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By Amelia Burr amelia@southwarknews.co.uk

95-year-old Peckham war veteran has been awarded the Légion d’Honneur by the French government, 70 years after he was dodging bullets day and night to guard the aircraft he serviced.

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No tube, no surprise

T WOULD have been more of a surprise if transport bosses had come out in favour of a tube for Camberwell - rather than the predictable decision to opt in favour of the Old Kent Road route.

This paper is firmly behind plans to reinvigorate the Old Kent Road, which struggles from a lack of good public transport.

Yet it is a real shame that once again Camberwell looks set to be the bridesmaid and never the bride. It would be less cruel not to mention SE5 in future tube discussions every time it happens, hopes are raised, sensible proposals are put forward, and the need for a tube - such as the area having a major hospital and A&E, with thousands of staff and patients - gets aired. All to no avail.

A final decision is yet to be taken, with further public consultations expected,but TfL is not particularly known for having a change of heart due to public opinion. Better, perhaps, for Camberwell residents to accept that they won’t be getting a tube after all - in fact they probably already came to this conclusion some time ago.

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Speak now, not later

HE FIRST protest, likely of many, took place this week over potential council cuts to services - this time at an adventure playground in Borough.

It’s an impossibly difficult situation with which the local authority is faced. If central government is further to reduce its cuts to local authority spending, then something will have to give. There are only so many ways to skin a cat. And every protest will have valid arguments as to why their service should be preserved.

It’s right that residents voice their unhappiness over potential cutbacks, and get involved in the proposals - those charged with making these difficult decisions need your input, rather than silence and then complaints after the event.

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By Amelia Burr amelia@southwarknews.co.uk

A GRATEFUL dad is lighting up his street with Christmas cheer, to raise money for charity after his son’s life was saved.

Gunaltay Mustafa’s son, Alex, was three-years-old when he was diagnosed with leukaemia. He underwent three years of chemotherapy and the doctors gave him a two per cent chance of survival.

After the Anthony Nolan charity stepped in and fixed little Alex up with a bone marrow transplant, he recovered and is now a happy twentyyear-old man.

“If it hadn’t been for them coming along, Alex wouldn’t be here,” said mum, Donna.

“They saved his life,” said Gunaltay, who decided this year he would use his annual display of Christmas lights to try to raise money for the charity.

The Albany Road illuminations took Gunaltay three days to set up and are currently costing him and wife Donna a whopping £40 a week in electricity bills.

“I started putting them up when he was three just to make him happy and now it’s got to this stage,” said the 63year-old.

For Donna, this time of year reminds her of when the family spent

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Gunaltay and Donna with their now healthy son Alex and supportive neighbours Tracey and Olantra, 3, who have put lights outside the flat above in support

Christmas in Great Ormond Street Hospital with Alex.

“No one wants to be in hospital with a young child over Christmas.

Whether it’s Anthony Nolan or another charity, just think of children and other people. It could happen to any of us,” said Donna.

“It’s important because everyone’s got a child,” added Gunaltay. “You don’t know until it happens to you the feeling when it happens to you or someone near you – it’s so important.”

To donate to Anthony Nolan, visit www.anthonynolan.org/donate including the name ‘Alex’ in your pledge.

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THREE MEN who acted as backup for Michael Bagnall, 22, and Andrew Bayne, 37, as they killed 18-year-old Ben Purdy have been spared jail.

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The trainee plumber died after being shot in the eye by Bayne on November

23 last year, after a love triangle dispute over his girlfriend Ashley Adedeji-Adebisi with Bagnall escalated.

Ben had gone to the Bagnall family home in Rotherhithe and interrupted their Sunday lunch to confront his rival over a campaign of threatening messages.

Enraged that he had strayed onto their territory, Bagnall and his uncle Anthony Bayne, 34, grabbed weapons to chase Ben and his friends Callum Malone and Jack Walker away.

Bagnall then called for back-up from Andrew Bayne and his two cousins Reece Bayne, 19, and Harry McAleer, 18. The group pursued Purdy and cornered him when he became disorientated and ran down a dead end.

Andrew Bayne, a self-confessed gun lover, fired the deadly shot after Bagnall had pointed out the intended target.

Michael Bagnall and Andrew

Bayne, both of Alpine Road, Rotherhithe, denied murder but were found guilty. Andrew Bayne was sentenced to life with a minimum of 30 years, while Bagnall received life in jail with a minimum of 28 years.

Bagnall was also found guilty of affray, and Andrew Bayne was convicted of possession of a firearm with intent.

Anthony Bayne, also of Alpine Road, Rotherhithe denied but was convicted of affray. He was handed a twelve-month term suspended for two years and ordered to carry out 100 hours unpaid work after denying but being convicted of affray.

Bagnall’s cousins, Reece Bayne, of Concorde Way, Rotherhithe and McAleer, of Elcot Avenue, Plumstead, were each given twelve-month community orders after denying but being convicted of conspiracy to commit actual bodily harm. Reece Bayne was also given a twelve-month supervision order and 100 hours’ unpaid work.

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Old Kent Road bike collision

£5k raised for brave kids’ Christmas ROTHERHITHE

A FEMALE motorbike driver is in a “serious but stable” condition in hospital following a rush-hour smash with a van in the Old Kent Road on Wednesday.

Cavell, Cidney and Harvey (above) with their Christmas fund, raised by Brian and Ronnie (inset).

By Joey Millar

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TWO KIND-HEARTED Rotherhithe men have been nominated for a Pride of Britain award after raising over £5000 for three brave children and their families to enjoy a “special Christmas.”

Brian Croll and his partner Ronald Phillip, who live in Downtown, were touched by the stories of little Harvey Brown, Cavell Neavin and Cidney Dixon-Fowler, and decided to do all they could to help.

Harvey, six, suffers from the ultra-rare life-debilitating disease Morquio, Cidney Dixon-Fowler, four, has severe mobility and eye issues and Cavell Neavin, four, who has been fighting a brain tumour for

the last years.

Brian and Ron spent weeks selling specially-designed mirrors and suncatchers, while also raffling off a huge number of items which were donated by generous residents and businesses, including Millwall Football Club.

In total, they raised £5125, which was split evenly between the children and their families.

Brian said: “It was brilliant and quite emotional. We didn’t think we would be able to raise more than about £300 each, so we can’t believe how much was given.

That will mean they will be able to have a really nice Christmas.”

Harvey has already put some of their money to good use, buying a new addition to the family: a little rabbit, which he has named Ronnie, in tribute to the pair.

The family have also nominated Brian and Ronald, who both suffer from health problems of their own, for a 2016 Pride of Britain award, which rewards people who have bravely or extraordinarily in challenging situations.

Brian said: “I was quite humbled that they did that, but it was all for a good cause and the people who donated money or gifts were so generous. To think that within six weeks of us starting, all this came in. It is a lot of money and we are very grateful.”

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The incident, which saw the motorbike crushed underneath the side of the white Vauxhall Vivaro, occurred at the junction with Leo Street at around 7.50am.

No Tube for Camberwell says transport chief

By Amelia Burr

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A TRANSPORT boss has confirmed that the “preferred route” for the Bakerloo line extension is down the Old Kent Road.

The Transport for London report released last week also put on hold an extension of the line beyond Lewisham.

Despite a majority of responders to the consultation undertaken in 2014 being in favour of the route going through Camberwell, the latest report

by London transport commissioner Mike Brown to the TfL board names Old Kent Road as the preferred route, as there is more scope to secure private investment through future developments there.

“The many people who live and work in and near Camberwell and who visit its hospitals will be very frustrated at this missed opportunity to relieve congestion and difficulty for so many,” said campaigner, Campaspe LloydJacob of PACT (Peckham and Camberwell Tube).

“We suspect that the needs of existing residents, patients, doctors, and workers in Camberwell have been neglected because of the (relatively small) private bounty that new development on the Old Kent Road could bring.”

Southwark Council Leader, Peter John, said the report was “mixed news” for Southwark after he “lobbied hard” for a two-pronged extension down both the Old Kent Road and through Camberwell.

“Whilst we’re delighted that we can forge ahead with our hugely exciting plans for the Old Kent Road, which really depend on these transport improvements, we’re very disappointed that Camberwell and Peckham residents won’t see the same advantage…. We will continue to push TfL and the Mayor to improve transport across our borough, and we look forward to working with local residents along both the Old Kent Road and in Camberwell to make this happen.”

A final decision has not yet been taken on the route the extension will take as further public consultations are still to be undertaken by Transport for London.

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New tunnel ‘would add more traffic’ says council

By Joey Millar

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SOUTHWARK: Southwark Council has formally objected to plans to build a new tunnel from Greenwich to Newham, saying that it would add more traffic and pollution problems to the borough.

Jamie Hull, Gary O’Brien, Thomas O’Connor and Michael Ogun, who were jailed last week for their part in a smash-and-grab jeweller raid

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A BERMONDSEY moped gang have been jailed following a terrifying smashand-grab raid of a jewellers.

Four men and a 17-year-old, who cannot be named, were jailed for a total of 30 years after being sentenced at Woolwich Crown Court on December 11. They were found guilty of conspiracy to commit robbery.

Thomas O’Connor, 23, of Swan Road, Rotherhithe, was jailed for eight-and-a-half years, Gary O’Brien, 22, of Brunel Road, Rotherhithe, was jailed for fourand-a-half years, Jamie Hull, 21, of Tranton Road, Bermondsey, was jailed for eight years and Michael Ogun, 22, of Poppy Drive, Enfield, was jailed for seven years.

The 17-year-old, from Southwark, was sentenced to three

years in a juvenile detention centre for his part in the raid, which occurred at a jewellers in Bethnal Green Road, Tower Hamlets, on October 9 2014 at around 10.50am.

A police spokesperson said: “Four men riding two black

suspects reached through the hole they had created and helped himself to Rolex watches and jewellery worth £12,000 in total.”

The suspects fled by motorbike and car. O’Brien, Ogun and the 17-year-old were stopped by police minutes later and arrested.

Vespas and a Honda motorcycle drove on to the pavement outside Attenborough Jewellers. Two men got off the bike and began attacking the shop window with sledgehammers.

“An employee activated the window shutter, but one of the

Detectives analysed phone calls and later linked Hull and O’Connor to the conspiracy, helped by evidence discovered by members of the public.

Investigating officer, detective Sergeant Andy McGuire of the Met’s Flying Squad, said: “This is

This was an aggressive robbery, which left store staff shaken and onlookers terrified

the perfect example of how members of the public reporting what may seem to be insignificant things can actually help police crack a case.

“This was an aggressive robbery which left store staff shaken and onlookers terrified, but thanks to the quick reactions of local officers, information from the public and team work across the Met, these men are now in prison.”

Ogun was also sentenced to two years’ imprisonment, to run concurrently, for a robbery on a separate occasion, in which he tried to steal a man’s laptop. He received a final 18-month sentence, to be served consecutively, for being concerned in the supply of Class A drugs.

O’Connor is also due to be sentenced for his role in a string of other smash-and-grab robberies at the Old Bailey on December 18.

The proposals, which would see a new underwater road link the Greenwich peninsula with the Silvertown area, would also involve adding toll charges to the Blackwall Tunnel.

The council worry motorists would instead drive to the already-congested Rotherhithe Tunnel and Tower Bridge in order to cross the river without a charge.

Councillor Mark Williams, Southwark Council cabinet member for regeneration and new homes, said: “Plans to improve connectivity between East and South London tie in well with the regeneration of Canada Water and Rotherhithe, but unfortunately TfL has done little to address our repeated calls for a proposal that better considers our concerns about congestion in Rotherhithe and air quality.

“We formally object to TfL’s proposals as they currently stand but hope TfL takes on board our consultation response which stipulates the need to carry out more rigorous traffic impact assessments of the Rotherhithe Tunnel and Tower Bridge, to extend the ULEZ [ultra-low emissions zone] to the whole of Southwark, remove the Lower Road gyratory and investigate other measures to mitigate the impact of the Silvertown plans.”

Transport for London say that the tunnel would “improve journey times and make travel, deliveries and servicing more reliable” and also “create opportunities for new jobs in the local area, help local employers to access new markets and reduce the environmental impact of traffic congestion.”

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COULD CANAVAN’S BE ‘SAVED’ LIKE THE BUSSEY?

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By Amelia Burr

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A WEEK after thousands of people pressured a developer into withdrawing a planning application which could have threatened a thriving Peckham music venue, another petition has been started to save a rival nightclub on the same road.

Well over 4,000 people have already signed up online to protect Canavan’s Pool Club from a proposed development next door which includes 22 flats.

Owner Kieran Canavan, who took on the floundering pool club five years ago and brought it back to life with a 4am nightclub licence, says the future of the venue would be in doubt if future residents of the neighbouring flats complained about the noise.

“This is an old building. It’s not well insulated and it does let a certain amount of noise out,” said Kieran, who added that Peckham would not be what it is today without venues like his.

“Peckham was nothing before I came here, the Bussey building and Bar Storey. “We’re the ones that brought the students in and that put the rents up.

“We’re a victim of our own success. I don’t want to be driven out by the very thing we brought into the area,” he said.

The planning application has now gone live and has started receiving objections.

“This is the customers’ chance to prove to me how they feel about the place,” said Kieran. “We’ve had a fantastic response so far. My phone and my Facebook haven’t stopped.”

The proposed site of the development (outlined in red) beside the popular nightclub

The application from 2 Gee Developments is to replace the current salvage yard at 190 Rye Lane with a restaurant and 22 flats, five of which will be affordable.

A spokesperson for 2 Gee Developments said the site is surrounded by residential properties so their proposal is “entirely in keeping with its surroundings.”

“Naturally, with any mix of night time leisure and residential uses, there are issues to iron out to make sure both uses can co-exist successfully side by side.

“Through our public consultation, we are aware of Mr Canavan’s concerns and we have sought to address these in relation to the layout of certain rooms within the development and through

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sound insulation.

“We would be happy to have further discussions with the operators of Canavan’s in the New Year to ensure that both the club and our development each meet our responsibilities in relation to noise management; this will ensure the success of both premises for the benefit of the local area.”

The News has been working with the council to get people to register to get email on planning applications via www.southwark.gov.uk/planningregister To view the planning application, visit the link above and enter 15/AP/4857 as a search reference or go to http://bit.ly/1B0suIP. To view the online petition, visit http://chn.ge/1SPKcd8.

‘VICTIM OF OWN SUCCESS’ ... Club owner Kieran Canavan

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A TEACHING assistant accused of stamping on his pregnant exgirlfriend's stomach after she refused to have an abortion told a court he was having a “nap” at the time of the attack.

Kevin Wilson, 22, allegedly launched the sickening attack on Malorie Bantala in Peckham because he was not ready to be a father.

Wilson and a seventeen-year-old boy, who cannot be named, wore motorbike helmets to disguise themselves before “deliberately targeting her stomach in order to destroy her unborn baby”, it is claimed.

The lifeless baby boy had to be delivered stillborn by emergency Caesarean section after the attack by the Pelican Estate on June 15.

But Wilson, giving evidence at the Old Bailey, insisted he did not go to Peckham at any time between 5.30pm and 8.30pm that day.

After leaving work at Octavia House School in Walworth at 4.30pm he said he went home to Bermondsey.

“I was playing with kids the whole day, I went home and I had a nap,” he said.

Asked why his phone made no outgoing calls and received missed calls during this time, he said: “I was actually sleeping and put my phone on silent.”

Earlier he told the court he met Miss Bantala at a friend's birthday party while they were both studying at the University of Bedfordshire, in Luton.

By his third year they were both seeing other people and had all but lost touch.

They rekindled their romance in the summer of 2014 during an end of university celebration trip to Ibiza, jurors heard.

Miss Bantala then fell pregnant after the pair had unprotected sex in a hotel on November 15 last year after Wilson

offered to comfort her over the death of her five-year-old nephew, Cameron.

Wilson said he assumed she was still using contraception “because she usually does” and was “shocked and surprised' when she called him in December to say she was pregnant.

“I told Malorie that I'm too young to have a child,” he said in court, and suggested she have an abortion.

He went with her to the Pregnancy Advisory Service in Waterloo but after the appointment she told him she wanted to keep the baby.

Wilson said: “Again I was shocked and surprised and I told her practical reasons why we shouldn't - we are too young, we both live in our parents' flats and we are not ready to have a child.”

He later lied to her about moving to Ghana to convince her to have an abortion before they ceased all contact after an argument in January this year.

“It was too much for me to take, she was behaving erratic, telling me she was going to make my life hell,” he added.

After a friend accused him of not looking after his child in May, he called Malorie and said: "How can you say I'm the baby's father when you are sleeping with other men?"

Wilson denied going to Peckham the day before the attack, when witnesses saw two men in motorcycle helmets hanging around suspiciously.

DNA testing established it is 490 million times more likely that Wilson was the father of the child than an unrelated male, the court heard.

He handed himself into police the day after the attack but denied any knowledge of it.

Wilson, of Stansfield House, Longfield Estate, Bermondsey, and the seventeen-year-old, who cannot be named for legal reasons, deny causing grievous bodily harm with intent and child destruction.

The trial continues.

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Council tenancies could last 5 years

By Amelia Burr

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SOUTHWARK COUNCIL tenants will no longer be able to have a home for life if government plans get the green light.

New proposals would see the 37,000 council properties in the borough limited to a maximum five year ‘secure’ tenancy term.

Chair of the Southwark Group of Tenant’s Association, Cris Claridge, said David Cameron was treating council tenants like “second class citizens.” “You are talking about a group of people that doesn’t have basic rights to make a life and build something for their children because there’s always that fear you are going to be moved on,” said Cris, who has been moved to tears by the changes put forward by the Tories in the Housing and Planning bill currently going through parliament.

If the amendment to the bill, put forward by housing minister Brandon Lewis, is voted through, there will be an end to the current system which has allowed some social housing tenants to live in the same council home for life.

While not affecting those with existing contracts, it will mean a nextof-kin inheriting the home will have to

apply to sign a new restricted tenancy agreement, which, if granted, could be as short as two years.

For new tenants, councils like Southwark will only be allowed to offer secure tenancies of two to five years and 'review' the tenant's circumstances before deciding whether to renew after that time is up.

“How do you plan for your children’s future or your work?” asked Cris. “It will just break up communities when people are told they’ve got to move away. For these people their life decisions are being taken out of their hands,” she added.

Southwark’s Cabinet member for housing, Cllr Richard Livingstone, said he opposed the government’s plans. “Secure tenancies are designed to be just that – to allow families the stability and long-term stake in the community that helps everyone feel a sense of belonging,” he said.

“Families, especially those with children in schools or those who care for relatives or work locally, could see their lives unnecessarily uprooted if tenancies were capped.

“A need for housing goes beyond income – many people need to establish their lives in other ways in order for them, and future generations, to get on their feet and play a bigger part in the community.”

