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Council leader: government approach leaves us in dark and is ‘absolute lunacy’

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more ‘southwark stands together’ events planned

By Katherine Johnston

Photo by Katy Griffith

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katherine@southwarknews.co.uk A racial equality and diversity drive has been announced by Southwark Council in response to the Black Lives Matter movement, amid fears that entrenched inequality has left Southwark’s large BAME community extremely vulnerable to the impact of COVID-19.

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The new initiative, Southwark Stands Together, is being led by councillor Johnson Situ, cabinet member for growth and planning.

First the council is holding an ‘anti-racist audit’ of the borough’s street names and statues with links to slavery and colonialism, and to identify ‘positive opportunities for the celebration of more diverse figures which truly reflect the foundation on which Southwark stands’.

Tooley Street is also hosting a series of community events where BAME people can share their experiences with discrimination and bias and help develop ways to tackle deepseated racism.

Councillor Johnson Situ, Cabinet Member for Growth and Planning, said: “I want to give people in Southwark a forum to harness the positive energy that has been galvanised over the past few weeks in response to the atrocious killing of George Floyd, and the subsequent protest led by the Black Lives Matter movement.

“Nobody should ever feel that society has placed a glass ceiling on their ambition, our promise of a fairer future for all is committed

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A Black Lives Matter demonstration in Peckham

to ensuring no person in Southwark should feel that there is no hope, and that nothing will change.

“In the borough, and as a society, we must actively do better to address the structural inequalities that still hold black people back.

“History has taught us that change is most effective when protest is met and matched by policymakers willing to make the change.

“In recent months Southwark has come together to respond to COVID-19. I am confident that Southwark will stand together again to meet this challenge of tackling ingrained structural inequality.”

The first of three online ‘listening events’ was held on Monday night, with an online survey also launched. Further sessions will be held online via Zoom on Tuesday July 7, and Tuesday July 14, from 6pm to 8.30pm.

Register here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ southwark-stands-together-online-listeningevent-registration-110949322410

cuts to legal support could be shelved permanently

By Katherine Johnston

katherine@southwarknews.co.uk Planned cuts to legal services across Southwark could be shelved permanently in light of the unknown impact of Coronavirus.

As the News reported, Southwark Citizens’ Advice Bureau and Southwark Law Centre were told they would lose £100,000 in funding this year - having lost around a third of their income since 2015-16.

The decision immediately sparked concern, especially given ongoing challenges around Brexit, and the number of families with no recourse to public funds in the borough - with the Liberal Democrats firmly opposed from the offset.

The council has now agreed to reassess the move and has channelled immediate emergency funding into legal support during the COVID-19 crisis, after an overview and scrutiny committee meeting highlighted the need to re-evaluate key cuts.

Coronavirus is expected to have a huge impact well beyond the pandemic itself affecting housing, work and finances for years to come.

Councillor Rebecca Lury, cabinet member for culture, leisure, equalities and communities, told the News: “After several years of government cuts and budget reductions the council has had to increasingly review how it helps fund our voluntary sector partners.

“Of course we don’t want to reduce

funding, but we have to look at what services are being provided and split our funding resources accordingly.

“The original reduction of funding to some voluntary sector services was discussed and agreed back in February 2019 and was always due to take place over a two year period, and long before we had any idea of the devastating impact that the COVID-19 pandemic would have on our communities .

“Since lockdown began we have been making a range of investments to respond to it, including an additional £42,000 for the Southwark Law Centre from our Community Response Fund that has also granted funding for a range of other services including Rightfully Yours, in recognition of

the increasing need from local people.

“Moving forward we will continue to work with our partners in the voluntary sector to understand the full impact of COVID-19 and where we will need to place funding in the future.”

The Lib Dem vice chair of Southwark Council’s overview and scrutiny committee, councillor Jane Salmon, said: “Our most vulnerable citizens deserve all the support they can get at this most difficult time including access to proper legal advice.

“These Labour cuts to vital services need to be reconsidered and are ignoring the reality of today’s pandemic impact on our borough.

“I am glad to hear the cabinet member will now revisit this.”

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Hollywood artist’s new mural for Millwall

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And fans happy the iconic Harris mural has also been restored

By Kit Heren

news@southwarknews.co.uk When Millwall fans eventually return to The Den they will have new artwork to enjoy on Zampa Road thanks to a Hollywood artist.

Supporters were left puzzled when the ironic mural of Neil Harris under the railway bridge disappeared in early April.

It emerged it had been mistakenly painted over by Network Rail Kent and Sussex's graffiti removals team.

Now, after consultation between Millwall, the Supporter's Club and Network Rail Kent and Sussex, one part of the artwork has been completed.

Street artist Lionel Stanhope, who has worked on sets for the TV show Black Mirror and Hollywood films, painted a large lion next to the club's name.

Millwall have been nicknamed the Lions since the turn of the

20th century, when a newspaper called them Lions of the South for knocking league leaders Aston Villa out of the FA Cup. The new mural is in blue and white, Millwall's colours throughout their history.

The new mural is just one of several artworks Mr Stanhope has helped make with Network Rail on railway arches across London.

He said:“I’m really happy to have worked with Network Rail and Millwall Football Club on this mural and I’m pleased with the outcome.

It sits well on the wall with strong colours and I’ve received positive feedback from people walking past.”

Steve Kavanagh, Millwall chief executive, said: “I’d like to thank everyone involved at Network Rail for assisting with this project and we’re also incredibly grateful for the efforts of Lionel, who has done a superb job with the new mural.

"I’d like to extend our thanks to members of Millwall Supporters’ Club who have overseen an initiative

organised by the fans, for the fans.”

Eddie Burton, community engagement manager at Network Rail, said: “It’s great to see this wall looking so good and I’m really pleased we could do this for Millwall Football Club. We hope the fans and local community will treasure this artwork and the mural will offer a great photo opportunity for years to come.”

Millwall fans seem to appreciate the club's new mural too. One supporter tweeted: "Thought it looked good in the photos, but even better when you see it in the flesh!"

Lionel Stanhope has history with football-based art. Earlier this year, he painted a mural of Ian Wright on a wall in Brockley, the south-east London area where the Arsenal and England star grew up.

And what's more a new mural of former manager Neil Harris, the Lions record goalscorer was also finished on Zampa Road as the News went to press (pictured left).

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By Katherine Johnston katherine@southwarknews.co.uk

Dispersal zones were in place in Burgess Park and neighbouring Aylesbury Estate over the weekend after tip offs about planned unlicensed music events.

Another dispersal zone was also in place in Tabard Gardens, due to ongoing antisocial behaviour, along with the entire borough of Lewisham.

Despite extra patrols, officers still had to break up events in Burgess Park, Clapham Common, Tooting Bec, and in Wembley.

Several Aylesbury Estate residents have told the News all-night parties have kept them awake until the early hours for days at a time over the last few weeks.

Groups are also congregating in the closed-off children’s playground with speakers pumping out music at full volume during the daytime.

Added resources were thrown at the problem days after violence broke out in Brixton after police attempted to break up an out of control 400-strong street party in Brixton, leaving 27 officers injured.

Southwark and Lambeth Borough Commander, Chief Superintendent Colin Wingrove, said his team had support from the majority of residents, and were responding to a large number of calls from people fed up with loud partying and worried about crowds spreading the virus.

“The Met as a whole has a plan in place that is updated on a daily basis,” he said. “We will seize equipment where appropriate.

“Some people comply and some people won’t so we’re using tools like dispersal powers as well. What happened last Wednesday is completely unacceptable and we are continuing investigating. We’ve had some really positive messages and support from the community about our officers and their bravery that night.

“We are getting a lot of calls about unlicensed events and we’re responding to what residents need. Unlicensed music events are a feature of every summer but we are seeing a greater number this year.”

Wingrove says he cannot preempt whether more intelligence-led dispersal orders will be in place over the coming weekend. “We don’t know how it’s going to unfold but we know it’s going to be busier and we’re working hard to have patrols where they need to be," he explained.

“Our message is a public health one and has always been the same. We are trying to dissuade people from big gatherings.

We’re still in a public health crisis and want to save lives.”

Avoiding a second wave is a number one priority for Southwark Council leader Peter John as, in his own words, attempting to put a local lockdown in place in our borough would be ‘virtually impossible’.

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can we prevent a second wave?

And can a second lockdown be policed?

littering is out of control

Burgess Park covered in rubbish

By Katherine Johnston katherine@southwarknews.co.uk Residents continue to slam “flagrant” littering in Southwark’s most popular parks throughout the summer. Brian

Conway, who lives near the northeast entrance to Burgess Park, said he was “shocked” when he saw the state of the park on Sunday, June 28.

He said: “Littering, especially during the summer months, has long been a problem for this park – but this was way worse than I’ve ever seen it before.

“The worst part for me was seeing how much was in the lake where the ducks, birds and swans are. I’d hate to imagine what harm it’s all doing to the wildlife.

Mr Conway said that park staff were hard at work trying to clear up the mess first thing, alongside a small group of volunteers.

He added: “They’re doing a fantastic job at battling with the rubbish every morning, but surely

Police breaking up a gathering in Burgess Park

more can be done to prevent such fragrant littering in the first place.”

Mr Conway also shared a tweet, where he called on Southwark Council to provide a solution to the “tragic” problem.

Another local resident called people who left rubbish behind “selfish”.

Melanie Stern said on Twitter: Why are people so selfish and so lazy?

Take your litter to a bin or take a bag with you to take it home. Do not leave it on the grass. You bloody idiots.”

Elsewhere, bottles, food containers, plastic bags and laughing gas canisters desecrated Southwark Cathedrals ancient burial ground.

It is believed the rubbish thrown over by people drinking and socialising nearby. The cathedral’s gardener spent an hour clearing the mess up on Monday morning.

“We want people to enjoy themselves but please respect the environment, our community, our sacred space and each other,” appealed Reverend Andrew Nunn, the dean of Southwark.

Leicester’s mayor, Sir Peter Soulsby, was a strong critic of Westminster’s decision to announce a local lockdown on the city despite a lack of clarity over the rationale.

Its council and MPs had no idea what data and information had led to the move until news reports began to circulate in the national press over the weekend.

On Monday, Matt Hancock gave a 9pm address in parliament where the health secretary said R was above one in the city and accounted for ten per cent of all new cases in the last week. But there is still no clear answer about where the outbreak has come from and why it has spread so rapidly. Leicester now has an infection rate three times higher than the second most affected town.

When asked what data Southwark Council has access to that could help shed light on any future waves of the virus, council leader Peter John’s reply was

simply: “Not enough”.

He later branded the government’s topdown approach as “absolute lunacy” and said Westminster was failing to bring local authorities on board. “I don’t think we have the granular details that we need and when we do get data from national testing it is quite delayed,” he explained to the News on Tuesday.

“The approach taken to Leicester is that it is not a local decision at all, it is a decision they are expected to support but you can’t have support without having all the information. The question now is what links the outbreak in Leicester and could we find out the same if it occurred in Southwark? Right now we don’t know and that is completely unacceptable.”

July 4 will see the biggest relaxation in lockdown measures since the crisis began, with pubs reopening and many people already scrambling to book holidays

abroad and across the UK. Although Leicester appears to be an anomaly for now, there are many more areas where new infections are now rising; including fifteen London boroughs. So far, Southwark is not one of them.

While supporting the semi-return to normality, and boost to the local economy the relaxation brings, Cllr John’s fear is that any second lockdown would be set up to fail due to the information bottleneck. “It would be virtually impossible to enforce as all our policing is by consent. As the London Riots showed in 2011, if enough people are anarchic then police will be overwhelmed,” he said.

“This is why it is so important that councils and police have the information they need to explain why decisions are being taken in everyone’s best interests.

“If we only have half the story or half the information then it becomes impossible for

the mayor in Leicester or a council leader in London to become the mouthpiece for a lockdown. It is absolute lunacy and it should have - and could have - been avoided.”

