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Grieving families should not have to chase the coroner
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HEN FACING the most difficult of things - a death in the family, the last thing grieving relatives need is uncertainty over when their loved one will be returned to them for burial.
So it’s a great shame that in the case of Terrilee Louise Sanderson this appears to have happened - her family should have been spared the extra heartache if possible. Terrilee was only 24-years-old when she went to bed on August 30 and never woke up. She left behind her twenty-month-old son, Oliver, and a shellshocked family. Her mum, Pam, has had to wait weeks before she could see her daughter again, after what appears to have been a communication breakdown with the coroner. A letter was sent out, saying that her body was available to be collected by funeral directors. However, the letter was not received, and repeated calls from the family went through to an answerphone. So by the time Terrilee was embalmed, it was not possible for her family to sit with her, as a grieving family of course want to do. The coroners’ office wouldn’t comment on this individual case, which is also a shame, as the family deserve answers - it’s easier to hide behind a ‘no comment’ than to respond to criticism. Ultimately, it must be possible for those who run the coroners’ office to make sure that they do more than send out a letter. If, as the family claim, it was just a letter sent and no more heard, then changes are indeed needed. Grieving families have more than enough to deal with already, let alone having to chase to find out when their loved one will be released back into their care.
How do we keep our youth services going?
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ICHARD TAYLOR, a man who knows more than most people about the devastating affects of youth knife crime, has today warned ‘more young people will be stabbing each other’ if Southwark’s youth service budget is axed by 60 per cent.
Southwark Council has confirmed to the News that in order for it to deal with a further £96m of government funding cuts over the next three years, it is proposing to cut £2.5m from the youth service budget by 2018. This would leave £1.6m in that budget every year. Mr Taylor, whose 10-year-old son Damilola was killed in a stabbing in Peckham, has described this as the wrong time to make such cuts, bearing in mind the level of youth violence on our streets. It’s hard to disagree with him. But what can the council do to offset such cuts? Cllr Vikki Mills, Southwark Council’s cabinet member for children and education, has said Southwark wants to work with the community to ‘find innovative ways’ to deliver services residents want and need. Should the council find somewhere else to make the cuts, or is there another answer? The time to start the debate and start suggesting those ideas is now, before those services are lost for good.
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Bermondsey MIllwall Den Bloomfield and proud parents Mike and Kelly, and their dog Kitchener below
A R EA L B ER M O N D S EY B O Y By Joey Millar
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A die-hard football fan has named his new-born baby ‘Bermondsey Millwall Den Bloomfield’ – without telling his wife.
Dad Mike Bloomfield, a life-long Millwall fan who grew up in Bermondsey but now lives in Croydon, contacted the News to explain his controversial decision, as he made his way home from the registry office to his unsuspecting wife. He said: “If David Beckham can name his son Brooklyn, then I can name mine Bermondsey! I just love
Millwall and this is a good way to get the next generation involved. “One of the women at the registry office was a Millwall fan and she loved it when she saw what we are going to name him. I threatened to do it but I don’t think my wife believed me! I’m not sure how she’s going to react.” His wife Kelly, however, was surprisingly forgiving – at least, after a day or two had passed. She told the News: “He did say he might do it but I didn’t expect it. He was a bit frightened to come home! I’m coming around to it though and I quite like it. It’s growing on me. “I think he looks a bit like a
Bermondsey, and it’s definitely unique. I don’t think anyone else has got a name like that. “The funny thing is that we actually live in Croydon and are surrounded by Crystal Palace fans. Our friends who are Palace fans say that they’re just going to call him ‘Dave’ instead.” Other possible nicknames include Bee and Den – with the little boy’s third name referring to both the home ground of Millwall and also to his grandfather Dennis. As if that wasn’t enough, even the family dog’s name is influenced by Millwall, named Kitchener after the Millwall legend Barry Kitchener, who played over 500 games for the club
between 1966 and 1982. Mike said that, perhaps unsurprisingly, his little boy was going to grow up a Lions fan, despite Crystal Palace’s dominance in the area. In fact, while only born on October 27, Millwall’s smallest fan is already the proud owner of two tiny replica kits and a club teddy bear. Mike said: “He’s got no choice – he’s Millwall. I’m hoping to bring him down the Den as soon as I can for his first game. They are just going to love him down there.” Know any other unusual names in Southwark? Let us know and email joey@southwarknews.co.uk
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Agreement reached on new town centre for Canada Water By Joey Millar
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A BIG step was taken in Canada Water’s massive regeneration project this week when Southwark Council approved British Land’s ‘head of terms’ – the basis of an agreement which will enable the delivery of the 5.5m square-foot town centre development.
The huge £2 billion project covers three main sites: the former Harmsworth Quays printworks, the Surrey Quays Shopping Centre and the Mast Leisure Centre. British Land and Southwark Council hope to create a new town centre at the site, with plans for “homes, retail, restaurants, offices, culture, leisure and potential higher education” facilities. The head of terms agreement included a commitment to deliver 35 per cent affordable housing in the site, with the council also holding an option to buy the site’s social-rented homes. The masterplan recommendations approved by the council also includes a site for a new leisure centre to replace the current Seven
Islands Leisure Centre in Lower Road. Councillor Mark Williams, Southwark cabinet member for regeneration and new homes, said: “Canada Water represents an enormous opportunity for the local community and Southwark as a whole. The heads of terms sets out how the council will achieve all of these aims, and subject to further negotiation a further report that will authorise exchange of contracts will be brought to cabinet in 2016 for final approval.” Emma Cariaga, Project Director for the Canada Water Masterplan, said: “At Canada Water, we have a very exciting opportunity to deliver a major new town centre for the area alongside new homes, retail, restaurants, offices, culture, leisure and potential higher education uses set in a network of streets and open spaces including new parks. “The agreement of the Heads of Terms is the next step in achieving that vision and we look forward to working with the London Borough of Southwark further on this exciting project.”
Leisure centre consultation starts soon A NEW leisure centre to replace the Seven Islands Leisure Centre will be constructed as part of the Canada Water project.
The site proposed by Southwark Council Cabinet member for regeneration and new homes, Mark Williams, however has been criticised by green campaigners. The site is located in a green patch of land at the western edge of the Surrey Quays Car Park. Consultation with residents will open next month and will be available through Southwark Council’s planning portal at planbuild.southwark.gov.uk
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Man charged with estate stabbing WALWORTH
DETECTIVES INVESTIGATING an alleged stabbing at the Aylesbury Estate last week have charged a man with attempted murder. Roger Carson, 54, of Thurlow Street, was arrested following the incident on November 12 and charged the following day. A 33-year-old man was left in a critical
condition following the alleged attack, but is now in a stable condition. According to police, the victim’s injuries are not thought to be life-threatening and he is recovering. Carson appeared at Camberwell Green Magistrates court on November 14. He was remanded in custody and is due to appear in Woolwich Crown Court on December 11.
Jury out on Ben Purdy murder trial
VICTIM... Ben Purdy
JOEY By court reporter
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THE JURY trying a jilted ex-boyfriend accused of gunning down an 18-yearold trainee plumber “to teach him a lesson” has retired to consider its verdict.
The Old Bailey heard last week that 22year-old Michael Bagnall, accused of organising the murder of Ben Purdy, had threatened to “blow his brains out” shortly before the fatal attack on November 23 last year. Bagnall allegedly organised the revenge hit on Bermondsey teen Ben to “teach him a lesson” when he started dating his exgirlfriend. He raised a posse including his uncle, Andrew Bayne, 37, to hunt down Ben and shoot him dead, it is said. The prosecution claim Bayne fired the deadly shot, having been “wound up” by Bagnall, who pointed out Mr Purdy as the intended target. But Andrew Lloyd-Eley QC, defending Bayne, suggested there could have been a second gun shot fired from a different gun during the attack. He told the jury during his closing speech: “It’s true that Michael threatened to blow his brains out. Maybe it was an accident of speech, or perhaps he was preparing for that eventuality – it’s a matter for you.” Mr Lloyd-Eley said the angle of the gunshot wound suggests it was fired a head height rather than from Bayne’s position in the driver’s seat of his car. He also said there was evidence to support the claim that a second shot was fired from a different gun. He said: “The car is only there for threeand-a-half seconds and there’s no time for a second shot as it was not a self-loading
pistol.” “That second shot must have come from a different gun being held by someone else. It’s likely to have been somebody standing nearby who had access to a gun. Is it possible Ben Purdy dropped his gun and it was picked up by someone – it’s a matter entirely for you.” Bagnall claims his uncle produced a gun unexpectedly and he fled immediately after he heard a gunshot ring out. Mr Lloyd-Eley said CCTV shows the car Bayne was driving was in a position to fire a shot for just three and a half seconds. He said there was a five and a half second period between the first shot and Bagnall running away, when he was obscured by a van. He asked: “What was he doing for those five and a half seconds? If he had run off straight away, just run off down the park, it wouldn’t have taken five and a half seconds to clear the back of the van. Michael Bagnall and Andrew Bayne, of Alpine Road, Rotherhithe, deny murder. Bagnall’s cousins Reece Bayne, 19, of Concorde Way, also in Rotherhithe, and Harry McAleer, 18, of Elcot Avenue, Peckham, were also in the car but were cleared of murder earlier in the trial due to lack of evidence. Michael Bagnall, his 20-year-old sister Lee-Ann Bagnall and Anthony Bayne, both also of Alpine Road, Rotherhithe, all deny affray relating to the earlier confrontation. Michael Bagnall, Reece Bayne, and Harry McAleer all deny conspiracy to commit assault occasioning ABH. Andrew Bayne denies possession of a firearm with intent to cause fear of violence. At the time of going to press, the jury had not made its decision.
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A PRICELESS one-off Porsche was stolen off a driveway in Dulwich just hours after it was brought out of storage.
Classic car collector, Kris Bones, heard the engine start of his new prized possession and ran
downstairs in time to see someone drive the 1977 911S model away at 10pm on Sunday night. Kris went all the way to Marlyand in the States to buy the one of a kind metallic blue Porsche, which has a rare sports engine, drove it to New Jersey and then shipped it back to the UK. “It spent 39 years in America and two days in London, “said heartbroken Kris, who lives just off
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‘MORE KIDS WILL BE STABBED’ IF YOUTH SERVICES ARE CUT
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By Amelia Burr
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SOUTHWARK’S YOUTH service will be axed by 60 percent next year as dramatic government cuts begin to take a bite out of frontline services.
This could mean: • 122 full and part time posts would be reduced to just 42 part time posts • One or more of the borough’s eight youth clubs could close completely • Youth clubs could turn into leisure centres Richard Taylor, who founded the Damilola Taylor Centre after his ten-yearold son was killed on the North Peckham estate, said this was no time to cut youth services as serious knife crime continued to blight the borough. “Bearing in mind the level of killing, stabbing and violence, this is not the right time. This is the wrong approach and a bad decision for the council. “Even if the government is putting pressure on them they should understand their own circumstances and their community and what is going on here,”
said Richard, who fears levels of violent crime in young people are going back up to what they were when his son was killed. It is unlikely that the Damilola Taylor Centre in East Surrey Grove would close, but its state of the art facilities could leave it vulnerable to becoming a leisure centre open to the general public. Richard said he would ask for his son’s name to be taken off the building if that happened. “Let them hand it over to the Damilola Taylor Trust and we will find funds to run it if they cannot run it anymore,” Richard said, adding that if youth centres close, there will be an “increase of violence on the streets. “More young people will be stabbing each other. For those kids that have been permanently excluded, if there is no centre for them to go they will be on the streets. They will have nowhere to go,” he added. Southwark Council confirmed to the News that in order to deal with a further £96million of government funding cuts over the next three years, it was proposing to cut £2.5million from the youth service budget by 2018. There would be £1.6m remaining to run the youth service every year but as it
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stands, no cuts would be made to children’s services (children in care). “These are extremely challenging times for councils, our staff and our communities,” said Cllr Vikki Mills, Southwark’s cabinet member for children and education. “With vast savings to find on top of the millions already lost from each of our budgets, some very difficult decisions have to be made. “It’s inevitable that in the coming years, Southwark Council will be a smaller organisation, but one that continues to take seriously our responsibilities to our communities, particularly to our children and young people. “We want to work with those communities, with local people, every step of the way, to try to find innovative ways to deliver the services residents want and need,” said Cllr Mills who added that no plans have been finalised while a full staff consultation is underway.
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CAPED CRUSADERS from Mary Magdalene primary school in Peckham came to the rescue of Children in Need last week as they held a fancy dress fundraising day at the school on Friday. Then on Monday it was the school’s turn to be in the spotlight as Spanish teacher, Marina Saez, accepted the International School Award from the British Council - a badge of honour for schools that do outstanding work in international education through links overseas. On hearing the news that St Mary Magdalene had received the award, head teacher, Jenny Parris, said: “Achieving the International Schools Award has many benefits for the whole School Community. In particular, it provides the children with a window into different cultures and countries, preparing them for life in a global society.”
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Terrilee’s son Oliver
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A GRIEVING mother is calling for changes to the Coroner service after she waited weeks for her daughter’s body to be returned to her.
Terrilee Louise Sanderson was 24 yearsold when she went to bed on August 30 and never woke up, leaving behind her twenty-month-old baby son, Oliver. Mum, Pam Clowsley, of Crewys Road, Peckham, waited weeks to see her daughter again after a communication breakdown with the Coroner. Because Terrilee had not been embalmed while she was kept at St Thomas’s morgue (as is standard practice), Pam was not able to get close to her or touch sit with her when she was finally released on September 28. The Coroner’s service told Pam and her sister Jeanette Rosermeyer that a letter had been sent out to the family, saying Terrilee was ready to be released from September 15. Pam did not receive the letter but says her family called the Coroner every day to find out when they could bring Terrilee home. “We wouldn’t have left her up there, no way. We wanted to bury her,” said Jeanette, 50. “She’s not a piece of meat on a slab, she’s a young girl. There’s no way we would’ve left her there. It’s a disgrace that girl was left like that,” she said. Grandmother of three, Jeanette, who works as a hospital healthcare assistant, said the family had felt let down on Pam’s behalf because she they were chasing the Coroner for information. “They should have the decency to contact families and inform them what’s going on,” said Jeanette. “We shouldn’t have to be ringing them, they should be
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Terrilee Louise Sanderson
"She’s not a piece of meat on a slab, she a young girl. There’s no way we would’ve left her there.”
ringing us. “Families need that time to grieve. I don’t care how many letters you’ve got after your name, you should treat people with respect and consideration,” she said. The Coroner’s office said it did not wish to comment on individual cases, but did offer Pam and her sisters a private audience with the senior Coroner. Terrilee was finally buried on October 27 and an inquest to look into the cause of her death has been scheduled for February.
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BOYCEY IS a cheeky chappy who loves being around people.
He's a mature boy who knows what he wants but will always appreciate your company. He would love to go on long walks with you, enjoying the countryside. He likes other dogs, but at his age would only like to live with a calm companion, rather than a playmate. Because of his love of people, Boycey doesn't enjoy spending time alone. He will need his new family to work through his insecurities with him, and provide a regular routine. If you think you can offer him a home please call Battersea Dogs & Cats Home on 0843 509 4444 for more information.
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A TWELVE-STOREY council block has apparently disappeared, as residents have been told their addresses no longer exist.
Leaseholders who are staying put in half deserted blocks on the Aylesbury are living in an Orwellian nightmare, as their bank cards have been cancelled, direct debits stopped and benefits withheld. Residents have been told by official agencies like their banks and government departments that their addresses are “no longer valid.” Julius Sangbey, who lives on the Chiltern block, ended up accidentally driving for two weeks without car insurance after his documents were returned to sender. “If I’d have been stopped by the police I would have got points on my license and a criminal record through
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no fault of my own and that is very serious,” said Julius. The 50-year-old was made redundant from his last job as a property manager so he is currently looking for work but online job applications say his address is invalid and meanwhile his Job Seeker’s Allowance and Child Allowance have both been stopped because his address no longer exists on ‘the database’. “For three weeks I haven’t received any payments,” said Julius, who has two children, aged ten and twelve to support. Beverley Robinson, who also lives on Chiltern has had difficulty ordering goods online and has had her bank cards cancelled after her bank statements were returned to sender. “It’s very frustrating, you can’t do without a postal address. The implications are far reaching,” said Beverley, who was asked to present
Mental health charity boss is suspened WALWORTH
CONCERNS HAVE been raised about a long-running Southwark charity as it was revealed the Chief Executive and founder has been suspended since September.
