Southwark News - March 26th 2015

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Issue 1213

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News asks how procedures missed a 5ft WW2 bomb joey@southwarknews.co.uk

explosive was not detected in a risk review completed prior to construction work beginning.

AFTER THOUSANDS of Bermondsey residents were evacuated following the discovery of an unexploded WW2 bomb in a building site on Monday, questions are being asked as to why the

The Grange Walk bomb was 5ftlong and weighed 1000lbs - and would have caused serious damage and loss of life if it had detonated.

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By Joey Millar

The Bermondsey bomb is safely detonated after being taken to Kent (Main)

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Hidden history

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BLITZ SPIRIT’ is one of those phrases that probably gets a bit overused - but this week it really was appropriate as Bermondsey responded to the discovery of an unexploded World War Two bomb on a building site.

Emergency services, the army and the local authority acted promptly and professionally, to ensure the safety of people within any potential blast site, setting up a protective casing around the bomb, but also helping all those who had to be evacuated - including the council finding overnight accommodation for 80 people. And in spite of a few moans, for the large part people seemed to accept that it was a freak occurrence, and the community came together. It appears that the proper procedures were carried out prior to digging on site although you have to wonder how such a large bomb could be missed.

Perhaps part of the reason why the phrase is used so much is the impact the Blitz had on us as a nation - and even as the war generation ages, children and grandchildren know the stories all too well.

Consider the chaos that this one unexploded bomb has caused this week - and then consider that between October 7, 1940 and June 6, 1941, just an eight month period, there were 1651 bombs dropped on Southwark, plus another 20 parachute mines.That’s seven bombs dropped every day.

The anecdote of an elderly lady emerging from a bomb crater unharmed, and shouting to her friend that she was right that it was a bomb after all, emphasises how it just became part of normal life for Londoners during the Blitz and, like the events of this week, reminds us how lucky we are not to be living through such terrible times.

GP challenges

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HE SCALE of the challenge faced by our health services is set out in stark terms by the announcement that one GP surgery in Elephant & Castle is set nearly to double in size - with another 15,000 people due in the area.

With the redevelopment of the Heygate and Aylesbury Estates bringing in so many more people to the area, it is essential that key services are boosted to cope with the massive surge in demand.

In this case, the Princess Street Group Practice will go from having 11,600 people on their books to more than 19,000, while a proposed expansion of the Aylesbury Health Centre would see it take on an additional 7,000.

What is really important, however, is that any expansion doesn’t just mean doctors working flat out becoming a larger group of doctors working flat out. Speaking to local GPs, the pressures they face are enormous - a constant stream of ill or vulnerable people from doors open to late in the evening - often carrying out as much a counselling service as a medical one. And whilst in reality it is a conveyor belt of patients, the doctors simply cannot let those pressures show when they’re helping patients.

Those who plan such expansions really have to look at providing resources that are more than able to cope with the expected demand rather than planning to cope when everyone is stretched to the maximum.

If there’s one profession that we need working to the best of their ability, rather than burnt out and exhausted, it’s our GPs.

Southwark News, Thursday March 26, 2015

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Contents NEWS

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EASTER FEATURE

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OPINION

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BLUE BERMONDSEY BID Pages 29-31 ANNOUNCEMENTS

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JOBS

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WHAT’S ON

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MOTORS

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These hipsters are bugging me!

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PECKHAM

By Amelia Burr

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AN INSECT geek, bugged by hipsters swarming around her patch, has imagined a miniature version of gentrified Peckham in her local park.

Every day for four years, Penny Metal (nee Frith) has gone to photograph the bug’s life in Warwick Gardens off Lyndhurst Way. But recently she has started to notice the parallels with the 433 species she has snapped and the changing face of SE15.

In a map (centre) posted on her blog, insectinside.me she divides the park into four ‘Quarters’ - “the poncey name for neighbourhoods.”

There is the ‘Bug Quarter’ for the “upwardly mobile” where the bearded Hipster Flies hang out. Opposite is the down at heel ‘Log Quarter’, which Penny likens to “the largest housing estate in Warwick Gardens,” full of “multiple-occupancy logs that house a wide variety of invertebrate families. ....this is one area that will be earmarked for redevelopment in the future once all the residents have decomposed it.”

The ‘Football Quarter’ is named after the nearby pitch and features the main

“food boulevard.”

“This is the place to celebrity spot the flamboyant dragonflies, butterflies and jewel wasps who visit in the summer,” writes Penny, whose tongue-in-cheek turn around the park has a sting in the tail about the changing nature of Peckham.

“Everyone seems to have swarmed in and taken over,” said the freelance graphic designer, who has lived in Choumert Road for twenty years. “It’s like this current wave over the last couple of years have been walking in

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Blue mason bee (Main); Penny Metal with renowned entomologist, Paul D. Brook (Circled) and her map (Centre)

and changing the furniture without your permission or consideration.”

“The poncey names and descriptions do my head in. It’s a café not a kitchen.

I’d just like to live somewhere cheap and cheerful thanks very much,” she said.

A self-confessed “nerd”, Penny has always been buzzing about bugs, describing herself as a “total bumblebee head” but has developed an impressive obsession through her photography project. With the help of her blog, she hopes to infect others with her enthusiasm for creepy crawlies and get everybody making a note of the species they see on a daily basis at www.gigl.org.uk who catalogue wildlife sightings across London.

Hipster Fly The Hipster Fly is otherwise known as a Gymnosoma rotundatum (Below). It has the distinctive hipster beard and is decked out in a dashing black shirt with bright orange pants with three black spots down its back, like large buttons. It is commonly called a ladybird fly but its new name may be more appropriate for its home in Peckham.

IS THE ARCH OVER IN PECKHAM?

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PECKHAM

New plans could see ‘iconic’ gateway replaced by flats

By Amelia Burr amelia@southwarknews.co.uk

THE “ICONIC” arch covering Peckham Square could be a thing of the past if a plan to remove it and replace it with five storey buildings and a canopy are approved.

The existing public square was commissioned by Southwark Council in 1993, but feedback is now being gathered on a new design, which could see the distinctive arch removed permanently.

There are two versions of preliminary plans put forward by Carl Turner architects - one includes the arch and the other sees it replaced with a smaller canopy flanked by two five storey buildings with commercial and gallery space on the ground floor and flats above.

Removing the arch would allow space for a total of 100 flats to be built across the nine small sites surrounding the square.

A show of hands at the Peckham and Nunhead Community Council meeting on Monday night demonstrated some support for retaining the arch, which was designed by renowned London architects, John McAslan, but feedback received in the co-design

PHOTO: Benedict O’Looney

consultation have also seen support for its removal.

Peckham architect, Benedict O’Looney, an advocate of Peckham’s regeneration, spoke up in defence of the arch at the meeting, saying it would be a “great tragedy” if it were removed.

“It’s such a generous open space. It seems insane to take away something so rare, unusual and an iconic symbol of Peckham,” he said.

Southwark Council’s cabinet member for regeneration, Cllr Mark Williams, said: “We are currently consulting on how we can improve the square in front of Peckham Library, in particular how we can increase the active use of the square with the potential for more shops or cafes.

“Carl Turner Architects have been appointed to carry out this work, one of the options put forward is the removal of the arch which will enable two new buildings to be constructed providing new commercial space and new homes.”

To have a look at the proposals and share your views visit www.peckhamsquare.co.uk.

The ‘iconic’ arch at the entrance to Peckham Square, which could be removed if a plan by Carl Turner Architects (Right) goes ahead

Bermondsey‘s near miss?

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Italian taste Food & drink Page 40

The missile’s shell casing was apparently dented by a builder when it was discovered – a huge near miss for the thousands of nearby residents.

Before beginning construction work in bombed areas, it is recommended that the probability of unexploded ordinance (UXO) is investigated.

However, despite completing a “detailed desk-based” assessment, the site was not deemed worthy of further investigation by developers Linden Homes or Southwark Council, who approved their planning application.

Simon Cook, managing director of risk consultancy firm 6 Alpha, explained: “Phase 2 assessments deal with probability and consequence. What is the likelihood of a UXO being there, what is the likelihood of encountering it, how would it be encountered and what would happen if it detonates?”

If the risk is deemed serious, more detailed assessment of a site can be undertaken. This did not happen in this case.

MP Simon Hughes called for a thorough investigation into the bomb-detection

policy operated by the council and developers in the area.

He said: “One of the obvious questions that needs to be answered is what assessment was done of the risk of this site containing any unexploded bombs.

“We must make doubly sure that systems are in place for assessing and dealing with any risks from wartime or other dangerous devices. We must never gamble with the

safety of our local communities.”

A spokesperson for Linden Homes said: “We have instructed an external specialist to come and evaluate the site after the item has been removed to ensure that the area is completely clear and safe for entry.”

Southwark Council were contacted on deadline but did not issue a response.

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LANDLADY OUTRAGED AFTER BEING ACCUSED OF SERVING PINTS OVER DEAD PENSIONER

By Joey Millar

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A BERMONDSEY publican has hit back after a national newspaper accused her of serving punters pints over the dead body of a staff member.

Sandra Smith, who runs the Ancient Foresters pub in Southwark Park Road, said she was distraught and disgusted that the tragic death of an ‘incredibly kind and genuine’ pensioner was sensationalised in a major tabloid.

As reported by the News last week, the body of John Pannell, 70, lay for seven hours behind the bar before it was finally collected by authorities.

Sandra, his sister Sue and friend Tony all spoke of their shock at the length of time it took for the ‘lovely’ man to be collected.

However, a national paper that picked up the story slammed Sandra

BOROUGH

and her pub. Since then she has faced a barrage of online criticism from people who have accused her of disrespecting her late colleague.

Sandra said: “I am really upset by what was printed. The part of the bar where John was lying was closed off by the police, who told us to leave the other bar open. You couldn’t even see him. If they had told us to close it we would have done it straight away.

“It was very quiet, with only four or five people in the pub, and most of them were only there to make sure I was okay.

“I felt helpless. All I wanted to do was get in touch with his family and make sure his body was taken away and didn’t have to lie by the bar all day.

It wasn’t right.”

For the second week running Southwark Council was contacted by the News but failed to respond with an explanation as to why it took so long for the coroner to collect the body.

The fire at Jerwood Space, which is made up of rehearsal spaces, a cafe and a gallery, began in the building’s basement at around 8.30am.

A staff member noticed smoke and raised the alarm, and twelve people were evacuated from the building. They took

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ELEPHANT & CASTLE

Albie and his beloved Boi reunited

By Joey Millar joey@southwarknews.co.uk

A DEAF East Dulwich toddler is “over the moon” after his missing pet dog was found safe and sound following an appeal by the News.

Two-year-old Albie Jarrold and his beloved pit-bull are once again “inseparable” after Boi was handed in at a kennel. He was missing for nine days.

Albie’s mother Carly said that the response from News readers to last week’s appeal was “absolutely amazing.”

She said: “So many people tried to help us after we were on the front page. One man even offered to put up £500 of his own money as a reward – we are all going to visit him soon to say thank you for such a kind gesture.

“I got so many nice texts from people - some who thought they saw Boi, others who just wanted to say that they hoped we found him. It was an incredible reaction.”

The dog was being walked in Jamaica Road on March 11 when it went missing. Carly and Albie were

distraught and plastered the area with posters.

During his absence, Carly said that Albie did not stop calling Boi’s name and crying. Boi has been the family’s pet since Albie was born, and the dog has always been “his little friend.”

Now that Boi is back, the pair could

not be happier.

Carly said: “Albie is just so happy and they are back playing together all the time. Boi is also so happy to be home. Apparently he was howling all the time at the kennel, because he is used to being treated like a spoiled baby.”

EXCLUSIVE

By Joey Millar joey@southwarknews.co.uk

£20,000 bounty on this man’s head

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SOUTHWARK LABOUR has remained quiet over claims that a councillor was pushed out of her position after her husband wrote a scathing letter to the News about council housing officers.

Claire Maugham announced her surprise resignation last week, less than a year after being elected with the most votes out of any Chaucer ward candidate.

A political source told the News that Claire had faced unbearable pressure from the Labour hierarchy after her husband wrote a letter slamming officers involved in AA v Southwark, the High Court case that found the council had unlawfully evicted a resident.

In his December 11 letter to the News, Jolyon Maugham said: “The whole appalling episode - misbehaviour by junior officers and mishandling of the incident by their management - gives the very clear impression to this reader of a council that is defiantly determined not to learn from its mistakes.”

Cllr Maugham’s official resignation statement, in which she said the decision was “not an easy one”, failed to give an explicit reason for stepping down so abruptly. She said: “I have loved and learned so much from every moment of this last year. I am very proud of what I, Karl Eastham and Vijay Luthra have accomplished for residents in Chaucer ward, from action on night time disturbances on the Rockingham to preserving the peace of Trinity Church Square.”

She also gave her backing to Cllr Neil

Husband’s scathing letter to the News is thought to have led to her being pushed out of office Coyle’s Parliamentary election bid and pledged to continue serving the community through Labour activism and as a school governor.

Cllr Anood Al-Samerai, Leader of Southwark Lib Dems, found this statement unsatisfying.

She said: “It’s outrageous that Labour are letting local people down without even giving a reason. The Leader of the Council must be honest. The people of Chaucer ward are owed an explanation as to why someone they turned out to vote for is standing down after less than a year.”

Liberal Democrat Cllr Ben Johnson, who served alongside Cllr Maugham in the housing scrutiny committee, was saddened to lose someone who was “excellent at holding people accountable.”

He said: “She was a very effective member of the housing scrutiny committee, particularly on the AA case.

Her enquiring mind and effective scrutiny will be missed.”

When contacted for a response, Southwark Labour referred the News to the statements already made by Cllr Maugham and Council Leader Peter John, neither of which offer a direct explanation. The by-election to find her replacement will be held on the same day as May’s general election.

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ELEPHANT & CASTLE

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Fourteen year old accused of sex and kidnap charges WALWORTH: A fourteen-year-old boy appeared in court yesterday, charged with two counts of inciting a child to engage in sexual activity and two counts of kidnap, after two boys were allegedly forced off a bus in Elephant and Castle.

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Man denies attacking woman in Bermondsey A SOUTH Bermondsey man will appear at Croydon Magistrates’ Court this summer after pleading not guilty to charges of assault by beating and using threatening language with intent to cause fear of violence.

Mohammed Taokif Balogun, of Barkworth Road, was accused of beating and intimidating a woman on February 2 at Rotherhithe New Road.

The 45-year-old denied both charges when he appeared at Camberwell Green Magistrates’ Court last Thursday and will appear at Croydon Magistrates’ Court on June 18.

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The teenage victims were said to have boarded the 133 bus in Brixton just before 8pm on February 11.

A male suspect boarded the same bus and approached the two boys, reportedly telling them he had a knife.

The boys said they were forced off the bus at Newington Butts, where they allege they were made to fight each other in a park and steal from a nearby shop.

The boys claim they were then led to the stairwell of a block of flats in Walworth, where one was forced to perform a sex act on the other.

A 14-year-old was arrested and charged with inciting a child to engage in sexual activity and kidnap on Friday and appeared at Camberwell Magistrate’s Court on Saturday.

He was remanded to the care of the local authority while he awaited his appearance at South London Juvenile Court yesterday.

A DRIVER miraculously escaped a smash-up car crash unhurt after a vehicle ploughed into a truck at the Elephant and Castle roundabout last Wednesday evening.

The fire brigade were called just after 8pm to the scene outside the

By Amelia Burr amelia@southwarknews.co.uk

Charlie Chaplin pub on the New Kent Road, but said no one was trapped inside the vehicles - so they just put sand down on the petrol which had leaked into the road.

An ambulance took the driver of the car to St Thomas’s hospital but the police have confirmed that, remarkably, he did not sustain any injuries. The road was temporarily closed while the wreckage was cleared, causing traffic to build up all the way back to Camberwell.

In the dock...

He was released on unconditional bail.

Clubber agrees he needs to grow up

A MAN who was caught with MDMA at the Ministry of Sound has been fined.

Joseph Bradley Kent, of Highbury Gardens in Ilford, pleaded guilty to possession of a controlled substance of Class A drug.

Cleaners noticed the 27-year-old acting suspiciously at the entertainment venue on January 31 and called the police.

When police arrived they searched him and discovered eight tablets of the drug.

He denied selling the drugs.

He said: “I actually found the drugs outside, that’s why I was giving them out.

“I understand that after this many times I have been in court because of substances, it’s time to grow up a bit.”

He was fined £220 and also ordered to pay £107 in fees.

Couple deny shopping centre assault

Holden, of Sutton Estate, will both appear at Greenwich Magistrates’ Court on April 30.

They were both released on bail with the condition that they did not contact the victim and witness of the alleged incident.

Sex offender given community service

A COUPLE have denied assaulting a man at a shopping centre before Christmas.

A SEX offender received a suspended jail sentence, was fined and ordered to do community service after not informing police of a change of address.

Billie Gibson, 23, and her partner Bobby Lee Holden, 24, both pleaded not guilty to assault by beating at Surrey Quays Shopping Centre on December 23. Gibson, of Thorburn Square, and

Andrejus Orlavas, of Windgate Crescent in Croydon, pleaded guilty to failing to comply with notification requirements of the sex offenders’ register.

Gary Valentine Fuller set up the MumMum Foundation after his Nan died a year and a half ago from cancer and on Saturday he is doing a skydive to raise money to help other mums with cancer enjoy the time they have with their loved ones.

The 24-year-old is also hosting a fundraising night at the Nag’s Head in Camberwell after the jump in Peterborough to help meet his £5,000 target, so he can register the MumMum Foundation as a charity in the UK. If you can help, please email Gary on garyvfuller@btinternet.com or visit www.facebook.com/themummumfound ation

The 37-year-old is required by law to keep police updated on his current location, after committing a sexual offence in 2012.

However, on July 26 last year police officers conducting a random check on his last known address were told that he had moved on.

The prosecuting solicitor said: “Police looked through windows. It looked like nobody was living there. They spoke to neighbours, who said that nobody had been living there for a while.”

He was only located eight months later, when he was stopped by chance on March 6.

Orlavas received a six-week jail sentence, which has been suspended for a period of twelve months.

He was also ordered to complete 80 hours of unpaid community work, and was fined £165.

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IN SENTENCING Ziamani to 22 years in prison, judge Timothy Pontius said the nineteen-year-old had a “cold-blooded” determination to carry out an act of “horrifying savagery”

By Amelia Burr amelia@southwarknews.co.uk A JUDGE has jailed a teenager for more than twenty years for planning to behead a soldier, describing him as “coldblooded,” intelligent,” and a “threat to public safety.”

Brusthom Ziamani, of Camberwell, planned to emulate his heroes – Lee Rigby killers Michael Adebolajo and Michael Adebowale - by decapitating a serviceman and posing for a photograph with the severed head.

The beginnings of Ziamani’s terror plot were discovered in a flat on the Samuel Lewis Trust Estate when it was raided in June last year.

Police suspected the tenant was subletting the property out to Ziamani, who was eighteen at the time. Officers searched the recent Muslim convert and found a letter addressed to his parents saying he wanted to “do a 9/11 and 7/7 and Woolwich all in one day.”

On August 19 last year, police stopped him in East London and found he had a

‘terror toolkit’ in his rucksack comprising a knife, a hammer and an Islamist flag.

On Friday Judge Timothy Pontius sentenced the former boxing enthusiast to 22 years in prison, after he was found guilty of engaging in conduct in preparation of terrorist acts at the Old Bailey on Thursday February 19.

In summing up, Judge Pontius said Ziamani was “far from the naïve adolescent that the defence tried to portray him as. He is a man of intelligence and independent and articulate mind. He was within hours of carrying out his intention of murdering a soldier, police officer or government official to imitate the horrifying savagery carried out by the killers of Lee Rigby."

Ziamani’s ex-girlfriend gave “clear and convincing” evidence in court about how she broke up with the former Jehovah’s Witness in April last year after he described one of Lee Rigby’s killers as a legend and claimed he wanted to die as a martyr. On the morning of his arrest he had visited her home and showed her the twelve-inch knife in his bag, saying he

intended to attack and kill soldiers.

A security officer from HMP Wandsworth, where Ziamani was held in custody, also gave “compelling evidence” that the terror-plot-teen had told him he 'loved' Lee Rigby killer Michael Adebolajo, adding: ‘'I was on my way to kill a British Soldier at an army barracks.

I was going to behead the soldier and hold his head in the air so my friend could take a photograph.'

The News revealed last month that while Ziamani was searching the streets for a soldier to slay, he was all the time living underneath a former serviceman.

When Gunner Mattless, 33, heard what his “quiet” neighbour had been planning, he said he was appalled. “I couldn’t believe it,” he said. If he wanted to do something like that they’d only have to come up the stairs. “It’s appalling really.”

In the interests of public safety, the judge said he had no choice but to give Ziamani a custodial sentence of 22 years, of which he will have to serve at least fourteen years without parole. Upon release he will be under license for the rest of his jail term

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"The outstanding professional work of officers in the SO15 Counter Terrorism Command, supported by MI5, has probably prevented a horrific terrorist attack taking place on the streets of London.”

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His comments to the court included: “...had he not – by sheer good fortune – been spotted and stopped by the police...[he] would have carried out the intention he had so graphically expressed to his ex-girlfriend only a few hours before.” “...the extensive body of downloaded material and the defendant’s Facebook postings and texts, much of that material of a vile and deeply disturbing nature, made plain to the degree to which the defendant had adopted and totally absorbed the twisted interpretation of the Holy Quran that is the hallmark of the fanatical Islamic terrorist.”

“All that material dispels any doubts there can be that, had the defendant not been arrested on 19th August then within hours – at most – he would have used the hammer and knife to carry out the intention he had so clearly expressed and for which he had so determinedly prepared, with the result that an act of horrifying savagery would again have been perpetrated on the streets of London..” “....if he couldn’t find a soldier, I have little doubt that a police officer or other figure of authority would have suited his purpose just as well. The Islamic flag also found in his rucksack would then, I am sure, have been held aloft in one hand after the defendant had carried out his intended atrocity, ideally a beheading, so that a picture could be taken of him holding his trophy in the other hand.” “...he is an intelligent and articulate young man with an independence of mind, thought and opinion.”

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HOMES AND BUSINESSES EVACU AFTER WW2 BOMB IS DISCOVER

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BERMONDSEY RESIDENTS were shell-shocked on Monday when an unexploded, 1000lb World War Two bomb was unearthed in a building site in Grange Walk.

Homes and businesses were hastily evacuated and hundreds of schoolchildren from Harris Academy, Kintore Way Children’s Home and Boutcher Primary School were forced to flee their classrooms to safety.

The explosive was discovered in the morning by construction workers, who reportedly cracked the casing of the missile while working at the site of the former Southwark Irish Pensioners’ Centre.

A huge swathe of Bermondsey was quickly sealed off by police, causing traffic chaos across London’s roads.

