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Facing a £115,000 bill would be terrifying
THE THOUGHT of being landed with a £115,000 bill is frankly terrifying. And that is exactly what leaseholders on the Tustin Estate say they are facing from the council, as it prepares to embark on a major works project.
One leaseholder told the News this week that visiting council officers had quoted him the amount as a ‘cost estimate’. If the bill does amount to this, how anyone could be expected to pay it is beyond us. We’ve reported previously on other leaseholders faced with mammoth bills. Leaseholders in Limes Walk, Nunhead, are expecting to pay £43,000 each for roof replacements. Leaseholders on Peckham’s Brayards Estate have been given bills of £24,000. While 88 leaseholders from Bermondsey’s St Saviour’s Estate had their bills halved after winning a court battle with the council. These bills look almost small fry compared to what the Tustin leaseholders say they may face. Many of our estates are in need of work to bring them up to scratch. It is the council - and therefore the taxpayer - who foots the bill. So, is it fair that someone who has bought or part owns an ex-council flat should pay too, if they stand to benefit? We would suppose most leaseholders would be willing to pay some amount towards works they would themselves benefit from, but it is the sheer amount some people are being asked to pay that shocks many. It begs the question: Should there be a reasonable cap on the amount any leaseholder can be charged? The council has recently opened its new Homeowner Agency, an independent service aimed at resolving issues through arbitration and advocacy rather than resulting in expensive tribunals. The council says the Agency ‘aims to give homeowners an independent voice to challenge value for money for their service and major works charges, the specifications of works, accuracy of bills and whether the council had fully explored the alternatives’. If the leaseholders choose to use the Homeowner Agency, it will be interesting to see if it can negotiate any change. What we do know is that the Tustin Estate leaseholders will be going through an anxious time right now.
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DRINKERS MUST SWEAR TO BE GOOD
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Sam Smith’s chain wants to ban bad
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rinkers at The Angel and The Anchor Tap in Bermondsey have been told to watch their mouths as the Sam Smith’s pub group has banned swearing in all its boozers.
The brewery and pub owner, which runs around 200 pubs across the country, has issued guidance to all its landlords asking them to help prevent the use of bad language. The Angel’s landlord Peter O’Sullivan told the News: “Sam Smith’s have said we have to try to do our best to make sure people don’t swear. But you’re talking to an Irishman – every other word which comes out my mouth is a swear word! So I’m consciously making an effort not to swear now.” “I think Sam Smith’s are finding its getting a bit much in their pubs and they want to make it more comfortable for children, which is understandable,” he continued. “If any of my customers take it too far with swearing I will kick them out. But I told Sam Smith’s I’d rather not put up a sign. I’d rather speak to customers about it myself.” Bartender Olja Erceg said: “We thought it was a joke at first when we got the letter from Sam Smith’s because Peter swears so much. But it’s just humour with him.” Drinkers at The Angel seemed to agree. One regular said: “It’s only with the type of people moving here nowadays that they’re doing this sort of thing. It’s the new clientele. Well I say b****cks to them!” Michael Hageman from Bermondsey said: “If you live in west London you’ll find different people in the pubs. Here people don’t mind. I’m originally from Holland and the English swear much more. If there’s no kids around then that’s fine.” However, Neil Timothy, who works near The Anchor Tap, said: “I’m not sure how you’d
“If any of my customers take it too far with swearing I will kick them out. But I told Sam Smith’s I’d rather not put up a sign. I’d rather speak to customers about it myself”
police it but I think it’s a good idea within reason. If people are swearing with each other and no one else can hear that’s OK. But if you’re being loud and disrupting other people that’s different.” The landlord of the Anchor Tap said
hewas unable to comment but the pub had signs displayed warning customers of the new policy. The News asked Samuel Smith’s for a comment but received no reply at the time of going to press.
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Homes ‘under threat’ in tube build EXCLUSIVE
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TRANSPORT FOR London (TfL) has all but admitted that property in Elephant and Castle may be demolished in order to build the Bakerloo Line extension.
Liberal Democrat councillors were first to notice that TfL’s consultation papers on the Bakerloo extension included details of building a “worksite”. To excavate the new tunnels and build a new ticket office, TfL “would require land for a worksite in the area”, according to a document named ‘Elephant and Castle Factsheet’. “The area under consideration is already built up with residential and commercial land uses” the document said. TfL would not comment on what size the land needed for a worksite would be, but comparisons have been made with the TfL worksite in Kennington Park where new Northern Line tunnels are being dug.
Another TfL document, ‘Construction and its Impacts’, said: “The land and property needed for the extension would be acquired (either voluntarily or by compulsory purchase) following the granting of the powers to build the project. The owners and occupiers of land to be acquired by compulsory purchase would be informed of the intention to acquire their interest and would have the right to claim compensation.” It said property owners affected by compulsory purchase would be compensated, and planning permission would hope to be obtained by 2020, meaning works could clash with redevelopment of Skipton House, the Shopping Centre and the London College of Communication campus. A TfL map (pictured) shows the entire area being considered for the worksite, which extends to Gaywood Street and Elliott’s Row, and covers the Perronet House estate. Matthew Yates, head of transport planning and projects at TfL,
told the News: “Proposals for the Bakerloo line extension at Elephant and Castle are currently less developed than other sections of the route. We have therefore shown a wide area in the proposal but this does not mean the whole area would be required. Feedback from the recent consultation [which closed April 21] will be used to shape our plans and as part of that we will aim to reduce impacts on the local community. Local engagement will continue with a further public consultation taking place before any final decisions are made.” When questioned by Cathedral ward councillor, Maria Linforth-Hall council leader Peter John said at a public meeting last Wednesday, April 19: “I do not foresee the council agreeing to any proposal which would put Perronet House or any other council housing or green space at risk. There will be disruption, there’s bound to be… But I’m with you 1,000 per cent that that should not be at the expense of council housing.”
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Government U-turn on Aylesbury evictions
By Owen Sheppard
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PLANS TO force remaining leaseholders off the Aylesbury Estate have been set back to square one, after the government backed out of a court challenge by Southwark Council.
The government announced its U-turn on Monday, saying it would not defend itself in a court hearing, planned for May 9. The judicial review at the Royal Courts of Justice would have given Southwark Council a final shot at overturning the government’s rejection of its controversial compulsory purchase order (CPO). There are seven leaseholders still left on Phase One of the estate, which includes the Bradenham, Chiltern, Chartridge and Arklow blocks. Some 442 tenants and 35 leaseholders had left, but the last seven have stood in the council’s way of its plans to entirely demolish the four blocks. Those leaseholders found themselves at loggerheads with the council after repeatedly refusing the compensation offered to them in return for their homes. One of the remaining seven, Judi Bos, was last offered £270,000 for her flat. Another leaseholder who would not like to be named was offered less than £200,000. It took the secretary of state for communities and local government Mr Javid more than two years to make the shock decision in September, after the council first applied for its CPO in 2014. He argued the compensation offered was too little, and would “contravene” leaseholders’ human rights, as they would be forced to leave the area to find new homes. Southwark had also offered shared-equity deals on new homes, but the Mr Javid had argued that the offer would still have left them with “considerable economic, social and environmental dis-benefits”. The government, leaseholders and council had been readying themselves for court battles ever since. The News asked Mr Javid’s department if the decision was in anyway linked to the snap general election, but no response was received. The latest twist in the story means effectively that Southwark and the last few leaseholders are back to square one. Southwark will have to re-apply for
another CPO of the homes, if negotiations between the leaseholders and the council cannot end in agreement. Southwark Council leader Peter John said: “We are really pleased that the secretary of state has quashed his previous decision, and will now allow us to hold a new CPO inquiry. We remain committed to regenerating the Aylesbury Estate for the benefit of local residents.” A statement from the council said a Consent Order will now be agreed with the government, and will be forwarded to the case’s interested Parties (Aylesbury leaseholders, their legal representatives and the 35% Campaign) for agreement. If the Court decides to quash the decision, the secretary of state will arrange a new public inquiry to decide a new CPO application. Jerry Flynn, of the 35% Campaign who have fundraised for the leaseholders’ legal bills, told the News: “Southwark Council have not got possession of the leaseholders’ homes. The secretary of state has not granted Southwark the CPO they applied for. We look forward to the opportunity of making a thorough examination of any CPO application at a future public enquiry.” A request for comment was made to Department for Communities and Local Government, but they could not respond before this paper’s print deadline. The council’s contractor Erith has already begun demolishing parts of the estate that have been cleared of tenants in phases One and Two, while having to avoid damaging the sections of the blocks still used by the seven leaseholders. The overall budget for redeveloping the two western sections of the estate stood was £49.1m. But due to the struggle it has faced in clearing Phase One and Two, Southwark had made public its plans to budget an extra £3.4m to “assist with early buy-back for leaseholders in phases Three and Four, avoiding long delays for leaseholders who wish to move on”. The council aims eventually to redevelop the entire 1960s estate with 3,500 homes managed by Notting Hill Housing Trust (a net increase of 1,200). 50 per cent of which will be a mixture of social-rent and shared-equity. The other half will be sold privately.
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Millwall fan out of coma and ‘awake’ BERMONDSEY
By Chiara Giordano
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A MILLWALL fan who was put into an induced coma after suffering a cardiac arrest at a match is now awake.
Antony Murphy was “dead for nine minutes” after he had a cardiac arrest at Millwall’s clash with Northampton at the Den on Friday, April 14. The 40-year-old, originally from Bermondsey but living in Kent, was rushed to hospital and put in a medically induced coma. But friends Jonathan Smith and John Kendall said he had woken up and was blinking and yawning when they visited him in hospital on Tuesday, April 25. “We’ve had some improvements,” said Jonathan. “He has his eyes open and he’s yawning, and when we talk, he blinks. “But he has still got a breathing machine assisting him and we’re taking it one day at a time.” A group of Antony’s friends set up a Just Giving page to help the 40-yearold, who is a full-time carer to his dad, which has now raised £3,295. Antony’s dad, who has a heart condition, was also taken to hospital where he remains. “We’ve had support from West Ham,
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Northampton, Crystal Palace, Leeds and Millwall and they say at a time like this colours and badges are out the window and it’s football supporters united,” said Jonathan. “We had seven buckets at Millwall on Saturday but we won’t know how much we’ve raised until the end of the week,” John added. “We are going to go and see his dad who has been moved from intensive care to a ward.” The friends added that Millwall had agreed to give them some signed shirts and footballs for a fundraising event they intend to hold in the summer. To donate, visit: www.justgiving.com/crowdfundin g/Antony-Murphy
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Southwark News, April 27 2017
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SOUTHWARK RESIDENTS celebrated St George’s Day in style this year.
Kirby Estate residents, in Bermondsey, (above) once again decked out the entire estate with a hundred England flags to mark the occasion. And punters at the Good Intent, in East Street Walworth, (right) also got involved to celebrate England’s patron saint on Sunday, April 23. Borough Market and St George the Martyr Church also marked the occasion with a myriad of events. Borough Market will hosted a festival of food, music, storytelling and theatre on Sunday, with a visit from the market’s Catalonian friends to mark the day. And St George the Martyr had a weeklong catalogue of events, including live
EXCLUSIVE
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LEASEHOLDERS ON the Tustin Estate look set to be walloped with “ridiculous” major works bills of £115,000 each by Southwark Council.
music and poetry performances, a photo exhibition, a dragon hunt, and a patronal festival service.
Last month, Mathew ‘Max’ Barber, one of about 20 leaseholders on the Peckham estate, said he feared the “record breaking” bills could be as much as £60,000. But visiting council officers have quoted them £115,000 as a “cost estimate”, suggesting the bills could yet amount to more.
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Max, who has lived in the Ambleside Point tower block since 1998, said: “My whole life us up in the air because of these bills. I can’t make any long-term plans with my life. “Do I pay up and shut up, or do I take them to court? “I’ve been having sleepless nights. I’m suffering from stress and my doctor has prescribed me Citalopram tablets, which are a type of antidepressant.” The leaseholders are still waiting for the final, itemised bills, due to be issued in May when the council invokes section 20 of the Tenants and Landlord Act. Paperwork given to residents by the council say the works – contracted to Keepmoat Ltd – will include: • New roof insulation coverings • New windows and doors • Electrical mains and wiring replaced • New entrances to the blocks and new staircases • Communal areas to be redecorated The 46-year-old said he is prepared to challenge the council if he is charged for “improvements” that will not benefit leaseholders, such as “new kitchens and bathrooms for tenanted flats” and plans to install new ground-levels flats outside his block. “There are three options for us to pay them off,” Max said. “They said they would buy my flat off me at market rent – but then where else would I be able to find a flat around here with the money they give me? “Or I could be a council tenant, but then I would be paying rent for the rest of my life on a flat I’d already partbought. “The third option is to finance the bill with a six-year loan, but that would cost me £2,000 a month. “I have only known about the works
for a year. But we are only being told this late in the day about the scale and the cost of the works. “I don’t recall the council consulting on this with us years ago, when they must have been planning this ‘major works’ project.” He would ideally like to the bill to be halved, or for the council to offer him another flat in Zone 2. But it has been a month since the council visited him and informed him of the colossal bill. Councillor Stephanie Cryan, Southwark’s cabinet member for housing, said leaseholders who do not pay would force their cost to be shared by the estate’s tenants. It is also understood that leaseholders who refuse to pay can have their flats forcibly taken back by the council. Cllr Cryan said: “We have been working closely with the Tenants and Residents Association… and we all agree that essential work does need to happen on Tustin Estate. “We have not yet issued Section 20 notices. When issued, S20 notices give full details of any proposed works and open the works and their costs out for scrutiny by residents. “Of course we recognise that because of the likely costs we will need to go over and beyond this in explaining the issues to those leaseholders who will be affected. We will offer one-to-one meetings with every leaseholder so that we can advise them on the individual options that are open to them to help spread the cost of these bills. “We have recently opened the doors to our new Homeowner Agency, as we recognise the unique issues and support homeowners require, particularly when they are faced with large bills. I sympathise with how worrying it must be to have to find large sums of money.” “We will do our very best to find the most affordable way for the leaseholders affected by the costs of these works.”
Southwark News, April 27 2017
ROTHERHITHE EXCLUSIVE
By Chiara Giordano
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SOUTHWARK’S LIB Dems have urged the council to halt three planning applications before “huge damage” is caused to a Rotherhithe community.
In March, two separate plans were submitted on behalf of the council to include the former civic centre and some land belonging to Albion Primary School in Albion Street in residential developments. Michael Trentham Architects also put forward plans on behalf of The Albion Pub Co Ltd earlier this month to demolish The Albion and replace it with eight self-contained flats and a commercial space. Anood Al-Samerai, leader of Southwark Lib Dems group, and Simon Hughes, Lib Dem prospective candidate for Bermondsey and Old Southwark, wrote to Southwark’s chief executive, asking her to withdraw the council’s two applications. They also asked Ms Kelly to “seek to persuade” the applicant of the pub development to put their plans on hold. They claimed the plans could divide the community and “prevent the coherent development of Albion Street”. “There is significant local opposition to both council applications, not least because of the mix and type of housing proposed and the failure properly to consult fully on all aspects of the developments over recent years, and considerable concern about the application for the Albion pub,” they said in a joint letter to chief exec Eleanor Kelly. “We both, like many others, understand that there is likely in the near future to be an application for the development of the St Olav's Business Centre. “The future plans for the Albion Street Health Centre are also uncertain. The other former public house in the street is derelict. “[…] The council and the council planning committee are at risk of making decisions which could be extremely divisive locally and which could damage for many years and prevent the coherent development of
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Areas are named nature reserves By Chiara Giordano
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ROTHERHITHE: The council has committed to protecting two Rotherhithe nature reserves which have become a haven for wildlife.
Simon Hughes and Anood Al-Samerai
Albion Street and this very important part of Rotherhithe.” They also asked the chief exec to “launch an urgent and comprehensive community-led consultation to bring forward a neighbourhood plan for Albion Street and the surrounding part of Rotherhithe, with the aim of maximising community support and successful regeneration”. “We believe that urgent action needs to be taken now before further community anger and controversy is caused, with potentially huge damage to this part of the borough,” they added. Mr Hughes said Albion Street had “struggled to survive for a long time”. “Rotherhithe could be really successful and we could make it a place that people come to,” he said.
Ms Kelly has agreed to meet with Cllr Al-Samerai and Mr Hughes to discuss Albion Street, but a date is yet to be confirmed. Cllr Mark Williams, cabinet member for regeneration and new homes, said the council was committed to investing in Albion Street and that the plans had come after months of consultation with residents. “We are totally committed to investing in Albion Street and improving the area for local residents,” he said. “This includes the new school which will be ready for local children from September with fantastic facilities, as well as the new homes and council homes that have been submitted for planning permission.
“These new homes are the culmination of months of consultation and discussions with local residents, and form a key part of our investment into the area.” Cllr Williams added that the council takes protection of its pubs very seriously. “With regards the Albion Pub, Southwark Council takes protection of its pubs very seriously, which is why we have recently become only the second local authority in London to place and Article 4 Direction on over 180 of our local pubs,” he said. “However, we don’t control who puts in planning applications and it will be treated the same as any other proposed development and considered against our planning policies.”