Michelle Baharier set up CoolTan Arts, which supports people with mental health problems through creativity, 24 years ago in an old suntan lotion factory of the same name. Two months ago a complaint was made about her by one or more staff members and the Trustees took the decision to suspend her. Board member, Bob Skelly, who has decided to resign over how the situation is being handled, told the News he had concerns about how long CoolTan could go on without Michelle, who does the bulk of the fundraising for the Walworth-based charity. “If she goes it’s the end of CoolTan,” said Bob, frankly. “I wouldn’t think it would last a year without her, they’ll just run out of money,” he added. Bob took the decision to step down after he felt he had been misled about the location of a board meeting because he had
her recent missing bank statements to the council in order to try and get rehoused. “The ramifications are massive, it could impact on your credit score and everything. It’s terrible,” she said. Former Tory Southwark councillor, Toby Eckersley, who has recently been supporting the leaseholders in their plight to challenge the council’s offers on their properties, said the situation was “a mystery” but urged the council to get to the bottom of it. “The council should have the good will to try to put it right. It’s been going on for quite a while and the leaseholders are in a limbo,” he said. Some of the issues have been caused by postal workers being unable to deliver post to the fenced off parts of the estate. Southwark Council and Royal Mail have now come to an agreement whereby the letters are dropped at alternative delivery points.
Sally Hopkins of Royal Mail also confirmed to the News that the Aylesbury addresses were still listed on their postcode address file and they had not received an instruction to remove them. Cllr Richard Livingstone, Southwark’s cabinet member for housing, assured the News that the council had not given any instruction to remove the Aylesbury addresses from the Royal Mail database. “We have made every effort make sure services go on as normal as possible for residents still on the site,” as well as ensuring alternative mail boxes were installed. “Our own investigations show the addresses are still coming up on shopping websites too so we aren’t able to establish what the cause of the problem is, however we will continue to liaise with Royal Mail and look into the matter,” he added.
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voiced objections to how the situation was being handled. “I’ve been a trustee for several charities and I’ve never known behaviour like it. It’s outrageous and an absolute disgrace.” A date has still not been set for a disciplinary hearing for Michelle but acting Chair, Lillian Nalumansi, said the delay was because they were “conducting a full and thorough investigation” of a “number of staff concerns” with the help of specialist legal advice. “We are taking these concerns very seriously and at this point can only tell you the allegations relate to serious conduct issues involving the Chief Executive.” Lillian declined to comment any further as it would seriously undermine the board’s ongoing enquiries and breach confidentiality. “In the meantime, please be assured that our energy continues to be directed at resolving ongoing matters and providing an important and valued service to our clients,” Cooltan founder Michelle Baharier she added.
Florist signs up to bloomin’ marvellous Safe Haven
A PECKHAM florist is the latest business to become a safe haven –a place young people can go if they are in trouble – after the scheme was set up by the family of a murdered teen.
The charity ‘For Jimmy’ was established after sixteen-year-old Jimmy Mizen was murdered in 2008. The Safe Haven project asks businesses to display signs in their windows letting young people know they can go in there for safety if they are under attack. The business owners agree to lock their doors and call the police if a young person seeks safety with them. Pupils from Harris Boys Academy haven been working with For Jimmy since October in a new
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partnership between Southwark Council and the charity to identify more safe havens in the borough. The boys signed up over 30 shops in Peckham, including The Flower Shop on Peckham High Street, run by Brenda Amey. “It was lovely to have the young people come into my shop and I was more than happy to sign up to the scheme. It was great to see them taking responsibility for the safety of others within the community, and actively trying to make it a safer place for everyone,” she said.
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Former Peckham teacher up for Mercury Prize for debut album By Joey Millar
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A FORMER teacher from Peckham said her feet “haven’t touched the ground” since she was nominated for the Mercury Prize this month.
Eska Mtungwazi, who was born in Zimbabwe before moving to south London as a young child, received critical acclaim with the release of her self-titled debut album last April. The teacher-turned-songstress has since been compared to music legends Joni Mitchell and Kate Bush, and will have her fingers crossed at the prestigious music awards ceremony, which takes place tomorrow. She said: “Everyone is delighted. My feet haven’t touched the ground. All of us are going to the Mercury awards. The whole team that worked on the record will be there.” Eska spent years teaching in primary and secondary schools across Southwark as a way to fund her musical career. She said: “I taught maths – there’s a
strong link between maths and music. Teaching is the best job in the world and it makes it very difficult to teach and be a musician, because they’re two vocations that need 100 percent of your focus.” Eska had been working on-and-off on her album for years, before finally releasing it this spring. She said: “The process started, then years went by, I was on tour, and I was self-financed. I needed to raise quite a bit of money - it’s over £20,000 to make an album, which is a lot of money for an independent artist. So I had to work and get on the road to get the money.” Eska still had one more challenge to undertake even after making the album: keeping her Mercury nomination hushhush until it was officially announced. She said: “That was a pretty hard secret to keep. I told a couple of my best friends and my family - just the people who needed to know before it was announced officially.” The former Southwark teacher will find out if she has won the album of the year at the Mercury prize on November 20.
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Thousands sign up ‘Our carpark plan has most community benefits’ to ‘save’ the Bussey says man behind designs PECKHAM
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Architect defends proposals for Peckham multi-storey By Amelia Burr amelia@southwarknews.co.uk
AN ARCHITECT has defended his plans to transform Peckham’s multi-storey car park after artists behind an alternative proposal spoke out against it last week.
Carl Turner, of the Brixton-based firm of the same name, said his design in partnership with Pop Brixton will deliver “the most community benefits to the area.” Peckham Levels will use the model of Pop Brixton, where small businesses are housed in shipping containers, to create a mixture of artist studios, workshops and community event spaces. Some businesses will be charged more to subsidise the less profitable initiatives with the main criteria being that you are based in the local area. The lower levels will be artist
Architect Carl Turner
studios, with a ‘digital hub’ in the middle floors and cafes, bars, shops and art exhibition spaces on the top floors. There will also be three event spaces which will be available to the community for free a quarter of the time. “For us it’s about creating a community asset in Peckham,” said Carl, who is also involved in the Library Square development.
“Hopefully we’re going to add another layer to its colourful history so far and it’ll be another great asset for Peckham.” Southwark Council was approached by 70 different organisations interested in managing the space but came under fire for not selecting the proposal from Bold Tendencies, an arts collective based at the car park, who wanted to set up 800 artists workshops. “The council listened to what we had to say and they went with the scheme which was going to deliver the most community benefit, real community benefit,” said Carl, who is hoping to get a planning application submitted by early January. If that is approved, work will begin on site in March with Peckham Levels due to open in July. A public consultation on the designs will be launched before Christmas.
By Amelia Burr amelia@southwarknews.co.uk
THOUSANDS OF people have signed a petition to save a thriving music venue in Peckham, over fears plans for new flats could threaten its future.
A new scheme for eleven luxury flats to go up directly in front of the Bussey Building on Rye Lane has been submitted to Southwark Council, with eight new shops to open directly on to the corridor and courtyard currently used by the London nightlife destination. The application from Frame Property proposes two new basement floors and two floors on top of the existing building at 133 Rye Lane. The businesses behind in the Bussey Building and Copeland Park say the development would lead to them losing trade, putting 700 jobs at risk and would make entering and leaving their premises impossible for customers. The founder of the CLF Art Café and the man who rescued the Bussey Building, Mickey Smith, said the idea of putting flats in that location was “fundamentally wrong”. Peckham’s rise to become one of London’s favourite places to go
Mickey Smith, founder of the CLF Cafe
would be stopped “dead in its tracks,” according to Mickey, who said it would also spell the “beginning of the end of what makes Peckham so special.” Nearly 6,000 people have so far signed the online petition to block the application and nearly a thousand have submitted formal objections to the council. To find out more about the proposal visit http://bit.ly/1Qv3tBx or to sign the petition visit http://chn.ge/1kpFUOD.
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By Amelia Burr
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THE MOTHER of a terminally ill toddler is desperately fundraising to get her little boy the treatment he needs to save his life and put an end to his suffering.
Three-year-old J’ssiah Brown was just one when he was diagnosed with Acute Myeloid Leukemia. He was put on steroids, underwent intensive chemotherapy treatment and had a bone marrow transplant from his older brother. Despite a temporary recovery, he relapsed in December and by March this year his illness
was classed as terminal and he was given months to live. Last month the News successfully campaigned for his family to have hot water put back on at their flat in Spring Way but before J’ssiah could enjoy a hot bath, he was rushed to hospital with yet another infection. Then on Sunday November 8, another blow came when his mother Jeanene Fraser found out he had developed a tumour behind his right eye, dangerously close to his brain. Doctors are still trying to figure out how to treat little J’ssiah with radiotherapy because his blood pressure is so high from taking steroids that it is considered too
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dangerous to sedate him. Jeanene, 29, is now more desperate than ever to get J’ssiah pioneering blood ‘detox’ treatment in Israel which could stop tumours like this occurring. The process, which is not available in the UK, effectively cleans the blood, removing it of cancerous cells so they cannot cluster together in tumours. “If it gets somewhere they can’t operate he’s going to deteriorate and I will do anything to prevent that,” said Jeanene, who has raised £22,000 so far out of the £150,000 required. “I really do need for him to have
‘The Apprentice hasn’t done anything for me’ says former Miss Jamaica winner BERMONDSEY
By Joey Millar
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A FORMER beauty queen who lives on Tower Bridge Road told the News that her recent experience as a contestant on BBC One hit show The Apprentice was “completely different” to what she expected.
April Jackson, 26, was voted off the show last week and found her time on the show intense. The 2008 Miss Jamaica winner said: “You live in the house, there’s a lot of time spent filming, you don’t know what day of the week it is, there’s no TV, you have no access to news, you don’t have your own phone. It’s so odd.” She said that there was a lot less mentoring than expected on the show, which was a disappointment given her admiration for Sir Alan Sugar. She said: “I loved the show before, which is part of the reason I entered. I wanted to be a part of it, I admired Alan
Sugar for his achievements and I think before going on you think it’ll be more on the mentoring side. “We don’t do brunch with Alan Sugar. We don’t sit down and chill - it isn’t what I expected it to be. Everything looks amazing on television, when you’re in it, it’s completely different.”
She concluded that the show “hasn’t done anything for me.” April, who has lived in Jamaica, France and New York, before settling in Bermondsey, has turned her attention from reality TV to retail, with the opening of a boutique-cum-restaurant in Brixton earlier this month. She said: “It’s the hardest thing I’ve ever done in my entire life. The property was originally an office space and we’ve gutted it. It’s been a steep learning curve.” A boutique by day and restaurant by night, Three Little Birds in Coldharbour Lane will be a celebration of all things Jamaican. She said: “I had a pop-up shop in Brixton last year where I sold everything Jamaican that was legal: coffee, rum, fashion from Jamaican designers, and it’s really an expansion on that. Everything I do tends to be Jamaica focused. “There’ll be no laminated menus here. If you’re a regular you’ll always have something to look forward to.”
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this full blood detox so all these cancer cells can get killed.” Jeanene met a little girl who had the same condition at J’ssiah’s age and after having the blood detox she recovered and is now a happy eleven-year-old. “I just want J’ssiah to be in that position. With this we can stop everything, Jeanene has been asked when she will stop fighting for her little boy. “I’m not going to stop,” she said defiantly. “I believe that God will be with us to defeat this.” “I’m so scared now because I don’t know what else is going to happen. I just haven’t got a clue and he’s going through the pain of it and that’s what
hurts me so much. I don’t want him to go through any of this anymore,” said Jeanene, who is proud every day of how her brave boy is coping with his illness. “I don’t know how he does it, I can’t praise him enough,” she said. “Yesterday he said to me ‘mummy angry boy’ and I just couldn’t stop crying. Then because he knew he was getting some food he said ‘mummy happy boy’. “These are the little things that make him happy - just being a little boy,” said Jeanene. To help fund J’ssiah’s treatment abroad, visit www.gofundme.com/qxwk4g
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Hamlet fans fired up as show’s contestants try to keep clean sheet
DULWICH HAMLET fans were fired up to see their club on an episode of hit BBC show The Apprentice last week – although the contestants themselves missed the goal on their visit to Champion Hill.
The stadium was one of the venues for Sir Alan Sugar’s challenges, which saw would-be business moguls powerclean businesses for the lowest-price possible. The group assigned to clean Hamlet’s ground had trouble negotiating a price and also missed out on some key areas to be cleaned as part of the task – an Apprentice own-goal. Regarding the sub-standard cleaning work done by the apprentices, one Hamlet fan joked on Twitter: “Dulwich will be denied promotion to the Conference South due to the unpainted hazard stripes on those two stairwells you awful b******s.” Another compared the controversial contestants with Dulwich’s arch-rivals,
posting: “Biggest a*******s to visit Champion Hill since Leatherhead in September.” Even Sir Alan got in on the fun – although his message on Twitter was a little condescending to the club that is currently sitting pretty at the top of the Isthmian Premier League table. Regarding the price suggested by the hapless cleaners, he said: “£430 - that club don’t pay that for a striker.” It remains to be seen whether the TV show, which draws an average of over 7m views per episode, will contribute to the ever-growing crowds at Champion Hill each match day.
EY E I N TH E SKY CATCHES PUPIL POPP Y
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Youngsters at Redriff Primary created a human poppy on their astro-turf pitch
Collection box theft allegation By Joey Millar
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A MAN has been charged with theft after allegedly taking a Poppy Appeal collection box from the reception at Southwark Council’s headquarters.
The incident was said to have taken place on November 10 in Tooley Street. Police say that the stolen British Legion fundraising tin contained at least £500 worth of donations from council staff and visitors. Lee Brown, 47, of Barnaby House, Manor Grove, was arrested and charged with theft. He is due to appear at Camberwell Magistrates’ Court, although a date has not yet been set.
By Joey Millar
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REDRIFF PRIMARY School pupils commemorated Southwark’s fallen men and women on Remembrance Day by forming a human poppy.
The creative students made the most of their red uniforms to create the remembrance symbol on their astro-turf sports pitch. They used a mini drone to
capture high-quality images of the stunning display. Headteacher Michael Kelly said: “Lots of people from all over the country have been thinking of different ways to mark this day. We had a formal assembly explaining the meaning of Remembrance Day. “But this was an opportunity to make an image in which the children could participate. In a real sense, all of the children made the image on their own.”
Lest we forget
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SOUTHWARK ONCE again remembered its fallen men and women at a moving Armistice Day ceremony last week. A group of around 100 residents and
workers came together at West Lane Memorial in Bermondsey on November 11 – the 97th anniversary of the declaration of peace between the Allies and the Germans in 1918. The event was hosted by the Mayor of Southwark, Dora Dixon-Fyle, and attended by MPs Neil Coyle and Helen Hayes, the Archbishop of Southwark
and Jenny Bianco, the representative of Her Majesty the Queen. Wreaths were laid, a two minutes silence was held, and the Last Post was played. The Kohima Epitaph was read out by a representative from the Royal British Legion, before the ceremony finished with a rendition of the national anthem.
Dancing Evelina nurses go viral By Joey Millar
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A VIDEO of Evelina nurses performing a twinkle-toed dance routine to celebrate the hospital’s tenth birthday celebration has gone viral online.
Thousands of people have watched the video on YouTube, called “Evelina nurses do The Strictly”, since it was
posted last week. The twenty nurses attracted national attention online with their dance moves – including the praise of Strictly Come Dancing professional Janette Manrara, It Takes Two presented Zoe Ball and television star Dr Ranj Singh, who gave the girls a perfect ten. Victoria Felton, matron on the hospital’s Mountain Ward, brought members of her team together to
perform the routine. She said: “We had so much fun learning the dance together as a team and we haven’t stopped smiling since. I learned a lot about the hidden talents of the people I work with!” The News is raising £100,000 for Evelina London Children’s Hospital. To help us reach our goal, please visit http://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/team /Evelina_2013.
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Claims denied after 700 sign petition By Joey Millar
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SOUTHWARK COUNCIL has denied claims it is planning to scrap Rotherhithe’s boat pub, the Wibbley Wobbley, after over 700 people signed a petition calling for it to be saved.
Council staff said they had “no plans” to get rid of the beloved floating boozer, located in Greenland Dock, which, they say, has been closed all this year. Councillor Darren Merrill, Southwark cabinet member for environment and public realm, told the News that the pub’s owners were given a list of improvements that needed to be made in order to re-open. The council said it has heard nothing regarding these ‘health and safety’ improvements in the months since, and has struggled to contact the owners.
He said: “The council has no plans to scrap the Wibbley Wobbley, a place thoroughly enjoyed by many of our residents. However, we have a duty to ensure that all local venues are safe, and sadly the pub poses too much of a risk to keep open. “A number of recommendations for improvements have been provided to the pub’s owner, but to date, we’ve not been contacted with confirmation that works have been carried out. “It would be wonderful to see the venue open again, but we need to be reassured that residents can enjoy themselves in a safe and secure environment.” The council list of its safety concerns include a lack of alarms and automatic pumps required in the event of flooding. Efforts were made by the News to contact the owners of the Wibbley Wobbley for a comment, but no response was received.