In Bermondsey, one trader is appealing for Beer Mile businesses to stay closed saying lack of toilets and small spaces risk a largely ‘out-of-town’ clientele spreading the virus.

In an open letter, Ben Duckworth, the founder of Affinity Brewing on Bermondsey’s Almond Road, wrote: “I’ve never experienced anything like the highs and lows of the last three months and I know full well that we’re nowhere near out of the woods yet and things may get worse before they get better.

“But being part of the hell that is going to befall the licensed premises of this country next weekend is going to do much more harm than good. We’re simply not ready.”

attacked during a party in the Denmark Hill home on June 15.

He was initially considered to be in a critical condition but has since been discharged from hospital after the incident during lockdown.

Police say it is only luck that prevented the stabbing from becoming a murder investigation.

Three people, in their 20s, were arrested on suspicion of GBH but have now all been bailed.

One resident claimed to the News that complaints to the landlord,

Lambeth Council and police had not prevented the landlord from continuing to rent the property out via AirBnB to large groups of 40 or more with alleged loud music and drug taking.

The News has seen numerous complaints highlighting alleged issues including noise, lockdown restrictions being broken, and trespassing on neighbouring properties in the fortnight before the stabbing.

Police and the council were called

several times on the night of the attack by nearby households, it is claimed, with residents alleging they regularly see the property being rented out for weekends only with cleaners arriving first thing on Monday morning.

One local appealed for help via the app NextDoor around seven days before the stabbing, it is claimed, saying noise, litter, and cars parked in residents’ spaces were causing concern.

“We are long term residents in

the area but sadly this situation is bringing me and my elderly parents, who are in the late eighties, down.

“They are not getting much sleep or peace at the moment.”

AirBnb let at scene of a stabbing ‘received numerous complaints’

By Katherine Johnston katherine@southwarknews.co.uk A house that was the scene of a stabbing after a ‘group fight’ during an AirBnb party had been the subject of dozens of complaints from residents in the lead up to the attack, it is alleged.

As the News has reported, officers are working under the assumption the victim, a 26-year-old who was driven to a nearby hospital, was

Anyone with information about the attack should call police on 101 and with information or complaints about noise and antisocial behaviour, visit https://www. lambeth.gov.uk/noise-nuisancepollution-and-anti-social-behaviour

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Raves and illegal street parties are risking a second wave as the borough prepares for this weekend’s ‘independence day’ come July 4th when pubs reopen.

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Veterans on frontline Veterans are providing vital skills across a range of projects to help the country tackle the current coronavirus outbreak.

From helping to build Nightingale Hospitals to delivering essential supplies to those who are shielding, they have helped thousands of people across the country. We take a look at how one such veteran is helping out.

THIS IS not the first time former soldier Joshua Ryder has seen a pandemic close up, having volunteered to visit Sierra Leone during the West African Ebola virus outbreak.

The 30-year-old worked in what was known as a “red zone” in Kerry Town, 19 miles from capital Freetown.

As a member of Royal Army Medical Core, he worked as a combat medical technician, receiving awards for Top Trainee and Adult Learner of the Year.

Joshua said: “We treated patients with confirmed or suspected Ebola. The symptoms are similar to those of malaria and gastroenteritis.

“We triaged and tested patients to determine whether they had these or Ebola.”

The West African outbreak began in 2014, ending in Sierra Leone in 2016.

Two-and-a-half years after the first case was discovered, the outbreak resulted in more than 28,600 cases with 11,325 deaths.

Such was the volatility of the strain – most widespread outbreak of the disease in history – Joshua was only allowed to work in the area for 30 days.

He said: “I loved the country.

It has some beautiful sights and the people are really friendly.

“It was sad to see the

devastation caused by the pandemic. We didn’t only focus on the pandemic. We visited orphanages and helped build something for the country.

“It was moving to see the children who lost their parents to the virus.”

During the coronavirus outbreak he is again working, but the environment could not be more different.

Having left the army in 2018, he is now a trainee nursing associate on a Midlands Partnership NHS Trust acute mental health ward in Stafford.

Joshua, who is father to Tia, aged 12, and her 10-yearold sister Lola, said: “Day to day I am more involved with the physical well-being of the patients – calming them, making physical observations, doing ECGs and bloods.

“I go to Keele University one day a week and am due to start my second year in September.”

It was Joshua’s experiences and expertise in the army that led him to the NHS in general, and mental health in particular.

He said: “I have worked in demanding conditions in various locations around the world. I am adaptable to suit many environments and job roles.”

In the military he saw firsthand soldiers suffering poor mental health. One of

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his friends, also serving in the

army, committed suicide.

He said: “I entered the NHS through the Step into Health programme, which has been brilliant.

“I was able to show them what I had done and my

TESTING TIME: A member of the armed services carries out a swab to detect Covid-19.

experiences counted. There was a lot of competition for the Trainee Nursing Associate place.

“I have been able to prove myself and have had really positive feedback.

“I won an award for

Outstanding Impact Since Joining the NHS at the programme’s first ceremony.”

Joshua is helping to treat patients through more difficult times than usual.

“We are doing absolutely brilliantly,” he said. “It would

be abnormal, with all the constant changes, if we did not experience stress and anxiety.

“We have adapted and made changes.

“Here our patients have been brilliant.

“We have got a good team

How military knowledge FORMER SERVICE personnel have helped different communities deal with all manner of problems, making urgent deliveries of food and medicines to vulnerable people while also helping those who are shielding receive what they need.

Many others have helped ensure those who need a test for the virus have been

able to get one by setting up mobile testing sites, allowing them to run smoothly and safely to daily test thousands of people with symptoms.

A lot of this work has required specific skills our veterans have learnt throughout years of military service.

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Joshua has also been a volunteer with men’s mental health charity Men Unite, supporting males in crisis.

He ran a half marathon last year to raise £500 for Mental Health UK. “And this month I am running 100 miles, having so far raised £795 for the same charity through JustGiving,” he said.

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Anger as gallons of dangerous acid left lying around housing estate for days

By Kit Heren

People living in Barnwell House called housing association Peabody last Thursday after spotting tens of gallons of hydrochloric acid left by the recycling bins near the entrance to several flats.

But despite concerns that the acid could fall into the wrong hands or be spilled, releasing toxic fumes into the air, the harmful substance wasn't taken away until Saturday morning - nearly two days after the original call. In the meantime the fire brigade put warning tape around the container.

Barnwell House resident John Roach said: "Especially with all these acid attacks happening, you imagine all the youngsters round here, see something taped up, they

might say ‘hello, what’s that? Oh look, hydrochloric acid.'

"You know what the herberts are like, if it had been left over the weekend all sorts of things could have happened."

There were 752 acid attacks in London in 2018, the last year for which figures are available. Hydrochloric acid is not normally the substance attackers use, but it is still highly corrosive.

Mr Roach added that residents were also concerned about the possibility of breathing in toxic fumes from the acid.

He went on: "You could imagine kids even just being stupid and taking the tops [of the bottles] off and pouring it out. It’s lethal when it goes into the air.

"Plus everybody had their windows open because it was boiling hot."

It's unclear who dumped the acid, but Mr Roach said that he was disgusted by the thought that people could leave harmful substances lying around.

He added: "It’s a criminal offence, it’s bang out of order. It’s like pouring oil down a drain, you just don’t do it. It's dangerous industrial waste."

A Peabody spokesperson told the News: “We moved quickly once we became aware of this fly-tipping on our estate to ensure it was removed safely. It is a criminal act which has been reported to the Police.

We’ve been liaising with the London Fire Brigade who secured the area, the Council and the Environment Agency, and immediately set about arranging the removal of the materials by a specialist company as required by law.

"We were informed that this would be done on Friday and are investigating why this did not apparently happen until Saturday. We would urge anyone with information or who may have seen something last week to contact the Police so they can take action against the perpetrators of this crime."

the environmental benefit we get from trees because there’s a very high amount of pollution in this neighbourhood, so we really need trees to have good physical health."

More than 40 locations in Southwark failed UK air quality targets in 2017, according to data published by Friends of the Earth - including a monitoring point on Lower Road that had nearly double the nitrogen dioxide limit.

Trees can balance some of the air pollution common in cities by taking in and filtering pollutants while also giving out oxygen.

Southwark has lost nearly 1,000 trees since 2018 - despite the council declaring a climate emergency last year.

The council has said it will replace the lost trees.

But the difference between mature trees and new replacements is important, residents say.

Steve Cornish, chairman of Friends of Russia Dock Woodland, said: "We're in deficit… We need an overall baseline of where we were a few years ago with our trees in this area, and where we’re likely to be in the next ten, fifteen years."

Planning documents for the St Olave's development say that all the trees to be lost are either category B or C, meaning they are of "moderate" or "low" quality.

Developers will plant a further 28 trees, although more than 1,300 cm of stem girth will be lost in total.

Mr Cornish said: "These trees have taken decades to get to this point and to stick a few twigs in the ground, with a little bit of a post round it - as is generally the case - as a replacement is

not the answer."

Kerry added: "What they’re going to replace the current trees with is much smaller saplings.

"A lot of us are realising as we walk around the borough that the amount of mature trees being cut down or pruned back, and the ones that are being removed are being replaced by very small trees of a similar size, so we’re never going to see these old views which we used to have of huge expansive trees.

"It feels like as the buildings are getting bigger, the trees are getting smaller, very much at the same speed. So they’re being dwarfed in the landscape which is such a shame, because they used to have a much stronger visual impact.

Now they feel like a bit of adornment and decoration from the developer’s point of view."

Peabody plans to build 62 new flats on the site across two buildings up to six storeys high. Half will be considered affordable, the minimum recommended

by Mayor Sadiq Khan for housing on former public land. Of this, just over a quarter of homes will be socially rented.

Peabody has been contacted for comment.

news@southwarknews.co.uk Residents have spoken out after a large quantity of dangerous acid was left lying around on a Camberwell estate for several days.

Outcry over tree loss in new Rotherhithe development

By Kit Heren

news@southwarknews.co.uk Local residents have complained that cutting down mature trees for a new development will harm people's physical and mental health.

The new blocks, just off Lower Road in Rotherhithe, will be built on the site of St Olave's, a former NHS nursing home.

Peabody, a housing association, bought the site in 2018 and gained planning permission for the 62-home development earlier this year.

But locals have spoken out after it emerged that eighteen mature trees on the site will be felled to make way for the new buildings.

Kerry, who lives on Ann Moss Way at the back of the new development and declined to give his last name, told the News: "The trees we have here are quite old, they’ve been around a long time and they’ve got quite a lot of coverage.

"We're losing that feeling of nature. It's really important because of the amount of concrete and artificial things that are in our lives already. It gives us a bit of peace and quiet to have some greenery

around. There’s been plenty of research that has shown for the elderly people and vulnerable people trees are very important mentally."

Several recent studies, including separate papers by researchers in Japan, Australia and Poland, have suggested that being around mature trees with large canopies reduces feelings of anxiety, stress and depression.

Kerry continued: "The other factor is

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Police appeal after man in 80s is robbed

By Kit Heren news@southwarknews.co.uk Police have released images of two men they would like to speak to after an elderly man was attacked and robbed in a "terrifying" incident in south-east London.

The victim, in his 80s, was assaulted and had "a significant amount of money" taken off him after getting cash out from a bank in Woolwich on March 13. He has since made a full recovery.

Now officers have released images of two men they want to talk to, who might be able to help them as they investigate the attack on Angelesea Road.

The men, described as being in their late 30s and of Eastern European appearance, were on the same bus as the man before he was assaulted, police said.

CCTV footage shows the men wearing

dark blue jeans and white trainers.

Detective Constable Kate Bennett, who is leading the investigation, said: “This was a callous attack on a vulnerable, elderly man, who was left with pain in his back and a significant amount of money stolen from him. We are keen to speak to these two men to establish what happened.

“If you have any information which could help us identify these two individuals please call police on 101.

"This elderly gentleman deserves your help to catch them. No one should have to endure an intimidating and terrifying attack such as this.”