Russia Dock Woodland and Stave Hill Ecological Park have both been given ‘local nature reserve’ status. The areas, which total11.72 hectares, were both created in the 1980s on the site of the former Surrey Docks. They support a diversity of wildlife including bats, orchids, rare moths, and butterflies and many species of bird including breeding kingfishers and sparrow hawks. Steve Cornish, chairman of Friends of Russia Dock Woodland, said: "Friends of Russia Dock Woodland and Stave Hill Ecology Park are delighted to receive 'local nature reserve' status for both sites from Natural England. "Creating habitats that attracts wildlife into our urban oasis in the middle of London takes a lot of effort over a long period of time. "We wouldn't have been able to achieve this if it wasn't for the experts in ecology and biodiversity at Stave Hill Ecology Park (The Conservation Volunteers), along with Southwark's parks department. We now have to keep up the very high standards set by Natural England." Cllr Ian Wingfield, cabinet member for environment and public realm, added: “By designating the sites as local nature reserves, Southwark Council is committing to managing the area for the benefit of nature conservation and provide people experience of the natural environment."
Meadow management at Stave Hill
Police receive two calls in murder case
By Chiara Giordano
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POLICE HAVE received two calls following a renewed appeal to help find the person who murdered a grandmother 32 years ago.
Clara Kirton was 86 when she was found dead by her son, and with her throat slashed, at her home in Great Suffolk Street at 8am on November 17, 1985. Sadly, despite many inquiries over
the decades, her murder has never been solved and a fortnight ago the Metropolitan Police Service renewed its appeal for information. The force last week offered a £20,000 reward for information leading to the identification, arrest and prosecution of Clara's killer. A Met spokesperson said police are currently assessing two phone calls received since the appeal, but that they still need more people to come forward. Clara's body was found by her youngest son Brian, then aged 42, in
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the lounge of her ground-floor flat. She had a number of wounds to her face and massive slash injuries to her throat. A post-mortem examination found she died from inhalation of blood and crush injuries to her face and neck. The attack most likely took place between 4pm and 6pm the previous day. The broken remnants of a beer bottle – believed to be the murder weapon – were found strewn around the lounge.
Drawers in the lounge and bedroom had been opened and searched but the only thing stolen – despite the fact she had £700 elsewhere in her flat – was Clara's red purse containing a small amount of cash. There was no sign of forced entry, however Clara had been in the habit of leaving her flat door open. Anyone with information is asked to contact police on 020 7230 4294, via 101 or @MetCC or you Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.
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Ire Ozzy-Momodu, Khaleah Edwards, Ibilola Oyedeji, coach Jackson Gibbons, Emerald Ekpiteta, Toyosi Abiola and Ladun Akako
By Chiara Giordano
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A GROUP of young female basketball players from the same team have secured scholarships at US colleges.
Six members of City of London Academy’s women’s basketball team will head to the States this summer after signing full athletic scholarships to National Collegiate Athletic Association Division One US colleges. Ire Ozzy-Momodu, eighteen, who currently studies sport and business, is looking forward to majoring in sports
management communication at Robert Morris University in Pennsylvania. Emerald Ekpiteta, nineteen, studies sociology and religious studies and is committed to Niagara University in New York where she will major in criminal justice. Head girl Khaleah Edwards, seventeen, an economics, maths, and sociology student, will be joining Wagner College, NY, later this year to major in sociology or international affairs. Toyosi Abiola, eighteen, who only began playing basketball in 2013 at the end of Year 9, will head to Iona
College, NY, after completing her studies in English, business and psychology. She will major in business at Iona. Ladun Akako, nineteen, a sports and ICT student, will head to Barry University, Florida, to study criminal justice. Ibilola Oyedeji, eighteen, who studies sport, business and ICT, has three US schools to choose from. City of London Academy’s women’s team plays in the Women’s Elite Academy Basketball League (WEABL) – the premier junior female basketball competition in the UK. Last month, they won the WEABL
final at Leicester Arena, beating last year’s runners up, Charnwood College. The women’s team was also crowned the first ever WEABL 3×3 national champions earlier this year after beating Barking Abbey. The winners were presented their award by NBA All-Star and Indian Pacers’ Paul George, who was in town for a NBA London game. Head coach Jackson Gibbons, named coach of the year by WEABL, said: “The academy’s input into these young players has been essential in aiding their success. This is not a basketball or sports initiative – it’s an academic
look at different parts of the bowel. Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust had 141 patients waiting for a flexible sigmoidoscopy in February. Of those, three patients (2.1 per cent) were left waiting six or more weeks for an appointment, therefore breaching the national standard. The figures said 357 patients were also on the waiting list for a colonoscopy, of which nine (2.5 per cent) waited more than six weeks. At King’s, 132 patients were on the waiting list for a flexible sigmoidoscopy in February. Of those, two (1.5 per cent) waited more than six weeks, therefore breaching the national standard. In addition, 515 patients needed a colonoscopy in February. Of those, nine
waited more than six weeks, while one patient waited more than thirteen weeks, meaning 1.7 per cent waited more than six weeks. More than 15,900 people die from bowel cancer every year in the UK. It is the nation’s second biggest cancer killer and the fourth most common cancer, however it is treatable and curable, especially if diagnosed early. These tests can detect cancer at the earliest stage of the disease, when it is more treatable, and even prevents cancer through the removal of pre-cancerous growths (polyps) during the procedures. Nearly everyone diagnosed at the earliest stage of bowel cancer will survive – but this drops significantly as the disease
develops. The demand for colonoscopy and flexible sigmoidoscopy has been increasing dramatically over the last few years. This is due to a number of factors including an ageing population and increase in symptom awareness. Asha Kaur, head of policy at Bowel Cancer UK, said: “This substantial increase in demand is creating unprecedented pressure on hospitals that do not have adequate capacity to meet this demand. “The Government needs to invest to increase capacity to alleviate the pressure on hospitals so they can meet the NHS standard of less than one per cent waiting
initiative that involves sport.” Marcus Huntley, head of school, said: “I’m delighted for our academy community following this victory. Behind the success is the dedication to training shown by our women’s and men’s teams on a daily basis while maintaining the highest academic standards. They are an inspiration to us all. Our teams play in front of a fullhouse each week, and when the trophy came home, the whole academy was there to welcome them back. It’s no surprise we are known to have the best home crowd in the WEABL and EABL.”
Trusts fail to meet bowel cancer test waiting times targets By Chiara Giordano
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KING’S COLLEGE Hospital and Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust have failed the national target for bowel cancer test waiting times.
Figures released by NHS England for February 2017 show that both trusts were in breach of the NHS standard of less than 1 per cent of patients waiting more than six weeks for tests that could diagnose bowel cancer. The two key tests to diagnose bowel cancer are colonoscopy and flexible sigmoidoscopy – a camera on a thin, flexible cable inserted through the anus to
no more than six weeks for an appointment. They have already made some commitments to increase the capacity of endoscopy but they do not scratch the surface. “That’s why we are calling for a national endoscopy strategy and a training programme as a solution to the mounting pressure on endoscopy units. We hope to work with Government, NHS England and medical professions to ensure a sustainable endoscopy service that has the capacity to meet future demand.” The News contacted King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust for a comment but did not receive a response by the time of going to press.
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By Owen Sheppard
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AN ELDERLY woman from Dulwich was conned out of thousands of pounds of her life savings by telephone scammers who impersonated police.
Local officers are now appealing for help to identify the man pictured, whom they would like to question in relation to the elaborate crime. On March 27 at about 6.30pm, the 73year-old victim received a call from a man who claimed to be a Met Police officer. He said her debit card had been stopped due to fraudulent use, and he asked her for help with a “sting operation” to catch a group of offenders targeting elderly and vulnerable people in the area. He deceived the victim, and on the same day, he persuaded her to go to Liverpool Street Station and buy 5,000 Euros from a bureau de change. He told her the cash would be counterfeit, and would be used as evidence in a forthcoming court case, by putting it in a ghost bank account set up by the police. She was told to hand the Euros to someone working as “an assistant”. They met her shortly afterwards and the
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Do you recognise this man? assistant collected the money from her. The next day (March 28), the victim was again duped a second time, when she was instructed to purchase a £25,050 watch from a shop in Knightsbridge. She had still been led to believe that she was assisting the police in their sting operation. After buying the watch, the victim was instructed to meet the same assistant from the day before, and hand the watch to the assistant at
Knightsbridge Tube Station. The victim then received a phone call from an unknown person, again claiming to be a “police officer”, saying her evidence had been accepted. After this, the victim was then unable to get in touch with him. She then became suspicious and contacted the police via 101. Detectives would like to speak to the man in the CCTV in connection with the case.
By Owen Sheppard
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Father of four, Andy Blacknell told the News that on several occasions he has found fast food rubbish strewn outside his home in Grove Lane, after bins from the Camberwell McDonald’s had been stolen and dragged to his street. He believes rough sleepers are bringing the bins to a quiet place, so they can rummage through hundreds of drinks and burger rappers looking for the Monopoly tokens, which can be collected from McDonald’s packaging to win prizes. “It’s partly funny, and it’s partly disgusting,” Andy said. “We’ve had maybe a dozen episodes between this year and last year. Someone has been willing to carry the rubbish bins off in the middle of the night and sift through it for the tokens. “I think it’s more likely that people are doing this just to play the game, and win
vigilant at all times and any suspicions should be reported to the police. "It is also worth noting that the police will never call members of the public and ask them to be part of a 'sting' operation." Anyone who recognises the man in the photo or anyone with information should contact police on 101, or anonymously by calling Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111, or online at www.crimestoppers-uk.org.
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A CAMBERWELL man has said the McDonald’s Monopoly promotion has led to huge piles of rubbish being left outside his house, by people digging through McDonald’s’ bins to find tokens.
He is described as Asian, about 5ft 8ins and aged in his 20s. DC Michael Esangbedo from Southwark CID said: "I am pleading with anyone that recognises the man in the CCTV to get in touch with police. "The offenders have deliberately deceived the victim out of her life savings. We are determined to bring those responsible to justice to prevent anyone else falling for the scam. "We would urge people to remain
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the cash prize. You can win £10,000. “I can’t believe people would go to all these lengths just because they want to win a burger or an apple pie. It’s easy enough just to beg people for food – people would rather buy a burger for a homeless person than give them money.” He said staff from the local McDonald’s in Camberwell Road have been willing to come and clear up the rubbish, but often not for a day later. “By the time McDonald’s come to clear the rubbish it has been sitting there for 24 hours, and it absolutely stinks. What we would like is for McDonald’s to do more to make sure their bins are secure, so they can’t be stolen.” Andy added: “I would be amazed if it’s not happening elsewhere. On reflection, it shows how desperate some people are.” A McDonald’s spokesman said:
“We’re aware of a number of individuals causing a disturbance to the local community and are disappointed that our promotion is being used incorrectly and irresponsibly. We are looking into this as a matter of urgency and have implemented several measures to tackle the issue, including the assistance of the police. “Our restaurant team carry out at least three litter patrols a day in and around our Camberwell restaurant and the team have since increased these to ensure all areas are being inspected and cleared regularly. “This promotion comes to an end next week and we’re confident that this will see a reduction in the issue. Our priority is to be a good neighbour and we remain committed to playing our part in tackling litter. We apologise for any upset caused with regards to this matter.”
Bank holiday Monday will hike to Brighton By Owen Sheppard
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A BERMONDSEY woman will ramble 100km from London to Brighton with her mate to raise money for Dementia UK.
Anna Duncan and her co-worker Emma Blount will take on the mammoth march over rolling Surrey and Sussex countryside on the bank holiday Monday. Anna, 29, said: “It was a moment of madness when we thought we are the fittest people in the world and signed up for the challenge. We have since realised we aren’t and are having to put in some serious effort.” Emma added: “We are taking on the London to Brighton for Dementia
UK because we want to see more Admiral Nurses [specialists in dementia] in London. “Every day we provide support for the elderly in and around Westminster, helping them to remain in their own homes and we will often work closely with the Admiral Nurses.” They both work for Home Instead Senior Care in Westminster & the City of London, based near Guy’s Hospital, and help co-ordinate nursing staff to homes across London. Fundraising has already started with a cake bake and there is a JustGiving page if you would like to help Anna and Emma please visit www.justgiving.com/fundraising/An na-Emma-Home-Instead.
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By Chiara Giordano
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A GRIEVING wife will pay tribute to her “humble superstar” husband by hosting the community fun day he never got to.
Steven Walters was just 52 when he died from lung cancer on August 24 last year, despite never smoking. The father-of-two, who lived in Rotherhithe, became unwell in September 2015 and was diagnosed with cancer, which had spread to both lungs. The popular DJ, well-known across Southwark for DJing at school events, weddings and parties, loved children and had always wanted to host his own family fun day – but sadly never realised his dream.
Steven’s wife Mandy, 51, plans to hold a family fun day this Saturday, April 29, on what would have been his birthday to finish what he started. “We ended up taking him to hospital at the end of September 2015 because he said he couldn’t breathe very well,” said Mandy, who married Steven on a beach in Mauritius in 2009. “The weight loss was the thing that gave it all away: he was fifteen stone and went down to trousers falling off him. Within a week and a couple of days he was diagnosed with cancer. “He was devastated when he found out; we were all very devastated to find out that it had progressed that much as well so I think that was the shock.” When Steven returned home, he and Mandy told their children Nyah, now
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A MAN tragically died after his car was involved in a crash with a van outside an Overground station.
thirteen, and Reuben, now eleven, that he might not make it to Christmas. But Steven made it through Christmas and managed to put on two and a half stone in weight after chemotherapy. “He thought he was much better after that and wanted to go back to work and be his normal self,” said Mandy. “But it came back even more aggressively by March/April last year.” “We could see that the weight was dropping back off him quite quickly. “It wasn’t easy at all. Even though he had the get up and go in him he didn’t have the strength to do it.” Mandy said Steven loved children and used to pick other parents’ children up for school and drop them at home. “He had always planned to do a family fun day like a big picnic to bring the
children out and let them enjoy themselves,” she said. “We are coping but this has been a great focus for me. I knew I wanted to do it before he passed and after all the organising of the funeral I thought this would be the best thing to do and it being on his birthday as well. “Everyone knows Steven as a humble man but he has touched a lot of people with his music. “He is a humble superstar – and it’s not just nightclub-wise and flying all over the world playing music – it’s within the community as well.” The family fun day will be held at Bacon’s College, in Timber Pond Road, Rotherhithe, from 1-6pm on Saturday, April 29. All donations will go to the Roy Castle Lung Cancer Foundation.
Police were called to Rotherhithe Overground Station in Brunel Road, SE16, at 5.50am on Wednesday, April 26, following reports of a collision involving a car and a van. Officers and the London Ambulance Service attended and found the driver of the car, a man believed to be in his 50s, unresponsive, a police spokesman told the News. Sadly, he was pronounced dead at the scene. Police yesterday, Wednesday, said the man’s next of kin had not yet been informed and he had not yet been formally identified. A post mortem examination will take place. Nobody else was injured in the incident. There had been no arrests and inquiries continued as the News went to press. Will Bate was on his way to catch his usual train to work from Rotherhithe Station at about 8.30am when he discovered the road was closed. “I saw the road had been closed from St Marychurch Street junction down to Nisa, opposite the station,” he said. The bus stop outside the station was closed following the incident and buses were diverted via Lower Road.
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Local runners made a marathon effort
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Pupils’ marathon effort for playground Photo: Vanessa Franks
By Chiara Giordano
Photo: Vanessa Franks
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A DULWICH primary school managed to raise £4,000 for a new playground by running a marathon.
Children from nursery right up to Year 6 at Heber Primary School ran a sponsored ‘combined marathon’ on Friday, April 22, to raise money for an upgrade to their playground. The youngsters took part in the challenge in support of Sam Moore, a father of children at the school, who ran the London Marathon on Sunday to raise much-needed cash for the playground plans. Mr Moore managed to raise more than £2,000, bringing the school’s total to £4,000. Co-headteacher Rivka Rosenberg said it was the East Dulwich school’s parents’ and friend’s committee that came up with the idea. “We do a fun run every year and this year we brought it forward to coincide with the London Marathon so the children are aware of the significant events happening in the city and feel a part of it,” she said. “The issue is that our school playground is really small; we are really committed to our children taking part in as much sport and activity as possible but we are limited in our space and what we can do with it. “The parents and carers are incredibly
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AMONG THE thousands of runners taking part in last weekend’s London Marathon were plenty of local people who were greeted with huge cheers as they came through the borough around the half way mark. Here is how they got on: FREDDIE AMOR Finished in 4hrs 33mins.
He ran in memory of his late friend Tommy Blackmore who tragically died in 2015 aged just twenty after he was punched in an unprovoked assault. “It was going really well and then I picked up a hamstring injury at sixteen miles and a calf injury at nineteen which slowed me down and put me through agony for the last part,” said Freddie, who lives in Rotherhithe. Freddie has almost reached his fundraising target of £2,000 for Multiple Sclerosis UK, a charity that has helped look after Tommy’s mum, who suffers from MS. uk.virginmoneygiving.com/Freddiefor-eyebrows
SAM MOOR Finished in 4hrs 36mins.
A personal best – and in the process raised more than £2,000 for a new playground at Heber Primary School, in East Dulwich, which his two children attend. www.justgiving.com/fundraising/SAm -Moore8
BILL BRADFORD Finished in 6hrs 2mins
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supportive of any fundraising we do; they always get behind it and when the children can do their bit they are really engaged and excited about it.”
Each class at the school has about 26 pupils, therefore every child ran a mile lap around Dulwich Park on Friday so that each class completed a marathon.