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BERMONDSEY A CGI of the new-look London Bridge station along Tooley Street (main); and (below) also of the revitalised arches along St Thomas Street
ALL CHANGE AT LONDON BRIDGE More shops, bars and eateries in pipeline for a new ‘focal point for Southwark’ By Joey Millar
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LONDON BRIDGE is set for even more “massive changes” over the next months and years, with plans for new shops, eateries and bars, the News has been told.
With Network Rail’s redevelopment of the station well underway, and Team London Bridge recently winning the right to continue its Business Improvement District (BID) work for another five years, the area is set to continue its metamorphosis. The improvements will be all encompassing, including the station and the surrounding areas. Thomas Street is set to be brightened up, and a new road connecting it with Tooley Street will also be opened. The eye-catching tower at the heart of One Tower Bridge will also change the area’s skyline when completed, while the new arches by London Bridge station will be filled by new businesses, with priority being given to local organisations and people. A spokesperson for Network Rail
told the News: “It will be the best station in the country, and the development is going to be fantastic when it’s completed. “There will be loads of new restaurants, cafes and bars. It’s not just going to be a railway station but also a focal point for Southwark.” Nadia Broccardo, executive director of Team London Bridge, told the News that the incredible changes that have occurred in the area over the past years will continue. She said: “More London wasn’t
here, Potters Fields Park hadn’t been developed and the Shard was nowhere to be seen. The station had just been left to run into the ground. It was all about to happen and it has been changing every single day since. “The Shard is now a beacon for the area, which has a real porous beauty. Bermondsey Street is booming, showing there is another side to London Bridge than just glass and steel.” The challenge now, for Nadia and the rest of Team London Bridge, is to
continue development while staying true to the area’s heritage – for both residents and the 50,000 people who work in London Bridge. She said: “We need to keep the pace and flavour of London Bridge. It’s known as ‘London’s larder’ and we want to keep this going. We have quite a diverse group of people and businesses which keeps the area alive. Our members know that, yes, there will be development. We need housing and also we need jobs for people.”
The next BID term, which begins in April 2016, will focus on an expanded area, now including Guy’s Hospital and King’s College London’s campus. The next five-year plan will focus on maximising the area’s retail sector, while also pushing for more green space and protection of heritage. Richard Kalmar, chairman of the Southwark Chamber of Commerce, said that while it was an important time for the area, he was worried that not all of the streets surrounding the station would benefit from the development. He said: “I am concerned that Thomas Street is being overlooked in the development of the area. It’s all Bermondsey Street at the moment but Thomas Street also has great potential.” He also said that the tunnels underneath the train tracks also needed to be included in the development, or they risked becoming dark, gloomy spaces. In response, the Network Rail spokesperson stressed that every effort was being made to brighten up the tunnels, such as the Bermondsey Street tunnel which has been fitted with colourful lights. Thomas Street, he added, was also being prioritised, as shown by the new train station entrance planned, as well as the new road linking it with Tooley Street. To find out more about Team London Bridge’s plans for the area, visit www.teamlondonbridge.co.uk.
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TWO SOUTHWARK councillors travelled to France to deliver donations to the refugee camp in Calais this month.
BRASS Band all out of
THE CAPITAL’S youngest brass band will not play on after Christmas if they cannot raise the funds they need, writes Amelia Burr...
Peckham-based Southwark Children’s Brass Band (SCBB), which has 50 members aged seven to fourteen, has been going for eighteen years, but there are now only enough funds to keep the band going for the next two months. “Closing the band would be nothing short of a tragedy,” said Tony Wicks, SCBB chairman. “For many this is the only opportunity they have to make music outside school.” At an emergency meeting last weekend, Mr
Wicks appealed to parents to step up their fundraising efforts. “We have enough cash to see us through to Christmas, after that it will be touch and go,” he said. Band members, including kids from deprived areas of the borough, currently pay a voluntary fee of £3 per session. Tony is hoping to raise money at a Christmas Fundraiser concert at London Bridge Station on November 26. For more information or to make donations please contact info@southwarkchildrensbrassband.org
Karl Eastham and Paul Fleming took supplies donated by local groups and residents, after raising £1,500. Clothes collected at the Sands Film Studio in Rotherhithe were given to Calaid, an organisation delivering direct support to the 7,000 refugees living in tents and temporary shelter. Giving details of the trip, Paul said: “On the day after we arrived, we went to the warehouse and were directed immediately to the camp, where we built donated tents for five families with no-where to live. It was incredible to see the scale of the camp and of the effort people over there are putting in to help,” he said. If you would like to know more, Karl and Paul will be speaking at the Rotherhithe Sands Film Studio, 82 St Marychurch Street, SE16 4HZ, on November 30 at 8pm.
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BERMONDSEY By Joey Millar
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A BERMONDSEY man who spent years as a prisoner of war during WW2 celebrated his 100th birthday last Saturday.
Bert Gosnell was joined by his daughter, grandchildren and great-grandchildren as he celebrated the milestone. Susan Brunsdon, his only child, told the News that even after all these years he still had a “brilliant sense of humour.” She said: “He is quite with it, he remembers things and he’s got a brilliant sense of humour. He’s got good days and bad days – but don’t we all!” Bert’s party took place exactly 70 years after he was freed from a Nazi prisoner camp, following his capture while serving in North Africa during WW2. Susan said: “First he was brought across by boat to the bottom of Italy. They then had to march the entire length of Italy before being brought to the camp in Czechoslovakia. “He never really talks about it much, and doesn’t go to any of the Remembrance events, although he does watch them on television. “One time I was watching Hogan’s Heroes and asked him if it was like that. He laughed and said it was and it wasn’t. He said there were funny times in the camp, but also not so funny times.” Even before being captured, Bert’s time in the
army was eventful to say the least. In 1940, his wedding was cancelled at the last minute after he was refused leave from the army. Susan said: “They were all set to get married but then he never turned up! In the end the vicar wrote to the padre [military chaplain] and explained the situation. He was given short-term leave and came back to get married. Then he went straight back to the war and was captured.” His wife also called Susan, who was working at a munitions factory in Great Dover Street, received a telegram from the army saying that her husband had gone missing and was presumed dead. Soon after she received another one, which said that he had actually been taken as a prisoner of war. When the war ended, the couple were reunited. Bert began working as an apprentice with the gas works, first in the Old Kent Road and then in Greenwich. When the plant closed and he was made redundant, Bert put his uniform back on and served as a commissionaire, attending the entrance of the solicitors used by the Royal Family. Bert retired in 1985, and lost his wife four years later. He has spent his whole life, apart from his WW2 travels, living in Bermondsey, in the Old Kent Road, Tower Bridge Road and Abbey Street – where he still lives in a flat by himself, even going into his 101st year. Susan explained: “He is not one to make a fuss.”
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Bert (seated) along with daughter Susan (left) and grandchildren Neil (rear) and Stacey (right).
100TH BIRTHDAY 70 YE ARS AF TER B E I N G F R E E D F RO M T H E N A Z I S
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New care home planned in deal with developer
BERMONDSEY
PECKHAM
EXCLUSIVE
By Amelia Burr
amelia@southwarknews.co.uk
A NEW care facility for the elderly will be built in Bermondsey if a deal between a developer, a charity and the council goes through.
Driver tried to bill us for clean-up after our baby was born in his minicab By Joey Millar
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A PECKHAM man whose wife gave birth in the back of a minicab was shocked when he was asked mid-labour for a clean-up charge by the driver.
The driver demanded cash while Matthew Errington’s partner Karolina Dabrowska was involved in a complicated delivery on October 25, which saw the umbilical cord wrap around their little boy’s neck. As the baby was turning blue, the Addison Lee driver repeatedly asked the pair, who live in Peckham Park Road, for money to clean-up the taxi after the birth. Matthew told the News: “What should have been the most magical night of my life was ruined. The main thing that I remember is the stress caused by the driver. “We were on our way to the hospital and thought we had plenty of time, but suddenly it was happening and we had to pull over. The taxi driver was not happy – he was kissing his teeth and being funny about it.” Matthew ran into the nearby One Aldwych Hotel, where he found a doctor and towels. Even though he had only been inside for a couple of minutes, by the time he returned birth was well underway.
Luckily, little Sebastian was delivered safely. The pair went into an ambulance, where both mother and son were checked over by paramedics. However the taxi driver was still not done. Matthew said: “He started banging on the door of the ambulance, asking who was going to clean the taxi. Both the paramedic and the driver were telling him to go away but he kept going. Eventually I got out and actually cleaned the back of the taxi myself using towels, and then gave him the £36 taxi fare. We just wanted him to go away.” Matthew told the News that despite the dramatic delivery, both mother and son were doing well. He also praised the staff at One Aldwych hotel, who were “amazing – a total contrast to the driver.” A spokesperson for Addison Lee said: “We would like to wholeheartedly apologise again for the service that Matthew and Karolina experienced, at what was a stressful time for them. “As soon as we investigated what had happened we refunded their fares for both journeys to and from hospital, discussed with the driver how he could have been more sensitive to Matthew and Karolina’s needs at a difficult time and are issuing guidance to all our drivers to ensure this unfortunate situation can never happen again.” They also made a donation to Bliss, a charity for premature and sick babies.
200 evacuated in student halls fire BOROUGH: Around 200 King's College London students were evacuated this week when a fire broke out in a halls of residence in Stamford Street.
Part of a “self-contained flat of six rooms” on the seventh floor of the
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eight floor building was damaged by fire on November 16. The Brigade was called at 2.16am and the fire was under control at 3.31am. The cause of the fire is under investigation.
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Following recent concerns that the borough is in the midst of a care home crisis, the council has proposed that developer, Delancey, provide 56 extra care units instead of meeting the borough’s affordable housing quota at a new development in Blackfriars. Delancey, which also now owns the Elephant and Castle Shopping Centre, has obtained provisional permission to build 163 flats in three tower blocks on a prime riverside site facing onto Park Street, but wants to avoid providing the required 35 percent of affordable housing. In order to cement the deal, the council has proposed Delancey buys the former Welch House nursing home in Southwark Park Road off them for a non-disclosed sum and rents the leasehold off them for a “peppercorn rent”, in order that they build a brand new extra care facility on site. Delancey will also need to stump up
£6.5million for affordable housing to be delivered elsewhere in the borough. The new supported housing centre would be run by United St Saviours and would need to be completed before the development in Park Street. Cllr Stephanie Cryan, Southwark’s cabinet member for adult care and financial inclusion, said: “We know the demand for residential care is changing, fewer people are choosing it and as people live longer, they want more personal care support at home. “This new extra care housing facility by United St Saviours will be a fantastic new addition to the care options available in Southwark, providing 24/7 on site care support for residents whatever their needs and I’m excited to see these plans progress over the coming months.” Last month the News reported that Camberwell Green Care Home, one of three facilities offering nursing services in the borough, would be closed by its provider, HC-One. The only other two nursing homes in the borough are currently under council embargo, preventing any elderly people being placed there until their standards improve meaning those who require nursing care will currently need to be placed outside of the borough.
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Cabbies are wrong not to support cyclists
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SUPPORT black cabbies in their battle to save their businesses from obliteration by the multi-national corporate giant Uber. But sometimes cabbies shoot themselves in the foot.
Take last week’s report in the News that a cabbie was campaigning to stop installation of the safe protected cycle lanes along Jamaica Road. He claims it will increase congestion, but he fails to understand that every driver who switches to cycling reduces congestion for cabbies like himself and local businesses like Albins. Already over 600,000 journeys in London are done daily by people on bikes, thus already significantly reducing congestion on our roads. Southwark’s population is scheduled to grow from 244,000 in 2001 to 370,000 by 2033. Two thirds of journeys in Southwark could be done by bike in less than 12 minutes! It is crucial, if the roads are not to be completely clogged up, that nearly all of these extra residents do not drive, but cycle or use public transport instead. And international studies show the only way to move to mass cycling is to build protected cycle lanes. Interestingly, nearly 60% of Southwark households are already car-free, with just 33% of journeys done by car. A little known positive fact is that, despite London’s population growing by nearly 25% since 1988, amazingly, total car usage is down 15% already. So the cabbie is wrong about the roads being more congested. In addition to easing congestion, it is also crucial that we reduce the vehicle pollution concentrated along Jamaica Way. Pollution maps show it has the highest NO2 carcinogen rating of above 52µg/m3. This is a real health hazard for the many council estates located along this busy road. About 300 Southwark residents die every year from transport pollution and an estimated 3,000 live with terrible lung and heart diseases from it. So well done TfL! You should be praised for installing the proposed new protected cycle lane along Jamaica Road, especially in the absence of a single protected route being installed by Southwark Council. If only the cabbies looked at the stats, they would realise that it will be a win: win: win - less congestion for cabbies, less pollution for the rest of us and a fitter Southwark population.
‘I NAME THIS CHILD BERMONDSEY MILLWALL DEN BLOOMFIELD’ See page 3
Neil, you can’t do both jobs
NEIL COYLE should stand down as councillor to allow his Newington ward constituents to have better representation on the council.
Their councillor (now our MP) has attended only the Council Assembly on 16 May 2015 since being returned as the MP for Bermondsey and Old Southwark. Whilst it is true that he was present at the Borough, Bankside and Walworth Community Council on 16 September, that was in his capacity as MP rather than councillor: he only joined the meeting for the agenda item "Address by Neil Coyle MP". Do the decent thing, Neil, and resign your council seat. The residents of Newington ward deserve better. Gavin Smith, Bermondsey
Not very brave decision making
WHERE THE best leaders should listen, recognise and shape their decisions in a democratic embrace of citizen resolve for new ideas and approaches to difficult problems and overcoming seeming conflicts of interest, Southwark Council simply goes into a circled wagon bunker lock down.
Where Camberwell's burgeoning population needs a proper large library like Canada Water it gets a 100 person minuscule library built on the last open space. No one negotiated for a library in acres of brownfield across the street or
considered not selling buildings to yet another church. But then, the sense might be that it feeds another lily livered decision not to integrate cemeteries forever into the world's desperation for deep green space. Camberwell Old and New Cemeteries will be mowed and cemented because those same churches that could be libraries want cement graves tidy and clean and available for car visits. Revolving door graves, one in and then chucked for the next dead body. All the panoply of celebration and mourning could be had in a forest of green. With leadership to show the way to profits all round for everyone. Developers are asked for nothing: no solar panels, no linked up protected cycle lanes. Nothing is asked of anyone. No leadership shown. When the sh*t hits the fan there really will be no where to hide for anyone no matter how high the bunker walls they've built for themselves and their friends. Fighting and winning elections is unfortunately not the same skill set as making insightful decisions that will shape and be felt long into the future. Abby Taubin, East Dulwich
Get involved on Crossrail
AS CROSSRAIL prepares to open in 2018, now is the opportunity for readers to have their say on a new railway project that could affect peoples lives in this part of London for a generation.
The proposed new Crossrail 2 would run underground through London between Wimbledon and New Southgate/Tottenham Hale and link into the existing national rail network
above ground for destinations in Surrey and Hertfordshire. Crossrail 2 could bring jobs and vastly increased services to large parts of our city, helping us to move around for decades to come but there are also questions about where construction sites will be positioned, where station entrances should go, what the service levels should be and how the project will impact people's homes living along the route. If we get this right, Crossrail 2 could transform life in London for so many of us, so I urge everyone to take part in this next phase of the consultation and provide your feedback to the planners. Details of consultation meetings can be found at http://crossrail2.co.uk Syed Kamall, MEP for London
Used postage stamp appeal
I AM appealing for used postage stamps which help me raise funds, which I then donate to the Guide Dogs for the Blind.
Recycling used postage stamps is such an easy way to raise money for the charity and I am always in need of all types of postage stamps, including British, Foreign and Christmas stamps. If you are able to help I would be grateful if you could cut the stamps from their envelopes (leaving a 1cm margin around the stamp) and send them to the address below. Myrna Chave, PO Box 91, Virginia Water, Surrey, GU25 9AR If you would like to contact me my email address is stamps4gdftb@live.co.uk Your assistance in helping me to support this very worthy cause is greatly appreciated. Myrna Chave
HELEN HAYES
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MP for Dulwich & West Norwood
AST WEEK Storm Abigail struck Scotland with winds of up to 85mph, leaving thousands of homes without power.