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AN EMPTY patch of roof overlooking Bermondsey Street is being sold for a staggering £450,000.

People have been hitting the roof over the extravagant cost of the third-storey site, which estate agents Stirling Ackroyd described as a “unique opportunity.”

The space comes with planning permission to build a one-bedroom flat measuring 52 square metres – roughly the

size of a shipping container.

The empty terrace, which Stirling Ackroyd boast is located in “London’s coolest quarter”, requires a deposit of £45,000. Slammed as “crazy expensive” by one user of internet discussion board Reddit, the sale quickly attracted the ire of disbelieving commenters.

Another added: “It appears you could homestead a spot on Mars these days cheaper than you can live in London.”

Others, however, saw the site as an astute investment, given the current price

of property in London and potential for resale.

“A conservative estimate would be about £250k to build the whole thing, so you could get a penthouse for £700k,” one person reasoned. “It won't be unlikely that it'll probably resell for £1m+ as well.”

The Stirling Ackroyd advertisement for the site said it was a chance for someone to create a property “specifically to their style and specification” – providing your dream home can be perched on a narrow, third-storey ledge, of course.

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24-year-old went to bed and never woke up, leaving behind baby son EXCLUSIVE

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A HEARTBROKEN mum is demanding a second opinion after a dispute with the Coroner over the cause of her daughter’s death.

Terrilee Louise Sanderson was 24years-old when she went to bed on August 30 and never woke up, leaving behind her twenty-month-old baby son, Oliver.

Grieving mum, Pam Clowsley, of Crewys Road Peckham, waited for weeks to find out how her “baby girl” died, but when the cause of death finally came through, she was left with more questions.

The toxicology report found traces of Cannabis and Ethylone (otherwise known as ‘Eve’ – a stimulant similar to ecstasy) in Terrilee’s system, but the Coroner’s report does not say how these drugs could have led to her death.

The Coroner’s report stated: “Given the absence of any findings indicating

that the cause of death of this person was a result of disease and taking into account the toxicology findings... the cause of death in this person was multidrug use (Ethylone and Cannabis).”

“Terrilee didn’t take that many drugs,” said Pam, who added that her daughter had been complaining of chest pains, tiredness and headaches in the week before her death.

“It means everything to get to the bottom of it because my heart’s breaking. I don’t know when she died

or how long she was there for or how she died,” she said.

The Coroner’s report also refers to some fluid on Terrilee’s lungs, which Pam feels need to be investigated more.

“It seems like they don’t care. That’s what’s hurting me. She was a beautiful young girl and it’s like she’s been treated really bad. She had drugs in her system so they’re treating her like a druggy,” said Pam. “I knew my Terrilee. She was always with me. All she liked to do was have

a bit of fun like everyone else and she deserved that.

“She was a bloody good mum,” said Pam, who wonders what effect the findings will have on Terrilee’s son Oliver, who tries to cuddle photographs of his missing mum every day.

The family is now pushing for a second opinion from another Coroner and a full inquest to be heard into Terrilee’s death in February.

The senior Coroner in Southwark refused to comment.

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PECKHAM Maurice proudly displays his medal at Greenhive Care Home

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95-year-old Peckham war veteran has been awarded the Legion d’Honneur by the French government, 70 years after he was dodging bullets day and night to guard the aircraft he serviced.

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Maurice Herron was just nineteenyears-old when he joined up. After training at North Wield, from where planes went to fly in the Battle of Britain, the young lad from Queen’s Road, volunteered to go on his first mission overseas.

He would go on to train to be a commando in the desert, service planes at El Alamein when Montgomery was there and take part in the liberation of Italy and Sicily.

In 1940, Maurice boarded a ship on which he would spend the next five weeks solid sailing down to South Africa.

“Me and my mate walked over to volunteer and there was a couple that failed their medical so we got in – that’s how I ended up in the desert,” said Maurice, talking to the News from Greenhive Care Home in Peckham.

“That was when the Bismarck was floating about,” said Maurice, who was taken by surprise when their boat was rammed by a French destroyer as they docked in Freetown, Sierra Leone. Asked if he thought it was an accident, he replied: “It was hard to know. At the time things were a bit dodgy with France. It was during the night and we had to fill the hole up with cement to get round to the cape and then we changed boats.”

As Lieutenant-General Bernard Montgomery led Allied troops to the oil fields of the Middle East, Maurice was servicing Hurricanes at an air strip in El Alamein.

One of his jobs was to check the air strip for land mines. With no sophisticated detectors on hand, Maurice had to use his bayonet.

“We had to use a bayonet to check for mines. You dug your bayonet in the ground and hope you didn’t hit something,” said Maurice.

“One officer lit a fire to dry his clothes, but he was over a land mine.

He went about ten foot up in the air.

There was a Corporal from Peckham stood behind him and he lost his arm.”

Crash landings were not uncommon as planes would come in missing their undercarriage. Maurice recalled one instance when a gunner

got stuck in the tail of the plane which was on fire as it came in to land. “His tail was up in the air. The hinges started to go and the tail gunner hadn’t turned the turret around so he was stuck in the tail with the flames coming out.

Everyone rushed to get him out.

Later he came back and thanked everyone for saving his life.”

When a call came round for men to volunteer to become RAF commandos, Maurice stepped up and was sent to Israel for training. “I think the training was harder than the real thing,” said Maurice, who was then deployed to be the first on the ground to capture air strips before being stationed there to service the Hurricanes and Spitfires landing there.

Maurice and his crew were like sitting ducks as German planes targeted the airstrips and the precious planes parked there.

“There you were open to everything. They wanted to come over and destroy it so it’s not too clever.

When you’ve got ten machine guns coming from an aircraft, that’s a lot of bullets falling around. The danger was more from any aircraft coming in that was damaged.

There were lots of crash landings.”

American pilots used to ‘toboggan’ onto the airstrip and one nearly gave Maurice a new haircut. “He missed us by a couple of feet – right across the top of our heads. The undercarriage had come off and it was just coming at us. You never seen that until the Americans.”

Maurice and his crew used to sleep next to their aircraft with a camouflage net over the planes to try and keep them hidden.

“If one was hit and it caught fire it wasn’t very clever,” said Maurice, who recalled having to run for his life in a bombing raid which resulted in him losing his hearing in one ear.

“That was at night. I remember it started getting a bit naughty. The net over the aircraft caught fire. I took off very fast and when we got over there (to the trench), they was all there so I dived in.” A bomb exploded twenty yards away, costing Maurice the hearing in his right ear.

When he later met his wife Christine and they went on their first date to the cinema, she wondered why he was ignoring her, until she realised he was deaf as a post on that side.

On D-day, Maurice was among the first to land in Sicily. “We landed on the left flank of the beach and set up a defence behind the sea wall.” It would take a month to capture Sicily before Maurice and his squadron

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“When you’ve got ten machine guns coming from an aircraft, that’s a lot of bullets falling around. The danger was more from any aircraft coming in that was damaged.

There were lots of crash landings.”

Maurice and Christine on their wedding day in Peckham in 1945 (left) and with family and friends on the big day

made their way up through Italy.

Despite being under fire day and night, Maurice stayed in good humour. Even when he was running from bullets skimming his head, he still had time for a joke. “They (enemy planes) came right down the air strip out of the sun. It wasn’t too clever like, when you see all those tracers (bullets) across the top of you.

I told myself ‘I’m glad I’m not six foot tall’.”

“When you’re young you don’t think like that. It didn’t enter our minds…..We had quite a time.”

“We used to count the planes out and count them back and say ‘We’re alright. They’re all here’.”

It wasn’t all bombs and bullets for Maurice though, who says he had “a good war.” He fondly recalls going out hunting lobsters by torch light and being treated like kings as his squadron camped out at a golf club in

Durban at the beginning of his adventure.

“I’ve got good memories. I made some good friends and that made a big difference.”

When it was time to come home, Maurice hadn’t been able to let his dear old mum and dad know, who were waiting for any news of their youngest son at their home in Birchall Road. After Maurice struggled with his kit bag and a trunk, made for him

by an Italian soldier, on the 36 bus, he finally got to knock on his own front door.

“My dad opened it and shook my hand. He said ‘be quiet, don’t say anything’. Mum was sitting in that big old arm chair and my old man said ‘there’s somebody here to see you’.

Well that was it, the whole street was up!

“It was lovely, when I walked in it was wonderful.

“They never knew what happened.

You couldn’t let nobody know, it was horrible. You could send a letter to say you was OK. “The first letter I sent, being a bit of an idiot, I wrote everything so half of it got blanked out!”

After the war, Maurice met Christine.

They married in Peckham and moved into the family home in Birchall Road with Maurice’s parents on the bottom floor and them in the middle. He would go on to have three children with Chrissie - Dick, Ted and Sally, and make a name for himself as an engineer.

“I’ve had a smashing life, a good family. What more could you ask for?”

When the French government awarded him a Legion d’Honneur last week for his part in the liberation of Europe, Maurice was both delighted and astounded.

“It’s amazing really. Of course I was pleased, it’s nice to be appreciated. I’d forgotten all about it, it was 70 years ago!”

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HANDS OFF OUR PLAYGROUND EXCLUSIVE

By Joey Millar

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AROUND 100 Borough children and parents gathered at Mint Street Adventure Playground on Tuesday, to protest against potential Southwark Council cuts to children’s play services.

The facility, which may have drastically to reduce its opening hours as the council scrambles to save £100m over the next three years, was described by parents as “more than just a

playground.”

Timi Ahern, a mum who visits the site with her thirteen-year-old son, told the News: “It’s kind of like a hub. It can be a lifeline for people, like for single parents who have somewhere to go and meet people. There is a real diversity of cultures here too.

“We understand that cuts are being made by the government and the savings need to be made, but regarding places like this… it’s more than just a playground, it’s a place where we encourage each other and focus on the positives.”

Another Borough mum Hannah

Metcalf agreed, telling the News there were “strong feelings” in the community regarding the playground, and its hard-working staff member Jason, who may have his hours reduced under the new system. She said: “Jason runs everything here, whether it’s a niggly climbing frame or a problem with the building. We’re here to protest against reduced hours but also to support him.

“It’s a very strong community at Mint Street. We have children from Charles Dickens School, Cathedral school, Saint Saviour’s and Saint Olave’s. It’s made a big difference in a lot of lives and we

want to give back by protecting it.”

Following substantial government cuts to local authority spending announced at the recent Autumn Statement, the council are looking for ways to save £96m over the next three years.

Councillor Victoria Mills, Southwark Council Cabinet Member for Children and Schools, said the playground would stay open, but did warn that changes should be expected.

She said: “We have no plans to close Mint Street adventure playground, although there are likely to be changes to some of our youth services, in the

face of huge funding cuts by Government.

“Last week’s Cabinet report set out the challenging financial situation faced by the council in the coming years, with millions of pounds lost already, and another £96m reduction over the next three years.

“We published our proposals now so that local people can comment on our proposed changes to council services, and help us deliver a carefully considered and fair budget next February. We’re welcoming views from residents as we consider the challenges ahead.”

was offered a place at Bradford University to study medicine. To mark his incredible achievements, the charity Action for Children singled him out for a special award at their annual ceremony last month.

Out of 60 people receiving the Stephenson Award, named after the charity’s founder, nineteen-year-old Aisosa and one other person were singled out to receive the Chief Executive’s award. “I was so pleased to win a Stephenson Award but to be jointly chosen for the Chief Executive’s Award was an absolute honour,” said Aisosa. “I really wasn’t expecting that. I’d like to use the opportunity to thank everyone at Action for Children and Southwark Young Carers who understood what I was going through during my school years when I had so much on my shoulders.”

Aisosa Ihama (left) with Action for Children chief executive Sir Tony Hawkhead and fellow chief exec award winner John Hodges

Award for teen who looked after family

By Amelia Burr

amelia@southwarknews.co.uk

A TEENAGER who grew up looking after his mother and four younger siblings has won an award after completing his first year at medical school.

Until embarking on a degree last year, Aisosa Ihama, from Peckham, also known as OJ, had been a carer to his mum, who suffers from a range of chronic illnesses, and parent to his four younger brothers and sisters, since the age of seven.

Despite this mountain of responsibilities at home during his school years, OJ managed to achieve an A*, seven As and three Bs at GCSE. He also managed successfully to complete his A-Levels and

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Cat rescue charity says it’s losing vital donations because of Christmas postal problems in SE1

By Joey Millar

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A BERMONDSEY charity says it is losing thousands of pounds in donations due to problems with Royal Mail deliveries this Christmas season.

Barbara Black, the founder of Tooley Street-based animal charity London Persian Rescue, said the recent mail problems were making her go postal.

She said important letters, including donations that were essential in keeping her cat rescue charity running, were being delivered late or not at all.

The St John’s Estate resident told the News: “It’s rubbish – and that’s being polite! Our postman said there is a huge backlog of parcels waiting to be delivered at Mandela Way and that a lot won’t even be delivered in time for Christmas.

“I’m waiting on a lot of deliveries to come in, a lot of donations. It’s also affecting the packages I’m sending out, like calendars, which raise more money for the charity.”

Barbara’s charity, which she has run for over 30 years, cares for sick or abandoned

cats which are found on the streets of Southwark and the surrounding area – often fourteen or fifteen at a time.

She said: “Some of them are in a very poor condition, with really bad fleas or they’re just skin and bones. I care for them because they can’t speak for themselves.”

Due to the vulnerable nature of the animals, running costs can be very high. Donations are essential in keeping the charity going, especially at Christmas when a lot of cats are abandoned. Barbara said: “I need to pay for equipment, food and vet bills, which are probably the biggest outgoings. It’s not cheap. “Royal Mail should know by now that they need to hire extra staff at Christmas so that everything can get delivered. This is the most important time of the year for a lot of people.”

A Royal Mail spokesperson said that the recent problems were due to roadworks and staff sickness, but insisted that the problem had now been solved and post was being delivered as usual. She said: “We apologise to customers in Southwark who may not have recently received the service they expect and deserve from Royal Mail. We can

reassure customers that mail is going out for delivery on all rounds in Southwark every day.

“Recently, major roadworks in the area and a temporary higher level of short-term sick absence in the office may mean that some deliveries may be slightly later than usual.

We have put contingency measures in place, including drafting in extra resources, to improve services to customers in the run-up to Christmas.”

Barbara dismissed the Royal Mail’s response and told the News that the day it was issued her post was “still late.”

She said: “It was still late yesterday and okay today. In the past when I’ve complained, it improves for a day or two and then goes back to normal.

Compensation might be something to think about but I don’t think I’d get anything off the Royal Mail.”

Find out more about Barbara’s charity or donate by visiting london-persian-rescue.co.uk

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‘Lucky’ Lylie turns 105!

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Born and bred Walworth girl delivered papers to her ‘elderly’ neighbours until 5 years ago

By Amelia Burr

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A LIFELONG Walworth resident enjoyed a sing-song at her birthday bash on Tuesday to celebrate turning 105!

Eliza ‘Lylie’ Mercer said she felt “lucky” as she sat surrounded by friends and family at the party in Nelson House, Bronti Street.

“I’m lucky to have people to come and see me,” said Lylie, “everybody knows me in Walworth.”

Born in nearby Brandon Street, twice married Lylie has lived through two world wars. She still remembers when her uncles went off to fight in the Great War – Charlie was killed, Harry was blinded and Bill was forever after known as ‘Uncle Peggy’ after he had his leg blown off.

During the Second World War, she remembers how many of her friends and neighbours perished when St Peter’s Church was bombed, where hundreds were sheltering in the crypt.

Lylie was in an Anderson shelter nearby and escaped unharmed, but a local Italian family who had made her sister-in-law’s wedding dress were all killed.

Before family houses had baths in them, Lylie had to go down to near where she worked at Cross & Blackwell’s in Bermondsey to have a bath. But while she was in there the air raid siren went off and she remembers having to scamper down the street clutching her corset under her arm.

Lylie has always put her long life down to her clean living. “I never drank, I never smoked and I never went with men,” she told the News.

Birthday girl Lylie celebrates with friends, family and Faraday councillor Lorraine Lauder (main); and is presented with a cake (right)

The oldest of eight children, Lylie was thirteen when she came home from school to help her mum give birth to her little brother Danny, whom she always looked after until his death last year.

Having lived in her block on Portland Street for more than 30 years, Lylie is well known in the area and still gets a visit from some of the traders on East Street market, who used to get their

copy of the News delivered by “the oldest ‘paper girl’ in the world.”

When Lylie turned 100 she was still picking up copies of the paper for the “old people” in her building and her community spirit earned her the title of Good Neighbour of the Year in 2009.

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‘Hugely generous’ presents donated

PECKHAM: Christmas came early last week as 85 of the borough’s elderly residents were treated to a slap-up festive feast, courtesy of Tesco.

LONDON BRIDGE: Over 1,000 Christmas presents have been donated by the London Bridge business community, a “hugely generous” collection that will benefit eight local charities.

On Wednesday afternoon, the diners were treated to a roast turkey dinner with all the trimmings at Caroline Gardens Chapel, followed

by Christmas pudding and a glass of bubbly. The food was served and prepared by twenty Tesco workers from across London, along with Bermondsey Community Kitchen Head Chef, Jenny Armstrong.

‘Check neighbours’ urges Southwark

SOUTHWARK: The council has reminded its residents to check on elderly or vulnerable neighbours this winter, especially if the mild weather gives way to a cold snap.

To call Southwark’s Winter Warmth advice line you can call free from landlines on 0800 090 1948 or 0333 321 8323 from mobiles.

SCHOOL CHILDREN gathered in front of a Christmas tree in Peckham Square on Friday evening to see the lights get switched on.

The Harris Academy Peckham choir sang carols to the crowds as the tree was lit up, thanks to Peckham ward’s Cleaner Greener Safer Funding.

Children from Oliver Goldsmith’s School were joined by local councillors under the tree

The festive gift drive, which saw 25 companies contribute, was organised by Team London Bridge, the business improvement district for the area.

The scheme also relied on the sellotaping skills of 51 volunteer elves, who adorned each and every one of the 1,128 gifts in festive wrapping paper.

The charities that benefited from the Yuletide collection were Bede House, Beormond Centre, CoolTan Arts, the Manna Centre, Ronald McDonald House, South London Mission, Stones End Centre and Time and Talents.

If you're interested in learning more about the campaign and getting involved next year, please email info@teamlondonbridge.co.uk

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LONG LOST family members of a brave seventeen-year-old boy scout, who was killed rescuing a friend after a bomb hit Trinity Dockhead Church in 1940, were able to attend a memorial service to him at the weekend.

A Bermondsey scout group leader has spent the last few months tracking down the nieces and nephew of Frank James Leopold Davis, to make sure they could see the proud moment when he was remembered for his courageous actions 75 years ago.