Olympians train on new track By Becky Morton
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OLYMPIANS JO Pavey and David Weir paid a visit to Southwark Park Athletics Track on Friday to meet some of the borough’s budding young athletes.
The pair shared tips with Southwark teenagers training for the weekend’s London Mini Marathon for eleven to seventeen year olds. Six-time Paralympic champion Weir won his 7th London Marathon at the weekend, competing in the men’s wheelchair event for the 18th year in a row. Southwark Park Athletics Track was
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The 41 year-old Royal Mail lorry driver, from Rotherhithe, said a heel injury held him back after mile fourteen – but he smashed his fundraising target for VICTA, a charity for blind and partially-sighted children. uk.virginmoneygiving.com/BillBradfo rd
ALISON YUEN Finished in 4hrs 33mins
First ever marathon – and first ever race – to raise money for London-based charity Get Kids Going. The 24-year-old, who lives in Borough, is keen to raise £2,000 to help get disabled children the equipment they need to get involved in sport. http://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/Alis onRuns
FRANK ROBERTS Finished in 6hrs 21mins
opened in November last year as part of the London 2012 Olympics Legacy. Five-time Olympian Pavey said: “This track is brilliant for the whole community.
The kids are so lucky to have an Olympic standard track in their area. It’s great to see them run here and to chat to them. They are all so enthusiastic and driven.”
The Kennington man ran his first marathon for two mental health charities: Young Minds and Heads Together. Tthe 41-year-old meteorologist said he was privileged to run for the charity, that Prince Harry and the Duke
and Duchess of Cambridge are energetically spearheading. The royals met Frank before the start. Frank is also doing the RideLondonSurrey 100 mile cycle on July 28. Visit http://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/OurFr ank
ZESHAAN SHAMSI Finished in 5hrs 16mins
In support of Epilepsy Action. The 32-year-old from Nunhead, who himself has epilepsy, has managed to raise more than £1,000 for the charity.
ROBERT JAMIESON Finished 4hrs 59mins
After entering the marathon at the behest of his boss, the 29-year-old ran for Community Southwark, the charity group which he works for, and was cheered by his work mates at the 21-mile point. www.communitysouthwark.org/newsjobs/reasontorun
DAVID NOAKES Finished 4hrs 47mins
The 50-year-old Lib Dem councillor for Bankside said he was “back on the campaign trail” knocking on doors for the Lib Dems by Monday, despite feeling like he “couldn’t get upstairs”. He has raised about £4,500 from 150 donations to the Mayor of Southwark’s Common Good Trust, Surrey Docks Farm, and the National Autistic Society. www.justgiving.com/fundraising/Cllr DavidNoakes
DAN TAYLOR Finished 5hrs 58mins
The 28-year-old from Rotherhithe has so far raised £600 for the Make A Wish foundation www.justgiving.com/Danny-Taylor88.
CLAIRE RAYNER Finished 6hrs 12mins
The 39-year-old Walworth girl’s fundraising page currently stands at £1,714 – all going to the St Christopher’s Hospice in Sydenham. uk.virginmoneygiving.com/ClaireRayne r1.
JAMES COLDWELL Finished 4hrs 14mins
Labour councillor for Newington ward beat his target by one minute and is almost at his £1,500 target for the Mayor of Southwark Common Good Trust, Surrey Docks Farm, and the National Autistic Society www.justgiving.com/fundraising/Jame s-Coldwell1
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BOROUGH: London’s finest pizzerias will battle it out to be crowned the capital’s champion at Borough Market next month.
The third London Pizza Festival will be hosted at Borough Market on May 28, where six pizza greats will go headto-head to be named the capital’s best. Eight hundred pizza lovers will have the chance to compare six different wood-fired pizzas and vote for their favourite to help crown a champion. The 2017 line-up features two new Italian imports; the legendary L’Antica Pizzeria da Michele (Stoke Newington by way of Naples), and sourdough sensation Radio Alice (Shoreditch by way of Bologna); two pizzerias-onwheels, Napoli on the Road (multiple locations), and Sud-Italia (Old Spitalfields); the traditional pizzeria and trattoria Addommè (Streatham Hill); and 2015 London Pizza Festival champion Made of Dough (Brixton). A £28 ticket includes admission, one beer or soft drink, and six quarter-slices of pizza (one from each competitor). The festival is organised by Young and Foodish. For more information, visit: www.youngandfoodish.com/event/lon don-pizza-festival-28-may/
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Southwark leader Peter John gives his views on foreign buyers, banks and council home shortage to committee EXCLUSIVE
By Owen Sheppard
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SOUTHWARK COUNCIL leader Peter John has said his administration is “trying to do its bit” to fix London’s housing crisis by building thousands of homes.
He has also blamed the reluctance of banks to lend money to developers, without demanding that profits can be made early, as the reason why segments of large-scale housing schemes are pre-sold offplan to investors. Cllr John made the declaration before a committee of Labour and Lib Dem councillors, who quizzed him on his policies and expectations for the council in the coming years. “Everyone should take pride in the fact that Southwark is building new
homes for Londoners,” the local Labour leader said. “My view is that the housing economy is pretty broken and requires change from people further up the food chain – the government – to put it right.” Looking at the national picture, and the widening gap between supply and demand, he said 400,000 home (of which 170,000 were council homes) were built in 1969. While in 2016 the country built just 200,000, with only 1,401 council homes. While regeneration and demolition continues to be a controversial topic, Cllr John said: “I think we’ve got to keep reminding people we’re not building enough homes in this country. “We’re doing our bit in Southwark, and you’re damned if you do and damned if you don’t, but I would rather be a council that builds homes and tries to fix the problem.”
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He added that he didn’t “have faith” in the emergence of housing associations “being the answer”, despite the last two governments pushing them as providers and landlords of new homes. “What you have seen is that councils, as deliverers of homes, have been removed from the equation. And therefore you put all sorts of and strains on other parts of the market... “The most [housing associations] have ever built in one year is something like 45,000 in the late 1990s. “The government needs to think very different about how it solves this problem – how it’s going to deliver the housing we need in this country.” Cllr John’s comments followed a question about highly-critical reports in the national press, that 51 out of 51 properties in the new South Gardens development (on the former Heygate Estate site) were sold to overseas investors before being marketed in the UK. He argued that 200 other new LendLease-built flats had been sold to UK buyers, while a statement released by the council last week said hundreds of other “affordable” and shared-ownership homes will be built in Elephant and Castle. But Cllr John also told the committee that selling properties off-plan to investors was now a “perceived” requirement, as “otherwise banks will not release the remaining finance [to developers] in order to complete the build”. He also appeared to downplay the issue of foreign buyers taking new homes, suggesting that foreignowned homes will still end up being put to use by London-based occupants.
“The issue is,” Cllr John said, “who has got money sitting in their pocket to put down a ten per cent deposit in their flat – that will not be built for three years – or even another ten per cent? “The bigger test is: who are these homes going to be occupied by? Foreign investors may buy off-plan, and will do one of three things. “They might live in it, but they probably won’t. They might end up trying to turn a profit on their initial deposit investment. Or they will hold on to it and rent it out, and it becomes a part of our burgeoning rented sector. “And when it’s re-sold by them it might well go to a UK buyer who wants to move. “Unless you have got a burning hole in your pocket, [buying offplan] is not the thing for you.” Continuing on the issue of overseas selling, Cllr John said he had spoken to LendLease and told them “I think this send out completely the wrong message”, as well as asked the company what can they can do to sell flats with smaller deposits “so that at least then they will have the story that it’s gone to a local, rather than a foreign, buyers”.
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FIFTY SIX new flats have been made available to council tenants, as part of the council’s programme to build 11,000 new homes.
The new flats on Blackfriars Road were built by Barratt Homes for the council, and will be let at council rent - 40 per cent of market rent. They will be available first to people living locally.
The homes are in one of five new blocks in the development. The nine storey block has eight one bed, 40 two bed and eight three bed flats, with a total of 336 homes across the development, plus a £4.9m off-site affordable housing payment which means the site provides 35 per cent affordable housing.
‘Southwark’s oldest person’ Lylie passes away aged 106
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A FUNERAL was held yesterday for the woman likely to have been Southwark’s oldest resident, 106year-old Eliza ‘Lylie’ Mercer from Walworth.
Lylie, a life-long Millwall fan who was born and bred in Walworth, passed away at her home in Portland Street on Sunday April 2, shortly after 4pm. She was raised in the now nonexistent Eltham Street in SE17, in a house with eight siblings. She married twice, but had no children, which her grandniece Ashley Richards said was how she had lived so long. Lylie also stayed in the area during World War Two to volunteer as a fire spotter, and had three uncles who fought in World War One. Ashley told the News that her last meal was fish and chips from Marks and Spencer – where “all the staff knew her and would say hello”. “She has worked since she was fourteen,” her niece Marilyn Bentley
Born and bred Walworth girl was a life-long Millwall fan said. “She would go out at 4am to work at a local fish fry. And she would go to the baths after work in Manor Place.” Lylie retired in her sixties, but carried on working at Esther’s Haberdashery Stall in East Street Market. Marilyn added that among Lylie’s favourite places to go in Southwark were Abba’s Fish Shop and Arment’s Pie and Mash, both of which she used to visit twice a week. Ashley said her and Marilyn would visit Lylie every week, ever since Ashley’s mum had died in 2014. The News last saw Lylie on her 106th birthday in December last year, where she was enjoying a cake and champagne presented to her by staff from Marks and Spencer. She was an expert knitter, and would
make scarfs and hats with the Millwall badge. The last thing she knitted was a tea cosy in 2015. When the News attended Lylie’s 105th birthday, she recalled how many of her friends and neighbours perished when St Peter’s Church’s crypt was bombed, with hundreds sheltering underground. But Lylie had been hiding in an Anderson shelter nearby and escaped unharmed. Marilyn said Lylie’s father was a fruit and veg seller with a cart that he walked around Walworth and Bermondsey. She was also wellknown to the East Street stall holders, who waved and said hello when her nieces took her for walks. A wake after the funeral at Brenchley Gardens was held at the Nelson House TRA Hall in Bronti Close.
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Crampton Street sorting office to close ‘over the summer’ says Royal Mail By Chiara Giordano
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AFTER MORE than a year of waiting, Walworth residents have been told by Royal Mail that its Crampton Street sorting office will close “over the summer”.
The nearest office will now be in Mandela Way, Bermondsey, but the company said there “are not expected to be job losses” among its 57 Walworth staff. It is understood that Royal Mail will soon apply for outline planning permission to increase the site’s land value, before selling it to a housing developer. Jeremy Leach, chair of the Walworth Society, told the News: “In spite of the reassurances the Royal Mail are giving, people in the Walworth area extremely concerned the sudden loss of a sorting office that most people can easily walk to. “It’s another blow, along with the loss of the town hall and the threat to the [Walworth Road] Post Office. It’s another worrying loss to the Walworth Area.” Jeremy reiterated that the closure will most inconvenience those who have trouble with mobility or rely on the use
of their cars. The Royal Mail was unable confirm a date for closure. A statement from the company said there will be “no impact” on deliveries by postmen and women. The statement said: “As a commercial business, Royal Mail is responding to the huge growth in electronic communications and decline in letter volumes, while seeing a high volume of parcels and online shopping which need to be delivered to customers. “Royal Mail can now leave many mail items with a neighbour if customers are not at home when we attempt delivery. Customers can nominate a dedicated neighbour to take in their parcels. Customers can also arrange a redelivery on a day that is convenient for them (including Saturdays), or Royal Mail can deliver the item to a different address.” The Royal Mail has also yet to confirm a date for the closure of its delivery office in East Dulwich. The company announced in February that it was in discussions with the Communications Workers Union about moving operations to its office in Highshore Road, Peckham, but assured none of the 37 East Dulwich staff would be made redundant.
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Nag’s Head to stay open!
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Gowlett fears over noise order
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THE MUCH-LOVED Nag’s Head pub in Camberwell will stay open for business, after a property firm made the surprise decision to let its manager sign a new lease.
There was months of speculation that the old boozer in Camberwell Road was under threat, and manager Julie Clifford had previously said St George’s Day would be its curtain call. The freeholder, Landlord Camberwell Road Ltd, previously said they would like the property to carry on being a public house, but will begin offering her “market rent”. But many saw the company’s decision to double Julie’s rent as an attempt to force the Nag’s Head out close and ready the building for
redevelopment. Julie said she “couldn’t believe it” when the landlord then agreed to let her sign the £75,000-per-year deal. “I just couldn’t see what I was going to do without this pub,” Julie said. “It’s meant we had to put the beer up by 50p per pint, but it’s still under £4. I also have to pay £9,000 stamp duty. Everyone has been very supportive about putting the prices up and everyone is happy. It’s all good news. “I was surprised the landlord agreed to this. My solicitor told me I shouldn’t get my hopes up when I asked if it the deal was still on the table. But there’s a couple of things on the contract: if I stay here more than five years I will have to pay for any maintenance and repairs to the building myself. And I couldn’t afford to do that.” “It’s all a bit of a whirlwind. I had been stressed and worried, but it’s done now,” Julie added. An online petition calling on help
from Camberwell Peckham MP Harriet Harman to help defend the pub, believed to be some 160 years old, had also attracted 1,633 signatures. Kay Guidera, who made the petition, previously told the News: “This pub is one of the last originals in the area, as well as being part of our history and heritage. “It’s a vital link for the people of Camberwell to congregate, particularly the elderly who perhaps don’t have any family close by and this is their only link with the outside world.” Julie’s time looking after the Nag’s Head had been typified by locals’ good will. Her first beer order in 2010 was paid for by locals who chipped in to raise £1,600. “That was how we started,” said Julie, “and we just went from strength to strength. The pub still does great businesses”
THE MANAGER of The Gowlett pub in Peckham will appeal a noise abatement order issued by Southwark Council, which he fears could make his business “unsustainable”.
A noise complaint was made by a neighbour on the evening of Easter Sunday, and council officers attended the pub. The order was then served on April 18. Pub manager Jonny Henfrey, told the News: “Yes we are appealing the order, and exploring all legal options available to us. “The order is very heavy-handed and far reaching. “Music is not allowed to be audible from anywhere outside of the premises, and it cannot be permitted for guests to be audible outside the pub’s doors. “We have had to cancel all of our events, including when we’re just playing records. We are now powerless to put on the events which we’ve become so popular for.” Jonny added that he has run the pub without complaint since he took it over in 2003, and has hosted evening events ever Easter Sunday and New Year’s Day. “I was given no chance to make any representation to the council. And there
was no credit given to the good record we have had here all this time,” he said. “I worry about what will happen for the next month. It’s no secret it’s hard enough trying to be in this business at the moment. You pay your taxes and you pay your business rates. “I’m lucky we have very loyal customers. But to me I can’t see it being a sustainable alternative, running my business basically in silence.” Cllr Barrie Hargrove, Southwark’s cabinet Member for communities and safety, said: “Southwark is hugely proud of its local pubs, and values the role they play as community hubs and local employers. The Gowlett is no exception and we know what a popular local venue it is. “We have no intention of threatening its place in the local area, but we do need to ensure that pubs and residents are able to live happily side by side. The council has a statutory duty to investigate all complaints about nuisance. We recently investigated a complaint in relation to the Gowlett and judging the level to be unreasonable, our officer requested that the noise be reduced. However, rather than reducing, the noise had increased by later in the evening, and we therefore issued a noise abatement notice. “There is no need for this to go any further, and if the pub now maintains a reasonable level of noise, as it has done previously, the matter will be resolved.”
Work experience teen helps create ‘life-saving’ code DULWICH
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A DULWICH teenager helped create an award-winning coding system that could save the lives of heart attack patients while he was on work experience.
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Ben Wald, sixteen, was observing heart surgery during work experience at Barts Health Centre when he noticed how doctors came up against the issue of patients with missing or incomplete medical records. The Dulwich College student suggested that a surgeon could leave a message in a patient's chest to indicate
the number and locations of heart bypass grafts a patient has received. He and his father, Professor David Wald, a cardiologist at St Bartholomew’s Hospital, came up with the idea of using the twists and positions of the metal wires used to close the sternum as a code. And in March the code was awarded the prestigious Patrick Magee Prize for Innovation from the Society for Cardiothoracic Surgery. “It’s strange, but thrilling, to think that a simple question led to this code that could save people’s lives in the future,” said Ben, an A-level student. “It was amazing to observe a cardiac
surgeon and a cardiologist at work and I am grateful to St Bartholomew’s Hospital for giving me that opportunity.” Ben’s dad explained the importance of knowing whether a patient has been operated on before. “When operating, cardiologists need to know if the patient has been operated on before and how the previous surgeon has re-plumbed the arteries,” the cardiologist said. “When this information is missing, the idea of using sternal wires to let future doctors know what operation was done before is a simple solution that could help many patients.”
Mr Shipolini, cardiac surgeon at the Barts Heart Centre, added: “This is a fresh and unique idea that solves a common problem many hospitals have. I have used the code and it’s easy to apply using surgical equipment that is already in place. “The challenge is now making this code routine and we are talking to surgeons across the country to do so.” About one in six patients who have previously had coronary artery bypass surgery and are taken to hospital suffering a heart attack are at increased risk of complications because the necessary surgical records are not available.