Extreme weather like this will become more frequent if together with other countries we don’t take concerted effort to tackle climate change. The last Labour Government introduced the Climate Change Act, which delivered the world’s first legally binding carbon emissions reduction targets. The 2010-2015 Lib Dem-Tory government promised to be the ‘greenest ever’, but like so many promises made by the Lib Dems this proved to be untrue. Now the Tory government is carrying on down the same path – making policy and budget decisions, like cutting the subsidy for local solar energy projects and cancelling the zero carbon homes initiative, that have significantly weakened the fight against climate change. Tackling climate change should be a winwin situation for us all. Two council blocks in my constituency have just been insulated from top to bottom using funding from British Gas. This will significantly reduce heating bills for council tenants and leaseholders this winter, as well as reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Investing in tackling climate change could create more than a million skilled green jobs, offering tens of thousands of apprenticeships for our young people, reducing benefit payments and increasing income from taxes to the government. Tackling climate change is an environmental and economic necessity and the most important thing we must do for our children, our grandchildren and future generations. Global leaders will gather in Paris later this month for the UN Climate Summit. The UK should be taking a lead in Paris, showing by example and negotiating ambitious targets to reduce carbon emissions with a goal of net zero emissions in the second half of this century. I am working closely with local groups in my constituency to send a strong message to the government that we want – and urgently need – an ambitious deal in Paris.
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In Loving Memory of
Michael Morrissey 1st Anniversary
Treasured memories today and always of a loving husband, dad and Pops Michael, whose first anniversary occurs on 21st November 2015. A million times we've missed you, a million times we've cried, If love alone could have saved you, you never would have died. In life we loved you dearly, in death we love you still, In our hearts you hold a place, no one else can ever fill, It broke our hearts to lose you, but you didn't go alone, Part of us went with you, the day God took you home.
Loved and never forgotten by Maureen, Elaine, Sara & Martin, Michael & Carly, Emma-Jane & Matty and all your family and friends xx Anniversary mass for Michael on Saturday 21st November at 6pm in English Martyrs Church, Walworth
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Memorials
Ayse Christina Sullivan 8.11.79 – 23.11.97
Dear God, please take care of my little girl, The one with big eyes, and soft brown curls. Please tell Ayse she is loved so very dear I'll say it every day for her to hear Tell her I promise to see her again someday When that will be, I really can't say I promise to make up for the time that's past To hold her and comfort her, in my arms at last. Always in my thoughts, Mum
Mark Kilgannon
Thinking of you on your Birthday, 21st November
Thank you
Michael McCarthy (Mac)
Sunrise 04.02.44 - Sunset 24.10.2015
We would like to thank everyone for their beautiful flowers and cards, they meant a lot. Thank you to Nancy at Greens for the amazing flowers, FA Albins for their professionalism & care, Father Michael for a beautiful service & Julie and Roy at the Stanley Arms. Gone but never forgotten, from Shirley & family
Happy Birthday up in heaven, from your family here below, we love you and we miss you, and just wanted to let you know. Gone but never forgotten. Mum, Pete, Brenda, Fred, Dawn & Donna xxxxxx
Ayse Christina Sullivan 8.11.79 – 23.11.97
If roses grow in Heaven Lord, Please pick a bunch for me. Place them in my sister’s arms, and tell her they're from me. Tell Ayse I love and miss her, and when she turns to smile, Place a kiss upon her cheek, and hold her for a while. Because remembering her is easy, I do it everyday, But there is an ache within my heart, that will never go away. Love you little sister always Michelle, Sarahjane and Rachel
Jimmy Barlow
16.11.1935 - 08.01.2005
10th Anniversary You would have been 80 years old this week. Love and miss you always. Stella, the boys, and family x x x
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22 WHAT’S ON
GALLERIES
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BEACONSFIELD 22, Newport Street, SE11 (020-7582 6465) Harnessing The Wind Installations referencing current social issues of local and global significance. Beaconsfield, Wed Sat 11am-5pm, ends Nov 28, free. BERMONDSEY SQUARE SE1 Frances Richardson: Loss Of Object And Bondage To It; Fig. 2 A public sculpture by the London-based artist. Bermondsey Square, Mon-Sun 12midnight11.59pm, ends Mar 12, free. COLEMAN PROJECT SPACE 94, Webster Road, SE16 (020-7237 9120) Hypo New commissioned body of work featuring film, sculpture and ceramics. Coleman Project Space, Fri-Sun 12noon5pm, ends Nov 22, free. DILSTON GROVE SE16 (020-7237 1230) James Capper: Prototypes - Sculpture A new sculptural commission ATLAS Prototype, within a large survey exhibition of James Capper’s recent work at The Gallery/Dilston Grove in Southwark Park. Dilston Grove, Wed-Sun 11am-4pm, ends Dec 6, free. DULWICH PICTURE GALLERY Gallery Road, SE21 (020-8693 5254) Pierre-Paul Prud’hon: Napoleon’s Draughtsman A selection of 13 works on paper. Dulwich Picture Gallery, Tue-Fri 10am-5pm, Sat & Sun 11am-5pm, ends Nov 15, £5, OAP £4, unwaged/disabled/NUS/under 18s free. The Amazing World Of MC Escher Woodcuts, lithographs, drawings, watercolours and mezzotints, plus exclusive archive material. Dulwich Picture Gallery, Tue-Sun 10am-5pm, last adm 4.30pm, ends Jan 17, £14, OAP £13, concs £7.50, child/mems free. EAMES FINE ART GALLERY 58, Bermondsey Street, SE1 (020-7407 6561) Anita Klein - Full Circle Paintings and original prints celebrating a new generation in her family and a new chapter in the artist’s life. Eames Fine Art Gallery, From Nov 11, Tue-Sat 11am-6pm, Sun 12noon-5pm, ends Dec 6, free. IMPERIAL WAR MUSEUM Lambeth Road, Elephant & Castle, SE1 (020-7416 5000) Holocaust Exhibition Works documenting the Holocaust and the Second World War. Imperial War Museum, Mon-Sun 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, Mon-Sun 10am-6pm, ends May 30, free. Lee Miller: A Woman’s War Works examining the impact of women’s lives during the Second World War. Imperial War Museum, Mon-Sun 10am-6pm, ends Apr 24, £10, child/art fund mems £5, concs £7, mems free. JERWOOD SPACE 171, Union Street, Bankside, SE1 (020-7654 0179) Jerwood/Photoworks Awards 2015 Photography by Matthew Finn, Joanna Piotrowska and Tereza Zelenkova. Jerwood Space, From Nov 4, Mon-Fri 10am-5pm, Sat & Sun 10am-3pm, ends Dec 13, free. Project Space: Luke McCreadie: Be In The Air, But Not Be Air, Be In The No Air The artist uses narrative as a drive to make new sculpture and film. Jerwood Space, Mon-Fri 10am-5pm, Sat & Sun 10am-3pm, ends Dec 12, free.. MORLEY GALLERY 61, Westminster Bridge Road, SE1 (020-7450 1826) London Potters Annual Exhibition From functional to sculptural, 270 piece by 90 makers, all works are for sale. Morley Gallery, from Nov 10, Mon-Sat 11am-6pm,
Sun 12noon-5pm, ends Nov 25, free. SOUTH LONDON GALLERY 65-67, Peckham Road, SE5 (020-7703 6120) Thea Djordjadze A site-specific sculptural installation. South London Gallery, Tue & Thu-Sun 11am-6pm, Wed & fourth Fri of month 11am-9pm, ends Nov 29, free. TATE MODERN Bankside, Holland Street, SE1 (020-7887 8888) Abstraction And The Sublime Works exploring affinities between the American post-war abstractionists and European landscape painters. Tate Modern, Mon-Thu & Sun 10am-6pm, last adm 5.15pm, Fri & Sat 10am-10pm, last adm 9.15pm, ongoing, free. Alexander Brodsky And Ilya Utkin Illustrations by two artists who became known as The Paper Architects. Tate Modern, Mon-Thu & Sun 10am-6pm, last adm 5.15pm, Fri & Sat 10am-10pm, last adm 9.15pm, ongoing, free. Alexander Calder: Performing Sculpture Works by the American sculptor. Tate Modern, From Nov 11, Mon-Thu & Sun 10am-6pm, Fri & Sat 10am-10pm, ends Apr 3, £16.30, concs £14.50, under 12s free. Around Abstract Art 1920-1935 Exploring the development of abstract art. Tate Modern, Mon-Thu & Sun 10am-6pm, last adm 5.15pm, Fri & Sat 10am-10pm, last adm 9.15pm, ongoing, free. Arte Povera And Anti-Form Works curated by Mark Godfrey and Helen Sainsbury. Tate Modern, Mon-Thu & Sun 10am-6pm, last adm 5.15pm, Fri & Sat 10am-10pm, last adm 9.15pm, ongoing, free. Beyond Painting Works exploring the constituent elements of putting paint on canvas. Tate Modern, Mon-Thu & Sun 10am-6pm, last adm 5.15pm, Fri & Sat 10am-10pm, last adm 9.15pm, ongoing, free. Beyond Surrealism Works curated by Matthew Gale. Tate Modern, Mon-Thu & Sun 10am-6pm, last adm 5.15pm, Fri & Sat 10am-10pm, last adm 9.15pm, ongoing, free. George Condo Explore the work of the American artist. Tate Modern, Mon-Thu & Sun 10am-6pm, Fri & Sat 10am-10pm, ends Dec 31, free. Constructionism Curated by Tanya Barson and Matthew Gale. Tate Modern, Mon-Thu & Sun 10am-6pm, last adm 5.15pm, Fri & Sat 10am-10pm, last adm 9.15pm, ongoing, free. Cubism Illuminating the perceptual and conceptual aspects of the art movement. Tate Modern, Mon-Thu & Sun 10am-6pm, last adm 5.15pm, Fri & Sat 10am-10pm, last adm 9.15pm, ongoing, free. Giorgio De Chirico And Jannis Kounellis Works exploring how two different artists responded to surrealism. Tate Modern, Mon-Thu & Sun 10am-6pm, last adm 5.15pm, Fri & Sat 10am-10pm, last adm 9.15pm, ongoing, free. Elegies Works by Claude Monet, Joan Mitchell and Lee Ufan. Tate Modern, MonThu & Sun 10am-6pm, last adm 5.15pm, Fri & Sat 10am-10pm, last adm 9.15pm, ongoing, free. Elements Of Chance Surrealist art which toys with the notion of chance. Tate Modern, Mon-Thu & Sun 10am-6pm, last adm 5.15pm, Fri & Sat 10am-10pm, last adm 9.15pm, ongoing, free. Everyday Alchemy: Contemporary Sculpture Sculptures which use commonplace objects to explore notions of value. Tate Modern, Mon -Thu & Sun 10am-6pm, last adm 5.15pm, Fri & Sat 10am-10pm, last adm 9.15pm, ongoing, free. Sam Francis And Brett Weston Explore
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Rock ‘n’ roller disco
I WAS alive in the Eighties so I remember, writes, Matt Baker...
I remember the headbands, the hair, the rollerskating and, yes, I remember legwarmers. I remember it all seemed so normal, so right, so very 'now'. Then I remember the nineties, for some of us a decade of remorse. Remorse for the things seen, done, and yes, worn just a brief decade before. So there I sat in a packed theatre ready to confront the shame of my past, and possibly shuffle off this mortal coil due to a cringeinduced heart attack, accompanied by the high pitched Antipodean howls of Olivia Newton John, imploring us to 'get physical'. For those of a different generation, allow me to explain: Xanadu, in its original the relationship between landscape and abstraction. Tate Modern, Mon-Thu & Sun 10am-6pm, Fri & Sat 10am-10pm, ends Dec 31, free. Leon Golub & Hrair Sarkissian: Facing History Works by two artists whose subject-matter is violence and atrocity. Tate Modern, Mon-Thu & Sun 10am-6pm, last adm 5.15pm, Fri & Sat 10am-10pm, last adm 9.15pm, ongoing, free. Nicholas Hlobo Artworks which utilise craft techniques of stitching and weaving. Tate Modern, Mon-Thu & Sun 10am-6pm, last adm 5.15pm, Fri & Sat 10am-10pm, last adm 9.15pm, ongoing, free. Homeworkers Works employing materials traditionally associated with the domestic sphere. Tate Modern, Mon-Thu & Sun 10am-6pm, last adm 5.15pm, Fri & Sat 10am-10pm, last adm 9.15pm, ongoing, free. Hyundai Commission 2015: Abraham Cruzvillegas: Empty Lot A site-specific installation. Tate Modern, Mon-Thu & Sun 10am-6pm, Fri & Sat 10am-10pm, ends Apr 3, free. Ellsworth Kelly Retrospective exhibition to mark the artist’s 90th birthday. Tate Modern, Mon-Thu & Sun 10am-6pm, last adm 5.15pm, Fri & Sat 10am-10pm, last adm 9.15pm, ongoing, free. Nam June Paik Rarely seen work on paper, and other key pieces, spanning 40 years of the artist’s career. Tate Modern, Mon-Thu & Sun 10am-6pm, Fri & Sat 10am-10pm, ongoing, free.
incarnation was possibly the worst movie ever made. Its 'plot', such as it was, revolved around ancient Greek Muses arriving in Venice Beach and 'inspiring', (forgive me, I use the term very loosely) a struggling artist to create the highest form of art ever invented - roller disco. Whilst performing this great service for humanity one of the muses falls in love with the, thankfully mortal artist, leading to all sorts of Olympian troubles. Honestly, I expected a more comfortable time the last time I saw my GP and heard the snap of the rubber glove behind me. And yet, how wrong I was. With enough time passed, and a wonderfully large dose of irony, Xanadu worked as a musical in every way. Everyone is in on the joke from
Minimalism Works curated by Helen Sainsbury. Tate Modern, Mon-Thu & Sun 10am-6pm, last adm 5.15pm, Fri & Sat 10am-10pm, last adm 9.15pm, ongoing, free. Niki De Saint Phalle And Richard Serra Two artists working in the arte povera, or poor art tradition. Tate Modern, Mon-Thu & Sun 10am-6pm, last adm 5.15pm, Fri & Sat 10am-10pm, last adm 9.15pm, ongoing, free. Painting After Technology The process of mark-making in a period of radical technological change. Tate Modern, MonThu & Sun 10am-6pm, Fri & Sat 10am10pm, ends Dec 31, free. Pino Pascali Works by one of the most important 1960s Italian artists. Tate Modern, Mon-Thu & Sun 10am-6pm, last adm 5.15pm, Fri & Sat 10am-10pm, last adm 9.15pm, ongoing, free. Charlotte Posenenske Works curated by Jessica Morgan and Kyla McDonald. Tate Modern, Mon-Thu & Sun 10am-6pm, last adm 5.15pm, Fri & Sat 10am-10pm, last adm 9.15pm, ongoing, free. Realisms Exploring how many 20thcentury artists resisted the onslaught of abstractionism. Tate Modern, Mon-Thu & Sun 10am-6pm, last adm 5.15pm, Fri & Sat 10am-10pm, last adm 9.15pm, ongoing, free. Gerhard Richter Layered and erased, abstract paintings. Tate Modern, Mon-Thu & Sun 10am-6pm, Fri & Sat 10am-10pm, ends Dec 31, free.
the start and it is absolutely marvellous. The audience laughed themselves stupid, we all sang along, egged on by a mesmerising cast, and after the epic rendition of the title piece all stood applauding wildly. Truly a great piece of theatre, and a fine antidote to the sad state of affairs in the world. Worth seeing twice, so, go on, get your skates on. Southwark Playhouse, 77-85 Newington Causeway, SE1 6BD Until Saturday 21 November 2015 Monday to Saturday at 7.30pm; Saturday matinees at 3pm Box Office: 0207 407 0234 www.southwarkplayhouse.co.uk £22, £18 (conc.)
Russian Revolutionary Posters Street posters from the Soviet era. Tate Modern, Mon-Thu & Sun 10am-6pm, last adm 5.15pm, Fri & Sat 10am-10pm, last adm 9.15pm, ongoing, free. Surrealism And Beyond Works exploring how surrealist artists approached dreams. Tate Modern, Mon-Thu & Sun 10am-6pm, last adm 5.15pm, Fri & Sat 10am-10pm, last adm 9.15pm, ongoing, free. The EY Exhibition: The World Goes Pop Around 200 works from the 1960s and 1970s. Tate Modern, Mon-Thu & Sun 10am-6pm, last adm 5.15pm, Fri & Sat 10am-10pm, last adm 9.15pm, ends Jan 24, £14.50, concs £12.70, under 12s free. The Reclining Nude Works exploring the evolution of this artistic tradition in the 19th and 20th centuries. Tate Modern, Mon-Thu & Sun 10am-6pm, last adm 5.15pm, Fri & Sat 10am-10pm, last adm 9.15pm, ongoing, free. Torn Papers And Walls Paper Contemporary and abstract artists in response to the theme of Cities. Tate Modern, Mon-Thu & Sun 10am-6pm, Fri & Sat 10am-10pm, ends Dec 31, free.