During the Second World War, over 50,000 Scouts trained to undertake National War Service jobs, including acting as police messengers, firemen and stretcher bearers, like young Frank, who lived in Parkers Row with mum Alice and dad, Frank, one brother and three sisters.

As a Scout at the 11th Bermondsey

& Rotherhithe, Frank became a voluntary air raid patrol messenger, working alongside his father who was a full time air raid warden.

On December 8, 1940, Frank reported for duty at the Most Holy Trinity Church, Dockhead.

That night the bombs rained down thick and fast and the church was hit.

Frank managed to get himself out from the rubble, but when he found out a fellow scout was trapped inside, he bravely went back in.

Accounts of what actually happened varied in the different newspapers of the day, but the incident was widely reported. According to the South London Press Frank had: “just been back to the post to report, and was then leaving the post, when the bomb fell and he was caught by its blast."

The "News Chronicle" said he was "killed by a bomb soon after saving two people pinned under the debris of a house".

The Daily Mirror reported that "Davis, a warden, was on his beat when he found a fellow A.R.P. worker with a serious eye injury. He gave him

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first-aid treatment, took him to a post for further attention. Then he set out for his usual patrol - and was killed, while The Times stated he was killed after “rescuing a wounded fellowmessenger.”

Frank was seventeen at the time of his death.

Following a history page in the News earlier this year mentioning Frank’s heroism, current 16th Bermondsey scout leader, Bryan Jones, set about organising a memorial service to the brave boy at Nunhead cemetery where he was buried.

After setting up a website to gather information about Frank at www.bravescout.com, Bryan was inundated with information and was even put in touch with Frank’s sister, two nieces and nephews.

Frank’s sister, Joyce, was unable to attend the memorial service on Sunday due to ill health but his nieces Janet

Eglinton and Karen Bentham came along with their brother Peter West.

“We can’t believe we didn’t know anything about it,” said Janet, who lives nearby in Brockley.

“We knew he had died in World War Two but we never knew the details,” she added.

“Mum would’ve loved this,” said Peter, “that a member of the family was being recognised like this.”

After months preparing for the service, led by Father Dele Ogunyemi of St Anthony and St Silas, Bryan said: “I was delighted with the turnout from 16th Bermondsey Beavers, Cubs and Scouts along with Shard Explorer Scout Unit on a cold, damp December afternoon. It was the culmination of a lot of research by a large number of people. 16th Bermondsey leaders did themselves proud co-coordinating everything and Albins who kindly provided a minibus and driver to help us all get there.”

A video of Frank’s family receiving the Bronze Cross on his behalf can be viewed at www.southwarknews.co.uk

Family memories of Frank

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A birthday card for Frank from his mum and dad in 1936 (top left and right); baby Frank with his mum Alice (above); newspaper clippings from the time of Frank’s death (left)

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Frank and his parents receiving his medal posthumously (far left and left); scouts from the 16th Bermondsey with Frank’s family and Father Ogunyemi at the memorial service at Nunhead Cemetery (main)

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By Joey Millar

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TWO-AND-A-HALF years after it was gutted by a devastating fire, residents are being asked for their views on the design of the new Walworth Town Hall.

The roof of the Grade II-listed building was destroyed in the March 2013 blaze, forcing the Cuming Museum and library to relocate.

ICE WORK!

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ROTHERHITHE

The new building will include a larger library space and a new home for the museum, as well as exhibition spaces and an area for marriages and other ceremonies.

Residents can view the full proposals for the new building online and have their say on the designs. Visit www.consultations.southwark.gov.uk and search “Walworth Town Hall” to find the project’s online consultation hub.

FESTIVE NURSERY children were decking the halls with recycled milk bottles this week as they unveiled a special Christmas igloo.

Enterprising staff and kids at Trinity Childcare in Bryan Road,

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Rotherhithe spent two weeks putting together the Yuletide creation, which was made with 434 milk bottles donated by parents and businesses.

Karen Fenlon, nursery assistant at Trinity, said: “The kids were

brilliant, they loved making it. It got them in the Christmas spirit and taught them about recycling!

“I’d also like to thank Melissa, our childcare practitioner, and Mick Donovan at Dunns Deli, who donated so many of the bottles.”

Cemetery protestors hold ‘festival of lights’

By Joey Millar

joey@southwarknews.co.uk

A “FESTIVAL of lights” protest was held last weekend by campaigners protesting against Southwark Council plans to create nearly 5000 burial spaces in naturally occurring cemetery woodland.

Around 50 protestors “sang for the trees” in a musical demonstration against the plans, with many people carrying lanterns, torches and candles during a march through the threatened Camberwell New Cemetery.

The “Save Southwark Woods” group have been campaigning for months for the green patch to be preserved.

A spokesperson for the group said: “What a fantastic afternoon climbing One Tree Hill in Camberwell New

Cemetery to sing to the trees, lighting lanterns as it got dark.

“Thanks to everyone who came out to show how much we need and love our trees and the birds and the bats and the owls and all the other wonderful wildlife that call these beautiful woods their home.

“These cemeteries are now full - and could be a beautiful wildlife haven.”

Cllr Darren Merrill, Southwark’s cabinet member for environment, has always maintained: “The simple fact is that if the council takes no action, burial space in Southwark will run out in 2017.

“We have engaged extensively with London Wildlife Trust and the local community, to ensure that the plans for managing the cemeteries improve biodiversity and create quality open space for local people, as well a respectful place for the deceased.”

THAT’S WHAT FRIENDS ARE FOR Foundation can officially become a charity after thousands raised at event

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DULWICH

By Amelia Burr

amelia@southwarknews.co.uk

A YOUNG funeral director raised thousands of pounds for mums with cancer at a fundraiser on Saturday night.

Gary Valentine Fuller set up the MumMum Foundation after his nan died a year and a half ago from cancer and has now raised enough for it to become an official charity.

The packed event held at Dulwich Hamlet football ground saw one of the foundation’s trustees have all her locks lopped off for the cause, before the MumMum foundation’s adopted theme song – That’s What Friends are For - was played live, giving everyone a chance to remember those they have lost to cancer.

“Me and MumMum used to dance for hours to that song. I carried her into the crematorium to that lovely song,” said Gary, who raised a total of £2,450 on the night.

If you want to find out more about the MumMum Foundation, visit www.facebook.com/themummum foundation or email: garyvfuller@btinternet.com.

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Edible gardens

AM a lazy edible gardener! I want my little garden in Peckham to provide me with lots of free healthy organic food but I do not want to do lots of work!

So over the years I have planted lots of different fruit trees and bushes. As you can get fruit trees with dwarf roots which prevent the trees from growing too big, they are great for small inner city gardens.

But you do not have to have a garden yourself to grow fruit in Southwark. The Urban Orchard Project works with local people to plant fruit trees and mini-orchards in council estates, local parks and waste open spaces. They have planted a mini-orchard for example in Nursery Row Park in Walworth working with the local Friends of the Park group.

You can get in touch with them via www.theurbanorchardproject.

The Wells Way Triangle RTA also funded their local green group to plant a ribbon orchard in their streets, using little pockets of green space here and there to plant individual fruit trees and shrubs. Britain imports over 85% of its fruit, much of it having to travel thousands of miles and much of it from very drought ridden countries.

They therefore come with a huge water and carbon footprint. For example, a litre of orange juice can take a 1,000 litres of water to create.

So planting fruit trees is a double win – it creates lots of local fresh healthy food and simultaneously reduces environmental destruction.

I have so far planted apple, pear, plum and damson trees in my garden and also have some strawberry, raspberries, redcurrant, blackcurrant, blackberry, purple and golden gooseberry shrubs. Many of these reproduce really easily. So after a couple of years you will be able to produce lovely easy to create edible gifts for your friends or community, that will give them fresh fruit for years.

Planting time for fruit trees and shrubs is between now and Spring.

Good quality organic fruit trees and shrubs can be got from the organic charity www.gardenorganic.

So why not suggest to your local Residents and Tenants Association at their next meeting that they create a community orchard in 2016? Let’s make Southwark into a beautiful orchard garden!

HELEN HAYES

‘THANKS FOR NOTHING!’ See page 18

I’m no ordinary student, I’m a nurse

I'M A third year student nurse at kings college London.

Getting into university to fulfil a dream in nursing was a big achievement for me and my family.

Coming from a deprived area the student bursary was a lifeline for me.

Some may argue that it is only fair to scrap the bursary, considering that most students will have to carry the hefty debt.

I’d like to share my experience of how being a nursing student differs from a regular student. Our course is split 50% theory and 50% practical, over 42 weeks. This means that for the practical we spend 37.5-42 hours per week working 12 hour shift patterns which includes nights. On a regular day I will wake up at 6am and return home at 9pm. Staying behind is a regular occurrence due to staffing issues.

When I entered this career at the young age of 18 I knew I would be making the sacrifice that most people at that age wouldn't. Whilst my friends were spending there loan parting into early hours of the morning I would be preparing for another shift on the wards.

As a third year student we are given much more responsibility and are expected to manage our own patient caseload under supervision of my mentor. In my last placement I was allocated five.

I would like to share a personal experience on a particular shift. I had the privilege to provide care for a patient in the final hours of his life. I had looked after this patient before and would say had developed a bond with him I knew the small personal things that he liked for example having the pillow in a particular way.

When I came onto shift I received

handover that he was very unwell. I knew what this meant and was heartbroken to say the least. This is a shift that I think I will remember throughout my nursing career.

I noticed his breathing had gotten worse and so the doctors where informed and called his daughter to visit him. During this time I held his hand and reassured him that she would be here to be with him I comforted him and made sure his pillow was how he liked it.

When he eventually passed I was a shoulder for his daughter to cry on once he had taken his final breaths by her side. In these moments I realised how lucky I am to share these humbling moments with patients and their loved once.

Unfortunately many people will be denied this opportunity due to the cuts to the bursary. Many of my colleagues are mature and have previous degrees, which with the new changes would have been impossible to fund. Nursing is a vocation and the NHS should not be denied of potentially great caring nurses due to these cuts Priscilla Chambers, Walworth

TfL don’t re-open St Thomas Street to cars

THE CGI of the new-look St Thomas St in All Change At London Bridge (Southwark News 19th November page 16 www.southwarknews.co.uk/news/ all-change-at-london-bridgewith-more-changes-planned/ ) was rather more revealing than intended.

St Thomas St has been shut for couple of years now and traffic has made do without it. The image showed a re-opened road along St Thomas Street with (still) no traffic on it but the large numbers of

pedestrians corralled into a narrow space behind bollards.

TfL's current plan is for St Thomas Street to reopen as a through road for traffic in 2018 but by then there will be thousands more people crossing to the south of London Bridge Station than before it was redeveloped plus there is a strong desire to improve the area (including the arches) so that far more people on foot will be drawn further south into Southwark.

Why re-open the road when it will worsen air pollution in the area and reduce the appeal for people who want to walk along the street?

Fine to allow vehicles to service the station as well as the businesses in the west such as the Shard, but please TfL do not thoughtlessly reopen St Thomas Street to vehicles when you could be creating a great place for pedestrians, residents and workers.

Jeremy Leach, Chair Southwark Living Streets

Cold comfort!

CONGRATULATIONS ARE in order for Southwark Council!

They have really exceeded themselves this time. I wonder whose bright idea it was to fit new windows in on the Keetons Estate, Bermondsey during December!

Luckily for me I had new windows fitted a few years ago now, but I do feel sorry for the folks who will be sitting watching their TV with a duvet wrapped around them, especially the elderly who reside where I live.

Surely common sense should have told them that if they want to fit new windows , then do it in the summer!

But then again we are talking about Southwark Council.

Ray Horney, Bermondsey

MP for Dulwich & West Norwood

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Stop the Tories ending council tenancies for life N THE run up to the General Election David Cameron stated clearly and unequivocally that the Tories would not cut tax credits for hard working families on lower incomes.

Needless to say just a few weeks after the general election the Tories announced that they would be cutting billions of pounds from the incomes of those same families whose votes he had just courted.

Last month during the Autumn Statement George Osborne claimed that he was no longer pushing ahead with his cruel cuts to tax credits after a strong campaign led by Labour forced him to think again, but now it appears that this was again smoke and mirrors and that there will still be substantial cuts when Universal Credit is introduced.

Now the Tories have been caught red handed trying to make another controversial change behind closed doors that will hit thousands of families in Southwark hard.

Last week the Tories tabled an amendment to the Housing and Planning Bill which will end council tenancies for life. Their change would mean that it would become illegal to offer lifetime tenancies and that councils will only be able to offer tenancies of 2-5 years. After this time every tenancy will have to be reviewed.

This is an appalling proposal that I will fight against tooth and nail. It will mean families across the country worrying about whether their children will still be able to attend the same school next year, how they will organise childcare if they are forced to move and deciding whether or not to get more involved in their community or decorate their home. This is already the challenge faced by so many private renters and the Tories proposal means that Council tenants will face similar anxiety.

The solution to the crisis in genuinely affordable housing in London is to build more Council homes, as Southwark Council is committed to do, not to punish Council tenants for the Tory government’s failures.

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Funeral Announcement In loving memory of

Ivy Sawyer

who passed away peacefully on the 30th November with her family by her side, aged 92.

Our loving mum, nan and great nan.

Funeral will be Monday 21st December from 13 Firtrees Close, then onto Honor Oak Crem 2.30pm hosted by Albins

We will love you forever and hold you in our hearts, until we meet again.

Love from all your family xxx

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Remembering our brothers

Another year has passed but they are loved and thought of every day.

And sorely missed by Sally, Marie and all the family xxxxxxxxxxxxx

Adam Palfrey

Jan 2nd 1966 - Dec 14th 2012

In loving memory of

Martha Batchelor

Sunrise 31.5.1912

Sunset 20.12.2007

It’s been eight years Mum since you left us, We miss you Mum so much and think about you every day.

You were a wonderful Mum, Nan and will always stay in our hearts.

Miss you millions God Bless Carol & Paddy xxxxx Grandchildren & Great Grandchildren xxxxxxxx

In loving memory of

R.I.P To Our Wonderful Son, Brother, Husband, Dad, Uncle & Friend.

Can’t believe 3 years has gone since you passed. We all miss you every day.

COME ON YOU LIONS GIVE US A WOBBLE U From The Palfrey Family & Friends

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Memorials

Always in our thoughts during Christmas.

From daughters Sharon, Kelly, Elaine, brother Jim, Grandchildren & families

Sunset Sunrise 20.12.2007 31.5.1912 Martha Batchelor Eight years have gone by seems like yesterday, Love you and miss you.

Thinking of you always

Lots of Love Pat & Chris Grandchildren & Great grandchildren xxxxxxxx

In loving memory of

Elizabeth Cole who passed away on the 21st December 1998.

17 years may have passed but you will always be in our thoughts and forever in the hearts of all your children & grandchildren

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David Dawes

Sunrise 30.3.48

Sunset 15.12.07

As your anniversary draws closer in the quiet moments I will sit and reminisce Oh just to see your smiling face once more and share in a loving kiss.

I often sense your presence and feel you near and although you’re out of sight I talk to you, call your name in the lonely midst of the night.

As Christmas is just around the corner eight long years since you’ve been gone, The memories you gave us are ours to treasure, they will forever linger on.

Your anniversary leaves us all filled with sadness as we relive that time again For our lives are empty without you and will never be the same MY LOVE ALWAYS BOBBY

Remembering ALF & BRIDGET DAWES, BARB, TED & MARK WALLACE, JOHN BAKER, DAVE KIRBY, ALFIE, RITA, TRUDY & TERRY WATKINS, WITH LOVE AND FOND MEMORIES OF THOSE WE HAVE LOVED AND LOST

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THE ARCH WINDOW 74, Great Suffolk Street, SE1 Natalie Law: Umbrella Revolution A London design company has turned art curator for a unique showcase, providing a platform for up-and-coming art students to display their work to the public. The Arch Window, Mon-Sun, dawndusk, ongoing, free.

TOWER BRIDGE EXHIBITION Tower Bridge, SE1 (020-7403 3761) Art At The Bridge #6: Tides Of Change: Charting Life’s Ebbs And Flows Works by local artists.

Tower Bridge Exhibition, Mon-Sun 9.30am-5pm, closed Dec 24-26, ends Dec 31, £9, child £3.90, NUS £6.30, family £14.50-£22.50, under 5s free.

VITRINE GALLERY 15, Bermondsey Street, SE1 (020-7407 6496) Charlie Godet Thomas: Torschlusspanik The artist’s first London solo exhibition. Bridging sculpture, photography and painting and exploring the intersection between language and materiality, Thomas creates new cast wax works brought together in this sitespecific installation. Vitrine Gallery, Open-access, ends Jan 24, free.

WHITE CUBE BERMONDSEY 144-152, Bermondsey Street, SE1 (020-7930 5373) Scott Cameron Weaver And Mathieu Paris: Losing The Compass Rich symbolism of textiles and their political, social and aesthetic significance. White Cube Bermondsey, Tue-Sat 10am-6pm, Sun 12noon-6pm, closed Dec 2331, ends Jan 9, free.

THEATRE & COMEDY

GARY’S WAREHOUSE Unit 3, Voyager Business Estate, Spa Road, SE16 The Night Before Christmas: A Festive Night Out For Grown Ups! Christmas Eve. An Elf breaks into Gary’s Warehouse, well...he says he’s an elf. A hostage taking situation ensures.

Come and watch him talk his way out for this one. Gary’s Warehouse, Dec 5, 9-12 & 16-19, 7.30pm-9pm, Dec 5, 12 & 19, 5pm-6.30pm, £15-£20.

NATIONAL THEATRE: Dorfman South Bank, SE1 (0207452 3000) Evening At The Talk House Ian Rickson directs the world premiere staging of Wallace Shawn’s drama.

National Theatre: Dorfman, Dec 912, 14-17, 29 & 30, 8pm, mats Dec 10, 12, 17, 30 & 31, 3pm, ends Mar 30, £15-£50, Sat eves £15£55.

Husbands And Sons Anne-Marie Duff returns to the National to play Lizzie Holroyd in DH Lawrence’s powerful drama. National Theatre: Dorfman, Dec 1-5, 7, 8, 18, 19, 2123, 26 & 28, 7pm, mats Dec 2, 5,

19 & 22, 1pm (audio described perf Dec 4, audio described mat perf Dec 5, captioned perf Dec 7), ends Feb 10, £15-£45, Sat eves £15-£50.

NATIONAL THEATRE: Lyttelton South Bank, SE1 (020-7452 3000) Jane Eyre Sally Cookson directs this bold re-imagining of Charlotte Bronte’s novel. National Theatre: Lyttelton, Dec 3-5, 7, 8, 21-23, 26 & 28, 7pm, mats Dec 5 & 23, 1.30pm, Dec 6, 2pm (NT Live Dec 8), ends Jan 10, £15-£50, Sat eves £15-£55.