Tower Bridge was closed in both directions.

Denise Cross, an employee at West Leigh Windows in Plough Lane, was evacuated at around 10.30am.

She told the News: “I heard something about a bomb but didn’t realise it was this serious. Then the police came in and told us we had to go. We couldn’t believe it.”

Bomb disposal and army units arrived in the afternoon to assess the situation.

Throughout Monday night police went door-to-door in streets close to the bomb telling people to evacuate by 8am the following morning, when the disarming operation would begin.

Posters put up by police said that nearby buildings would be “significantly damaged” or “destroyed” if the bomb were to explode. It also said that “remaining in your home is placing your life at significant risk.” 1200 properties were affected by the evacuation order.

Displaced residents took shelter at relief centres at Seven Islands Leisure Centre and Canada Water Library, where Red Cross volunteers handed out food and drink.

Some residents were temporarily allowed to return to their homes, including one person who rescued their cat and another who dropped off their

Tesco shopping delivery.

Maurizio Morelli, a resident in Grange Walk, joined the crowd of evacuees at Seven Islands on Monday afternoon.

He told the News: “It was very strange. I got a call from my letting agent, who told me to get out of the house because there was an 09:18 MONDAY – Police called about suspected bomb at Grange Walk. 10:30 – Area within 400m of bomb cordoned off to traffic, within 200m is no-go zone. Police begin evacuating residents and workers.

11:00 – Boutcher Primary School,

emergency.

“I didn’t even realise it was a bomb. I think communication could be a bit better. I know they are trying to keep us safe, but originally I was told by police that there had just been an accident.

“I don’t know what is happening to me tonight. My girlfriend will be

joining me when she finishes work and then we will have to see what happens.

I don’t think I’m getting home anytime soon. ” Southwark Council found accommodation for 80 displaced residents in hostels, hotels and B&Bs. Most others stayed with friends or family or paid for hotel rooms.

The five-foot bomb was identified as a SC250, which was commonly used during the Blitz.

Kintore Way Children’s Centre and Harris Academy pupils evacuated.

Worried parents gather at police cordon.

11:05 – Tower Bridge closed in both directions. Traffic chaos across Southwark and other parts of

London.

12:00 – Displaced residents make use of relief centres at Seven Islands Leisure Centre and Canada Water Library. Red Cross volunteers on site.

13:00 – Bomb disposal units arrive

It was made safe by disposal experts from the Royal Logistics Corps, after sappers dug trenches underneath the bomb to access the fuse. A protective ‘igloo’ was also built around the explosive, to reduce damage in the case of an accidental detonation.

It was taken away by army personnel at about 6pm on Tuesday evening. The bomb was brought to a quarry in Kent, where it could be safely detonated. at site.

16:15 – Traffic cordon reduced to 200m. No-go evacuation zone reduced to 100m.

17:00 – Residents of properties within no-go zone learn they will not be allowed to return to their homes

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What local people have been Tweeting World War 2 affected so many people in so many different ways. Today it has delayed my Ocado delivery. #hardtimes --- @NickPomfret One elderly lady says to me near the cordon ‘I was evacuated during the war I’m not doing it again.’ --- @AysheaBuksh

for the night.

23:30 – All evacuees have a bed for the night, after Southwark Council re-home 80 people who were at relief centres in B&Bs, hostels and hotels. 00:00 TUESDAY – Throughout night

@SamuelMcAdamson God bless three v.understanding and caring police officers who agreed to bring our dog from the evacuated flat to me #bermondsey #WWIIBomb --- @Dignaty

It's 2 years since Walworth Town Hall fire - today massive UXB found - 4th Monday in March not good for Southwark. --- @PeterJohn6 #bermondseybomb means I can't go home after flying 36 hours from NZ #tired #sleep --@SiobhannNicola_b

Echoes of the Blitz terror

Just allowed back home. Nothing like not being allowed through your front door to appreciate how lucky you are to have one. #bermondseybomb ---

DUE TO the docklands in Rotherhithe and factories in Bermondsey, Southwark was a major target for Luftwaffe bombing raids during the Blitz in World War Two.

Building site with bomb exposed (Main); Map of Red exclusion zone (Circled); a bomb disposal unit officer working with the bomb (right)

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The two areas were a hive of industrial activity and essential to the war effort, which affectively marked out the whole borough with huge crosshairs.

From October 7, 1940 to June 6, 1941, there were 1651 bombs dropped on Southwark, plus another 20 parachute mines which were equally devastating.

Bermondsey especially was shattered by the weeks of onslaught, experiencing 395 air raids in the last three months of 1940 alone.

With so many attacks it is nearly impossible to estimate when the unexploded bomb discovered at Grange Walk on Monday was dropped – although we can make an educated guess.

The area around the Grange was struck several times over the course of the war, including on the very first night of bombing on September 7, 1940.

On that date, bombs fell at Grange Walk and Southwark Park Road, including one at the present-day site of the Harris Academy. The building was evacuated by pupils on Monday and used as a base for the emergency services in response to the unexploded bomb.

The Grange was struck again in January 1941, when homes and the Grange Mission were hit, killing three people. In total, some 400 civilians would be killed by the raids across the borough.

Tragedy marked the Blitz in Bermondsey, partly due to the nature of the soil, which made it tricky to build deep, safe shelters. Make-shift replacements were unfortunately not strong enough to withstand powerful blasts.

On September 7, the first day of the Blitz, a bomb struck a railway arch on Linsey Street.

Because shelters had not been built in enough numbers by this stage, the arch was crammed with many people. When the bomb hit the crowded and weak shelter, 23 people died and dozens more were injured.

That same night, 29 other people were killed at Keeton School, which was being used as a rest centre. The site in Keeton Road suffered a direct hit, with horrifying consequences.

After this harrowing introduction to the Blitz, Bermondsey residents suffered 57 consecutive

police go door-to-door within 200m zone instructing residents to evacuate before 8am.

06:00 – Fresh evacuations begin ahead of army operation to disarm the bomb.

09:00 – Last few residents evacuate

Evacuees of 2015 showing blitz spirit via mass phone charger swap in Rest Centre. The modern day cup of sugar #UXB #Bermondsey --@LordLucas

days of air raids, and many more interrupted nights during 1940 and 1941, and again towards the end of the war.

However, in the midst of the chaos and fear, the famous ‘Blitz spirit’ prevailed and Bermondsey residents responded with humour in the most harrowing of circumstances.

During one incident, a bomb devastated Hawkstone Road, leaving a huge sixty-foot

- some refuse to leave. Grange School joins Boutcher, Kintore and Harris in closing down during the crisis.

11:00 – Bomb identified as a SC250 – used heavily during Blitz during 1940-1941.

It's not everyday kids who were born 60 + yrs after a bomb was made, need to evacuate because of it. @boutchercofe @se1 @lb_southwark --@Kewwick

crater. When the dust settled, a lone Anderson shelter was spotted still standing on the very edge of the crater. Out of it emerged an elderly lady who, after calmly taking in the destruction of her surroundings, shouted to her friend below: "There you are Emily - I told you it was a bomb!”

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18:00 – Bomb taken away by army truck. Exclusion zone and all roads reopened. Evacuees free to return home.

09:00 WEDNESDAY – “Almighty boom” heard in Kent as bomb detonated safely at a quarry in Isle of Grain.

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A CLINIC treating nearly a thousand sick animals a year is facing closure if plans put forward by the RSPCA go ahead.

The centre in Camberwell Station Road is one of three up for the chop in London as the animal welfare charity struggles to cope with dwindling funds.

Along with the Putney Animal Hospital and a facility in Kilburn, the Camberwell Clinic could fall victim to an organisational restructure which would prioritise the charity’s work rescuing animals.

Owners of poorly pets in the area would have to seek help from alternative charities like The Celia Hammond Trust in Lewisham, but a spokeswoman there told the News they were already overwhelmed at their 24-hour clinic.

“We are very busy but we will have to do the best to cope,” she said. “We do think it’s a blow to local animals to lose that clinic. We’ve been under a lot of pressure for several years since the recession,” she added, as the service there now runs 30 consultations a day and up to 150 surgeries a week.

“Losing any service to animals is going to have an impact on local animal welfare.”

Pooch the cat (pictured) and his owner David O’Toole, of Camberwell New Road, have been using the Camberwell RSPCA clinic for fifteen years and David says it will be a “great loss” to the area if it closes.

“The service is always brilliant and there’s always lots of pensioners in there.

People turn up there in mobility scooters so how are they going to get to another place? It’s a loss to the fabric of the

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TAXI DRIVERS and hotel workers in Southwark are among those who will be trained to spot signs of child sexual exploitation in a new police initiative.

community,” said the 44-year-old.

Clinic staff, who have been told they will be found roles at alternative sites if the closure goes ahead, have started a petition to save the valued service.

An RSPCA spokeswoman said the charity was now considering all the responses to a public consultation on the closures and would make a decision within the next two months. She added it would be with “great sadness” that the RSPCA would lose the roles at Camberwell but “we would hope to keep most of our dedicated and much-valued staff through the redeployment opportunities opening up at our other London sites.”

Operation Makesafe launched last week and aims to help some workers who come into contact with the public a lot identify potential child sexual exploitation victims.

Willing volunteers will be trained to look out for things like adults appearing secretive or trying to hide the fact that they are with a young person, or buying a young person food and drinks.

Taxi drivers and hotel staff will be asked to keep an eye out for young people being picked up and taken to hotels, particularly at odd times of the day and night and adults who frequently attend premises with different young people.

A dedicated hotline has been set up to receive reports of any suspicious behaviour, which will be manned by specially trained

police officers.

Detective Chief Inspector Rob Harper, from Southwark police, said: " It is often the case that a child or young person does not see themselves as a victim of sexual exploitation and therefore it is essential that those who notice anything suspicious speak to police at the earliest opportunity.

“We are keen to ensure that businesses across Southwark as well as our local community are able to recognise the warning signs of CSE and alert us. Getting local businesses on board will help to identify, protect and safeguard those young people who could potentially be at risk.”

Cllr Victoria Mills, Southwark’s cabinet member for children and schools, said: “We are serious about tackling the issue of child sexual exploitation. Over the coming months, we will also be looking to increase awareness amongst parents, carers and communities in Southwark to learn more about the potential signs of exploitation and be extra vigilant of all young people in their care.”

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By Joey Millar

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A BUILDING in Camberwell that was being used by squatters was “badly damaged” in a fire last weekend.

The fire was located in the second and third floors of the four-storey block in Camberwell Road, which is made up of disused flats and a warehouse.

Neil Chisholm of London Fire said: “We believe that the derelict building was being used as a squat, but thankfully there

was no one in the building when we arrived and there are no injuries. The fire is under control and fire crews carried out a search of the building and found two gas cylinders which were cooled down as some cylinders can explode when exposed to heat.”

Camberwell Road was closed and members of the public were warned to avoid the area. Fifty eight fire fighters and eight engines from Lambeth, Brixton, West Norwood, Soho, Dowgate and Peckham fire stations attended the incident.

Pictures of the drama unfolding, sent in by reader Robin Holley

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Police offer £20,000 bounty for Chambers THE POLICE are offering a £20,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and prosecution of a wanted man.

Andre Chambers is being hunted by the Specialist Crime and Operations Command in connection with drugs and firearms offences. The 32-year-old is described as being a well-built black man, who is six feet tall, and has

By Amelia Burr amelia@southwarknews.co.uk links to Camberwell and Peckham.

The police have advised anyone who sees Chambers should not approach him, but call police on 999.

Anyone with information should call 020 8721 4054 or Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111.

Market trader with TB is lucky to be alive

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By Joey Millar

joey@southwarknews.co.uk

A market trader from Bermondsey said he felt “lucky to be alive” on Tuesday as he helped raise awareness for Tuberculosis on World TB Day. Clive Boyton, 52, was unexpectedly diagnosed with the disease three years ago when he developed a painful throat that didn’t improve.

He said: “No one knows exactly how I got it but in the ‘90s I did lots of travelling around south Asia. The doctor said I probably got it there and it could have been dormant in my system all that time.”

Clive talked of TB’s “stigma” after accidentally passing it onto two family members, probably through moisture droplets from coughs or sneezes.

“About 30 friends and family had to be tested for TB including my son and mother-in-law, who both became carriers.

“There is a stigma attached to Tuberculosis, which I noticed in

Disease was rife in 1800s

Tuberculosis devastated society during the 1800s, when it caused roughly one-in-four deaths.

While its impact is not as serious as it was then, it has increased steadily over the last 30 years. 3,000 Londoners were diagnosed with the contagious disease in 2013.

The bacterial disease can affect any part of the body but most commonly affects the lungs.

This is also the most contagious form, and can be spread through moisture droplets from coughs or sneezes.

Symptoms include chronic cough, tiredness, night sweat, loss of appetite, fever, swellings and weight loss.

The disease can be prevented with a vaccine and cured using antibiotics.

my own case, and sometimes I felt unpopular. But I do feel lucky - lucky to be alive.”

Margaret Ogedengbe, nurse manager at Guy’s and St Thomas’ and head of the trust’s TB team, warned that the disease particularly affects certain groups.

She said: “TB can affect anyone but it’s often vulnerable people with social problems living in poor housing conditions who are at risk.

“We are also beginning to see younger people who are out enjoying life but not necessarily looking after their health.”

TB clinics are run at St Thomas’ Hospital and King’s College Hospital, and in the 21 years since Southwark and Lambeth launched a TB service over 4,500 of the boroughs’ residents have beaten the disease.

Anyone d i s p l a y i n g symptoms is encouraged to go for a check-up.

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The News looks at Southwark’s burial space crisis

By Amelia Burr

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WHETHER YOU want to be sailed out to see on a burning Viking ship destined for Valhalla or place in a cardboard box in the ground, everyone has a last wish, writes Amelia Burr...

But for those whose final request is to be buried in an inner London borough like Southwark, you could be given a bus pass to Sidcup instead.

Like parking spaces, burial plots are becoming scarce in Southwark and the council estimates we will have run out by 2017. To dig our way out of this situation the local authority is forging ahead with its plan to create thousands of new grave spaces in the next ten years before it can recycle old graves

forever more.

The other kind of space which is hard to find in the big city is the green kind, which is why the Save Southwark Woods campaign group sprung up last year in defence of the woodland areas within Camberwell Old and New Cemeteries, where the council would need to fell trees and clear ground to make way for around 7,000 new graves.

They say the precious green spaces, which haven't had blocks of flats built on them, should be protected for the living to enjoy, including the wildlife already at home in the woodlands.

The council says if they don’t press on with their plans, some of the poorest people in the borough will be the ones to suffer by having to travel out to Bexley or Kent to visit loved ones in overpriced graves.

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“It’s just common decency,” said Cllr Darren Merrill, Southwark’s cabinet member for environment and community safety. “If someone’s last wish was to be buried we want to provide that.

“The deprived areas tend to be more religious. They would want to give their loved ones their last wish and if we are able to provide it I think we have a moral duty to do it,” he added.

With burial plots in private cemeteries or other boroughs costing up to three times as much as a plot closer to home, funeral costs could soon spiral, not to mention the hit to your Oyster card.

For Cllr Merrill this issue is personal. When his grandma died when his father was just six years old, she was buried in Camberwell New Cemetery. “My father always said it was nice to know she was close by,” said Cllr Merrill, who believes the new graves would not just be for the dead, but for the living “left behind.”

“It’s part of the bereavement process for people.”

But there are more than ten sites identified across Southwark’s existing cemeteries where woodlands and open spaces could be filled with more than 2,000 new graves by 2020 and a total of 7,000 by 2035.

It will cost the council upwards of £5million to undertake all the necessary work, but if 7,000 people all pay the average £2,000 for a burial plot, it could also earn a whopping 14million in return.

Cllr Merrill says on average demand for new burial plots is around two hundred spaces every year. There are almost twice as many burials but families and loved ones often choose to share a plot. By that calculation, we will need 2,000 new plots by 2025 and 4,000 by 2035, which has called Southwark Woods to question the need for so many new graves.

The council confirmed that they would be able to sell grave spaces to people outside of the borough and they would be charged higher fees than Southwark residents.

Anne Stanesby of Save Southwark Woods says she is “sympathetic” to those people who want to be buried for religious or personal reasons but says the preservation of our limited woodland is more important. “We don’t think it’s

right given all the problems with climate change to start chopping down trees so that dead people can be buried,” she said.

A protest walk through the woods earlier this month attracted hundreds of supporters who are all demanding that the council undertake a new consultation about their plans for the borough’s woods and that it looks into providing burial spaces outside of the borough instead.

Anne points out that a consultation carried out in 2011, which the council is using as a mandate for the work, took in a majority of respondents from Lewisham and even in those few short years a lot has changed.

“When I first moved here twenty years ago, everybody had a back garden. Since then lots of new flats have been put up and none of them have gardens,” she said.

The council’s burial strategy, put together following the consultation, says if their plans to create new graves don’t go ahead, they will have to look again at using an area of Honor Oak park, a proposal which received significant public opposition in 2012.

Anne is now in the process of setting up a Friends of Camberwell Old Cemetery group and says this issue will not go away. “If we all get together we can find a solution to this,” and with hundreds of willing volunteers, perhaps there is a way forwards to create a woodland graveyard.

Cllr Merrill has mooted the idea of natural flowers to mark graves, instead of headstones, and has brought the National Wildlife Trust on board to advise on preserving biodiversity in the marked areas. For now, though, the two sides remain at logger heads and the main space in contention, known as “Area Z’ continues to sit fenced off and unused after it was used as an illegal dumping ground for many years.

Cllr Merrill would like to put a planning application in this summer to start work on Area Z in the Spring next year but without the support of Save Southwark Woods, it could be an uphill struggle all the way.

London plan says local authorities need to try and find burial space within borough so “we would have to prove we couldn’t do it.”

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A GP surgery is set to nearly double in size to cope with an expected influx of 15,000 people to the local area –just shy of the entire population of the Orkney Islands or 200 full double-decker buses.

The expansion of the Princess Street Group Practice at the Elephant will go from having 11,600 people on their books to more than 19,000 if council plans go-ahead.

Almost £150,000 pledged by the developers behind the nine-storey Printworks at the corner of Amelia Street and Robert Dashwood Way is due to be released at a council meeting at the end of the month to contribute to the plans.

A council document says the money, set aside to develop health services in the area, is needed because the redevelopment of the Heygate and Aylesbury Estates will “generate an increase in population

Neighbours to police streets PCSO Shane Steadman and Sergeant James Johnson with the Chair of Southwark Neighbourhood Watch Abby Taubin at the Peckham and Nunhead Community Council meeting on Monday night

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of circa 15,000.”

The proposed expansion of the Aylesbury Health Centre in Thurlow Street will enable it to also take on an additional 7,000 patients The proposals call for the welllocated Princess Street practice to provide a wider range of services “on a site nearby” which would need to be significantly bigger than the

current surgery.

Southwark Council is currently working with the borough’s Clinical Commissioning Group to secure a 3,000square metre site within the “immediate vicinity” of the existing practice. The range of services which would be on offer at the new clinic will be agreed following a public consultation.

IN THE wake of “drastic” cuts to the police force in Southwark, officers are out on the beat recruiting an army of curtain-twitchers to be their “eyes and ears on the ground in the community.”

At a community council meeting this week Sergeant James Johnson announced the ‘street a week’ scheme which will see crime hotspots targeted first for new neighbourhood watch candidates.

PCSO Shane Steadman told the meeting in Peckham on Monday night that: “The police

budget is getting cut drastically, so what our senior management want us to do is go out on the street and recruit as many neighborhood watches as possible.”

The sheme, along with the force’s PubWatch and ShopWatch activities is hoped will make communities more “selfsufficient” in crime prevention, according to PCSO Steadman.

The Chair of Southwark Neighbourhood Watch, Abby Taubin said she thought it was a great idea. “These guys are doing a stellar job.

It’s about us coming together. They are being cut back so we need to step forward, but we should be doing that anyway,” she said.

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King’s owed nearly £18million from foreign patients

By Amelia Burr amelia@southwarknews.co.uk

KING’S COLLEGE Hospital Trust has revealed it is owed nearly £18million from foreign patients they have treated over the last five years – the highest amount known in the UK. Although no one from overseas is ever refused emergency treatment, their costs are not covered by the NHS and hospitals have to be chase patients up retrospectively.

For the five years from 2010 to 2015, King’s racked up a debt of £17.9million in unpaid treatment for foreign patients, despite having a dedicated team for chasing up unpaid treatments.

Nearly 100 trusts provided data under a Freedom of Information Act, revealing a total unpaid national debt from foreign patients of more than £62.8m for the same period.

One patient at King’s College Hospital ran up a bill of £207,482 for renal therapy between 2010 and 2013 but the biggest unpaid bill in the figures provided was £428,103 for the treatment of a haemophiliac patient between 2011 and 2014 at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS

Foundation Trust. The same trust also provided chemotherapy costing £126,053 in 2013 and 2014 for a foreign patient who has not paid the bill.

A spokesperson for King’s said the Trust had achieved annual increases in the monies they had clawed back from foreign patients but admitted there was still more to do.

“We will never refuse life-saving treatment to ANY patient who needs it.

As a London hospital which provides a range of specialist services, it is inevitable that we will often treat a high number of overseas patients presenting with life-threatening conditions. Some of these patients require intensive, longterm care, which can be expensive. The process of checking for eligibility only begins at an appropriate time, and when the patient’s condition has sufficiently improved,” he said.

The UKIP candidate for Camberwell and Peckham, David Kurton, has called for all foreign nationals to have “approved private health insurance as a condition of entry” to tackle the problem.

“In this time of austerity it is beyond belief that so much of the NHS’s precious resources are being squandered,” he said.

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Teenager gunned down in Dulwich

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A17-YEAR-OLD boy is in a critical condition in hospital after he was shot in West Dulwich on Tuesday afternoon.

Police were called at 3pm to South Croxted Road, having being alerted by the London Ambulance Service.

On arrival they found the teenager with a gunshot wound to his abdomen. He was treated by paramedics in South Croxted Road before being taken to a South London hospital, where he remains in a critical condition.

Police say it appears he was shot in the vicinity of Seely Drive, SE21, before he rode a short distance on his moped.

There had been no arrests at the time the News went to press and a police spokesperson confirmed that “enquiries continue into the circumstances of the incident and any possible motive.”

South Croxted Road was closed remained closed all day Tuesday.

Anyone with information should call 101 or Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111.

CROSSWAY HOPES DASHED

A SANCTUARY for people with mental health problems has had its last hopes of staying open dashed, as a life-saving funding request has been turned down.

The Crossways Centre in Rye Lane, which is a social hub for around 150 people, had hoped a large pot of funding received from the London

Mayor and Southwark Council would be matched by the Southwark Clinical Commissioning Group (SCCG), who manage the borough’s health services. But this week the SCCG told the News they would not be pledging funds to keep the centre open, meaning the facility will have to close this month.