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ROYAL VAUXHALL TAVERN 372, Kennington Lane, Vauxhall, SE11 (020-7820 1222) Charming Dick An adult, tongue-in-cheek take on the traditional panto. Royal Vauxhall Tavern, Nov 19, 8pm-11pm, £12. Finger In The Pie Cabaret Showcase
London’s hot showcase of new drag, burlesque and variety. We’ve launched the careers of some of London’s most famous cabaret artists and regularly provide a testbed for new material from its most established. Royal Vauxhall Tavern, Nov 20, 7pm-9.30pm, £10-£12. Miss Hope Springs: Queen Of Fools Musical cabaret from the singer, entertainer and pianist. Royal Vauxhall Tavern, Nov 26, 8.30pm-11.30pm, £10-£15. SOUTHBANK CENTRE Belvedere Road, Waterloo, SE1 (020-7960 4200) La Soiree The crowned winner of this year’s prestigious Olivier Award for Best Entertainment and fresh from a magnificent world tour, the awe-inspiring cabaret sensation is thrilled to return home to London for a sixth season in the capital. La Soiree’s Spiegeltent, Tue-Fri 8pm, Sat 7pm & 10pm, Sun 7pm, ends Jan 17, £22.50-£200. Team Of The Decades: Will Dickie An outdoor theatrical experience. Royal Festival Hall, Nov 27-29, 11am-12noon, £10. SOUTHWARK PLAYHOUSE 77-85, Newington Causeway, SE1 (020-7407 0234) Tomcat A drama set in the near-future when diseases and disorders have been wiped out. Southwark Playhouse, Nov 27, 9-14 & 16-21, 8pm, mats Nov 7, 14 & 21, 3.30pm, Nov 2-7, 9-14 & 16-21 £18, concs £16
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Dual crossword
CRYPTIC PUZZLE Clues Across 1 9 10 11 13 14 16 18 19 20 21 22
His is a professional stick up (5 6) Strange drink (3) Their understanding is 100% (9) Force the little devil to join the Spaniard (5) They are certainly absorbing (7) Creatures of spirit (6) Perhaps never include a point of superficial refinement (6) Henry's the one for spoils (7) Lightweight animal (5) Scheme against the maniac maybe (9) Nothing at grass? (3) Declares the fool always gets a setback (11)
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Am to include single purpose (3) Surpass 10 and 50 by the sound of it (5) Just the ones in the height (6) Number one part stinks (7) Will it never grow old? (9) Scandal to be in tears over the disgrace (6,5) They are no snakes in the grass (3 8) Draws out professional leaflets (9) Where the skater is on dubious ground (4,3) Oriental condition of property (6) Musical work period (5) Gold sounds an alternative (3)
QUICK PUZZLE Clues Across
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Employments (11) Pin (3) Present (9) Social rank (5) Egyptian beetles (7) Merchant ship (6) Mendicant (6) Picture to oneself (7) Attain (5) Treading roughly under foot (9) Plan (3) Commemorating festively (11)
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Tooth on wheel (3) Fixed quantities (5) Bear witness (6) Early period of history (4,3) Severe nerve pain (9) Experts (11) Critical literary examination (11) Make worse (9) Paint in dots (7) Older (6) Correct (5) Males (3)
Solutions to last week’s crossword
CRYPTIC ACROSS: 1 Staunch 5 Cocks 8 Lead 9 Namesake 10 Starting point 13 Gobi 17 Agog 17 Bird in the hand 19 Esoteric 20 Laid 21 Tusks 22 Cleared DOWN: 2 Twenty 3 Undergo 4 Condition 5 Cheap 6 Coating 7 Sheathe 11 Graphical 12 Ambient 13 Gorgons 15 Ophelia 16 Incite 18 Ideas QUICK ACROSS: 1 African 5 Cheap 8 Plot 9 Generate 10 Congregations 13 Aria 14 Your 17 Brothers in law 19 Eviction 20 Meal 21 Sisal 22 Handles DOWN: 2 Fallow 7 Integer 4 Aggregate 5 Cheat 6 Enamour 7 Pleased 11 Abyssinia 12 Fibbers 13 Agonies 15 Unnamed 16 Savage 18 Hotel
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TICKETS: 0871 22 44 007 Fri 20 Nov – Thu 26 Nov A WALK IN THE WOODS (15) 104 Mins Audio Described, Wheelchair, Silver Screen, Infra Red, Wed 14:00, Thu 11:00 BILL (PG) 94 Mins Audio Described, Wheelchair, Kids Club, Infra Red, Sat–Sun 10:00 BLACK MASS (15) 123 Mins Audio Described, Wheelchair, Infra Red, Wed 11:15, 14:00, 17:15, 20:30, Thu 11:15, 14:00, 17:15, 20:15 BRIDGE OF SPIES (12A) 141 Mins Audio Described, Wheelchair, Infra Red, Thu 11:15, 14:15, 17:30, 20:30 BROOKLYN (12A) 112 Mins Audio Described, Wheelchair, Infra Red, Fri 13:00, Mon–Wed 13:00 HOME 2D (U) 94 Mins Audio Described, Wheelchair, Kids Club, Infra Red, Sat–Sun 10:30 HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA 2 2D (U) 89 Mins Audio Described, Wheelchair, Infra Red, Fri 16:00, Sat–Sun 11:30 13:45, 16:00, Mon–Thu 16:00 HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA 2 3D (U) 89 Mins Audio Described, Wheelchair, Infra Red, Sat 10:15, 12:45, Sun 12:45 NO ESCAPE (15) 103 Mins Audio Described, Wheelchair, Silver Screen, Infra Red, Wed 11:00, Thu 14:00 PAN 2D (PG) 111 Mins Audio Described, Wheelchair, Infra Red, Sat 11:15 SPECTRE (12A) 148 Mins Audio Described, Wheelchair, Infra Red, Fri–Sat 12:15, 13:30, 14:30, 15:30, 16:45, 17:45, 19:15, 20:00, 21:00 22:30, 23:15, Sun–Tue, 12:15, 13:30 14:30, 15:30, 16:45, 17:45, 19:15, 20:00 21:00, Wed–Thu 11:15, 13:30, 14:30 16:45, 17:45, 20:00, 21:00 STEVE JOBS (15) 122 Mins Audio Described, Wheelchair, Infra Red, Fri–Sat, 20:45, Sun 20:45s/t, Mon–Thu 20:45 THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY, PART 2 2D (12A) 137 Mins Audio Described, Wheelchair, Infra Red, Fri 12:30, 14:00, 14:45, 15:45, 17:15, 18:00, 19:00, 20:30, 21:30, 22:00, 23:45, Sat 10:45, 11:45, 12:30, 14:00, 14:45, 15:45,17:15, 18:00, 19:00, 20:30, 21:30, 22:00, 23:45, Sun 10:45, 12:30, 14:00, 14:45, 15:45, 17:15, 18:00, 19:00, 20:30 21:30 Mon– Tue 12:30, 14:00, 14:45, 15:45, 17:15 18:00, 19:00, 20:30, 21:30, Wed 11:45, 12:30, 14:45, 15:45, 18:00, 19:00, 21:30 Thu 11:45, 12:30, 14:45, 15:45, 18:00, 19:00, 21:30, 22:00 THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY, PART 2 3D (12A) 137 Mins Audio Described, Wheelchair, Infra Red, Fri 13:30, 16:30, 19:45, 23:00, Sat 13:15, 16:30, 19:45, 23:00, Sun 13:15, 16:30, 19:45 Mon–Thu 13:30, 16:30, 19:45 THE LADY IN THE VAN (12A) 104 Mins Audio Described, Wheelchair, Infra Red, Fri 13:45, 16:15, 18:45 Sat– Sun, 15:00, 17:30, Mon 13:45, 16:15, 18:45, Tue 13:45, 16:15s/t, 18:45, Wed 11:45, 14:15, 16:15, 17:00, 18:45, Thu 13:00, 16:15, 18:45 THE LAST WITCH HUNTER (12A) 106 Mins Audio Described, Wheelchair, Infra Red, Fri 23:30, Sat, 10:45, 23:30, Sun 10:45, Wed 11:00s/t, Thu 11:00 THE MARTIAN 2D (12A) 141 Mins Audio Described, Wheelchair, Infra Red, Fri 21:15, Sat 20:15, 23:30, Sun 20:15, Mon–Thu 21:15 THE PERFECT GUY (15) 100 Mins Audio Described, Wheelchair, Infra Red, Fri–Thu 18:15 THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW–40TH ANNIVERSARY PARTY (12A) 120 Mins Wheelchair, Odeon Events, Infra Red, Wed 19:30
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M
ost children were evacuated out of London during the Second World War but for the ones left behind, the bombsites were their playgrounds, writes Amelia Burr...
A recent haul of magazines recovered from what became the South London Emergency School, tells of the everyday walk to war for the girls at Honor Oak School. Dated 1938 to 1942 the magazines, which recently came into the possession of the Peckham Society, list exam results, university places and form representatives alongside adverts from the Jones and Higgins department store. The Peckham institution sponsored the magazine and stocked the school’s uniform - a school coat would have set you back 25s and 11d in those days. Editions of the magazine from 1938 told of a procession for the Coronation of King George VI, an inspection from the London County Council (the Ofsted of the day) and a visit to a County Hall to hear the Berlin College of Music singers and an orchestral competition with Mary Datchelor School in Camberwell. Despite the Second World War looming on the horizon a group of senior girls took a trip to Germany and even visited a Hitler Youth Group where they socialised together at a dance. In 1939 a deputation of girls also attended a conference of the League of Nations Union in London. In 1940 the whole school was evacuated to Reigate, where the ‘native’ pupils would take lessons Monday to Wednesday and Honor Oak pupils, Thursday to Saturday. The girls mucked in with the harvesting of the wheat crop as there was then a great shortage in farmers who had gone off to the Front. In 1942 the magazines document when the building became the South London Emergency School for children who had been displaced by the war or had to stay behind with their families. Blast walls were erected on the outer side of some of the classrooms and some of the cloisters were bricked in to form impromptu air raid shelters. The girls were sent out on collecting salvage missions, described as ‘the work of national importance for old girls and girls leaving school’. In wartime, scouts and school pupils were often tasked with collecting anything from waste fat to paper and tins. Audrey Putney (nee Cummings) was a pupil at the South London Emergency School between 1942 and 1946. She recollected in a recent edition of the Peckham Society News how lessons would frequently be interrupted by flying bombs. “We were quite amused by the different attitudes of individual teachers at the time. One teacher who was very strict and severe would have us all under the desks at the first sound of a doodlebug and we stayed there until after the bang, while another who was much more casual and friendly chose to ignore the whole thing and we carried on as if nothing was happening,” she wrote. “During the summer holidays the
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OLD MAGAZINES REVEAL CHAPTER OF SCHOOL’S HISTORY
Honor Oak School - Main; School magazine’s - Middle Inset; and the Honor Oak Uniform - below
Honor Oak through the war years older girls were allowed to go into the school to us the grounds and some of us took full advantage of this and played endless games of tennis. We would play on a court that was next to an outside air raid shelter. When a flying bomb came over we played until the last minute, dived down into the shelter until we heard the explosion and then came out and resumed our game. However one morning when we came in to play tennis we found that the school had been quite badly blasted by bombs during the night with he result that the upstairs classrooms were covered in broken glass. Some of use decided to go through to the upstairs desks and rescue the textbooks. We then placed the books in plies in their different categorises and left them for the teachers to put in cupboards downstairs. That was the end of our summer tennis.” “At the end of the holidays when we assembled in our damaged and boarded up hall we were told that we
would not be able to use the upstairs classrooms as it was too dangerous. Also no one could remember in which cupboard the hymn books had been placed so we had to sing a hymn to which everyone knew the words. We gave a very rousing rendition of Jerusalem and to this day I never hear Jerusalem sung without being taken back to that occasion.” The Honor Oak School started life as the Peckham Country Secondary School, which opened in 1906 in Sumner Avenue as a grammar school for girls. In 1931 a new school for 450 girls was built on the site of the Priory Farm in Homestall Road, Dulwich and renamed Honor Oak School. In 1978 Honor Oak lost its grammar school status when it merged with the Friern Girls’ Secondary School on Peckham Rye to become Waverley Comprehensive and latterly Harris Academy. With thanks to the Peckham Society News.
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FTER BEING in Buddha Jazz for a while you soon realise there’s not a lot of jazz, but there is a large Buddha guarding the entrance to the toilets. Instead of jazz there is plenty of easy listening music comprised of Michael Bublé and others of his ilk, writes Michael Holland...
And there is, much to my pleasure, Vietnamese beer, which I had never come across before, but with names that rather over-labour the point: Hanoi, a 5.5% lager that Nina The Cleaner opted for, and I had a Saigon that was not as strong. Both were good tasting beers. The menus were about ten pages long so choosing was a bit of a nightmare, and my companion soon gave up, leaving the decisions to me. Sweet. I love being in charge. There was a BJ Special on offer, but even I wasn’t game enough for that on a Saturday night in public… Our starter courses for sharing came from the Dim Sum page: Hot and Sour Soup, Prawn Dumplings and Kim Chi Dumplings. Nina was straight in, devouring the soup like a demon until she looked aghast: ‘There’s meat in this,’ said the vegetarian who only eats fish. ‘That’s handy, I’ll have it,’ I replied. ‘Okay, but I’ll have more dumplings,’ she retorted, determined to get her fair share. As I set about the gelatinous Hot & Sour I heard another yelp of dismay. ‘What’s up?’ I asked. ‘There’s meat in these Kim Chi dumplings!’ she cried. Oh dear, obviously a mix up in the kitchen, which meant Nina demanded she now gets most of the prawn dumplings, but which I was informed were delicious. I did, though, get good helping of meat which had not been planned. Buddha Jazz is a cosy, intimate place where people come to talk in its lowlit atmosphere. On the night we visited it was mainly small groups of friends, plus couples cosying up at their candlelit tables. For the main dishes I ordered something that definitely would not be a surf ‘n’ turf combo like the dumplings, and good choices there were too. We shared Salt & Chilli Soft Shell Crab with vermicelli, and a King Prawn and Lotus Stem Salad that felt like it could have cleansing properties, as it was so crisp and fresh. The salad had an undercurrent taste
that neither of us could identify, but which lifted it up to the ranks of ‘great’. Maybe it was the subtle dressing, or it could have been the lotus stem. The soft shell crab was very nice and, again, served simply with plain noodles and stir-fried vegetables that were not going to overwhelm the crab’s superior flavour. We accompanied the main course with a Merlot for me, and Chenin Blanc for she, from a short but well thought out wine list, and both did the job they were hired for. We sat for a while, digesting a nice meal and finishing our wines, when we were offered a dessert menu, which none of us were too bothered about. Our waiter tried to tempt us with ice cream, but that was a nonstarter, so he hit us with talk about a Vietnamese delicacy that is always eaten at celebrations. He could see he had our attention now so began talking us through its significance to his culture while slowly opening the menu up at the page that held the full details of this dish that we were now willing to trade our grandmothers for: Banh Choi Banh Chay - Glutinous Rice Balls with Red Bean in a Hot Ginger Broth… Hmmm. Okay, so the ‘glutinous’ bit didn’t make me exactly quiver with desire, but ‘hot ginger broth’ was the deal breaker. We decided to share the four balls and it wasn’t long before they arrived in a bowl of steaming liquor. Yes, the balls were glutinous, and teeth-destroying sweet, but the red bean sauce inside balanced the sugariness out, and the ginger broth was the killer punch that nailed it as the best dish of the night for Nina. Buddha Jazz does authentic Vietnamese food that can be enjoyed by people from all cultures and tastes, but can also provide those staples that the unadventurous require. And at a price that is not going to skint you.
THE DAMAGE
Hanoi Beer Saigon Beer Meriot Chenin Blanc Hot & Sour Soup Prawn Dumplings Kim Chi Dumplings Soft Shell Crab King Prawn Salad Banh Choi Banh Cray
£3.20 £3.50 £3.50 £4.50 £4.25 £3.85 £3.75 £9.50 £7.25 £4.00
TOTAL: £47.00
FOOD (1-5) AMBIENCE (1-5) VALUE (1-5) DISABLED ACCESS DISABLED TOILET PRE-BOOKING
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 NO NO NO
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Full details of additional skills and experience required for the above posts are contained in the job description and person specification included in the relevant application pack.
These posts are initially for a fixed term of one year to provide additional support whilst building and refurbishment works are underway.
We are on an exciting journey increasing in size from one and half form entry to a two form entry school. To accommodate our growing community we have begun a programme of redevelopment of our existing building. As the school begins its transformation, we are looking for experienced professionals to join our team.
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LONDON BOROUGH OF SOUTHWARK
LONDON BOROUGH OF SOUTHWARK
ROAD TRAFFIC REGULATION ACT 1984 SECTION 14(1) (STONEY STREET)
ROAD TRAFFIC REGULATION ACT 1984 SECTION 14(1) (HAVIL STREET) 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7.
TEMPORARY PROHIBITION OF TRAFFIC
The Council of the London Borough of Southwark hereby gives notice that to enable a crane operation by Road Traffic Solutions, it made an order the effect of which will be to prohibit vehicular traffic from entering part of the above named road.