Here We Go Caryl Churchill’s short drama about mortality and remembrance, directed by Dominic Cooke. National Theatre: Lyttelton, Dec 9-12 & 16-19, 7pm, mats Dec 12, 17 & 19, 2pm (captioned mat perf Dec 19), booking to Dec 19, £15.

Waste Harley Granville Barker’s controversial expose of the political elite of Edwardian England.

National Theatre: Lyttelton, Dec 1, 2, 14, 15, 29 & 30, 7.30pm, mats Dec 2, 15, 30 & 31, 2.15pm, ends Mar 19, £15-£50, Sat eves £15£55.

National Theatre: Olivier South Bank, SE1 (020-7452 3000) As You Like It Rosalie Craig plays enterprising Rosalind in Shakespeare’s breezy comedy.

National Theatre: Olivier, Dec 4, 5, 7, 14, 15 & 30, 7.30pm, mats Dec 5, 15 & 31, 2pm, Dec 6, 2.30pm, ends Mar 5, £15-£50, Sat eves £15-£55.

Wonder.land A musical inspired

by Lewis Carroll’s Alice In Wonderland, with music by Damon Albarn and book and lyrics by Moira Buffini. National Theatre: Olivier, Dec 1, 8-12, 16-19, 21-23, 26, 28 & 29, 7.30pm, gala performance Dec 3, 7pm, mats Dec 9, 12, 17, 19, 23 & 29, 2pm, Dec 13, 2.30pm (press night Dec 10), booking to Apr 30, £15-£50, Sat eves £15-£55, Dec 3 gala ticket £95-£200 inc Mad Hatter’s Tea Party.

OLD VIC 103, The Cut, SE1 (0844-871 7628) Dr Seuss’s The Lorax Dr Seuss’s colourful tale about the insidious threat of corporate greed to the natural world. Old Vic, From Dec 3, Mon-Sat 7pm, mats Wed & Sat 3pm, no mats Dec 2, 9, 16, extra mats Dec 21, 22, 24, 28, 29 & 31, no perf Dec 25 (press night Dec 15, captioned perf Dec 17, relaxed mat perf Dec 21), ends Jan 16, £12-£60, Premium Seats £85.

ROYAL VAUXHALL TAVERN 372, Kennington Lane, Vauxhall, SE11 (020-7820 1222) The LipSinkers Alt-drag cabaret troupe The LipSinkers monthly show and after-party. Royal Vauxhall Tavern, Dec 4, 9pm-4am, £8, concs £6, £5 after 12midnight.

Finger In The Pie Cabaret Showcase London’s hot showcase of new drag, burlesque and variety.

We’ve launched the careers of

some of London’s most famous cabaret artists and regularly provide a testbed for new material from its most established. Royal Vauxhall Tavern, third Fri of month 7pm-9.30pm, £10-£12.

The LipSinkers Alternative drag cabaret. Royal Vauxhall Tavern, first Fri of month 9pm-4am, £8, concs £6, after show £5.

SHAKESPEARE’S GLOBE THEATRE 21, New Globe Walk, SE1 (020-7401 9919) Cymbeline Sam Yates directs Shakespeare’s erotic and politically charged study of marital discord. Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre, Dec 2-5, 7-9, 17-19, 22, 23 & 29, 7.30pm, mats Dec 5, 19, 23 & 30, 2.30pm, ends Apr 21, £15-£48, standing £10, Premium Seats £62.

Pericles Dominic Dromgoole directs Shakespeare and George Wilkins’ late romance.

Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre, Dec 10-12, 16 & 30, 7.30pm, Dec 13, 7pm, mats Dec 13, 20 & 27, 2pm, Dec 11, 2.30pm, ends Apr 21, £15-£48, standing £10, Premium Seats £62.

The Dead Aidan Gillen (Game Of Thrones, The Wire) returns to the Playhouse after the sold-out performance of his Winter’s Tale last Christmas, to bring James Joyce’s captivating short story The Dead back to life, alongside beautiful live music accompaniment. Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre, Dec 14, 15, 20, 21, 27 & 28, 7.30pm-9pm, £10-£62.

SOUTH BANK UNIVERSITY 103, Borough Road, SE1 (020-7815 7815) The Wunderkammer Criticallyacclaimed improvised comedy from leading UK group Do Not Adjust Your Stage, inspired by Ted-style talks from guest expert speakers. South Bank University, Dec 4, 7.30pm-9.30pm, £8.

Southbank Centre Belvedere Road, Waterloo, SE1 (020-7960 4200) La Soiree The crowned winner of this year’s prestigious Olivier Award for Best Entertainment and fresh from a magnificent world tour, the awe-inspiring cabaret sensation is thrilled to return home to London for a sixth season in the capital. La Soiree’s Spiegeltent, Tue-Fri 8pm-11pm, Sat 7pm-10pm & 10pm-12midnight, Sun 7pm10pm, ends Jan 17, £22.50-£200.

Slava’s Snowshow Award-winning festive show. Royal Festival Hall, Dec 16-19, 22, 23, 26 & 28-30, 7.30pm, Dec 20, 5.30pm, mats Dec 18, 19, 22-24, 26 & 28-30, 2.30pm, Dec 20 & 27, 2pm, £20-£75.

SOUTHWARK PLAYHOUSE 7785, Newington Causeway, SE1 (020-7407 0234) The Ballad Of Robin Hood Tacit Theatre presents immersive adventure with swords, songs and music. Southwark Playhouse,

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All the fun of the Tent...

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t's official! I've decided that it is sometimes easier to write a 'bad' review rather than something that is gushing and raving.

Unfortunately for you, Dear Reader, you are about to hear roughly 250 words on the joys of 'La Soirée.'

What's not to like? As soon as I entered this amazing 'tent' the atmosphere of excitement was infectious. The crowd was clearly there for not just a good time but also an outrageous time - many of them for the second or third visit.

The acts didn't disappoint – they were a cross between funky, punky, vaudevillian, cabaret and circus!

Seriously, it was stunning! Trying to single out a favourite has been impossible as my breath was taken away on more than one occasion.

As Miss Frisky opened the show I immediately wanted to dance (we don't dance enough, do we? Or perhaps it's just me…), and she was followed by 'The English Gents' with their amazing feats of acrobatic skill. The audience was by now well and truly hooked in!

The laughter was thick and fast and I must give a special mention to 'Dave', who was plucked from the audience by the hilarious 'Mooky'. Dave was a brave man!

With too many acts to mention, 'Mario, Queen of the Circus' pumped up the audience’s energy so he could 'crowd surf' to one of his favourite Queen songs. There was elegance and sheer class in some of the acrobatic pieces; as they say in the circus: ‘it’s death defying’. Well, I defy anyone not to enjoy La Soirée and get caught up in all the fun of the circus!

La Soirée’s Spiegeltent at Southbank Centre’s Winter Festival Until 17 January 2016 Box Office: www.southbankcentre.co.uk/ whatson/la-soiree £15 - £67.50 Mon-Thu 7.30pm, Fri & Sat 9.15pm, mat Sat 3pm, ends Dec 26, Mon-Sat eve £20, concs £16, Sat mat £20, concs £16.

THE HORSE AND STABLES 124, Westminster Bridge Road, SE1 Genre Claude Van Damme Presents: Dinner And A Movie London Improv Comedy team, Genre Claude Van Damme host a free night of improvised comedy, turning your date stories into hilarious improvised sketches and then performing a fully improvised movie live on stage. The Horse And Stables, Sun 8pm-10pm, ends

Dec 20, free.

THE MENIER CHOCOLATE FACTORY 53, Southwark Street, SE1 (020-7378 1713) Funny Girl Sheridan Smith plays Fanny Brice in a major revival of the hit musical, directed by Michael Mayer. The Menier Chocolate Factory, Tue-Sat 8pm, mats Sat & Sun 3.30pm, no mat Dec 6, extra perf Dec 27, 8pm, extra mats Dec 22, 23, 29, 30 & 31, no perfs Dec 24-26, (press night Dec 2), ends Mar 5, £35-£47.50, phone for availability.

THE MILLER 96, Snowfields, SE1

(020-7407 2690) The Guest Speaker High-risk comedy as our intrepid performers stand-alone and spontaneously make-up a speech based on a topic suggested by you the audience. The Miller, Dec 1, 8 & 15, 8pm-10pm, £7.

THE VAULTS 10, Leake Street, SE1 (020-7401 9603) The Dance Before Christmas The ultimate Christmas ball in the abandoned brickwork Vaults beneath Waterloo station. The Vaults, Dec 12 & 19, 8pm-2am, £18, adv £5-£10.

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Dual crossword

CRYPTIC PUZZLE Clues Across 4 8 10 11 12 13 16 19 20 22 23 24

Pour out nothing revolutionary, and sounded pleased (6) Sign the document to gain attention (7) The king's daughter curtailed her brothers (7) He set out for the ones near at hand (5) In one way ties down without possessing regular movements (5) Re-cancel a cheque's acceptance (9) On strike, we sigh about what is of greater importance (9) The department has nothing for the storehouse (5) Thanks to the range of knowledge obtained (5) Swindles about light chalks (7) Beat the man for touching (7) Seen at different material (6)

1 2 3 5 6 7 9 14 15 17 18 21

Feeling rotten on September 1st with a head cold (6) Go back to the French for an amorous lock (4) Better boon too for the famous question (2,2,2,3,2,2) Somehow resent uniting around for a dull result (13) Falling back to surrendering again (8) Want of practice is found in the great actress (6) Watering place in a European country (5) He never forgets a trunk call (8) Prepares about a hundred decrees (6) Have confidence in the people administering the property (5) Stay in some sort of mental balance (6) Keen to be a member (4)

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QUICK PUZZLE Clues Across 4 8 10 11 12 13 16 19 20 22 23 24

Given piquancy (6) Uses (7) Idea (7) Precipitous (5) Go in (5) Aliens (9) Going without (9) Confidence (5) Very unpleasant (5) Explanations (7) Most sacred (7) Stylish (6)

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1 Animals (6) 2 Part of church (4) 3 Recompenses (13) 5 Hymns sung as clergy enter church (13) 6 Ponder (8) 7 Discourages (6) 9 Fashion (5) 14 Adjust (8) 15 Gazed (6) 17 Break (5) 18 Appointments (6) 21 Pip (4)

Solutions to last week’s crossword

CRYPTIC ACROSS: 1 Redeem 7 Recited 8 Impulse 9 Loyal 10 Interlude 12 Sag 13 Arab 15 Ceiling 17 Sash 19 Eel 21 Recording 22 Write 23 Nailing 24 Remains 25 Igloos DOWN: 1 Railings 2 Depots 3 Enlarge 4 Scale 5 Stayer 6 Idol 7 Republicans 11 Each 13 Aged 14 Baggages 16 Nerving 18 Stigma 20 Libido 21 Remit 22 Wore QUICK ACROSS: 1 Sights 7 Placate 8 Open air 9 Idiot 10 Automatic 12 One 13 Inks 15 Clogged 17 Yale 19 Not 21 Handclasp 22 Lasso 23 Slacken 24 Tallest 25 Steels DOWN: 1 Stowaway 2 Ghetto 7 Trammel 4 Basic 5 Ration 6 Seat 7 Protagonist 11 Once 13 Idol 14 Serpents 16 Enchant 18 Lastly 20 Tackle 21 Holes 22 Late

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ast week an architectural firm released plans to create retractable frozen jetties on the Thames, in a throwback to the frost fares which were held on the river for hundreds of years, writes Amelia Burr...

Between 1607 and 1814 there were a total of seven major fairs when the river froze around the pillars of London Bridge. A host of spectacles would appear on the ice from food stalls to bear-baiting, sledding, stiltwalking, music, dancing, theatre performances, ale houses and mini skating rinks.

For the watermen, who transported people along the Thames, and the lightermen, who moved goods, the frozen waters meant they lost their ability to earn. To make ends meet, they followed the tradition of their forebears and organised the fairs and charged traders and punters for access to the ice.

A good time was had by all, including royalty as King Charles reportedly enjoyed a spit-roasted ox on ice back in 1683. At the final frost fair in 1814 before the winters became too mild, thousands of spectators were treated to a parading elephant on the ice.

We celebrate the frost fares as a charming tradition which was fun for all the family, but it spelled bitter tragedy for some.

In 1739 a whole swathe of ice gave way and swallowed up tents and businesses, as well as people.

Tragedy struck again fifty years later in 1789 when melting ice dragged away a ship which was anchored to a riverside pub in Rotherhithe.

As the 'Gentleman's Magazine' wrote at the time: "The captain of a vessel lying off Rotherhithe, the better to secure the ship's cables, made an agreement with a publican for fastening a cable to his premises.

In consequence, a small anchor was carried on shore, and deposited in the cellar, while another cable was fastened round a beam in another part of the house. In the night the ship veered about, and the cables holding fast, carried away the beam, and levelled the house with the ground, by which accident five persons asleep in their beds were killed."

In January 15 the shaky end of the fair that year as the ice thawed was reported in the London Chronicle: “…it was not until after the dusk of the evening that the busy crowd was persuaded of the approach of a thaw.

This, however, with the crackling of some ice about eight o'clock, made the whole a scene of the most perfect confusion - as men, beasts, booths, turnabouts and puppetshows, were all in motion, and pouring towards the shore on each side.

“The confluence here was so sudden and impetuous, that the watermen who had formed the toll-bars over the sides of the river, where they had broken the ice for that purpose, not being able to maintain their standard from the crowd, &c, pulled up the boards, by which a number of persons who could not leap, or were borne down by the press, were soused up to the middle."

Southwark News, Thursday December 17, 2015

It wasn’t all fun at the Frost Fairs

“In 1739 a whole swathe of ice gave way and swallowed up tents and businesses, as well as people.”

On the day this paper went to press, it was later reported that swathes of ice cut through the cables of two ships docked at the old Rose Chair, which were then driven through the great arch of London bridge “…when their masts becoming entangled with the balustrades, both were broken and many persons hurt.”

Despite the tragedies along the way, the frost fairs would continue for another 25 years after this point and only came to an end with milder winters and the replacing of London Bridge.

Pic: Frost Fair 1683 from ILN Pic 2: Frost Fair

Southwark News, Thursday December 17, 2015

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Chefs cook up a storm at the Oxo Tower

OXO TOWER BRASSERIE BARGE HOUSE STREET, SOUTH BANK, LONDON SE1 9PH

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vegetable.

By this stage we were both almost uncomfortably full, so the only choice for dessert (because going without was not an option), was a triple-helping of sorbet. Suitably refreshed, we hopped into the elevator and descended back into the storm.

Winter may be well and truly here but the Oxo Tower offers the perfect opportunity to rise above the puddles and enjoy the high life – just make sure you order enough!

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torm Desmond may have ruined the normally scenic walk along the South Bank but, eight floors above the heaving Thames in the Oxo Tower, the brasserie chefs were cooking up quite the storm of their own, writes Joey Millar...

The view from our table was spectacular, despite the rain, with St Paul’s shining bright in the distance. If my dining companion Hattie and I squinted, the dozens of red-tipped cranes protruding from building sites across the city took on an almost festive appearance – noisy, gentrifying, trafficinducing Christmas lights, if you will.

Equally attractive were the contents of the eatery’s new “winter menu”, which was launched earlier this month.

As I always do when I visit nice restaurants, I ignored any dishes available at fast food shops on my local high street: fish ‘n’ chips, burgers, and chicken were all ruthlessly dismissed. If I can find it at a brightly lit hole-in-thewall called “Best Kebab World” (and, coming back from the pub after a sensible half-pint or two, I often do), then I wasn’t interested.

For starters, I went with crab while Hattie, after a brief battle with the pronunciation, ordered the charcuterie.

This was an error on my part which I regretted the instant our dishes arrived.

Not because my crab wasn’t great –

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which, accompanied by fennel purée on sourdough bread, it was – but because it was miniscule compared to the gargantuan dish opposite me.

The charcuterie, by my estimate, contained at least three average farmyards’ worth of delicious meat.

Our waiter patiently explained what each one of the many, many portions were but, at some point, I just glazed over, occasionally tuning back in to hear “British chorizo” or “domesticallyreared.” I was all for knowing where the food came from but, at the same time, I was also very hungry, and the etiquette of eating in front of a waiter is

a terrifying culinary grey area.

After dropping a few subtle hints to Hattie (“Do you think you’ll have any of that going spare?” … “My starter is much smaller than yours” … “Give me some of your food”), I tucked into my crab. Completely of her own volition, Hattie then gave me some of her starter too. It was a solid start to the evening.

For the main course, we ordered scallops and pork belly. The helpful waiter, who perhaps witnessed Crabgate and was eager to avoid another incident, advised me to order a couple of sides with my scallops. Not willing to go through the trauma of receiving

another tiny, if tasty portion, I quickly added sweet potato mash and heritage carrots to the mix (partially because I wanted to find out what makes a carrot deserving of such a title.)

The scallops were delicious, as was the pork belly (some of which somehow made its way onto my plate too). The mash was exquisite, and sparked a vibrant and fiercely argued debate about why sweet potato is so good in mash form but a stain on the culinary world as fries. Heritage carrots, by the way, are bright red, an enthralling discovery that added a whole new dimension to how I think about the

4 x glass of 2014 Pinot Grigio £22.50 Cornish crab on toasted sourdough with fennel purée £12.00 British charcuterie board £13.00 Seared scallops with truffle parsley purée £25.00 Braised pork belly with lentils and winter vegetables £23.00 Sweet potato mash £5.00 Heritage carrots £5.00 2 x selection of Taywell ice creams and sorbets £14.00 TOTAL:

FOOD (1-5) AMBIENCE (1-5) VALUE (1-5) DISABLED ACCESS DISABLED TOILET PRE-BOOKING

£125.00

0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 YES YES RECOMMENDED AT PEAK TIMES

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Winkworth expects an improved housing market in 2016

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espite the unexpectedly clear-cut election outcome in May, the anticipated bounce in the housing market has been late to materialise in 2015, with the sales market being particularly slow in prime central London. We believe, however, that while concerns around the General Election limited transactions, particularly at the upper end of the market, a large part of the slowdown can be attributed to the stamp duty changes introduced in the latter part of 2014, which saw a significant rise in the tax for properties above £900,000.

Transactions below this threshold have been more buoyant, particularly as interest rates have remained low and mortgage lending has increased.

Moving into 2016 we expect market conditions to be similar, with stamp duty undermining demand for more expensive properties but low mortgage rates and wage inflation adding momentum at the lower end of the market.

Central London Our expectation is that central London will continue to be affected by higher stamp duty, with buyers taking this cost into

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account when considering what they are prepared to pay per sq. ft. We believe, however, that this added burden will be progressively absorbed over the course of 2016 - albeit with fewer transactions - with the changes having little impact from 2017 onwards.

