‘at any time’ waiting restrictions: [i] on the south side at its junction with Loder Street, and [ii] on both sides at its junction with Pomeroy Street; (h) DANECROFT ROAD, to introduce ‘at any time’ waiting restrictions: [i] on both sides at its junction with Herne Hill, and [ii] on both sides at its junction with Elmwood Road; (i) DULWICH VILLAGE, to introduce a short length of ‘at any time’ waiting restrictions on the west side outside No. 60 Dulwich Village, in front of a vehicle footway crossover; (j) ELFINDALE ROAD, to introduce ‘at any time’ waiting restrictions on both sides at its junction with Elmwood Road; (k) ELMWOOD ROAD, to introduce ‘at any time’ waiting restrictions¨[i] on the north-west side at its junction with Danecroft Road, [ii] on the north-west and west side at its junction with Frankfurt Road, [iii] on the south-west side at its junction with Elfindale Road, and [iv] on the south-east and east side at its junction with Wyneham Road; (l) FOREST HILL ROAD, to introduce a short length of ‘at any time’ waiting restrictions on the south-west side outside No. 76 Forest Hill Road, in front of a vehicle footway crossover; (m) FRANKFURT ROAD, to introduce ‘at any time’ waiting restrictions on both sides at its junction with Elmwood Road; (n) HALF MOON LANE, to introduce ‘at any time’ waiting restrictions on the north-west side at its junction with Ardbeg Road; (o) HERNE HILL, to introduce ‘at any time’ waiting restrictions on the south-east side at its junction with Danecroft Road; (p) LODER STREET, to introduce ‘at any time’ waiting restrictions on both sides at its junction with Clifton Way; (q) MARMORA ROAD, to introduce a short length of ‘at any time’ waiting restrictions on the north-west side outside No. 60 Marmora Road, in front of a vehicle footway crossover; (r) MEADOW ROAD, to [i] extend two existing permit parking places, and [ii] convert all existing ‘single yellow line’ waiting restrictions to ‘at any time’ waiting restrictions; (s) NEWCOMEN STREET, to [i] relocate an existing permit parking place, and [ii] introduce two new lengths of ‘at any time’ waiting restrictions on the north-east and south-west sides between its junctions with Bowling Green Place and Tennis Street; (t) OGLANDER ROAD, to introduce ‘at any time’ waiting restrictions on the south-east side at its junction with Adys Road; (u) PAGES WALK, to [i] extend an existing ‘shared-use’ parking place, and [ii] convert all existing ‘single yellow line’ waiting restrictions to ‘at any time’ waiting restrictions; (v) POMEROY STREET, to introduce ‘at any time’ waiting restrictions on the west side at its junction with Clifton Way; (w) RAYMOUTH ROAD, to remove part of an existing loading bay on the south-west side and introduce ‘at any time’ waiting restrictions; (x) ROCKINGHAM STREET, to convert existing ‘single yellow line’ waiting restrictions to ‘at any time’ waiting restrictions on the south-west side at its junction with Meadow Row; (y) ST. GEORGE’S WAY, to extend an existing length of ‘at any time’ waiting restrictions on the south side at its junction with Trafalgar Avenue; (z) ST. JAMES’S ROAD, to [i] to make permanent existing ‘at any time’ waiting restrictions on the east side at its junction with Blue Anchor Lane, introduced by way of a temporary order, and [ii] to introduce ‘at any time’ waiting restrictions on the west side between its junctions with Alexis Street and Blue Anchor Lane; (aa) SHAWBURY ROAD, to [i] extend an existing free short stay parking place on the north-east side outside Shawbury Court, [ii] to provide two new limited stay disabled persons parking places on the north-east side outside Shawbury Court and on the south-west side outside No. 2 Shawbury Road, [iii] to provide a new loading bay on the south-west side at the flank of No. 117 Lordship Lane, and [iv] to introduce new lengths of ‘at any time’ waiting restrictions in front of vehicle footway crossovers on the north-east side adjacent to Shawbury Court and on the south-west side adjacent to No. 2 Shawbury Road; (bb) TOULON STREET, to convert existing ‘single yellow line’ waiting restrictions to ‘at any time’ waiting restrictions on the east side in front of a vehicle footway crossover leading to underground garages; and (cc) WYNEHAM ROAD, to introduce ‘at any time’ waiting restrictions: [i] on both sides at its junction with Elmwood Road, and [ii] on both sides at its junction with Beckwith Road.

3. Further information may be obtained by contacting Mr. Michael Herd of the council's Public realm projects (parking design) team by telephone on 020 7525 2131.

4. Copies of the proposed orders and other documents giving more detailed particulars of the proposal may be viewed either: online at:- http://www.southwark.gov.uk/trafficorders , or, for paper copies, upon request at Public realm projects (parking design), Environment and leisure, 3rd floor hub 1, 160 Tooley Street, London SE1 2QH. Please telephone 020 7525 2005 to arrange an appointment.

5. Persons wishing to object to the proposal, or make any other representations in respect of it may either use this online form: https://forms.southwark.gov.uk/ShowForm.asp?fm_fid=1081 or send a statement in writing (in the case of an objection, stating the grounds on which the objection is made), to: the Traffic orders officer, Public realm projects, Southwark council, Environment and leisure, P.O. Box 64529, London SE1P 5LX or via e-mail to: traffic.orders@southwark.gov.uk quoting reference PRP/ND/TMO1516-009 by 21 May 2015.

6. In the preparation of an objection and the statement of grounds of objection it should be borne in mind that the substance of any objection or representation may be communicated to other people who may be affected. Information provided in response to this consultation, including personal information, may be subject to publication or disclosure in accordance with current access to information legislation.

Dated 30 April 2015 NICKY COSTIN Road network and parking business unit manager, Public realm LONDON BOROUGH OF SOUTHWARK

The Council of the London Borough of Southwark PUBLIC NOTICE: ROAD TRAFFIC REGULATION ACT 1984 – SECTION 16A SPECIAL EVENTS ORDER 2015

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

2. The purpose of the Order is to facilitate a procession in the road listed, as indicated in the schedule to this notice.

3. For information regarding this notice, please contact Parking & Road Network Management on 0207 525 2014.

Dated this 30th April 2015 Nicky Costin Road Network & Parking Business Manager

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Road

Lambeth Road

(Start of procession)

Elephant & Castle Station Walworth Road

Albany Road

Camberwell Green (End of procession)

Extent

1.