1.
An alternative route will be via Southampton Way, Peckham Road, Dalwood Street, Sedgmoor Place, as applicable.
3.
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 Havil Street, at it’s junction with Southampton Way and for approximately 64m in a southerly direction. 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 come into operation on the 28th – 29th November 2015.
Further information may be obtained by contacting Road Network & Parking Management on 0207 525 2014.
Dated this 19th November 2015
London Borough of Southwark London Local Authorities 1991 (Part 11) Special Treatments Premises Notice of Application for Licence
Address of Premises: 100 Tower Bridge Road, SE1 4TP
18.11.2015
Applicant’s name and Address: Santiago Dosal Ariza, The Beauty Plaza Ltd, 100 Tower Bridge Road, SE1 4TP
TAKE NOTICE that We the above-named being the occupiers of the above named premises have this day applied to the Council of the London Borough of Southwark for licensing of the above premises under the above Act as a SPECIAL TREATMENTS PREMISES.
Any person WISHING TO OBJECT to our application should do so by giving notice in writing stating in general terms the grounds of the objection to the Council’s Licensing Unit Environmental Health & Trading Standards 3rd Floor Hub 2, 160 Tooley Street, P O Box 64529, London SE1 5LX Within four weeks of the date of this notice.
Persons objecting to the grant of licences must be prepared to attend in person at a public hearing before a committee of the Council. LONDON BOROUGH OF SOUTHWARK
ROAD TRAFFIC REGULATION ACT 1984 SECTION 14(1) (JACOB STREET)
3. 4. 5. 6. 7.
5. 6. 7.
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 Stoney Street 10 metres either side of Railway Bridge XTD/42 The alternative route will be via Stoney Street, Winchester Walk, Montague Close, Duke Street Hill, Southwark Street, Stoney Street. Stoney Street, Southwark Street, Bedale Street.
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. Works will take place between the 30th November at 22:00hrs – 1st December at 06:00hrs. Further information may be obtained by contacting Road Network & Parking Management on 0207 525 2014.
Nicky Costin Network Management Business Manager
Southwark Council, Road Network, Regulatory Services, PO Box 64529 London SE1 5LX Ref: 2942
2.
4.
The Council of the London Borough of Southwark hereby gives notice that to enable Bridge Inspection works to be carried out by Centurion Site Services, made an order the effect of which will be to prohibit vehicular traffic from entering part of the above named road.
Dated this 19th November 2015
Nicky Costin Road Network Business Manager
1.
2.
TEMPORARY PROHIBITION OF TRAFFIC
TEMPORARY PROHIBITION OF TRAFFIC
The Council of the London Borough of Southwark hereby gives notice that to enable Thames Water (Agility Alliance) to lay new water connections, 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 Jacob Street, between No’s 181 – 191.
Southwark Council, Regulatory Services, Network Management, PO Box 64529 London SE1 5LX Ref: 2943/XTD-01-44-301115
LONDON BOROUGH OF SOUTHWARK
TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING ACT 1990 THE COUNCIL OF THE LONDON BOROUGH OF SOUTHWARK hereby gives notice that it has made an order under section 247 of the above Act to authorise the stopping up of the following area of public highway shown hatched black on the plan attached to the Order: 1.
An L-shaped area of footway forming part of Abbey Street and Old Jamaica Road some 4.5 metres by 3.9 metres;
All of the area stopped up falls within the London Borough of Southwark
THIS ORDER IS MADE to enable the development described in the Schedule to this notice to be carried out in accordance with the planning permission granted under Part III of the Act by the Council of the London Borough of Southwark on 4 March 2015 under local planning authority reference No. 12/AP/3127 (1)
COPIES OF THE ORDER AND THE RELEVANT PLANS MAY BE INSPECTED FREE OF CHARGE by way of appointment at 160 Tooley Street, London, SE1 2TZ by calling 020 75252135 quoting reference (Corner of Abbey Street and Old Jamaica Road – Stopping up Order) A copy may also be viewed on the Council’s website http://www.southwark.gov.uk/highwayclosures
ANY PERSON aggrieved by the Order and desiring to question the validity thereof, or of any provision contained therein, on the ground that it is not within the powers of the above Act or that any regulation made thereunder has not been complied with in relation to the Order may, within 6 weeks of 19 November 2015 apply to the High Court for the suspension or quashing of the Order or of any provision contained therein.
Doreen Forrester- Brown Director of Law & Democracy
An alternative route will be via; George Row, Wolseley Street, Mill Street. Mill Street, Bermondsey Wall West, George Row.
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. Works will take place on the 7th – 11th December 2015.
Further information may be obtained by contacting Road Network & Parking Management on 0207 525 2014.
Dated this 19th November 2015 Nicky Costin Road Network & Parking Business Manager
Southwark Council, Regulatory Services, Road Network Management, PO Box 64529 London SE1 5LX Ref: 2945/ 00080156229/PH1.3.4
LBS Reg. No 12/AP/3127
THE SCHEDULE
‘The demolition of the existing building and erection of a building of between 3 and 6 storeys in height to provide 51 residential units (16 x 1 bed, 25 x 2 bed and 10 x 3 bed) with ancillary car parking, cycle storage and landscaping. The proposal would retain the existing war memorial fronting Old Jamaica Road’
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LONDON BOROUGH OF SOUTHWARK LOCAL PARKING ISSUES The London Borough of Southwark (Parking places) (CPZ 'B') (No. *) Order 201* The London Borough of Southwark (Parking places) (Car club) (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 2015 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 order 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) AMERICA STREET - to convert existing single yellow line waiting restrictions to ‘at any time’ waiting restrictions throughout; (b) BARRY ROAD – [i] to introduce ‘at any time’ waiting restrictions on the north-west side outside Nos. 250-254 Barry Road, and [ii] to relocate north-eastward by 1 metre an existing disabled persons parking place outside No. 248 Barry Road; (c) BOWEN DRIVE – to introduce ‘at any time’ waiting restrictions [i] on all sides of the turning area at its north-westernmost end, on the east side [ii] at its junction with the vehicular access Atwood House, Kingswood Estate and [iii] between its junctions with the vehicular access to Beresford House, Kingswood Estate and Lyall Avenue, and [iv] on the south-west and west side between its north-westernmost end and a point 25 metres south of the boundary of No. 40 Bowen Drive and Kingsdale Foundation School; (d) COURT LANE – to introduce ‘at any time’ waiting restrictions on the north-east side at its junction with Dovercourt Road; (e) DOVERCOURT ROAD - to introduce ‘at any time’ waiting restrictions on both sides at its junction with Court Lane; (f) ELEPHANT LANE - to introduce ‘at any time’ waiting restrictions [i] on both sides at its junctions with the vehicular access to the parking areas fronting Nos. 11-23 and 18-30 Elephant Lane, and [ii] on the north-east side, either side of the parking area fronting Nos. 33-43 Elephant Lane; (g) ELM GROVE – to remove part of an existing permit parking place on the east outside No. 60 Elm Grove and introduce ‘at any time’ waiting restrictions (so as to accommodate the construction of a footway crossover); (h) EWER STREET - to convert existing single yellow line waiting restrictions to ‘at any time’ waiting restrictions throughout; (i) EYNELLA ROAD - to introduce ‘at any time’ waiting restrictions on both sides at its junction with WOODWARDE ROAD; (j) GAINSFORD STREET - to introduce ‘at any time’ waiting restrictions on the north-east side across the vehicular entrance between Nos. 16 and 18 Gainsford Street; (k) GREAT GUILDFORD STREET - to convert existing single yellow line waiting restrictions to ‘at any time’ waiting restrictions on both sides between its junctions with Southwark Street and Union Street; (l) HATCHAM ROAD - to introduce ‘at any time’ waiting restrictions on the west side between its junctions with Penarth Street and Manor Grove; (m) LAVINGTON STREET –to introduce ‘at any time’ waiting restrictions on the south side at its junction with Ewer Street; (n) LORDSHIP LANE - to introduce ‘at any time’ waiting restrictions on the south-west side between the vehicular access to Duval Court, Nos. 228-234 Lordship Lane and the common boundary of Nos. 248 and 250 Lordship Lane; (o) LUCEY WAY - to introduce ‘at any time’ waiting restrictions on the north-west side at its junction with Rouel Road; (p) MANOR GROVE - to introduce ‘at any time’ waiting restrictions [i] on the north side extending westward from its junction with Ilderton Road, and on the south side extending eastward from [ii] its junction with Hatcham Road, and [iii] its junction with Ormside Street; (q) MALTBY STREET – to make permanent existing temporary ‘at any time’ waiting restrictions on both sides fronting No. 41 Maltby Street and the Metropolitan Police Garage; (r) MELBOURNE GROVE – to introduce '9 am to 10 pm, Monday to Saturday' waiting restrictions on the south-west side outside Nos. 34-36 Melbourne Grove; (s) ORMSIDE STREET - to introduce ‘at any time’ waiting restrictions on the west side extending northward from its junction with Manor Grove; (t) PARAGON MEWS - to introduce ‘at any time’ waiting restrictions on the south-east side at its junctions with Old Kent Road and Searles Road; (u) PENARTH STREET - to introduce ‘at any time’ waiting restrictions on the north side between its junctions with Ilderton Road and Hatcham Road, (v) PILGRIMAGE STREET – to revise the existing loading bay on the north-west side to a 40 minutes maximum stay; (w) RECORD STREET - to introduce ‘at any time’ waiting restrictions [i] on the north side between its junctions with Hatcham Road and Ormside Street, and [ii] throughout the south side; (x) ROTHERHITHE STREET to introduce ‘at any time’ waiting restrictions [i] on both sides outside Nos. 301-303 Rotherhithe Street, and [ii] on the west side outside Stanton House; (y) ROUEL ROAD - to introduce ‘at any time’ waiting restrictions on the west side across the vehicular entrance to Spa Court, No. 79 Rouel Road; (z) ROYAL ROAD – to introduce a car club parking place with space for 2 vehicles on the north-east side outside Nos. 20-22 Royal Road; (aa) SEARLES ROAD - to convert existing single yellow line waiting restrictions to ‘at any time’ waiting restrictions [i] on the west, north and south side between its junction with Old Kent Road and the boundary of Nos. 53 and 54 Searles Road, and [ii] on the south and south-east side between the eastern vehicular access to 'The Paragon', No. 43 Searles Road and its junction with Darwin Street; (bb) SOUTH CROXTED ROAD - to introduce ‘at any time’ waiting restrictions on the north-east side opposite Nos. 127-139 South Croxted Road; (cc) STONES END STREET- to convert existing single yellow line waiting restrictions to ‘at any time’ waiting restrictions throughout; (dd) WARDENS GROVE - to convert existing single yellow line waiting restrictions to ‘at any time’ waiting restrictions throughout; and (ee) WOODWARDE ROAD - to introduce ‘at any time’ waiting restrictions on both sides at its junction with Eynella Road. 3. Further information may be obtained by contacting Mr. Michael Herd of the council's 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 Highways, Environment, 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, Southwark council, Highways, Environment, P.O. Box 64529, London SE1P 5LX or via e-mail to: traffic.orders@southwark.gov.uk quoting reference PRP/ND/TMO1516-030 by 10 December 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 19 November 2015 NICKY COSTIN Parking and network management business unit manager, Regulatory services
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The Council of the London Borough of Southwark PUBLIC NOTICE: ROAD TRAFFIC REGULATION ACT 1984 – SECTION 16A THE (RESTRICTION OF TRAFFIC) SPECIAL EVENTS ORDER 2015
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 purposes specified in paragraph 2. The effect of the Order is summarised in paragraph 3.
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The purpose of the Order is to facilitate
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The effect of the Order is to prohibit any vehicle from:
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(a) The Annual East Dulwich Christmas Cracker Event in part of North Cross Road, as indicated in the schedule to this notice. (a) entering or proceeding in the length of streets specified in the schedule to this notice on the date and between the hours specified in that schedule; (b) waiting, loading and unloading (including waiting for the purpose of delivering or collecting goods or loading and unloading a vehicle) in the length of street specified in the schedule to this notice. The prohibitions will not apply in respect of:
(a) any vehicle engaged on the special event;
(b) anything done with the permission or at the direction of a police constable in uniform or a person authorised by the Council of the London Borough of Southwark; 5. 6.
(c) any vehicle being used for police, fire brigade, or ambulance purposes, or for a statutory undertaker in an emergency.
The alternative route to North Cross Road will be via Shawbury Road, Fellbrigg Road or Frogley Road. (Access only) to Nutfield Road and Archdale Road will be via Lacon Road, Crawthew Grove, Frogley Road as applicable.
For information regarding this Event, please contact Southwark Events Team on 0207 525 3422 or for information relating to this order please contact Parking & Road Network Management on 0207 525 2014
Dated this 19th November 2015 Nicky Costin Road Network Business Manager
Southwark Council, Regulatory Services, Road Network Management 160 Tooley Street, SE1 5LX ref: 2944 Schedule
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North Cross Road
Extent
Lordship Lane – Fellbrigg Road
Date of event
Prohibited Hours
Saturday 5th December 7am - 6pm
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LONDON BOROUGH OF SOUTHWARK
TOWN & COUNTRY PLANNING ACT 1990 (as amended) PLANNING (LISTED BUILDINGS AND CONSERVATION AREAS) ACT 1990 (as amended) The planning applications listed below can be viewed on the planning register at 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). 54 BELLENDEN ROAD, LONDON, SE15 5BB (Ref. 15/AP/4421 ) (Householder Application) Construction of a second floor extension over an existing flat roof that includes raising both party walls & a chimney stack (within Holly Grove C.A.) Reason(s) for publicity: CNA (Contact: Patrick Cronin - Development Management 0207 525 5535) 129 BELLENDEN ROAD, LONDON, SE15 4QY (Ref. 15/AP/4277 ) Installation of a replacement shop front (within Holly Grove C.A.) Reason(s) for publicity: CNA (Contact: Michael Glasgow 020 7525 1249) 52A BELLENDEN ROAD, LONDON, SE15 5BB (Ref. 15/AP/4420 ) (Householder Application) Construction of a second floor extension over an existing flat roof that includes raising both party walls & a chimney stack (within Holly Grove C.A.) Reason(s) for publicity: CNA (Contact: Patrick Cronin - Development Management 0207 525 5535) 19 COLLEGE ROAD, LONDON, SE21 7BG (Ref. 15/AP/3904 ) Demolition of existing garage, erection of a rear and side extension, gates to front boundary and excavation of basement. (within Dulwich Village C.A.) Reason(s) for publicity: CNA (Contact: Shanali Counsell 0207 525 1770) LAND EAST OF CROWN STREET BETWEEN WYNDHAM ROAD AND BETHWIN ROAD INCLUDING THE FORMER CROWN STREET DEPOT AND THE BETHWIN ROAD ADVENTURE PLAYGROUND CROWN STREET CAMBERWELL SE5 OUR (Ref. 15/AP/4429 ) Variation of planning permission 13-AP-0561 for: 'Redevelopment of the site including the demolition of existing depot building and erection of four new residential buildings of between six and nine storeys accommodating 69 dwellings and 137m2 of Class A1, A2 and/or A3 (retail/services/cafe) space, 9 disabled car parking spaces, cycle parking, private and communal amenity space including a new public square and landscaping, plus refurbishment and single storey extensions to the existing Bethwin Road playgroup building (Class D1 use) with associated landscaping' to change the tenure of 16 private tenure flats to shared ownership. Reason(s) for publicity: MPA (Contact: Michael Glasgow 020 7525 1249) 47 DULWICH VILLAGE, LONDON, SE21 7BN (Ref. 15/AP/4439 ) Display of: x1 static illuminated replacement fascia sign above shopfront and x2 nonilluminated projecting signs (within Dulwich Village C.A.) Reason(s) for publicity: CNA (Contact: Lisa Jordan 0207 525 5426) 252 JAMAICA ROAD, LONDON, SE16 4BD (Ref. 15/AP/3900 )
Variation of Condition 15, relating to doors on the western elevation, of planning permission 15-AP-1074 for: 'Redevelopment of site to provide a six storey building comprising of a new scout hall (use class D1) and x8 flats (use class C3)' to allow both sets of doors to be provided in the western elevation shall not be used other than for purposes as an exit in the case of emergency and shall be used for occasional use for Scouting purposes only and shall not be used as a general means of access into and/or exit from the building by users of the building. Reason(s) for publicity: MPA (Contact: Shanali Counsell 0207 525 1770) FLAT 6, 117 KENNINGTON PARK ROAD, LONDON, SE11 4JJ (Ref. 15/AP/4436 ) Replace timber suspended floor (not original) with solid floor construction, including the addition of new DPC to address issues of damp, timber rot and lack of ventilation. (within Kennington Park Road C.A.) (Grade II listed building) Reason(s) for publicity: CNA, LBA (Contact: Tracy Chapman 020 7525 2289) 320A LORDSHIP LANE, LONDON, SE22 8LY (Ref. 15/AP/4374 ) Erection of rear L-shaped single storey ground floor extension. (within Dulwich Village C.A.) Reason(s) for publicity: CNA (Contact: Ciaran Regan 020 7525 4877) 143 PECKHAM RYE, LONDON, SE15 3UL (Ref. 15/AP/4238 ) Change of use from nursery to single dwellinghouse; erection of self contained flat at basement level; mansard roof extension; and side extension at 2nd floor level. (Grade II listed building) Reason(s) for publicity: LBA (Contact: Matthew Lambert 020 7525 7451) 109 ROTHERHITHE STREET, LONDON, SE16 4NF (Ref. 15/AP/4497 ) (Householder Application) Roof extension to rear and new glazing to both front and rear elevation (within St Marys Rotherhithe C.A.) This proposal affects the character or setting of nearby listed building(s):Thames Tunnel mills including detached chimney at 111, 113 & 115 Rotherhithe Street Reason(s) for publicity: ALB, CNA (Contact: Lasma Putrina 0207 525 7708) 83 RYE LANE, LONDON, SE15 5EX (Ref. 15/AP/4066 ) Erection of new 3rd & 4th floor and conversion of 1st and 2nd floor to create x4 new selfcontained flats. (within Rye Lane C.A.) Reason(s) for publicity: CNA (Contact: Matthew Harvey 020 7525 4424) FIFTH FLOOR, 5-7 SOUTHWARK STREET, LONDON, SE1 1RQ (Ref. 15/AP/4495 ) Change of use from office use (Use Class B1) to residential use (Use Class C3) at fifth floor level; erection of roof extension; and associated
internal and external alterations to create x1 3bed flat. (within Borough High Street C.A.) Reason(s) for publicity: CNA (Contact: Matthew Harvey 020 7525 4424) 145 SYDENHAM HILL, LONDON, SE23 3PH (Ref. 15/AP/4472 ) (Householder Application) Additional floor to a 2 storey dwellinghouse, with a front and rear 3 storey extension to include a rear roof terrace. (within Dulwich Wood C.A.) Reason(s) for publicity: CNA (Contact: Shanali Counsell 0207 525 1770) 266 TURNEY ROAD, LONDON SE21 7JP (Ref. 15/AP/3775 ) Details of a remediation scheme pursuant to Condition 7 of planning permission 14-AP-0520 for: Demolition of existing garages and flat and
erection of a two-storey, two-bedroom dwellinghouse. (within Dulwich Village C.A.) Reason(s) for publicity: CNA (Contact: Ciaran Regan 020 7525 4877)
Dated 19th day November 2015 - comments to be received within 21 days of this date SIMON BEVAN - Director of Planning
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LONDON BOROUGH OF SOUTHWARK
ROAD TRAFFIC REGULATION ACT 1984 SECTION 14(1) (St AIDAN’S ROAD) TEMPORARY WAITING AND LOADING RESTRICTIONS 1. 2.