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Charity match heads to Millwall Football Club for the first time
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THE BIG Match is heading to Millwall Football Club, famously known as The Den, for the first time on Saturday 20th May. The event, now in its 6th year, will see celebrities such as X Factor’s Jake Quickenden and TOWIE’s Dan Edgar, battle it out in a football match and raise funds for Action for Children and The Brain Tumour Charity.
The event, which is open to the public, has raised over £250,000 for both charities since its inception at Reading’s Madejski Stadium in 2012. Action for Children supports vulnerable children and young people in the UK and The Brain Tumour Charity is the UK’s largest dedicated brain tumour charity, committed to fighting brain tumours on all fronts through research, awareness and support. Neil Humphries, 39, who founded the event, says: “After my Dad died of a brain tumour in 2012, I needed
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to do something to help others and raise awareness of this illness. I’ve been an Action for Children supporter for many years, and not wanting to lose sight of them, I set up the Big Match to support both charities and have now raised in excess of £250,000.” The day is made up of a hat trick of individual events: 1) The Big Match Kidz – Children between the ages of 5 and 15 can take part in a free coaching session, at 10.30am, run by The Millwall Community Trust’s professional and qualified coaches. Ex professional footballers, Ossie Ardiles, Ricky Villa, Clinton Morrison and Neil “Razor” Ruddock will also be on hand to offer advice and tips. Parents are asked to help their children set up a Virgin Money Giving page and raise £50 to take part. 2) The Big Match – The main event will kick-off at 2pm. You
can watch Action for Children go head to head against The Brain Tumour Charity for the coveted shield. Teams will be made up of fundraisers, ex professional footballers and celebrities. Millwall football legends Jimmy Carter and Clinton Morrison will also be present. Tickets are selling fast and space is limited. An early booking is highly recommended if you don’t want to miss out! Tickets can be purchased for £10, plus a booking fee, at www.thebigmatch.co.uk/tickets 3) Extra Time – The day is rounded off with a glamourous Extra Time event at the Tower Bridge Hilton Hotel. TV stars Debbie McGee and Dan Lobb will host an evening of entertainment, food and drink. For further information, please Neil pictured with his late contact father Goal@thebigmatch.co.uk
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Brain tumours – the facts
• Brain tumours are the biggest cancer killer of children and adults under 40.
• Over 10,600 people are diagnosed each year with a primary brain tumour, including 500 children and young people – that’s 29 people every day.
THE BRAIN Tumour Charity is at the forefront of the fight to defeat brain tumours, making a difference every day to the lives of people with a brain tumour and their families. It funds pioneering research to increase survival, raises awareness of the symptoms and effects of brain tumours and provides support for everyone affected.
The charity’s goals are to double survival within 10 years in the UK and to halve the negative impact that brain tumours have on quality of life. It adheres to nationally-recognised accreditations and best practice guidelines for every area of its work. The charity funds an extensive and diverse portfolio of research across the UK with the aim of doubling survival and reducing long term harm through improving the understanding and complexities of brain tumours, better diagnostic techniques and new treatments. The Brain Tumour Charity offers a comprehensive support and information service for anyone who is affected, including a support and information line, Information Standard accredited fact sheets, online peer-to-peer support and a dedicated Children and Families Service. It funds and promotes the UK-wide HeadSmart campaign, raising awareness of the signs and
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• Over 5,000 people lose their lives to a brain tumour each year.
• Brain tumours reduce life expectancy by on average 20 years – the highest of any cancer.
• Just 19% of adults survive for five years after diagnosis.
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symptoms of brain tumours in children and young people to make earlier diagnosis a reality. Earlier diagnosis will reduce long-term disabilities and save lives. In just three years, HeadSmart has
• Brain tumours are the largest cause of preventable or treatable blindness in children. Childhood brain tumour survivors are 10 times more likely to suffer long term disability than well children. This accounts for 20,000 additional disabled life years for all the children who are diagnosed each year. reduced averaged diagnosis time from 9.1 weeks to 6.5 weeks. Find out more at: www.thebraintumourcharity.org Members of the Association of Medical Research Charities, The
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• Research offers the only real hope of dramatic improvements in the management and treatment of brain tumours. Over £500m is spent on cancer research in the UK every year, yet less than 2% is spent on brain tumours.
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‘Incredibly grateful’ family backs childhood brain tumour campaign – after it saved son’s life
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THANKS TO The Brain Tumour Charity’s HeadSmart website, sixyear-old Luke Wright had surgery to remove a brain tumour. Fleet couple Fay and Steve Wright are backing a UK-wide campaign to raise awareness about brain tumours, after it saved their six-year-old son’s life. Luke, now nine, had surgery to remove a brain tumour in 2013, after his mum recognised his symptoms on the HeadSmart website, including headaches, vomiting and mood swings. Now his parents are supporting HeadSmart, a campaign run by Farnborough-based The Brain Tumour Charity, to raise awareness of the signs and symptoms of childhood brain tumours. HeadSmart has already helped cut the average diagnosis time for a childhood brain tumour in the UK from more than 13 weeks to 6.5 weeks. Now the campaign is aiming to bring that figure below four weeks, in order to save lives and reduce the long-term disability caused by childhood brain tumours. It will focus closely on healthcare professionals, parents and teenagers in a bid to ensure young patients with possible brain tumour symptoms are referred for specialist help as quickly as possible. “We are incredibly grateful I saw Luke’s symptoms on the HeadSmart website,” said Fay. “That information crystallised
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everything. It made me think about all of his symptoms differently. It gave me what I needed to go back to the GP and say: ‘I’m really worried.’ “Early diagnosis is crucial to save children’s lives. HeadSmart has had an impact already, but there still needs to be much more awareness about symptoms.” Luke wasn’t “quite himself” during the summer holidays three years ago, and started suffering headaches. When he went back to school that September, his headaches became more severe and frequent. Fay took Luke to the optician who said his eyes were fine. The following week, Luke was sent home from school after he was sick. Three days later, he was sick again and Fay took him to the GP. “She did all of the neurological tests and they didn’t flag up anything obvious,” said Fay. “Then she asked if he might be worried about school.” The GP advised Fay to bring Luke back if things didn’t improve, or his condition deteriorated. For the next four days, he showed no symptoms at all. But then he woke in the early hours and vomited. “I started looking on the internet and very quickly came across the HeadSmart website, which lists all the main signs and symptoms of children’s brain tumours,” said Fay. “I was actually looking at the
HeadSmart information as he was being sick.” Then she remembered all of the other niggles Luke had complained of over the previous few weeks “He’d had mood swings that he found really hard to control,” said Fay who lives in Fleet with Steve and Luke’s sister, 11, and brother Lewis, seven. “And he’d been saying how hard he found it to hold and use his knife and fork in the right way. I’d also mentioned to his teacher that he was struggling with his handwriting. “He’d been walking with a slight stoop, and in the summer holidays when he’d spun around to skim stones he would stumble a little bit. “Now I know his growth spurts could have been linked to the tumour.” Fay went back to the GP who referred Luke straight to hospital. He had an MRI scan which confirmed Fay’s worst fears: Luke had a brain tumour. He was transferred immediately to a specialist unit. Three days later, neurosurgeons were able to remove the tumour completely. Analysis showed it was a grade one (non-cancerous) pilocytic astrocytoma. Luke will have to undergo medical surveillance including scans for the next 18 years. The Wrights have also attended several of the charity’s family days, which give children the chance to just be kids and have fun away from the daily stress of living with a brain tumour and hospital
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appointments. The days also gives mums and dads the chance to meet up with other parents who are going through similar experiences. Family days are also held aimed at families where a parent is living with a brain tumour. “ The family days are wonderful, “ said Fay. “Luke – and his brother and sister – love them. It really helps to share experiences with other parents – and I have made some friends I know will be friends for life.” • The HeadSmart campaign, which includes pocket-sized symptoms cards as well as the website, lists the warning signs of a brain tumour in babies, children and teenagers. These include vomiting, balance problems and unusual eye movements.
Newly-added symptoms, after a review of all the evidence showing the most common signs of childhood brain tumours, include increasing head circumference in under-fives and loss of vision across all age groups. The new campaign also includes an icon, nicknamed Sam, Each of the 10 childhood brain tumour symptoms is represented by Sam in a different, easilyrecognisable form. There is also a video to accompany the campaign bit.ly/HeadSmartAnimation Hayley Epps, campaign manager for The Brain Tumour Charity, said: “Brain tumours are the biggest cancer killer of children in the UK – but Luke’s story proves that HeadSmart saves lives. “HeadSmart has two aims: to save lives and reduce long-term disability by bringing down childhood brain tumour diagnosis times. “Relaunching the campaign will help us to achieve that goal by alerting more healthcare professionals, parents and young people to the signs and symptoms of the disease. “We are thrilled HeadSmart saved Luke’s life and are very grateful to his family for their support.” *For more information about The Brain Tumour Charity’s family days, visit https://www.thebraintumourcharity.org /get-support/support-events/family-days/
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HEATHER WAS ‘scared and lonely,’ now she no longer feels alone, thanks to charity’s support
After Heather Dearie was left with facial paralysis and droop following surgery to remove a brain tumour, she was taunted by online trolls. The heartless bullies even said she should kill herself because of her looks and lop-sided grin. But Heather, 31, has now had corrective surgery and can finally smile again. And she sported a bandana to #WearItOut with a smile as she joined thousands of people across the UK on Friday, March 3, taking part in The Brain Tumour Charity’s campaign to raise awareness and funds for vital research, throughout Brain Tumour Awareness Month (BTAM). “It feels fantastic to have my smile back to support #WearItOut,” said Heather, who had an acoustic neuroma tumour and is now deaf in her right ear. “It is crucial to raise awareness about symptoms so that more lives are saved and people suffer fewer long-term disabilities – if my tumour had been diagnosed sooner,
I probably wouldn’t have lost my hearing.” At 25, in her second year of a music and media degree course at London’s Metropolitan University, Heather started suffering headaches, vomiting, fainting and losing her balance. “Then I couldn’t hear properly out of my right ear but presumed it was from going to loads of gigs,” she said. “Over the following 15 months, doctors put my symptoms down to various things like low blood pressure, an over active thyroid and migraines. “It wasn’t until nothing was found wrong with my hearing that I was referred to Ayr Hospital for an MRI scan.” “I was given the devastating news that I had a brain tumour.” On December 21, 2011, Heather had emergency surgery to relieve pressure on her brain from a buildup of fluid. Two days later, she had an eight-hour operation to remove the benign tumour. “Some had to be left behind because it was attached to my optic and acoustic nerves, which is why I am partially deaf,” she said. “The right side of my face was
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also paralysed and droopy, so I couldn’t smile properly. Nor could I close my right eye.” Heather was subjected to cruel comments on the street and then online insults started. “I got messages on Twitter with links to suicide websites and people saying if they looked like me they would kill themselves,” said Heather from Ayr, Scotland. “Nasty comments made me feel even more self-conscious and an already horrible situation worse.” But Heather didn’t let the bullies win. “There was no way I was coming off Twitter because I’ve got some amazing, supportive friends on there I talk to about music,” she said. “And I wouldn’t give trolls that satisfaction, so I ignored and blocked them.” In 2013, Heather got in touch with The Brain Tumour Charity to see what support it offered and to be a volunteer. “The charity has helped and supported me in so many ways,” said Heather. “I joined its closed Facebook group and it helps hugely to talk to other people who ‘get it’ and are
going through similar experiences. “Before I got involved with the charity, I felt scared and lonely like I was the only person going through such a scary thing. Now I longer feel alone. “And volunteering gives me so much, too. It shows me that a brain tumour doesn't have to mean that your life is over.” Last July’s surgery has given Heather a confidence boost. “My face still isn’t entirely symmetrical and I’m on the waiting list for another operation,” she said. “But I look – and feel – so much better. It feels fantastic to be able to smile again. “Now I am backing The Brain Tumour Charity as it has been a lifeline to me and I want to help raise awareness about this devastating disease.” Geraldine Pipping, The Brain Tumour Charity’s director of fundraising, said: “We are so happy for Heather that surgery has given her smile back, after the ordeal of being bullied. “We receive no government money and rely 100% on voluntary donations, so it’s only through the efforts of our wonderful supporters like Heather that we can continue to
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CLAIRE LLOYD came across the HeadSmart website, which lists the most common signs of childhood brain tumours, after her nine-year-old son Jack had been vomiting regularly during the day for more than a week.
When anti-sickness medication prescribed by the GP made no difference, Claire typed ‘child with persistent vomiting’ into Google. Her search led her immediately to HeadSmart - The Brain Tumour Charity’s symptoms awareness campaign - which revealed that vomiting with no other obvious signs of illness could be caused by a brain tumour.
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Claire and her husband Peter, from New Addington in south London, agreed they would speak to the GP the following morning about what they had read. But two hours later, Jack began to complain for the first time of severe head and neck pain – another symptom listed on the HeadSmart website. “That was when we knew we had to get him to hospital,” Claire said. “Because of what we’d read, we didn’t hesitate to take him to A&E.” At the Princess Royal University Hospital in Bromley, the couple told staff what they had discovered on the HeadSmart website. Mum-of-four Claire said: “They took Jack’s history and within an hour he was given a CT scan. “Our world fell apart an hour later, when we were told Jack had a brain tumour. No words can describe the feelings of dread, fear, terror and disbelief that this is happening to your child.” Jack was transferred to King’s College Hospital in London where an MRI scan revealed a rare pineal tumour in the centre of his brain, causing a potentially life-threatening build-up of fluid. He had emergency surgery later that day to reduce the swelling and three weeks later, on October 14 last
year, underwent a 12-hour operation to remove as much of the tumour as possible. Claire, a former nursery nurse, and Peter, a postman, are sharing their story to raise awareness of HeadSmart and help other families whose children may be experiencing brain tumour symptoms. Claire, 40, said: “We are so thankful that we found HeadSmart that day. Having that information was vital in getting Jack the care he needed quickly. It played a huge part in saving his life.” Jack recovered well from his ordeal and surgery but will have to undergo further treatment after a scan earlier this year revealed the tumour had begun to grow again. Since HeadSmart was launched, the time it takes on average to diagnose a childhood brain tumour in the UK has fallen by a half from more than 13 weeks to 6.5. Recently the campaign – run in partnership by The Brain Tumour Charity, Nottingham University’s Children’s Brain Tumour Research Centre and the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health - has launched a new drive to cut the average even further to four weeks or less. The aim is to save lives and reduce the long-term disability caused by
childhood brain tumours. Claire has already ensured that her local GP surgery now displays HeadSmart materials, including pocket-sized symptoms cards and a poster. She said the whole family – including her three older children Callum, 18, Ryan, 14, and Holly, 12 – was ‘incredibly proud’ of Jack. “He has been so courageous and strong. That really has kept us all going. His ability to smile throughout his surgeries has been incredible. “He continues to be the amazing, smart, funny, kind and cheeky boy he was before this nightmare journey began. “He is so loved and we are incredibly proud of him.” Hayley Epps, campaign manager for The Brain Tumour Charity, said: ““Jack’s story shows very clearly why HeadSmart is so important. We are very grateful to his family for their support. “Brain tumours kill more children in the UK than any other type of cancer. HeadSmart has two aims: to save lives and reduce long-term disability by bringing down diagnosis times.” www.headsmart.org Jack Lloyd in hospital
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Brexit: Against enforced conformity THE BREXIT vote marked a revolt against the ‘enforced conformity’ preached by the elite.
That it came as such a shock to them was a sign of how little contact they had with the real world. And many, including a couple of Southwark MPs still don’t get it. Now it’s Michael Heseltine’s turn, who’s latest ego-trip is to use his position as a peer to try to delay Brexit, has angered many. Incidently, his Lordship has a shockingly poor record in the Lords. He’s taken part in fewer than three per cent of the votes in the upper house and hasn’t spoken there for almost eighteen months. Next in turn is Sir John Major, still moaning and still in denial over Brexit. If anyone should know about historic mistakes it’s him. This is the man who led us into the disasterous Exchange Rate Mechanism and whose term as prime minister was so abject and incompetent that it paved the way for thirteen years of unbroken Labour government. He should have accepted the magnitude of such failings and retired gracefully from the political stage, instead of launching into a sanctimonous diatribe about supposed evils of Brexit. And then we had that leading evolutionary biologist professor Richard Dawkins stating “that the large slice of humanity who voted leave were stupid, ignorant people’ and that it was unfair to thrust onto unqualified simpletons the responsbility to take historic decisions of great complexity and sophistication.” He seems to think the rest of us should have blind faith in people like him! Philosophy professor A. C.
Grayling wrote to every MP demanding that they vote to ignore the result, which he said was driven by mere demagoguery and sentiment, and remain in the EU. Author Hilary Mantel (Wolfhall) observed how “as soon as the result was in, millions signed a petition to rub it out and do it again.” In similar vein, was the letter signed by a thousand top lawyers, demanding that Parilament must decide (ie vote to remain). The QC behind this initiative explained; “in times of crisis people often turn to lawyers to ask them how we should behave in society.” With this lot, no wonder 17.4 million voted to leave. The Brexit referendum vote opened up the opportunity for a new kind of political debate about the future of our society who had previously felt excluded from public life. Reg O’Donoghue, Walworth
Why we won’t wait
THANKS TO research and modern technology, we live in an era when medical breakthroughs are producing results that truly transform people’s lives.