While this adjustment is taking place, we expect there will be a divide in the behaviour of domestic buyers and international investors. Domestic needs such as upsizing and proximity to schools and work will mean that residents will be forced to accept this cost or move further afield, whereas international property investors may wait until costs are more favourable to them.

This is supported by the latest research from our Knightsbridge and Chelsea office, which shows that 81% of recent enquiries have been from domestic buyers.

Further headwinds for international buyers are the strengthening pound, particularly for European buyers, changes to the non-dom status and increases in capital gains tax.

Demand for flats under £2 million should see the greatest demand and we foresee the price of these growing by 2% compared to a flat market for both flats and houses above this threshold.

Greater London With the mortgage market remaining competitive and employment figures improving, we envisage that the Greater London property market will see price increases moving into 2016, particularly with a positive impact from lower stamp duty on properties below £1 million.

We expect price growth of around 6% for flats while house prices, most of which are priced above £1 million, may rise by a more steady 3%.

Country With the election out of the way, we expect that interest will resume in a move to the country to take advantage of the record price gap with London. The core market below £1 million will be the strongest performer in this market.

Again, low mortgage rates will play a role in encouraging those in the country to move up the ladder or take their first step onto it. As such we expect price growth of around 5% in the country market in 2016.

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London Rentals The private rental sector now represents 30% of the London property market and we expect rentals to continue to grow in importance, with a shortage of supply underpinning prices. We anticipate steady growth of 3-4% in the price of Greater London rentals, slightly above wage inflation.

This will be supported by a reduction in supply as some landlords sell off secondary letting properties and consolidate their portfolios to offset the increased costs from the changes to tax allowances announced in the last Budget, as the buy-to-let sector remains on the government agenda affecting sentiment to invest.

In prime central London, prices will continue to be affected by the decline in demand that has troubled the area for the past two years, as tenants look for better value for money in zone two and beyond. Indeed, Winkworth’s Corporate Services department has noticed a considerable number of searches in these locations rather than the usual request for a prime central London rental. As such, we anticipate that prices will plateau with 0% growth.

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PUBLIC NOTICES 37

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).

111 ALLEYN PARK, LONDON, SE21 8AA (Ref. 15/AP/4645 ) (Householder Application) Partial demolition of the existing rear part of the dwellinghouse; construction of a single storey rear extension; construction of a three storey rear infill extension; and minor alterations to the front (east) elevation. (within Dulwich Village C.A.) Reason(s) for publicity: CNA (Contact: Ciaran Regan 020 7525 4877) 9 BLENHEIM GROVE, LONDON, SE15 4QS (Ref. 15/AP/4453 ) Partial excavation to the lowerground floor and erection of a single storey rear extension at lower groundfloor level with roof terrace comprising: At ground floor level remove a non-listed dividing nonload bearing wall to provide a dual aspect room; Provide a new door opening through the rear elevation out onto a new roof terrace; Provide for a new single storey rear extension at lower ground floor level to match new internal finished floor level; Reduce the internal ground floor slab formation level to provide an increased ceiling height; Provide stepped access down into the rear garden from the ground floor roof terrace; Provide a lightwell at the rear of the dwelling to provide light into the new basement accommodation with stepped access up to the garden; The terrace, lightwell and steps will be provided with glass balustrading. (within Holly Grove C.A.) (Grade II listed building) Reason(s) for publicity: CNA, LBA (Contact: Philip Ridley 0207 525 7540) UNIT 1, 12-16 BLENHEIM GROVE, LONDON, SE15 4QL (Ref. 15/AP/4777 ) Display of x1 non-illuminated fascia sign (within Holly Grove C.A.) Reason(s) for publicity: CNA (Contact: Patrick Cronin - Development Management 0207 525 5535) 9 BLENHEIM GROVE, LONDON, SE15 4QS (Ref. 15/AP/4452 ) Partial excavation to the lowerground floor and erection of a single storey rear extension at lower groundfloor level with roof terrace (within Holly Grove C.A.) (Grade II listed building) Reason(s) for publicity: CNA, LBA (Contact: Philip Ridley 0207 525 7540) 194 CAMBERWELL GROVE, LONDON SE5 8RJ (Ref. 15/AP/3587 ) Replacement of x2 rear casement windows (within Camberwell Grove C.A.) (Grade II listed building) Reason(s) for publicity: CNA, LBA (Contact: Lance Penman 020 7525 5406) 2 GLADSTONE STREET, LONDON, SE1 6EY (Ref. 15/AP/4719 ) Conversion of existing vacant property and new mansard roof extension to provide a 3 storey, 3 bedroom dwelling with removal of existing external steps; erection of a ground floor extension; provision of a terrace at first floor level and changes to the elevation and to the entrance access fronting Gladstone Street. (within St Georges Circus C.A.) Reason(s) for publicity: CNA (Contact: Dipesh Patel 020 7525 1778) ELECTRIC VEHICLE CHARGER ON PAVEMENT FACING STYLES HOUSE, HATFIELDS, LONDON, SE1 8DF (Ref. 15/AP/4737 ) Install three charge points. The body of the proposed charge points would be 1.3 m in height and 0.31 m in width (or 0.32 m with the charging connector protruding out). This proposal affects the character or setting of the nearby Old Barge House Alley Conservation Area. Reason(s) for publicity: ACA (Contact: Jack Ricketts 020 7525 5464) ELECTRIC VEHICLE CHARGER POINT BETWEEN 1-14 & 7 HOLYROOD STREET, LONDON, SE1 2EL

(Ref. 15/AP/4736 ) Install two charge points with a feeder pillar and a designated parking bay. The body of the proposed charge points would be 1.3 m in height and 0.31 m in width (or 0.32 m with the charging connector protruding out). This proposal affects the character or setting of the nearby Tooley Street Conservation Area.

Reason(s) for publicity: ACA (Contact: Jack Ricketts 020 7525 5464) UNIT 1 CANTIUM RETAIL PARK, 520 OLD KENT ROAD, LONDON SE1 5BA (Ref. 15/AP/4236 ) Reconfiguration of existing floorspace to create four new retail units; creation of an additional 2,833 sq. m of retail floorspace at mezzanine level, a variation of condition to allow the sale of food and drink from Unit 1B and associated works Reason(s) for publicity: MPA (Contact: Shanali Counsell 0207 525 1770) 23 QUEEN ELIZABETH STREET, LONDON SE1 2LP (Ref. 15/AP/4657 ) Installation of six conservation-style (flush-fitting) rooflights into rear roof slope. (within Tower Bridge C.A.) Reason(s) for publicity: CNA (Contact: Ciaran Regan 020 7525 4877) 9 ST THOMAS STREET, LONDON, SE1 9RY (Ref. 15/AP/4323 ) Removal of redundant plant on the 3rd floor flat roof, and replace it with x2 new AC condensers at ground level (within Borough High Street C.A.) (Grade II* listed building) Reason(s) for publicity: CNA, LBA (Contact: Tracy Chapman 020 7525 2289) ARCHES AT 66 SUTHERLAND SQUARE, LONDON, SE17 3EL (Ref. 15/AP/4772 ) Removal of existing infill facade and installation of glazed facade with crittal style windows (within Sutherland Square C.A.) Reason(s) for publicity: CNA (Contact: Dipesh Patel 020 7525 1778) FLAT A, 54 SUTHERLAND SQUARE, LONDON, SE17 3EL (Ref. 15/AP/4715 ) Replacement rear window in new opening and installation of soil & vent pipe to rear elevation. Gas meter box and supply pipe installation to front portico.

Interior refurbishment, changes to layout & replacement of boiler, heating & electrics as required. (within Sutherland Square C.A.) (Grade II listed building) Reason(s) for publicity: CNA, LBA (Contact: Lasma Putrina 0207 525 7708) FLAT A, 54 SUTHERLAND SQUARE, LONDON, SE17 3EL (Ref. 15/AP/4714 ) Replacement rear window in new opening and installation of soil & vent pipe to rear elevation. Gas meter box and supply pipe installation to front portico.

Interior refurbishment, changes to layout & replacement of boiler, heating & electrics as required. (within Sutherland Square C.A.) (Grade II listed building) Reason(s) for publicity: CNA, LBA (Contact: Lasma Putrina 0207 525 7708) THE HORNIMAN, UNIT 26 HAYS GALLERIA, TOOLEY STREET, LONDON, SE1 2HD (Ref. 15/AP/3908 ) 2 x non illuminated aluminum projecting signs on existing brackets, 4 x non illuminated timber framed opaque glass fascia signs and 1 x illuminated aluminium fascia sign, 3 x internally illuminated menu signs, 1 x applied aluminium letter fascia sign, 1 x non illuminated logo sign, 4 x 1m tall screens to seating area with advertisements. (within Tooley Street C.A.) (Grade II listed building) Reason(s) for publicity: CNA, LBA (Contact: Philip Ridley 0207 525 7540) 82-83 BLACKFRIARS ROAD, LONDON SE1 8HA (Ref. 15/AP/4836 ) External brickwork and lintel repairs to rear elevation; Over coating the existing asphalt 2nd floor and 4th floor flat roofs with a liquid waterproofing system.

(Grade II listed building) Reason(s) for publicity: LBA (Contact: Tracy Chapman 020 7525 2289)

LAND ADJACENT TO 7 CHOUMERT MEWS, LONDON, SE15 4BD (Ref. 15/AP/4731 ) (Householder Application) Erection of residential annex at 7 Choumert mews (within Holly Grove C.A.) Reason(s) for publicity: CNA (Contact: Lisa Jordan 0207 525 5426) 1 ABERCORN VILLAS, COUNTY GROVE, LONDON, SE5 9LE (Ref. 15/AP/4861 ) (Householder Application) Erection of ground floor side extension; new roof terrace on top of existing garage; new roof garden on top of new extension; and new glass window box. (within Camberwell New Road C.A.) Reason(s) for publicity: CNA (Contact: Adam Greenhalgh 020 7525 5428) TIVERTON LODGE, DULWICH COMMON, LONDON, SE21 7EW (Ref. 15/AP/4879 ) (Householder Application) X2 single storey side extensions; new front entrance and raised roof (within Dulwich Village C.A.) Reason(s) for publicity: CNA (Contact: Anthony Roberts 020 7525 5458) 133-135 GREAT SUFFOLK STREET, LONDON, SE1 1PP (Ref. 15/AP/4677 ) Demolition of existing four-storey commercial building and redevelopment to provide a five-storey (plus basement) commercial building (Use Class B1). This proposal affects the character or setting of the nearby .

Reason(s) for publicity: ACA (Contact: Ciaran Regan

020 7525 4877) FORMER LAMBETH COLLEGE, TOOLEY STREET, LONDON, SE1 2JR (Ref. 15/AP/4784 ) Existing roof to be stripped back to the original structure and all slates and tiles to be replaced to match the existing; and window cills to be lowered so that the cill sits directly on the plinth. (within Tower Bridge C.A.) (Grade II listed building) Reason(s) for publicity: CNA, LBA (Contact: Sarah Parsons 0207 525 7194) 8 TRINITY STREET, LONDON, SE1 1DB (Ref. 15/AP/4574 ) Replacing two rotten wooden sash windows at the front of the flat with like for like single glazed sash windows. (Grade II listed building) Reason(s) for publicity: LBA (Contact: Tracy Chapman 020 7525 2289) 40 WEST SQUARE, LONDON, SE11 4SP (Ref. 15/AP/4969 ) (Householder Application) Rear extension at lower ground floor level (within West Square C.A.) (Grade II listed building) Reason(s) for publicity: CNA, LBA (Contact: Philip Ridley 0207 525 7540) Dated 15 December 2015 comments to be received within 21 days of this date SIMON BEVAN Director of Planning

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LONDON BOROUGH OF SOUTHWARK NORTH DULWICH AND DENMARK HILL AREA: INTRODUCTION OF PERMIT PARKING CONTROLS The London Borough of Southwark (Parking Places) (CPZ 'P') (No. *) Order 201* The London Borough of Southwark (Waiting and Loading Restrictions) (Amendment No. *) Order 201* 1. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the council of the London Borough of Southwark ('the council') propose to make the above-mentioned Orders under sections 6, 45, 46, 49 and 124 of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984, as amended.

2. The general effect of the above Orders would be:(a) to provide permit holder's parking places in which vehicles may be left between 12 noon and 2 pm on Monday to Friday if either a valid resident’s permit, a valid business permit or a valid visitor’s permit has been issued in respect of that vehicle, in:- ARDBEG ROAD, BASINGDON WAY, BECKWITH ROAD, BLANCHEDOWNE, CASINO AVENUE, CROSSTHWAITE AVENUE, DANECROFT ROAD, DYLWAYS, ELFINDALE ROAD, ELMWOOD ROAD, FRANKFURT ROAD, HALF MOON LANE, NAIRNE GROVE, RED POST HILL, SUNRAY AVENUE, WOODFARRS and WYNEHAM ROAD; (b) to provide 'permit holder's parking beyond this point' areas in which vehicles may be left at any unmarked part of the kerbside (providing this does not cause an obstruction to the passage of other vehicles) between 12 noon and 2 pm on Monday to Friday if either a valid resident’s permit, a valid business permit or a valid visitor’s permit has been issued in respect of that vehicle, in:- CASINO AVENUE - the arm fronting Nos. 7 to 45 Casino Avenue; CASINO AVENUE - the arm fronting Nos. 53 to 85 Casino Avenue; GYLCOTE CLOSE; and SUNRAY AVENUE - the arm fronting Nos. 18 to 40 Sunray Avenue; (c) to provide 'shared-use' parking places in which vehicles may be left between 12 noon and 2 pm on Monday to Friday if either a valid resident’s permit, a valid business permit or a valid visitor’s permit has been issued in respect of that vehicle, or for a maximum stay of 2 hours if payment of the parking charge has been made in respect of that vehicle using 'Pay by phone' or 'PayPoint', in:- ARDBEG ROAD, BASINGDON WAY, BECKWITH ROAD , BLANCHEDOWNE, CASINO AVENUE, DANECROFT ROAD, ELFINDALE ROAD, ELMWOOD ROAD, FRANKFURT ROAD, HALF MOON LANE, HERNE HILL, NAIRNE GROVE, RED POST HILL and SUNRAY AVENUE; (d) to introduce restricted parking zones in which waiting by vehicles would be prohibited at any time in:- CASINO AVENUE – throughout the arm fronting Nos. 36 to 86 Casino Avenue; SUNRAY AVENUE– throughout the arm fronting Nos. 49 to 71 Sunray Avenue; and SUNRAY AVENUE– throughout the arm fronting Nos. 81 to 111 Sunray Avenue; (e) to introduce ‘at any time’ waiting restrictions (double-yellow lines) in:- ARDBEG ROAD, ARNOULD AVENUE, BASINGDON WAY, BECKWITH ROAD, BLANCHEDOWNE, CASINO AVENUE, CHAMPION HILL, CROSSTHWAITE AVENUE, DANECROFT ROAD, DENMARK HILL, DOMETT CLOSE, DOWSON CLOSE, DYLWAYS, ELFINDALE ROAD, ELMWOOD ROAD, FRANKFURT ROAD, GYLCOTE CLOSE, HALF MOON LANE, HERNE HILL, MONCLAR ROAD, NAIRNE GROVE, RED POST HILL, SUNRAY AVENUE, VILLAGE WAY, WOODFARRS and WYNEHAM ROAD. Loading or unloading to or from an attended vehicle would be permitted for a maximum of 40 minutes at any single location on both the 'at any time' waiting restrictions and within the restricted parking zones. Existing short-term parking places and disabled persons parking places in the abovementioned streets would be not be affected by this proposal.

3. Further information may be obtained by contacting Mr. Paul Gellard of the council's Parking design team by telephone on 020 7525 7764, or by e-mailing parkingreview@southwark.gov.uk

4. Copies of the proposed orders and other documents giving more detailed particulars of the proposal may be viewed either: online at:- http://www.southwark.gov.uk/trafficorders or, for paper copies, upon request at Highways, Environment, 3rd floor hub 1, 160 Tooley Street, London SE1 2QH. Please telephone 020 7525 2005 to arrange an appointment.

5. Persons wishing to object to the proposal, or make any other representations in respect of it may either use this online form: https://forms.southwark.gov.uk/ShowForm.asp?fm_fid=1081 or send a statement in writing (in the case of an objection, stating the grounds on which the objection is made), to: the Traffic orders officer, Southwark council, Highways, Environment, P.O. Box 64529, London SE1P 5LX or via e-mail to: traffic.orders@southwark.gov.uk quoting reference H/ND/TMO1516-032 by 21 January 2016.

6. In the preparation of an objection and the statement of grounds of objection it should be borne in mind that the substance of any objection or representation may be communicated to other people who may be affected. Information provided in response to this consultation, including personal information, may be subject to publication or disclosure in accordance with current access to information legislation.

Dated 17 December 2015 NICKY COSTIN Parking and network management business unit manager, Regulatory services LONDON BOROUGH OF SOUTHWARK

ROAD TRAFFIC REGULATION ACT 1984 SECTION 14(1) (DOLBEN STREET) 1.

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TEMPORARY PROHIBITION OF TRAFFIC

The Council of the London Borough of Southwark hereby gives notice that to enable works

by Centercomms Ltd, 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 Dolben Street, between Great Suffolk Street and Bear Lane.

An alternative route will be via, Great Suffolk Street, Union Street, Blackfriars Road, Nicholson Street, Chancel 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 come into operation between the 11th – 13th January 2016.

Further information may be obtained by contacting Road Network & Parking Management on 0207 525 2014.

Dated this 17th December 2015 Nicky Costin Road Network & Parking Business Manager

Southwark Council Regulatory Services, Parking & Road Network Management, PO Box 64529 London SE1 5LX Ref: 2977/WP00100500191558900

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LONDON BOROUGH OF SOUTHWARK LOCAL PARKING ISSUES The London Borough of Southwark (Parking places) (CPZ 'B') (No. 7) Order 2015 The London Borough of Southwark (Parking places) (Car club) (No. 12) Order 2015 The London Borough of Southwark (Free parking places) (Disabled persons) (No. 33) Order 2015 The London Borough of Southwark (Loading bays) (No. 45) Order 2015 The London Borough of Southwark (Waiting and loading restrictions) (Amendment No. 9) Order 2015 1. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the council of the London Borough of Southwark on 17 December 2015 made the above-mentioned orders under sections 6, 45, 46, 49 and 124 of and Part IV of Schedule 9 to the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984, as amended.