3. 4. 5. 6. 7.
TEMPORARY PROHIBITION OF TRAFFIC
The Council of the London Borough of Southwark hereby gives notice that because of sewer works by Lanes Group, in the above named road, it intends to make an order the effect of which will be to prohibit vehicular traffic from waiting and loading at any time in part of St Aidan’s Road. Whilst the restriction is in progress, and whilst the authorised traffic signs are displayed, no person shall cause any vehicle to wait, including waiting for the purpose of loading and unloading at any time in:
(a) St Aidans Road, on the Southern kerb line between No’s 59 – 63 and No’s 64 – 68. (b) St Aidan’s Road, on the Northern kerb line between No’s 1 - 14 An alternative route will not be required.
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.
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Bedale Street will be made two way for access and egress.
Exemptions would 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 work and for works vehicles, any vehicle being used in connection with police, fire or ambulance purposes and anything done with the permission or at the direction of a police constable in uniform.
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The works will be in operation on the 1st December at 22:00hrs – 2nd December at 06:00hrs.
Further information may be obtained by contacting Road Network & Parking Management on 0207 525 2014.
Nicky Costin Road Network & Parking Business Manager
Southwark Council, Regulatory Services, Road Network Management, PO Box 64529 London SE1 5LX Ref: 2943/ XTD-01-44-301115
ROAD TRAFFIC REGULATION ACT 1984 SECTION 14(1) (BERMONDSEY STREET, SOUTHWARK BRIDGE ROAD)
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An alternative route will be indicated by the traffic signs displayed.
Dated this 19th November 2015
LONDON BOROUGH OF SOUTHWARK
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Whilst works are in progress, or whilst the authorised traffic signs are displayed, no person shall cause any vehicle to enter, proceed, stop, wait, load or unload in Bedale Street, 10m either side of railway bridge.
Further information may be obtained by contacting Road Network & Parking Management on 0207 525 2014.
The restrictions will start and finish on the 3rd November 2015
Southwark Council, Regulatory Services, Road Network Management, PO Box 64529 London SE1 5LX Ref: 2946 / 003344TQTB.7.5
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The Council of the London Borough of Southwark hereby gives notice that because of bridge inspection works by Centurion, it intends to make an Order the effect of which would prohibit vehicular traffic from entering part of Bedale Street.
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Nicky Costin Road Network Business Manager
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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.
Dated this 19th November 2015.
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ROAD TRAFFIC REGULATION ACT 1984 SECTION 14(1) (BEDALE STREET)
TEMPORARY PROHIBITION OF TRAFFIC
The Council of the London Borough of Southwark hereby gives notice that to enable highway works to be carried out, it intends to make an order the effect of which will be to prohibit vehicular traffic from entering part of the above named roads.
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:
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(a) Bermondsey Street, between Long Lane and Decima Street. (b) Southwark Bridge Road, between Gaunt Street and Great Suffolk Street. (c) Southwark Bridge Road, between Great Suffolk Street and Sawyer Street.
The alternative route for (a) Long Lane, Tower Bridge Road, Bermondsey Street. Tower Bridge Road, Decima Street, Wild’s Rents, Long Lane. Tower Bridge Road, Bricklayers Arms, Great Dover Street, Long Lane, Bermondsey Street. (b) Southwark Bridge Road, Gaunt Street, Great Suffolk Street, Southwark Bridge Road. Great Suffolk Street, Newington Causeway, St Georges Road, Westminster Bridge Road, Blackfriars Road, Pocock Street, Great Suffolk Street. (c) Union Street, Blackfriars Road, London Road, Newington Causeway, Great Suffolk Street. Marshalsea Road, Great Dover Street, Borough High Street, Southwark Bridge Road. Great Suffolk Street, Borough High Street, St Georges Road, Westminster Bridge Road, Blackfriars Road, Pocock Street. 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 take place for: (a) 30th November – 1st December. (b & c) 1st – 5th November (works will be carried out in 2 phases)
Further information may be obtained by contacting Road Network & Parking Management on 0207 525 2014.
Dated this 19th November 2015 Nicky Costin Road Network & Parking Business Manager
Southwark Council, Regulatory Services, Road Network Management, PO Box 64529 London SE1 5LX Ref:2947/LBS-SC1442338, 2948 LBS-SC1442341
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LATE SPOT KICK ENSURES STANSFELD CUP PROGRESS Forest Hill Park 1
Stansfield O&B Club 2
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A controversial late Billy Jolley penalty ensured Stansfeld made cup progress against a team who operate a step above them in the non league ladder.
With the game level in its final minute, and set for extra time, Jake Williams halted run was deemed illegal by officials, much to the consternation of the home side who had two players booked and another sent off as they made their thoughts on the decision clear.
Legends remain in top spot
Southwark Legends won their fifth game in a row to remain at the top of the England Basketball South Conference division after an 85-37 win over Brixton Topcats The victory at the Damilola Taylor Centre on Saturday maintained a perfect start to their league campaign. Southwark’s leading scorer Timothy Adetuyole showed his on court
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Richard Amaefule impressed in the Legends latest win
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New Hamlet man Moss gets early Margate reunion
NEW HAMLET striker Ryan Moss will get an early chance to meet old friends after Dulwich drew his old side Margate in the next round of the FA Trophy.
Stansfeld players celebrate their late winner against Forest Hill Park.
But despite this Jolley calmly placed the ball in the bottom right hand corner of the net to give Stansfeld the late win, and a place in the last eight of the Hospital Charity Cup. Earlier Lennie Wise guided Mickey Smith's perfectly flighted
free kick in at the far post with a text book header. But with two minutes of normal time remaining a Stansfeld error allowed Thierry Fotso to level things up, only for the game to swing the Southwark sides way in its dying moments.
dominance once again with twenty points and seven rebounds. Fourteen-year-old England junior international Richard Amaefule also had a strong outing with eleven points and ten rebounds. He said: “Although this was probably our best team performance, we still need to work more on our ball movement to continue to get better as a side." In the Community Basketball League Southwark Legends U18’s tipped off
their season with a 29-21 win over Hackney Kings despite the north London side staging a late comeback. Kehinde Ilo proved hard to contain throughout and he scored twelve points for the Legends team whose victory was secured thanks to a solid defensive performance. Anybody aged under fifteen who is interested in joining the Southwark Legends should contact Anthony on 07904973684.
Bermondsey’s CoLA basketball girls claim scalp
BERMONDSEY’S CITY of London Academy (COLA) U16 basketball team picked up a big win at the Copper Box Arena last weekend when they defeated a tough Renegades side.
Girls from City of London Academy, light blue, in action at the Copper Box Arena
Competing in the Community Basketball League (CBL) the Southwark girls prevailed 34-15 with Adaobi Nebuwa being named Most Valuable Player thanks to an impressive 20 points to help COLA pick up an
McFarlane of f as Fisher fall at Tunbridge Wells
FISHER FC’S Reion McFarlane got his marching orders on Saturday as his side fell to a 3-2 defeat away at Tunbridge Wells.
The Black and Whites had taken a seventh minute lead thanks to Alfie Roche at the weekend but that good start fell apart within ten minutes.
Five minutes after the opening goal McFarlane saw red and almost straight away the home side levelled things up through Jamie Lawrence. Things went from bad to worse four minutes later when Joe Nwoko netted to give Tunbridge the lead, and that lead was doubled before half-time
when Jason Barton got in on the scoring. Fisher managed to keep a clean sheet in the second period and indeed pulled a goal back four minutes from time, thanks to Shelton Gooden, but Wells held on to take all three points. This Saturday Fisher are back at
excellent win. She said: “I’m very happy with our win because it shows how hard we work as a team. We love playing in the CBL because the league shows that girls can play basketball, and so it’s a great way for our talent to be seen.” The CBL is run by the London School of Basketball (LSB) in partnership with Reach and Teach. For more information c o n t a c t lwilliams@reachandteach.co.uk.
Champion Hill and they take on Croydon, who are one of only three teams who sit below the Black and Whites in the Southern Counties East League table. The game kicks off at 3pm. For more details visit fisherfc.co.uk or follow @FisherFC on twitter.
Dulwich made it through to the third qualifying round of the competition after defeating VCD Athletic 2-0 at Champion Hill last Saturday. The goals on the day came from Dean McDonald and another ex-Margate player in the shape of Mitchell Nelson. Moss was signed the day before the VCD game and Hamlet fans hope he will be the man who will bag the goals to secure the Ryman Premier League title. His record at that level is certainly impressive as in two seasons in the Ryman Premier League with Margate, and before that Kingstonian, he scored more than 40 goals. Hamlet boss Gavin Rose told the club website: “Ryan Moss is a signing that will capture the imagination of our supporters. “We were very keen to sign him but couldn't have done so without the extra financial support provided by the [fan’s funded] 12th Man Scheme.” Whilst Moss joined the squad at Champion Hill his signing has meant that another frontman, Calum Willock, has left the Pink and Blues after scoring seven goals in nineteen appearances. This Saturday Dulwich return to league action and the table toppers will be on their travels to Bognor Regis Town, who are currently one of Hamlet’s main rivals for the sole automatic promotion place. For the latest news on that game visit @DulwichHamletFC on twitter. For all other news go to www.pitchero.com/clubs/dulwichhamlet/.
Spoils shared in top of the table clash By Danny Belcher
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Athenlay FC U14s 2
Docklands JFC U14s 2
DOCKLANDS KEPT top spot in their Selkent League table after playing out a draw against Athenlay FC, the side who sit one place behind them.
With the wind against them from the kick off Docklands found it hard to get out their own half for long periods. Despite resilient defending they fell behind before a Daniel Diangana near post finish from a corner levelled things up going into the break. Docklands started the second half well and mounted waves of attack with Niyi and Diangana both hitting the bar and post. But against the run of play Athenlay went in front again after Docklands failed to clear their lines. Harry Watson, Joe Coombes and Teddy Belcher all forced good saves from the home side’s keeper but with literally the last kick of the game Romeo Barr diverted in Diangana's goal bound shot to seal a point.
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MILLWALL PREMIER LEAGUE KICKS AWAY DAYS! DURING THE October half term Millwall Community Trust took a group of young men from the Silwood Estate in Lewisham to take part in a friendly and competitive tournament as a reward for their continued attendance to the Premier League Kicks Programme.
On Tuesday the 27th of October the young men, led and coached by Millwall Community Trust coach Thang Nguyen travelled to the Samuel Montagu Youth Centre in Kidbrooke to compete in a friendly game with young
men from Charlton Athletic Community Trust. The day gave the young men from Silwood an opportunity to play in a competitive fixture in good spirit whilst being able to display the skills and knowledge they’ve acquired from their Kicks sessions. The team from Silwood won 115 on the day where they managed to display their own individual skill and hard work in cohesion with each other to run out as winners in a well competed match. Thursday the 29th of October
saw the team from the Silwood then make a journey to North London, Whittington Park, Holloway Road to compete in a tournament against a range of teams from across London with the likes Arsenal, Barnet, Charlton, Millwall, QPR, Spurs and West Ham in attendance. Special guests on the day were Cardiff City Community Foundation who travelled from Wales to take part in the football festival. The tournament gave the young men from the Silwood Estate the opportunity to engage with people from across the
country and enjoy a group day out with each other. Sessional coach Thang Nguyen, who takes the Silwood Estate session every Thursday evening whilst delivering on a range of other sessions and projects for Millwall Community Trust was full of praise for Arsenal in the Communityt who hosted the tournament. “The tournament managed to engage very good numbers. It was competed in a tough but fair manor and most importantly it was a good day for all the young people from London and the guys from Cardiff who
made a great effort to come over and take part. They deserve huge credit for their efforts in coming down as do Arsenal for being great hosts.” Millwall Community Trust continue to provide a wide range of weekly football sessions across the boroughs of Southwark and Lewisham under the hugely popular Premier League Kicks programme. For more information about Millwall’s Premier League Kicks programme, please call 020 7740 0503 or follow the Millwall Premier League Kicks Twitter on @MCPLKicks.
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Lions midfielder wants to rediscover form he showed prior to knee problem By John Kelly
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MILLWALL’S ED Upson has praised club physio Bobby Bacic for his role in ensuring he returned from injury sooner than expected.
Upson was an 83rd-minute replacement for Aiden O’Brien in the Football League Trophy win over Plymouth last week, Millwall’s last competitive outing before the international break. The former Yeovil Town midfielder was also part of a strong U21 side that faced Crystal Palace at The Den last Friday, playing the first half and scoring in a 5-1 win. Upson had expected to be out for longer when he damaged his knee in the 5-3 defeat to Peterborough on October 3, but says his natural powers of recovery as well as club staff
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MILLWALL SUPPORT CANCER AUCTION
MILLWALL ARE contributing to an online charity auction in memory of Sir Bobby Robson by offering the chance to spend a day at Calmont Road including joining a first-team training session and sitting in on the technical analysis meeting between boss Neil Harris and his squad.
The money raised from a number of auctioned prizes will go to helping the fight against cancer. The former England manager set up the Sir Bobby Robson Foundation in 2008 to support cancer projects and research into the disease. You can bid for Millwall’s donation and many others by going to www.sirbobbysauction.com before Sunday, November 29.
including his manager Neil Harris keeping his mood high during his period out sped up the process. “Every time I come back from an injury it’s before time,” Upson said. “Bobby’s done great work as well, I can’t take all the credit for it. “The manager spoke to me a lot and the physios did some good work with me and kept my spirits high. It’s about yourself as well and staying strong. It wasn’t that long out and on the whole I tend to be optimistic and quite happy. “I’d never had any knee injuries before so it was a first for me. I’ve had hamstring injuries where I’ve been out for two or three weeks, but the nature of this injury was a lot worse this time. “It was only five weeks after it was predicted to be a lot longer than that. It felt like a lot longer so it is nice to be back and in the mix again.” Upson was frustrated to suffer an injury at a time when he believes he
had begun to play his best football, and he now wants to concentrate on rediscovering that same kind of form again in a competitive and muchimproved side. He said: “I was feeling really good in that (Peterborough) game and previously leading up to it as well. I was playing well and my confidence was high, but that’s football. I’ve a chance to come back now and try to
JPT AREA SEMI-FINAL
JUNIOR LIONS CHRISTMAS PARTY
winners in September, Millwall’s last defeat at home in all competitions. If the Lions defeat Southend they will play either Yeovil or Oxford in a twolegged southern section final with the winners of that securing a date at Wembley for the JPT final. The semi-final clash at Root’s Hall will kick off at 7.45pm.