2.

3.

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5.

Southwark Council, Environment & Leisure, Parking & Road Network Management SE1 5LX ref: 2700

Schedule

ROAD TRAFFIC REGULATION ACT 1984 SECTION 14(1) (ROLLS ROAD)

Date of event

(St Georges Cathedral) 2nd May 2015

Prohibited hours

2pm -3.20pm

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TEMPORARY PROHIBITION OF TRAFFIC

The Council of the London Borough of Southwark hereby gives notice that because of Thames Water/ Optimise works, it intends to make an order the effect of which will be to prohibit vehicular traffic from entering part of the above named road.

Whilst works are in progress, and whilst the authorised traffic signs are displayed, no person shall cause any vehicle to enter, proceed, stop, wait, load or unload in Rolls Road, between Marlborough Grove and St James’s Road. (Eastbound) An alternative route will be via Marlborough Grove, Old Kent Road, St James Road as applicable..

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.

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.

The prohibition will be in place on the between the 11th May – 5th June 2015.

Further information may be obtained by contacting Road Network & Parking Management on 0207 525 2014.

Dated this 30th April 2015 Nicky Costin Road Network & Parking

(Sacred Heart Church)

Business Manager Southwark Council Environment & Leisure, Parking & Road Network Management, PO Box 64529 London SE1 5LX Ref: 2630

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Surrey CCC to support Evelina London in 2015

The News is the official regional media partner of the Kia Oval

SURREY CCC have once again pledged their support to the Evelina London Children’s Hospital – partnering with the charity for the second year in a row.

As part of the deal, eleven Surrey players have given up their personal bat sponsorships to back Evelina London, which is based on the north Lambeth site of St. Thomas’s Hospital just up the road from the Kia Oval.

The players to have donated the sponsorships are: Matthew Dunn, Arun Harinath, Zafar Ansari, Aneesh

Kapil, Steven Davies, Stuart Meaker, Ben Foakes, David Balcombe, Tim Linley, Chris Tremlett and Tom Curran. To mark the donation, they all posed for a photo at the Kia Oval this week alongside Evelina London patients and staff.

Evelina London cares for children and young people from across south London and south east England. It offers a unique range of services from antenatal diagnosis through to childhood and into adolescence.

Evelina London also supports children in the local community and in their homes.

Last year the partnership raised £57,000 with events including a Family Fun Day and 5k race at the Kia Oval, a themed match in the NatWest T20 Blast and members of Surrey staff – including the ever popular mascot Caesar the Lion! – undertaking fundraising activities.

Dr Grenville Fox, joint clinical director of Evelina London said: “The partnership with the Kia Oval has been fantastic, both for raising

awareness of the hospital and bringing joy to patients and staff. The themed match last year was great fun for us all; we even brought along a boy who had undergone a kidney transplant ten days before, who was absolutely desperate to come and be a part of the match!”

Richard Thompson, Chairman of Surrey CCC, a d d e d : “Evelina L o n d o n Children’s Hospital is a very special place and at the Kia Oval we are honoured to be continuing our support for another year. To raise over £50,000 in the first year of our partnership was a great achievement and everyone at the club looks forward to working together in 2015 to continue this.”

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Mullins happy despite no titles

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LYNN HEAD COACH Samm Mullins is happy with how his three boxers performed at the ABA finals last weekend, despite a mixed bag of results for his squad.

Of the three Lynn fighters who made the trip to Merseyside only teenager Jenna O’Reilly made it to the final with Charlie Driscoll losing his quarter-final bout last Friday and Louie Lynn losing his last four contest 24 hours later.

Mullins said: “I was happy with how the whole team performed over the

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weekend and I thought they did the club proud.”

Of the three most was expected of Driscoll, who operates at under 64kg, but he lost to second seed Alfie Price in their match up.

Mullins however was not happy with verdict. He said: “I thought he was very unlucky. I thought he won but the other kid’s hand went up at the end of the bout.

“Everyone in the crowd and ourselves were a bit shocked by the decision but it went against us. The way Charlie boxed was brilliant especially as we are adjusting his style.

Jenna O Reilly made to an ABA final in her first tilt in the tournament

Southwark News, Thursday April 30, 2015

Wilson to face England

By John Prendergast

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SURREY WICKET keeper batsman Gary Wilson has been confirmed in the Ireland squad for their one day international against England in Dublin next Friday.

“I don’t know how he lost that bout but there is no point in bellyaching about it all you just get on with it.”

Louis Lynn, an under 52kg boxer, picked up a win over Sheffield fighter Tommy Franks in his quarter final but he found a step up in class in the semifinal a harder prospect to handle.

Mullins said: “Louie is just out of the novices really and he won his first bout of the weekend and then he boxed [Bury ABC amateur] Muhammad Ali in the semi-finals.

“Ali is rated highly in world boxing, not just in British boxing, and Louie lost on points to him. But he gave it a

right go and that’s all we can ask of him and we are so proud of how he performed.”

Nineteen-year-old O’Reilly picked up a win over Kirsty Hill from Grimsby in her first outing but in the final she also fell short.

Mullins added: “Jenna made it through her semi-final but on the big day she just didn’t get going. She has done well to get as far as she did, she is still only nineteen and boxing against fighters who are much older and more experienced than her.

“But this should be a good experience for her going forward.”

Knuckle knock stalls Carr show

By John Prendergast

news@southwarknews.co.uk

A HAND injury put paid to any hopes Fisher boxer Danny Carr had of lifting an ABA title his coach Steve Hiser told the News this week.

not the same Danny Carr who took part in the five bouts that got him to Liverpool.

“He damaged a knuckle in his hand before the bout and I wanted to pull him out. But Danny wanted to give it a go.

“He will have it looked at and maybe he will have to have surgery now.”

But the defiant Fisher pugilist seemed to be coping with the injury initially in the fight, but Hiser spotted problems as the first three minutes went by.

Hiser added: “Danny hit him hard with

a couple of rights in the first round and I thought he might be ok, but you could see on his face that Danny was hurting in there.

“So he effectively boxed with one hand for most of the fight. He lost out on the day but we at Fisher are still really proud of what he achieved.”

Cope fought Luke McCormack from Birtley in the last four of the competition, losing a points verdict against the man who would eventually prevail in the under 60kg weight category.

boxer.