Hold up at Nisa

ROTHERHITHE: A female staff member was threatened with a handgun on Tuesday night during an armed robbery at a Nisa Local shop in Brunel Road.

A police spokesperson said: “Two suspects entered the shop and one of them grabbed the female member of staff from behind. He produced a hand gun and demanded money.”

The pair are believed to have left without taking anything. No injuries were reported at the scene.

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ODD JOBS

Going behind the screens with Southwark’s very own ‘Hypnotist Man’

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STAGE HYPNOTISM in all its chaotic tom-foolery barged back on to our TV screens this month with mind-hacked contestants making a spectacle of themselves for our entertainment.

ITV’s ‘You’re Back in the Room’ pits contestants against one another to complete tasks with the hilarious handicap of believing they are James Brown, or more unbelievably, in love with Phillip Schofield.

It’s a good time for Bermondseyborn and bred Robert Hisee to be pitching his ‘old school’ Paul McKenna-style hypnotainment show to agents this week. The Hypnotist Man balances the wild world of stage hypnotism, where he has people believing they are Jack Russells - walking on all fours and cocking their legs up - with his hypnotherapy clinic, where he helps people overcome phobias, quit smoking and lose weight.

Former frontman of local band The Sound, Robert says the stage is like his “second home” but his real love is helping people tackle psychological problems, like a fear of flying or agrophobia, using his nine years of training in the mind-art of neurolinguistic programming (NLP).

This involves changing thought patterns which lead to feelings of fear or anxiety in response to a spider, for example, so they lead instead to a state of relaxation and a sense of control like re-writing a book with an alternative ending.

“I can’t change what’s happened but I can change the way you feel about it.”

This is based on the assumption that the unconscious mind does not know what’s real or what’s not real, according to Robert. “If a spider falls

on your hand and frightens you once, your brain releases Cortisol and that tells you that you don’t want to go through that again, so you consciously avoid spiders and have an active fear on them. The mind creates images and then believes them.”

Most phobias are taught behaviour, he explains. In the case of something like spiders, often a child will see their mother scared of a spider and transfer that fear onto themselves. “That kid looks up to their mum as the strongest figure in their life; if they see her screaming at a spider they automatically think there must be a good reason for it,” Robert says.

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gastricb a n d treatment, where he hypnotises people into believing they have had surgery to reduce the size of their stomach.

“It just seems to be a lot of my work.

I love helping people with trauma but the weight loss is really popular.”

When Robert uses hypnosis as a therapy, he says it is “completely different” to the stage show because instead of being in control, manipulating people into eating a raw onion as if it were an apple, in the clinic he needs to build trust to be allowed in to someone’s unconscious mind.

Robert’s dream is to set up NLP training centres nationwide and then return to Bermondsey to “help working class kids to learn the belief that they can do what they want to do and be who they want to be. When I was a kid the people with money were drug dealers or armed robbers –I want to get their mind focused on the future.”

Meanwhile, Robert is still keeping his eye in with his stage show, which he hopes will be picked up by a TV station soon.

He starts off by finding out who is the most susceptible in the room. He asks everyone to close their eyes and imagine they have a weight in one hand and a helium balloon in the other. “The ones with their arms way up in the air are the ones I get up on stage.”

“You never know what you’re going to get,” says Robert, who sometimes likes to live dangerously by hypnotising people to hate hypnotists. “If you forget to tell them not to hit you, you’ve got a good chance of getting clumped.”

“You never know what you’re going to get. If you forget to tell them not to hit you, you’ve got a good chance of getting clumped.”

“Anything can trigger a fear, it’s just the mind’s way of protecting you,” he continues.

One man Robert worked with suffered with panic attacks and fears of public spaces and flying. The situation was so bad that he tried to throw himself out of a car travelling at 70mph. After seeing Robert he was able to fly all over the world and make public speeches. “He’s a changed man.

I just love to help people. I love my job so it’s not really like work.”

Robert first learnt some basic NLP skills while he was selling conservatories ten years ago. His boss taught him how to build rapport with clients and convince them what they really needed was a new awning.

Now well-established, Robert has become renowned for his phantom

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Bermondsey hypnotist Robert Hisee can put his audience to sleep, or have them trying to wee up a lamppost like a Jack Russell (Main); A hypnotised audience member eats a raw onion like an apple and Robert tries his techniques out on the News’s very own Laura Burgoine (bottom right).

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COUNCIL TO REVIEW AYLESBURY ESTATE SECURITY AFTER NEWS REPORT SOUTHWARK COUNCIL is “reviewing security arrangements” on the Aylesbury Estate after residents told the News last week it was “like living in Alcatraz.”

Barbed fences were erected and locked gates installed around some of the blocks on the Walworth estate amid safety concerns for the semi-derelict blocks and the remaining residents.

After squatters infiltrated Chiltern House, the new security gates were locked with leaseholders and tenants complaingin that security guards would not let them in at the gates nearest to their homes.

After leaseholders like Agnes Kabuto, 57, complained when her elderly disabled mother, was forced to walk all around the estate to get home. “My disabled mother can’t go all the way around to get in when all the entrances are blocked. They are making our lives a misery. It’s like Alcatraz. It’s no longer like a home. It’s like a prison really,” she said.

This week, Cllr Mark Williams, Southwark’s cabinet member for regeneration, planning and transport, said they were now reviewing the situation and trying to find an alternative.

“We will be looking at the best way to alleviate these worries without compromising the security of the site.

The current arrangements will remain in place until an alternative solution can be found,” he said.

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PECKHAM

Plagued by exploding radiators EXCLUSIVE

By Amelia Burr amelia@southwarknews.co.uk

RAGING RESIDENTS on a housing estate are blowing a gasket after more than a hundred radiators have burst or gone bust in a row.

The peculiar events on the Acorn Estate in Peckham have seen one woman need 36 radiators replaced within a year.

Now tenants across the entire estate are piping up about the rupturing radiators, which appear to swell up and bubble before bursting hot brown water all over the carpets and furniture.

“Mine had a big bubble,” said 85-yearold Lil Pyle, who was the second person to move into the estate after it was built in 1963. “When it burst there was water shooting straight across the landing past two bedrooms.

“I’ve had ten go in my house. The living room was flooded. I thought I was in a swimming pool,” she added.

Neighbour Debra Gradwell, 52, who lives on Beach Dene with her two

teenage kids, says her house has been ruined after a series of 36 burst and broken radiators. “We were inches deep in water,” she said of the aftermath from the latest exploding radiator. “All my carpets were ruined.”

“I think it’s about time they sort it out,” said Christine Offord, 61, who feels “lucky” she has only had two radiators burst in her house.

There is a running joke on the estate now that whenever you step outside you can always see a heating engineer carrying a radiator somewhere to whom they call out ‘is that mine?’, but Christine says it is no laughing matter that they estimate hundreds of radiators have been bursting for months across the estate.

“The amount of time this has been going on and the number of radiators that’ve gone – it must be costing them a fortune.”

The radiators which have burst in bedrooms have caused ceilings beneath to collapse and thousands of pounds of damage has been caused to furniture and carpets.

Southwark’s cabinet member for

housing, Cllr Richard Livingstone, told the News residents would be able to claim compensation if they had “experienced problems.”

He described the situation as “highly unusual” and added “this is the first time we have experienced this specific problem.”

The council, contractors and “external experts” have been carrying out tests to try and get to the source of the problem, and although the cause is not clear yet, Cllr Livingstone said: “I would like to reassure residents that the standard or make of the radiators themselves does

not appear to be the issue, nor is the work carried out by contractors.”

“We have lowered the pressure of the water going through the heating system, which seems to have helped, while we work on the problem, and in the long term the whole estate is due to get a brand new boiler house and district heating network in the next year too. In the meantime we will be offering compensation to anyone who has been experiencing problems and I would like to thank residents for their patience while we work to try and solve the issue and apologise for the inconvenience caused.”

FINNISH SPRING FAIR

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ROTHERHITHE SEEMED more like Scandinavia than Southwark last weekend when thousands of Finnish people celebrated ‘Spring Fair’ at the Finnish Church.

The Finnish festivities took place from Friday to Sunday with up to 2500 people from across London flooding the church in Albion Street.

They enjoyed music, food and arts and crafts from their homeland, and were even treated to an appearance from the Moomins, the beloved characters from a popular Scandinavian book series.

“It was really great,” said Teemu Halli, director of the church. “The weather was not too fantastic but other than that

it was good fun with lots of happy people.

“It’s so important for the Finnish community. They get to see each other, to meet new people, which is great as they are quite spread out around London. They also get to listen to Finnish music and eat treats from home.”

Rotherhithe has a long Scandinavian history due to the huge numbers of sailors and traders that used to travel to Surrey Docks from across the North Sea, with many deciding to settle there.

Today, London’s Finnish, Swedish and Danish churches are all located in the area.

Brothers bike, hike and run for Mum

An East Dulwich man will celebrate his mother’s victory over cancer with a gruelling fundraising campaign involving hiking, biking and running.

In the space of ten days, 24-year-old Tom Lynas (pictured left) will cycle over 700 miles, climb three mountains and run the London Marathon. This ‘Bike Hike Run’ fundraiser will be in aid of Cancer Research UK. His mother Jacqui Morrell was diagnosed in March last year but fortunately responded well to chemotherapy and surgery. She completed her treatment in September.

The personal trainer said: “When our amazing mum told us about her illness, along with the sadness and anger, the most overwhelming feeling was

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helplessness. With pride and determination we watched her face up to the many challenges of her treatment and shared her relief when we were told the treatment had been successful.

“We decided then to convert our feelings of helplessness into action, to try and help others by supporting Cancer Research UK in its mission to beat cancer sooner.”

The exhausting challenge will begin on April 17th, when Tom and his brother Sam, of Kensal Rise, (pictured right) will climb Ben Nevis and then cycle to Crianlarich, a small town over 50 miles away.

Over the next ten days, the pair will

climb Scaffel Pike and Snowdon, before running the London Marathon as a grand finale. They will cycle between every point on their journey.

Helen Jackson of Cancer Research UK said: “It’s thanks to the support of people like Sam and Tom that Cancer Research UK’s doctors, nurses and scientists are able to go on making progress in the fight against cancer.

“Every hour more than three people in London are diagnosed with cancer.

Everyone who pulls on their trainers for Cancer Research UK will know they are helping to create more tomorrows for families like theirs.”

To find out more about the challenge or to donate, visit www.bikehikerun.uk.

Donations of £5 can also be made by texting BHRN55 £5 to 70070.

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Good Friday April 3rd - Easter Monday April 6th

Top pick for a scary Easter IF YOUR kids like a bunny more than a Creme egg, why not spend Good Friday and Easter Saturday at the London Bridge Experience’s Leporiphobia event?

thirst for revenge and the blood of anyone coming through. In bad news, the rabbits have escaped and it’s your job to get through the lab in one piece!

Leporiphobia (fear of rabbits) will take you on a journey through a broken laboratory full of testing subjects –these are not the cute rabbits you’re used to but rather angry, infected contagious rabbits with a

Leporiphobia is at the London Bridge Experience, 2-4 Tooley Street, SE1 2SY, on Friday 3 and Saturday 4 April from 7pm-10pm.

Admission: £24 per person.

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New chapter for ‘Biscuit Town’ TOWER BRIDGE Business Complex, commonly known as the Biscuit Factory, is a major part of Bermondsey’s history.

The Clements Road site was built in 1866, a time when Queen Victoria reigned and Beatrix Potter was just a baby.

The home of Peek Frean’s biscuit factory, the building and its famous products soon gave the area a new nickname: ‘Biscuit Town’.

It was a major source of employment for the area, with around 4000 people employed at its peak.

It was also the birth place of several of the country’s favourite biscuits, including the famous Bourbon and the Chocolate Table, which was the first ever chocolate covered biscuit.

For over a century the smells of baking blanketed the area, until the factory closed in 1989.

However, today the site is once again a bustling work place, with dozens of companies calling the converted factory home.

From a cycle training centre to charities, from a climbing wall to our very own

Southwark News office, the variety and contrast of businesses reflect the retail and social diversity of Bermondsey itself.

While the business complex is run by Workspace, part of the site is now owned

by Grosvenor developers - with the site soon to boast homes, both affordable and private.

Grosvenor chief executive Peter Vernon said: “This is a very exciting opportunity for Grosvenor to help transform two currently underused sites in a vibrant London location.”

Biscuit businesses - see overleaf

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O th er b u si nes se s in TO WE R BR IDG E BUS INE SS F AC TO RY : Adlancia Limited Block A Unit 101, Tower Bridge Business Complex, Clements Road, London, SE16 4DG Digiral Andrew Mark Leggatt T/A London Screen Service Block A Unit 403, Tower Bridge Business Complex, Clements Road, London, SE16 4DG A.T. Shop Ltd Block D 01-02, Tower Bridge Business Complex, Clements Road, London, SE16 4DG Bigballs Ltd Block J Unit 112 Right, Tower Bridge Business Complex, Clements Road, London, SE16 4DG City Of London Chauffeur Drive Ltd Block J Unit 105, Tower Bridge Business Complex, Clements Road, London, SE16 4DG Creekside Artists Ltd Block J Units 211 & 212, Tower Bridge Business Complex, Clements Road, London, SE16 4DG Drs Productions Ltd Arches 643, 644 & 644w, Tower Bridge Business Complex, Clements Road, London, SE16 4DG F.W. Evans Cycles Ltd Block A Unit 001 & 002, Tower Bridge Business Complex, Clements Road, London, SE16 4DG Glo&Ray Cosmetics Ltd Block J Unit 202 Tower Bridge Business Complex, Clements Road, London, SE16 4DG Hackett Limited Block J Unit 113, Tower Bridge Business Complex, Clements Road, London, SE16 4DG Hestia Housing & Support Block J Unit 102, Tower Bridge Business Complex, Clements Road, London, SE16 4DG House On The Rock International Church Block J Unit 301a Tower Bridge Business, Complex Clements Road, London, SE16 4DG Inner Ape Ltd Block A Unit, 04, Tower Bridge Business Complex, Clements Road, London, SE16 4DG K2 Screen Ltd Block B Units 01 And 02, Tower Bridge Business Complex, Clements Road, London, SE16 4DG Lightlab Creative Ltd Block J Unit 207, Tower Bridge Business Complex, Clements Road, London, SE16 4DG London School Of Samba B 201 4, Tower Bridge Business Complex, Clements Road, London, SE16 4DG Munro Acoustics Ltd Block K Units 301 & 302, Tower Bridge Business Complex, Clements Road, London, SE16 4DG Nature'S Plus Uk & Roi Block J Unit 216 , Tower Bridge Business Complex , Clements Road, London, SE16 4DG Noram Partners Ltd Block E 01a, Tower Bridge Business Complex, Clements Road, London, SE16 4DG Olivier'S Bakery Ltd Block B Unit 3, Tower Bridge Business Complex, Clements Road, London, SE16 4DG Orchard Enterprises Ny Inc Unit A102, Tower Bridge Business Complex, Clements Road, London, SE16 4DG Paper Cavalier Ltd Block J Unit 112 Left, Tower Bridge Business Complex, Clements Road, London, SE16 4DG Media Limited Block J Unit 108, Tower Bridge Business Complex, Clements Road, London, SE16 4DG Ppi Business Communications Ltd Block E Unit 02a, Tower Bridge Business Complex, Clements Road, London, SE16 4DG Say Fromage Limited Block J Units 109 To 110, Tower Bridge Business Complex, Clements Road, London, SE16 4DG Southwark Arts Forum Block J, Unit 406, Tower Bridge Business Complex, Clements Road, London, SE16 4DG Southwark News Block A Unit, 302, Tower Bridge Business Complex, Clements Road, London, SE16 4DG Teamsport Indoor Karting (London) Ltd Block E Unit 04, Tower Bridge Business Complex, Clements Road, London, SE16 4DG The English Stage Company Ltd Block B Unit 105 to 106, Tower Bridge Business Complex, Clements Road, London, SE16 4DG Truly Experiences Ltd T/A Give Truly Block K Unit 102, Tower Bridge Business Complex, Clements Road, London, SE16 4DG Vmacc Ltd Block K Unit 401, Tower Bridge Business Complex, Clements Road, London, SE16 4DG Wendy Fisher Consulting Limited Block J Unit 204, Tower Bridge Business Complex, Clements Road, London, SE16 4DG Working With Men Units K308 To K313, Tower Bridge Business Complex, Clements Road, London, SE16 4DG Xlnt Results Ltd T/A Xlnt Catering Block A Unit 01, Tower Bridge Business Complex, Clements Road, London, SE16 4DG Your Grind Ltd Block K Units 01 And 02, Tower Bridge Business Complex, Clements Road, London, SE16 4DG

Marketing Solutions Screen Printing Online Clothing Store Film and Video production Chauffeur Drivers Arts Collective Film and Theatre set builders Cycling Online make up store Clothing Housing support Church Silkscreen Printing Studios Creative Lighting Permier Samba Dancing Specialists Studio and Audio Design Natural Vitamin Supplies Sells wholesale media products Top Class Bakers Film and Music Distribution Sell hard-to-find & out-of-print books Plato TV Media Marketing Communicatios Mobile Photo booths Arts Group Newspaper Go Karting Stage company Unique Gift Ideas Building Design And Construction Medical Research Consultants Charity Empowering Youths & Men Catering Services Quality Coffee Suppliers

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ADVERTORIAL

Care and support is changing for the better MANY OF us will need care and support to manage an illness or disability at some point in our adult lives.

From April this year, England’s care and support system is changing with the introduction of the Care Act. These are the biggest changes in over 60 years and aim to make care and support more consistent across the country. If you receive care and support, or you support someone as a carer, you could benefit from the changes.

So what do we mean by care and support? It can be practical help like getting out of bed, washing, getting to work, cooking meals, seeing friends or caring for a family member or friend, or emotional support at a time of difficulty and stress.

Dr Jonty Heaversedge, local GP and Chair of NHS Southwark Clinical Commissioning Group, said: “We have a growing and ageing population and while people are living longer and having a better quality of life, their care needs are increasing. It’s important to think about planning for the future and

how we care for ourselves, family members and friends as we grow older.”

What is changing?

There will be a national level of care and support needs that all councils will consider when they look at what help they can give you. Councils will also have to work together tomake sure you don’t have a gap in your care if you need to move.

Carers For the first time, carers will be on the same footing as those they care for. So, if you are one of the 5.4 million people in England who give unpaid care or support to an adult family member or friend you will be entitled to an assessment of your needs and the right to support from the council, if your needs fall within the eligibility criteria. The way your caring role affects your life will be considered and your physical, mental and emotional wellbeing will be a priority. This could mean you get practical support such as taking a break from caring or a direct payment to spend on things that will help you look after your own

wellbeing.

Planning for care home costs Each year, 25,000 people are at risk of having to sell their home to pay for residential care. One way to pay for this care is a deferred payment agreement – an arrangement with the council that enables you to use the value of your house to pay for care

home costs. This means that no-one will have to sell their home in their lifetime to pay for their care. From April 2015, every council in England will offer this. If you are eligible, your council will help to pay your care home bills on your behalf and delay repayments until you choose to sell your home, or until after your death.

From April 2016, more financial support will be available to people with modest means, and everyone will be protected from unlimited care and support costs.

Get more details on how you might benefit from these changes by visiting www.gov.uk/careandsupport

DO YOU KNOW THE SYMPTOMS OF BOWEL CANCER? EVERY 13 minutes someone in the UK is diagnosed with bowel cancer.

It is the fourth most common cancer in the UK and the second biggest cancer killer in the UK, with more than 16,100 deaths each year.

April is bowel cancer awareness month.

GPs at NHS Southwark Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) want to reassure residents that there really is no reason to feel embarrassed to talk to them about your bowels.

Screening Taking part in the bowel cancer screening programme is the best way to detect bowel cancer early. Despite this, only half the people who receive the screening test actually return it. Currently, everyone between the ages of 60 and 69 registered with a GP is offered a bowel cancer screening every two years. People in this age group will automatically be sent an invitation in the post, then their screening kit. The screening doesn’t take long and is done in the privacy of your own home. It is important that your GP has your correct name and address for you to receive this. If you have any questions about screening or are

concerned you have missed your invitation, just ask your GP. Screening plays an important part in the fight against bowel cancer because the earlier the cancer is diagnosed, the greater the chance it can be cured completely.

The problem is that far too few people with bowel cancer are diagnosed in the early stages. Some people find it uncomfortable to discuss the symptoms or simply don’t know what they are.

Local GP and clinical lead for cancer at NHS Southwark CCG, Dr Emily Gibbs, said: “As GPs, we talk to patients about lots of health problems, so please don’t feel embarrassed. Telling us about changes in your bowels could help us detect cancers at an early stage.”

Who is at risk?

In the UK, 95% of people diagnosed with bowel cancer are over the age of 50.

Having a family history of bowel cancer can increase your risk, as can having inflammatory bowel disease or type 2 diabetes.

Although bowel cancer usually occurs in older people, more people under 50 are being diagnosed every year.

Lowering the risk A few small changes to your diet and lifestyle will reduce your risk of developing bowel cancer.

• Keeping active – 30 minutes of moderate physical activity, 5 times a week • Keep to a healthy body weight, especially trying to reduce abdominal (tummy) fat • Avoid processed meats such as ham, bacon, sausages, burgers, salami - an occasional treat rather than every day • Try to limit the amount of red meat to no more than 500g (cooked weight) a week • Maintain a diet high in fibre e.g. wholegrains such as brown rice and granary bread; • At least five portions of fruit and vegetables a day • Cutting out cigarettes and reducing the amount of alcohol you drink For more information on screening and symptoms visit www.nhs.uk or call 0800 707 6060.

If you’d like to know more about bowel cancer awareness month visit www.bowelcanceruk.org.uk

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HE RECENT problems at London Bridge station have caused mayhem for thousands of passengers travelling between south and central London.

The massive works to upgrade the station as part of the Thameslink project have caused severe overcrowding and extreme delays during rush hour with some passengers having to crawl or jump over ticket barriers to avoid the crush. And people have been left jostling on narrow platforms as they despair about ever getting to or from work and home on time.

Twitter has been seething with protests: “a 7 min trip from queens rd Peckham to london Br takes 20-30 mins every day. Trains constantly delayed and cancelled” “moving away from Peckham next week as can’t bear the stress of constantly late to work/late home anymore” “another day of lon bridge chaos.

Pregnant and dealing with delays & canxs.

When will this end?”

Together with other south London MPs, Tessa Jowell, Sadiq Khan, Jim Dowd, I and London Assembly Member Val Shawcross met Patrick McLoughlin, the Secretary of State for Transport, to urge him to take direct control of the situation. As Secretary of State he should call this in and take day to day responsibility. Network Rail and the train operators have passed the buck between themselves and they need to be brought in to have their heads banged together. It’s a daily nightmare for passengers - it should be a daily responsibility for the Secretary of State.