There will also be food and special presents for the Juniors. Tickets cost £3 and will be available from the ticket office. There are a limited number of tickets available so the advice from the organisers is to get in early in order not to miss out.
MILLWALL’S JOHNSTONE’S Paint Trophy southern section semifinal against Southend has been fixed for Tuesday, December 8.
THE PARTY will take place on Sunday, December 20 from 2pm until 5pm. In attendance there will be players, magicians, faceIt will be the second meeting between painters, Father Christmas and the sides this season after Phil Brown’s a DJ, as well as the Lions Live men came away from The Den 2-0 Radio team.
regain that. “It’s tough to be injured at any point, especially when the team are doing well because you want to be out there, you want to be playing. But you’ve just got to bide your time and be patient.” Upson welcomed the opportunity to build his match sharpness with the U21 side, and he gave some insight into the professional levels of Justin
Skinner’s squad, evidence that the club ethos under the leadership of Harris is being developed at the roots. “It was a good game and nice to get back playing at The Den again,” he said of the win over Palace. “Everyone knows their responsibility and their jobs, even at U21 level, there’s not a lot that needs to be said to them, really. All the young lads are really fired up and that makes the job a lot easier.”
HARRIS ON LIONS LIVE
THE LIONS Live team will this week be talking to Millwall boss Neil Harris and getting his assessment of the season so far, his first full campaign as a manager.
The host will also welcome onloan Wolves midfielder George Saville to the show and he will give his impression of his second, so far unbeaten, spell at the club. The prize is the famous The Weather in Norwegian jersey that Millwall wore in the late 90s. You can listen to the show on Thursday night from 7-9pm.
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The gaffer
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LEAGUE ONE MATCH PREVIEW
Millwall vs Colchester - Sky Bet League One Saturday November 21, Kick off: 15:00
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Tony Humes, 49, played over 300 games for Ipswich and Wrexham before retiring in 1999.
He was appointed Colchester boss in September 2014 following the dismissal of Joe Dunne. In the last game of last season the U’s were eight minutes away from relegation to League Two before midfielder George Moncur scored to give them a 1-0 win over Preston to secure their safety.
Lee Gregory will be hoping to continue his run of scoring form
Sky Bet match odds Millwall 5/6 Draw 14/5 Colchester 3/1
Last league match Millwall 0-0 Bradford Colchester 1-3 Coventry
Possible Line-ups 13 Archer
2 Cummings
17 Webster
6 Williams
22 O’Brien
20 Morison
31 Harriott
20 Lapslie
4-2-3-1
21 Saville
45 Sordell
12 Jones
3 J Martin
18 Ferguson
9 Gregory
10 Moncur
15 Kent
3 Briggs
16 Beevers
4-4-2
19 Bonne
8 Gilbey
18 Elokobi
4 Edwards
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HARRIS: LIONS MUST BE DILIGENT AT COL FACE
By John Kelly
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NEIL HARRIS should have Ed Upson and Sid Nelson available for this Saturday’s Sky Bet League One clash with Colchester at The Den. Upson made his return after five weeks out with a knee injury against Plymouth in the Johnstone’s Paint Trophy and played another 45 minutes last Friday in the Elite Development Squad’s 5-1 London derby win over Crystal Palace at home. Nelson had been pencilled in to play in that U21 game before he was required to replace Carlos Edwards in the 34th minute of the 5-3 win at Home Park. Harris reported this week that 37-yearold defender Edwards still has a tight
hamstring and will be assessed again closer to kick-off. Shane Ferguson could return to the side after returning from international duty while Shaun Cummings, who was in Haiti this week with a Jamaica squad playing a 2018 World Cup qualifier, will play at right-back should Edwards fail to prove his fitness. Colchester have the worst defence in League One having conceded 37 goals in seventeen games and Harris was at the Weston Homes Community Stadium last weekend to assess them during their 3-1 defeat to Coventry. That result was in line with recent erratic form that has included a 6-2 away win at Wealdstone in the FA Cup, a 4-4 draw against high-flying Walsall in which they relinquished the lead in injury time and a 5-0 setback at Wigan. But they have scored two more goals than their hosts on Saturday, albeit
having played a game more, and Harris insists they carry enough attacking arsenal to ensure the Lions defence will have to maintain a vigilant approach against them. “They lost but it was a very good game of football, a very attacking game of football,” Harris said of his scouting trip. “Colchester possess a huge attacking threat, they score a lot of goals. “We have to really be on our game defensively to nullify that threat while continuing to play our attacking style. We have to try and carry on being the force we’ve been in recent weeks.” Millwall are on an eight-game unbeaten run, seven coming since the last international break, and Harris said there has been a focus on defensive work during the latest break following the concession of three goals at Plymouth.
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“We can improve,” he admitted. “This week has been an opportunity to work on defending. We’ve been working on defensive and attacking shape. “There’s still a long way for us to go, that’s for sure. We have got better after each international break. The clear message to the boys during international breaks is to get some rest and recovery after very difficult periods of games before the next intense period.” Colchester haven’t won a league game on the road since defeating Swindon 2-1 at the County Ground on September 26, while Millwall are unbeaten at The Den since a 2-0 reverse against Southend a week earlier. The U’s have conceded eight more goals than the next leakiest defence in the division and could have just two fit senior centre-backs available for their visit to SE16.
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Young defender sees bigger picture as he strives for first team berth By John Kelly
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IT’S NOT often you talk to a nineteen-year-old professional footballer at the beginning of his career and end up asking him where he sees himself after that career is over. But Keaton Wood’s inquisitive mind naturally ends up winding away from playing football to touching on acquiring his coaching badges, his interest in continuing with some kind of academic education and then ends on his opinion of a ballet he went to with his girlfriend last Friday. He feels studying for his badges will help him develop as a footballer, while the benefit of academia was drilled into him when he was growing up in Ashford. “I went to Norton Knatchbull grammar school for boys,” he explains. “When I came here and went to do college work on Wednesdays I did that relentlessly for two years. They really want you to keep up your education, they don’t want you to throw that away. “Even if you are expanding your mind, away from football, I believe it can help here. You learn different things, how to talk to people and things like that. “I’ve finished that part of my
education but have been thinking about doing some more just to keep the eye in, really. I think it’s always a good idea. “Sport and Physical Education would be one option, English literature and ancient language I was good at, probably because I could talk a lot of rubbish sometimes! But they’re the subjects I would be drawn to. “And then there’s the coaching badges, which they help you do here as well. Some of the coaches have mentioned them to me so they must think I’ll make a good coach one day. “I believe that if you do your coaching badges and you understand the way that coaches talk to you, you understand the game better and that can help you grow as a player. “If you need to ask a question, you need to ask a question. That’s how you learn and improve. It’s no good just sitting back and pretending you know what you’re doing.” Some Millwall fans might not be overly familiar with the young defender but would have spotted his name among six homegrown players in Neil Harris’ squad for the first round FA Cup win over AFC Fylde at The Den a couple of weekends ago. He came to Millwall as an U16 centre-back after a spell with Crystal Palace at the end of which no
scholarship offer materialised. But he admits his time spent with the Eagles, training with the likes of Wilfried Zaha before the attacker’s big-money move to Manchester United, was an important part of his development. “I was at Palace for about five months and before that Sunday League in Ashford,” Wood says. “They scouted me from a young age in Ashford. It was my first chance to play for a professional club so I learned a lot there, can’t thank them enough, really. “I trained with the first team, with the likes of Wilfried. That was a great experience, though it was only once. He tried to nutmeg me but I didn’t let it happen.” He had a coach at Palace, Fred Dillon, who he said “believed” in him and knew current U21 boss Justin Skinner. Wood then took a call from Millwall’s head of youth recruitment, Barry Dunn, and didn’t hesitate to take the opportunity. And after two games and two training sessions he committed his future to the club. “Millwall’s always been embedded in football history,” Wood says. “Maybe not for the right reasons, sometimes, but whatever the history of the club I’m always proud to wear the badge.” Those who have attended any U21
games this season will have noted that pride evident in the vocal presence he gives the side. He is constantly encouraging and organising. It took his teammates one training session to notice his “busy” mouth, as they told him, and he feels it is a mark of professionalism. The football ability he has can be traced back to his great-grandfather, Charles Wilson Jones, a former Welsh international centre-forward who played for Birmingham but whom Wood says is a bit of a “family mystery”. “Apart from my great-grandfather my dad always had an amateur level. He always does go on about how I get the accuracy in my passing from him. Some of the boys would say it’s not very good so I might have to give my dad a bit of stick for that one!” Wood’s ambition now is to follow the path of Sid Nelson, Ben Thompson and Alfie Pavey, all teammates in the underage sides who have all made their first-team debuts. His appetite was whetted by his FA Cup involvement and he doesn’t mind admitting he feels a pang of jealousy when he sees his young colleagues in Harris’ side. “Because of Tony Craig’s injury, and Sid was out at the time, I always had an inkling that I might be included but I didn’t want to get
ahead of myself,” Wood stresses. “When I saw my name on the sheet the gaffer just said to me not to think about it and if you come on do what you have to do. I didn’t get a chance to come on but it was still a great experience. “You’re always pushing for a firstteam appearance so it was very good to be included on the bench,” Wood says. “I’ve always been a bit… I suppose the word is jealous of the likes of Sid, who I joined with, and Ben and Alfie, but it was good to get my chance and my ambition is to push on.” And the ballet? “My girlfriend wanted to go and see it last Friday so we went and saw that. “The ballet was Giselle by a New Zealand ballet company. My girlfriend does ballet, she has done for years, so she wanted me to go. She comes and watches me play football. It’s not her favourite sport in the world, though she doesn't mind, but I’ve stored a few brownie points up for that! “The ballet wasn’t bad but it wouldn’t necessarily be my cup of tea every day. It’s a good compromise.” Given his nature, compromise is something he won’t do as he chases a place in Harris’ first team.
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YOUNG LIONS ON CLOUD NINE
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Mikael Ndjoli slots home goal number seven from the penalty spot.
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MILLWALL 9 WOODBRIDGE TOWN 1
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By John Kelly
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ILLWALL’S JOINT U18 coach Larry McAvoy said his players sent out a “statement” after routing Woodbridge Town to set up an FA Cup derby date with south London rivals Charlton.
Mikael Ndjoli bagged four goals and strikes from James White, Matthew Campbell-Mhlope, Noah Chesmain, Lewis White and an own goal sent the young Lions through to the third round. McAvoy and David Connolly’s side were 7-0 ahead before an hour had elapsed and could easily have won by a margin of double figures against their overwhelmed nonleague opponents. McAvoy was pleased his players maintained their high standards throughout the 90 minutes despite the game being as good as over at half-time. “It was about continuing to do the right things and being ruthless,” McAvoy said. “Coming in at the
break 5-0 up it was about keeping everyone’s motivation high. “They really sent a statement out to everyone watching what they are capable of. It was a really pleasing night. “Sometimes those nights can be tricky. They had already knocked out two league clubs in Bury and Dagenham and Redbridge. “So we didn’t take them lightly. We’d done all our homework on them, watched them against Dagenham in the round before and prepared the way we prepared against Crystal Palace the previous week. “The boys thoroughly deserved it and it was also pleasing to win in front of the first-team manager, the
first-team staff and players. It’s nice, it’s like a family that when the youth team play everyone comes along to watch.” McAvoy also revealed the level of detail that goes into recruiting and then preparing the younger players for competition. He explained: “When we are identifying players in the centreforward or wide areas we look for not only players with athleticism and good pace, but also players who are creative and risk-takers. “They’re players that The Den crowd would hopefully love to see. “Neil Harris has made the pitch even bigger at The Den and that helps us there because we have real pace in our team.
MILLWALL HAVE added former Arsenal midfielder Harry Donovan to their scholarship ranks.
U18s. The seventeen-year-old had been part of Arsenal’s U18 side having come through the Gunners’ academy. He also played in the UEFA Youth League.
Donovan trained with Arsene Wenger’s first team before a Champions League clash with Monaco but has now decided to continue his development at Millwall with a professional contract
“We also try to instil the Millwall way in them in terms of their work rate and attitude. When we add that to creativity and pace we are a real threat to any team. “Fitness is also a really big thing for us. We train the same way we play. For instance, we make the boys wear shin pads in training so every day replicates a game situation. “If a team concedes a goal in training they go back to the centre circle to kick off. Every day in training is treated really seriously in terms of fitness levels and tempo. They are really high because the boys are working extremely hard. “It is always competitive, and it has to be to create that environment.”
WALL SNAP UP FORMER GUNNER
Donovan had been on trial with the Lions and will now link up with their
offer at the north London club unlikely. Arsenal said in a statement: “Everyone at the club would like to thank Harry for his contribution and wish him the best with the Lions.”
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BOSS DOESN’T RULE OUT STRIKER BUY; HAS OPTION TO RECALL MARQUIS MILLWALL HAVE the option of recalling John Marquis from his loan at Leyton Orient should they run short of striking options – but boss Neil Harris also hasn’t ruled out adding a centre-forward to his squad.
Marquis, 23, joined Orient on a 93day loan in early October after
struggling to break into Harris’ first team. The striker, who made his Millwall debut in 2009, has played seven times for the League Two side since the switch and scored once, in their 6-1 FA Cup first round win over Staines Town. Aiden O’Brien, Steve Morison and Lee Gregory have scored 23 goals
between them in all competitions this season but Harris has always stressed he wants four senior strikers in his squad. Alfie Pavey, 20, has featured recently off the bench after his impressive form for the Elite Development Squad this season where he has hit the back of the net seven times. But Harris hasn’t closed the door on
going back into the loan transfer market, before the deadline on November 25, nor on Marquis’ future with the club. He said: “We are continuously monitoring the situation. “We’ve got John Marquis who can come back, he’s got a call-back clause in his loan so we can get John back if need be.”
Youth boss wary of Addicks’ strength By John Kelly
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LARRY MCAVOY is expecting a much tougher test for his young players against London rivals Charlton in the FA Youth Cup third round next month.
By John Kelly
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NEIL HARRIS believes he has the necessary quality and cover in his squad to cope with the loss of captain Tony Craig.
Millwall confirmed this week that Craig is unlikely to return this season after undergoing surgery on his injured left knee.
The skipper will be in a brace for the next six weeks with club physio Bobby Bacic saying it would be a “bonus” were he to return before May. That leaves Harris with Mark Beevers, Sid Nelson and Byron Webster competing for two centre-back spots, while the Lions boss also stressed he would have no problem promoting the likes of
Keaton Wood, who has been in impressive form for the U21s this season, to the first team. Harris said: “Defensively we’ve certainly got three talented centrehalves that all want to play and be in the team. “At full-back we’re okay with Shaun Cummings, Carlos Edwards, Joe Martin and Shane Ferguson who can play there.
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We’ve also got the versatility of Shaun Williams, who can slide into the backline. “Couple that with an U21 side that haven’t conceded many goals in 12 league games. There are people there that we wouldn’t be afraid to chuck in and give them some exposure. So I’m not concerned with the numbers we’ve got at the moment.”
The Lions hammered non-league Woodbridge Town 9-1 in round two at The Den on Monday night, with Mikael Ndjoli leading the charge scoring four goals. McAvoy, who coaches the U18s with former Republic of Ireland striker David Connolly, admitted the Addicks will be a much tougher proposition. “I went to watch Charlton on Saturday versus Brentford and they are a really strong side,” he said. “They’ve got two boys, Karlan Ahearne-Grant and Ademola Lookman, who are centre-forwards that play in the Championship for the first team. “They’ve a lot of boys playing for the U21s and they will put out their strongest side in terms of those boys coming back in. They’ll be really strong. “They beat Brentford 7-1 last weekend. So that will be a real test.” McAvoy also revealed that competition between the clubs stretches beyond the playing pitch. He explained: “With us and Charlton we’re both striving for the same sort of players, from south London. Sometimes they’ll get him, sometimes we’ll get him. “All the boys will know each other, generally. Charlton and Crystal Palace, but certainly more the Charlton game at The Valley, it’s one the boys look forward to every year. “It’s a real mouth-watering tie and we’re under no illusions what we’re up against. The U18s is probably their strongest age group. “It’ll be a completely different game from Woodbridge.” THE RECYCLED PAPER CONTENT OF UK NEWSPAPERS IN 2014 WAS 83.5%