“She came out like a whirlwind, similar to how her brother boxes, and she gave her opponent two counts before the towel came in from the other corner.”

Dominic Joyce, fifteen, also impressed Hiser with his showing. The Fisher stalwart said: “Dominic put on a display that would have been worthy of a seasoned international.

“Sacha picked up the award for fighter of the night but for the boxing purist Dominic was just as impressive.

“He is beginning to grow up and in the last couple of months he has conducted himself in a correct manner in and out of the ring.”

Kanisha Amery, seventeen, beat Yusus Taraajia from Miguels ABC in his outing despite conceding three kilograms in weight to his opponent.

Denzil Ntimmensah, 20, a senior middleweight at Fisher beat Deon Clark, also from Miguels, despite having to face an early onslaught.

Hiser added: “Denzil hit him with all kinds of shots. It was impressive the way he held his composure when under pressure to eventually win on points.”

The final bout of the night proved the most explosive as Fisher boxer Tomiwa ‘Big Tom’ Magbagbeola, a 22-year-old who boxes at 90kg, showed his punching power.

“This was the last bout of the night

and it was like something from Rocky.

There were punches landing everywhere and it got the crowd on their feet.” Hiser said.

“Tom can box but he got on top in this bout by simply trading shots. It was like a wild west brawl in there.”

EMPICSSPORT

Danny Carr took part in the ABAs despite a hand injury

The 25-year-old had made to the ABA finals in Liverpool last weekend but he lost his quarter-final match up with Adam Cope from the Gus Robinson club on a points decision.

But Hiser insisted the Merseyside crowd did not see the best of his lightweight as he carried an injury into the contest, but Carr wanted to fight against his coaches wished.

The Fisher ABC head coach said: “Danny lost on points and we had no qualms with the decision. But that was

Wilson, who will be playing his 59th One Day International for his country if selected, should not miss any Surrey matches by playing in the game as there is time for to him to return to the Kia Oval ahead of the club’s next contest against Leicestershire two days after the international match up.

Meanwhile the Kia Oval side got their first class season underway with a draw against Glamorgan at the SWALEC Stadium in Cardiff last week.

In a game dominated by the bat Kumar Sangakkara scored 149 in Surrey’s first innings total of 563 whilst Steven Davies surpassed that effort with a knock of 200 not out.

But when the home side picked up the willow Surrey found it hard going to knock them over and it always looked unlikely they would pick up the 20 wickets needed for a win.

Indeed on the final day when the home side were asked to chase an unlikely 352 from 57 overs to win the game the Glamorgan openers batted out the overs to secure the draw.

In any case the Kennington club picked up twelve bonus points during the game whilst the Welsh side secured nine points.

Surrey’s current Championship encounter against Essex at the Kia Oval is due to end after we go to press.

To find out that result, and the latest Surrey news, visit www.kiaoval.com.

Fisher five victorious on club show

IT WAS a perfect night for the five Fisher fighters who took part in their club show last week as all won out at the fundraising event in Limehouse.

The annual event, held at The Troxy, raises cash for the Downside Fisher organisation and also allows boxing coach Steve Hiser to give his charges a run out in a competitive environment.

The youngest Fisher boxer on show was Sacha Hickey, eleven, who impressed so much she was voted boxer of the night by ex-Fisher amateur Pete McDonagh.

Hiser said: “This was only her second bout and she took on Lucy Rumble from the Rumbles Gym who is a decent

Fisher head coach Steve Hiser saw five of his boxers win on their club show

Gary Wilson has been called up by Ireland to face an England XI

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Southwark AllStars FC U9s 3

Beckenham Town Red 1

By John Prendergast

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A BRACE of goals from Jeremiah Pinder ensured the AllStars under nine outfit picked up their first piece of silverware in the shape of the Tandridge League Challenge Cup.

Early on Beckenham played some great passing football but the home sides Ibrahim Fullah and Abastian Kargbo held off the visitors’ showing great positioning and tackling.

The AllStars created the clearest chances in the first half, with Ed

Hutchings and Jeremiah Pinder sharing a goal and an assist apiece to put the Southwark boys in control at half time.

In addition keeper Camron Letang-Bankole made a superb

block to keep a clean sheet at the half way mark.

After the break the AllStars attacked relentlessly and camped in the Beckenham half forcing a string of great saves from the

Chipstead FC 2

By Colin Grant

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TERRELL DOSUNMU finished off a stunning team goal that secured the U10s Tandridge League Challenge Cup for Southwark AllStars at Burgess Park on Sunday.

The under ten AllStars squad in celebratory mood after their cup win

time snap shot past the Chipstead keeper.

It turned out to be the winning goal as the visitors grabbed a second with five minutes remaining but the AllStars defended comfortably for the last five minutes to secure the silverware.

Secretary Joe Dobson said: "Every boy did their bit. Many thanks to coaches Colin, Rilwan and David for

Stansfeld O&B FC 5 Snodland Town 2

Stansfeld O&B FC 0 Guru Nanak 0

By Lloyd Bradley

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A SAM Ryan hat-trick proved to be the difference as Stansfeld closed in on second place in the Kent County League Premier

Division.

In another busy week for the Bermondsey club Ryan bagged a treble on Saturday and despite some resistance from Snodland the Southwark club eventually prevailed.

Two goals from Ryan gave Stansfeld an early lead before Ben Scudder and Harry Dawes restored parity to the scoreline.

But further efforts from Billy Shinners, Ryan and Archie Johnson ensured that all the points would go the way of Stansfeld.

The victory came on the back of a

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GIRLS FROM Southwark Tigers rugby club formed part of a London Barbarians side who picked up silverware at the Middlesex Saint George's Day Girls Rugby festival on Sunday.

midweek draw with Guru Nanak Although this game ended goalless it was never boring with both sides still looking to take the runners-up spot in the table.

Both sides went all out for the win but Stansfeld had the lion's share of the chances and were unfortunate not to take all the points in what was a thoroughly entertaining game.

Stansfeld play Farnborough OBG in the final of the Bill Manklow Inter-Regional Challenge Cup at Chatham Town on Tuesday May 5.

The game kicks off at 7.30pm.

The scratch team, the nature of Baa Baa sides in Rugby Union, won their final 25-0 in order to secure the trophy in the Plate Final of the tournament.