But it’s shocking that the foremost drug that people with Parkinson’s rely on, those like my brother in law Gordon Scarfe, has not changed in over 50 years. This is not because it’s so effective that no new medication is needed – far from it. Parkinson’s is a relentless, cruel condition that causes immense suffering, from deep depression and pain to complete immobility. The lack of new treatments, and no cure, means that there is nothing to stop the relentless progression and worsening of symptoms over time for the 127,000 people living with it. It has been extremely painful and distressing to witness this at first hand, knowing there is currently
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nothing on the horizon that can offer Gordon the prospect of any improvement. According to new findings from Parkinson’s UK, released to highlight this month’s Parkinson’s Awareness Week, misunderstanding about Parkinson’s is still widespread, and it’s time to create greater awareness that it causes so much more than just a tremor. We need to drive forward groundbreaking research: the science is ready and we have the knowhow to make this happen. This year is the 200th anniversary of the condition being described by Dr James Parkinson, and Parkinson’s UK have launched their first ever public fundraising appeal, We Won’t Wait, to raise the funds urgently needed to tackle the condition head on. It will be too late for my beloved brother-in-law, but I would love to see a medical breakthrough for Parkinson’s during my lifetime, and I hope that your readers will join me in donating to We Won’t Wait. Every penny brings us closer to new and better treatments and to the day when no one fears a diagnosis of Parkinson’s. To find out more about the We Won’t Wait campaign and to donate, please visit wewontwait.parkinsons.org.uk Jane Asher, Presidentof Parkinson’s UK
Polls say Brexit
SOME HAVE been claiming that the majority no longer want to leave the EU. But the evidence seems to point the other way.
The recent YouGov poll of 26-27 March found that 44 per cent of those polled agreed with the statement, “I support Britain leaving the EU, and the British government should ensure that Britain does leave the EU.” 25 per cent agreed with the statement, “I did not support Britain
leaving the EU, but now the British people have voted to leave, the government has a duty to carry out their wishes and leave.” 21 per cent agreed with the statement, “I do not support Britain leaving the EU and the government should ignore the result of the referendum or seek to overturn it in a second referendum.” Ten per cent said they didn’t know. So 69 per cent agreed that we should leave the EU. Only 21 per cent still wanted to stay in the EU. Will Podmore, via email
Get in gear for cycle challenge
IT'S NOT too late for Southwark residents to join this year's RideLondon cycling event.
Join over 30,000 cyclists in the Prudential RideLondon-Surrey 100 on Sunday 30th July 2017 and ride 100 miles through the closed streets of London and stunning Surrey. With the roaring crowds cheering you on, you'll feel like an Olympian. Gear up for Muscular Dystrophy UK, and help beat muscle-wasting conditions. By signing up with #TeamOrange, you'll get: a unique #TeamOrange cycling jersey, access to our training zone, a welcome pack full of tips, advice and fundraising materials, free photos of you en route and a hero's welcome and a picnic at the finish. Didn't get a place in the ballot? Get your place now - just £35 to register. We ask you to pledge a minimum sponsorship target of £550. The charity funds research into muscular dystrophy which cause muscles to weaken and waste over time, leading to increasingly severe disability. Muscle-wasting conditions currently affect 70,000 people in the UK. Lorna Poultney, Muscular Dystrophy UK
JACKIE POWER May flowering in April
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RIGHT SUNNY days with surprisingly chilly winds and cool nights are usually a feature of April’s weather and this year it is true to form.
Cold winds can damage newly emerged leaves and blossoms. The early spring garden has already produced a dazzling array of colour and some summer flowering shrubs are in bloom - weeks early! Mexican orange, Ceanothus and Broom crept into flower with the bright yellow Forsythia and Camellias displaying soft pink (or) white blooms; this makes a rare and varied combination of spring flowering plants - all out unusually at the same time. Mexican orange, seen in parks, gardens and open spaces, is hardy, evergreen and needs little attention. White scented flowers appear as early as March, coming back several times throughout the year. Ceanothus has deep green leaves and clusters of shimmering blue flowers. Some varieties bloom in late summer and early autumn such as C. ‘Autumnal Blue’. Broom usually starts flowering in April – with long arching stems it makes an untidy shrub; but clusters of large yellow perfumed flowers beloved by bees make it worth growing. Broom can take over if not kept under control; black seed pods about 1 ½ inches long are produced, which pop open in the sun scattering seeds over a wide area. Wisteria and Lilac are two stunning May flowering shrubs – this year they were in full bloom by the first week in April. Wisteria forms curling stems these mature into woody trunks and branches that can be trained along walls and are often seen covering the front of houses. Before the leaves appear - Wisteria is clothed in bunches of fragrant purple or white flowers. Even without a garden it’s possible to grow crops of tasty fruits, vegetables and herbs. Tomatoes, salad leaves, sweet peppers and chilli peppers will grow happily in containers either on a balcony, patio or in a window box; there are dwarf varieties such as ‘Tumbler’ cherry tomatoes, Bell Peppers and hot Peppers. They need rich compost such as ‘Jack’s Magic’; watered well (twice a day) in hot weather and given a weekly liquid feed - the results can be spectacular. Adding herb plants such as Basil, Parsley and Oregano will give you ingredients to make lively salads and sauces. And for dessert – Strawberries grown in hanging baskets and Blueberries are happy in pots of ericaceous compost.
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Hobo showed the way to be crushed underfoot (8) Just a ray of light can produce a point of brightness (4) Russian tyrant exposed in just a linen shirt! (6) Hides the coats (6) Is it excellent to begin to sleep in church? (5) Begin to be a person (5) Making a mistake by hesitating in front of the circle (6) Ma, this act could lead to a condition of suffering (9) The pirate sounds as if he’d give a dollar on ear (9) Fantastic that the United Nations should be concerned with Capone (6) Come in from his recent errand (5) The king's inside but will break out (5) In return, exclude the accounts of the Egyptian charm (6) Is back fast, and without speaking (6) Medicine does make a change (4) Open and not led round the water (8)
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Very hungry (8) Pace (4) Part of the foot (6) Refer to (6) Rub out (5) Strainer (5) Fortification (6) Shapes of the moon (9) Gem (9) Landing place of Noah's Ark (6) Viewpoint (5) Send back (5) Petitioned (6) Lobster claw (6) Sea eagle (4) Showing respect (8)
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t was claimed that John Gass had the best job in London during his 24-year reign as the longest-serving bridge master of Tower Bridge.
The best job in London
Tower Bridge works’ October 18th 1892
Tower Bridge construction
of the unsung heroes throughout its 120-year history. The exhibition is set among the original steam engines that once powered the mighty bridge lifts. It will include the names of 40 workers, from cooks to coal stokers, labourers and bridge drivers; each profiled with a decorative plaque. The plaques have also been designed with help from pupils at
the City of London Academy in Bermondsey. Curators of the exhibition are also hoping that locals may be able to provide new case studies, in relatives who may have worked on the bridge in its early years. Email people@towerbridge.org.uk to get in touch with the team.
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Though he found himself as superintendent of London’s proudest feat of civil engineers, Gass was born in 1852 in Carlisle, and learnt his trade as an engineer in Gateshead upon Tyne. Gass landed his first job at the bridge in 1886, as a foreman during its eight-year construction. He stayed on after work had finished in 1894 to become its first ever superintendent of machinery at the Elswick works. He was employed by Sir W. G. Armstrong, Mitchell and Company, and oversaw the erection of hydraulic machinery and armaments of H.M.S. Sans Pareil, and other warships. Two years later he was promoted to bridge master. He had the vital role of keeping the state of the art engines and machinery working, so it could open and close for passing ships at a time when the Thames was still heaving with industry and cargo boats. His other responsibilities included: paying the workers’ wages; ordering stores and materials; producing drawings; certifying the accounts; reporting monthly and annually to the Bridge-House Estates Committee. For this he was paid £380 per year with residence. He was elected to associate membership of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers in 1898, and was made an official member in 1901. In 1930, aged 78, he retired and moved from Bermondsey to live in Catford, until his death in February 12, 1938, and was buried in Hither Green Cemetery with other members of his family. Construction of Tower Bridge commenced in 1887, cost £1,184,000 (Today’s equivalent of £122m), and took eight years with five major contractors. The resident engineer for the bridge’s construction was E. W. Crutwell. Its foundations were laid by Sir John Jackson, the hydraulics were by Baron Armstrong, with the rest of the assembly taken on by William Webster, Sir H.H. Bartlett, and Sir William Arrol & Amp Co. Together they employed 432 workers. Two massive piers containing over 70,000 tons of concrete were sunk into the riverbed to support the construction. Over 11,000 tons of steel provided the framework for the towers and walkways, then clad in Cornish granite and Portland stone. The bridge was officially opened on June 30, 1894. John Gass will feature amongst a new permanent Wall of Fame exhibition at the Tower Bridge Experience, organised with Historic England, which will celebrate some
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John Gass, first Superintendent of Machinery and then Bridge Master at Tower Bridge
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LONDON BOROUGH OF SOUTHWARK
LONDON BOROUGH OF SOUTHWARK
ROAD TRAFFIC REGULATION ACT 1984 SECTION 14(1) (LIVERPOOL GROVE) 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.
TEMPORARY PROHIBITION OF TRAFFIC
ROAD TRAFFIC REGULATION ACT 1984 SECTION 14(1) (LAVINGTON STREET)
The Council of the London Borough of Southwark hereby gives notice that because of a crane operation by LTS Traffic Management, it made an Order the effect of which would prohibit vehicular traffic in part of the above named road.
1.
No alternative route will be applicable.
3.
Whilst the 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 Liverpool Grove, between No’s 28 and No’s 36.
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 restriction will be in place on the 4th May 2017.
Further information may be obtained by contacting Road Network & Parking Management on 0207 525 2014.
Dated this 27th April 2017
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4. 5. 6.
Southwark Council, Environment and Social Regeneration, Network Management, PO Box 64529 London SE1 5LX Ref: 3477/ LBSCR9438
LONDON BOROUGH OF SOUTHWARK
3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8.
The alternative route for affected traffic will be via Union Street, Ewer Street, Lavington Street,Great Suffolk Street, Southwark Street as applicable.
Exemptions will be provided in the Order to permit reasonable access to premises, so far as it is practical without interference with the execution of the said works.
The restrictions will not apply to any vehicle being used in connection with the said works, or for fire brigade, ambulance or police purposes or anything done with the permission or at the direction of a police constable in uniform. The restriction will be in place on the 6th – 7th May 2017
Further information may be obtained by contacting Road Network & Parking Management on 0207 525 2014.
Southwark Council, Environment and Social Regeneration, Network Management, PO Box 64529 London SE1 5LX Ref: 3460/ LBSCR9511 LONDON BOROUGH OF SOUTHWARK
ROAD TRAFFIC REGULATION ACT 1984 SECTION 14(1) (OMEARA STREET,REDCROSS WAY, RISBOROUGH STREET)
TEMPORARY PROHIBITION OF TRAFFIC
The Council of the London Borough of Southwark hereby gives notice that because of works by Power on Connections, it made an Order the effect of which would prohibit vehicular traffic in part of the above named road. Whilst the 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 Upper Ground, between Rennie Street and Blackfriars Road.
The alternative route for affected traffic will be via Stamford Street, Rennie Street, Upper Ground as applicable.
Whilst works are in progress or whilst the authorised traffic signs are in place, the section of one way working between Blackfriars Road and Rennie Street shall be temporarily suspended for access and egress purposes. Rennie Street, between Stamford Street and Upper Ground will be made one way in a Northbound 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 restriction will be in place on the 8th – 26th May 2017.
Further information may be obtained by contacting Road Network & Parking Management on 0207 525 2014.
Dated this 27th April 2017 Nicky Costin Road Network & Parking Business Manager
Whilst the 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 Lavington Street, between Southwark Street and Ewer Street.
Nicky Costin Road Network & Parking Business Manager
ROAD TRAFFIC REGULATION ACT 1984 SECTION 14(1) (UPPER GROUND)
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The Council of the London Borough of Southwark hereby gives notice that because of a crane operation by R I Design & Build, it made an order the effect of which would prohibit vehicular traffic in part of the above named road.
Dated this 27th April 2017
Nicky Costin Road Network & Parking Business Manager
1.
TEMPORARY PROHIBITION OF TRAFFIC
Southwark Council, Environment and Social Regeneration, Network Management, PO Box 64529 London SE1 5LX Ref: 3575/ C02823/R10
1. 2.
3.
4. 5. 6. 7. 8.
TEMPORARY PROHIBITION OF TRAFFIC
The Council of the London Borough of Southwark hereby gives notice that to enable works by Virgin Media/Franklin Streetworks/ Mcnicholas Construction/Kelly Communications it made an order the effect of which will be to prohibit vehicular traffic from entering part of the above named road. Whilst works are in progress, and whilst the authorised traffic signs are displayed, no person shall cause any vehicle to enter, proceed, stop, wait, load or unload in: (a) Omeara Street, between Southwark Street and Union Street (b) Redcross Way, between Union Street and Red Cross Gardens (c) Risborough Street, at it’s junctions with Copperfield Street
An alternative route for affected traffic will be via (a) Southwark Street, Southwark Bridge Road, Union Street. Thrale Street, Southwark Bridge Road, Union Street. Union Street, Borough High Street, Southwark Street. (b) Marshalsea Road, Ayres Street. Quilp Street, Redcross Way, Marshalsea Road. (c) Loman Street, Great Suffolk Street. Great Suffolk Street, Union Street. Union Street, Pepper Street, Copperfield Street. Copperfield Street, Loman Street as applicable.
The existing one way working in Redcross Way, between Quilp Street and Union Street, will be made two way for access and egress purposes only.
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 restriction will come into operation for (a) 2nd – 3rd May. (b) 1st May. (c) 9th – 11th May.
Further information may be obtained by contacting Road Network & Parking Management on 0207 525 2014.
Dated this 27th April 2017 Nicky Costin Road Network & Parking Business Manager
Southwark Council, Environment and Social Regeneration, PO Box 64529 London SE1 5LX Ref:(a)3576//SCLJFI/23822/FS (b)3577//SSEMBU/100136484 (c)3536//SCLJBU/16944AS
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LONDON BOROUGH OF SOUTHWARK
ROAD TRAFFIC REGULATION ACT 1984 SECTION 14(1) (ALVEY STREET, CHAMBERS STREET, DOCKHEAD, HOPTON, STREET 1. 2.
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4. 5. 6. 7.
(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 the 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:
The restrictions will not apply to any vehicle being used in connection with the said works, or for fire brigade, ambulance or police purposes or anything done with the permission or at the direction of a police constable in uniform. The works will be in place for (a) 9th – 10th May. (b) 11th – 12th May. (c) 15th – 15th May. (d) 16th – 17th May.
Further information may be obtained by contacting Road Network & Parking Management on 0207 525 2014.
ROAD TRAFFIC REGULATION ACT 1984 SECTION 14(1) (EMPRESS STREET)
5. 6. 7.
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12:00 12:00 12:00
23:00 23:30 22:30
Monday - Thursday Friday & Saturday Sunday
12:00 12:00 12:00
23:00 23:30 22:30
A register of all applications made within the Southwark area is maintained by The Licensing Service, c/o Southwark Environmental Health and Trading Standards, 3RD Floor Hub 2, 160 Tooley Street, London, SE1 5LX
LONDON BOROUGH OF SOUTHWARK
4.
The supply of alcohol:
Days
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 alternative route for (a) Thurlow Street, East Street, Exon Street, Freemantle Street, Surrey Square. Thurlow Street, Albany Road, Old Kent Road, East Street. (b) George Row, Wolseley Street, Parkers Row, Dockhead, Jamaica Road, Bevington Street. Bevington Street, Jamaica Road, Mill Street, Jacob Street. (c) Mill Street, Wolseley Street. (d) access to be maintained.
Southwark Council Environment and Social Regeneration Network Management PO Box 64529 London SE1 5LX Ref: (a) 3588/1475313 (b)3589/1474780 (c) 3580/ 1474782 (d) 3583/1474879
3.
Please take notice that I / we Laurie Elizabeth Stewart Have made application to the local licensing authority for a new Premises Licence in respect of Crust Conductor, Copeland Park, 133 Copeland Road, SE15 3SN The relevant licensable activities and proposed times to be carried on, on from the premises are
The provision of regulated entertainment:
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Notice of Application for a Premises Licence made under Section 17 of the Licensing Act 2003
(a) Alvey Street, between Surrey Grove to blocked end. (b)Chambers Street, between George Row and Bevington Street (c) Dockhead, between Jamaica Road and Parkers Row (d) Hopton Street, at it’s junction with Holland Street.
Dated this 27th April 2017
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TEMPORARY PROHIBITION OF TRAFFIC
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, 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 Empress Street, 10m either side of railway bridge. An alternative route is not applicable.
Exemptions will be provided in the Order to permit reasonable access to premises, so far as it is practical without interference with the execution of the said works.
The restrictions will not apply to any vehicle being used in connection with the said works, or for fire brigade, ambulance or police purposes or anything done with the permission or at the direction of a police constable in uniform. The restriction will be in place on the 22nd May between 10:00hrs and 16:00hrs.
Further information may be obtained by contacting Road Network & Parking Management on 0207 525 2014.