2. The general effect of the orders, following determination by Camberwell community council of objections to the proposals in respect of St. Francis Road as advertised on 13 August 2015 (see:http://moderngov.southwark.gov.uk/ieListDocuments.aspx?CId=175&MId=5305&Ver=4 ), will be, in:(a) AMERICA STREET - to convert existing single yellow line waiting restrictions to ‘at any time’ waiting restrictions throughout; (b) BARRY ROAD – [i] to introduce ‘at any time’ waiting restrictions on the northwest side outside Nos. 250-254 Barry Road, and [ii] to relocate north-eastward by 1 metre an existing disabled persons parking place outside No. 248 Barry Road; (c) BOWEN DRIVE – to introduce ‘at any time’ waiting restrictions [i] on all sides of the turning area at its north-westernmost end, on the east side [ii] at its junction with the vehicular access Atwood House, Kingswood Estate and [iii] between its junctions with the vehicular access to Beresford House, Kingswood Estate and Lyall Avenue, and [iv] on the southwest and west side between its north-westernmost end and a point 25 metres south of the boundary of No. 40 Bowen Drive and Kingsdale Foundation School; (d) COURT LANE – to introduce ‘at any time’ waiting restrictions on the north-east side at its junction with Dovercourt Road; (e) DOVERCOURT ROAD - to introduce ‘at any time’ waiting restrictions on both sides at its junction with Court Lane; (f) ELEPHANT LANE - to introduce ‘at any time’ waiting restrictions [i] on both sides at its junctions with the vehicular access to the parking areas fronting Nos. 11-23 and 18-30 Elephant Lane, and [ii] on the northeast side, either side of the parking area fronting Nos. 33-43 Elephant Lane; (g) ELM GROVE – to remove part of an existing permit parking place on the east outside No. 60 Elm Grove and introduce ‘at any time’ waiting restrictions (so as to accommodate the construction of a footway crossover); (h) EWER STREET - to convert existing single yellow line waiting restrictions to ‘at any time’ waiting restrictions throughout; (i) GAINSFORD STREET - to introduce ‘at any time’ waiting restrictions on the north-east side across the vehicular entrance between Nos. 16 and 18 Gainsford Street; (j) GREAT GUILDFORD STREET - to convert existing single yellow line waiting restrictions to ‘at any time’ waiting restrictions on both sides between its junctions with Southwark Street and Union Street; (k) LAVINGTON STREET – to introduce ‘at any time’ waiting restrictions on the south side at its junction with Ewer Street; (l) LUCEY WAY - to introduce ‘at any time’ waiting restrictions on the north-west side at its junction with Rouel Road; (m) MALTBY STREET – to make permanent existing temporary ‘at any time’ waiting restrictions on both sides fronting No. 41 Maltby Street and the Metropolitan Police Garage; (n) MELBOURNE GROVE – to introduce '9 am to 10 pm, Monday to Saturday' waiting restrictions on the south-west side outside Nos. 34-36 Melbourne Grove; (o) PARAGON MEWS - to introduce ‘at any time’ waiting restrictions on the south-east side at its junctions with Old Kent Road and Searles Road; (p) PILGRIMAGE STREET – to revise the existing loading bay on the north-west side to a 40 minutes maximum stay; (q) ROTHERHITHE STREET - to introduce ‘at any time’ waiting restrictions [i] on both sides outside Nos. 301-303 Rotherhithe Street, and [ii] on the west side outside Stanton House; (r) ROUEL ROAD - to introduce ‘at any time’ waiting restrictions on the west side across the vehicular entrance to Spa Court, No. 79 Rouel Road; (s) ROYAL ROAD – to introduce a car club parking place with space for 2 vehicles on the north-east side outside Nos. 20-22 Royal Road; (t) ST. FRANCIS ROAD, to introduce ‘at any time’ waiting restrictions on all sides of its south-western extremity, including all sides of the turning area outside Nos. 49-51 St. Francis Road; (u) SEARLES ROAD - to convert existing single yellow line waiting restrictions to ‘at any time’ waiting restrictions [i] on the west, north and south side between its junction with Old Kent Road and the boundary of Nos. 53 and 54 Searles Road, and [ii] on the south and southeast side between the eastern vehicular access to 'The Paragon', No. 43 Searles Road and its junction with Darwin Street; (v) SOUTH CROXTED ROAD - to introduce ‘at any time’ waiting restrictions on the north-east side opposite Nos. 127-139 South Croxted Road; (w) STONES END STREET- to convert existing single yellow line waiting restrictions to ‘at any time’ waiting restrictions throughout; and (x) WARDENS GROVE - to convert existing single yellow line waiting restrictions to ‘at any time’ waiting restrictions throughout.

3. Copies of the orders, which will come into force on 18 December 2015, and of all other relevant documents are available for inspection until the end of a period of six weeks from the date the orders were made at the upon request at Public realm projects - network development, Southwark council, Environment and leisure, 3rd floor hub 1, 160 Tooley Street, London SE1 2QH. Please telephone 020 7525 2005 or e-mail:- traffic.orders@southwark.gov.uk to arrange an appointment.

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

Dated 17 December 2015 NICKY COSTIN Parking and network management business unit manager, Regulatory services Dear Colleagues,

DULWICH HAMLET JUNIOR SCHOOL

To comply with statutory requirements the Admissions Authority of Dulwich Hamlet Junior School run

by Dulwich Hamlet Educational Trust are consulting with the following bodies on their proposed admissions criteria to be in place for the academic year 2017/18. a) parents of children between the ages of two and eighteen

b) other persons in the relevant area who in the opinion of the admission authority have an interest in the proposed admissions c) all other admission authorities within the relevant area

d) the local authority who are not the admission authority There are no proposed changes to the current criteria or policy. This is a NO CHANGE admissions consultation.

Our Admissions Policy can be found at http://www.dulwichhamletjuniorschool.org.uk/noticeboard/documents/adpol_000.pdf

All comments should be returned for the attention of the Admissions Authority at the school address, or by email to cpurcell4.210@lgflmail.org The consultation process begins immediately, and ends on 31st January 2016.

Sonia Case Head Teacher

Dulwich Hamlet Junior School Dulwich Village London SE21 7AL 020 7525 9188 / 9

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LONDON BOROUGH OF SOUTHWARK BOURNEMOUTH ROAD AND BRAYARD’S ROAD: WALKING AND CYCLING IMPROVEMENTS (REVISED) The London Borough of Southwark (Prescribed routes) (Pedal cycle permeability) (No. 1) (Amendment No. 1) Traffic Order 2015 The London Borough of Southwark (Parking places) (CPZ ‘B’) (No. 8) Order 2015 The London Borough of Southwark (Free parking places) (Disabled persons) (No. 34) Order 2015 The London Borough of Southwark (Free parking places) (Solo motor cycles) (No. 22) Order 2015 The London Borough of Southwark (Loading bays) (No. 46) Order 2015 The London Borough of Southwark (Waiting and loading restrictions) (Amendment No. 10) Order 2015 1. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the council of the London Borough of Southwark on 17 December 2015 made the above-mentioned orders under section 6, 45, 46, 49 and 124 of and Part IV of Schedule 9 to the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984, as amended.

2. The general effect of the orders, revised following the receipt of objections to the scheme in respect of the proposals for Brayard's Road as advertised on 11 June 2015, will be:- (a) in BOURNEMOUTH ROAD: [i] to remove part of a pay parking place opposite its junction with Almond Close and introduce ‘at any time’ waiting restrictions, [ii] to relocate a limited stay disabled persons parking place on the south side, to a point opposite No. 17 Bournemouth Road, and [iii] to amend the designation of existing parking, loading bay and waiting restrictions so as to reflect the new footway and carriageway layout; (b) in BRAYARD’S ROAD: [i] to remove one permit parking place and two ‘shared-use’ parking place on the north side between its junctions with Copeland Road and Consort Road and introduce ‘at any time’ waiting restrictions, [ii] to amend the pedal cycle contra-flow at its junction with Consort Road so as to allow for an on-carriageway ‘pedal cycle gap’, [iii] to remove one vehicle length of permit parking place on the north-west side outside Dayak Court, No. 37 Brayard's Road and introduce ‘at any time’ waiting restrictions, [iv] to relocate a disabled persons parking place on the south-east side outside No. 122 Brayard’s Road to a point outside Nos. 118-120 Brayard’s Road, and [v] to extend existing ‘at any time waiting restrictions at its junctions with Gordon Road, Kirkwood Road, Caulfield Road, Lulworth Road, Stanbury Road, Lanvanor Road and Hollydale Road, and [vi] to amend the designation of existing parking, loading bay and waiting restrictions so as to reflect a new footway and carriageway layout; (c) in CAULFIELD ROAD, to extend existing ‘at any time waiting restrictions at its junction with Brayard’s Road; (d) in COPELAND ROAD, to provide a new pay parking place on the west side, outside Nos. 9195 Copeland Road; (e) in GORDON ROAD, to reduce in length one permit parking place on the east side and one ‘shared-use parking place on the west side, north of its junction with Brayard’s Road and introduce ‘at any time’ waiting restrictions; (f) in LULWORTH ROAD, to extend existing ‘at any time waiting restrictions at its junction with Brayard’s Road; and (g) in STANBURY ROAD, to extend existing ‘at any time waiting restrictions at its junction with Brayard’s Road.

3. FURTHER NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the council of the London Borough of Southwark, under sections 90A to 90I of the Highways Act 1980 and in accordance with the provisions of the Highways (Road humps) Regulations 1999 and the Highways (Traffic calming) Regulations 1999, propose to construct road humps of sinusoidal cross-section construction, 3.7 metres in length, having a maximum height of 100 millimetres and covering the greater width of the carriageway, centred upon the following locations:- [i] BRAYARD’S ROAD, at a point 2 metres south-west of the common boundary of Dayak Court, No. 37 and No. 41 Brayard's Road; and [ii] BRAYARD’S ROAD, at a point 4 metres north-eastof the south-western wall of No. 50a Brayard’s Road.

4. For more information about the revised proposals for Brayard's Road, including the road hump proposal detailed in item 3 above, please contact Mr. Clement A-Frempong of the council's Highways (engineering design) team: telephone 020 7525 2305.

5. Persons wishing to object to the road hump proposal detailed in item 3 above, or make any other representations in respect of it may either use this online form: https://forms.southwark.gov.uk/ShowForm.asp?fm_fid=1081 or send a statement in writing (in the case of an objection, stating the grounds on which the objection is made), to: the Traffic orders officer, Highways, Southwark council, Environment, P.O. Box 64529, London SE1P 5LX or via e-mail to: traffic.orders@southwark.gov.uk quoting reference H/ND/TMO1516-005/2, by 21 January 2016. In the preparation of an objection and the statement of grounds of objection it should be borne in mind that the substance of any objection or representation may be communicated to other people who may be affected.

Information provided in response to this consultation, including personal information, may be subject to publication or disclosure in accordance with current access to information legislation.

6. Copies of the orders, which will come into force on 18 December 2015, and of all other relevant documents are available for inspection until the end of a period of six weeks from the date the orders were made at the upon request at Highways - network development, Southwark council, Environment, 3rd floor hub 1, 160 Tooley Street, London SE1 2QH. Please telephone 020 7525 2005 or e-mail:traffic.orders@southwark.gov.uk to arrange an appointment.

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

Dated 17 December 2015 NICKY COSTIN Parking and network management business unit manager, Regulatory services

Notice of Application for a Premises Licence made under Section 17 of the Licensing Act 2003

Please take notice that we Dinky’s Hot Dogs Ltd Have made application to the local licensing authority for a new Premises Licence in respect of 227 Walworth Road, London, SE17 1RL The relevant licensable activities and proposed times to be carried on, on from the premises are The supply of alcohol: Opening hours:

Days

Start time

Finish time

Mon - Sun

12:00

23:30

Mon - Sun

12:00

23:00

A register of all applications made within the Southwark area is maintained by The Licensing Service, c/o Southwark Environmental Health and Trading Standards, 3RD Floor Hub 2, 160 Tooley Street, London, SE1 5LX A record of this application may be inspected by visiting the office during normal office hours by appointment on 020 7525 2000; details are also on our web site at www.southwark.gov.uk/businesscentre/licensing/currentapplication

It is open to any person to make representations about the likely effect of the grant of the premises licence on the promotion of the licensing objectives. Representations must be made in writing to the Licensing Service at the office address given above and be received by the Service within a period of 28 days starting the day after the date shown below.

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

Date of application: 7.12.15

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Transport for London Public Notice Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984

THE A200 GLA ROAD (CRUCIFIX LANE/DRUID STREET) AND GLA SIDE ROAD (BARNHAM STREET, LONDON BOROUGH OF SOUTHWARK) (TEMPORARY PROHIBITION OF TRAFFIC) ORDER 2016

1. Transport for London in consultation with the London Borough of Southwark hereby gives notice that it intends to make the above named Traffic Order under section 14(1) of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 for the purpose specified in paragraph 2. The effect of the Order is summarised in paragraph 3.

2. The purpose of the Order is to prohibit vehicles from entering, exiting and proceeding on certain sections of Crucifix Lane, Druid Street and Barnham Street to enable civil works to be executed.

3. The effect of the Order will be to prohibit any vehicle from: (1) entering, exiting or proceeding on Druid Street between Whites Grounds and Barnham Street;

(2) entering, exiting or proceeding on Barnham Street between Crucifix Lane and Tooley Street, local access will be maintained;

(3) entering, exiting or proceeding on Crucifix Lane between Druid Street and Barnham Street.

The Order will be effective between 13th January 2016 and 15th January 2016 every night 10:00 PM to 6:00 AM or until the works has been completed. The prohibition will apply only during such times and to such extent as shall from time to time be indicated by traffic signs.

4. The prohibitions will not apply in respect of: (1) any vehicle being used for the purposes of those works or for fire brigade, ambulance or police purposes; (2) anything done with the permission or at the direction of a police constable in uniform or a person authorised by Transport for London.

5. At such times as the prohibition is in force an alternative route will be indicated by traffic signs via A100 Tower Bridge Road, the A2 Great Dover Street and Borough High Street to normal route of travel.

Dated this 17th day of December 2015

Mufu Durowoju Network Impact Management Team Manager Road Space Management - Operations, Transport for London Palestra, 197 Blackfriars Road, London, SE1 8NJ

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LONDON BOROUGH OF SOUTHWARK EAST CAMBERWELL ('EC') PARKING ZONE AMENDMENTS The London Borough of Southwark (Parking places) (CPZ 'EC') (No. *) Order 201* The London Borough of Southwark (Doctors' parking places) (No. *) Order 201* The London Borough of Southwark (Prescribed route) (Bantry Street) (No. 1) Traffic Order 201* The London Borough of Southwark (Waiting and loading restrictions) (Amendment No. *) Order 201* 1. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the council of the London Borough of Southwark (‘the council’) propose to make the above-mentioned orders under sections 6, 45, 46, 49 and 124 of and Part IV of Schedule 9 to the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984, as amended.

2. The general effect of the orders would be, in:- (a) BANTRY STREET – to introduce a pedestrian zone throughout, in which all vehicles would be prohibited from entering into, proceeding or waiting at any time – with exemption for vehicles requiring access to Brunswick Park Primary school; (b) BRISBANE STREET - to remove an existing permit holder's parking place on the south-west side opposite its junction with Draycott Close and introduce ‘at any time’ waiting restrictions; (c) PICTON STREET – to introduce ‘at any time’ waiting restrictions [i] on the north-west side, throughout the lay-by located at the rear of Drinkwater House and Proctor House, Elmington Estate, and [ii] on the south-east side at its junction with Bantry Street; and (d) ST. GILES ROAD – to split an existing 'shared-use' parking place on the north-east side at the vehicular access to St. Giles House and introduce single yellow line waiting restrictions.

3. Further information may be obtained by contacting Mr. Daniel Adenle of the council's Parking design team by telephone on 020 7525 3657.

4. Copies of the proposed orders and other documents giving more detailed particulars of the proposal may be viewed either: online at:- http://www.southwark.gov.uk/trafficorders or for paper copies, upon request at Highways, Environment, 3rd floor hub 1, 160 Tooley Street, London SE1 2QH. Please telephone 020 7525 2005 to arrange an appointment.

5. Persons wishing to object to the proposal, or make any other representations in respect of it may either use this online form: https://forms.southwark.gov.uk/ShowForm.asp?fm_fid=1081 or send a statement in writing (in the case of an objection, stating the grounds on which the objection is made), to: the Traffic orders officer, Southwark council, Highways, Environment, P.O. Box 64529, London SE1P 5LX or via email to: traffic.orders@southwark.gov.uk quoting reference H/ND/TMO1516-033 by 21 January 2016.

6. In the preparation of an objection and the statement of grounds of objection it should be borne in mind that the substance of any objection or representation may be communicated to other people who may be affected. Information provided in response to this consultation, including personal information, may be subject to publication or disclosure in accordance with current access to information legislation.

Dated 17 December 2015 NICKY COSTIN Parking and network management business unit manager, Regulatory services

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LONDON BOROUGH OF SOUTHWARK

LONDON BOROUGH OF SOUTHWARK

ROAD TRAFFIC REGULATION ACT 1984 SECTION 14(1) (AVONMOUTH STREET, BORLAND ROAD, GUY STREET, LEROY STREET, NUTT STREET, PARKERS ROW, STUART ROAD) 1.

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The Council of the London Borough of Southwark hereby gives notice that because of highway works, it intends to make an order the effect of which will be to prohibit vehicular traffic from entering part of the above named roads

Whilst works are in progress, and whilst the authorised traffic signs are displayed, no person shall cause any vehicle to enter, proceed, stop, wait, load or unload in (a) (b) (c) (d) (e) (f) (g) (h)

Avonmouth Street, between Newington Causeway and Tiverton Street Borland Road, between Stuart Road and Sartor Road Borland Road, between Sartor Road and Inverton Road Guy Street, between Kipling Street and Weston Street Leroy Street, between Old Kent Road and Tower Bridge Road Nutt Street, between Sumner Road to blocked end Parkers Row, between Jamaica Road to Dockhead Stuart Road, between Cheltenham Road and Borland Road

An alternative route for traffic will be via (a) Newington Causeway, Elephant & Castle, Meadow Row, Rockingham Street, Tiverton Street. Tiverton Street, Rockingham Street, Bath Terrace, Harper Road, Newington Causeway. (b) phase 1: Inverton Road, Surrey Road, Cheltenham Road. Reynolds Road, Borland Road, Hichisson Road, Rye Road. (c) Phase 2: Ivydale Road, Bellwood Road, Rye Road, Stuart Road. Stuart Road, Rye Road, Surrey Road, Ivydale Road. (d) Kipling Street, Long Lane, Weston Street. (e) Tower Bridge Road, Bricklayers Arms. Old Kent Road, Mandela Way, Dunton Road, Grange Road, Tower Bridge Road. (f) access maintained. (g) Jamaica Road, George Row, Wolseley Street.

Wolseley Street, Mill Street, Jacob Street, George Row, Jamaica Road, Rotherhithe Roundabout Jamaica Road. (h) Borland Road, Reynolds Road, Cheltenham 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.