The Burgess Park based girls already play regularly with Hackney Belles and they joined up with Ealing Grasshoppers and Hampstead to form the Barbarian squad, the bulk of whom hailed from the Southwark U15 side.

A Baa Baa spokeswoman said: “The numbers helped keep the squad fresh as did the extensive experience of the Southwark girls.

“With a mixture of county players and new girls the combined squad thrived and survived to come top of their final group.

“It was a toast to the power of London girls and the ability of London girls to get on, get on with it and make success from a scratch team.”

The Tigers season has now finished but should you want more information about any of the age group sides at the club, both girls and boys, visit www.pitchero.com/clubs/southwar ktigers.

their hard work and for Abbie and all the parents who've driven the boys to all their away matches.

“We are all very proud of the team and will be moving up to the bigger sized pitch next season so need some more players to join the squad.”

Anyone interested in joining Southwark AllStars should e-mail joeadd@virginmedia.com.

The London Barbarians squad including a number of Southwark Tigers

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Ryan treble sees off Snodland

By Maggie Hammond

PHOTO: Sonya Hau

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four one touch passes involving Kone and Romeo Udo. Hashiru Deen-Gabisie then picked up the ball, switched play across the pitch to Udo who cut inside and played a perfectly weighted through ball into the box.

Dosunmu had made a well timed run into the box allowing the through ball to run across his body and blast a first

Tigers go Baa Baa

The under nine AllStars side won their first trophy on Sunday

Dosunmu wonder goal bags trophy

The Peckham & Camberwell based team had to win it the hard way after going a goal down within a minute.

AllStars got a slice of luck a minute later to equalise when midfielder Chika Nnabugwu shot from the edge of the box and the Chipstead defender, under pressure from Allstars midfielder Imran Kone, tried to block the shot but only succeeded in putting the ball past his own keeper.

Dosunmu came on at half time and within a minute had put AllStars ahead, finishing clinically with his first touch of the match.

With ten minutes remaining of the match Southwark keeper Joey Ideh took a short goal kick and the ball was played around the home team including

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Reds’ keeper.

After hitting the woodwork three times Pinder scored a third to make the game safe. Beckenham managed a late consolation goal but the result was never in doubt.

Club Secretary Joe Dobson said: “It was the best performance I’ve seen them give and against a team they’d not beaten in three previous attempts.

“My man of the match was our midfielder Cameron Yankah-Huie.

He sacrificed his own attacking instincts for the sake of the team which played a huge part in keeping the opposition forwards quiet. “Big congratulations to all the boys, parents and to coaches Ahmed, Rilwan and Jo who have made the team tick this season.”

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Plans Gavin Rose put in place for the play offs have been thrown into disarray

By John Prendergast

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A FARCICAL chain of events has led to the postponement of Dulwich Hamlet’s play off encounter with Margate tonight.

Enfield Town, who are due to face Hendon in the other play off semi-final, are facing FA action over an ineligible player which could result in a points deduction.

Enfield have stated that they notified the FA of the indiscretion in January and after consultation between the two they had already dealt with the matter.

However Enfield were formally charged with an offence days before the final game of the season last Saturday.

A Ryman League statement released on Tuesday said: “The Football Association (FA) has ruled that both Ryman League Premier Division PlayOff Semi-Finals due to be played this Thursday should be postponed until the situation surrounding Enfield Town FC is clarified.

“The FA's decision follows the Ryman League being advised that a charge of playing a player who should have been suspended had been made and proven

by The FA against Enfield Town FC. “The Ryman League has charged Enfield Town FC with playing an ineligible player and the club has requested a personal hearing which will

Rose happy with Hamlet progress

By John Prendergast

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campaign.

Harry Ottaway was on target as Hamlet secured a play off berth on Saturday

HAMLET BOSS Gavin Rose believes his side have made progress this season despite a disappointing run of form at the tail end of the

LIONESSES maintained their unbeaten start to their Women’s Super League Division Two campaign after a 0-0 draw with Durham Ladies on Sunday.

In their five league fixtures this campaign Millwall have picked up one win and drawn four other contests in a solid start to the season.

Speaking after the Durham game Lionesses manager Dan Mlinar said: “Again we just didn’t quite have that quality, or that someone who could make something out of nothing but we are trying to get that.

“If we can add goals this team can push for the top half and push for the top three, but it is a short season so you’ve got to get at it quick or you will run out of games.”

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of turnaround in terms of players at the start of this season, the previous team had been together for two to three years.

“So to achieve what they have and secure fourth place in the league means you have to give the boys a great deal of credit.

“There has been great progress this season and you have to be happy with that.

Rose added: “There is great quality in this team and they could have finished higher or even won the league but I think at times this season you could see this team had just come together, and that had a hand in us not pushing for an even higher position than we ended up in.

“In terms of what we have done so far this season it is progress as we ended two

places higher than last season, and there is now good quality in the team.”

The club is very much on a roll on and off the pitch with big crowds regularly flocking to Champion Hill.

Rose admits success means fans expect more, something he welcomes: “You do have to keep things in perspective and think of where we have come from before recent years.

“I am sure some fans may be disappointment about this season, but that maybe comes from fans who are used to us winning week in and week out and maybe aren’t aware of where we were before.

“But the current expectation level of fans is something we want at the club and we welcome it, it is a pressure we want too.”

generate an income, because there is no doubt that will make a difference to what we are able to do.”

He added: “I would really like us to have an under 21 side here. There is a lot of talent in the area and having that under 21 side will help bridge that gap between the under eighteen sides we do have and the first team.

“It would also be good to get all the sides under the Fisher banner playing back in Rotherhithe. I would like to see that happen by the latter part of next season or the season after that.”

Harrison is also happy with how the club has moved on since his appointment last December.

He said: “When I arrived here, and this is no disrespect to who was here before, it was all a bit like a bunch

of pals who meet up on a Saturday for a game of football.

“In the past couple of months we have brought together a group of players at Fisher Football Club who understand what we are trying to achieve here and there is now a better attitude in terms of discipline.

“I’m happy we are moving in the right direction in terms of player setup. Some of the things we are trying to achieve won’t happen overnight but we can achieve the things we want, but what happens with the new ground will be important in a lot of the thing we want to do.”

THE GONGS were shared around the Fisher FC squad as they finished their campaign off with an end of season party on Saturday.