Dated this 27th April 2017 Nicky Costin Road Network & Parking Business Manager
Southwark Council Environment and Social Regeneration Network Management PO Box 64529 London SE1 5LX Ref: 3581/ HHH-02-19-220517
Goods Vehicle Operator's Licence
Mr Grant Mason, trading as Masons Scaffolding Ltd, of Yard 4, Ilderton Wharf, Rollins Street, London, SE15 1EP is applying for a licence to use Yard 4, Ilderton Wharf, Rollins Street, London, SE15 1EP as an operating centre for 9 goods vehicles and 0 trailers.
Owners or occupiers of land (including buildings) near the operating centre who believe that their use or enjoyment of that land would be affected, should make written representations to the Traffic Commissioner at Hillcrest House, 386 Harehills Lane, Leeds, LS9 6NF, stating their reasons, within 21 days of this notice. Representors must at the same time send a copy of their representations to the applicant at the address given at the top of this notice. A Guide to Making Representations is available from the Traffic Commissioner's office.
Opening hours:
Monday - Thursday Friday & Saturday Sunday
12:00 12:00 12:00
23:30 00:00 23:00
A record of this application may be inspected by visiting the office during normal office hours by appointment on 020 7525 2000; details are also on our web site at www.southwark.gov.uk/businesscentre/licensing/currentapplication
It is open to any person to make representations about the likely effect of the grant of the premises licence on the promotion of the licensing objectives. Representations must be made in writing to the Licensing Service at the office address given above and be received by the Service within a period of 28 days starting the day after the date shown below. Note: It is an offence to knowingly or recklessly make a false statement in connection with an application. A person guilty of such offence is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale. Date of application: 25th April 2017
LONDON BOROUGH OF SOUTHWARK
ROAD TRAFFIC REGULATION ACT 1984 SECTION 14(1) (ROYAL ROAD) 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 works to be carried out by SGN, 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 Royal Road, at it’s junction with St Agnes Place. The alternative route for affected traffic will be via: St Agnes Place, Kennington Park Place, Otto Street, Royal Road. Exemptions will be provided in the Order to permit reasonable access to premises, so far as it is practical without interference with the execution of the said works.
The restrictions will not apply to any vehicle being used in connection with the said works, or for fire brigade, ambulance or police purposes or anything done with the permission or at the direction of a police constable in uniform. The restriction will be in place on the 22nd May 2017 – 9th June 2017.
Further information may be obtained by contacting Road Network & Parking Management on 0207 525 2014.
Dated this 27th April 2017 Nicky Costin Road Network & Parking Business Manager
Southwark Council Environment and Social Regeneration Network Management PO Box 64529 London SE1 5LX Ref: 3585/ W113882905-02147
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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).
THE ALBION, 20 ALBION STREET, LONDON, SE16 7JQ (Ref. 17/AP/1299 ) Demolition of existing 2/3-storey Public House with ancillary residential accommodation above (Use Class A4) and construction of a 4-storey development plus a basement floor comprising a flexible commercial unit at ground and basement floor level (Use Classes A1/A2/A3/A4/A5/B1(a)) and 8no. self-contained dwellings (flats) on the upper floors. This proposal affects the character or setting of nearby listed building(s):St. Olav's Kirke, Albion Street (Grade II). Reason(s) for publicity: ALB (Contact: Ciaran Regan 020 7525 4877) CAMBERWELL LEISURE CENTRE, ARTICHOKE PLACE, LONDON SE5 8TS (Ref. 17/AP/1346 ) Installation of supporting steelwork in association with consented scheme reference 16/AP/4368 and 16/AP/4369 for 'Modifications to Mechanical and Electrical plant and fittings, including new plant to existing flat roof'. (within Camberwell Green C.A.) (Grade II listed building) Reason(s) for publicity: CNA, LBA (Contact: Catherine Jeater 0207 525 5375) CAMBERWELL LEISURE CENTRE, ARTICHOKE PLACE, LONDON SE5 8TS (Ref. 17/AP/1345 ) Installation of supporting steelwork in association with consented scheme reference 16/AP/4368 and 16/AP/4369 for 'Modifications to Mechanical and Electrical plant and fittings, including new plant to existing flat roof'. (within Camberwell Green C.A.) (Grade II listed building) Reason(s) for publicity: CNA, LBA (Contact: Catherine Jeater 0207 525 5375) 218-220 BOROUGH HIGH STREET,LONDON,SE1 1JX (Ref. 17/AP/1332 ) Variations of Condition 2 of planning permission dated 18/5/2011[ LBS ref 10AP2304] for redevelopment of site for a mixed use development comprising six storeys (basement and five floors above ground) including retail/professional services/cafe - restaurant (Use Classes A1/A2/A3) at ground floor and basement and seven residential units (Class C3) at upper floors to comprise three studio apartments, three one bed units and one two bed unit.The variation is to facilitate new traditional front facade (within Liberty of the Mint C.A.) Reason(s) for publicity: CNA (Contact: Alex Cameron 020 7525 5416) 220 CAMBERWELL GROVE, LONDON, SE5 8RJ (Ref. 17/AP/1488 ) Listed Buiding Consent for the repairs to the roof by replacement of existing slates. (within Camberwell Grove C.A.) (Grade II listed building) Reason(s) for publicity: CNA, LBA (Contact: Martin McKay 0207 525 1818) LAND ADJACENT TO WARWICK COURT, CHOUMERT ROAD (REAR OF 160-162 RYE LANE), LONDON SE15 4SH (Ref. 17/AP/1285 ) Construction of a part two, part three and part four-storey block for co-living (Sui generis) comprised of 11 rooms with shared facilities, roof pavilion and roof terrace, external walkways, balconies and associated cycle and bin stores (within Rye Lane C.A.) Reason(s) for publicity: CNA (Contact: Mumtaz Shaikh 0207 525 0585) 181 CONSORT ROAD, LONDON, SE15 3RX (Ref. 17/AP/1295 ) (Householder Application) Construction of a vehicle crossover to park vehicle on the drive of the property (within Nunhead Green C.A.) Reason(s) for publicity: CNA (Contact: Christopher Kirby 0207 525 0952) RICH INDUSTRIAL ESTATE, CRIMSCOTT STREET, LONDON SE1 5TE AND WILLOW WALK, LONDON SE1 (Ref. 17/AP/1209 ) Erection of a 2-storey building to be used as a sales and customer care suite (Sui Generis) for a period of 5 years.
Note: This building would ultimately form part of a larger building described as plot 1 under planning
permission reference 15/AP/2474 for 'Demolition of four existing buildings and electricity substation and the development of a phased mixed-use scheme ranging from 3-9 storeys plus basements (maximum height 34.03m AOD) comprising a series of new buildings and retained/refurbished/extended buildings to provide a total of 19,468sqm (GIA) of commercial, retail, art gallery and storage floorspace (Use Classes A1, A2, A3, B1, Be and D1) and 406 residential units (Use Class C3) plus associated highway and public realm works, landscaping, car and cycle parking, infrastructure works and associated works' if this permission is implemented. (within Bermondsey Street C.A.) Reason(s) for publicity: CNA (Contact: Victoria Lewis 020 7525 5410) 7 EYNELLA ROAD, LONDON, SE22 8XF (Ref. 17/AP/0654 ) (Householder Application) Erection of a timber framed garden room to the rear of the garden space (within Dulwich Village C.A.) Reason(s) for publicity: CNA (Contact: Anthony Roberts 020 7525 5458) HILTON LONDON BANKSIDE, 2-8 GREAT SUFFOLK STREET, LONDON, SE1 0UG (Ref. 17/AP/1383 ) Variation of Condition 21 of planning permission 13-AP-4194 to allow access to and from the conference facility between the hours of 08.00 to 01.00 Monday - Wednesday; 08:00 to 01:30 Thursday - Saturday; and 08:00 - 12:30 on Sundays and Bank Holidays. Reason(s) for publicity: MPA (Contact: Terence McLellan 020 7525 5365) CTIL_148412_TEF_071526_VF_86156 THE BIRCHES, PELHAM GROVE, GROVE PARK, LONDON, SE5 8LL (Ref. 17/AP/1470 ) Installation of a rooftop telecommunications base stationa nd associated ancillary development (within Camberwell Grove C.A.) Reason(s) for publicity: CNA (Contact: Neil Loubser 020 7525 5451) 8 HIGHSHORE ROAD, LONDON, SE15 5AA (Ref. 17/AP/1025 ) (Householder Application) Construction of a single story out house to rear of garden (within Holly Grove C.A.) (Grade II listed building) Reason(s) for publicity: CNA, LBA (Contact: Christopher Kirby 0207 525 0952) LAVINGTON HOUSE, 25 LAVINGTON STREET, LONDON, SE1 0NA (Ref. 16/AP/2668 ) Demolition of existing buildings and redevelopment of the site to provide a 10 storey (plus basement) commercial building with two flexible A1/A3/B1 units at ground/basement level and B1 floorspace on all upper levels and accessible parking/vehicular access and servicing from Ewer Street; 170 apartments in three residential buildings at 8, 13 and 21 storeys (plus basement, including roof plant) with a flexible A1/A3/B1 unit at basement/ground floor level; parking/vehicular access from Lavington Street; 3 mews houses (3 storeys); new public realm; hard and soft landscaping; pedestrian routes; alterations to the public highways including widened footways, relocated parking and service bays, tree planting, resurfacing and associated works. This proposal affects the character or setting of nearby listed building(s):43-44 Dolben Street (Grade II); Canon Bollards Ewer Street/Union Street (Grade II); Hoptons Almhouses, Hopton Gardens (Grade II*); 89, 97 and 124-126 Southwark Street (Grade II) and 99 Southwark Street (Grade II*),. This proposal affects the character or setting of the nearby Kings Bench, Liberty of the Mint, Thrale Street and Union Street Conservation Areas.. Reason(s) for publicity: ACA, ALB, MPA (Contact: Terence McLellan 020 7525 5365) 4-5 LONDON ROAD, LONDON, SE1 6JZ (Ref. 17/AP/1075 ) New timber shop fronts (within St Georges Circus C.A.) (Grade II listed building) Reason(s) for publicity: CNA, LBA (Contact: Tracy Chapman
020 7525 1948) 1 MINA ROAD, LONDON, SE17 2QS (Ref. 17/AP/0905 ) Re submission for Demolition of existing buildings and redevelopment of site to provide a part 3 and part 6 storey building incorporating 8 apartments (1 x 1 bed and 7x 2 bed) and erection of a detached two storey 3 bed house to the rear of the site. Provision of associated landscaping, cycle parking and refuse storage facilities. Reason(s) for publicity: (Contact: Neil Loubser 020 7525 5451) 43-45 OXFORD DRIVE, LONDON, SE1 2FB (Ref. 17/AP/0612 ) Create of additional floor at third floor level for the extension of 44&45 Oxford drive. Conversion of No. 44 from one bedroom flat to a three bedroom maisonette Conversion of No. 45 from one bedrrom flat to a two bedrrom maisonette and the provision of a new two bedroom, three person self-contained flat over No. 43 Oxford Drive and associate external alterations. (within Tooley Street C.A.) Reason(s) for publicity: CNA (Contact: Rosie Nolan 0207 525 1335) 152 PECKHAM RYE, LONDON, SE22 9QH (Ref. 17/AP/1349 ) Repairs to flat roof by removal of existing defective asphalt finish and replace with felt roof finish (within The Gardens C.A.) (Grade II listed building) Reason(s) for publicity: CNA, LBA (Contact: Tracy Chapman 020 7525 1948) 152 PECKHAM RYE, LONDON, SE22 9QH
(Ref. 17/AP/1348 ) Repairs to flat roof by removal of existing defective asphalt finish and replace with felt roof finish (within The Gardens C.A.) (Grade II listed building) Reason(s) for publicity: CNA, LBA (Contact: Martin McKay 0207 525 1818) 10 ROCK HILL, LONDON, SE26 6SW (Ref. 17/AP/1337 ) (Householder Application) Construction of a single storey dwellinghouse (within Dulwich Wood C.A.) Reason(s) for publicity: CNA (Contact: Anthony Roberts 020 7525 5458) FLAT 40, BUTLERS WHARF BUILDING, 36 SHAD THAMES, LONDON SE1 (Ref. 17/AP/1282 ) Refurbishment of existing residential apartment. (within Tower Bridge C.A.) (Grade II listed building) Reason(s) for publicity: CNA, LBA (Contact: Martin McKay 0207 525 1818) 53 SOUTHWARK STREET, LONDON, SE1 1RU (Ref. 17/AP/1384 ) Provision of an el fresco dining and bar experience on an existing flat roof at ground level immediately adjacent to the Menier Chocolate Factory Restaurant in the Menier Chocolate Factory Building. A retractable awning will be provided to the main area of the proposed terrace for use during times of adverse weather.
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TOWN & COUNTRY PLANNING ACT 1990 (as amended)
The existing entry access from Southwark Street will be retained and enhanced to provide a more welcoming access route linking Southwark Street to the Menier Chocolate Factory Restaurant and the proposed el fresco terrace. (within Thrale Street C.A.) (Grade II listed building) Reason(s) for publicity: CNA, LBA (Contact: Martin McKay 0207 525 1818) 53 SOUTHWARK STREET, LONDON, SE1 1RU (Ref. 17/AP/1385 ) Provision of an el fresco dining and bar experience on an existing flat roof at ground level immediately adjacent to the Menier Chocolate Factory Restaurant in the Menier Chocolate Factory Building. A retractable awning will be provided to the main area of the proposed terrace for use during times of adverse weather. The existing entry access from Southwark Street will be retained and enhanced to provide a more welcoming access route linking Southwark Street to the Menier Chocolate Factory Restaurant and the proposed el fresco terrace. (within Thrale Street C.A.) (Grade II listed building) Reason(s) for publicity: CNA, LBA (Contact: Martin McKay 0207 525 1818) GUYS HOSPITAL, ST THOMAS STREET, LONDON, SE1 9RT (Ref. 17/AP/1309 ) Repair and replacement of gates and railings to the entrance to Old Guy's Hospital. (within Borough High Street C.A.) (Grade II listed building) Reason(s) for publicity: CNA, LBA (Contact: Catherine Jeater 0207 525 5375) 33 SUNRAY AVENUE, LONDON, SE24 9PX (Ref. 17/AP/1331 ) (Householder Application) Alterations to rear elevation consisting of the
PLANNING (LISTED BUILDINGS AND CONSERVATION AREAS) ACT 1990 (as amended)
removal of 1no existing casement window on the ground floor in the rear/side elevation and removal of part of brick work below to accommodate a rear entrance door and small fixed side window; the removal of the existing rear entrance door in the rear elevation in order to brick up and accommodate a small casement window; renewal of all casement windows only. (within Sunray Estate C.A.) Reason(s) for publicity: CNA (Contact: Troy Davies 0207 525 0783) LOWER LEVEL UNIT 12A, HAYS GALLERIA, TOOLEY STREET, LONDON, SE1 2HD (Ref. 17/AP/1334 ) Change of use from vacant A1 shop to B1 office to serve Hays Galleria security control room. Reposition existing entrance door and glazing to adjacent opening. (within Tooley Street C.A.) (Grade II listed building) Reason(s) for publicity: CNA, LBA (Contact: Rosie Nolan 0207 525 1335) EMBLEM HOUSE, 17-25 TOOLEY STREET, LONDON, SE1 2PR (Ref. 17/AP/1089 ) Construction of rear extension to accommodate a new lift. Internal changes to facilitate a new PET/CT scanner, and alterations of plant at roof level (within Tooley Street C.A.) (Grade II listed building) Reason(s) for publicity: CNA, LBA (Contact: Tracy Chapman 020 7525 1948) 35-37 TOWER BRIDGE ROAD, LONDON, SE1 4TL (Ref. 17/AP/1343 ) Change of use of ground floor shop (A1 Use Class) to restaurant / take-away (A3/A5 Use Class); the installation of extraction ductwork with a high-level terminal to the rear elevation of the building; and an awning (does not contain any
advertisement). (within Bermondsey Street C.A.) Reason(s) for publicity: CNA (Contact: Troy Davies 0207 525 0783) 52 TRAFALGAR AVENUE, LONDON, SE15 6NR (Ref. 17/AP/1160 ) Remove an existing lower ground floor extension and insert a new French window. Lime render rear lower ground floor walls. (within Trafalgar Avenue C.A.) (Grade II listed building) Reason(s) for publicity: CNA, LBA (Contact: Tracy Chapman 020 7525 1948) 52 TRAFALGAR AVENUE, LONDON, SE15 6NR (Ref. 17/AP/1159 ) Remove an existing lower ground floor extension and insert a new french window; Lime render rear lower ground floor walls. (within Trafalgar Avenue C.A.) (Grade II listed building) Reason(s) for publicity: CNA, LBA (Contact: Tracy Chapman 020 7525 1948) ABOVE, 287 WALWORTH ROAD, LONDON, SE17 2TG (Ref. 17/AP/1158 ) Rebranding of existing EE Signage (1 fascia sign and 1 x projecting sign) (within Walworth Road C.A.) Reason(s) for publicity: CNA (Contact: Yvonne Sampoh 0207 525 4929) 237 WALWORTH ROAD, LONDON SE17 1RL (Ref. 16/AP/2456 ) Variation of Outline planning permission (14/AP/0830) to erect of two buildings, one a part 5, part 6 storey building plus lower ground floor and part basement plant room and the other a part 2, part 3, part 4 storey building together with a single storey extension to the flying freehold to provide 67 residential units (comprising a mix of 1x studio, 19 x 1 bed, 40 x 2 bed, 3 x 3 bed, 2 x 4
LONDON BOROUGH OF SOUTHWARK
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The Council of the London Borough of Southwark hereby gives notice that because of works by centercomms Ltd, it made an Order the effect of which would prohibit vehicular traffic in part of the above named road. Whilst the 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 Omeara Street, between Union Street and Southwark Street. The alternative route for affected traffic will be via Union Street, Borough High Street, Southwark Street, Southwark Bridge Road.