And we urged him to sort out the compensation. People have not got the service they've paid for. Many people have had higher costs as they've had to pay for alternative travel or more hours of childcare from being late home. The compensation scheme is complex and inadequate and designed to deter passengers from claiming.

If the service is 50% down on what it should have been, then a season ticket holder should automatically get a 50% refund for the lack of service, as well as additional compensation for the stress and extra expense.

The massive upgrading of London Bridge station is a good thing. We will have a great new station in 2018. But passengers shouldn't have to put up with this. Let alone for a further 18 months of chaos while the works continue. Only when it’s dealt with at the highest level of government will there be any chance of the problems being resolved.

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HARRIET HARMAN MP for Camberwell & Peckham

OPINION 33

Rethink still possible over Aylesbury Estate WE IN Southwark Defend Council Housing were proud to lead the 300 strong march for the Aylesbury which you covered on 19th March.

Many Aylesbury tenants and leaseholders enthusiastically joined in.

We think it’s a scandal that over 2,500 council homes will be destroyed and replaced with homes for private sale and some combination of so-called “affordable housing”. Exactly what combination is proposed depends on what document you read - but one thing is beyond doubt. NONE of the homes will be council housing on genuinely affordable and secure tenancies. Many of the displaced tenants and leaseholders will never set foot on the new development except to wonder at the gentrified homes and community that will replace them.

Ex-Tory Councillor Toby Eckersley has weighed in to propose that leaseholders be given one of the old blocks to move into instead of being forced off and given a fraction of the value of their homes. We would support the retention of council homes, but we can't help thinking exCouncillor Eckersley’s intervention is more about deflecting criticism for his party’s policy of Right to Buy, than genuine concern for those leaseholders facing financial ruin.

After all, the Tories’ policy, introduced in 1980, and carried on under Labour, led to the removal of three million council homes from public ownership - homes that were never replaced.

Instead of the dream of security in old age that they felt they were offered by the Tories, leaseholders now fear they will have their homes swept away from under them, and they will be kicked out of the communities they have been part of for years.

Yes please retain a block for the leaseholders who want to stay, but why not afford the same rights to

council tenants? We call on Southwark’s Labour Council to respect the result of the 2001 ballot when residents voted, by 73%, to retain their Aylesbury council homes.

Or organise another ballot and find out if their views have changed.

We will continue to fight for all our council homes. If you are threatened with demolition we will help you to organise against it. Contact us at southwarkdch@gmail.com.

Tanya Murat, Chair, Southwark Defend Council Housing

Will our politicians stop apologising!

I WRITE to you to relay an urgent appeal. I am appealing to our local politicians to stop saying sorry.

As a keen reader of your newspaper, I have come to expect that each week one politician or another will appear or be quoted to apologise for a mishap or unacceptable incident under their jurisdiction. I want them to stop saying sorry. Instead, I want them to deal with the root causes that oblige them to keep saying sorry over and over again.

Perhaps it may help if I remind them of what their role is. Elected office holders are responsible for ensuring that public administrations run efficiently and provide value for money. Notice that the definition describes doing a good job, not apologising for doing a bad one.

Or maybe it would be helpful to frame their constant apologising against another kind of leader that we are all familiar with, say, a football manager. Football managers are expected to produce clearly defined results. If they fail, they are sacked and sorry won’t cut it. As a result, the only football managers who stay in the same job as long as our politicians are the ones who win trophies non-stop.

However, it might be our own fault, and we have got the politicians we deserve. After all, we have elected

them again and again.

An American friend told me he could not understand why the British are so tolerant of incompetence. Any error can be wished away with the word sorry, he said. I see his point and it is time we start asking more of our leaders. Our next chance will be on the 7th of May and I for one will be voting for a new candidate with fresh ideas and real experience.

Timothy Orimakinde, Camberwell, by email.

Consider effect of raft of 20mph zones FURTHER TO Southwark and TfL’s introduction of 20 mph limits, not only on residential roads and streets, but now on some arterial roads:

Have they considered the in knock on effect this will have, for example: • To drive in an automatic car, of which most are in London, one has to have one's foot on the brake all the time, as the car would go faster than 20 by itself. This means the car's brake lights are on all the time, sort of defeating the purpose of brake lights!

• In a manual, one would have to drive in third gear as modern day cars are not designed to go at 20mph in fourth gear - not very environmentally friendly.

• Those drivers who will get frustrated behind a law abiding motorist doing 20 on such roads as Salter Road would probably feel road rage. This I have experienced.

I have noted the marking of a 20 sign on roads, but not in bus lanes, (Lower Road). Does this mean bus, taxis and motor cyclist are exempt from this speed limit?

It may be a good safety issue to introduce this limit, but on arterial roads, is it really effective? There should be other ways to promote road safety, such more safety cameras and police presence.

Andy Hind, Rotherhithe Street.

JACKIE POWER

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ARCH SHOULD have brought a noticeable change in the weather and although the months of cold, wet and freezing conditions are mostly behind us, sunshine has been in short supply. But, the days are lengthening and the heat from the sun will be strong enough to start warming the soil - although temperatures may not feel that warm just yet!

This is the start of a new gardening year and it is time to get busy preparing seasonal displays for window boxes and outside (balcony) containers. Seeds can be sown either in trays in the greenhouse or into pots and placed on a window ledge. In the garden - clear any remaining piles of leaves from last autumn and tidy perennials (cut down any dead stems and old flower heads).

Once the weather picks up tasks will quickly multiply as the garden bursts into growth.

One of the more unusual plants in the flower border is Pulmonaria ‘Blue Ensign’.

It has interesting mottled foliage and produces deep blue flowers. Pulmonaria blooms from early March through April. It is not fussy about growing conditions and will thrive in sun or partial shade. It is likely to die back in a hot summer, but growth will return once the weather cools down. Pulmonaria makes an interesting display planted with Daffodils and Euphorbia - a hardy perennial which has blue-tinged foliage and contrasting, lime-yellow flowers. Euphorbia is drought resistant and a useful plant in the garden. Spring shrubs currently in bloom are Daphne with its highly scented pink flowers; Honeysuckle (Lonicera fragrantissima) and the Camellia – a handsome evergreen shrub with large showy blooms in pink, red or white.

Preparation of a herb themed window box can be started off in March. Plant Violas and Thymes – two types such as Lemon (Thymus citriodorus) plus the common Thyme (Thymus vulgaris). Sow Calendula and Nasturtiums seeds around these and add a supermarket bought mint plant (leave in pot and sink into the soil).

These plants will provide flowers through early summer and the whole display will be highly fragrant.

As daylight hours lengthen houseplants require attention – increase watering and give the first feed of the season using a liquid plant food (following instructions on the label). Re-pot any plants that have outgrown their containers using high quality compost.

This will give houseplants a good start and bring them back into vigorous growth.

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In loving memory of

In loving memory of

Henry (Harry) Holder

Gladys (Glad) Clements (Nee Holder)

27th March 1932 - 1st September 1993 Forever in our hearts Loving you always and forever Thanking God for our ‘Bermondsey Boy’ Special Birthday memories.

Love Lola, Linda, Sue, Carol & families xxxxx

We accept:

23rd March 1914 - 14th February 2007 Our treasured “English Rose” Forever loved & never forgotten Thanking God for ‘our sweetie’ Love Lola, Linda, Sue, Carol & families xxxxx

Sally Notcutt Sunrise 26.8.1940

Sunset 31.3.2003

John Morgan 8.1.1926 - 31.3.2008

Loved always wife June, John, Sam, Michael, Dawn & all the family

• If you are over 65 years old • Have lived in the Old Parish of Camberwell (inc Dulwich and Peckham) for more than 2 years

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Always something going on and getting better and better.

No admission charge. www.surreydocksfarm.org.uk / 0207 231 1010 Dockland Settlements Rotherhithe Community Centre

Thomas Kennerk Happy 80th Birthday Dad. Love Linda & Grandchildren Josh, Reece, Charley & Kerry-Ann x x x x

www.sdail.org Southwark Disablement Association

Look who’s 80 on 28th March

Thank you to all who attended Lilly’s funeral and for the beautiful floral tributes. We would especially wish to thank Father Michael for the wonderful service, also Barry Albin and his team for their care and support. Thanks to Pat, Mick and the girls at the Ship Aground. Nancy at Greens for the beautiful flowers and all family and friends who came to see Lilly have a good send off. Sincere thanks.

David, Barry and families

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

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Boy In Darkness shines brightly IN THE stark, dark box which is our venue for this evening, Gareth Murphy holds a captivated, writes Susan Hallissey...

Audience’s attention single handedly for just over an hour as we watched Mervyn Peake’s Boy in Darkness. I say single handedly but as Murphy metamorphosed from boy to goat to hyena and back again we are given a crisp, clean treat of ingenious storytelling. The only prop being Murphy's honed, energetic body and voice drawing us into the story of a 14 year old boy looking for adventure.

Using the space as a castle, a land of white powder and a derelict mine, Murphy transforms before our eyes.

The 'dandy' hyena and 'sycophantic' goat making good goes as they banter around the stage with glory on their minds.

Being unfamiliar with the stories of Mervyn Peake didn't matter as Murphy took his audience on a journey into a magical and disturbing world where a 'blind lamb' ruled this dystopian land.

It was a small audience the night I attended and Murphy had injured his back, yet his performance still glinted like crystal. Hard to believe the humble

THEATRE

BLUE ELEPHANT THEATRE 59a, Bethwin Rd, Camberwell, SE5 (020-7701 0100) Boy In Darkness Storytelling and physical theatre intertwine in a bold, new stage interpretation of Mervyn Peake’s novella; Boy In Darkness. Blue Elephant Theatre, From Mar 11, Wed-Sat 8pm, ends Apr 4, £12.50, concs £10, Southwark resident £8.50.

NATIONAL THEATRE: DORFMAN South Bank, SE1 (020-7452 3000) Rules For LivingA dark comedy written by Sam Holcroft. National Theatre: Dorfman, 26 & 31, 8pm (press night Mar 24, 7pm), ends Jul 8, £15-£40, phone for availability.

The Hard Problem Tom Stoppard’s journey through the world of evolutionary science, directed by Nicholas Hytner. National Theatre: Dorfman, Mar 27, 28 & 30, 7.30pm, mats Mar 28, 2.30pm (captioned eve perfs Mar 3, audio described eve perf Mar 6, audio described mat perf Mar 7), ends May 27, £15-£50, phone for availability.

NATIONAL THEATRE: LYTTELTON South Bank, SE1 (020-7452 3000) Man And Superman Ralph Fiennes stars in George Bernard Shaw’s provocative and philosophical romantic comedy. National Theatre: Lyttelton, 30 & 31, 7pm, mats Mar 14, 21 & 24, 1.30pm, Mar 22, 2pm (captioned eve perf Mar 31), ends May 17, £15-£50.

Dara Tanya Ronder’s adaptation of Shahid Nadeem’s domestic drama set in 17thcentury Mughal India. National Theatre: Lyttelton, Mar 25-28, 7.30pm (press night Mar 28, 2.15pm, Mar 29, 3pm, captioned eve perf Mar 26, audio described eve perf Mar 27, audio described mat perf Mar 28, captioned mat perf Mar 29), ends Apr 4, £15-£50.

NATIONAL THEATRE: OLIVIER South Bank, SE1 (020-7452 3000) Treasure Island (Over 10s) Bryony Lavery’s adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic tale, starring Arthur Darvill as Long John Silver. National

actor thanking us had a few minutes earlier been a swaggering and arrogant hyena!

Gareth Murphy is more than enough for this show. His physicality relays the story beautifully; my only criticism being that the narrative was at times over embellished with descriptive prose when he was already giving a mesmerising performance.

Now for the tag line - I love the Blue Elephant! A theatre like this needs to be celebrated and supported for unique and innovative theatre it provides for the local community and beyond.

Gareth Murphy and Boy In Darkness is a treasure buried not only in a strange land but in Camberwell. Love your community and see a production full of passion at The Blue Elephant.

Blue Elephant Theatre, 59a Bethwin Rd, Camberwell, SE5 0XT Until Saturday 4 April (Wednesdays to Saturdays only) Time: 8pm Box Office: 020 7701 0100 www.blueelephanttheatre.co.uk Tickets: £12.50 (£10.00 conc. & £8.50 Southwark residents) info@blueelephanttheatre.co.uk Twitter: @BETCamberwell

Theatre: Olivier, Mar 24-28, 7pm, mats Mar 25, 28 & 29, 2pm, ends Apr 8, £15-£50.

OVALHOUSE 54, Kennington Oval, Kennington, SE11 (020-7582 7680) All The Things You Said You Never Said Before You Thought You Could Ever Say Contemporary drama based around one couple and a missed chance. Ovalhouse, Mar 23-28, 7.30pm, Mar 22, 5pm, £10, concs £6.

Our Carnal HeartsA work-in-progress presented by Rachel Mars. Ovalhouse, Mar 25-28, 7.45pm, £5.

ROYAL VAUXHALL TAVERN 372, Kennington Lane, Vauxhall, SE11 (0207820 1222) The Ruby Darlings Show The Ruby Darlings give an outrageously honest yet totally sexy look at life with a vagina.

Completely filthy and 100% committed to making women feel empowered, men feel educated and everyone having a very naughty time. Royal Vauxhall Tavern, Mar 20, 6.30pm, £8.25.

SHAKESPEARE’S GLOBE THEATRE 21, New Globe Walk, SE1 (020-7401 9919) The Broken Heart John Ford’s 17thcentury revenge drama set in ancient Sparta, directed by Caroline Steinbeis.

Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre, From Mar 12, Tue-Sat 7.30pm, mats Thu & Sat 2.30pm, no mats Mar 12 & 14, extra mats Mar 15, extra eve perfs Mar 15, ends Apr 18, £15-£60.

SOUTHBANK CENTRE Belvedere Road, Waterloo, SE1 (020-7960 4200) Crazy For GershwinAn all-Gershwin extravaganza of song and dance. Royal Festival Hall, Mar 28, 2.30pm, £16.50-£48, concs £8.25-£24.

SOUTHWARK PLAYHOUSE 77-85, Newington Causeway, SE1 (020-7407 0234) These Trees Are Made Of Blood A cabaret-style performance based on Argentina’s Dirty War. Southwark Playhouse, From Mar 18, Mon-Sat 8pm, mat Sat 3.30pm, ends Apr 11, Mar 18 & 19 previews £10, Mar 20-31 £18, concs £16.

Thank You For Smoking Based on a truelife story. Southwark Playhouse, Mar 8,

7pm, £10.

THE MENIER CHOCOLATE FACTORY 53, Southwark Street, SE1 (020-7378 1713) Buyer & Cellar Michael Urie stars in Jonathan Tolins’s award-winning comedy of modern manners. The Menier Chocolate Factory, From Mar 12, Tue-Sat 8pm, mats Sat & Sun 3.30pm (press night Mar 19), ends May 2, £32.50, concs £25, Meal Deal £40.50, Premium Seats £35, adv £22.50£30, Meal Deal adv £30.50-£38, Premium Seats adv £29.50-£35.

THE MILLER 96, Snowfields, SE1 (0207407 2690) Do Not Adjust Your Stage At Hoopla’s Improv Comedy Club Live long-form improvised comedy from one of the UK’s leading groups, Do Not Adjust Your Stage.

The Miller, Mar 28, 7.30pm, £5.

Do Not Adjust Your Stage Long-form improvised comedy from one of the UK’s leading groups. The Miller, Mar 28, 7.30pm10.30pm, £5.

Cabarera: Back To The 70’s Cabarera is a regular night of era-themed entertainment this month we go back to the 70’s and our fab line up includes: Nick Hall, Dave Waller, Shamus Maxwell, Intuitive Creatures, Short & Curly and Susan Harrison. The Miller, Mar 24, 8pm, £4-£5.

THE ROSE, Bankside 56, Park Street, SE1 (020-7261 9565) A Chaste Maid In Cheapsi Offie nominated Mercurius presents: A rollicking City Comedy. The Rose, Bankside, ens Mar 28, 7.30pm, £12, concs £10, mems £9.

UNICORN THEATRE 147, Tooley Street, SE1 (020-7645 0560) The Chair (Over 7s) A comedy musical set in a cheap barber’s shop in the dangerous Tiger Bay docks. Unicorn Theatre, Mar 25 & 28, 7pm, mats Mar 20 & 24-27, 10.30am, Mar 29 & 31, 11.30am, Mar 26, 1.30pm, Mar 21, 22, 28, 29 & 31, 2.30pm, ends Apr 12, £16, concs £13, under 21s £10.

HOOTANANNY 95, Effra Road, SW2 (0207737 7273) Hoot Comedy Adam Bloom and Paul T Eyres. Hootananny, Mar 20, 8.30pm, phone for prices.Hoot Comedy Ben Norris and Steve N Allen. Hootananny, Mar 27,

8.30pm, phone for prices.

LOST THEATRE 208, Wandsworth Road, SW8 (0844-847 1680) Sinatra: Final Curtain In the 100th year since the birth of Frank Sinatra comes a gripping musical, reflecting on his life with his young duty nurse, Sinatra reminisces over some very good years and a much-talked about life and career. LOST Theatre, Mar 18-21, 7.30pm, mat Mar 21, 3pm, £14 & £18, concs £11 & £14.

THE BREAD AND ROSES 68, Clapham Manor Street, SW4 (020-7498 1779) The Tuesday Club Enjoy this selection of 10-minute plays by the Tuesday Club playwrights from the Royal Court Theatre’s 2014 writing programme. Mar 22, 4pm & 7pm, £10.

Shakespearean Double Bill: Measure For Measure & Merchant Of Venice Can you truly be yourself when you are stuck in religious conventions? Mar 24-29, 7.30pm, ends Mar 29, £10.

GALLERIES

ANISE GALLERY 13a, Shad Thames, SE1 (07808-864653) Alignment Ian and Sachiyo’s meticulous use of etching and photography respectively take their work on different paths, ultimately, the two paths converge. ‘Alignment’ examines the journey taken by these two artists’ work focusing on their shared intricacy. Anise Gallery, From Apr 9, ThuSun 11am-5pm, ends May 10, free.

ARCADIA MISSA Unit 6, Bellenden Road Business Centre, Bellenden Road, SE15 Tifkas The first solo exhibition by artist duo Hannah Quinlan Anderson and Rosie Hastings. A book, titled @Gaybar after the duo’s 2014 project, will accompany the exhibition. Arcadia Missa, Thu-Sat 12noon5pm, check website for Bank Hol openings, ends Apr 4, free.

ART HOUSE1 45, Grange Road, SE1 (07713-189249) Trip The Light - Amy Petra Woodward And Diana Edmunds Inspired from the traditions of minimalism and the Light & Space

movement of the 1960’s - using colour, surface and industrial materials or processes to create their sensory works and installations to tease and attract the eye’s attention. Art House1, From Apr 10, ThuSun 3pm-7.30pm, ends Apr 28, free.

BERMONDSEY SQUARE 2, Bermondsey Square, SE1 Sculpture At Bermondsey Square Commission 1: Karen Tang A large-scale sculpture inspired by the 1959 sciencefiction movie, The Giant Behemoth.

Bermondsey Square, Mon-Sun, open access, ends Apr 30, free.

CAFE GALLERY PROJECTS 1, Park Approach, Southwark Park, SE16 (0207237 1230) Bottom Natures A group exhibition, curated

by Matthew McQuillan, exploring the Bottom Nature of art and art making, a state which renders the viewer tongue tied or dumbstruck. Cafe Gallery Projects, WedSun 11am-5pm, ends May 3, free.

CECILIA BRUNSON PROJECTS Royal Oak Yard, SE1 (020-7357 9274) Moussa Sarr: Works From The Marc Fassiaty Collection The artist draws on uncomfortable racial taboos to confront the viewer with notions of ‘the primitive’ that have been diluted or repressed by social mores. Cecilia Brunson Projects, Tue-Fri 2pm-6pm, Sat 12noon-4pm, closed Good Friday, ends May 8, free.

COLEMAN PROJECT SPACE 94, Webster Road, SE16 (020-7237 9120) Badrick And Rogers, An Investigation Into The Times And Our Tangents Visitor experiences designed around the pleasures and the pitfalls of negotiating a datasaturated environment. Coleman Project Space, Fri-Sun 12noon-6pm, ends Apr 12, free.

CONTEMPORARY APPLIED ARTS 89, Southwark Street, SE1 (020-7620 0086) Leaving Home: A New Setting For Sitespecific Contemporary Craft A group exhibition exploring what happens when site-specific installations are moved to a new setting and whether the work gains or loses significance when it is taken out of its original context. Contemporary Applied Arts, From

Apr 17, Mon-Sat 10am-6pm, Sun 11am5pm, closed Bank Hols ends May 31, free.

COPPERFIELD GALLERY 6, Copperfield Street, SE1 Oscar Santillan: To Break A Silence Into Smaller Silences The artists first UK solo exhibition drawing on obscurities as unexpected events occur: a dead philosopher’s dance is unveiled and a piece of land stolen. Copperfield Gallery, Wed-Sat 12noon-6pm, closed Good Friday, ends May 9, free.

DESIGN MUSEUM 28 Butlers Wharf, Shad Thames, SE1 (020-7940 8790) Designs Of The YearA celebration of design that promotes or delivers change, enables access, extends design practice or captures the spirit of the year. Design Museum, Mon-Sun 10am-5.45pm, last adm 5.15pm, ends Aug 16, £13.

Women Fashion Power An immersive exhibition designed by the renowned architect Zaha Hadid, exploring how fashion is used as a tool of self-expression and empowerment. Design Museum, Mon-Sun 10am-5.45pm, last admission 5.15pm, ends Apr 26, booking essential £11.80, child/disabled £5.90, family £23 & £33.40.

DILSTON GROVE SE16 (020-7237 1230) Matt Stokes: Cantata Profana Video and audio installation in deconsecrated church

by Matt Stokes and Orlando Gough in which extreme metal meets classical choral traditions. Dilston Grove, Fri-Sun 11am5pm, ends Apr 26, free.

DRAWING ROOM Tannery Arts, 12 Rich Estate, Crimscott Street, SE1 (020-7394 5657) Drawing Biennial 2015 Exhibition and online auction of more than 200 unique works on paper by established and emerging artists, Drawing Biennial 2015 offers fresh insights into the most exciting currents in contemporary art today. Drawing Room, Tue-Fri 11am-6pm, Sat 12noon6pm, ends Apr 30, free.

DULWICH PICTURE GALLERY Gallery Road, SE21 (020-8693 5254) Made In China: A Doug Fishbone Project Spot the Chinese copy of an Old Master painting in the gallery’s permanent

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THERE WAS already a buzz of eagerness about Jonathan Tolins’ one-man show Buyer & Cellar as it has been running in New York since 2013, been winning awards on a regular basis, and has now transferred to London with its original director and performer, and pretty much all the backstage staff as well, writes Michael Holland...