Following the 5-1 defeat against Ashford United the Black and White players’ joined the fans in the bar for a party where some of the squad picked up individual awards for their efforts this campaign.

Kieron Tarbie picked up two awards after being name Fisher Players’ Player and Young Player of the Year at the weekend.

A vote amongst the Fisher faithful saw them select keeper Justin Lee as their player of the season, whilst manager Dean Harrison had a third pick when he selected Alfie Roche as his star performer.

The Fish boss told the News: “I picked Alfie but there were others I thought about including Luke Haidarovic who has been great since coming in and Dave Waters who has brought some much needed experience to the team.

“But I opted for Alfie as he is a player with a lot of talent and when I came into the club I could see he was raw. But if he applies himself he is somebody who could play up at least a couple of levels in the next few seasons.

“I am big on attitude too and he is somebody who listens and is willing to give things a go which is something else I like about him.

“He is also somebody who has been at the club for the whole season and I thought it was important to have somebody get recognition who was here the entire campaign.”

Fisher players shared out the end of season player awards on Saturday

Harrison seeks Fisher reunion in Rotherhithe

FISHER GAFFER Dean Harrison hopes to bring all the strands of the club back together in Rotherhithe next season, once they move back into their new stadium.

The Black and Whites hope to move back to the north of Southwark at some point next campaign, although when that will happen is still to be settled.

But once back home Harrison wants Fisher sides playing at all levels to reunite in a ground situated at the spiritual home of the club.

He told the News: “I am going to meet with the board in the next couple of weeks to talk about our goals for next season.

“A lot of our planning with depend on what happens with the ground next season and being able to

Fisher were heavily defeated against Ashford on Saturday

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Millwall Lionesses remain unbeaten

When Dulwich defeated play off rivals Margate away from home in mid-January it appeared that the Champion Hill side were live title contenders.

However a poor run of form since Valentine’s Day has seen them pick up one league win since that date, although they are undefeated in their last five outings.

But the Hamlet manager believes the club are making continued progress as they finished in a higher league position than last season, although they picked up six less points.

He told the News: “There was quite a lot

be heard this week.”

Hamlet fans had already made travel arrangements, booked hotels and purchased tickets before the about turn.

A tweet from podcasters Forward the Hamlet reflected how many supporters felt. It said: “Incompetence of the highest order. No doubt there will be very little accountability for such disorganisation. #DHFC.” Manager Gavin Rose told the News on Monday, when they was no confirmation either way if the game was to go ahead, that the uncertainty made preparations very difficult but he had to assume the game was going ahead and would proceed accordingly.

As we went to press there has been no confirmation of when any of the semifinals or the final will take place.

If Hamlet win their contest they will host the one game play off final at Champion Hill should Enfield, or possible replacements Met Police, overcome Hendon.

Should Hendon and Hamlet prevail in their respective games the final will take place at the home of the north London club.

Fisher players share season awards

PHOTO: Alan Coomes

Photo by Dave Anderson

Both clubs were all set to play a one game semi-final this evening, a contest that was confirmed as going ahead on

Monday after Hamlet consulted with the Ryman League, only for the FA to call for it to be postponed a day later.

The two sides had already starting selling tickets for the game and Hamlet had booked two coaches for travelling fans, but the dates of the both semi-finals and final, due to occur on Bank Holiday Monday, are now up in the air.

The situation has come about as

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I WAS STOPPED IN MY TRACKS

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By Alex Aldridge

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THERE WAS a lot of expectation on Paris Cowan-Hall’s shoulders when he arrived at Millwall in January.

Fresh from a prolific spell in League Two with Wycombe, the speedy attacker had been earmarked as a key addition to the squad long before the transfer window opened.

The deal to bring him to The Den was done on January 2, and thenmanager Ian Holloway was enthused by the addition of pace, youth and energy to his ranks.

Before the ink was dry on the paperwork, Holloway talked up Cowan-Hall in one of his executivelounge speeches at The Den, telling fans they would all be excited by the first new arrival of the New Year.

But as the Law of Sod dictates, the 24-year-old then picked up an injury in his first week of training, damaging a calf in a tackle with Mark Beevers 48 hours before his anticipated debut against Blackpool.

He pulled on a Lions shirt for the first time against Reading on January 24, producing an impressive cameo after coming off the bench.

Two days later, however, it was revealed he’d suffered a hairline fracture of his tibia, as well as knee ligament damage, making a lunging challenge.

After another six weeks out, CowanHall was back in contention for Neil Harris’ first game in charge at Bolton.

But lightning struck twice for the former Portsmouth trainee as he ruptured a ligament in his ankle whilst stretching to win the ball back.

A month-and-a-half on, Cowan-Hall is injury-free at last - but the season is drawing to a close, and he will have to wait until next year to showcase his true potential.

An all-action attacker, each of his three injuries have been consistent with one thing - making tackles.

Sitting at the club’s training ground this week, Cowan-Hall ponders whether he’s too eager to fly into challenges and then reaches an assertive conclusion.

“If I see a tackle that I can make, I’ll try to make it,” he said. “That’s just the sort of person that I am.

“Maybe I need to start picking and choosing my tackles, or possibly jump out of a few, but that’s just the way I am and the way I play. I can’t help it.

“When I step over the white line, I want to win everything - every tackle and every game.”

Such was the excitement surrounding Cowan-Hall, a player who’d scored six goals in six games prior to his Millwall move, it is hard not to wonder what might’ve been had he been fully fit and firing.

“It’s been tough,” he added. “I’ve had some bad injuries - not just little ones or niggles, they’ve been proper.

“It’s been really annoying and frustrating for me. Obviously I was brought in to help with the situation that we’re in, so not being able to do that has been difficult.

“On top of that, before I came in, I

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was flying. To come in and be stopped in my tracks was difficult to take.”

When your luck’s out, it really is out.

“It’s been horrific since January,” Cowan-Hall continued. “During my injury I was on my way to watch one of the games, sitting in stationary traffic and someone drove straight into the side of my car.

“So yeah, it’s not been the best few months for me.”

Cowan-Hall’s return to action may

come too late for the Lions this season, but the winger, who signed a two-anda-half year contract in SE16, is optimistic about the future.

“It’s good to be back finally, to be training fully and to be part of the team again,” he said.

“I feel good now. My most recent injury was to my ankle - I completely ruptured a ligament - and those injuries can be a bit funny for a while.