Exemptions will be provided in the Order to permit reasonable access to premises, so far as it is practical without interference with the execution of the said works.
The restrictions will not apply to any vehicle being used in connection with the said works, or for fire brigade, ambulance or police purposes or anything done with the permission or at the direction of a police constable in uniform. The restriction will be in place between on the 2nd – 3rd May 2017.
Further information may be obtained by contacting Road Network & Parking Management on 0207 525 2014.
Dated this 27th April 2017 Nicky Costin Road Network & Parking Business Manager
Southwark Council, Environment and Social Regeneration, Network Management, PO Box 64529 London SE1 5LX Ref: 3410/ WP00100500225723104
an increase in the number of residential units from 67 to 73 units Amendments to the dwelling mix Amendments to the position of the main residential block Amendments to the internal layout of residential units and other external alterations. To remove condition 18 (Code for Sustainable Homes) To amend the energy strategy (Condition 21) (within Walworth Road C.A.) Reason(s) for publicity: CNA, MPA (Contact: Daniel Davies 020 7525 5461) 16 WINCHESTER WALK, LONDON, SE1 9AG (Ref. 17/AP/1395 ) Display of x1 internally illuminated projecting sign (within Borough High Street C.A.) Reason(s) for publicity: CNA (Contact: Terence McLellan 020 7525 5365) Dated 25 April 2017 - comments to be received within 21 days of this date SIMON BEVAN - Director of Planning
LONDON BOROUGH OF SOUTHWARK
ROAD TRAFFIC REGULATION ACT 1984 SECTION 14(1) (OMEARA STREET) TEMPORARY PROHIBITION OF TRAFFIC
bed and 2 x 5 bed) the provision of four disabled car parking spaces, cycle parking and associated landscaping works (Reserved matters for landscaping and appearance) to allow for:
ROAD TRAFFIC REGULATION ACT 1984 SECTION 14(1) (PEPPER STREET, ST ASAPH ROAD 1. 2.
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(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 made an order the effect of which will be to prohibit vehicular traffic from entering part of the above named roads.
Whilst the 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 (a) Pepper Street, at it’s junction of union Street (b) St Asaph Road, between Linden Grove to No’s 43
The alternative route for affected traffic will be via (a) Union Street, Great Guildford Street, Copperfield Street, Risborough Street. (b) Ivydale Road, Inverton Road, St Norbert Road, Frendsbury Road, Aspinall Road.
Exemptions will be provided in the Order to permit reasonable access to premises, so far as it is practical without interference with the execution of the said works.
The restrictions will not apply to any vehicle being used in connection with the said works, or for fire brigade, ambulance or police purposes or anything done with the permission or at the direction of a police constable in uniform. The works will be in place for (a) 1st – 26th May. (b) 4th – 5th May.
Further information may be obtained by contacting Road Network & Parking Management on 0207 525 2014.
Dated this 27th April 2017 Nicky Costin Road Network & Parking Business Manager
Southwark Council Environment and Social Regeneration Network Management PO Box 64529 London SE1 5LX Ref: (a) 3578/ 193927 (b) 3529/1474881
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Hamlet get shirty with fans
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DULWICH HAMLET have teamed up with image licencing company Picfair to allow fans to vote for the style of home jersey for next season.
Picfair is sponsoring the Ryman League Premier Division side’s kit for the 2017-18 season. Picfair founder, Benji Lanyado, explained how the company’s principles aligned with the Dulwich club’s. “There's something special about Dulwich Hamlet,” Lanyado told the club’s official website. “There’s also a feeling of kinship for us as the club has achieved something that we're trying to do at Picfair. “They’re small, they’re in the seventh tier of English football, but their fans amplify them way beyond what you might expect of a club of their size. “They get disproportionate attention because of what they're doing and how they're doing it. “It struck a chord with us. At Picfair we too try to do things differently and that makes us stand out from the likes of [image licencing companies such as] Getty and Shutterstock. “In the same way Dulwich Hamlet places the fans at the heart of everything they do, we work tirelessly to make things better for our photographers.” Shoreditch-based company Picfair offers amateur and professional photographers the chance to upload
Fans can vote for their favourite design
their photos and set the price. It claims to take out the middlemen and, according to their website, connect "buyers and sellers directly; rewarding creativity instead of exploiting it”. Club chairman Liam Hickey added: “Dulwich Hamlet is particularly pleased to be able to attract a young,
Stans end with stalemate
Stansfeld/Eltham Palace 1-1 Bridon Ropes
STANSFELD FINISHED their league campaign with a 1-1 draw against seventh-placed local rivals Bridon Ropes.
With neither side having anything of significance to play for it lent itself to an entertaining game of attack versus defence, and Bridon went in front in the 28th minute when Ayrton Tansiri headed in at the back post. Stansfeld were level within five minutes, when Billy Jolley was picked out with a neat pass inside the full-back and cleverly dinked the ball over the
advancing Bridon goalkeeper for his thirteenth goal of the season. Despite Ryan Hassan creating numerous chances and Harry Gamble having a one-on-one, Stansfeld couldn’t find a winner. And they could have lost it late on as Tansiri crashed a shot off the crossbar. Stansfeld/Eltham Palace’s final game of the season will be the final of the Hospital Charity Cup at Welling United on Tuesday May 16. Opponents are TBC and kick-off will be 7.30pm. The Reserves won 3-2 at home to Club Langley, Joe Clark, Matthew Codd and Charlie Wincott with the Stansfeld goals.
hungry start-up business that is looking to change the way its industry is viewed and feels that Dulwich Hamlet and its fans are a great partnership that will achieve positive results for both of us." Meanwhile, on the pitch, Hamlet this week play their biggest game of the season.
FISHER’S RELEGATION from the Southern Counties East Football League Premier Division was confirmed last weekend with their 2-0 defeat to Sevenoaks Town. In their first season back at St Paul’s, the club couldn’t pull off a miraculous escape after a disastrous campaign, and face Division One football in 2017-18. Boss Dean Harrison, who took over from Gary Abbott at the end of last year,
Gavin Rose’s side secured third place in the Premier League table after a double from Ibra Sekajja and Panutche Camara’s strike gave them a 3-0 win at Wingate & Finchley on Saturday. Hamlet face Enfield Town at Champion Hill on Thursday, April 27 for a place in the Ryman League Premier Division play-off final the following Monday against either Bognor Regis Town or Wingate & Finchley. The winners of that will be promoted to the National League South, the sixth tier of English football. The fixture is not all-ticket but advance purchases can be made on www.seetickets.com.
Peckham urge support for famine-afflicted east Africa
PECKHAM TOWN are hosting international football at The Menace Arena in aid of charity.
The Kent County League Premier Division club will play Somaliland, with proceeds to be split between the Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC) East Africa Crisis Appeal and Somaliland Lifemakers. Somaliland is currently being ravaged by its worst drought in over a century, leaving thousands of people starving and forcing families to flee to makeshift camps. The charities organise humanitarian projects and encourage young people to volunteer. Bryan Hall, chairman of Peckham Town, said: “It’s an honour to host international football at the Menace Arena. I hope that many in the local community, fans of other clubs and Somalis from near and far turn out to support both teams. “I am confident we can raise a good sum of funds that will help saves lives in this really difficult time for Somalis and other countries in east Africa.” The match kicks off on Saturday May 6 at 3pm.
Lionesses hit top spot
MILLWALL LIONESSES briefly went top of the table after they extended their winning run to three games last weekend.
They dropped to second in the Women’s Super League 2 Spring Series table after the round was complete, but their 2-0 win over Oxford keeps them on track after their slow start to the season. Ella Rutherford and Bonnie Horwood from the penalty spot got the goals in a dominant performance. Lionesses midfielder Leigh Nicol admitted there is still more potential in the side. “We didn’t play our best, we played well in spells,” she said. “We got a goal which calmed us down a bit, but I don’t
Harrison: ‘We gave it a go’
Dean Harrison
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explained the extent of the challenge in trying to keep the Rotherhithe side up. “Well, nobody could say we didn’t have a go,” Harrison told Kentish Football. “If you’d said to me when I returned in December that with two games to go it would still be all to play for, I’d have taken that willingly. “The place was in a mess. The team were five points adrift, there was playing kit missing, warm-up gear missing, a bag of mix-and-match footballs and the
think we touched anything near what we’re capable of. “When we went in 1-0 at half time, the goal was to keep a clean sheet and get one more “I think we dominated, Oxford didn’t give up and it was a good game. It’s the first time since a lot of us have been here that we’ve actually been in a position like this, so high up the table. “The first couple of games we conceded and didn’t pick up any points and now we’re five unbeaten. “It’s pretty incredible, the last game we got beat we were smashed by Bristol City 5-0 [in the FA Cup] and our manager said it was going to be a turning
dressing room was a complete joke. “A couple of big egos and the rest sat staring at their phones with an earpiece in and all the personality of the mannequins stood against the wall in the corner of the kit room. “The place needed a proper sort-out, so that’s what we did. We had a muchneeded belated spring clean. Things changed quickly, everything became organised and players with good attitudes replaced players with poor ones. “If anybody had walked into our dressing room during the last three months, they’d have thought it was a team winning the league, not fighting
point or the making or breaking of our season and he was right. “There’s a lot of confidence and winning becomes a habit, so now we expect to come out and get three points.” The Lionesses’ next league game is against Doncaster at St Paul’s on Sunday at 2pm. Millwall Lionesses: 3-2-4-1: Sarah Quantrill, Leighanne Robe, Billie Brooks, Leigh Nicol, Bonnie Horwood, Sarah Kempson, Phoebe Read, Charlie Devlin, Georgina Giddings, Ella Rutherford, Leanne Cowan Substitutes: Megan Wynne for Rutherford (67); Brionne Fowle for Read (74); Freya Glenn for Sarah Kempson (79).
relegation. “Foundations were put in place quickly as time was not on our side. Unfortunately, all said and done, we lacked the experience needed to complete the job but these players gave it their all and that should not be overlooked by anybody.” Harrison has called for investment into the fan-owned club, and repeated this weekend “something needs to change drastically for the good times to return to SE16”. Fisher face Erith Town at St Paul’s in their last league game of the season this weekend.
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FORGIVENESS, PEACE & HOPE FOR JIMMY
MILLWALL FOOTBALL Club and Millwall Community Trust were very proud to have hosted the annual ‘Jimmy's Day’ when Northampton Town visited The Den on Good Friday which marked a 3-0 win for the Lions.
This was the sixth consecutive year that Millwall have welcomed the Mizen family and volunteers from 'For Jimmy' to a match-day dedicated to the outstanding work carried out in the community by the charity. The event is a chance to remember the life of Jimmy Mizen, a Millwall fan, who was tragically murdered in 2008. Rather than be beaten by his death, the Mizen family have
since worked tirelessly to ensure that something good comes from it. Since 'For Jimmy' was founded in 2009, Barry and Margaret Mizen MBEs, his parents, and other family members and volunteers, have done so much to create a legacy a peace in Jimmy's name, helping young people to fulfil their potential in safer, more peaceful communities. Key to their work has been the introduction of 'Safe Havens', which are shops and businesses, identifiable by a sticker in the window, where young people feeling threatened or in danger can enter and the person in charge will agree to lock the door and call a parent, guardian or the
police. These Safe Havens have helped to foster a sense of mutual care and responsibility between children and adults in the community. On top of that ‘For Jimmy’ lead several important projects, particularly in local schools, which are designed to develop character, resilience and achievement in a bid to make Lewisham a place of peace and safety. Barry and Margaret also continue to share Jimmy's story in pupil referral units, prisons and community groups across the country. On Good Friday both Millwall and Northampton first team players warmed-up in ‘For Jimmy’ t-shirts and there will also be a bucket collection held
around the ground in the build-up to kick-off which an amazing £1,636.52 was raised. The 'For Jimmy Cup 2017', a Millwall Premier League Kicks football tournament which also included participants from Northampton Town’s football in the community charitable trust, took place in the Lions Centre earlier in the day which Barry and Margaret Mizen MBEs addressed and presented awards to the young
people before addressing the crowd pitch-side who were accompanied by selected youngsters from the tournament and Millwall Junior Lions following on from the club’s success of picking up EFL Family Club of the Year. Once again it was a memorable occasion and the support of Millwall fans for the ‘For Jimmy’ charity, as always, is hugely appreciated both by the club and the Mizen family.
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Millwall turn in one of their poorest performances of the season but other results keep them sixth By John Kelly at The Den
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IT TOOK nine minutes for it to become obvious that it was no longer at The Den where events mattered, but at Greenhous Meadow and Boundary Park.
Oxford were two goals up by that stage and threatening to post a humiliating score against their hosts. If you knew nothing about the sides’ prospects for the remainder of the season, you would have thought from looking at this contest that it was Oxford with everything to play for. When Conor McAleny scored his brace within three minutes it dropped Millwall to seventh in the table as Southend were drawing at Shrewsbury. Seventh became eighth in the thirteenth minute when Rochdale went a goal up at Oldham Athletic. Had results stayed the same Millwall’s season would have been all but over. Incredibly, though, Neil Harris’ side were back up to seventh in the 64th minute when Junior Brown put Shrewsbury ahead against Southend, and three minutes later seventh became sixth with Peter Clarke’s equaliser for Oldham. That’s the way it stayed, somehow, so when Joshua Ruffels headed in Oxford’s
third with nineteen minutes left all it really changed was how quickly The Den emptied. There is still a chance who finishes sixth will come down to goal difference. If it does then Millwall will miss out, but it should never be this close. They knew before they played an Oxford side with little left to play for this season having seen their own play-off hopes end recently that a win could secure sixth with a game to spare. For the first four or five minutes Millwall played like they were hungry to score early and thus put the pressure on their play-off rivals. And then it all fell apart and the worry is that Millwall didn’t look at any stage as if they had the wherewithal to figure out how to break down the visitors. Harris had brought Jordan Archer and Tony Craig back into his starting XI and they both endured personal ordeals. Craig was booked for an early foul, lucky to escape sanction for another and then didn’t reappear for the second half. Archer had missed the previous five games and there was perhaps some surprise that Tom King lost his place. He had produced excellent saves against Northampton Town in the last game at The Den and could be happy with his performance levels in Archer’s absence. Archer hasn’t really hit the levels of last season and injuries haven’t helped.
He couldn’t be faulted for the first goal when McAleny took a pass from Ruffels and quickly turned to shoot into the bottom corner. Archer would find it more difficult to escape blame for Oxford’s and McAleny’s second. The winger looked like he had quite a lot to do when he shaped up to shoot on the edge of the box after shifting the ball away from Mahlon Romeo. McAleny struck his shot well enough, but Archer seemed to be taken by surprise and dived late as the ball found the bottom corner. Archer’s afternoon was summed up later in the half when he took a short kick-out to Jake Cooper, who appeared not to know whether the ball was in play as Chris Maguire rushed towards him in the box. Both Millwall players were relieved when referee Dean Whitestone blew his whistle for it to be retaken, but it contributed to the sense in the stadium that there was little hope that the Lions could take anything from the game. In the 71st minute, Archer’s miserable afternoon was complete when he came for and missed Maguire’s corner and Ruffels headed into an empty net at the back post. Before that, Aiden O’Brien had had Millwall’s best chance when the ball broke to him off Gregory and he was through one-on-one with goalkeeper
Simon Eastwood. O’Brien was favourite to score, but as he attempted to clip home his finish Eastwood was too quick and made the block. That was Millwall’s first shot on target an hour into the game. Oxford had read the playbook, and comfortably held out. At one point in the first half Cooper got the ball with 30 yards of pitch in front of him into which he could have moved unhindered before popping off a pass. Instead, he aimed a long, hopeful punt forward towards O’Brien who, under pressure, couldn’t prevent the ball from going wide. Naturally that led to hisses of disapproval from three of the four stands. Oxford’s supporters revelled in it, even more so when two home supporters entered the field of play and the game was held up as they were tackled by stewards and then removed. Despite pleas from the PA not to invade the pitch after the final whistle, there was the inevitable surge after Whitestone had signalled the end of the contest right on 90 minutes. This time last year there were scenes of celebration after Millwall had guaranteed a play-off place with a 3-0 win over Oldham. There will only be recrimination if they drop out of the top six on the final day next Sunday.
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BEN THOMPSON insisted no Millwall player is “thinking negatively” as they aim for the win that will take them into the play-offs.