Schaffer shifts boundaries

AFTER A weekend of a comedy show at The Old Nun’s Head and a brilliant interview with funny girl Gina Yashere (in the Southwark Weekender), it was nice to round it off with Nunhead comic Lewis Schaffer’s regular Sunday spot at Leicester Square Theatre, writes Michael Holland...

New Yorker Lewis is a man in what he calls his ‘aspirational suit’ inasmuch as he will one day slim down to fit into it properly; a man who has a great line in funny stuff but gets easily diverted into realms of either genius or not-so-funny, and the audience often has to get him back on track when he forgets where he got sidetracked.

Sunday’s show was like that but with more hilarity than WTF? He never tries to offend but some people could get offended with his choice of material. On the day I was there it ranged from 9-11, to Maddy McCain and the Soham Murders, while digressing into collection. Dulwich Picture Gallery, Tue-Fri 10am-5pm, Sat, Sun & Bank Hols 11am5pm, ends Jul 26, £5, OAP £4, child/NUS/unwaged/disabled free.

Ravilious Watercolours by Eric Ravilious.

Dulwich Picture Gallery, Tue-Fri 10am-5pm, Sat, Sun & Bank Hols 11am-5pm, ends Aug 31, £12.50, child/mems free, OAP £11.50, concs £7.50.

EMBASSY TEA GALLERY 195-205, Union Street, SE1 (020-7274 7474) Capsule Made In Arts London presents this independent exhibition showcasing exclusive art and design from UAL students & graduates. Embassy Tea Gallery, From Apr 8, Thu-Sat 10am-6pm, Sun 11am-5pm, ends Apr 12, free.

FASHION AND TEXTILE MUSEUM 83, Bermondsey Street, SE1 (020-7407 8664) Andrew Logan Sculptures inspired by cultures and icons of East and West.

Fashion And Textile Museum, Tue, Wed, Fri & Sat 11am-6pm, Thu 11am-8pm, Sun 11am-5pm, ends May 3, £8.80, concs £6.60, NUS £5.50, under 12s free.

Mirror Man Andrew Logan Portraits Mirror portraits featuring Derek Jarman, Anita Roddick, Maria Callas and Marlene Dietrich. Fashion And Textile Museum, TueWed, Fri & Sat 11am-6pm, Thu 11am-8pm, Sun 11am-5pm, closed Apr 23, ends May 3, £8.80, NUS £5.50, concs £6.60, under 2s free.

Thea Porter: 70s Bohemian Chic Thea Porter’s glamorous designs introduced ‘Bohemian chic’ to 1960s London. Her fashion story encompasses the turbulent events of the Middle East in the first half of the 20th century and the artistic scene in London from the 1960s to 1980s. Fashion And Textile Museum, Tue, Wed, Fri & Sat 11am-6pm, Thu 11am-8pm, Sun 11am5pm, ends May 3, £8.80, NUS £5.50, concs £6.60, under 12s free.

lesbian sex for the female couple in hysterics in the front row; holy jihad for the benefit of the laughing Muslim audience member, and all the gay stuff you could wish to hear for our 1 in 4 crowd. All funny, but perhaps not to everyone’s comedic tastes if they feel there are boundaries never to be crossed.

Over his years doing stand-up Lewis has created his own phenomena and has his followers.

One fellow New Yorker had tracked him down because he remembers when he was doing the circuit back home. He hung around after the show and was lucky enough to go for dinner with the man he says was ‘the person who influenced my love of good stand-up comedy’.

Leicester Square Theatre, 6pm Every Sunday. £10 Lewis can also be seen on his Free Until Famous Tour: www.lewisschaffer.co.uk

GABRIEL FINE ART Cottage 2, Old Paradise Yard, 20 Carlisle Lane, SE1 (0207987 6762) Death And Transition Drawings, paintings, photography and sculpture by artists including Anna Arianova, Kate Bowe, Joan Byrne and more. Gabriel Fine Art, From Apr 17, Tue-Sat 11am-6pm, ends May 1, free.

Unity In Variety III The third group exhibition at Gabriel Fine Art highlighting the power and wealth of diversity in art today. Gabriel Fine Art, From Apr 17, Tue-Sat 11am-6pm, ends May 1.

GARDEN MUSEUM Lambeth Palace Road, SE1 (020-7401 8865) A Space For Flowers: New Covent Garden Flower Market Exhibition Photographs, recordings, film and children’s work inspired by one of the great London wholesale markets. Garden Museum, MonFri & Sun 10.30am-5pm, Sat 10.30am4pm, ends May 11, £5-£7.50.

HMS BELFAST The Queen’s Walk, SE1 (020-7940 6300) Hew Locke: The Tourists Art installation.

HMS Belfast, Mon-Sun 10am-6pm, ends Sep 7, £16, concs £12.80, child £8, art fund mems £8, mems free, under 5s free, family £28 & £42, .

IMPERIAL WAR MUSEUM Lambeth Road, Elephant & Castle, SE1 (020-7416 5000) Fashion On The Ration: 1940s Street Style Explore the survival of fashion during the Second World War. Imperial War Museum, Mon-Sun 10am-6pm, last adm 5.30pm, ends Aug 31, £10, concs £7, under 15s £5.

Holocaust Exhibition Documenting the Holocaust and the Second World War. Imperial War Museum, Mon-Sun 10am5pm, ends Dec 31, free.

Hew Locke Drawings, sculpture and wall

The minimalist set is perfect for a show that has myriad opportunities for the actor to dress the stage himself with his craft, and Michael Urie does that superbly.

The premise is that Barbra Streisand has had a shopping mall built in her basement and advertises for someone to work there. Jobbing actor Alex gets the job and it is him that guides us through the ups and downs of cellar life as he plays Sharon, the PA, Barry, his boyfriend, Streisand herself, James Brolin and various other characters that venture in and out of this hilarious tale.

Knowing how litigious Ms Streisand can be, Alex agonises as he forces the message across that this is a work of fiction, that she has not, to his knowledge, had a mall built beneath her house, and the conversations contained within the text did not take place, etc., etc., to ensure any lawyers are kept sweet.

As well as a comic look at how Barbra Streisand may or may not be as a person, Buyer & Cellar takes us through Alex’s private life and gives an insight into the perception of gay icons and how gay people are expected to worship them.

Being very much a New York play there are lots of in-jokes that only the

reliefs. Imperial War Museum, Mon-Sun 10am-5pm, ends May 4, free.

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

Imperial War Museum, From Apr 2, MonSun 10am-5pm, end Sep 25, free.

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

JERWOOD SPACE 171, Union Street, Bankside, SE1 (020-7654 0179) Jerwood/FVU Awards 2015: ‘What Will They See Of Me?’ A moving-image installation. Jerwood Space, Mon-Fri 10am5pm, Sat & Sun 10am-3pm, closed Bank Hols, ends Apr 26, free.

Giles Round And Phil Root: The Grantchester Pottery An artistic collaboration between the sculptor and the painter. Jerwood Space, Mon-Fri 10am5pm, Sat & Sun 10am-3pm, closed Bank Hols, ends Aug 31, free.

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

The Grantchester Pottery: Backdrop Commission An artistic collaboration between sculptor Giles Round and painter Phil Root. Jerwood Space, Mon-Fri 10am5pm, Sat & Sun 10am-3pm, closed Bank Hols, ends Aug 31, free.

MENIER GALLERY 51, Southwark Street, SE1 (020-7407 3222) Combat Art: Personal Reflections Of Afghanistan Paintings, drawings, photography, objects and film, all made in Afghanistan by members of 40 Commando, Royal Marines with access to the Combat Art Kit. Menier Gallery, Apr 1, 11am-6pm, free.

MORLEY GALLERY 61, Westminster

New Yorkers in the audience got, but this does not detract from what is a first-rate piece of writing.

Urie has a lot of fun acting OTT over Streisand being OTT, with his larger than life impressions and asides to the audience, in what is both a homage to star and a send-up of super-stardom.

Bridge Road, SE1 (020-7450 1826) MADE 2015: Ceramics Exhibition Works by members of the London Ceramic Circle and Morley College Ceramics students, exploring the theme of “Past Matters: 125 years of industrial manufactured inspiration”.

Morley Gallery, From Apr 16, Mon-Fri 11am6pm, ends Apr 30, free.

SIOBHAN DAVIES DANCE 85, St George’s Road, SE1 (020-7091 9650) Eva Stenram: Positions The UK premiere of ongoing series Parts, as well as new artworks specially conceived for this exhibition. Siobhan Davies Dance, Mon-Thu & Sun 10am-8pm, Fri & Sat 10am-5pm, closed Bank Hols, ends Mar 22 2016, free.

SOUTH LONDON GALLERY 65-67, Peckham Road, SE5 (020-7703 6120) Isabelle Cornaro: Paysage Avec Poussin The South London Gallery and Spike Island, Bristol, present a two-part solo exhibition by French artist Isabelle Cornaro. South London Gallery, Tue & Thu-Sat 11am-6pm, Wed 11am-9pm, ends Apr 5, free.

Jenna Bliss: Into This Recovery Centre Jenna Bliss draws on the history of the Lincoln Recovery Center in the South Bronx, New York. South London Gallery, Apr 1, 7pm-8.30pm, £5.

SOUTHBANK CENTRE Belvedere Road, Waterloo, SE1 (020-7960 4200) Olmo Blanco: Instalodecoraciones The artist’s restoration of the cafe’s adjacent toilets into a tiled palazzio. Concrete at Hayward, Mon 12noon-6pm, Tue-Thu 11am-1pm, Fri & Sat 11am-12noon, Sun 11am-7pm, ends Apr 19, free.

Changing Britain 1945-2015: History Is Now: 7 Artists Take On Britain Seven artists take on the cultural history of the United Kingdom offering a radical new way of thinking about how we got to where we are today. Hayward Gallery, Mon 12noon-6pm, Tue, Wed, Sat & Sun 11am-7pm, Thu & Fri

Menier Chocolate Factory, 53 Southwark Street, SE1 1RU until May 2nd Times: Tue – Sat 8pm, matinees Sat and Sun 3.30pm Box Office: 020 7378 1713 www.menierchocolatefactory.com £27 - £35 www.menierchocolatefactory.com Twitter: @MenChocFactory

11am-8pm, ends Apr 26, £6.50-£12.

Sheila Hicks: Foray Into Chromatic Zones The Hayward Gallery Project Space presents an exhibition by Sheila Hicks, marking the artist’s first solo show in a UK public institution. Hayward Gallery, Tue-Sun 10am-6pm, Mon 12noon-6pm, ends Apr 19, free.

Paula Rego: Rego Retold Owen Lowery’s poetic responses to the work of artist Paula Rego. The Saison Poetry Library, Tue-Sun 11am-8pm, ends May 3, free.

SOUTHWARK CATHEDRAL Montague Close, SE1 (020-7367 6700) Kelly Hall: Celebrating The British Isles Drawings based on the British Isles.

Southwark Cathedral, Mon-Fri 8am-6pm, Sat & Sun 8.30am-6pm, ends Apr 10, free.

Lent Art Installation: Within The Light A large-scale installation made of glass fabric.

Southwark Cathedral, Mon-Fri 8am-6pm, Sat & Sun 8.30am-6pm, ends Apr 3, free.

Nicky Nichols London cityscapes.

Southwark Cathedral, From Apr 11, Mon-Fri 8am-6pm, Sat & Sun 8.30am-6pm, ends May 22, free.

SPACE STATION SIXTY-FIVE 373, Kennington Road, SE11 (020-8299 5036) Cockadoodle: The Erogenous Art Of Maurice Vellekoop A flamboyant new exhibition that uncorks the Canadian artist’s contribution to illustration, underground comics and contemporary erotica. Space Station Sixty-Five, Wed-Sat 12noon-6pm, ends May 2, free.

TATE MODERN Bankside, Holland Street, SE1 (020-7887 8888) Abstraction And The Sublime Works exploring affinities between the American post-war abstractionists and European landscape painters. Tate Modern, Mon-Thu & Sun 10am-6pm, Fri & Sat 10am-10pm, ongoing, free.

Around Abstract Art 1920-1935 Exploring

the development of abstract art. Tate Modern, Mon-Thu & Sun 10am-6pm, Fri & Sat 10am-10pm, ongoing, free.

Arte Povera And Anti-Form An art exhibition curated by Mark Godfrey and Helen Sainsbury. Tate Modern, Mon-Thu & Sun 10am-6pm, Fri & Sat 10am-10pm, ongoing, free.

Vanessa Bell And Saluoa Raouda Choucair Works by two artists from different periods and different locations who were both pioneers of abstraction in their own place and time. Tate Modern, Mon-Thu & Sun 10am-6pm, Fri & Sat 10am-10pm, ends Aug 23, free.

Beyond Painting Works exploring the constituent elements of putting paint on canvas. Tate Modern, Mon-Thu & Sun 10am-6pm, Fri & Sat 10am-10pm, ongoing, free.

Joseph Beuys:Artist Rooms This display of sculpture brings together works by the German artist from the early 1980s. Tate Modern, Mon-Thu & Sun 10am-6pm, Fri & Sat 10am-10pm, ends ongoing, free.

Beyond Surrealism Works curated by Matthew Gale. Tate Modern, Mon-Thu & Sun 10am-6pm, Fri & Sat 10am-10pm, ongoing, free.

Louise Bourgeois: Works On Paper Prints, drawings and books by the artist.

Tate Modern, Mon-Thu & Sun 10am-6pm, Fri & Sat 10am-10pm, ends Apr 12, free.

Alexander Brodsky And Ilya Utkin Illustrations by the two artists who became known as The Paper Architects. Tate Modern, Mon-Thu & Sun 10am-6pm, Fri & Sat 10am-10pm, ongoing, free.

Constructionism Curated by Tanya Barson and Matthew Gale. Tate Modern, Mon-Thu & Sun 10am-6pm, Fri & Sat 10am-10pm, ongoing, free.

Cubism Exhibition illuminating the perceptual and conceptual aspects of the art

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Shakespeare unrehearsed and unhinged

THEATRE HISTORY will be made at the site of The Rose Playhouse. For the first time in more than 400 years, actors will be performing as Shakespeare’s company did, going on stage armed with only their own lines and immediate cues, exactly as it was done when London’s Tudor playhouses were built, writes Michael Holland...

The members of The Salon:Collective will be putting their skills on the line for an invited audience. Intrigued, I had had to find out why. “Lizzie Hughes, one of the leading lights of the Collective, told me: ‘First curiosity, to see how the technique actually works, as it's very different to 21st century actor skills.

Then excitement, as it lands you right in the heart of the moment, which is where all actors aim for in their work.’

The actor then went on to me how scenes you may have watched many time before, now appear completely different. There can be a lot of characters interrupting each other, purposefully,’ she says, ‘as they receive their cue more than once, which makes movement. Tate Modern, Mon-Thu & Sun 10am-6pm, Fri & Sat 10am-10pm, ongoing, free.

Giorgio De Chirico And Jannis Kounellis An exhibition exploring how two different artists responded to surrealism. Tate Modern, Mon-Thu & Sun 10am-6pm, Fri & Sat 10am-10pm, ongoing, free.

Sonia Delaunay: The EY Exhibition A retrospective of the artist’s work. Tate Modern, From Apr 15, Mon-Thu & Sun 10am-6pm, Fri & Sat 10am-10pm, ends Aug 9, £14.50, concs £12.70, free.

Niki De Saint Phalle And Richard Serra Two artists working in the arte povera, or poor art tradition. Tate Modern, Mon-Thu & Sun 10am-6pm, Fri & Sat 10am-10pm, ongoing, free.

Marlene Dumas: The Image As Burden Psychologically charged figurative paintings exploring sex, identity and death. Tate Modern, Mon-Thu & Sun 10am-6pm, Fri & Sat 10am-10pm, ends May 10, £14.50, concs £12.70, under 12s free.

Elegies Works by Claude Monet, Joan Mitchell and Lee Ufan. Tate Modern, MonThu & Sun 10am-6pm, Fri & Sat 10am10pm, ongoing, free.

Elements Of Chance Exhibition of surrealist art which toys with the notion of chance. Tate Modern, Mon-Thu & Sun

the scenes much more interesting.’

I wasn’t convinced, so asked if it has worked on other occasions. Without hesitation she was off: ‘Yes, we've done informal, private performances like this before,’ she began excitedly, ‘and it is very popular with our audiences! All the actors who've taken part have come back to do it again, as well, it's really addictive!

I was beginning to feel the attraction as I listened to Ms Hughes addressing this captive audience of one. ‘Is it exciting or terrifying?’ asked I. ‘Both,’ said she, ‘but mostly exciting!’ After a wistful look of contemplation the Damsel of Drama added, ‘We've never yet had a major catastrophe.’ That was enough to convince me I would be safe in the theatre observing this very novel Shakespeare Direct.

For those as fascinated as I, The Salon will be returning to The Rose and other London venues with The Tempest. www.thecockpit.org.uk/classes Facebook: the salon:collective The Rose Playhouse, Bankside, SE1 March 29th

10am-6pm, Fri & Sat 10am-10pm, ongoing, free.

Everyday Alchemy: Contemporary Sculpture Sculptures which use commonplace objects to explore notions of value. Tate Modern, Mon-Thu & Sun 10am6pm, Fri & Sat 10am-10pm, ongoing, free.

Leon Golub & Hrair Sarkissian: Facing History Works by two artists whose subject matter is violence and atrocity. Tate Modern, Mon-Thu & Sun 10am-6pm, Fri & Sat 10am-10pm, ongoing, free.

Thomas Hirschhorn And Germaine Richier Two contrasting sculptures that focus on the body. Tate Modern, Mon-Thu & Sun 10am-6pm, Fri & Sat 10am-10pm, ongoing, free.

Nicholas Hlobo Artworks which utilise craft techniques of stitching and weaving. Tate Modern, Mon-Thu & Sun 10am-6pm, Fri & Sat 10am-10pm, ongoing, free.

Homeworkers Works employing materials traditionally associated with the domestic sphere. Tate Modern, Mon-Thu & Sun 10am-6pm, Fri & Sat 10am-10pm, ongoing, free.

Nam June PaikA display featuring rarely seen work on paper, and other key pieces, spanning 40 years of the artist’s career. Tate Modern, Mon-Thu & Sun 10am-6pm, Fri & Sat 10am-10pm, ongoing, free.

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Who made all the pies?

AS I stepped off the busy and bustling Shaftsbury Avenue into a Soho dive bar the atmosphere changed, writes Michael Holland...

The lights of the West End faded behind me as I descended deeper and deeper into the unknown. Rising up the darkening stairwell were the howls of the dying in the throes of torment and torture. Well, no, actually at the bottom was an excellent mock-up of Tooting’s famous Harrington’s Pie & Mash shop and the noise was the hubbub of conversation as the clientele chatted amongst themselves while waiting for Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd to start.

And when the Demon Barber of Fleet Street began it began with a bang as the excellent pianist thumped the keys with gusto and blew a police whistle. The action, and there was a lot of it, took place right next to us, and even on the tables between us. At one point Mr Todd banged the head of his lady friend, Nellie Lovett, at the place where I sat; the noise making me jump and fear for my own safety. Poor Mr Pirelli, the self-styled King of Buon Giorno, was throttled to death on the table behind me, and I lost count of the poor men who ended their days in the very close

Ellsworth Kelly Retrospective exhibition to mark the artist’s 90th birthday. Tate Modern, Mon-Thu & Sun 10am-6pm, Fri & Sat 10am-10pm, ongoing, free.

Minimalism An art exhibition curated by Helen Sainsbury. Tate Modern, Mon-Thu & Sun 10am-6pm, Fri & Sat 10am-10pm, ongoing, free.

Heather & Ivan Morison: Skirt Of The Black Mouth A site-specific sculptural installation created as part of the Tate Modern Project. Tate Modern, Mon-Sun open-access, ends Sep 30 2015, free.

New Images Of Man Exploring how artists responded to the barbarities of the mid-20th century. Tate Modern, MonThu & Sun 10am-6pm, Fri & Sat 10am10pm, ongoing, free.

Pino Pascali Works by one of the most important 1960s Italian artists. Tate Modern, Mon-Thu & Sun 10am-6pm, Fri & Sat 10am-10pm, ongoing, free.

Charlotte Posenenske An exhibition curated

by Jessica Morgan and Kyla McDonald.

Tate Modern, Mon-Thu & Sun 10am-6pm, Fri & Sat 10am-10pm, ongoing, free.

Realisms Exploring how many 20th-century artists resisted the onslaught of abstractionism. Tate Modern, Mon-Thu & Sun 10am-6pm, Fri & Sat 10am-10pm, ongoing, free.

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barber’s chair before going off to meet their maker cleanly shaved… When the young Toby sung his crafty hair tonic song, Pirelli’s Miracle Elixir, he rubbed some into my rapidly widening forehead and then literally splashed it all over the Harry Hill look-a-like at the other end!

This Tooting Arts Club’s production of Sweeney Todd is great fun, and performing it in a pie-shop is pure genius. It makes a mockery of any Health & Safety laws as the performers climb onto chairs and onto tables, and the sharp razors whiz by the faces of those at the front. We ducked and dodged as the murder and mayhem went on all around.

I don’t usually have a lot of time for Sondheim but this is a triumph. No matter how many people Sweeney Todd slaughters it still has that feelgood factor because we know basically he is a good man and has his reasons. When he and Mrs Lovett sing A Little Priest, about all the different flavours (Oily politician pie, and Shepherd’s Pie with real shepherd), they justify all the wrongdoing. Or, in my mind they do…

We all cheered loudly at the massacre finale.

Russian Revolutionary Posters Street posters from the Soviet era. Tate Modern, Mon-Thu & Sun 10am-6pm, Fri & Sat 10am-10pm, ongoing, free.

Surrealism And Beyond A variety of works exploring how surrealist artists approached dreams. Tate Modern, Mon-Thu & Sun 10am-6pm, Fri & Sat 10am-10pm, ongoing, free.

The Reclining Nude Works exploring the evolution of this artistic tradition in the 19th and 20th centuries. Tate Modern, Mon-Thu & Sun 10am-6pm, Fri & Sat 10am-10pm, ongoing, free.

Richard Tuttle: I Don’t Know: The Weave Of Textile Language A large-scale sculptural commission by the American artist. Tate Modern, Mon-Thu & Sun 10am-6pm, Fri & Sat 10am-10pm, ends Apr 6, free.

Cy Twombly Paintings and sculptures evoking the ancient world. Tate Modern, Mon-Thu & Sun 10am-6pm, Fri & Sat 10am-10pm, ongoing, free.

Bill Viola Display of works by the pioneering video artist. Tate Modern, Mon-Thu & Sun 10am-6pm, Fri & Sat 10am-10pm, ongoing, free.