“Even now I can sometimes feel it

but that’s just how ankles are. They take a bit of time to properly settle.

When I first came back, I wasn’t feeling as fit as I had been but now I feel great.

“Either way next season, I’ll still be playing in a higher division than I was playing in previously. It doesn’t matter what league we’re in, I’ll approach it in the same way.”

Signed by Holloway, Cowan-Hall now finds himself working under Neil

Harris.

For someone who’s only been at the club for four months, an awful lot has already changed.

“Things are different now but I’ve played under managers like Chopper before,” Cowan-Hall said. “A change of manager is part and parcel of football.

“When I was at Plymouth, I got brought in by one manager [Carl Fletcher], he was sacked a few months

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Rams fight back to wipe out Gregory’s treble

SK Y BET CHA MPIONSHIP

Millwall 3-3 Derby

By Alex Aldridge at the Den alex@southwarknews.co.uk

LEE GREGORY'S first professional hat-trick was not enough for Millwall to beat Derby, who fought back from 3-1 down to draw at The Den.

later, a new manager [John Sheridan] came in and I played for him too.

“The same thing almost happened at Wycombe two seasons ago - we were in a dogfight, got out of it and now they’re on the brink of promotion. I know how quickly things can change in this game.

“I’ve played with lots of players and under lots of managers, and that will continue to happen.”

Cowan-Hall left Wycombe behind in January after propelling Gareth Ainsworth’s side into the League Two title race.

Not long retired, Ainsworth is one of the game’s most highly-rated young managers - and Cowan-Hall sees similarities between the former QPR star and Harris.

“They do have some of the same qualities,” he said. “Gareth is very big on work rate and commitment - those were the basics he demanded, and then after that came quality and finishing in

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the final third.

“Gareth made sure his players represented the club properly, and that’s exactly what Chopper is like.”

Despite their league position, Millwall are, somewhat bizarrely given the circumstances, ending the campaign on a high under Harris.

“Chopper has changed a few things the way we’re playing and the ethos of the team,” Cowan-Hall said.

“It’s clear to see that the way we’ve been playing of late has been very, very good. We’ve got some thoroughly deserved results and not got others that we maybe did deserve.

“It does feel a positive time and I know the fans love him. There is a bit of a buzz here.”

Cowan-Hall is one of few players guaranteed to be with the Lions come what may next year - and he’s revealed a determination to stake a claim for a striking role.

“I’ve played in so many different

positions and formations during my career,” he said. “I’ve been a striker, a winger, a midfielder and a no.10, which is where I played when I came on against Blackburn last week.

“I’ve played on the left and the right side, in a 4-4-2 and in a 4-3-3. I’m pretty flexible now.

“The whole way through my youth team days and during my first official loan spells, I was played up top, be that behind a big frontman or on the shoulder of defenders.

“I have the ability to play on the wing, on the left or the right, but I’d say being up top is a lot easier because all you’ve got to do is score. On the wing, you have to be more inventive and do a lot more defensive work.

“There’s a lot more running on the wing, that’s for sure.”

Given Cowan-Hall’s eagerness to do well, he’s happy to run all day - and will keep throwing himself into every 50-50 challenge.

Gregory capitalised on Lee Grant's error to put the Lions in front and then doubled the lead from the penalty spot after Lee Martin's shot was handled.

But Tom Ince reduced the deficit on the stroke of half time when his soft free-kick floated over a poorly-built wall and crept in at the near post.

Gregory completed his treble and gave Millwall breathing space again in the 50th minute, converting from 12 yards following a shove on Alan Dunne.

The Lions' two-goal cushion was halved again, however, when Ince went to ground under Aiden O'Brien's challenge and Chris Martin scored from the spot.

O'Brien and Martyn Woolford were both denied by the fingertips of Grant during a spell of dominance for the home side, but the Rams carved out a fine late leveller.

A deep cross into the box was nodded down by Ince into the path of Jeff Hendrick, who struck a brilliant first-time volley across David Forde and into the top corner.

“If you score three goals at home, you expect to win,” Harris said afterwards.

“We've got enough senior players in the dressing room and on the pitch to see the game out.

“Their first goal was really poor – it was a poor set-piece to concede from.

It was a good free-kick but we didn't have the right set up.

“I've not had a go at the players but if they get simple things wrong like their shape at set-pieces then, yes, words will be said.

“The second one was a very soft penalty. I think the boy [Ince] has done really well to buy it. It was a ridiculous decision.

“For the third one, sometimes you have to hold your hands up and say 'what a great finish' but to be 3-1 up and not win is disappointing.

“I'm certainly not accepting 'well done' for getting a point, especially at home, when the bottom line at Millwall is winning home games.”

Gregory, who was almost withdrawn from the starting XI after rolling his ankle in the warm-up, added: “It feels like a defeat rather than a draw. It wasn't nice in the dressing room afterwards. We should be seeing out games like that.

“We were cruising at 3-1 up to be honest. Their penalty killed us a little bit and pulled some pressure onto us, and then they scored a great third goal.

“There's no doubt about that, you're not going to save those.”

Gregory's last penalty against Charlton was saved but he had no qualms about stepping up to take the next one - and the one after that.

“When I missed in the Charlton game, Neil said straight away that I was still on penalties and he told me not to worry about it,” the striker added.

“I've been practising every day in training for the past few weeks, so I knew which side I was going to put it and thankfully it came off for me.

“I tell the 'keepers to try to save them in training – I tell them before which side I'm going to go, and then the 'keeper has to save it.

“We practise penalties and finishing every day now. We're a lot more confident and we know what we're doing when we're going forward, and it's paying off.”

Player Ratings: Forde 6, Dunne 7, Harding 6, Abdou 7, Nelson 7, Hooiveld 6, Martin 6 (Gueye, 90mins), Bailey 7, Gregory 9 (Fuller, 78mins), O'Brien 7 (Cowan-Hall, 90mins), Woolford 6.

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Lack of firepower has cost Lions their Championship status, says captain

By Alex Aldridge

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IN THE last three years, Millwall have scored exactly 137 goals in 137 Championship games.

And if you compare the Lions’ record to the rest of the teams in the division during the same period, they fall well short.

Their one-goal-per-game ratio is far below the league average of 1.3, which over the course of a season is the difference between scoring 46 goals and scoring 60.