If you recognise either of the men in the footage please call police on 101 or tweet @MetCC and quote CAD 2542/13 March.

Alternatively, if you wish to remain anonymous you can contact independent charity Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111.

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fundraiser to help blaze victims

By Katherine Johnston

katherine@southwarknews.co.uk Fundraisers have been set up to support families affected by a tower block fire in Camberwell’s Brandon Estate, as the London Fire Brigade say a cigarette thrown from above is the most likely cause.

Photo by Tom Lloyd

A fundraising page has been set up

by Amanda Srivastava on behalf of community organisation Us Group, which has members based on the estate.

“We know that there will be many families affected by the damage and unable to replace basic essentials,” she explained.

“During this pandemic life is difficult for many of us - which is why it’s so important that we come together to support the local community who are now facing even more hardship due to this fire.” TRA chair Tom Lloyd has also set up a page to help the household whose flat was gutted.

Around 100 people evacuated their homes on Otto Street on the afternoon of Saturday, June 27, after a serious blaze in a first floor flat.

There are no reports of any injuries, but the whole flat in the estate's Walters

House was completely damaged.

Sixty firefighters rushed to the blaze, which caused plumes of thick black smoke to be seen from the surrounding area.

Thirteen adults and five children were treated at the scene by paramedics as a precaution.

The brigade took sixty 999 calls about the fire in the early stages, before it was brought under control at around 1.17pm.

Firefighters now believe a cigarette thrown from a floor above is the most likely cause, after coming into contact with material stored on the balcony which quickly set alight.

"Fires caused by smoking materials including cigarettes, roll-ups, cigars and pipes, result in more deaths than any other type of fire,” said fire station commander Ned Alexander.

The brigade has appealed for residents to always stub cigarettes out properly, dispose of them carefully and make sure smoking materials are cold before emptying ashtrays preferably wetting stubs before they are binned.

To donate, visit: https://www. gofundme.com/f/walters-housebrandon-estate or https://www. gofundme.com/f/walters-house-fire

City Hall could move out of Southwark to save £55m

By Josh Salisbury josh@southwarknews.co.uk Sadiq Khan could move City Hall out of its current location in Southwark to east London in a bid to save £55m over five years.

Under the proposals, the Greater London Authority would leave

the current City Hall building in Bermondsey, and move to The Crystal building in the Royal Docks.

Mr Khan said he believed rent on the building, by Potters Fields Park, was above market values, forcing taxpayers to hand over £11.1m a year in rent to Kuwaiti-owned private landlords, St Martin’s.

London’s local government has been based in the building since 2002.

In contrast, The Crystal building is already owned by the GLA. The GLA faces a budget shortfall of nearly £500m over two years because of a loss of council tax and business rates income during Covid.

“My first priority will always be to protect funding for front-line services, including public transport, the Met Police and the London Fire Brigade,” said Mr Khan.

“Leaving our current home would

save £55 million over five years, which would help us to protect and invest in the things that matter most to Londoners, as well as supporting the regeneration of the Royal Docks.”

The GLA will continue to lease some space in the Fire Brigade HQ on Union Street, as well as a floor from TfL’s HQ in the Palestra building by Southwark tube station.

The move would need to be signed off by September, after a process of formal consultation.

This is the first time that the GLA have had the opportunity to move, after signing a 25-year lease on the building in 2001.

The contract allows for a break clause at 20 years, which would be in December 2021. Mr Khan said under the current financial predicament it would be “negligent” for a Mayor not to consider using the clause.

Appeal to identify pair, after man in his 50s was attacked and critically injured on the Old Kent Road

Tate Modern attacker who threw boy from balcony jailed

By Josh Salisbury josh@southwarknews.co.uk Jonty Bravery, the Tate Modern attacker who threw a six-year-old boy from the attraction's viewing platform, has been jailed for at least fifteen years.

Bravery's attack left the victim, a little boy who had been on a family holiday from France, with life-changing injuries in August last year.

The boy will need constant care at least until 2022 as a result of the "catastrophic" injuries sustained in the fall.

Bravery, (pictured) aged 18, "intended to kill someone that day," said Mrs Justice McGowan in her sentencing remarks. "You went to the 10th floor of the Tate Modern," she told the teenager.

"Once there, you went to the viewing platform, looked around and spotted the victim and his family.

"You went towards them took hold of M and threw him over the railing. He fell 100’ and suffered catastrophic injuries.

The fear he must have experienced and the horror that his parents felt are beyond imagination."

An Old Bailey trial had heard how Bravery had researched the attack, attempting to gain entrance to The Shard on the day, only being deterred

By Kevin Quinn

kevin@southwarknews.co.uk Detectives investigating an assault on the Old Kent Road earlier this month, which left a man in a critical condition, have released images of two men they wish to speak to in connection with the attack.

At around 10.30pm on Tuesday, 16 June, police were called to an assault on Old Kent Road at the junction with Trafalgar Avenue, SE1.

A man, aged in his 50s, was found with head injuries and taken to a south London hospital, where he remains in a critical but stable condition.

It is believed that the victim may have been involved in a dispute with two men in a nearby shop shortly before he was assaulted.

Police are asking anyone who can identify the men pictured or who may have witnessed them in the area at the time to get in touch.

One of the men is described as black

by the entrance price.

He then asked a member of the public of other tall buildings in the area.

The court also heard how the teenager had a desire "to be on TV" as a result of the attempted murder.

"You planned this, you worked out which buildings you might try, based on height and cost of admission and you appear to have revelled in the notoriety," added Mrs Justice McGowan.

Bravery may never be released after the horrific crime, after being given a minimum term of fifteen years.

At the time of the attack, the severely autistic teen had been under the care of Hammersmith and Fulham Council, living in supported accommodation in Northolt. The judge said his autism did not explain his offending. A serious case review to establish if any failings contributed to Bravery's offence is to report later this year.

The victim's parents said last month that their "little knight" continued to slowly recover from the injuries.

He can only walk a few metres unaided, and play with his toys sitting down.

"There is still a long way to go but we are holding on, even confined and masked," they said from the hospital in France. and wearing a white top and ripped light denim jeans on the evening of the attack. The other was black and wearing a black tracksuit.

Detective Constable Stuart Gates, from Central South CID, said: “The victim in this incident suffered very serious injuries and he remains in critical condition in hospital more than a week on.

"This kind of behaviour is never acceptable and we are doing all we can to find those responsible. I would ask anyone who recognises the individuals in these images should contact police as soon as possible.”

Any witnesses or anyone with any information is asked to call police on 101 or contact via Twitter @MetCC. Please quote CAD 2209/17JUN To give information anonymously contact Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111 or online at crimestoppers-uk.org Police said they did arrest one man at the scene on suspicion of grievous bodily harm; but he was later released with no further action.

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CASE STUDY QUEEN’S HOTEL ROOMS and pamper packages for NHS workers away from their families, prepping more than 600 meals a week for vulnerable people in the community and projecting light shows every week for Clap for Carers are just some of the things one hotel team has done during the coronavirus outbreak.

The team at the Queens Hotel in Southsea have been working hard since lockdown began in March to support everyone in the community across Portsmouth.

Duty manager Megan Lockyer has been working with the small team who have welcomed more than 30 NHS workers to the hotel, which during the Second World War served as a hospital for recovering servicemen, for a place to rest away from their jobs.

Megan put a post on the Portsmouth Coronavirus Support Group on Facebook asking members to support her idea and it has since taken off with donations pouring in from individuals and businesses.

She said: “I watched the NHS workers come back to the hotel

after a challenging day and I really wanted to let them know how much we appreciate what they are doing.

“I came up with the idea of making hampers for the NHS workers who are currently with us at the hotel.

“I shared my idea with the Facebook group and it was amazing how the community responded.

“The NHS staff had told us how sore their hands were due to constant washing and we were able to include aloe vera hand cream along with items such as face masks, relaxing bath gels, slippers and Easter eggs.”

Staff also worked with Medusa Hairdressing in Southsea to create more hampers which were distributed to key workers in local nursing homes.

The hotel’s managing director Farid Yeganeh said: “I am delighted with the small team we have working at the hotel who have ensured it is clean and safe for our NHS guests.”

More than 7,200 meals have been sent out in lockdown to vulnerable people around the city thanks to a collaboration between the hotel, a collective of voluntary organisations called

THERE FOR YOU: Queen’s Hotel lit up for the NHS and (inset) preparing food in the kitchen. PICTURE: QUEENS HOTEL SOUTHSEA Portsmouth Hive, Portsmouth City Council, NHS Portsmouth CCG, the charity arm of Portsmouth Football Club called Pompey in the Community, as well as Anghel Niko Nedelcu, head chef from Portsmouth’s Brasserie Blanc and Royal Beach Hotel head chef Paul Playford. The initiative received two £3,000 anonymous donations, as well

as food donations from local businesses including butchers Buckwells. Farid said: “We got an email from the council at the start of lockdown about whether any businesses had any stock that was going out of date. It just snowballed from there really and we teamed up with the Hive to get meals distributed and it means so much that we could help our community.”

Each week for Clap For Carers, projections showing support for the NHS were displayed on the Edwardian era hotel as part of the team’s commitment to supporting local health workers. Farid added: “I have always been aware that we have a really special team working at the hotel and this just underlines it. I look forward to being able to welcome back the whole Queens Hotel team once the lockdown is over.”

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CASE STUDY HIGHLAND AUTO CAMPERS WHEN coronavirus started appearing in Inverness, care home manager Victoria Connolly was determined no one who worked or lived there would fall ill.

So she asked the staff of the Isobel Fraser home in Inverness if they’d be prepared to live onsite and was thrilled when 14 said they would.

But then came the problem of where to put them.

The 38-year-old said: “There are a couple of rooms upstairs I could fit six people into. But then I thought, ‘Where am I going to put everyone else?’”

“I have a friend with a campervan so I phoned her and asked if we could use it. She agreed but I needed more so she suggested I hire one.”

Victoria got in touch with Highland Auto Campers whose owner Mark Jarratt, 44, immediately agreed to hire her three vehicles for cost.

While they’d normally charge £130 a night for their practically-new fleet, the care home got them for just £250 each a week.

Mark says: “We’ve only been going two years but earlier this year, things were going well – March was picking up and April and May were fully booked.

“But we only get an eight-month window to make our money because of the tourist season so lockdown came at the worst time for us, the start of our season and was a complete disaster.

“Then around April 14, we got a call from the Isobel Fraser home.

Stories were, by then, beginning to emerge that some care homes had been really badly hit by coronavirus.

“They said that while the home was free of coronavirus, they knew they needed to take steps to keep both staff and residents virus free and by providing accommodation for their staff on site. They wanted to rent three of our vans to do this.

“We were surprised to get the phone call – there are a lot of similar companies in the area – but quite pleased and we immediately agreed to assist in any way that we could.

We just wanted to help.

“It was also a win-win situation for us. The campervans hadn’t been used for a few weeks, they were just sitting quarantined and this was income – not a great deal of income but better than nothing.

“Even though they hadn’t been used for weeks, and one was so new it had never been used, we gave them a thorough clean before driving them over and setting them up.

“The staff and some of the residents were quite excited when we arrived and were looking out of the windows.”

Six care home staff slept in the vans for between three and five weeks.

Manager Victoria said: “They really enjoyed it – they were warm and comfortable. Most have said they’d take them out on holiday!”

The care home, which has 27 residents, hasn’t had a single case of coronavirus. Mark said: “We were really proud to have been able to help. It’s good to do something for the community.

TEAMING UP: Highland Auto Campers owner Mark Jarratt with girlfriend Alicia.

DREAM TEAM: The Shnuggle staff.

CASE STUDY SHNUGGLE NEWTOWNARDS-BASED company Shnuggle diversified into making PPE when the coronavirus pandemic hit the firm’s core business.

Sinead and Adam Murphy were building the company into a leading name among parents with products such as an air bedside crib, air flow mattress, rocking stand, toddler baths, bath stands and many other creations.