Henry Wessel Photographs depicting America’s social landscape. Tate Modern, Mon-Thu & Sun 10am-6pm, Fri & Sat 10am-10pm, ongoing, free.

Jeremy Secomb is just about brilliant in the title role, and Siobhan McCarthy matches that as Nellie Lovett, even though her Cockney made Dick Van Dyke sound like Danny Dyer!

Everyone pulls off superb work in this, right from Bill Buckhurst’s direction to Benjamin Cox’s dramatic piano playing that created as much excitement as the actors.

Sweeney Todd is a paean to the pie.

This is one of the best shows I have seen this year.

Harrington’s Pie & Mash Shop,3 9-45 Shaftesbury Avenue, W1D 6LA Until Saturday 30th May 2015 Monday – Saturday evening performances: 7.30pm Matinee performances: Thursdays and Saturdays at 2.30pm Box Office: 0844 482 5137 www.tootingartsclub.co.uk Booking details www.delfontmackintosh.co.uk 0844 482 5138 £47.50, £30 Premiums - £67.50 includes traditional pie and mash with liquor.

All prices include £2 booking fee.

Running Time: 2 hours 30 minutes

Artur Zmijewski Mixed-media looking at moral issues. Tate Modern, Mon-Thu & Sun 10am-6pm, Sat 10am-10pm, ends Oct 11, free.

Chen Zhen And Leonilson: Objects For Mending Works by two artists who struggled against serious illness. Tate Modern, MonThu & Sun 10am-6pm, Fri & Sat 10am10pm, ongoing, free.

THE ARTWORKS ELEPHANT Elephant Road, SE17 Exhibitionists: Photosoiree No1 A photography exhibition in a shipping container, and party at the Long Wave Bar on the night before Good Friday. The Artworks Elephant, Apr 2, 6.30pm-12.30am, free.

THE CELLO FACTORY 33-34, Cornwall Road, SE1 Bridge An exhibition by 11 members of The London Group. Works include installation, painting, video and sculpture. The Cello Factory, From Apr 28, Mon-Sun 2pm-6pm, check website for Bank Holiday openings, ends May 9, free.

THE GALLERY @ OXO Oxo Tower Wharf, Bargehouse Street, SE1 (020-7021 1686) Jamaica Hidden Histories Exhibition Artefacts, memorabilia, oral histories, archival photographs and video installations exploring the hidden histories of Jamaica.

Also featuring works by Jamaican-born artists including photographer Charlie Phillips and media professional Neil Kenlock. The Gallery @ Oxo, Mon-Sun 11am-6pm, ends May 17, free.

THE LONDON ARTS BOARD Vestry Road, SE5 Waiting Room Fugue Collage by John Bunker. The London Arts Board, From Apr 10, Mon-Sun dawn-dusk, ends May 10, free.

VITRINE GALLERY 183-185, Bermondsey Street, SE1 (020-7407 6496) Tim Etchells - The Facts On The Ground A series of text drawings, neon installation and performance, across VITRINE’s two spaces, displaying the truly multifaceted nature of his practice and exploring language and the conditions of performativity and liveness. Vitrine Gallery, Wed-Fri 12noon-7pm, Sat 12noon-6pm, ends Apr 25, free.

WHITE CUBE BERMONDSEY 144-152, Bermondsey Street, SE1 (020-7930 5373) Christian Marclay Paintings, performances and a video installation exploring the links between image and sound. White Cube Bermondsey, Tue-Sat 10am-6pm, Sun 12noon-6pm, closed Bank Hols, ends Apr 12, free.

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Free schools are actually rather ‘old school’ in Rotherhithe

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wo ‘free schools’ were given the go ahead in Southwark earlier this month, inviting fresh debate over whether they are the saviour of the school places crisis, unshackled from rigid Government legislation, or the beginning of the end with even qualified teachers seen as too ‘old school’, writes Amelia Burr...

But free schools are not new to the borough, and evidence of one charming example can still be seen in St. Marychurch Street in Rotherhithe, where two stone statues of school children guard the entrance in their traditional ‘bluecoats’ to this day.

The ‘Free School’, as it was first known, was founded by Peter Hills and Robert Bell in 1613.

Hills was a master mariner, proven by his position as Elder Brother of Trinity House, an organisation founded by Henry VIII to run coastguard services and provide lighthouses and buoys and assist sailors. Less is known of Bell, who is said to have been a "worthy friend" of the parish rector at that time, Thomas Gataker.

Under the "influence and advice" of the good Reverend Gataker these two men took it up one themselves to establish a school in a humble appendage to St Mary’s church to educate eight sons of seafarers from the parish.

Hills further left a sum of £3 a year in his will to pay a school master and another £3 a year for the churchwardens for the poor.

Hills’ donation, though undoubtedly generous, was not enough to sustain the school so money was regularly collected in the church collection

plate as well as at special Hymns and Sermons services put on annually for the purpose of raising funds.

Reverend Edward Josselyn Beck, who became the rector years later in 1867, wrote in his book, Memorials to Serve for a History of the Parish of St. Mary, Rotherhithe in 1901: “The Churchwardens stood at the church door at the close of the service with a Charity boy and girl at their side clothed in the quaint dress of the time , and a goodly collection was gathered in the old painted plates bearing the inscription ‘Remember the poor Charity children for God’s sake and your own.’”

At that time the 40 boys and 25 girls who attended the school were clothed yearly and “taught the principles of the Christian religion,” according to Beck. All were taught to read and write and boys were taught to ‘cast accounts’, while girls were taught to knit and sew. One of the Girls would be taken into the School House, lodged, boarded and instructed in household work, “in order to render her more completely fit for service” In the early eighteenth century, a lump sum was donated so the school could expand significantly, taking on 65 boys and 50 girls, according to Stephen Humphrey’s ‘The Story of Rotherhithe.

In 1739 an amicable fund was set up allowing the school to accommodate 77 boys in total and it was when all the separate funds were amalgamated in 1942 that it became formally known as The Charity School. In 1795, they splashed out £400 on a house across the road at 70 St Marychurch Street, where two Portland stone figures still stand

overlooking the front door.

The old house-cum-school, which was Grade II listed in 1949, has since been converted into offices, but still bears the same distinctive doorbell from its school days.

A brass dedicated to Peter Hills is displayed in St Mary’s church. The inscription reads: ‘Here lies buried the body of Peter Hills, Mariner, one of the eldest Brothers and Assistants of the Company of the Trinity, and his two wives ; who while hee lived in this place, gave liberrally to the poore, and spent bountifully in his house: and after many great troubles, being of the age of 80 yeeres and upward departed this life without issue, upon the 26 of February, 1614.’

When St. Mary’s School in Lower Road opened in 1836’ the Charity School girls were sent there instead and the boys stayed put, with a further extension into the garden allowing 150 boys to be in attendance there by the end of the nineteenth century. Beck writes: "This admirable institution survives to the present day....and it is now a flourishing school of 200 boys doing a most valuable work for the rising generation of our parish."

The success of the Charity School saw others follow in its wake. The United Society’s School, established in 1755, was gifted a piece of land by the Duke of Bedford in 1791 in Trinity Street (later part of Rotherhithe Street), where a school and house were built. Again, the school largely catered for the children of mariners’ with a third of pupils registered in 1842 belonging to shipwrights and a majority of the remainder were from families connected to the river.

Come, O come with exultation.

From your hearts your voices swell, To the strength of our salvation.

To the Lord your transpor t tell.

To his goodness for their trial, The poor destitute appeal; For with Him is no denial.

When for aid the friendless kneel.

Statues of two schoolchildren in their ‘bluecoats’ still stand above the door to the old Charity School to this day, (Main); Rev’d Edward Josselyn Beck, rector of Rotherhithe in the 1800s, (Right); The old school doorbell remains at 70 St Marychurch Street, which has since been converted into offices. (Above) A Hymn written by a local poet for a special service to raise funds for the school on December 18, 1808, (Bottom right).

He will always be propitious To the orphan in distress ; From the wicked and malicious.

He will shelter them and bless.

He shall live for everlasting.

High above all empire rais’d; And with offerings,prayer, and fasting, Daily shall his name be prais’d.

Hallelujah. Amen.

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1 Spider (9) 2 One with a different opinion (9) 3 Gay (5)

Solutions to last week’s crossword

5 Restore to health (4) 6 Walk stealthily (6) 7 Wandering (6) 9 Uses vigorously (5) 11 Earth moving vehicle (9) 12 Exclusion from society (9) 15 Think deeply (5) 16 Fierce Indian (6) 17 Male escort (6) 20 Coil of yarn (5) 21 Give up (4)

CRYPTIC ACROSS: 1 Cocktail 4 Chap 8 Aboard 10 Defray 11 Repel 12 Asset 14 Notice 17 Entrusted 18 Diameters 22 Coolie 23 Inset 24 Sneer 26 Result 27 Sagely 28 Sale 29 Deceased DOWN: 1 Crab 2 Choose 3 Turret 5 Horrid 6 Payments 7 Helot 9 Detriment 10 Densities 13 Snail 15 Tears 16 Discerns 18 Dorsal 19 Aisle 20 Enrage 21 Severs 25 Dyed QUICK ACROSS: Across: 1 Cauldron 4 Seem 8 Entrap 10 Siphon 11 Dupes 12 Order 14 Coping 17 Symphonic 18 Introduce 22 Nugget 23 Erect 24 Nears 26 Evaded 27 Silage 28 Snap 29 Deterred DOWN: 1 Chew 2 Utters 3 Diadem 5 Ethnic 6 Managing 7 Bison 9 Purported 10 Seconders 13 Dying 15 Piece 16 Keenness 18 Iguana 19 Tenet 20 Ursine 21 Eclair 25 Mend

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cinema 19:20 20:40 Wed 10:00 11:20 12:40 13:20 14:00 15:20 16:40 18:00 18:40 19:20 20:40 Thu 10:00 11:20 12:40 13:20 14:00 15:20 16:40 18:00 19:20 20:40 GET HARD (15) 1h40m Wheelchair Access, Audio Described, Subtitled, Fri-Sun 13:40 16:10 18:40 21:10 Mon 13:40 16:10 18:40s/t 21:10 Tue-Thu 13:40 16:10 18:40 21:10 SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS: SPONGE OUT OF WATER (U) 1h32m Wheelchair Access, Audio Described, Fri 13:30 15:50 18:10 19:30 Sat-Mon 11:10 13:30 15:50 18:10 19:30 Tue 13:30 15:50 18:10 19:30 Wed 11:10 13:30 15:50 19:30 Thu 11:10 13:30 15:50 18:10 19:30 SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS: SPONGE OUT OF WATER (U) 1h32m 3D Wheelchair Access, Audio Described, Subtitled, Fri 12:30 14:50 17:10 Sat 10:10 12:30 14:50 17:10 Sun 10:10s/t 12:30 14:50 17:10 Mon-Thu 10:10 12:30 14:50 17:10 SEVENTH SON (12A) 1h42m Wheelchair Access, Audio Described, Fri-Thu 12:20 17:40 SEVENTH SON (12A) 1h42m 3D Wheelchair Access, Audio Described, Fri-Thu 15:00 20:30 THE GUNMAN (15) 1h55m Wheelchair Access, Audio Described, Fri-Thu 21:20 HOME 3D (U) 1h34m 3D, Wheelchair Access, Audio Described, Fri 14:10 16:30 18:50 Sat-Sun 11:50 14:10 16:30 18:50 Mon-Tue 11:50 14:10 Wed-Thu 11:50 14:10 16:30 18:50 HOME 2D (U) 1h34m Wheelchair Access, Audio Described, Fri 13:10 15:30 17:50 Sat-Thu 10:50 13:10 15:30 17:50 THE DIVERGENT SERIES: INSURGENT (12A) 1h59m 3D, Wheelchair Access, Audio Described, Odeon Plus Culture, Fri-Tue 20:50 Thu 20:50 THE DIVERGENT SERIES: INSURGENT (12A) 1h59m Wheelchair Access, Audio Described, Subtitled, Fri14:30 17:30 20:20 Sat-Sun 11:30 14:30 17:30 20:20 Mon 11:30 14:30 17:30s/t 20:20 Tue-Thu 11:30 14:30 17:30 20:20 THE DUFF (EXCLUSIVE SCREENING) (12A) 1h41m Wheelchair Access, Audio Described, Tue 18:00 SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS: SPONGE OUT OF WATER (U) 1h32m Wheelchair Access, Audio Described, Autism Friendly, Mon 16:00 Wed 16:00 CINDERELLA (U) 1h53m Wheelchair Access, Audio Described, Autism Friendly, Tue 16:00 Thu 16:00

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PRINCESS KAGUYA & ISAO TAKAHATA (PG) Subtitled Fri , Sat, Mon & Wed 6:00 Sun 3:00 Tue 6:20 Thu 6:10 PRINCESS KAGUYA & ISAO TAKAHATA (PG) Dubbed Fri 3:20 Sat 12:40 Sun & Thu 12:00 Mon 12:30 Tue & Wed12:40 MOMMY (15) Fri: 12:30 Sat: 3:45 Sun: 7:00 Wed: 8:50 Thurs: 3:30 HOME 3D (PG) Daily except Sun: 14:30 Sun: 3:40 HOME 2D (PG) Fri: 12:00 14:10 Sat: 11:10, 14:10.

Sun: 11:00 13:20 Mon, Tues, Wed, Thurs: 12:10, 14:20 X + Y (12A) Fri 3:30 Sat 9:00 Sun 4:20 Mon 1:40, 4:10 Tue 12:20 Wed 11:50, 4:50 Thu 1:10, 9:00 STILL ALICE (12A) Contains infrequent strong language and moderate sex references Fri: 12:30, 8:50 Sat: 1:30, 3:40, 8:50 Sun: 6:00 Mon: 3:45, 9:00 Tues: 3:40, 9:10 Wed: 3:40 Thu: 11:00, 3:15, 7:40 APPROPRIATE BEHAVIOUR (15) Mon: 6:40 Tues: 8:50 Thurs: 5:40

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Southwark News, Thursday March 26, 2015

food & drink

An Italian adventure

PIZARRO

194 BERMONDSEY STREET, LONDON, SE1 3TQ 020 7592 7977 WWW.PIZARRORESTAURANT.COM WITH SO many restaurants opening up you have to be very special or very different to stay open, writes Michael Holland...

Pizarro is extremely different with its seasonal menu that combines the regular with the unusual, creating colours and tastes never experienced before. And this - nuevacocina - is what makes it special.

I took Foodophile Nina along and we were both surprised to see how busy it was at 7.30 on a Wednesday evening.

We were placed right by the open kitchen where a gang of chefs, like the back four of a team playing to stay in the top flight of La Liga, worked quietly and efficiently. There were no Hell’s Kitchen histrionics here. This side of the pass the staff were clean-cut and moved quickly and expertly between the tables.

The menu is predominantly fish, with duck, lamb and jamon making Oscar winning cameo appearances - suckling pigs and whole racks of lamb frequently went past us on their way to lucky recipients.

Nina is a fish-eater so was in her element, salivating over the menu like a child with a bag of sherbet. ‘Oooh,’ she squealed, ‘Let’s have the

anchovies, the paté, the octopus and,’ just to sate her cheese cravings, ‘the manchego soup!’ Another rack of Castilian Lamb went by and the aromas off it lingered like a Bisto advert. But my companion was off again. ‘And the monkfish and the cuttlefish stew.’ I could feel myself developing gills before the night was through. I enquired after the Bermondsey Bomba and found that it was a round potato croquette with pieces of ham inside, so that was out.

Pizarro has been styled to the max: wood ceiling, wooden pillars, wood floor, open brick wall with empty picture frames to show off the brick even further. The level of noise was a low drone of conversation, matching the hum of quiet activity in the kitchen area.

Our waiter suggested a Finca Allende Rioja: ‘It will go well with all your dishes,’ he told us. It was a delicate, though full-bodied red that was smooth on the palate. Moreish.

After a while our selections began arriving. The Peña Flor Paté was an absolute marvel that combined carrots, onion and mackerel roe. It was lighter than a soufflé and so perfectly balanced that no one of the ingredients overpowered another. The Grilled Octopus was a large chunk of tentacle with the suckers nicely seared, and the

accompanying sauce of potato, pimentón and egg caviar gave away none of its inclusive secrets, tasting of something completely different from what was described. Chocos con Papas – Cuttlefish Stew – came looking like a brown gloop from a 1950s school dinner hall, but everything in it tasted wonderful. Yes, that was a potato, and I know that is cuttlefish, but we could not work out what went into the sauce. The Monkish a la Plancha was easily identifiable, although the tomato bread had the look and texture of a bath sponge. How do they do that? We sat there amazed at the textures and colours and tastes that we were getting.

Now the Manchego Soup arrived with an island of Cornish Crab in the middle, with an archipelago of diced tuna scattered around. Across the table my dining partner was in ecstasy.

‘Cheese soup!’ she exclaimed. ‘Can you imagine?’ If you pass it over here, I thought, I won’t have to imagine!

The plain plate of Marinated Anchovies in a rich oil of their own were almost a let down amongst the miracles, even though they were

succulent little things that needed no magical cooking or fancy additions.

Working through this Fish Fest I completely forgot about any meat feast I had previously contemplated.

Chatter levels had noticeably risen by now, in direct proportion to wine levels going down.

Conversations were about ‘joining senior management’ and other workrelated talk. Midweek seems to be business dinners time, although there were a few tables of couples and groups of Real Wives of Bermondsey.

Another glass of the robust rioja finished us off.

That was until the dessert menu was placed before us. Nina claimed the Pizarro’s Cheesecake, and I chose the Squared Apples, simply because I did not have a clue what it was.

The cheesecake came in its own pot and was like no other cheesecake. The tomato jam (Yes, tomato) was the sweetness to counter the tart of the cheese and the spice of the crumble.

My dish was really square apples, or green chocolate apples with a rich apple jam inside, lying on a bed of crumbled biscuit.

Jose Pizarro, the founder, has found a way to use all the regular ingredients in ways I have never seen before. He has devised textures and tastes like no other I have encountered. Some I was not sure of, but that was merely because I could not relate them to anything I knew.

His staff does his menu justice with the cooking and presentation, and the evening becomes an event rather than going out for dinner. It is expensive but you get what you pay for by way of preparation, service, cooking and presentation. Pizarro may not be for everyone, but it is very much worth a try for the adventurous.

Opening Times* Mon-Sat 12-22.45.

Sun 12-21.45 *Times are first and last orders

THE DAMAGE Anchovies Paté Manchego Soup Grilled Octopus Monkfish Cuttlefish Stew Cheesecake Squared Apples Rioja x 4 Coffee

£ 6.50 £7.00 £11.00 £10.00 £23.00 £14.00 £7.00 £7.50 £30.00 £3.00

TOTAL

£111.90

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

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BANKSIDE PIER, BANKSIDE, LONDON, SE1 9DR (Ref. 15/AP/0826) 20 metre (length) by 6 metre (width) upstream extension of Bankside Pier, including the installation of three piles and the removal of two existing dolphins, and associated works. This proposal affects the character or setting of the nearby Kings Reach. Reason(s) for publicity: ACA (Contact: Alex Cameron 020 7525 5416) 98 BELLENDEN ROAD, LONDON, SE15 4RF (Ref. 15/AP/0701) (Householder Application) Extension to basement level together with associated light well to the rear of property. (within Holly Grove C.A.) Reason(s) for publicity: CNA (Contact: Marina Lai 020 7525 5403) HERNE HILL VELODROME, 104 BURBAGE ROAD, LONDON, SE24 9HD (Ref. 15/AP/0790) Redevelopment of existing pavilion to provide a new two storey pavilion (approx. 293 sq.m); reconfiguration of existing cycle stores; provision of new external roof; and associated landscaping. (within Dulwich Village C.A.) Reason(s) for publicity: CNA (Contact: Robin Sedgwick 020 7525 3920) 106 BURBAGE ROAD, LONDON, SE24 9HD (Ref. 15/AP/0741) (Householder Application) Erection of groundfloor side extension (within Dulwich Village C.A.) Reason(s) for publicity: CNA (Contact: Shanali Counsell 0207 525 1770)

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

2.

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.

2.

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 Hillsboro Road at it’s junction with East Dulwich Grove.

3.

An alternative route will be via, Borough Road, Borough High Street, Great Suffolk Street, as applicable.

3.

The alternative route will be via East Dulwich Grove, Glengarry Road, as applicable.

4.

4.

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

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

5.

5.

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

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.

6.

The works will take place between the 13th – 17th April.

6.

The restriction will come into operation between the 14th – 20th April 2015.

7.

7.

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

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

Dated this 26th March 2015.

Dated this 26th March 2015.

Nicky Costin Road Network & Parking Business Manager Southwark Council Environment & Leisure, Parking & Road Network Management, PO Box 64529 London SE1 5LX Ref: 2650

Nicky Costin Road Network & Parking Business Manager Southwark Council Environment & Leisure, Parking & Road Network Management, PO Box 64529 London SE1 5LX Ref: 2677

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Transport for London Public Notice

Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984

THE A200 GLA ROAD (TOOLEY STREET, LONDON BOROUGH OF SOUTHWARK) (TEMPORARY PROHIBITION OF STOPPING) (NO.2) ORDER 2015

1. Transport for London hereby gives notice that it intends to make the above named Traffic Order under section 14(1), (5), (7) and 15(2) of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 and is satisfied that these works will last in excess of 18 months for the purpose specified in paragraph 2. The effect of the Order is summarised in paragraph 3.

2. The purpose of the Order is to facilitate London Bridge Station upgrade works to take place on or near A200 Tooley Street.

3. The effect of the Order will be to prohibit any vehicle:

(1)except taxis, from stopping in the loading and unloading bays situated at the southern kerb-line of A200 Tooley Street opposite Hayes Lane, Cottons Lane and Bridge Yard;

(2) except local buses, from stopping in the loading and disabled person’s vehicles bay situated at the southern kerb-line of A200 Tooley Street opposite Battle Bridge Lane.

The Order will be effective at certain times from the date of 9th May any Saturday at 1:00 AM until Monday at 5:00 AM and from 1:00 AM any Public Holiday and until 5:00 AM on any day following a Public Holiday, until the works have 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. The Order will be revoked upon completion of these works.

Dated this 26th day of March 2015

Mufu Durowoju, Transition Manager, Network Impact Management,

Road Space Management – Operations, Transport for London Palestra, 197 Blackfriars Road, London, SE1 8NJ

LONDON BOROUGH OF SOUTHWARK DISABLED PERSONS PARKING PLACES The London Borough of Southwark (Free parking places) (Disabled persons) (No. 23) Order 2015 The London Borough of Southwark (Free parking places) (No. 39) Order 2015 1. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the council of the London Borough of Southwark on 26 March 2015 made the above-mentioned orders under sections 6 and 124 of and Part IV of Schedule 9 to the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984, as amended.