Further information may be obtained by contacting Road Network & Parking Management on 0207 525 2014.

Nicky Costin Road Network & Parking Business Manager

Southwark Council Regulatory Services, Parking & Road Network Management, PO Box 64529 London SE1 5LX Ref: 2960/ LBS-SC1448000. 2962/ LBS-SC1447997. 2967/ LBS-SC1448001. 2968/ LBSSC1447998. 2970/ LBS-SC1448077. 2971/ LBS-SC1447999. 2972/ LBS-SC1447996.

LONDON BOROUGH OF SOUTHWARK

ROAD TRAFFIC REGULATION ACT 1984 SECTION 14(1) (CROWN STREET, UNION STREET, O’MEARA STREET)

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TEMPORARY PROHIBITION OF TRAFFIC

The Council of the London Borough of Southwark hereby gives notice that to enable Thames Water (Agility Alliance) to lay new water connections, it intends to make an order the effect of which will be to prohibit vehicular traffic from entering part of the above named road.

Whilst works are in progress, and whilst the authorised traffic signs are displayed, no person shall cause any vehicle to enter, proceed, stop, wait, load or unload in: (a) (b) (c) (d)

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Crown Street, between Wyndham Road and Bowyer Street Crown Street, between Bowyer Street and Sultan Street Union Street, between Ayres Street and Southwark Bridge Road O’meara Street at its junction with Union Street for approximately 15m north of Union Street

TEMPORARY PROHIBITION OF TRAFFIC

The Council of the London Borough of Southwark hereby gives notice that to enable works

by Virgin Media, 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 Stones End Street between Borough Road and Great Suffolk Street.

An alternative route will be via, Borough Road, Borough High Street, Great Suffolk 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 come into operation between the 4th – 6th January 2016.

Further information may be obtained by contacting Road Network & Parking Management on 0207 525 2014.

Dated this 17th December 2015 Nicky Costin Road Network & Parking

Business Manager Southwark Council Regulatory Services, Parking & Road Network Management, PO Box 64529 London SE1 5LX Ref: 2980/ /SSEMPL/100067724 LONDON BOROUGH OF SOUTHWARK

Works will take place for (a) 12th January 2016. (b) (c) 14th January 2016. (d) 11th – 12th January 2016. (e) 12th January 2016. (f) 13th – 14th January 2016. (g) 11th January 2016. (h) 14th January 2016.

Dated this 17th December 2015

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ROAD TRAFFIC REGULATION ACT 1984 SECTION 14(1) (STONES END STREET)

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The Council of the London Borough of Southwark hereby gives notice that to enable a crane operation by Road Traffic Solutions, 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 Weston Street, between Long Lane for approximately 25m in a northerly direction.

An alternative route will be via Long Lane, Bermondsey Street, Tower Bridge Road, Druid Street, Snowsfields, Weston Street, Long Lane, 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 works will come into operation on the 9th January 2016.

Further information may be obtained by contacting Road Network & Parking Management on 0207 525 2014.

Dated this 17th December 2015 Nicky Costin Road Network & Parking Business Manager

Southwark Council Regulatory Services, Parking & Road Network Management, PO Box 64529 London SE1 5LX Ref: 2981/LBSCR8646-1

An alternative route will be via; (a) (b) Wyndham Road, Camberwell Road, Bethwin Road, Sultan Street. (c) Southwark Bridge Road, Marshalsea Road, Ayres Street. (d) Thrale Street, Southwark Bridge Road, Union Street.

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

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

The works will take place for (a) (b) 5th – 14th January 2016 and will be carried out in 2 phases. (c) 6th – 12th January 2016. (d) 13th – 19th January 2016.

Further information may be obtained by contacting Road Network & Parking Management on 0207 525 2014.

Dated this 17th December 2015 Nicky Costin Road Network & Parking Business Manager

Southwark Council, Regulatory Services, Road Network Management, PO Box 64529 London SE1 5LX Ref: 2976/ 000801592570040-001 2979/ 000801907020230-001.7.7 2978/ 000801907020195-001.3.4

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PLANNING AND COMPULSORY PURCHASE ACT 2004 The Town and Country Planning (Local Planning) (England) Regulations 2012

NOTICE OF ADOPTION OF THE REVISED CANADA WATER AREA ACTION PLAN (2015)

In accordance with Regulation 26 and Regulation 35 of the Town and Country Planning (Local Planning) (England) Regulations 2012, notice is hereby given that THE LONDON BOROUGH OF SOUTHWARK (“the Council”) formally adopted the “Revised Canada Water Area Action Plan (2015)” on 25 November 2015 and produced an Adoption Statement to this effect.

The AAP was originally agreed in March 2012 and sets out the vision and policy that guides the development of the area. In 2011 the Daily Mail announced it would be moving its printworks away from Harmsworth Quays. We have revised the AAP to put in place a policy framework to guide a redevelopment of Harmsworth Quays and take account of the implications of this for the wider area.

Copies of the Adoption Statement, the Revised Canada Water Area Action Plan (2015), the Sustainability Appraisal, the Sustainability Appraisal Adoption statement, the Equalities Analysis, the Appropriate Assessment, the updated Adopted Policies Map and the Consultation Report are available for inspection free of charge on the council's website: www.southwark.gov.uk/canadawateraap and at Canada Water library, Abbeyfield Road housing services office and on request at the Council’s offices at 160 Tooley Street (see addresses below)

Any person aggrieved by the Revised Canada Water Area Action Plan (2015) may make an application to the High Court under Section 113 of the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004 on the grounds that either: (i) (ii)

the Revised Canada Water Area Action Plan (2015) is not within the powers conferred by Part 2 of the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004, and/or that a procedural requirement of the Act or its associated Regulations has not been complied with.

Any such application must be made promptly and in any event no later than six (6) weeks after the date on which the Revised Canada Water Area Action Plan (2015) was adopted (i.e. no later than 6 January 2016).

NOTICE OF CONSULTATION ON THE NEW SOUTHWARK PLAN PREFERRED OPTION

The New Southwark Plan will provide the overarching planning framework for the borough. It will cover topics including how much and what type of new housing should be provided and where it should be located. It will also cover how much space is needed for employment and of what type, where community facilities and social infrastructure should be provided, which open spaces we should continue to protect, what environmental and design standards should be applied to development and what strategic transport improvements will be supported.

It will replace the adopted Core Strategy (2011) and the saved policies of the Southwark Plan (2007) and it will form the development plan for Southwark alongside the London Plan and any area action plans.

The New Southwark Plan Preferred Option sets out an emerging planning and regeneration strategy for Southwark alongside proposed planning policies that will address key development challenges and issues over the coming years. In accordance with Regulation 18 of the The Town and Country Planning (Local Planning) (England) Regulations 2012 the Council is consulting on the Preferred Option to allow residents, businesses and other organisations to shape the updated strategy and policies. The New Southwark Plan Preferred Option is available for public consultation from 1 January 2016 to 12 February 2016.

NOTICE OF CONSULTATION ON THE SOUTHWARK DRAFT DEVELOPMENT VIABILITY SUPPLEMENTARY PLANNING DOCUMENT (SPD)

The Southwark Draft Development Viability SPD sets out the Council’s proposed approach to viability assessments submitted to support planning applications which does not propose policy compliant affordable housing contributions for reasons of viability. The draft SPD proposes detailed implementation guidance on currently adopted local planning policies related to affordable housing in the Core Strategy (2011) and saved policies of the Southwark Plan (2007), as well as the London Plan (2015) and the emerging policies of the New Southwark Plan.

In accordance with Regulation 12 of the Town and Country Planning (Local Planning) (England) Regulations 2012 the Council is consulting on the draft Development Viability SPD from 6 January 2016 to 17 February 2016.

How to comment on the New Southwark Plan Preferred Option and the Draft Development Viability SPD

You can make representations on the New Southwark Plan Preferred Option and on the Draft Development Viability SPD by writing a letter and sending it by freepost to Planning policy, Chief Executive’s Department, FREEPOST SE1919/14, London, SE1P 5LX or by e-mail to planningpolicy@southwark.gov.uk

The council will keep you updated on the progress of the New Southwark Plan and the Draft Development Viability SPD if you make representations and will let you know in advance of further consultation.

Deadline for submitting comments on the New Southwark Plan Preferred Option All representations must be submitted to the council by 5pm on Friday 12 February 2016.

Deadline for submitting comments on the Draft Development Viability SPD All representations must be submitted to the council by 5pm on Wednesday 17 February 2016.

Where to view the documents and get copies of representations forms

The New Southwark Plan Preferred Option and supporting documents and the Draft Development Viability SPD and supporting documents are available on the Council’s website at http://www.southwark.gov.uk/info/856/planning_policy and in hard copy to view at the locations listed below. You can request copies of these documents from the planning policy team on 020 7525 5471 (between 9am- 5pm, Monday-Friday) or email planningpolicy@southwark.gov.uk.

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The Council of the London Borough of Southwark hereby gives notice that to facilitate resurfacing works by Linden Homes, 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 the 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 Pocock Street at its junction with Blackfriars Road and Rushworth Street.

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

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

The works will be in place between the 4th – 8th January 2016.

Further information may be obtained by contacting Road Network & Parking Management on 0207 525 2014.

Nicky Costin Road Network & Parking Business Manager

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ROAD TRAFFIC REGULATION ACT 1984 SECTION 14(1) (PARK STREET)

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The Council of the London Borough of Southwark hereby gives notice that to facilitate a crane operation by Road Traffic Solutions, 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 Park Street between Sumner Street and Emerson Street.

The alternative route would be via: Park Street, Redcross Way, Southwark Street, Great Guildford Street.

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

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

The works will be in place on the 9th January 2016.

Further information may be obtained by contacting Road Network & Parking Management on 0207 525 2014.

Dated this 17th December 2015 Nicky Costin Road Network & Parking Business Manager

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TEMPORARY PROHIBITION OF TRAFFIC

The Council of the London Borough of Southwark hereby gives notice that because of works

by Thames Water (Agility Alliance) in the above named roads, it intends to make an order the effect of which will be to prohibit vehicular traffic from waiting and loading at any time in part of Plough Way and Pytchley Road.

Whilst the restriction is in progress, and whilst the authorised traffic signs are displayed, no person shall cause any vehicle to wait, including waiting for the purpose of loading and unloading at any time in: (a) (b)

Plough Way, between Yeoman Street and Marine Wharf, on the northern and southern kerb line.

Pytchley Road, between Bromar Road and Quorn Road on the northern and southern kerb line.

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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.

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ROAD TRAFFIC REGULATION ACT 1984 SECTION 14(1) (PLOUGH WAY, PYTCHLEY ROAD) TEMPORARY WAITING AND LOADING RESTRICTIONS

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 come into force for (a) 7th – 13th January 2016. (b) 9th – 18th January 2016.

Further information may be obtained by contacting Road Network & Parking Management on 0207 525 2014.

Dated this 17th December 2015 Nicky Costin Road Network & Parking Business Manager

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SCOTNEY TARGETS 2016 EURO CROWN

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SEVENTEEN-YEAR-OLD boxer Ellie Scotney hopes 2016 will see her crowned European champion after a year where she swept board domestically.

The teenage Lynn ABC fighter picked up an ABA youth title and Three Nations crown this year but she subsequently underachieved at the European Youth Championship.

But the U60kg boxer bounced back in style last month when she won the Golden Girl Championships in Sweden, which included a win over World Youth Finalist and home favourite Stephanie Thour.

Scotney said: “It was a shock in

Patterson New Year return EAST DULWICH fighter Ahmet Patterson will hope to kick off 2016 in style when he returns to the ring in January.

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The 28-year-old seems destined for a title shot of some kind in the next twelve months and he starts his year with a warm up bout at York Hall, Bethnal Green on January 22.

The super welterweight’s opponent has not yet been named as Patterson looks to add to a fight record of sixteen wins from as many contests.

The Southwark man was last in action in September when he stopped Giorgi Ungiadze in eight rounds at Wembley Arena.

some ways as the world number two who I beat was not even in my category [one for more inexperienced boxers] to start with, so to beat her and win it was amazing.

“I was over the moon at winning that competition as when I competed in the European Championships earlier in the year I didn’t do myself justice.

“I didn’t feel like I was myself in the Euro’s and I didn’t box as I should, but at the Golden Girls I went back to what I am good at and I ended up winning a gold and the best young boxer in the tournament.”

But overall the Camberwell based fighter was happy with her 2015,

Ellie Scotney celebrates at the recent Golden Girl Championships in Sweden

she added: “If I had to rate my year it would be a seven, maybe eight, out of ten. I won the ABA’s, the Three Nations and the Golden Girls tournament.

“Obviously the Europeans did not go the way I wanted and that is where I want to improve next year.

I want to defend my ABA and Three Nations crowns and get closer to winning the Euro’s, obviously with the aim of winning them.”

She is now ready to forgo any Christmas celebrations to step up that next level: “I will not be an unknown next year so people will be planning to beat me.

“I also have to watch out that there isn’t somebody out there who will

Little gives up title Gar ton craves

Johnny Garton’s next fight should be a title shot. But against who?

By John Prendergast

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PECKHAM BOXER Johnny Garton looks set to get a shot at a vacated English welterweight crown after champion Adam Little relinquished his title.

Little defended his belt against

do what I did and come from nowhere to win things.

“I just have to work hard, probably harder than before, and look to beat the standards I set myself every day. If I do that, and box like I can do, in 2016 I think I can win all those titles.”

She added: “I can’t do all this without the support of a lot of people at the Lynn but also people and organisations who have supported me financially and in other ways.

“So with that in mind I have to thank Oxford University who have helped me out with kit and training camps and Rob Edwards who has provided invaluable support to me this year and in the past.”

By John Prendergast

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“I stopped Pearce, who is a bigger man, so the strength that I have will be more to my advantage boxing down a weight.”

Garton earned his shot at the English welterweight crown when he defeated Martin Welsh earlier this year. The Peckham man was last in action two weeks ago when he defeated Casey Blair on points.

Cheeseman O2 no show The Bermondsey welterweight was due to appear on the Anthony Joshua undercard at the weekend but due to

Surrey’s Curran Lions debut SURREY PACEMAN Tom Curran made his international bow on Sunday when he played for the England Lions against Pakistan ‘A’ in Dubai.

Steven Pearce in Blackpool on Saturday but decided to give it up after coming out on top against his West Midlands opponent.

Little told the Blackpool Gazette he will come down a weight, to lightwelterweight, in future. He said: “I had no trouble in making the weight when I boxed in Monaco in my previous fight.

Ted Cheeseman had to miss out on a fight at the 02 Arena on Saturday after paramedics failed to arrive at the venue in time for his bout, writes John Prendergast...

Ted Cheeseman is back in action next month

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circumstances he could not have anticipated his bout against Ian Henry was called off at the last minute.

Promoter Eddie Hearn told IFLtv: “There was an accident and the ambulance service the board provided was stuck in it.

“Unfortunately for those boys, who we tried to fit in during the evening they, they didn’t fight.

They still get paid but I am sure they would prefer to have fought.

The 20-year-old was a key figure in Surrey’s promotion success last season and he was rewarded with a place in the international development squad.

Curran picked up figures of two for fifteen in the T20 contest as England levelled the five match series with one game to go.

The Surrey man told the ECB website: “Getting selected was a huge honour. I was disappointed to have been left out previously but that probably made playing a little bit sweeter.

“I was a little bit nervous, but there was also excitement, and the nerves eased after the first few balls, and I was just enjoying the moment.”

He added: “It was a good day. We want to get another win and level the series – I’m looking forward to the decider now.”

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“But if there are no paramedics there is nothing you can do about it.”

Cheeseman tweeted: “Sorry to everyone who come to watch me last night the paramedics turned up late and I never managed to box but will be out on January 30.”

That bout is due to take place at the Copper Box Arena although Cheeseman’s opponent has not yet been announced. The Bermondsey man currently has a pro record of two wins for two bouts.

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Fisher face ‘must win’ game this weekend

Dan Sweeney has left Champion Hill for Maidstone after hefty speculation about his future

By John Prendergast

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FISHER FC boss Dean Harrison believes this weekend’s game against Holmesdale is a game his side must win if they are to avoid a relegation dog fight.

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The Southern Counties East contest at Champion Hill pits the Bermondsey side against a team rock bottom of the league.

But such has been Fisher’s form this campaign they are just five points, and two league places, above the Bromley outfit.

Just one side will exit the division

through the trap door but Harrison believes his side need the breathing space a weekend win would bring.

The Black and Whites gaffer said: “This Saturday is an absolute must win game and there is no doubt about that.

“In the last three games we were of course looking for points but we knew they would be difficult games to get anything from.

“I have had a look at our next eight to nine games and they are all winnable, now we need to do what we haven’t in the first half of the season and that is to take points off the teams in and around us.”

Last Saturday the Fish suffered a 6-3 reverse against league leaders Hollands & Blair following a season long pattern of spirited, but ultimately losing, battles against top teams and disappointing showings against sides near the Southwark club in the table.

Harrison said: “I made a lot of changes last weekend as I have not been happy about the attitude and the conduct of some of the players.

“That can be in training, or when they are on the bench or if they are left out. I was not sure about some members of the squad and I think there are a couple of bad eggs amongst them and that can lead

to a bad stink in the whole dressing room.

“I made the changes as I wanted an honest performance and I think the boys were happy with that in the changing room afterwards.”

After the game Harrison had a meeting with supporters and board members at Fisher where he sought to get some things off his chest.

He told the News: “I wanted to know I had the support of the Chairman and the fans about what I want to do at Fisher this season and going forward.

“I have been feeling isolated at times and this is my first managers position and I wanted everybody to know how I am

feeling. Communication is a key thing for me.

“I feel I wanted to clear the air. I think the meeting was quite positive and it ended well.”

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off for that day.

“But doing well in the league is what is important to us in the long haul this season.”

Speaking about his team’s showing last Saturday he added: “I thought it was a professional performance on a difficult pitch against a team who were better than last season, despite the fact they now play in the league below us now.

Rose said he hoped for nothing more than a home draw in the next round of the competition, a wish he was granted and Hamlet will face Vanarama National League side Guiseley who overcame Evostick Northern Premier side Burscough in a Tuesday night Trophy replay.

Midfielder Dan Sweeney has finally departed Champion Hill, for Maidstone Untied, after weeks of speculation regarding his future.

The ex-Kingstonian man only joined Hamlet in October but after scoring six goals in his first six games interest in him

appeared to hit fever pitch.

Rose said: “There has been so much speculation in terms of moving on, including professional clubs, since he joined us and Maidstone were the latest ones to show interest.

“We took the view that there was so much going on around the player that maybe wasn’t good for him or the team.

“We said to him to go and talk to them and if he liked what he saw then he should move on. We have to think about the long term of the team and him.”