But the growth was interrupted when Covid-19 arrived in the UK, and the country went into lockdown.

Although UK sales remained strong, imports were hit and Shnuggle’s owners turned their attention to designing and creating a face covering that would help save lives.

Adam and Sinead quickly realised that they could help make a difference in the national effort to provide Personal Protective Equipment items. After taking measures needed to sustain the business, including taking advantage of UK Government furlough and business loan schemes, they set

about creating and growing notfor-profit business Hero Shield.

Adam said: “We had seen a few initiatives that had popped up all around the world.

“A lot were printing 3D face shields so we kind of sat down with our head of design who was on furlough and said, ‘can we come up with a design here that we could start producing at rock bottom price and we’d prefer it to be a reusable one rather than a disposable one?’.

“We came up with designs over the course of a weekend,

by Monday we had done 20 different designs and 3D printed them on our prototyping printer and we’d put out a call on LinkedIn to local companies who wanted to get involved and within a very short space of time we had about 20 different businesses all saying, ‘Yep, we can do that bit and we’ll do it free of charge or we’ll do it at cost’.

“We said that we weren’t doing it to make money. We were trying to help the NHS and other care workers so we founded another company which was Hero Shield Ltd and we set it up as not for profit so nobody could take any money

out of it. Alongside that we did a crowdfunder to cover the costs so we raised £35,000 in the end.

“We managed to produce and ship out about 100,000 face shields in about six weeks.”

Adam and Sinead are working to secure charitable status for Hero Shield Ltd, which is still running on a non-profit basis, and is now focussing more on charities and care services that don’t have the funds for whatever PPE they might need to get back up and running.

Sinead said: “The businesses that were actually producing the face shields, we passed the orders to them and they have turned it into more of a commercial venture because we got a massive order from the NHS. “It was worth shy of £1m and we needed to focus back on Shnuggles, so we passed it over to them and they pay a royalty into the Hero Shield charity for every one that they make.”

So having helped the NHS in Northern Ireland, Adam and Sinead are now focused again on their core business – creating and marketing clever products for babies and children.

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Reward for information after woman found strangled in own living room

Police offer £20,000 to anyone who can help to catch Zoe Orton’s killer and appeal for local people who knew her to get in touch

By Josh Salisbury josh@southwarknews.co.uk Police have offered up to £20,000 to anyone who can help solve the murder of a woman found strangled in her Deptford home.

The body of 46-year-old Zoe Orton was found in her flat in McMillan Street on Monday, October 21.

She was discovered in her living room with a single wound to her neck.

There was no sign of a break-in or disturbance. Police believe she had been murdered more than two weeks previous on October 4.

While no motive has yet been established, robbery has been ruled out, as police do not think any items were taken from the flat.

Ms Orton is said by detectives to have led a “chaotic lifestyle” and frequently had visitors in-and-out of her home.

She also regularly frequented Deptford and Woolwich, associating with local drinkers, say police.

“This is a terribly tragic case, with the victim killed in her own home for reasons we have as yet been unable to establish,” said DI Steve Keogh.

“We need to find the person who has done this and hold them to account; and I hope the added incentive of a significant reward

will encourage anyone with information which could assist to come forward.

The 46-year-old was last seen alive on

Thursday, October 3. However, based on phone records, police believe she was in Woolwich Town Centre in the early hours of Friday.

She was last captured on CCTV leaving Woolwich DLR at 4am on that Tuesday.

Police released the image this week, saying they need anyone who can help piece her final movements to get in touch.

Another picture of Ms Orton, taken in July 2018, has also been released by detectives in the hope it helps the appeal.

“I would specifically like to appeal to not only anyone who knows anything about the murder; but would also like to speak with people who knew Zoe, who can assist us with piecing together her movements in the days leading up to her murder,” added DI Keogh.

“Did you see Zoe in the Woolwich area at any point in the days preceding her murder – from 1-4 October?

“We are also issuing a new image of Zoe, taken in July 2018, in the hope it could assist with our appeals.”

Police ask anyone with information to contact them on 020 8721 4961.

Information can also be passed to Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111 or via crimestoppers-uk.org.

Avoid full trains at peak times

By Kit Heren news@southwarknews.co.uk Southern and Thameslink have said passengers shouldn't travel from 6-7.30am to help avoid packed trains.

The rail companies' warnings come days before the government lets pubs, restaurants and hairdressers can reopen on July 4, along with several other kinds of business.

Southern and Thameslink are set to increase the number of trains they run to meet demand and help people keep to social distancing rules. The companies will show when trains are busiest on its online journey planner.

The train companies have also told passengers to wear a face covering, book their tickets online or use contactless to pay, carry hand sanitiser and keep their distance from other travellers wherever possible.

Northern, which runs routes connecting London with the north of England, is following the same measures.

Among other measures, the busiest stations are operating one-way systems to help people keep to social distancing, there are more than 1,000 touch-free hand sanitiser points around stations and staff wipe down every carriage of all Southern and Thameslink trains on a nightly basis with a powerful new cleaning fluid that reportedly kills viruses for up to 30 days.

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The directory is divided by sectors and you can also find A to Z listings.

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are major projects in jeopardy?

By Katherine Johnston

katherine@southwarknews.co.uk The decision to put the building of a controversial new council office building on hold due to COVID-19 does not mean large scale redevelopment projects across Southwark will be shelved, says Peter John.

The leader of Southwark Council told the News around 3,000 of 4,000 council staff were currently working from home.

Although plans have been made for a return from September onwards it is likely its offices will not be ‘up and running’ as normal until early 2021.

As this paper has reported, the council has said it is ‘pausing’ the scheme in Peckham, beset by objections from residents from the offset, due to the financial pressures of COVID-19 and changes to workplaces in light of social distancing.

But does this mean a raft of similar infrastructure projects will be parked?

“I don’t think so,” he told the News, “It just wasn’t the right time and it was a specific decision about our office strategy.”

Cllr John doesn’t believe similar decisions made by businesses across London will leave Southwark’s prime offices empty, but concedes the financial pressures of the last few months in lockdown could create delays in some of the key projects ahead.

And he does want City Hall to remain in Southwark, describing it as a ‘great shame’ if the proposed relocation to East London went ahead and left its ‘iconic seat’.

“At the moment I am worried about the Bakerloo line extension,” he admits, “not because I don’t think it will happen but because TfL’s finances are terrible.

“The government wants to get on with significant public transport projects but we know that their focus

is in the north and the midlands.

“It’s a no-brainer for the government but I think we might have to be patient - even more patient.”

Local authorities have made no bones about the fact that for years they have pushed for social care settlements and more clarity on future central government funding but remain struggling to plan ahead.

Government-backed COVID-19 support is now being wound down but the council now has more Universal Credit claimants and vulnerable residents in need of support than ever.

“We’re expecting another announcement soon on further funding available to us,” Cllr John said.

“The support we have put in place needs to stay without a doubt, but we have difficult decisions to make.

“For example our contractors are saying they need money immediately to keep going, but that is five million not in our budget for things like our leisure facilities.

“There are many other organisations that are going to be challenged but our pockets are not bottomless.”

How the council will envisage running its operations in a post COVID-19 world that potentially faces further waves of the virus will be clearer by September.

This is when the new council plan is put forward as part of a handover to Cllr John’s successor. It is clear priorities, and funding, will pivot.

“There will be streamlined commitments and ongoing COVID-19 support and more information on our green new deal,” Cllr John says.

“There will be a consultation on the plan and we are open to hearing from residents about how they’d like to see support continuing.

“But there are some difficult decisions and things we need to balance. We’re working on this now, and making sure my handover is seamless.”

Council leader Peter John on the impact of the pandemic on current council projects, the Bakerloo line extension and a post Covid-19 world

The government wants to get on with significant public transport projects but we know that their focus is in the north and the midlands

vinegar yard gets rejected by 6 to 2

By Katherine Johnston

katherine@southwarknews.co.uk Plans for a 20-storey block on St Thomas’ Street were rejected in a surprise planning vote on Monday night.

A decision on the Sellar scheme on the Snowsfields site was deferred to a later date, but councillors on the planning committee did cast their votes on the Vinegar Yard scheme on June 29.

Six came out against with just two in favour of the huge development, with excessive height, scale and massing identified as their principal concerns.

The News had reported last week that the plans were expected to be approved.

The proposals were criticised by groups including residents associations’, the Victorian Society - which campaigns for preserving

heritage buildings - and the Liberal Democrats.

“Gutting a Victorian warehouse in the process, the domineering glass buildings will alter the area beyond recognition,” said a Victorian Society spokesperson.

Although up to 1,508 new jobs were expected to be created by the scheme, the committee decided that, on balance, it brought more negatives to residents and was not in keeping with the architecture of the area.

Lib Dem councillor Humaira Ali has become one of the key voices opposing the plans.

“There is no one against jobs right now but this evening the community came together against this proposed development as it does irreparable harm to our community and heritage,” she tweeted after the decision.

Police investigate ‘schoolgirl assault’

By Katherine Johnston

katherine@southwarknews.co.uk Officers are investigating an alleged incident where a school girl was the victim of an attempted sexual assault in a shop in Peckham.

Southwark neighbourhood inspector Tom Cornish confirmed officers were looking into reports that a stranger had tried to kiss an eleven-year-old girl in a shop near Friary Estate, off Old Kent Road, on Wednesday, June 17.

No arrests have been made and the investigation is ongoing.

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If you know a vulnerable Southwark resident who is unable to leave the house and may not have friends, family or neighbours to support them, you should let the council know immediately.

Call 0207 525 5000 and choose option 3

Email covidsupport@southwark.gov.uk

You can complete an online referral form by visiting www.southwark.gov.uk/ health-and-wellbeing/public-health/for-the-public/coronavirus

Financial support for households

Essential Information

focus on one group

The Bridge, based in Southwark Bridge Road, is providing free online workouts and healthy meal boxes with recipes and cooking advice during the pandemic.

The charity, which focuses on health, equality and resilience, has been supporting women since the 1930s.

In Southwark, its projects focus on reducing diabetes

risk and helping prevent women from suffering poor mental and physical health.

For more information and support visit https://www. thebridge-uk.org/ or email info@thebridge-uk.org

Southwark Council’s Emergency Hardship Fund is open to people who have lost their job or are struggling financially as a result of COVID-19.

This includes support while waiting for the first Universal Credit payment.

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A new weekly radio show from members of Deptford arts centre is now broadcasting on Borough High Street radio station, Resonance 104.4FM. Meet Me on the Radio is produced by members of arts centre The Albany, in partnership with Entelechy Arts and Souncamp, an artists collective.

David Slater, artistic director of Entelechy Arts, said: “Meet Me on the Radio puts the passions and experience of the oldest in our communities at the heart of the creative fight-back against COVID-19enforced isolation.

“Prepare to sit back, listen and have all your preconceptions about ageing blown away.”

Meet Me On The Radio broadcasts on 104.4FM every Tuesday at 11.30am.

For more information visit resonancefm.com

Housing help If you are struggling with rent or rentrelated costs, and receive Housing Benefit or the housing element of Universal Credit, the council may be able to either give you a ‘discretionary housing payment’, or ‘extended payment of housing benefit’.

If you are living in Southwark Council temporary accommodation and need help with any Coronavirus-related issues, call 020 7525 1093.

Call 020 7525 2434 or apply via www.southwark.gov.uk/benefits-and-support/emergency-support

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If you are made homeless the emergency out of hours service number is 020 7525 5000.

Domestic and sexual abuse mental health If you are unable to afford food some food banks and organisations can arrange deliveries if you are unable to leave the house.

Free services include Southwark food bank.

You will need to be referred with a voucher to access support.

Call 020 7732 0007 or email foodbank.support@pecan.org.uk

Physical health If you are unwell and think you may have Coronavirus, use the online 111 Coronavirus service here https://111. call 111.