It is for that reason which Alan Dunne believes the club now finds itself in League One. “We’ve not had enough goals in the team over the last three seasons - that’s why we are where we are, and there’s no avoiding it,” Dunne told the News.

“It’s not easy for a club like Millwall to pay someone the money that a top striker demands in this league, but what they are demanding gets you goals.

“To get fifteen or 20 goals from someone in the Championship, you have to pay a premium and we haven’t had that in the team. We could do better in every area but the bottom line in this division is

that you need two or three players who can score regularly, not just one.

“We’ve always relied on one and it hasn’t been enough. I’ve always thought you should build a team from the top and work your way back, and we haven’t done that in the last three seasons.

“Over the last five or six years, we’ve kept enough clean sheets to keep us in mid-table. Most seasons, we’re in the top six or seven in terms of clean sheets and that should get you into the top half.

“Keeping clean sheets is a team effort, it’s not just the back four and the goalkeeper, but as for scoring goals, it’s been a problem.

“We haven’t had someone to score us ten or fifteen goals for a while - when we did, when we had Darius Henderson, Chris Wood and Harry Kane, we were at the other end of the table.

“It’s not hard to work out what you need and what’s been the problem. The club will have to assess that in the summer. It’s all about your forward players in the Championship - that’s my opinion.”

The lack of proven striking options at the club has been apparent for a while.

Lee Gregory’s hat-trick against Derby took him to nine goals for the season -

one more than Steve Morison’s eight last year - but he has lacked support.

The Lions have been reluctant to spend big bucks on a goalscorer and not just because of the transfer fee involved, but because of the premier wages that such a player would command.

Prolific forwards are paid upwards of £15,000-a-week, and that would have put the club’s wage structure out of kilter.

“Kenny Jackett wasn’t sure about that and he didn’t what that to happen,” Dunne said. “Personally, I want to play in a team that wins games.

“There are already players at the club earning nearly three times what I am, so the wages of other players isn’t important as long as they are doing a job for the team.

“It’s only a problem when a club brings someone in on big money and they’re not bothered about the club - they don’t care, they’re not pulling their weight and they don’t give everything for the manager.

“That can cause problems in the dressing room. But if you have the right sort of lad who fits in, scores his goals, earns his money and cares for the team, then every other player would want him around.

“We would all benefit from winning more games.”

Saturday was one of the rare occasions when Millwall managed to score more than one goal - but they allowed a 3-1 lead over the Rams to slip away.

Against Cardiff the previous Saturday, the Lions failed to put away one of several chances. And after having 22 shots at Blackburn, two decisive strikes at the other end resulted in defeat.

“We’re frustrated after the last three games,” added Dunne. “I felt we should have had nine points, so coming away with two is disappointing.

“On Saturday, we were 2-0 up and comfortable and we needed to see it out until half time. We gave a silly free kick away and conceded a soft goal - I couldn’t see them breaking us down any other way, but a goal like that gave them a lift.

“But saying that, we came out and got a third goal from another penalty and I really thought we’d see it out after that.

Again, they didn’t look like breaking us down but we gave away a penalty due to bit of inexperience.

“The referee had given us two penalties so he was always going to even it up if possible. From there, against a team like

Derby, they were always going to have chances in the last 15 minutes, and their equaliser was well-taken.

“There are things to learn from, even though it’s late on in the season. Aiden O’Brien will learn from the penalty - I’ve been there and done it myself.

“Sometimes you just can’t touch people in the box, especially when you’re 3-1 up.”

With relegation now confirmed, Dunne will reflect on a campaign of whats, ifs and maybes.

“You can look back over the course of the season and there are probably only a handful of games that we absolutely deserved to lose,” he said. “When you look back at those missed points and missed chances, it hurts you.

“Everything we’ve done this year hasn’t clicked and has gone against us.

It’s disappointing for us, the fans, the chairman and the manager.

“They say you get what you deserve in football but for once in my career, I feel like Millwall haven’t got what they deserve.

“Every manager tells you that the table doesn’t lie, but there have been a lot of games - especially recently - which we deserved more from.”

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The News backs Den hero to restore pride in League One

By Alex Aldridge

alex@southwarknews.co.uk

YOU COULD explain Millwall’s improvement under Neil Harris in terms of facts and figures.

More goals scored, fewer conceded, more shots on target, more tackles made per game and more points on the board - these statistics are all sure signs of progress.

But Harris’ biggest achievement during his interim spell as Lions boss can’t be quantified as a number or a percentage.

The intangibles - fight, character, team spirit and an attitude befitting the club are what distinguish the past nine games under Harris from the last knockings of Ian Holloway’s miserable

reign.

If Harris were a candidate in the forthcoming general election, the buzzword of his campaign would be “identity”.

In the space of just seven weeks, he has restored old-fashioned values to a club that was losing its soul and lacking direction on the field.

The Millwall brand of football, which draws heavily upon the crowd, is somewhat unique, and it takes an intimate understanding of the supporters to know how to please them.

Harris, as the Lions’ all-time leading goalscorer, couldn’t be better qualified in that respect. He knows that The Den at full volume is a powerful force, one which can drive teams on and inspire fear in opponents.

It even took Kenny Jackett, one of the club’s most successful ever bosses, a couple of seasons to figure that out.

Steve Lomas never got it.

Holloway appreciated the nature of the beast but was never comfortable with it, and wondered how he could change and modernise the club Harris, however, always embraced and championed what it meant to be a Millwall player, and in just nine games we’ve seen him do the same as a manager.

It is no surprise to see him appointed on a permanent basis and all Lions fans should relish the prospect of a complete squad overhaul with one of their favourite sons at the helm.

Harris vs Holloway

Points per game Goals scored per game: Conceded per game: Shots on target per game: Tackles per game:

1.1 1 1.3 4.4 20.8

0.7 0.6 1.7 2.7 17.1

Lions put too much faith in Lomas and Holloway after Jackett exit YOU CAN only tread water for so long before your arms ache and your legs start to tire.

Millwall fans all know that feeling after three seasons of struggle in the Championship.

Weariness, apathy and even boredom have set in amongst supporters, and the enthusiasm with which the club arrived in the second tier faded long ago.

The Lions have barely kept their heads above water, only avoiding relegation on the final day of the past two seasons.

In 2013 they were spared the drop by virtue of other results, and twelve months later Ian Holloway oversaw a remarkable unbeaten run to keep the club in the Championship.