2. The general effect of the orders will be:- (a) to provide new ‘at any time’ unlimited stay disabled persons parking places, 6 metres in length, at the following locations: [i] BALACLAVA ROAD, the east side, outside No. 29 Balaclava Road; [ii] BRUNEL ROAD, the south-east side, outside No. 20 Brunel Road; [iii] COPLESTON ROAD, the east side, outside No. 45 Copleston Road; [iv] CRAWFORD ROAD, the north-east side, outside Nos. 67-71 Crawford Road; [v] EAST DULWICH ROAD, the north-west side, outside No. 66 East Dulwich Road; [vi] FRANKFURT ROAD, the north-east side, outside No. 17 Frankfurt Road; [vii] GRUMMANT ROAD, the north-east side, outside No. 5 Grummant Road; [viii] HENSLOWE ROAD, the south-east side, outside No. 1 Henslowe Road; [ix] HINDMANS ROAD, the south-east side, outside No. 23 Hindmans Road; [x] IVYDALE ROAD, the south-east side, outside No. 309 Ivydale Road; [xi] OXENFORD STREET, the south side, at the side of No. 107 Copleston Road; [xii] SEDGMOOR PLACE, the west side, at the side of Nos. 124-126 Sedgmoor Place; [xiii] TOWER MILL ROAD, the north-west side, outside No. 32 Tower Mill Road; (b) to reduce in length an existing free parking place in EAST DULWICH ROAD so as to accommodate the provision of the new disabled persons parking place referred to above; and (c) to remove a redundant single vehicle space disabled persons parking places in Kincaid Road.

3. Copies of the orders, which will come into force on 30 March 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 26 March 2015 NICKY COSTIN Road network and parking business unit manager, Public realm

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LONDON BOROUGH OF SOUTHWARK PEDAL CYCLE 'QUIETWAYS' PROJECT: WESTON STREET TO WEBBER STREET The London Borough of Southwark (Parking places) (CPZ 'C2') (Amendment No. 19) Order 2015, The London Borough of Southwark (Parking places) (CPZ 'D') (No. 8) Order 2015, The London Borough of Southwark (Parking places) (Car club) (No. 7) Order 2015, The London Borough of Southwark (Free parking places) (Disabled persons) (No. 24) Order 2015, The London Borough of Southwark (Loading bays) (No. 39) Order 2015, The London Borough of Southwark (Waiting and loading restrictions) (Amendment No. 49) Order 2015, The London Borough of Southwark (Prescribed routes) (Pedal cycle quietways) (No. 2) Traffic Order 2015, The London Borough of Southwark Cycle Tracks Order (Pedal cycle quietways) (No. 2) 2015 1. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the council of the London Borough of Southwark on 26 March 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. or in the case of the cycle tracks order, under section 3 of the Cycle Tracks Act 1984, as amended, following the procedure set out in the Cycle Tracks Regulations 1984.

2. The general effect of the orders, so as to complement the introduction of new cycle priority measures, traffic calming measures and pedestrian crossings, will be:- (a) to introduce new or extend existing lengths of ‘at any time’ waiting restrictions in BARON’S PLACE, BECKET STREET, BELVEDERE BUILDINGS, BLACK HORSE COURT, BOROUGH HIGH STREET, BOYFIELD STREET, CHAPLIN CLOSE, COLE STREET, GLASSHILL STREET, GLOBE STREET, GRAY STREET, GREAT SUFFOLK STREET, LANCASTER STREET, LANSDOWNE PLACE, LAW STREET, PARDONER STREET, PILGRIMAGE STREET, ROTHSAY STREET, RUSHWORTH STREET, SILEX STREET, SOUTHWARK BRIDGE ROAD, STONES END STREET, TABARD STREET, TOULMIN STREET, TRINITY STREET, VALENTINE PLACE, WEBBER ROW, WEBBER STREET, WESTON STREET and WILD’S RENTS; (b) to provide new permit parking places in GREAT SUFFOLK STREET, TABARD STREET and WEBBER STREET; (c) to provide a new loading bay in WEBBER STREET; (d) to reduce in length, remove or relocate existing parking places in COLE STREET, GLASSHILL STREET, GRAY STREET, GREAT SUFFOLK STREET, LAW STREET, SILEX STREET, TABARD STREET, TRINITY CHURCH SQUARE, TRINITY STREET, WEBBER ROW, WEBBER STREET and WILD’S RENTS; (e) to introduce a pedal cycle only route in GLOBE STREET between its junctions with Great Dover Street and Cole Street (with exception for south-westbound vehicles exiting Shere House, Great Dover Street ); (f) to update existing ‘no entry except pedal cycles’ restrictions at the junctions of PILGRIMAGE STREET and TABARD STREET, PILGRIMAGE STREET and GREAT DOVER STREET, and TRINITY STREET and TRINITY CHURCH SQUARE, and the existing one-way north-westbound traffic working (except pedal cycles) in TABARD STREET between its junctions with Becket Street and Pilgrimage Street; (g) to designate mandatory cycle lanes at the following locations:- [i] GREAT SUFFOLK STREET, the north-east side, on the approach to its junction with Southwark Bridge Road – a with-flow cycle lane; [ii] GREAT SUFFOLK STREET, the south-west side, on the approach to its junction with Borough High Street – a with-flow cycle lane; [iii] PILGRIMAGE STREET, the north-west side, on the exit from its junction with Great Dover Street - a contra-flow cycle lane, [iv] PILGRIMAGE STREET, the south-west side, on the approach to its junction with Great Dover Street – a with-flow cycle lane; [v] TABARD STREET – the north-east side, from its junction with Pilgrimage Street to its junction with Becket Street - a contra-flow cycle lane, [vi] TRINITY STREET, the south-west side, on the approach to its junction with Borough High Street – a with-flow cycle lane; [vii] WEBBER STREET, the north side, on the approach to its junction with Blackfriars Road – a with-flow cycle lane; [viii] WEBBER STREET, the south side, on the approach to its junction with Blackfriars Road – a with-flow cycle lane; (h) to designate a cycle track at the following location:- LAW STREET TO ROTHSAY STREET - a two-way segregated cycle track for the use of pedal cycles only, comprising all that part of the footpath linking Law Street and Rothsay Street as lies between the north-eastern edge of that footpath and a line marked 3.2 metres south-west of and parallel to that north-eastern edge, from the south-eastern kerb-line of Law Street to the northwestern kerb-line of the north-western extremity of Rothsay Street.

3. Copies of the orders, which will come into force on 30 March 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 26 March 2015 NICKY COSTIN Road network and parking business unit manager, Public realm LONDON BOROUGH OF SOUTHWARK ROAD TRAFFIC REGULATION ACT 1984 SECTION 14(1) (WEBB STREET, WILLOW WALK) TEMPORARY PROHIBITION OF TRAFFIC 1.

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

2.

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)

Webb Street, at its junction with Swan Mead to outside School.

Willow Walk, at its junction with Dunton Road to the side of No’s 1 – 6.

3.

The alternative route for (a) Swan Mead, Pages Walk, Grange Road, Tower Bridge Road. (b) Dunton Road, Grange Road, Pages Walk, Crimscott Street, Lynton Road as applicable.

4.

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

5.

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

6.

The works will take place for (a) 30th March – 26th April. (b) 27th April – 8th June.

7.

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

Dated this 26th March 2015.

Nicky Costin Road Network & Parking Business Manager Southwark Council Environment & Leisure, Parking & Road Network Management, PO Box 64529 London SE1 5LX Ref: 2671, 2672

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LONDON BOROUGH OF SOUTHWARK TFL CYCLE SUPERHIGHWAY NORTH TO SOUTH ROUTE The London Borough of Southwark (Prescribed routes) (TfL cycle superhighway north to south route) (No. 1) Traffic Order 201*, The London Borough of Southwark (Parking places) (CPZ 'C1') (No. *) Order 201*, The London Borough of Southwark (Parking places) (CPZ 'C2') (No. *) Order 201*, The London Borough of Southwark (Parking places) (Car club) (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 propose to make 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, so as to introduce or complement the introduction of new cycle priority measures in streets forming part of or adjoining the Transport for London cycle superhighway north to south route, would be:- (a) to impose compulsory left turns for all vehicles except pedal cycles approaching St. George’s Road from OSWIN STREET, ELLIOTT’S ROW, HAYLES STREET and WEST SQUARE; (b) to impose compulsory right turns for all vehicles except pedal cycles approaching St. George’s Road from PRINCESS STREET, GAYWOOD STREET, THE ACCESS ROAD TO PROSPECT HOUSE, GAYWOOD ESTATE, GAYWOOD STREET and COLNBROOK STREET; (c) to impose a compulsory left turn into London Road for all vehicles except pedal cycles approaching St. George’s Circus from BOROUGH ROAD, (d) to reverse the direction of existing oneway traffic working in part of DODSON STREET, and remove existing one-way traffic working in WEBBER ROW; (e) to prohibit all vehicles except local buses and pedal cycles from entering part of LAMBETH ROAD at its junction with St. George’s Circus; (f) to extend the existing one-way working throughout VALENTINE PLACE; (g) to reverse the direction of existing one-way traffic working in part of BOUNDARY ROW; (h) to prohibit all vehicles except pedal cycles from entering part of UFFORD STREET at its junction with Blackfriars Road, and to remove the existing one-way traffic working in Ufford Street; (i) to prohibit all goods vehicles having a maximum gross weight of 7.5 tonnes from entering part of WEBBER STREET; (j) to introduce new mandatory pedal cycle lanes in BOROUGH ROAD and LAMBETH ROAD; (k) to remove an existing pay parking place in WEBBER ROW and amend the designation of existing pay parking places in WEBBER ROW and UFFORD STREET; (l) to amend the designation of an existing car club parking place in UFFORD STREET; and (m) to introduce new or extend existing lengths of ‘at any time’ waiting restrictions in BOROUGH ROAD, LAMBETH ROAD, UFFORD STREET and WATERLOO ROAD. 3. For more information about these proposals, please contact Mr. Richard Wells of the council's Public realm highway development team: telephone 020 7525 0855.

4. A copy of the proposed order and a plan giving more detailed particulars of the proposal may be viewed either: online by visiting http://www.southwark.gov.uk/trafficorders or for paper copies, upon request at Public realm projects (parking design), Southwark Council, Environment and leisure, 3rd floor hub 1, 160 Tooley Street, London SE1 2QH. Please telephone 020 7525 2005 to arrange an appointment.

5. Persons wishing to object to the proposal, or make any other representations in respect of it may either use this online form: https://forms.southwark.gov.uk/ShowForm.asp?fm_fid=1081 or send a statement in writing (in the case of an objection, stating the grounds on which the objection is made), to: the Traffic orders officer, Public realm projects, Southwark council, Environment and leisure, P.O. Box 64529, London SE1P 5LX or via e-mail to: traffic.orders@southwark.gov.uk quoting reference PRP/ND/TMO1415-015, by 16 April 2015.

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

Dated 26 March 2015 NICKY COSTIN Road network and parking business unit manager, Public realm

MARRIAGE ACT 1949 & CIVIL PARTNERSHIP ACT 2004 Notice of application for premises to be approved as a venue for civil marriages and civil partnerships We, Wild Garlic Food Ltd, of 52 Thurlestone Road, London, SE27 0PD, have applied to the London Borough of Lambeth for approval of premises in pursuance of the above Acts as a venue where civil marriages may be solemnised and civil partnerships may be registered. The premises to which the application relates is: The Lido Cafe, Dulwich Road, London, SE24 0PA. Regulations made under the above Acts state that premises can be approved by the Council if in their opinion and amongst other things: i) They are seemly, dignified and regularly available for civil marriages/partnerships. ii) They have adequate fire precautions, and other appropriate safety precautions. iii) They are not used solely or mainly for religious purposes, or have been so used but have subsequently been used solely or mainly for other purposes.

Full details of the requirements that a premises must meet to be considered for approval can be obtained from the Licensing Section, London Borough of Lambeth, 2nd floor, Ivor House, 1-9 Acre Lane, London, SW2 5TB. Any person wishing to inspect the application and the plans of the premises may do so at the offices of the Licensing Section, London Borough of Lambeth, 2nd floor, Ivor House, 1-9 Acre Lane, London, SW2 5TB by appointment only.

Any person may give notice of an objection to the grant of approval. Objections must be made in writing to the Licensing Section at the above address and must be received within the period of twenty-one days beginning on the day on which this notice was published.

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AN INJURY TIME winner from Luke Haidarovic secured a vital three points for Fisher on Monday night that goes a long way to easing their relegation fears.

The bottom two sides in the Southern Counties East Football League played out a tight encounter at Champion Hill with the Southwark side coming from behind to win.

Before the game three points separated the sides with basement side Erith's fine recent form meaning a number of sides, including Fisher, could end up bottom and face the drop.

Indeed the visitors took the lead on the night when Kadeem Adjeon netted just before the half hour mark but Max Rothwell netted the equaliser before the break to restore parity.

Just as the game appeared to be heading for a draw Fisher's new frontman stepped up and banged home a goal that once again gives the Rotherhithe side breathing space from Town.

After Monday's win Fisher are still second bottom, but they now have a six point advantage over Erith Town and have a game in hand over the Kent side.

The Fish are level on points with Rochester United, who they take on next Tuesday evening, and a point behind Croydon who sit in

seventeenth place in the table.

Realistically both Lingfield and Holmesdale are still looking over their shoulders but Erith Town now have it all to do on the run in to avoid bottom spot, the sole relegation slot in the league.

NEXT GAME

SOUTHERN COUNTIES EAST FOOTBALL LEAGUE Deal Town (H) Sat Mar 28 @ 3pm Rochester United (A) Tue Mar 31 @ 7.45pm

Wilson masks up for run in

By John Prendergast

Luke Haidarovic netted a vital goal for Fisher on Monday night

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Wingate & Finchley (A) Sat Mar 28 @ 3pm

DANIELLE CARTER bagged a hat trick for FA Cup holders Arsenal as they easily overcame Millwall Lionesses 7-0 at The Den on Sunday.

The last sixteen FA Cup game was a rather one sided affair and over a tough 90 minutes the difference in league status was clearly reflected on the scoreboard at 90 minutes.

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A save from keeper James Bradley ensured Stansfeld made it through to the final of the Bill Manklow Inter-Regional Cup, after a dramatic 120 minutes of action last Saturday.

Although goalless in normal time the encounter was far from dull and

The Peckham welterweight recently defended his title at York Hall and the Rotherhithe club have asked the Millwall fan to come along and give the players a pep talk before the game.

Fisher boss Dean Harrison said that Garton’s presence will boost his team: “I know Johnny and he is a great lad and great fighter. I’ll be getting him into the dressing room before kick-off – his championship belt shows you that hard work and a great attitude brings success.”

The game is a key one in Fisher's fight to avoid relegation from the Southern Counties East Football League, and Harrison will hope the talk will give his players metaphorical punch on the pitch.

Garton said: “I'm really looking forward to meeting the players before the game. Hopefully seeing the belt before will inspire the players and help push them to victory.”

The 28-year-old, who is nicknamed the 'Pexican' as his all action style resembles a central American boxer, will be bringing his championship belt with him on Saturday and will pose for photos with fans.

Admission to the match on Saturday is £5 for adults, £2 for concessions (ages sixteen-21, over 60, and unwaged individuals), and Free for accompanied under sixteen's. The game kicks off at 3pm at Champion Hill in East Dulwich.

Garton combines his fight career with work as a mechanic – meaning that he is out at work and then training until 10pm most nights – and is looking for sponsorship which would allow him a little more family time. If you can help Johnny out please call him on 07534 029752.

In addition to the efforts from Carter goals from Leanne Sanderson, Jordan Nobbs, Natalia Pablos Sanchon and Carla Humphrey were enough for the star studded north London side to ease to victory.

The Gunners will take on Chelsea in the quarter finals of the competition.

Last Wednesday Millwall got their Women's Super League Division Two campaign underway when they took on London Bees, again at The Den. Speaking after the 0-0 draw that

bagged his side a hard earned point Lionesses manager Dan Mlinar said: “We are disappointed because they are two dropped points.

“We created good chances in the game, four one-on-ones, ten good opportunities, four on target and one on the post.

“We were dominant and in control of the game and we should have taken all three points but we will take positives from it.

“We need to be more clinical in the

decision making and if we do that we will score a lot of goals this season.

The Bees were better then last season, they’ve definitely improved. They were quite direct but we forced them to go long and we dealt with it well.”

The Lionesses return to action this Sunday when they take on Everton Ladies at The Den, the game kicks off at 2pm.

For ticket information and the latest Lionesses news visit millwall.fawsl.com.

Stansfeld top scorer Billy Shinners had chances aplenty in the first period of normal time.

At the other end Bradley pulled off a good save, blocking a shot with his legs to stop Town opening the scoring.

Centre backs Tony Dakin and man of the match George Martin held firm for the visitors in the second period of normal time when Peckham started the better of the two team after the restart.

Peckham correctly had a goal ruled out with ten minutes remaining as chances proved harder to come by as the game went on.

Stansfeld began extra-time well and were soon on top. Ben Mulrooney attempted a long range chip, but the combination of the strong wind and the fast reaction of the keeper resulted in the Peckham stopper catching the ball under his crossbar.

The north Southwark side had the better of the extra period, with Bradley a virtual spectator in the Stansfeld goal, but the deadlock could not be broken and the game was to be decided from the spot.

Bradley got a big hand to the first Peckham penalty, but the shot had to

much power before Freddie Sansom rolled in Stansfeld's first to level the score.

Peckham's second penalty went in off the post to restore their lead before Bill Jolley restored parity again.

Bradley then became the Stansfeld stopper James Bradley starred in a spot hero, diving full length to kick victory on Saturday his right to keep out Peckham's third spot kick and Sam Peckham's fourth effort went wide to Ryan put Stansfeld in front with a shot leave Shinners to hit his attempt home that went in off the post. and send Stansfeld to the final.

Bradley secures final berth in spot kick drama

Peckham Town 0 Stansfeld O&B Club 0 (AET) Stansfeld win 4-2 on penalties

SOUTHERN AREA boxing champ Johnny Garton will be the guest of Fisher FC this Saturday when they entertain Deal Town.

The stopper will have an operation this week and will play this Saturday with facial protection, manager Gavin Rose told the News.

He said: “He broke his nose and it was too sore to operate on at the weekend so that is likely to happen today [Monday].

“But we will look at getting him a face mask so he can play this weekend.”

The Hamlet gaffer added: “We will get the face mask fitted and if it does not cause Phil pain and he can play he will play on Saturday.

“We will put his health first of

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not have been put in the position he was on Saturday because the officiating was not great.”

At the weekend Hamlet failed to return to winning ways when an injury time equaliser from Ross Parmenter denied Dulwich all the points in a 3-3 draw at Champion Hill.

Two Ashley Carew spot kicks, the second in the final minute, saw Hamlet take a late lead only for Parmenter to net in the injury time added on due to the injury Wilson incurred.

The Pink and Blues boss said: “It is two points lost really. We did well to get back in the game but once we got ahead we should have done better to defend that lead.”

HAMLET KEEPER Phil Wilson will don a mask to be part of Dulwich's run in after breaking his nose against East Thurrock United on Saturday.

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course as unlike previous seasons we have a reliable back up with Oshane [Brown].

“He [Brown] is somebody who everybody trusts and who the squad knows. It makes things easier than bringing somebody in as they do not have to fit in with the squad and do things like learn names.”

This will be the third campaign in a row Wilson has picked up an injury as the seasons end nears. In Hamlet's Ryman South championship winning season Chico Ramos came in for nine games to fill the gap successfully.

But last year when Wilson's shoulder injury returned Hamlet were not able to cover for him as well and Dulwich ended up just outside the play offs.

Rose said of his keepers latest injury: “Phil has been in the wars whilst at the club, mostly because he is such a brave keeper. But he should

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By John Prendergast news@southwarknews.co.uk

STUDENTS FROM St Saviour's and St Olave's School picked up a silver medal in the Balfour Beatty London Youth Games schools basketball finals last Thursday.

Pupils from the New Kent Road school booked a place in the female under sixteen final with a solid victory 51-24 over Hackney’s

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Clapton Girls’ Academy.

In the final they came up against Greig City Academy and it proved to be a hard fought match throughout.

However the Haringey school eventually ran out 69-58 victors.

The finals were the culmination of months of knockout competition which saw the top four teams in male and female under fourteen and sixteen competitions battle it out for a spot in the National Schools Finals in May.

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St Saviours team manager Sterling event and is driving the legacy for Muschett said: “Greig City were increased participation in competitive fabulous. They’ve all played against sport and volunteering for young each other, they all know what to do Londoners. at certain times when to do it and I Find out more about the London guess some of our players didn’t Youth Games by visiting believe that they could do it. www.londonyouthgames.org or “It’s about belief and mental following @ldnyouthgames on toughness really.”

Twitter.

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Amoah goals Kashyap reaps reward with big win means title within grasp

By Tom Ulicsak

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TENNIS JUNIOR Shiv Kashyap’s hard work was rewarded with a great win at the Aldersbrook under nine's tennis tournament last Sunday.

Docklands JFC U14s 2 AFC All Stars 0

By Charlie Pearce news@southwarknews.co.uk

TWO GOALS from from Prince Amoah moved Docklands within a point of a Selkent League title on Sunday.

The points picked up at the weekend moved the U14's to the top of their league, after Erith & Belvedere lost their weekend contest, with just three games left for the Southwark side.

The top two are due to meet this weekend and should Docklands pick up anything from that game they will be crowned champions.

Even if Docklands lose at the weekend two points from their remaining contests will still see them end in top spot.

A club spokesman said: “Today was a close game with the best team taking all three points. It was another massive step towards our goal this season.”

Docklands took the lead when Amoah finished powerfully from the edge of the area after a good period of play.

With fifteen minutes remaining Amoah cutely finished another good move, when he chipped the onrushing keeper to put the tie to bed.

Shiv Kashyap picked up a tournament win last for Southwark City Tennis Club

The event in Essex featured sixteen players with a four round draw to determine the seedings from one to sixteen.

After a good opening win the Southwark City Tennis club youngster was involved in a tough battle in the second round against the number one seed.

However an injury to his opponent with the match in the balance put Kashyap through to the semi final.

The Southwark star didn’t need a second invitation and played his best

tennis to record straightforward wins, including one over the home champion in the final.

Club coach Umran Ali said “Shiv has been putting in a lot of hard work on his game and has been getting closer and closer to winning one of these events.

“There are a number of good Southwark players in his age group and we are looking forward to a good season in the team tennis leagues next month.”

Kashyap's club mate Joshua Usideme won three of his four matches in the competition to finish fifth overall.

Southwark City Tennis Club are starting new term time sessions at Colombo Tennis Centre, located behind Southwark tube station on Jamaica Road.

Free and concessional places are available for low income households.

More information can be found at www.beactivesocialenterprise.com.