If you arenhs.uk/covid-19/ worried about domestic or In life-threatening emergencies, call sexual abuse, the Solace Advocacy 999. service is open to all and Support If you you need a GP women and men think aged sixteen or appointment, call your surgery - do over in Southwark. not walk in.

King’s College Hospital and Guy’s and St Thomas’ emergency departments are still open for emergency patients, Call or in need of other urgent treatment. 020 7593 1290

or visit solacewomensaid.org

Pembroke House, based in Walworth, 020 7703 3803 and info@pembrokehouse.org.uk Borough Free Fridge, St George The Martyr, Borough High Street, Tuesdays 3-5pm There is a full list of organisations on Southwark Council’s website.

If you need help with deliveries/ errands Mutual Aid Groups can be a valuable resource Southwark’s COVID-19 Mutual Aid groups have been set up by volunteers in your area to support their neighbours.

These are self-organising groups and usually not council-affiliated or charityrun. Be careful when sharing information and requests on social media.

The Southwark Facebook group is named “Southwark Mutual Aid Covid 19”.

There are also ward-level and even street-level groups on Whatsapp. To find yours, visit www.tinyurl.com/mutualaidsouthwarkmap.

In the first instance, we recommend contacting the council if you are in need of extra, or specialist support. For example, if you receive at home care or have complex health needs.

If you are struggling with support or have a problem you need help with, your MP, or your ward councillors, can also help. For example, if you are unable to get food delivered or have problems with utilities or services.

Rough sleeping If you see a rough sleeper or know someone is sleeping on the streets, alert StreetLink whose outreach workers can get them into safe accommodation.

Either download the app, call 0300 500 0914 or visit www.streetlink.org.uk If they are in immediate danger or need urgent care call 999.

The South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust has a support line for those in need of support, open 24/7.

Call 0800 731 2864

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armed police called over ‘duck shooting’

By Katherine Johnston

katherine@southwarknews.co.uk Armed police arrested a man in Burgess Park on Sunday morning after reports of shots being fired at ducks in the lake.

Officers also seized an air rifle after being tipped off that two men were targeting the birds at around 9am.

Southwark neighbourhood inspector, Tom Cornish, said it is possible that one duck had been

killed in the attack but this was so far unconfirmed.

A dispersal zone had been put in place in the area over the weekend after reports of a planned illegal rave in Burgess Park.

In a statement, the UK’s Animal Welfare Party said: “This is a serious crime and we are glad to hear an arrest has been made.

“We believe longer custodial sentences would act as a more meaningful deterrent.”

‘Let swimming pools reopen’ says southwark club boss

By Kit Heren

news@southwarknews.co.uk The head of a Southwark swimming club has criticised the government for letting pubs, hairdressers and non-essential shops reopen before swimming pools.

Locals relieved as the park toilets reopen

By Kit Heren news@southwarknews.co.uk Toilets have reopened in all Southwark parks.

The council said in a Twitter post: "Our park toilets are now open, but please follow social distancing rules and pay attention to signs and guidance.

"Park toilets will be closed for cleaning several times a day, so you may need to wait."

The park toilets were closed for safety reasons during the lockdown.

Residents have complained of finding human urine and even excrement in bushes around the borough's green spaces, with people visiting parks apparently finding themselves caught short.

Locals appeared to welcome the

news.

The Southwark Park association 1869 said: "As any parks group we are really glad that the toilets have reopened recently, especially as people were defecating in the park which is not just unsightly but a heath hazard to park users young and old alike during this unprecedented time.

"What we ask is the public uses the toilets properly and respectively and the council makes sure they are kept regularly cleaned during this... outbreak at all times."

Southwark Council told the News earlier in June that a combination of easing restrictions on movement, hot weather, bank holidays, and gym closures had led to the number of park goers surging by around 30 per cent.

All shops have been allowed to open since June 15 in England, while hospitality businesses like pubs and restaurants can welcome back customers from July 4.

But swimming pools and indoor gyms remain in the dark about when they can reopen, with no public guidance given by the government.

Andy Moore, chairman of Southwark Aquatics in Surrey Quays, said it didn't make sense to keep swimming pools closed when other businesses that are more likely to find it hard to keep customers apart can soon reopen.

He added: "It brings me frustration that pubs, cafes, hairdressers and even shops are all open. From first hand experience, the controls that they’ve put in place have proved quite difficult for them to implement all of the time.

"Looking specifically at pubs, the biggest concern from my perspective is when people have a few drinks, how are you going to stop them from breaking social distancing rules?

"And yet these are all things that within the swimming environment because of the structure we have we are able to control pretty tightly. And yet they’re open and we’re not."

Swim England, the sport's national governing body, will present a petition to the government this week urging them to let swimming pools reopen.

Around 45,000 people have signed.

The organisation has also written a detailed set of guidelines explaining how swimming pools can reopen safely.

Mr Moore added: "What’s really

frustrating from our perspective and from Swim England’s perspective overall is that we’ve done a lot of work in the background to prepare for reopening and a detailed guidance document has been put together that’s been shared around."

Measures put in place include widening lanes and only allowing ten people in each lane at a time, putting a one-way system in place, getting swimmers to complete a questionnaire to check if they've had symptoms and appointing a staff member to make sure people keep to the rules.

Not all kinds of swimming pool activities could come back straight away, Mr Moore admits.

"There is absolute scope to bring back mature swimmers, structured swimming in lanes for fitness," he said.

"What might be more difficult is… free swimming sessions, splashing about, families playing with floats and things like that. That would not be possible on day one.

"But fitness-focused swimming should wholeheartedly be brought back, and could be done safely."

Swimming has a societal benefit, Mr Moore adds. Researchers from the Centre for Perioperative Care have argued that general physical fitness is a good way to avoid being severely ill with coronavirus.

And because it is a low-impact activity, swimming is a popular form of exercise for people of all ages.

Mr Moore said: "The fitness benefits of swimming are huge… it is low-impact so good for people of all ages, from the youngest right the way through to older people. And the fitness people get from it is incredible.

"For example my daughter was swimming 12 hours a week, which is a huge amount of time spent in the pool, but from a fitness perspective it’s absolutely tremendous for her.

"Being closed down for 12 weeks now and who knows when the end date is, she hasn’t had that available to her. Yes she can go and do other forms of exercise, but it then becomes an individual training programme, which isn’t as easy to adhere to because you don’t have the camaraderie that comes from being part of a club with your friends, and the social aspect."

Southwark Aquatics, which is based in Seven Islands leisure centre on Lower Road, hasn't been as badly hit by the coronavirus lockdown as some organisations, as all of its staff are paid hourly or are volunteers. The club stopped taking membership fees when swimming pools were ordered shut in March.

But Mr Moore worries that the club will struggle to bounce back to where it was before lockdown, when it had 70 members.

He said: "When you are doing something day in day out it becomes a routine and you stick to that. But when you have a 12-week downtime, you’ll get people who say ‘well I’ve managed without it, I haven’t missed it’ and they might not come back, so that hits our revenue stream.

"You have people who are rightly still concerned about whether it’s the right time to come back to the pool, and that’s something that we have to work with our members on and get the message across to them that an awful lot is going on, so that they are as confident as they possibly can be that everything is safe.

"You’ve also got the aspect that people have lost their jobs, people are furloughed and on smaller incomes.

People might look on swimming as a luxury that they can’t afford and decide from a financial perspective they can’t bring somebody back."

Early indications are that most people want to come back to the pool, Andy said - when they can reopen.

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southwark angels Helping in crisis

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Peckham charity Pecan is using the currently closed Mountview performing arts school as a temporary base.

kingpin of a space

Lordship Lane’s Oru Space has been nominated for a Time Out ‘community kingpin’ award.

Despite only launching in March and in the middle of a pandemic, the shared working space quickly pivoted into a food bank drop-off point.

It has also been raising funds for Goose Green mutual aid with online and rooftop yoga and wellness classes. https://www.instagram.com/oru_space/

Pecan, which runs a food bank and other community projects, moved its sorting and packing area to the school last week.

Food bank manager Simon Boxall said: “We’re so grateful to Mountview for this provision because it makes the delivery to the community much easier and safer.

“This allows other teams to come back slowly to the Pecan building and get other essential services running face-to-face again to help work on the other aspects of the effects of COVID-19 and lockdown on vulnerable people.”

Mountview’s executive director, and Peckham resident, Sarah Preece, said: “Pecan are an amazing force for good in Peckham and over the last thirty years they’ve achieved so much in so many different areas.

“With COVID-19 having such a devastating impact everywhere, it’s more important than ever for the community to pull together wherever possible - and Mountview is here to help where we can.”

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NEWS 21

helping over a thousand people a week

East Dulwich’s Albrighton Centre is now feeding more than a thousand people every week.

Three years ago the centre’s community fridge opened to help make use of food that would otherwise go to waste.

By June 19, more than 1,100 people from 432 shielding or self-isolating households received food deliveries and household essentials from the centre’s volunteers.

Families struggling financially, or without any income at all, are supported on an open access and ‘no questions asked’ basis.

Waitress Maddie Mills, who’s been volunteering with the centre since she was furloughed in March, said: “I love coming in every day and talking to those we help, and, while calling up people to find out what food they need delivered, I’ve been learning more about the community.

“The Albrighton Centre makes such an important impact on both the local and wider Southwark community."

Demand is huge, urgent and rising. In May, its chair and coordinator, Steve Hedger, launched a crisis appeal supported by First Dates’ Maitre d’, Fred Sirieix.

Although £25,000 has been raised so far, Steve says many families will continue to need help as the lockdown eases.

"The support we have received has been utterly overwhelming, but the need continues to be great and we still desperately need donations of food and money to help us continue to support the most vulnerable in our community." justgiving.com/crowdfunding/ albrightoncommunitycentre

peckham’s bleeding heart A Peckham artist’s image depicting women prisoners during COVID-19 has been purchased by a leading museum.

‘Bleeding Heart’ was commissioned and auctioned off by The View, a magazine campaigning for better treatment for women by the criminal justice system.

It was purchased by Nottingham's National Justice Museum in the auction, raising over £25,000 for the campaign.

More than 54 per cent of women in prison are the victims of domestic abuse, and more than 80 per cent suffer from one or more mental health issues.

The artwork is now on the front page of The View’s summer edition, highlighting the added strain the pandemic has put on prisons.

Twenty-one-year-old Jael Umerah-Makelemi,

who paints under the alias Nubiart, said: “My artwork is centred around women, and black women in particular, and I'm passionate about supporting women's causes so when I heard about what The View was doing I instantly thought it would be an amazing thing to be involved in.

"Across many cultures women are seen as having a more domestic role and it is the men who are pushed to go and get the big jobs and take on important roles.

“I want my illustrations to change that narrative.

We need to break the mould so more women feel empowered to chase their dreams."

She added "When I found out I can't even explain how it felt. It was just so exciting to think that something I started as a way of releasing emotions has attracted attention from such a big museum."

Bleeding Heart

golden oldies get special guests on zoom Golden Oldies’ members haven’t let the pandemic stop them from keeping busy volunteering and befriending throughout Southwark.

The group which supports residents over 60 years of age from black and other ethnic minority backgrounds, has been holding regular zoom meetings with some special guests.

In June, Paul Canoville, Chelsea FC’s first black player, spoke to members about his life and career including how his mum, who came to England to train as a nurse at sixteen, reacted to his decision to pursue football as a career.

To find out more about Golden Oldies and join in, visit https://www.southwark-goldenoldies.com

mask with your parcel Pembroke House is now sending out face masks in its food parcels for residents.

Made by group Masks for Extraordinary people, they’re also helping to keep the packing and delivery volunteers safe.

So far 5,000 environmentally friendly masks have been donated to community groups and key workers across the country.

All purchases help cover the cost of more free masks. https://www.masksforextraordinarypeople. org/

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Covid legislation sees major road changes

Car free junctions, cycle lanes and traffic bans outside

By Katherine Johnston katherine@southwarknews.co.uk Roads are being redesigned across Southwark to create a safer highway system for cyclists and socially distanced walkers.