Dulwich were knocked off top spot in the Ryman Premier League last Saturday, Tonbridge Angels were above Hamlet and Kingstonian on goal difference, whilst they were in cup action.

On Tuesday night Leiston visited Champion Hill for a league fixture and a Nyren Clunis equaliser was enough for Dulwich to secure a point in a 1-1 draw.

The result saw Hamlet retake the league lead from Tonbridge who did not play that evening.

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HAMLET GAFFER Gavin Rose has said FA Trophy fixtures will play second fiddle to league contests even if Dulwich make further inroads in the competition.

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A spirited Fisher display led to no points against league leaders Hollands & Blair

The Pink and Blues made it to the last 32 of the tournament last weekend thanks to a 2-1 away win against Ryman North outfit Bury Town, who were relegated from the Ryman Premier League last season.

The allure of a day out at Wembley Stadium, should Hamlet make the final, however is not enough to turn the head of Rose whose gaze is firmly fixed on promotion from the Ryman Premier League.

He told the News: “At no point would the FA Trophy be a higher priority than the league in my opinion. That is not to say we would not put our strongest team out to win a game that would be a one

Fleetdown United 0 Stansfeld O&B Club 2

By Lloyd Bradley

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STANSFELD MADE it three wins in a row thanks to a comfortable victory away at Fleetdown United, with the victory lifting them to fourth place in the Kent County League Premier Division.

The game itself was a pretty dour affair with very few chances.

The very strong wind blowing down the pitch didn't help the flow of the game with the ball spending more time off the pitch than on it.

Jesse Thackham opened the scoring, and his first team goals account, when his 25 yard strike looped over the Fleetdown keeper’s head with the aid of a deflection.

Billy Jolley had a chance to double Stansfeld's lead when he found himself clear at the far post, but his stabbed effort went just wide.

After a brace of Fleetdown chances

Stansfeld top scorer Billy Shinners had an effort blocked by a last ditch challenge and then Charlie Burgess came close with a far post header from a Mickey Smith corner.

Stansfeld eventually got the chance to double their lead after Shinners was brought down in the box by a clumsy challenge.

Billy Jolley sent the keeper the wrong way from the penalty spot to bag his ninth goal this campaign.

The second half was a bit of a nonevent with only a couple of chances. The

SOUTHERN COUNTIES EAST FOOTBALL LEAGUE Holmesdale (H) Sat Dec 19 @ 3pm

best of which occurred when Shinners delayed getting his shot off after being put through one on one with the keeper.

James Bradley in the Stansfeld goal had to make his only save of note in whole the game, when a mishit cross from the left got caught in the wind forcing him to quickly back peddle before tipping the ball over for a corner.

Stansfeld Reserves won 2-1 at Bexliains to remain top of the Kent County League Division One West. Darren Wise, George Martin, Mickey Smith, Mark McKenna and Ryan Hassan got goal scorer Jesse Thackham, Billy Shinners and Sam Ryan celebrate at the weekend. the Stansfeld goals.

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Three on the bounce for Stansfeld

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Mo rison keen for ‘ derby’ a fter Oldham w as hou t

Southwark News, Thursday December 17, 2015

MILLWALL’S STEVE Morison admitted it was a “pain” that last Saturday’s journey to Oldham was a waste after referee Richard Clark called off the game just an hour and a half before kick-off, writes John Kelly...

But Morison insisted the squad quickly switched their focus to this Saturday’s clash with Gillingham at The Den. Millwall face successive home tests against top-four sides to try to climb into the top six for the first time this season before signing off the year with another trip to Southend.

Morison was disappointed they didn’t get that opportunity against David Dunn’s side.

“It was a pain, to be honest,”

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A YEAR ago, an air of grim inevitability hung over the future of Ian Holloway as Millwall’s status as a Championship club began to feel more and more perilous.

Christmas brought no cheer as the Lions carried their wretched form into and beyond the festive period as they lost 1-0 at home to Bolton Wanderers in the corresponding fixture last season before being flattened 6-1 by Norwich City on Boxing Day. They never really pulled their hopes of survival up off the canvas after that and it was the Canaries again who delivered the knockout blow to Holloway’s Millwall career after a 4-1 win at The Den in the return

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The pitch at Oldham last Saturday was deemed unplayable after incessant rain

Morison said. “I’d looked at all the games we’ve got coming up and I thought Oldham was the most important because it’s a team down at the bottom on a bad run of form.

It’s a game you have to win.

“The Gillingham and Walsall games at home will take care of themselves, so will Southend away.

You don’t need to worry about getting yourself up for those games, they’re going to be massive.

“The Oldham game was important, and we’d done everything right.

We’d gone up there and we were in good shape and very confident.

Obviously it was called off but we dusted ourselves down and went again on Monday and Tuesday, worked hard and we start preparing Thursday for Gillingham on

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Saturday.”

The club are expecting a sizeable home crowd this weekend for the second-last home game of the year, despite its proximity to Christmas and the busy shopping period.

And Morison admitted that, with no other London club in League One this season, the Lions players will be treating the fixture against the Kent side like a derby.

“We don’t have many derbies in this league, do we? It’s definitely one of them and we’re looking forward to it,” he said.

“It’ll be a massive game. They’ve been on a good run of form despite a defeat last weekend when they had a man sent off. But we’re just focussed on trying to get the three points.”

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fixture.

Neil Harris was appointed caretaker boss three days later and the mood around the club is wholly different with the Lions in eighth place in the League One table and with a Football League Trophy area final to look forward to.

The Millwall boss has also followed through on his promise to integrate several of the club’s most promising academy players into his first team and looks to have got the correct balance between that strategy and maintaining a promotion push.

This isn’t the worst time to be facing Gillingham, either. The Gills surrendered their twelve-game unbeaten home record this season when they lost 3-0 at home to Burton Albion last Saturday. They haven’t won away since beating Crewe 1-0 on October 17 and will be without their captain Doug Loft this

weekend after he was sent off in the first half against the Brewers.

Still, Justin Edinburgh’s side might feel the same about Millwall, whose league form has stuttered recently with two defeats in their last three games.

The Lions, however, have no suspension worries this weekend and an injury list that currently contains only captain Tony Craig’s name.

Jimmy Abdou (pictured right) played 90 minutes for the U21s in their 1-0 Professional Development League Two win over Watford on Monday night and the midfielder should be in contention to play a part this weekend.

Otherwise, Harris, against another of his former clubs, could name the same starting eleven that defeated Southend 2-0 in their last outing ten days ago.

Millwall vs. Gillingham Form guide (Last five games): M i l l w a l l : LW L LW G i l l i n g h a m : W LW D L Match odds: Millwall Evs Draw 13/5 Gillingham 13/5 Probable Millwall team: 4-4-2: Archer; Edwards, We b s t e r , B e e v e r s , J M a r t i n ; O ’ B r i e n , Wi l l i a m s , S a v i l l e , U p s o n ; G r e g o r y, M o r i s o n .

Last league meeting: League One, April 2010 Millwall 4 (Batt 27, Craig 35, Schofield 60, Harris 66) Gillingham 0

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Southwark News, Thursday December 17, 2015

The Lions stopper hasn’t given up hope of appearing in France

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By John Kelly

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FTER BEING so used to watching him in the number one goalkeeper’s shirt, Millwall fans have glimpsed David Forde in action just once since he lost his place to Jordan Archer in August, writes John Kelly...

Besides that appearance in the first round of the FA Cup, those who arrive in the ground early enough will also see him go through the specialised warm-up routine with Archer and goalkeeping coach Kevin Pressman: keepy-uppies and then a series of long throws and kicks to limber up before kick-off.

Forde said this week he had offers to leave the club in the summer and at one point a move to Fulham looked inevitable but never happened.

That was when he was still the Lions’ first choice and one wonders if he had had any inclination of how difficult Millwall’s start to the season would be or the pace of Archer’s development would his decision have been any different.

In between then and now he was part of the Republic of Ireland squad that improbably resurrected their

Euro 2016 qualification hopes with a 1-0 win over world champions Germany to then claim their place in the tournament via a play-off victory over Bosnia.

Four years ago Forde was part of Giovanni Trapattoni’s squad that lost all three of their group games to rank lowest of all sixteen countries that qualified for the finals in Poland.

Last weekend Martin O’Neill’s side drew a similarly short straw and they will battle for a place in the second round with Sweden, Belgium and Italy.

Ireland used three goalkeepers during the qualifying campaign, but Stoke City’s Shay Given will be 40 before the tournament in France starts and Darren Randolph isn’t Slaven Bilic’s first choice at West Ham. Given those circumstances, Forde could very well find himself in contention for a starting spot next summer, so the question could arise if there are similar offers when the January transfer window opens will he be tempted to end his seven-anda-half year association with Millwall?

The way he speaks with such enthusiasm about the experience in Poland and the prospect of representing his country in a major finals tournament, it’s not a stretch to think it would be difficult to reject

the possibility of first-team club football elsewhere.

“It’s a tough draw, it reminds me of the previous Euros when we had the Group of Death as well,” Forde said.

“Sweden will be a difficult opening fixture, as will Italy and Belgium as well. It’s going to be difficult but hopefully we can do better than we did four years ago and give a better account of ourselves. It gives us a chance to put that right.

“It’s come together really well for us. We were on the ropes at times during the campaign but we always felt we could qualify. I think it’s a fantastic achievement that in the group we were in with Germany, Poland and Scotland that we finished so emphatically with some huge results.

“Hopefully we can bring some glory days back to the nation again.

It’s certainly given the nation a lot of confidence and we’re looking forward to getting to the Euros.

“It was good the last time because leading up to it we were unbeaten in (fourteen) games and had so many clean sheets. The form was excellent. Unfortunately it was just the way the tournament fizzled out, really, after we had gone there with high hopes.

“I think it’s about manging our expectations as a nation and as a team as well.

“It’s been a team effort, really,

which was very pleasing. “(O’Neill) has been inspirational, as have Roy (Keane) and the whole backroom staff. A lot of it has been down to the lads as well. I know people speak about the manager but I don’t think as players we got the credit we deserve.

“If you look at some of the nations we’ve played against, their players are playing in top leagues so for us to go and do that was immense.”

Before all of that, there is another Christmas away from Galway in the west of Ireland where he is from and a Boxing Day clash with Walsall at the Den. But he is pleased that after training in the morning he won’t have to leave his family in the afternoon to travel to a hotel for an away fixture.

“I have family at home in Galway but this is our busiest period with a lot of games over a short period of time,” Forde said. “I’ve got my mum, dad, brothers and sisters, I’ve a lot of family over there. My wife’s also from Galway so she has a lot of family over there as well.

“Sometimes we get parents or brothers or sisters coming over, it depends on what’s on. That’s what we’re used to, I’ve been in it a long time now.

“Most times we’re in on Christmas Day. But I think this is only the second time in eight years that we’ve had a home game at The Den

the following day. .

“It’s going to be nice to spend the whole day at home for Christmas because normally we’d have to leave at three or four o’clock and meet up in a hotel, so it’s a special time this year to be able to stay at home with the kids.

“And it’s a time for the kids, really.

We’ll just chill out and have a nice meal. I burn water but my wife is a fantastic cook so I’m looking forward to it.

“That’s the way it is at Christmas, that’s football. We’ve grown up with that and that’s what we’ve got to do.”

Forde knows how quickly things change in football. Little over a year ago he was first choice for club and country and it could be that Archer suffers the first real dip of his career and the experience of Forde is needed once more. He says he is ready in the event of a recall to the side, which would put him on track to at least securing a place in O’Neill’s finals squad.

“That’s the dream, that’s the plan,” he said. “I still feel I’m in with a shout. It’s seven months away so there’s a lot of football to be played between now and then and a lot can happen in that time. I’m just keeping my mindset right, keeping my focus that my opportunity will arrive. I’m opportunity-ready and that’s all you can be.”

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the moment, with his current deal due to expire next summer.

“That’s up to the club,” he said. “It’s usually January or February when these things get sorted and we’ll see

what happens then.

“No one has said anything to me yet so I’ll just keep plugging away and hopefully do enough to earn myself another contract.”

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By John Kelly

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THE CHRISTMAS football schedule is “ridiculous”, according to Millwall’s current captain.

The Lions face Walsall at home on Boxing Day before a clash with Southend 48 hours later.

However, Steve Morison also sees the period as an opportunity to improve Millwall’s current league position and give themselves a good platform from which to challenge for promotion heading into the New Year.

Morison also accepts that December 25 is just “another day” for footballers preparing for an imminent league game.

“It’s a difficult time of year having to play two games in three days – it’s ridiculous, really,” the 32-year-old said. “It’s not good for anyone and I don’t think you get the best out of yourself, which is frustrating.

“Obviously, Christmas Day you go and do your training and then have your Christmas dinner and try to stay away from the Quality Street and After Eights!

“It’s another day for us. I don’t think we’ll get to really enjoy Christmas until after we finish playing. We’ve got a game Saturday, one Boxing Day and a game two days later.

“It’s a hectic time but one that if you come out the other end of it with more positive results than negative you can put yourself in a very good position.”

Morison took over the captaincy of the team in early November after Tony Craig’s injury, but says it hasn’t

fundamentally altered his approach to the game.

“It was something that the manger asked me to do before the season even started, to be a captain on the pitch,” he explained.

“Unfortunately Tony got injured and I ended up doing it in an official capacity. But it hasn’t changed me or the way I play.

“A lot of the players look to me and a few others in the dressing room and the only difference is I’ve to wear an armband.

“I’m not a massive talker, I’m more of a doer. I say a few things and sometimes try to crack a joke to make everyone laugh and relax. Sometimes you have to be more serious like we were against Southend because we’d been poor in the game before that.”

Morison stressed he isn’t allowing himself to think of the possibility of wearing the armband at Wembley should Millwall edge past Oxford in the Johnstone’s Paint Trophy area final.

And he joked that Craig has an eye on denying him that honour anyway.

“We’ve got a massive game against Oxford first and they will be thinking the same thing,” Morison said.

“Tony’s even said to me it’s in April and he reckons he could be back for it and take the armband straight back off me. I think that’s his motivation at the minute!

“I’ve lead a team out at Wembley before and won and it was a great experience. I’ve played at Wembley five or six times and for me it’s just another game of football. I’ve also lost there a couple of times with

Wales whereas from a club point of view I’ve been pretty successful and long may that continue.”

Morison, meanwhile, says he isn’t worried about his contract situation at

FORDE: “IT’S CRUCIAL WE INTERACT WITH THE COMMUNITY” Millwall stars make annual visit to Lewisham Hospital

By John Kelly

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DAVID FORDE and Steve Morison were among a number of Millwall players who spoke with and handed out gifts to young and elderly patients during the club’s annual visit to Lewisham Hospital on Tuesday.

Millwall were involved in the Save Lewisham Hospital campaign two

years ago, and Forde emphasised that it’s important that players “give a little back”.

“I think it’s crucial that we interact with the community” he said.

“Lewisham Hospital has been a big part of Millwall for many years and I remember a couple of years ago we fought hard with a campaign to keep A & E open, which was a great success and they managed to do that.

“It’s that time of year where we can

give a little back and it’s just great to see so many kids with smiles on their faces.

“It puts everything in perspective.

Football is football, that’s our job and we’re pretty blessed in what we do so it’s good to get that sense of reality.”

Morison echoed his team-mate’s sentiments.

“It’s just good to do and gives you a sense of realism that we live in a bubble. It’s nice to come out and see

the kids,” Morison said. “It makes their day, makes them happy. I’ve done this in places where the kids aren’t going home for Christmas so it’s nice to speak to them and give them something different in their day.

“It’s humbling for us as well to come out here, and they put a smile on our faces as much as we do on theirs.

“I’ve got a little boy who’s four and obviously you hope you’ll never end up in a hospital over Christmas.”

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AVID FORDE has admitted he wasn’t happy when he was dropped by his former teammate Neil Harris this season – but stressed he understood the reasons for his manager’s decision.

Forde lost his place in the side to Jordan Archer in August and has started just one game since, in the first round of the FA Cup against AFC Fylde.

Asked if he was disappointed

about being left out of the side with Archer taking the number one jersey, he said: “Absolutely, but that’s football and it’s given me an opportunity and chance to reflect. I’ve played a lot of football in the last seven or eight years, 333 games played for Millwall.

“I understand football, I understand the situation I’m in at the moment but I’ve had the opportunity to rest physically, mentally and emotionally.

“I’m starting to get back to the level I feel I was at. It’s just a natural cycle, it’s hard to maintain that level of consistency

for such a long period of time, with international football as well.

“Reflecting on it now, at the time when it initially happens you’re not best pleased but as time goes by you do start to see the bigger picture.

“I think it’s about a level of maturity and how people accept these things. We’ve had a great relationship for many years, Neil and myself, and I said to him I wasn’t happy with his decision but I understood where he was coming from and I’m here to help Millwall.

“I’ve been here a long time and

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EIL HARRIS is pleased to have the experience of midfielder Jimmy Abdou to call on over a busy Christmas period when Millwall will play three games in nine days, starting with Gillingham at The Den this Saturday.

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that’s where I stand.”

Archer, 22, has spoken of Forde’s positive influence and the advice he has offered to his younger rival this season, but the Republic of Ireland player shrugs off any praise and says his tutoring role this season doesn’t necessarily mean he’s thinking of a career in coaching at the moment.

“That’s just me as a person,” he said. “I’ve still got many years left in me playing and I haven’t really thought about going down that route yet.

“I’m still in peak physical condition.”

Abdou, 31, hasn’t started in a senior Lions shirt since suffering serious damage to his collarbone in early October, but he played the full 90 minutes in the U21 side’s 1-0- win at Watford last Monday.

“He came through okay and he did well,” Harris said. “He travelled to Oldham last weekend and he’s certainly in my thinking this Saturday.

“With the amount of games we have in a short space of time over the Christmas period and also with the sustained run in the Johnstone’s Paint Trophy, Jimmy being back in the squad is a real bonus and a welcome addition.

“The players who have been playing have done really well but every manager would love to have a player of Jimmy’s athleticism and quality available.”

Meanwhile, it could be after this run of games before the futures of on-loan duo George Saville and Shane Ferguson are known.

Harris would like Wolves and Newcastle to extend the deals, but said he understands the positions those clubs are in. He explained: “We’ve got players out on loan and the idea was to give them experience and games that they’re not getting at their parent club, so Newcastle are exactly the same. Sometimes it’s not a decision that can be made weeks or months in advance.

“Sometimes you want to see how your squad is shaping up prior to a renewal date, so those clubs are doing the same.

They’re going to wait until after the Christmas period to see the size of their squads and if everyone’s fit and available before deciding whether they’re going to be extending their loans.

“Both players have done well for us and been good additions to our squad, they’ve made us a better squad. We’ll weigh everything up at the turn of the year and see their availability before seeing if they’ll be staying with us.”

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