Dulwich dance to podium at Youth Games

By John Prendergast

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DULWICH STUDENTS from Kingsdale Foundation School showed twinkle toes as they danced their way to a medal at the London Youth Games.

The competitive dance tournament is a new section in the games and the Kingsdale students impressed a panel of judges at the Copper Box Arena last Friday to pick up a silver medal.

Team Manager Nikki McGregor, who trained the team alongside Cynthia Lacordelle, said: “We worked them hard!

“It was about ten weeks ago that we

picked the students, we said ‘Ok this is what we need to do, this is where you’re going, we’re coming to win’ and they were like ‘Yes miss ok fine’ so Cynthia worked them hard and then I took over and worked them even harder and it paid off!”

McGregor also highlighted the value of having a competitive element to dance especially for girls who aren’t as interested in traditional sports: She added: “I mean we’ve got some really shy kids there. One was crying before we even went on the stage and we just had to give her that confidence.

“So it’s brought a lot out of them that don’t have confidence, they’ve turned to dance if they don’t enjoy doing

other sports.”

To find out more about competing or volunteering at London Youth Games, visit www.londonyouthgames.org or follow @ldnyouthgames on Twitter.

Kingsdale School Dance Group celebrate their medal at the Youth Games

Fisher duo fall at last four stage

By John Prendergast

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TWO JUNIOR boxers from Fisher boxing club came up short last weekend in their bid to be crowned Junior ABA champions.

Both Dominic Joyce and Jimmy Roe made the long trek to Sheffield for Saturday bouts in the semi-finals of the national competition but both lost spilt decisions in their last four encounters.

Fifteen-year-old Roe, who fights at light welterweight, took on Joshua Frankham from Berkshire based club The Ring.

But Roe, who had impressed in earlier rounds of the tournament, did not have his hand raised by the referee when the judges scores were revealed.

Clubmate Joyce, a fifteen-year-old light bantamweight, encountered a similar experience to Roe on the day.

Facing Jerry Ray, who also boxes for The Ring club, Joyce lost a split decision that meant he would not be required for Sunday's finals.

Instead Ray went on to take on Andre Williams from Gorton ABC in the final, a contest he also won on points.

Frankham ended up runner-up in his weight category, losing out to George Standring from Hebden Bridge.

Female fighter Ellie Scotney had more to celebrate this week when she got a call up to the latest England squad.

The sixteen-year-old Lynn ABC boxer recently won the English ABA Youth Championships and the lightweight fighter, who impressed on her way to her recent crown, will now don international colours for the first time.

Goals galore but Docklands defeated

Junior Reds Athletic u13s 4 Docklands JFC u13s 3

By Danny Belcher news@southwarknews.co.uk

DOCKLANDS SCORED three cracking goals but came away empty handed at the weekend.

The Reds took the lead on the fifteen minute mark with a well worked goal before Josh Hyam drew the visitors level with a rocket of a shot from 30 yards that went crashing in off the cross bar.

Having a bare eleven players the Southwark side struggled to get going for the first ten minutes of the second half and Athletic took advantage and bagged three soft goals.

But Docklands heads never went down and they controlled the game for the last 20 minutes of the game.

They scored their second goal when Alfie Alliston's looping shot from the half way line bounced over a back peddling keeper.

Charlie Macdonald and John Hayley went close before Hyam got his second goal with a neat finish into the far corner after a twelve pass move that shifted the ball the length of the pitch.

Docks nearly capped a comeback late on but two good saves denied Hyam a hat trick and the visitors an equaliser.

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MILLWALL AT THE REGIONAL FINALS! EACH YEAR we are part of the Football League Kids Cup where schools enter their local clubs tournament with the aim of representing them in the National finals at Wembley!

We held our Local tournament in January and Surrey Square Primary School emerged victorious after an entertaining final on the pitch at The Den, coming from 1 down to win 2-1.

On Thursday 19th March the Regional Finals took place at Reading Football Club where Surrey Square Primary School represented Millwall.

After a 5:30am wake up call for most of the team and a long journey to Reading we arrived at the Madejski Stadium ready to take on the other Championship

South Teams, including Watford, Brentford, Bournemouth, Birmingham, Fulham, Reading, Cardiff, Norwich, Brighton, Ipswich, and Charlton.

In our group we played 10 matches, losing only one game!

We finished in the top two and went through to the Semi Finals where we took on Fulham.

After an extremely exciting 8 minutes that could have gone either way, it finished 3-2 with Fulham taking the victory.

Fulham then went on to face Bournemouth in the final, with Bournemouth winning 2-1.

A fantastic day was had by all, Surrey Square wore the Millwall shirt with pride, they never gave up and were great representatives of both Club and School.

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Top finish from Gregory.

Upson picks him out and the striker takes a brilliant first touch around the keeper before slotting in. 1-0!

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23 Peleteiro Ramallo

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Judge - 60'

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MILLWALL CONCEDED a sickening stoppage-time equaliser as Neil Harris was denied his first win in charge of the Lions.

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Odubajo drills in the equaliser after a cross bounced around inside Millwall's box.

Gutting for the Lions.

Taylor-Fletcher has a glorious chance to put Millwall back in front but he fires inches wide of the far corner.

Bees comeback denies Lions deserved win in London derby

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STING IN THE TAIL Woolford does superbly to dig out a cross for O'Brien who nods in his first senior goal from close range.

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Harris' men were 2-0 up and coasting to victory until Alan Judge was clipped inside the box and Alex Pritchard converted from the penalty spot.

And as the game entered four minutes of additional time, Moses Odubajo drilled in from close range following a hopeful cross into the box.

Millwall were in a commanding position after goals from Lee Gregory and Aiden O'Brien and would have been good value for the three points.

Gregory cooly rounded David Button and slotted the Lions into a half-time lead before O'Brien nodded in from Martyn Woolford's cross.

Even after being pegged back to 22, the visitors had a glorious chance to retake the lead at the death but substitute Gary Taylor-Fletcher curled wide.

Despite the immediate feeling of disappointment at the full-time whistle, Harris will this week reflect on another encouraging performance from his team.

In the context of the league table, however, this was a big two points dropped.

Harris made just one change to the side held to a goalless draw by Brighton the previous Tuesday, with Ed Upson replacing Taylor-Fletcher in the starting XI. Upson, as he had done against Bolton in Harris' first game in charge, occupied the right side of a compact Millwall midfield.

O'Brien was paired with Gregory up front as the Lions went with an attacking selection, supplemented by four strikers on the bench – including academy forward Jamie Philpot.

Harris felt a goal was the only thing missing from the performance against the Seagulls so he'd have been encouraged by his players' enterprising start at Griffin Park.

In just the third minute, Upson drifted in from the touchline and teed up Woolford for a shot, which was palmed away by David Button.

Woolford tested Button again when he allowed O'Brien's pass to roll across his body before striking the ball hard and low towards the bottom corner, but the Bees' keeper was equal to his effort.

Odubajo curled straight at Forde and Jota hit the top of the crossbar with a header from Pritchard's delivery as the hosts enjoyed their

first spell of pressure.

Play was stopped in the 20th minute to allow injured referee Fred Graham to be replaced in the middle by fourth official Gavin Ward, who then proceeded to book three Lions players before half time.

When the game resumed, Woolford, who'd already seen yellow for a lunge on Odubajo, almost found O'Brien with a cut-back but Button dived onto his dangerous cross.

Button was beaten, though, in the 28th minute when Gregory raced onto Upson's through ball, skipped past the goalkeeper and tapped into an empty net.

Gregory nearly grabbed his second of the afternoon moments later but he side-footed over the bar from 20 yards after seizing on Odubajo's error.

Forde then thwarted Stuart Dallas, Jonathan Douglas and Pritchard in quick succession at the other end to preserve Millwall's lead.

The chances kept coming after half time, with Andre Gray firing wide of the upright and O'Brien seeing his goal-bound effort blocked on the line.

O'Brien then sent an instinctive halfvolley narrowly wide but the Lions youngster buried his next chance, nodding in Woolford's centre to score his first senior goal.

Gray almost pulled one back in the 73rd minute but the former Luton

frontman was unable to get a touch on Judge's dangerous cross.

But his side were handed a lifeline five minutes from time when Judge went down under the challenge of Woolford, and Pritchard fired the resulting spot-kick down the middle.

And the Bees' comeback was completed by Odubajo's low strike beyond Forde from 12 yards.

There was still time for Millwall to grab a winner but Taylor-Fletcher's effort drifted wide and neither Gregory, Woolford nor Williams could get a shot away in the dying seconds.

"I'm definitely gutted for my players – I thought they were outstanding again," said Harris afterwards.

"But if you get 2-0 up with five minutes to go, you expect to see the game out.

"It's probably where we are as a club that, albeit against a good footballing team, we didn't see it out.

"So yeah, we're feeling down. We'll pick ourselves up for the next huge game but the positives were there for all to see."

Player Ratings: Forde 8; Cummings 7, Nelson 7, Hooiveld, 7 Harding 7; Upson 7, Abdou 7, Williams 7, Woolford 7; O'Brien 8 (Taylor-Fletcher, 76mins), Gregory 8.

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Medical department has kept numbers down in treatment room

EXCLUSIVE

By Alex Aldridge alex@southwarknews.co.uk

BOBBY BACIC has taken Millwall’s medical department a long way in seven-and-a-half years.

When the Lions hired him as their head physio in 2007, there were 14 injured players in the treatment room. He walked into a full-blown crisis.

Thankfully, the number of walking wounded at The Den has never reached double figures on Bacic’s watch.

In fact, he has overseen year-on-year reductions in injury rates - and there are figures to prove it.

From where, then, comes the widelyheld perception - almost an accepted fact in the eyes of some fans - that the Lions lag behind their rivals when it comes to keeping players fit?

For Bacic the answer is simple.

“Being a physio is like being a copper knocking on doors,” he says, “we just deliver bad news.”

Injuries are an occupational hazard for a footballer. But when someone is stretchered off to the treatment room, the reaction of some outsiders can be to cast a suspicious eye over the staff behind the scenes.

What on earth happens in training? Why are new signings always crocked?

Did so-and-so ever undergo a medical?

These are questions put to Bacic by fans on an almost daily basis. “And we have no problem with criticism,” he adds, “providing it is backed up by fact”.

So here are some facts: an independent audit of

Championship clubs shows that for both this season and last, Millwall’s injury rates are below the divisional average.

And while the Lions also suffer fewer injuries in training than other clubs, accidental collisions are inevitable.

“You’ve got to train with an intensity and a toughness,” Bacic added.

“I think Millwall fans would agree that there is a certain style of play that they demand - high-tempo, all-action football - so there has got to be a work ethic and work rate there.

“To install that, the work has to be done on the training pitch.”

Paris Cowan-Hall (ankle), Lee Martin (foot), Nicky Bailey (back) and Carlos Edwards (knee) are currently in Bacic’s care.

But four injuries pale in comparison to the casualty lists of other English clubs.

In the first five months of Louis van Gaal’s tenure at Manchester United, the Premier League giants were reported in the national press to have suffered 43 (forty-three) separate injuries.

Everton have had to cope with 20 hamstring strains during Roberto Martinez’ 18 months in charge, while the squads of Aston Villa (nine) and Newcastle (eight) are also heavily depleted at present.

“Our injury rates may seem heightened at the moment because the club isn’t in the league position we want to be in. I feel everything gets amplified when things aren’t going well - but that’s just my opinion.”

Cowan-Hall has been injured three times since joining the Lions from Wycombe in January, a frustration not just for the player but for the fans who hoped the winger would inspire a revival in form.

“There was some expectation on Paris because he is slightly different to what we had before and he’s an exciting player,”

Bacic said.

“But he’s only made about 60 starts in League Two, he’s never played in League One and he certainly hasn’t played in the Championship before.

“He’s come straight from non-league and League Two to the Championship, which is one hell of a leap for any player.

The extra pressure on him may have been a little unfair.

“Paris has also been keen to impress and has got injured twice by tackling back.

His knee injury could have ended his season but we rehabilitated him instead of going down the operation route.

“We got him back from that and the knee held out against Bolton, but unfortunately he’s managed to now damage his ankle ligaments, which is minor.

“The injuries are unrelated collision injuries. He will appear before the end of the season.”

The total number of hamstring and groin niggles at Millwall this season - “injuries physios don’t like” - stands at just five.

“Those are the soft tissue ones,” Bacic explained. “But if Paris gets injured making a tackle, then that’s unavoidable.

“With Lee Martin, when I ran on the pitch against QPR at the end of last season, you could put your hand through the gash on his leg.

“He was stamped on at Bournemouth and then urinating blood after being whacked against Nottingham Forest. No player - Paul Robinson, Neil Harris or anyone else - would have been able to continue with those injuries.

“These aren’t niggles, Lee’s been absolutely clattered in games. I don’t think anyone should criticise Paris or Lee because these injuries happen.

“Kenny Jackett used to say that wingers are the bravest players on the park because they have to run at defenders knowing they’ll be taken out.”

IN FOCUS M I L L WA L L ’ S PLAYERS wear hightech trackers during training that can monitor up to 1,000 variables at a time to ensure they aren’t over-worked.

The data from each session is downloaded and analysed

by Warren Cock, the club’s head of sports science, who puts together detailed reports on each member of the squad.

Tiny GPS modules are strapped to a player’s back and can measure running distance, acceleration, deceleration and heart rate.

The raw figures are then turned into graphs which show how hard a player worked in training during each minute of a session.

The reports allow medical staff to identify who is fatigued or at risk of injury and who could be pushing themselves a bit further.

Coaches can also use the data to plan their drills, depending on how intense they want their squad’s workout to be.

The Lions have been using this technology since the start of the season and believe it has both prevented injuries as well as helped players who are in rehab.

On average, a Millwall player runs 7km during an intense training session - so that figure can be used as a rough benchmark to determine whether someone is ready to return from the treatment room.

The board has invested heavily in injury prevention and rehabilitation - and the use of GPS technology is just one of several recent innovations.

Earlier this season, director Trevor Keyse purchased a hydrotherapy machine which

helps players recover faster after gruelling sessions and energysapping games.

The CryoSpa has over 40 water jets and can be used by up to three players at a time.

Millwall’s medical department, which now comprises of six members of staff, has been assessed by England physio Steve Kemp.

His only suggestion was that the Lions introduce more structured prehabilitation workouts - and now three group classes take place before training each week and a pilates teacher is brought in once a month.

Some fitness drills take place on an Aerofloor, a shock-absorbing training surface which is gentle on knee joints and is used by Manchester United.

The club also has plans to extend the size of its gym to accommodate more fitness equipment and a bigger warm-up area.

“We have a young, dynamic department and we try to improve each year,” Bobby Bacic said.

“The support and investment from the board has been fantastic.”

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By Alex Aldridge

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SID NELSON’s first eight games for Millwall have been eventful to say the least.

He’s captained the side, been shown his first red card and kept his first clean sheet - all in the midst of a Championship relegation dogfight.

The 19-year-old was on the brink of savouring three points for the first time at Brentford on Saturday - but a cruel 91st-minute equaliser prolonged his wait for a win.

Moses Odubajo’s late sucker-punch was a particularly heavy blow for Nelson, who made a desperate lastditch attempt to hack a cross out of the Lions’ box.

But the ball landed straight at the feet of the England U20 international and he drilled a low shot beyond David Forde.

“I was a bit more disappointed than the others because I was part of the second goal,” Nelson told the News.

“I couldn’t really see the ball, it wasn’t a clear clearance and it just hit me, but I was gutted with that. It’s my first experience of a game like that when you’re in a winning position and it gets taken away from you.

“It’s a big learning curve and it was hard to take at the end.”

Millwall were 2-0 up and looking comfortable with five minutes to go but the momentum shifted after Alex Pritchard cut their lead in half from the penalty spot.

“Brentford play attractive football and they’re at the top-end of the table for a reason but I thought the whole team defended well as a unit,” Nelson added.

“We felt solid and I didn’t think we were going to concede. Fordey played brilliantly and everyone else put in a great shift.”

But Nelson will be better for the experience.

The centre back’s red card against Reading, on only his fifth appearance for the first team, has already proved to be a “big, big lesson” for him.

“It showed the difference between U21s football and playing for the first team,” Nelson said.

“The coaches keep telling me that I don’t have to win every ball. My nature is to go for everything but when you’re up against stronger, experienced players it’s different.”

Nelson will cherish his first clean sheet against Brighton - especially as he was marking veteran strike-duo Craig Mackail-Smith and Leon Best.

“They’ve played hundreds of games and scored hundreds of goals between them,” he said.

“It was a great feeling keeping a clean sheet for the first time. As Neil Harris said, it was like a striker scoring his first goal. I was buzzing afterwards.”

The step up from reserve-team football to the rough and tumble of the Championship has been manageable for Nelson - but he’s noticed one big difference.

“The strikers are clever,” he explained. “In an U21s game, if the ball is in the air you go up to challenge for it - and that’s that really.

“In the first team, the strikers will put you off and it’s much harder to win the ball. The physicality of it is something that I’ll have to grow into - some of the strikers I’ve played against are bigger and stronger than me.

“It is hard but I feel like I’m coping with it well. Having some

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Yo u n g defender learning vital lessons f r o m f i r s tte a m ga m e s experienced players around me is helping so much.

“Jos Hooiveld plays a big part in calming me down during games. Jos will pull me to one side and help me keep my cool - he tells me that I don’t have to win everything and that I should be focused on staying in shape.

“When a player with his experience gives you advice, you take it on board straight away. I can be a little bit rash sometimes but playing next to him is great.

“It’s the same with the other lads and in training as well - Alan Dunne, Shaun Cummings, Mark Beevers and Dan Harding are all brilliant with me.”

Nelson plans to spend plenty of time in the gym over the summer.

“I’m still young and learning the art of the game,” he added. “At my age, you don’t fill out like a 21 or 22-year-old. That will come in time and it’s something I’ll work on.”

But the Lewishamb o r n defender, who is from a family of Lions fans, is proud of what

he’s achieved already.

“Not looking out of place is the biggest thing for me,” he said.

“When I first broke into the team, I felt like a young boy who was living the dream - I didn’t really feel part of it. Now I’m tight with the squad.

Fitting in has helped.”

With Neil Harris at the helm, there’ll be no lack of character on display against rivals Charlton on Good Firday.

“Every game between now and the end of the season is going to feel like a derby for us,” Nelson said.

“Given the way we’re now playing and the way training has been going under Chopper, I feel there’s a unity in the dressing room and we’re all really looking forward to Charlton.

“The fans want to see the Millwall way - a Millwall side playing proper football.

“That doesn’t mean playing out from the back, overplaying and passing into stupid areas, the fans want to see 100 p e r c e n t passion, hard work and commitment.

If you do those three things, then the rest follows.”

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By Alex Aldridge alex@southwarknews.co.uk

... continued from back page.

Gregory's confidence had been knocked by a series of missed chances in recent weeks - but Harris believes he's now working with a confident striker.

“I’ve seen a lot of belief in Lee’s recent performances,” Harris said.

“The only pressure that Lee’s been under is the pressure that he puts on himself because he’s a goal-scorer.

“Lee has always scored goals but he’s not scored as many this season as he’s used to getting, so he’s been challenging himself.

“But I’ve said to him all along, since he joined the club in the summer, that his movement is outstanding. He always gets chances because of what a good player he is and the movement he’s got.

“Whether it’s taken him three weeks to settle in or a year, he’ll score goals for this club and lots of them because the ball finds its way to him in the penalty area - or he finds it. That’s a great knack to have.”

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HARRIS PLANS EXTRA TRAINING

By Alex Aldridge

EXCLUSIVE

alex@southwarknews.co.uk

NEIL HARRIS has organised extra training sessions for his players during the international break to ensure they are fully prepared for the final run-in.

LEE'S GLEE Gregory credits Harris with return to form

By Alex Aldridge alex@southwarknews.co.uk

EXCLUSIVE

MILLWALL STRIKER Lee Gregory has been given a new lease of life under Neil Harris and wants his goal tally to hit double figures before the end of the season.

Gregory, who has been one of the Lions’ star performers since Harris took charge three games ago, underlined his new-found confidence with an ice-cool finish against Brentford last weekend.

And the former non-league frontman is determined to better his total of six goals now that Harris has “taken a lot of pressure” off his shoulders.

“Neil has put a lot of belief in me,” Gregory told the News. “We’ve been speaking regularly since he took

over. He’s told me what I’m good at and what I should be doing.

“I now have the belief of the manager - it makes it a lot easier when there’s no pressure on you to do this or do that. He tells me that if I express myself and do what I normally do, I’ll be fine. It makes it a lot easier.

“I’m really enjoying my football at the minute. I can’t wait to train and I can’t wait for the next game. I’m a bit disappointed that it’s the international break - normally you’re grateful for a few days off, but I wish there was a game tomorrow.

“That’s how I feel at the minute - I want the games to come thick and fast.”

And Gregory has one of his preseason targets firmly in his sights.

“I want nothing less than double figures,” he added. “We’ve got seven games left and, with the confidence I’ve got right now, I feel like I could

score in every game.

“My goal at the start of the season was to score as many as I could - but a minimum of ten. It’s not gone my way this year but that’s what I’m aiming for now.”

Gregory no longer carries the burden of being a lone striker thanks to Harris’ tactics.

“When you play with two up front, you share the workload and that is very important,” Gregory added.

“After 60 minutes you should start getting more chances because their back four is tired - but, when you’re working on your own, you feel just as tired. It is hard.

“Neil is being very good with me at the moment because he’s told me not to track back for corners and instead save my energy for going forward.

“It takes a lot of pressure off me because I’m not being asked to do jobs that I shouldn’t be doing and that I have been doing.

“Neil wants me to worry about going forward and that takes a huge amount of workload and pressure off my shoulders. I can express myself more.”

The Lions do not have a fixture to fulfil this weekend but Harris and assistant Dave Livermore will be hard at work with the squad at Calmont Road.

Harris wants to make the most of the ten-day gap between games and says his players are “on board” with his decision to spend more time at the training ground.

“I’ve changed things slightly,” Harris told the News. “We’re bringing the player in for a little bit more training than was originally planned. They understand that.

“We’re a new set-up now and we’re trying to change the style slightly, so the lads are happy to come in for some extra sessions.

“That’s not a punishment, I just believe that we need it and the boys are on board with it.

“We have to balance that with a little bit of time off because some of the players have played a lot of games recently and they need a break to recuperate ahead of the final push.

“But we’ve certainly mixed it up a little bit by making sure we do plenty of sessions.”

Harris has been encouraged by the three performances Millwall have produced under his leadership - but won’t be totally satisfied until he registers his first win.

“There are definitely positives and we can all feel that,” he added. “The players certainly feel it because they’re getting a better vibe from the fans, who are pleased with what they’re seeing.

“I certainly get the feeling around the club and the training ground that we’re moving in the right direction, but we’re absolutely desperate to win some games and that’s the bottom line.”

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