The huge undertaking sees measures come into force for at least eighteen months as part of emergency COVID-19 legislation.

New layouts already underway include cycle lane contraflows on one way streets including Peckham’s Rye Lane and Consort Road; a car free

junction in Dulwich Village that has effectively created a village square, and closing parts of East Dulwich’s Melbourne Grove to traffic, and new zebra crossings.

Modal traffic filters, one way systems, and turn right bans have been put in place on numerous side streets near Kennington and along Walworth Road.

Comber Grove, Goodrich and Rye Oak and Camelot primary schools will all see traffic banned in their vicinity part of the school streets scheme and a segregated cycling route has also been

quickly assembled for Southwark Bridge Road.

It is hoped the traffic calming measures will encourage more people to walk and cycle, and make visiting particularly congested areas much easier by foot and reduce deadly air pollution levels.

As of early last week more than 6,000 people had visited Southwark Council’s dedicated online map for highway improvement suggestions to help people get travelling in a safer, socially distanced way.

There were nearly 3,777 ideas posted, nearly 2,000 comments and over 10,000 agreements registered.

Dulwich’s new traffic free square was a hit with parents and their small children, and residents worried about bad air pollution outside the school.

Resident Barry Pritchard said: “Great, long awaited solution to this difficult junction. Hopefully Southwark engineers will go on tackling difficult traffic problems throughout the borough.”

But the road layout changes have not been popular with everyone.

“Immediate effect: South Circular solid,” tweeted Tom James, with a picture of nose to tail traffic.

Meanwhile Walworth resident Anna Leask said: “Be helpful for local residents to have more notice than one day that this is being implemented.

“Signs appeared overnight, no explanation about what this means for residents - quite a few of whom

have cars.

“Am broadly supportive of the aims but communication has been woeful.”

Councillor Richard Livingstone, cabinet member for environment, transport and the climate emergency, said: “The recent announcement of TfL funding for Southwark’s highway changes in response to the COVID emergency shows that we are among the more ambitious boroughs in London in setting this agenda.

“I am glad that the mayor and his team have recognised the value of the proposals that we have put together

so far in our Southwark StreetSpace programme.

“This will enable us to make necessary changes to our highways to make them safer for walking and cycling as the lockdown eases.

“With lower levels of public transport use, not making these changes would risk a sizeable increase in car travel and the negative impact this has on air quality.”

You can still make suggestions for more changes to your local roads here: https://southwarkstreetspace. commonplace.is/

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Comment from

Westminster

helen hayes

MP for Dulwich & West Norwood

Mass unemployment: ‘We must build back better’

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grew up in the north west in the 1980s and saw the city of Liverpool decimated by mass unemployment brought about as a result of the decisions of the then Tory government under Margaret Thatcher.

The scars of mass unemployment from the 1980s – particularly youth unemployment – are still remembered including in our local communities in Southwark and Lambeth. The impact on our communities was devastating and unacceptable.

The coronavirus lockdown has caused the largest recorded decrease in Gross Domestic Product (GDP),

20.4% in April and with it the looming threat of job losses.

For many people the Furlough Scheme and Self-Employment Income Support Scheme (SEISS) have been a lifeline, allowing the possibility that their employment could simply be restarted when the lockdown restrictions are lifted. The chancellor recently announced that from August employers who have furloughed staff will have to pay National Insurance contributions for these staff, and the SEISS will also come to an end.

In September employers will then have to pay both National Insurance contributions and 10% of staff

salaries, rising to 20% of salaries in October. At the end of October the furlough scheme will end and employers will have to pay the full cost of salaries and National Insurance contributions for every staff member.

Many local independent shops have started to reopen in the last two weeks, and it is good to see parts of our economy coming out of lockdown, and some aspects of life returning to normal. But for some industries, particularly hospitality and entertainment which employ thousands of people in London, it seems clear that reopening will take much longer, dependent partly on government restrictions, and partly on public confidence. I am very concerned that without ongoing government support for industries which will take longer to recover, many employers will begin to make staff who have been furloughed redundant, heralding a return to mass unemployment.

Labour is clear both locally and nationally that life must not just go back to the old normal. We are calling on the government to bring forward a 'back to work budget', which keeps job protection support in place for industries which will take longer to recover, and invests in a 'green new deal' to help create new jobs and transform our economy to tackle climate change. We must rebuild with more resilience, ensuring that everyone is paid at least the London Living Wage and an end to insecure zero hours contracts.

We must build back better.

READERS’ VIEWS 'We need more space': Residents divided over calls for private land to be opened to public during lockdown

it would keep the trees healthier and the residents that bit safer.

Oh yes. Then they can have their BBQs and parties and leave all their litter behind for someone else to clear up. I think we have seen enough in the last few days to judge what humans do to open spaces. We live on an amazing planet and all human beings can do is destroy it.

Doing this all up by Peckham Rye as well, they refuse to stop.

Diana, via the SN website

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The air is full of summer scents from the flowering shrubs and trees; Jasmine will be here for a while, also the perfumed hybrid tea roses now joined by Lavender‘s aromatic flowers - which the bees adore.

Linden or the Lime tree (Tilia) is full of little flowers but they pack a powerful nectar-sweet perfume most noticeable during warm evenings. Lime flowers are a popular herbal tea (from health food shops) traditionally used to soothe sore throat and fever; but it is also used to calm anxiety, and soothe digestion. (Do not self diagnose or medicate; seek the advice of a health care professional if feeling unwell).

Summer solstice falls on 20th June – the

longest day of the year. In ancient times midsummer was steeped in mystery and magic; celebrations were based on the Celtic Festival of Fire; we know this from the mysterious stone circles constructed to capture the alignment of the rising sun on the longest day (Stonehenge being the most famous example).

One of the solstice plants is Hypericum perforatum (St John’s wort); golden flowers appear in June - and according to folklore the plant was used to protect houses from evil spirits. St John’s wort was traditionally harvested around June 24th – the feast day of St John the Baptist. This perennial shrub with its glossy dark green leaves tolerates most conditions and provides ground cover.

Alas, it has no perfume, but the cheerful blooms plus the plant’s healing and folklore tradition make up for this omission.

It is time to prepare hanging baskets; fill with a mix of herbs such as Parsley, Basil, Thyme, Nasturtiums, scented

geraniums, strawberry plants; or the usual summer annuals - trailing Lobelia, Geraniums and Fuchsias.

Weeds grow quickly at this time of year and need to be cleared regularly and before setting seed. Slugs and snails seem particularly numerous and are always clever at hiding away; lack of rain keeps their movements to a minimum. But after watering and rainfall they will come out to munch everything. Aphids (greenfly) are also active - deal with them quickly as they weaken plants. Use environmentally friendly measures to deal with all pests; see the Organic Gardening Catalogue at https://www.organiccatalogue.com/ equipment/plant-protection/pestcontrol. Ordinary chemical pesticides kill beneficial insects like bees, ladybirds and lacewings (the latter two eat greenfly).

Rainfall so far this month has been low - regular watering is needed especially for window boxes and pots.

They did all of ours on good Friday! We told them it was nesting season and they still took most of the branches off!

Lou Wiltshire

The amount care homes charge for looking after loved ones, they should have enough money to buy a year’s worth of PPE!!

Rose Villiers Read, via Facebook

Lordship Lane traders call for planned CPZ to be scrapped until 2021 People might visit on bikes if the area's not full of cars.

Jane Dent, via Facebook

The whole of Southwark is going to be like this regardless of any objections from business and residents. They call it 'consultation' and 'planned changes'. £100+ per car per permit.

Easy to see why they want to do this.

And every visitor will have to pay.

Fury after trees pollarded in nesting season by Southwark Council contractors

ay was a dry month with plenty of sun and higher than usual temperatures; June started with cooler conditions and it has remained changeable with thundery showers – more typical weather for this time of year.

Claire Sheppard, via Facebook

Council to keep ‘last resort’ PPE supply for carers over fears of second wave

Tri Wynn, via Facebook

The air is full of summer scents

Kelly Parish, via Facebook

I hate it when trees are ‘chopped’ or ‘trimmed’ without good reason but when a tree becomes dangerous ie falling branches, low hanging branches etc or is causing damage to structures or underground pipe work etc via the winding roots (this comes from living in a heavily tree lined street) then I understand the need. Or if it becomes diseased and is likely to infect surrounding areas of normal growth I understand that too. If the council did regular tree maintenance every 4-6years then

Tony Hudgell raises one million for Evelina Children’s Hospital Well done little man you are lovely xxxxx

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Piers Corbyn charged over lockdown demonstrations Don't get me wrong, I don't like the bloke but how can he be charged for disobeying the lockdown when thousands of black lives matter protesters have been out for weeks now? It makes no sense.

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Letter to the editor

Transport for London faces the biggest challenge in its history as fare income dropped by 90 per cent during lockdown. Its new emergency budget has conditions imposed by the Government which mean less money all round and all but a few of the Mayor’s Healthy Streets programmes have paused – they were meant to be £417 million for this year.

At last week’s Mayor’s Question Time, I asked the Mayor about his £80 million Streetspace plan, designed to build temporary walking and cycling schemes in London and help people maintain safe social distancing.

The boroughs were expecting £131 million in Healthy Streets funding this year, but have been forced to stop all works. They will now make do with sharing £60 million from Streetspace, a loss of almost £70 million across London boroughs.

I have never known such an urgent need for safe space for walking and cycling as we face in the current crisis. If we all get into cars to keep our distance and avoid public transport, there’ll be gridlock and a pollution spike.

We cannot short-change Londoners. These new Streetspace plans look like a sticking plaster to cover the looming cuts underneath. Boroughs are missing out twice, once on the original money they were promised, and now with short-term schemes, not the long-term permanent ones we really need.

Caroline Russell, Green Party London Assembly Member

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Now is not the time for the government to be giving us less information - it’s the time for more

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eople are tired of staying in, staying alert and staying safe. They’ve had a whiff of freedom and now want more. This weekend there will be some return to normality for most of us but in Leicester the first local lockdown has already taken hold.

Once again there are fears the virus is rampaging out of control, and it will start to grip other areas already on a knife edge. This virus has not been eliminated and it is not a given that it won’t return - even if London’s peak was well before the rest of the UK. Without accurate, real-time data on new infections - who, where, how - and a strong test, track and trace system to back it up - we will all be living in the dark.

Having knowledge about local R levels, mini outbreaks in care homes or schools, and unexpected clusters, enables people to make better choices.

We need some kind of return to normality - to go back to work, meet (socially distanced) friends in the park and get a hair cut. Now is not the time for the government to be giving us less information - it’s the time for more.

Because without the rigid rules of a full lockdown we have more choices than we’ve had for months.

Every time we travel, whenever we visit friends’ gardens, or use public transport, we are weighing up what is ‘essential’ and what is ‘necessary’, what is ‘allowed’ and what is ‘safe’.

But would we go to the office tomorrow, open our shop today, or see friends this weekend if we knew a spate of infections had been recorded in a school nearby?

People did largely follow the rules once - but now there’s an element of doubt and enough hope the worst is over for a lot of people to go out in search of a party.

We can prevent a second wave but only if we can persuade those inclined to brush concerns aside to start taking this seriously.

To do that, we need a lot more that a few muddled messages from the government about staying alert.

SOUTHWARK NEWS DIARIST

What the Dickens? places like Bexleyheath, Bromley and Orpington are on the Oxo.

Only Fools in Walworth

An interesting little fact for Walworth residents that are also fans of the hit TV sitcom Only Fools and Horses - the market in the opening title is not Rye Lane but East Street.

Tube to Kent The desperate need for more tube stations south of the river has never been more on our minds more than now, as us south Londoners hold out for the new Bakerloo line, which will stretch from Elephant and Castle to as far south as Lewisham.

But just imagine if you could pop on the underground and go to Kent. Well a genius map does just that revealing what the London Underground would look like if you flipped it around.

Currently there are over 250 stations north of the River Thames, but just 29 to the south.

Ironically it is only the Northern Line that makes any serious attempt to venture south.