The Lions have won just once in four games and turned in one of their worst performances under Neil Harris in their 3-0 defeat to Oxford at The Den last Saturday. But Thompson believes the squad are “relaxed, chilled out and in good spirits” before their midday clash with Bristol Rovers on Sunday. “We’ve got one game left, we know it’s the last one and most important one and if we win we secure a play-off spot,” Thompson said. “We didn’t play very well against Oxford, they dominated us really. But we are where we were before the game so it’s definitely not the end of the world. “No one has come in this week thinking negatively. We’ll go into Sunday with everything we’ve got to get the win. “You’re going to have bad games. Oxford are a good team and played the ball around us well. Nothing was coming off for us. “But we look forward to the weekend. We’ve got to put in a better performance, and we will play better. “It’s good to have the experienced players around in these situations, with everything coming down to the last day. “Everyone’s relaxed, chilled out and in good spirits. I think that’s the best way to be going into a very important game.” Sunday will be 21-year-old Thompson’s 48th game this season. He has already experienced playing at Wembley and in an FA Cup quarter-final at an iconic stadium against one of the best sides in England. The Memorial Stadium is going to be sold out this weekend for the first time this season. Bristol Rovers can’t make the play-offs and have already secured a top-ten finish. All the pressure is on Millwall, but Thompson feels the experience he has accumulated over the last two seasons has been beneficial ahead of one of the most important games of his career. He said: “It’s my second proper full season. I’ve played in play-off games with a lot of pressure, at White Hart Lane against Tottenham in a big occasion. “You do learn from all those experiences. Maybe last season at Wembley the occasion got to us a little bit but we’ve learned from that. If we get
Midfielder has the experience to handle the pressure
there again we’re going to be better than we were last time. “With crucial games like Sunday we’ve got to go out there fully concentrated. We can’t hold off. We’ve got to train as well as we have been and it will pay off. “Our whole season comes down to one game. We always train to the best of our ability. None of the lads ever slacken off, that won’t be an issue. “We’ll be focused on Sunday and if we do what we usually do we’ll get the result. “We’ve got a great set of lads and
we’ve been playing well this year. There have been ups and downs, of course, that’s the way football is. Fleetwood was tough when we created all those chances and didn’t win. We’ve bounced back before, we did it after Peterborough earlier in the season. “We’ve reacted to defeats and that’s what we’ll do again.” Millwall boss Neil Harris said after the setback against Oxford that his side had lost all the key battles, including in midfield where Thompson and Shaun Williams were overshadowed by John Lundstram and Joshua Ruffels.
Thompson is determined that won’t happen this weekend. He said: “The Oxford game was the one time this season the opposition midfielders got on top of us a little bit. We’re new to that so we’ve got to make sure that doesn’t happen again. “Me and Shaun work well together. Whatever team the manager puts out everyone will know their job and will
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be raring to go. “The squad spends a lot of time together, the boys are all close and there have been a lot of friendships formed in this team. That has never been an issue. “We’ll spend time together on Saturday and we’ll go out onto the pitch together and do the job.” Whatever happens on Sunday, Thompson has already secured the club’s young player of the year award (pictured) for the second successive season, as well as coming third for player of the year. He comes from a family steeped in Millwall tradition, and says his accolades take pride of place at home. “Every achievement, man of the match, young player of the year or third in player of the year, it’s massive for me and my family,” Thompson said. “Everyone loves it. “For the fans to vote me into third in player of the year is a great feeling. That helps me massively on and off the pitch, the fans stick with me and I can’t ask for much more. “My mum has made a little trophy cabinet in the front room. It’s full now so she’s got to make another one! Its’ nice to go in there and look at what I’ve achieved, but it’s only the beginning and there’s a lot more to come.” He hopes there is still a lot more to come this season, one that could end before April is out if things go wrong on Sunday, leaving a two-and-a-half month gap to the next fixtures, the friendlies ahead of 2017-18. It’s a long period of time, and Thompson wants to ensure Millwall’s season extends to a potential play-off final on May 20 to avoid having an extended break this summer. “You feel lost without football,” he admitted. “It’s nice to have a few weeks off to relax after a lot of games in the season, but after that everyone wants to get back to it. “At the end of the day that’s what we love doing.” They have one more chance to make sure they are in the hunt for the second year in a row. Lions fans are heading to Bristol in large numbers and with large expectations. The away end is sold out, almost 1,300 tickets, and Thompson believes they could influence the outcome. “The away support all season has been great,” Thompson said. “Everywhere we’ve been they’ve been the loudest. For us to go into the most important game of the season in front of a packed away end could be key. “They’ll back us to the hilt and it’ll be great to have that support.”
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YOU WOULDN’T have thought at this stage of the season there could be so many starting XI dilemmas ahead of the final game, but last Saturday’s 3-0 capitulation against Oxford threw up a few questions.
Starting from the back: How will Jordan Archer react after his uncertain performance? What would it say about boss Neil Harris’ decision to pick Archer last weekend if he decides to restore Tom King to the side at The Memorial Stadium on Sunday? Will Tony Craig be an automatic choice at left-back against Bristol Rovers, or do Shane Ferguson and Joe Martin come into contention? Harris needs to find the answers ahead of Millwall’s most important game in almost a year. They know if they win they will finish sixth and face either Bolton, Bradford, Scunthorpe or Fleetwood four days later in the first leg of a play-off semi-final. Millwall could of course lose and still finish sixth, but going into the play-offs on the back of three successive defeats would offer little hope for progression to Wembley. Another question for Harris surrounds his front two, and the worryingly poor return from them this year. Lee Gregory has scored two goals from play in 21 games in 2017. Steve Morison has five goals in 22 games since December. Both players have suffered injuries this season but there is also the fact that teams know exactly how Millwall play. Shaun Williams even acknowledged after their loss to Oxford, when they were two goals behind after nine minutes, that “we’re probably a team that needs to take the lead first because we’re not the best at breaking teams down”. That’s some admission, though it’s hardly a major revelation. What worked a lot last season has worked less this season. Millwall scored 79 goals in 2015-16 compared to 62 this season after 45 games.
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HARRY SMITH made his competitive comeback for Millwall in the U23s’ clash with south London rivals Charlton Athletic last Monday.
Smith was away from the club for a number of weeks recently with glandular fever, but started up front for Adam Barrett’s side in their Professional Development League 2 fixture at The Valley. Karlan Ahearne-Grant and Dan Bowry put Jason Euell’s Addicks two goals ahead, before seventeenyear-old winger Lewis White pulled one back for the young Lions in the second half. Millwall couldn’t find an
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Maybe a lot of opponents saw Morison as a spent force after he stepped down a division from Leeds United, but he showed he was probably the most effective all-round forward in the division. He was certainly the most dominant. Gregory, despite a season in the Championship, was a bit of an unknown, before his movement, holdup ability and 27 goals alerted not only Championship clubs like Rotherham who wanted to sign him last summer, but also opponents this season who knew what he was capable of.
More teams also know how to stop those two players and therefore Millwall. Earlier in the season Peterborough closed down the Millwall defenders and limited early supply to Gregory and Morison. Oxford and others have taken a different approach, allowing Millwall to hit their strikers with long balls, but dropping midfielders back. Defenders also know what’s coming. Millwall have failed to score in nine league games in 2017, and if it’s to be a tenth they have surely used up all their luck after results went their way the last
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equaliser as Charlton won the Professional Development League South. Barrett's side, though, have secured a second-place finish with two matches remaining and will now face a semi-final against Sheffield Wednesday at Hillsborough following their final league matches against Coventry City and Hull City. The meeting with The Owls will take place on Monday, May 8. Millwall U23s: 4-4-2: Girling; Brown, Mbulu, Olomowewe, Chesmain; McNamara, Wicks, Philpot, White; Smith, Leighton. Subs: Sandford, Rooney, Saunders-Henry, Hanson, Olaofe. ---------------------------------------
two weekends and they will be overtaken. Bristol Rovers’ top-six hopes were dashed after they lost 4-2 at Peterborough United last Saturday. Millwall will hope they have one eye on summer holiday destinations in front of a capacity crowd at The
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THERE WILL be increased security inside and outside The Memorial Stadium for Millwall’s last game of the season at Bristol Rovers this Sunday.
The fixture is a sell-out, Rovers’ first capacity crowd this season, with more than 11,000 fans set to attend. Millwall have sold their 1,279 ticket allocation as Lions fans make the trip to see if their side can clinch a play-off place. The game kicks off at the earlier time of 12pm, as do all of Sunday’s League One fixtures. Millwall’s clash with Bristol Rovers has been
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Memorial Stadium. The ordeal against Oxford, however, showed that it’s not necessarily advantageous to be facing a team with little to play for. By 2pm on Sunday, Millwall will know if they are still playing for something in May.
Millwall record against Bristol Rovers: Played 81-Won 27-Draw 20-Lost 34 Form guide: Bristol Rovers: WWLWL Millwall: WDWLL Probable Millwall team: 4-4-2: Archer; Romeo, Webster, Cooper, Craig; Wallace, Thompson, Williams, O’Brien; Gregory, Morison. Match odds: Bristol Rovers 12/5 Draw 5/2 Millwall 11/10
designated a police match. “We will have an additional 30 stewards against Millwall compared to our usual number,” Bristol Rovers’ Safety Officer Dave Parker said. “It looks set to be a sell-out crowd, but it's an all-ticket match so we should know how many people will be coming to the stadium. “There will be police on duty from early in the morning.” ---------------------------------------
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ITS’ THE ‘keepers club on Lions Live this week as the team welcome two former
Millwall stoppers to the show.
Bryan King made more than 400 appearances for Millwall between 1967 and 1975 after joining from Chelmsford City. Tony Warner, who was the regular between the sticks when Millwall won the old Division Two title in 2001 and were promoted to what is now the Championship, will also be on. The prize this week is a Jimmy Mizen t-shirt. To put your questions to the guests and to be in with a chance of winning the prize, contact the show on Thursday from 7-9pm via: Phone: 02072 379 272 Text: 07895 022 325 Email: lionslive@hotmail.co.uk
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Striker has been in Millwall sides needing a last-day win twice before
EXCLUSIVE
By John Kelly
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SATURDAY MAY 8, 2010. Millwall can finish second in League One with a win against Swindon Town on the final day.
Kenny Jackett’s side defeat the Robins 3-2, but Leeds United’s win over Bristol Rovers denies them automatic promotion. Still, second prize is the playoffs and they take their second chance by beating Swindon, again, in the final to go up. Saturday May 3, 2014. Millwall know they have to beat AFC Bournemouth to guarantee Championship survival. Ian Holloway’s side scored through Martyn Woolford after 29 minutes and close the game out and stay up. Other results meant they would have survived anyway, but they got the job done. Steve Morison was involved in both those games and Bristol Rovers will again have a say in deciding Millwall’s destiny this weekend. The first equation is simple: If Millwall win they won’t have to worry about events at Roots Hall or Spotland. They will finish sixth and extend their season by at least another week. However, fail to get three points and they will have to hope Southend lose to a Bury side with nothing to play for, and that Rochdale fail to beat Bradford. Millwall, though, are surely running out of luck. The last three times they have failed to win, so have Southend. Rochdale have crept closer but the Shrimpers have been the imminent
danger only to point the gun at their own foot. Both clubs are now limping towards the line and will know their fate when they cross it at 2pm on Sunday. Millwall could have secured their playoff place with a win last weekend, but Morison is bullish ahead of the deciding game of the League One season at The Memorial Stadium. “It’s a massive game, there’s a buzz about the place,” he said. “You want to be involved in games like this. You don’t want to get to this stage of the season and be playing for nothing. “We’ve got everything to play for. “The first time I was here we could have got second had Leeds lost. It was just a normal week in the build-up. Bournemouth was a strange one because I didn’t really feel any pressure. The teams around us lost anyway so the result was irrelevant. It was still a massive game. “It’s all in our hands, we just have to go out and prepare the same way as we always do. “We did that before the Oxford game last Saturday but we didn’t perform. We need to make sure we perform to our levels and if we do we’ll be alright.” Millwall go into the weekend having won just one of their last four games. Their 3-0 defeat to Oxford was arguably their most abject performance of the season. Morison admitted the side “royally messed up” as they missed the chance to clinch sixth place. He said: “We had to take the positives out of it and somehow we were still in sixth place, nothing had changed. “There wasn’t much to say. We all knew
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Morison pleased to be recognised by fans
we had let ourselves down. It would have been nice to have it all done and dusted and you could manage yourself this week. We could have maybe made some changes getting ready for the play-offs, but that’s not the case now. “Nothing needed to be said. Everyone knew we had royally messed up. The manager sat there and said he didn’t really know what to say. We knew we weren’t good enough. “We’re still in sixth and if someone had said we would be in this position in the final week after getting smashed by Scunthorpe in December, we would have taken it.” That defeat was Millwall’s thirteenth in the league this season, the same as in all of 2015-16. Last season, though, they won 24 games compared to nineteen now, and Morison feels levels of expectation haven’t always matched reality. “People have got to stop expecting us to beat everyone week-in, week-out,” he said. “There seems to be a thing of we should be beating everyone. Why? “They’re good teams and good players and it’s been proven if you don’t show up you get beaten. “People can’t be living in a dream world. At the moment we’re the sixth best team in the league and that’s because we don’t perform consistently enough. “What we have shown is that when we do turn up we’re a match for anyone. Effectively, we need to do that four more times this season.” A lot will depend on the form of Morison and Lee Gregory on Sunday and possibly beyond. At the same stage last season they had scored 42 goals between them. This
season the total so far is 31. “It speaks volumes for why we are where we are in the league,” Morison admitted. “We haven’t been as consistent as we were last year. “That’s down to me and Lee. We’ve been consistent defensively for long periods of time but maybe going forward we haven’t. “You’ve got to give credit to other teams because there maybe has been more focus on stopping us. How many teams have turned up at our place and played three or five at the back? That’s changed from last season. “It’s not been as fluent but I don’t think it’s a bad return. “We’ll look to get a few more between now and the end of the season.” By 2pm on Sunday April 30, Morison will hope it’s enough to secure the third last-day win of his Millwall career.
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STEVE MORISON admits he isn’t too emotional a person, but he was proud to be named Millwall’s player of the year this season.
Morison came out on top after a vote conducted by the Millwall Supporters Club, finishing ahead of Byron Webster in second and Ben Thompson, who came third. Thirty-three-year-old Morison – who picked up the gong for the first time in his third spell at the club – was given his award on the pitch before the game against Oxford at The Den last Saturday. “Winning accolades is good, it’s always nice to be recognised,” he said. “I’m quite a calm person and not overly emotional about things. “I show it when I need to and obviously it’s a massive achievement for me, especially at this football club where I’ve had some really good times and come nowhere near it. “This year I’ve been pretty consistent. You have a few bad games here and there, everybody does, but to be recognised by fans – whom I have an up-and-down relationship with! – is great. “I must have done something right this year. Hopefully it’s recognition that I’ve done well rather than other people not doing too well!”
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STEVE MORISON has rejected the suggestion that this is his last shot at one final season in the Championship before the end of his playing career.
Millwall head into their final game of the League One season knowing if they beat Bristol
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ALEX RAE has given his backing to Neil Harris – saying this week the Millwall boss is a “great fit for the club”.
Former midfielder Rae, who played for the Lions between 1990 and 1996, praised Harris for giving Millwall an “identity” again. Harris will lead Millwall into a second successive play-off campaign in his
Rovers they will finish sixth and enter the play-offs. If they don’t win, however, they face a third campaign in a row in the third tier, with Morison turning 34 in the first month of the 201718 season. If Millwall miss out this year but win promotion at the end of next season, Morison will be 35 starting into his first Championship campaign since 2014-15, when he played 26 times for Leeds United. Morison signed a two-year deal when he joined Millwall that
summer, and extended it until June 2018 earlier this season. He is adamant he is not thinking beyond this weekend. Morison said: “I’ve got a contract for next year. If we don’t do it this season we’ll go and try to do it next season. “If I’m part of that then I’ll be part of it again the season after. Unless something dramatically changes between now and then I’ve not got to think about that at all. “There’s only one focus and that’s
Bristol Rovers at twelve o’clock on Sunday.” The Lions will have to inflict a first home league defeat on Bristol Rovers since Darrell Clarke’s side lost 5-1 to Charlton Athletic in November, a run of twelve unbeaten of which nine were wins, including their last four. Rovers effectively have little to play for, having seen their play-off hopes ended last Saturday. But Morison insists their form at The Memorial Stadium presents a significant challenge.
He said: “Their home record is just as good as ours, they’ve got twelve wins and it’s a tough place to go. “We need to put in a performance like we did against Fleetwood away from home. If we do, we can’t finish as badly as we did then and the goalkeeper can’t have as good a game as Fleetwood’s goalkeeper did. “We know what we’ve got to do. We need to concentrate on ourselves and not really worry about anyone else.”
Former Lion full of praise for boss Harris
second full season in charge if they win at Bristol Rovers on Sunday. Speaking to the Ladbrokes website this week, Rae said: “The boss has delivered a style which not only works well, but is one the fans at The Den appreciate. They’re a side who always roll their sleeves up when the going gets tough, they don’t mind a bit of a scrap, and they also know how to win games. “Tactically, they’ve stuck with a 4-4-2 system this season, and it’s one the players know and are well-drilled in.
“I think the side lacked a style and ethos for quite some time before Neil took over as manager, and now they’ve got that identity as a side again. “On top of that, he’s also blooded some of the young talent in the squad – and having been involved in the youth set-up before becoming first-team manager, he’s got a really good idea of who’s ready to make the step up. “Fans love to see their own boys coming through the side, and that’s no different at The Den.
“As far as I’m concerned, he’s a great fit for the club.” Rae also believes potentially sneaking into the last play-off spot could be an advantage. He explained: “Four times as a player, I was involved in teams that finished in the top play-off spot and didn’t win promotion. “The time that I scraped into the final spot with Wolverhampton Wanderers, we did go up. If you come in at the right time, with momentum, it’s a huge boost.”
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