But Holloway’s Great Escape has proven to be a stay of execution, and attempting to repeat the trick for a third successive year was never going to end well.

With relegation now confirmed, the board will begin to pick through the wreckage of a campaign which started promisingly but unravelled into utter

chaos.

The blame game will be played, fingers will be pointed and decisions will then be taken with preparations for a League One promotion push in mind.

The directors will dissect the past ten months in minute detail at their end-ofseason meetings, which take place next week, and over the course of the summer.

But in the immediate aftermath of relegation, one big error admittedly of the heart not the mind - seems clear.

The board, who had been so comfortable working with Kenny Jackett, gave too much power too soon to his successors.

Jackett was a manager, head coach and director of football rolled into one - someone who made good decisions and lots of them.

With each passing season, each one more successful than the last, he faced less scrutiny from the top and understandably so.

Jackett was astute, intelligent and

spent the chairman’s money like it came from his own pocket.

At the high point of his tenure at The Den, he had

c a r t e blanche to do as he pleased. And it worked.

He ran the club from top to bottom -

from recruitment to coaching to players’ contracts - and so his eventual departure left more than just a void in the dugout.

Adapting to life after Jackett has proven very difficult for Millwall.

The belief that Steve Lomas could take over the reins without a healthy dose of oversight proved naive.

In an age when owners are castigated for meddling in team affairs, the Lions’ wish to let their chosen manager call all the shots was admirable and well-intended.

But Lomas was incapable of running the club in the way Jackett did, and was allowed to make some expensive mistakes on over-age and over-paid signings.

The same faith was bestowed upon Ian Holloway but he too, despite his vast experience, failed to live up to Jackett’s standards.

Holloway had, in his mind, a vision for Millwall - but he could not put it into place. He excelled in idealism but lacked pragmatism, and his refusal to

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go back to basics cost him his job.

The working relationship between Holloway and the board was always an uneasy one, and a far cry from the days of Jackett’s steady leadership.

Around January time, the Lions hierarchy decided to make a change not initially of manager, but of structure.

The subsequent appointment of Andrew Mills to the post of head of recruitment highlights a new way of collective thinking at The Den. Harris will have complete authority and the final say as permanent boss but alongside him and in the background will be much stronger support staff, allowing him to focus on coaching.

Jackett, uniquely in his time and place at Millwall, managed to do everything.

Lomas struggled to do anything.

Holloway couldn’t focus on more than one idea at a time.

The age of the gaffer is over. The Lions must embrace the modern world in League One.

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BERYLSON WANTS 'BETTER MILLWALL' EXCLUSIVE

By Alex Aldridge

alex@southwarknews.co.uk

JOHN BERYLSON has reiterated his commitment to Millwall after the club’s fiveyear stay in the Championship came to an end.

EXCLUSIVE

By Alex Aldridge

alex@southwarknews.co.uk

NEIL HARRIS has urged Millwall to embrace the task of rebuilding after they were relegated to League One.

Rotherham moved four points clear of the Lions with one game to play by beating Reading on Tuesday, a result which also condemned Wigan to the drop.

Harris, who took over from Ian Holloway on an interim basis in March, was yesterday expected to be confirmed as the club’s permanent manager.

The 37-year-old was meeting chief executive Andy Ambler as the News went to press to finalise the terms of his appointment following a successful caretaker stint.

Millwall have lost just three of Harris’ nine games in charge but the

recent upturn in results and performances has not been enough to save them.

Speaking just twelve hours after the Lions’ fate was sealed, Harris said: “At a difficult time for the club, we have to be disappointed but we cannot be despondent.

“There’s frustration and disappointment but not despondency.

“We have to look immediately at our plans for next year and be as optimistic as we can be about rebuilding the squad and taking it in a different direction.

“There’s an opportunity to sign new players and integrate more of our academy lads into the team.

“It’s a big summer for the club and one that we must embrace. We have to look at this as a great chance to build a team similar to the promotion sides of 2001 and 2010.

“Where we go from here is very important - we have to recruit the right players of the right age and

build on the last nine games.

“The fans have identified with a real Millwall team and that has to be the future for the club.”

Chairman John Berylson told the News that he hoped Harris would reign at The Den for years to come.

“I want Neil to be our manager for a long time,” he said. “He is very certain about what he wants for the future.

“I believe that Neil can recruit the right type of players, both young and old, because he’s the sort of person that will appeal to good players. He was one himself and knows what it takes.

“He also recognises and respects quality. Neil has done a very good job and the question of when I would hire him has always been in the back of my mind.”

Having invested heavily in Holloway, Berylson believes that a Millwall man such as Harris, despite his inexperience, could be a more natural fit for the club.

“You have to find someone special, have a bit of luck and get someone who can grow with you,” he added.

“That’s what Kenny Jackett did and that’s hopefully what Neil will do. I don’t think it’s as simple as paying a manager £1million and getting guaranteed value for money.

“Prior to Tuesday, I knew that we had to rebuild whether it was in League One or the Championship.

“I’m tired of not winning and the last few years have been really hard for all of us. I recognise that we’ve struggled for too long, so it is time to stand back and fix it.”

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Berylson this week rejected advances from a potential buyer for the Lions because he believes he has unfinished business at The Den. Millwall’s aim in League One next season will be to bounce straight back up - and Berylson hopes the club will return to the second tier in better shape under Neil Harris.

“I have to believe that we can build a better Millwall in League One, or else I should leave and not invest another pound,” he told the News.

“I want whatever we build to last and not be built with loan players. I want to find a way to do well for next year, the year after and the year after that.

“This can’t be a one-year fix. If we get loan players, it should only be to plug a hole. Loan signings are not investments for the future.

“I’m excited about rebuilding and doing what I’ve wanted to do for years. Now we have a manager who is just as excited about that as I am.

“The two things that I’m most excited about at the moment are Neil and the way we are now going to recruit players.”

Berylson is regularly hassled by lawyers acting on behalf of wealthy consortiums looking to invest in English football - and recently swatted away another approach.

He revealed: “I had an enquiry for the club this week - it wasn’t a formal offer so I was able to refuse it without talking to the board - and I stomped on it before it got anywhere.

“I’ve had a few bites over the past two or three months and I think buyers have seen that we’ve been struggling and assumed they might get a deal.

“But that’s not going to happen this club isn’t for sale. I’ve told them to go buy something else, thanks very much.”

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