Rather cruelly it leaves so many of us that live, work and see family between here and that garden of England just dreaming of when such a thing could happen. This map by Colour Country extends as far into Kent as Tunbridge Wells, West Malling, Sevenoaks and Dartford. And finally

In a recent article by the Londonist the Peckham based series (mainly filmed in Bristol) looked at London locations in the opening credits of TV classics. Well Peckham can still lay claim to another classic, Channel 4's longest running sitcom Desmond's.

CRYPTIC PUZZLE Clues Across

1 Sharp pain made by a needle? (6) 7 Bridge, or a game of chance (7) 8 Opposed to commercial poetry (7) 9 Consumed part of the meat entree (5) 10 Rejection of young sister upset in sad surroundings (9) 12 Beat to make brown (3) 13 Charity gives strength, one might almost say? (4) 15 Being of use, staring in court? (7) 17 Acts of rabbits? (4) 19 Napoleon’s age at the finish (3) 21 Put folds in paper or a rug etc when scattered all over the place (9) 22 It’s disastrous to get overweight with endless ale (5) 23 Managed to return with speed to report what has happened (7) 24 It holds back people using mocking language 25 Sticky shell belonging to me (6)

Clues Down

1 A flag that is widely accepted as a model? (8) 2 Put money into fashionable dress (6) 3 Suitable shade for Crimean debacle? (7) 4 Divine being appearing in a strange light (5) 5 It’s deadly for a human being (6) 6 Soon to be unknown (4) 7 You will constantly be trying to be this (11) 11 What you might call the principal part of Catholicism? (4) 13 Excitedly go up after silver (4) 14 Do you need to adjust lever? Yes, rigorously 16 A nation on the sidelines will make U.N. alert (7) 18 Bring inevitable consequences by getting in late in a terrible state (6) 20 Explosive will put one up on a tree (6) 21 A rightful demand? A quiet fellow will get one in (5) 22 Castle was involved in a battle, we hear (4)

QUICK PUZZLE Clues Across

1 Circlet of flowers (6) 7 Drinking vessel (7) 8 Heighten (7) 9 Follow (5) 10 Woodworker (9) 12 Cask (3) 13 Hastened (4) 15 Belly (7) 17 Verve (4) 19 Loiter (3)

21 Seasoning (9) 22 Ethical (5) 23 Greed (7) 24 Chief (7) 25 Negligent (6)

Clues Down

1 Miserable (8) 2 Encourage (6) 3 Geometrical line (7) 4 Show scorn (5)

Solutions to last week’s crossword Cryptic

ACROSS: 4 Sketch 8 Trained 9 Strain 10 Virulence 11 Veal 13 Sheet 14 Reverse 16 Legates 18 Amber 19 Iron 21 Brainless 22 Pitted 23 Solomon 24 Treaty DOWN: 1 Freighter 2 Minuteman 3 Peter 5 Kite 6 Tracer 7 Handle 9 Screw 11 Vermilion 12 Ascension 15 Beard 16 Limpet 17 Goatee 20 Minor 21 Beat

Quick Puzzle

ACROSS: Cognac 8 Treason 9 Seated 10 Stupidity 11 Robe 13 Stout 14 Arsenal 16 Adviser 18 Earth 19 Bean 21 Genuinely 22 Endure 23 Echelon 24 Talent DOWN: Gratitude 2 Tarpaulin 3 Moody 5 Obey 6 Notion 7 Cudgel 9 Store 11 Remainder 12 Battalion 15 Melee 16 Abject 17 Vandal 20 Quick 21 Grin

5 Sauce (6) 6 Rim (4) 7 Character reference 11 Press (4) 13 False (4) 14 Woe (8) 16 Weather (7) 18 Chevron (6) 20 Constellation (6) 21 Fabric (5) 22 Scoff (4)

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104 years on from the Somme

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History

Bermondsey and Rotherhithe's memorial to the brave war dead Yesterday marked 104 years since the battle of the Somme – one of World War One’s bloodiest and well-remembered campaigns.

Armies from Europe and across the Commonwealth made their contributions, and at the allied forces’ core were 481,000 Brits who met their end during the nearly five-month sacrifice.

Some 30,000 men and women from Bermondsey and Rotherhithe contributed to our country’s naval, military and air forces.

For the old families of Bermondsey and Rotherhithe, the memorial in West Lane is always the focal point of remembrance.

Local-history lover Gary Magold, 56, whose grandfather and great uncle signed themselves up at Bermondsey Town Hall in 1914, has researched the memorial’s story.

Gary says the 24-foot high tribute was erected in 1921, and was afforded by the help of local businessmen like Arthur Carr of Peek Frean & Co, “one of the area’s biggest movers and shakers,” who raised £100,000.

A post card invitation shows its unveiling took place on October 8 1921 at 3pm. Press cuttings from the day suggest thousands turned out.

It was reported that a procession also took place along Jamaica Road, led by The Queen’s 22nd London Regiment with the Old Comrade’s Association.

Services were also held at the Dockhead Catholic Church and the Old Bermondsey Parish Church, with both

places of worship “crowded almost to excess”.

At the pinnacle of the memorial is a bronze ball in flame. According to Gary, the ball represents the Earth, and the flames are the “spirits of those who are coming into the atmosphere”.

The honour of peeling away the Union Jack and allowing the great artefact its first rays of light by the bankside was local mother, Mrs Hetty Speer.

Gary told the News Mrs Speer, who lost three sons, was poignantly given the honour – usually reserved for decorated officers – as a show of respect for Bermondsey’s grieving women.

“I have even seen a photo of her and her sons in the garden at their home in [what was called] Primrose Street. It was an incredible photo,” Gary said.

The big unveiling was also attended by the former Mayor of Bermondsey, Henry Fuller Morris, who Gary says wrote a very rare book ‘Bermondsey’s But in the Greatest War’ which he found for £40 in a Greenwich market.

The memorial went unscathed, despite the initial concerns from Mr Carr of potential vandalism, until the Blitz 20 years later.

A blast from a German bomb blew off its bronze globe, but was reinstated with the help of the council, and a new ceremony held with an unveiling by the brother of local Iraq War casualty, Lee O’Callaghan, who died in 2004.

The restoration was campaigned for by the British Legion, and now “can’t be touched,” as it is Grade II listed.

The Bermondsey & Rotherhithe War Memorial at West Lane October 1921

Southwark Park Primary School 383 Southwark Park Road, London, SE16 2JH Tel: 020 7394 4000

Experienced Learning Support Assistant 1 Year Fixed Term Contract HOURS: Mon-Fri 8.45 a.m. to 3.30 p.m.

- 28.75 hours/week term time only SALARY/SCALE: Hay Grade 4 £22,398 - £24,486 pro-rata (Actual salary £15,015 - £16,416) START DATE: Tuesday 1 September 2020 We currently have a vacancy for an enthusiastic and committed Learning Support Assistant to provide 1:1 support to a child with medical needs in Year 2. As part of this role you will be required to undertake training to help support the child’s medical needs, Southwark Park is an inclusive primary school with a fantastic team spirit. We have the highest expectations of every child, we embrace change and challenge ourselves on a continual basis. We believe in being reflective practitioners who look carefully and collectively at how things could be done better.

Main purpose of the job: To work under the guidance of teaching/senior staff and within an agreed system of supervision, to implement agreed work programmes with individuals/groups, in or out of the classroom.

We are looking for someone who: • Has experience of working with children to support learning • Can provide feedback to pupils in relation to progress and attainment • Can implement agreed work programmes with individuals/groups, in or out of the classroom • Will promote the inclusion and acceptance of all pupils within the classroom • Will encourage pupils to interact and work co-operatively with others • Has the ability to work on their own initiative as well as part of a team • Can use ICT effectively to support learning • Has GCSE (grade C+) in maths and English To discover more and to apply, take a look at the careers section of our website: http://www.southwarkparkschool.co.uk/ourschool/careers/ Closing date for applications: 1.00 p.m. on Wednesday 15 July 2020 Interviews: Friday 17 July 2020

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LONDON BOROUGH OF SOUTHWARK

ROAD TRAFFIC REGULATION ACT 1984 SECTION 14(1) (GAUTREY ROAD, ALPHA STREET, CATLIN STREET, ST MARYS ROAD, ST GEORGES WAY, ASTBURY ROAD, BECKWITH ROAD, CHOUMERT GROVE)

ROAD TRAFFIC REGULATION ACT 1984 SECTION 14(1) (BRAGANZA STREET, MEYMOTT STREET)

(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 road.

2.

Whilst the works are in progress, or whilst the authorised traffic signs are displayed, no person shall cause any vehicle to enter, proceed, stop, wait, load or unload in: (a) Gautrey Road, between Evelina Road and Belfort Road (b) Alpha Street, between Mcdermott Road and Choumert Road (c) Catlin Street, between St James Road and Rotherhithe New Road (d) St Marys Road, at it’s junction with Evelina Road (northbound lane of carriageway) (e) St Georges Way, between Trafalgar Avenue and Cator Street (f) Astbury Road, between Queens Road and Colls Road (g) Beckwith Road, between Half Moon Lane and Red Post Hill (h) Choumert Grove, between Mcdermott Road and Chadwick Road

3.

(TEMPORARY PROHIBITION OF TRAFFIC 1.

The Council of the London Borough of Southwark hereby gives notice that to enable Virgin Media and BT 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 road.

2.

Whilst the works are in progress, or whilst the authorised traffic signs are displayed, no person shall cause any vehicle to enter, proceed, stop, wait, load or unload in: (a) Braganza Street, between Kennington Park Road and Alberta Street (b) Meymott Street, between Blackfriars Road and Colombo Street

3.

The alternative route for affected traffic (2a) Kennington Park Rd, Penton Place, Manor Place. Kennington Park Road, Kennington Park Place, Doddington Place, Doddington Grove.

Braganza Street, De Laune Street, Alberta Street, Gaza Street, Doddington Grove Doddington Place. (2b) Blackfriars Road, Stamford Street, Paris Gardens, Colombo Street.

The Cut, Hatfields, Paris Gardens, Colombo Street or as indicated by the signs displayed.

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.

The alternative route for affected traffic (2a) Evelina Road, Lausanne Road, Belfort Road, St Mary’s Road. (2b) Rye Lane, Copeland Road, Brayards Road, Pilkington Road, Heaton Road, Rye Lane, Nigel Road, Relf Road. (2c) St James Road, Rotherhithe New Road. (2d) Evelina Road, Lausanne Road, Belfort Road. (2e) St Georges Way, Cator Street, Daniel Gardens, Sumner Road. (2f) Queens Road, York Grove, Dayton Grove, Colls Road. (2g) Red Post Hill, Half Moon Lane. Red Post Hill, Herne Hill, Half Moon Lane. Half Moon Lane, Holmdene Avenue, Herne Hill, Casino Avenue, Red Post Hill. (2h) Mcdermott Road, Reedham Street, Sandison Street, Maxted Road, Bellenden Road, Blenheim Grove, Choumert Grove. Choumert Road, Costa Street, Costa Street, Mcdermott Road, Relf Road, Nigel Road, Anstey Road, as applicable.

6.

The works will be in operation for (2a) 14th – 15th July. (2b) 14th – 15th July between 22:00hrs and 06:00hrs

7.

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.

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

Dated this 2nd July 2020

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.

Nicky Costin Road Network & Parking Business Manager

6.

The works will be in operation for (2a) 10th July. (2b) 11th July. (2c) 13th – 14th July (2d) 13th – 14th July. (2e) 13th – 24th July. (2f) 14th – 15th July. (2g) 15th – 16th July. (2h) 16th – 17th July.

7.

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

Southwark Council Environment and Leisure Network Management PO Box 64529 London SE1 5LX Ref: (2a) 5367/CIV100340216 (2b) 5302/CC1W0011JUNWBGFC18Y

Dated this 2nd July 2020 LONDON BOROUGH OF SOUTHWARK

Nicky Costin Road Network & Parking Business Manager Southwark Council Environment and Leisure Network Management PO Box 64529 London SE1 5LX Ref: (2a) 5317/09988834 (2b) 5318/40251780 (2c) 5323/07024054 (2d) 5370/30512171 (2e) 5354/35683065 (2f) 5319/19629950 (2g) 5320/31956391 (2h) 5321/70520078

ROAD TRAFFIC REGULATION ACT 1984 SECTION 14(1) (SPA ROAD, ALSCOT ROAD, BRAYARDS ROAD) (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 road.

2.

Whilst the works are in progress, or whilst the authorised traffic signs are displayed, no person shall cause any vehicle to enter, proceed, stop, wait, load or unload in: (a) Spa Road, at it’s junction with Neckinger and Art Lane (b) Alscot Road, at it’s junction with Spa Road (c) Brayards Road, at it’s junction with Consort Road (south side)

Notice of Application for a Premises Licence made under Section 17 of the Licensing Act 2003 Please take notice that I / we Serious Pig Have made application to Southwark Council for a new Premises Licence in respect of Arch 221 (42) Blenheim Grove, London SE15 4QL The relevant licensable activities and proposed times to be carried on, or on from the premises are Days

Start time

Finish time

Alcohol sales (online only):

Mon to Sat

09:00

17:45

Opening hours (online only):

Mon to Sat

09:00

17:45

A register of all applications made within the Southwark area is maintained by: The Licensing Service, Hub 1, 3rd Floor, 160 Tooley Street, London, SE1 2QH A record of this application may be inspected by visiting the office during normal office hours by appointment on 020 7525 2000; details are also available on our website at http://app.southwark.gov.uk/licensing/licenseregister.asp It is open to any interested party to make representations about the likely effect of the application on the promotion of the licensing objectives. Representations must be made in writing to the Licensing Service at the office address given above and be received by the Service within a period of 28 days starting the day after the date shown below. http://www.southwark.gov.uk/business/licences/how-to-lodge-a-representation Note: it is an offence to knowingly or recklessly to make a false statement in connection with an application. A person guilty of such offence is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale.

Date of application: 18th June 2020

3.

The alternative route for affected traffic (2a & 2b) Grange Road, Tower Bridge Road, Abbey Street, Neckinger. Grange Road, Southwark Park Road, St James Road, Dockley Road.

Rouel Road, Lucey Road, Yalding Road, Southwark Park Road. (2c) Brayards Road, Lulworth Road, Crewys Road, Kirkwood Road, Brayards Road, Gordon Road, Sturdy Road, Consort Road. Gordon Road, Sturdy Road, Consort 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 be in operation for (2a & 2b) 13th – 27th July. (2c) 14th – 15th July.

7.

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

Dated this 2nd July 2020 Nicky Costin Road Network & Parking Business Manager Southwark Council Environment and Leisure Network Management PO Box 64529 London SE1 5LX Ref: (2a) 5266/97716561 (2b) 5265/40376706 (2c) 5437/ 98253139

Charity Commission Charity: United St Saviour’s Charity: 1103731 The Commission proposes to make a Scheme (a legal document) for this charity. The Scheme will widen the charity’s area of benefit. A copy of the Scheme can be seen at www.charitycommission.gov.uk/our-regulatory-work/how-to-comment-on-ascheme/schemes-and-orders/ (If you cannot access this please call our contact centre on 0300 066 9197) Comments or representations on these proposals can be made to the Commission within one month from 2nd July 2020 by completing the form on our website. Please quote C521846.

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

How to comment on this application: You should submit your comments via the above link. Comments received will be made available for public viewing on the website. All personal information will be removed except your postal address. Online comments submitted without an email address will not be acknowledged and those marked ‘confidential’ will not be considered. Written comments can be submitted to; Southwark Council, Chief executive's department, Planning division, Development Management, PO Box 64529, London SE1 5LX. Reason for publicity. The applications are advertised for the reasons identified by the following codes: AFFECT - development affecting character or appearance of a nearby conservation area; OR development affecting setting of a nearby listed building(s); DEP - departure from the development plan; EIA - environmental impact assessment (these applications are accompanied by an environmental statement a copy of which may be obtained from the Council - there will be a charge for the copy); MAJ - major planning application; STDCA - development within a conservation area; STDLB - works to or within the site of a listed building; WHEAT WHARF 27 SHAD THAMES LONDON SOUTHWARK (Ref: 20/AP/1698) External refurbishment of Wheat Wharf Building.

The proposed works include: -New slate tiles to match existing are to be installed across the roof -New roof insulation will be installed to enhance the thermal performance of the roof All existing roof lights are to be replaced with 'Heritage' double glazed roof lights -New roof windows to select 3rd Floor leaseholders apartments -All leadwork to be replaced with new. Leadwork will be carried out in accordance with Lead Sheet Association details. -Damaged gutters and downpipes are to be repaired or replaced like for like to improve water management and reduce the risk of water ingress causing further damage to the heritage asset -Parts of exterior brickwork and render will be cleaned to remove any current build-up of soiling and staining -Timber windows and external doors are to be repaired and refurbished like for like -Select external balconies will be refurbished to improve their appearance (Within: Tower Bridge CA) Reason(s) for publicity: STDCA (Contact: Richard Craig 020 7525 0436) WHEAT WHARF 27 SHAD THAMES LONDON SOUTHWARK (Ref: 20/AP/1699) External refurbishment of Wheat Wharf Building.

The proposed works include: -New slate tiles to match existing are to be installed across the roof -New roof insulation will be installed to enhance the thermal performance of the roof All existing roof lights are to be replaced with 'Heritage' double glazed roof lights -New roof windows to select 3rd Floor leaseholders apartments -All leadwork to be replaced with new. Leadwork will be carried out in accordance with Lead Sheet Association details. -Damaged gutters and downpipes are to be repaired or replaced like for like to improve water management and reduce the risk of water ingress causing further damage to the heritage

asset -Parts of exterior brickwork and render will be cleaned to remove any current build-up of soiling and staining -Timber windows and external doors are to be repaired and refurbished like for like -Select external balconies will be refurbished to improve their appearance (Within: Tower Bridge CA) Reason(s) for publicity: STDLB (Contact: Richard Craig 020 7525 0436) 49 GROVE LANE LONDON SOUTHWARK (Ref: 20/AP/1715) Removal of an internal loadbearing wall at basement level and the creation of a structural opening on the rear facade for improved garden access, together with further minor internal alterations (Within: Camberwell Grove Conservation Area CA) Reason(s) for publicity: STDCA (Contact: Tracy Chapman 020 7525 1948) 49 GROVE LANE LONDON SOUTHWARK (Ref: 20/AP/1716) The removal of an internal loadbearing wall at basement level and the creation of a structural opening on the rear facade for improved garden access, together with further minor internal alterations (Within: Camberwell Grove Conservation Area CA) Reason(s) for publicity: STDLB (Contact: Tracy Chapman 020 7525 1948)

(Ref: 20/AP/1738) Listed Building Consent for the removal of the timber structures at roof (seventh-floor) level (Within: Tower Bridge CA) Reason(s) for publicity: STDLB (Contact: Martin McKay 020 7525 1818) 16 WINTERBROOK ROAD LONDON SOUTHWARK SE24 9JA (Ref: 20/AP/1744) Construction of single storey rear extension and new basement with step access from rear garden. Replacement of existing box-sash windows with timber box-sash windows with double glazing. (Within: Stradella Road CA) Reason(s) for publicity: STDCA (Contact: Anthony Roberts 020 7525 5458)

SIMON BEVAN - Director of Planning

13 COLLEGE GARDENS LONDON SOUTHWARK SE21 7BE (Ref: 20/AP/1746) Replacement garage door; Alterations to rear wall of garage to incorporate PPC aluminium frame (colour to match existing windows) sliding glass entrance door. (Within: Dulwich Village CA) Reason(s) for publicity: STDCA (Contact: Anthony Roberts 020 7525 5458) 1A IVANHOE ROAD LONDON SOUTHWARK SE5 8DH (Ref: 20/AP/1748) Construction of a roof terrace with balustrade and addition of side dormer window to roof (Within: Camberwell Grove Conservation Area CA) Reason(s) for publicity: STDCA (Contact: Anthony Roberts 020 7525 5458)

THE CIRCLE QUEEN ELIZABETH STREET LONDON SOUTHWARK SE1 2JU

15 WESTMORELAND ROAD LONDON SOUTHWARK SE17 2AX (Ref: 20/AP/1750)

Please take notice that I / we Alexandre Bonnefoy Have made application to Southwark Council for a new Premises Licence in respect of Casse Croute, 109 Bermondsey Street, London, SE1 3XB The relevant licensable activities and proposed times to be carried on, or on from the premises are

Dated: 30 Jun 2020 - comments to be received within 21 days of this date.

THE CIRCLE QUEEN ELIZABETH STREET LONDON SOUTHWARK SE1 2JG (Ref: 20/AP/1737) Removal of the timber structures at roof (seventh-floor) level (Within: St Saviours Dock Tower Bridge CA) Reason(s) for publicity: STDCA (Contact: Martin McKay 020 7525 1818)

UNIT 4B AND 5 180 BOROUGH HIGH STREET LONDON SOUTHWARK SE1 1LB (Ref: 20/AP/1723) Installation of a back-lit signage in the fascia, back-lit logo in the existing two projecting signs and installation of new awnings with a printed logo. (Within: Borough High Street Liberty of the Mint CA) Reason(s) for publicity: STDCA (Contact: Kerri Simpson 020 7525 3487)

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

Construction of a second storey rear extension, loft conversion with rear dormer and 3x rooflights to front elevation, and conversion of existing three bedroom dwelling into two selfcontained flats (1x 1 bedroom, 2 person flat and 1 x 2 bedroom, 4 person flat). Creation of separate entrance via front elevation at ground floor level. (Within: Walworth Road CA) Reason(s) for publicity: STDCA (Contact: Ewan Lawless 020 7525 1264)

Notice of Application for a Premises Licence made under Section 17 of the Licensing Act 2003 Please take notice that we: HungryPanda Ltd (Company Number 10175799) have made application to Southwark Council for a new Premises Licence in respect of: HungryPanda, Unit 3, Glengall Business Centre, 43-47 Glengall Road, London, SE15 6NF. The relevant licensable activities and proposed times to be carried on, off or from the premises are: The distance-selling by retail of alcohol for consumption off the premises: 08:00 to 20:00, Monday to Sunday. Opening Hours: 08:00 to 20:00, Monday to Sunday.

Days

Start time

Finish time

The retail sale of alcohol:

Monday to Sunday

12:00

22:30

A register of all applications made within the Southwark area is maintained by: The Licensing Service, Hub 1, 3rd Floor, 160 Tooley Street, London, SE1 2QH

Opening hours:

Monday to Sunday

06:00

23:00

A record of this application may be inspected by visiting the office during normal office hours by appointment on 020 7525 2000. Details are also available on the Southwark Council website at http://app.southwark.gov.uk/licensing/licenseregister.asp

A register of all applications made within the Southwark area is maintained by: The Licensing Service, Hub 1, 3rd Floor, 160 Tooley Street, London, SE1 2QH A record of this application may be inspected by visiting the office during normal office hours by appointment on 020 7525 2000; details are also available on our website at http://app.southwark.gov.uk/licensing/licenseregister.asp It is open to any interested party to make representations about the likely effect of the application on the promotion of the licensing objectives. Representations must be made in writing to the Licensing Service at the office address given above and be received by the Service within a period of 28 days starting the day after the date shown below. http://www.southwark.gov.uk/business/licences/how-to-lodge-a-representation Note: it is an offence to knowingly or recklessly to make a false statement in connection with an application. A person guilty of such offence is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale.

Date of application: 12th June 2020

It is open to any interested party to make representations about the likely effect of the application on the promotion of the licensing objectives. Representations must be made in writing to the Licensing Service at the office address given above and be received by the Service within a period of 28 days starting the day after the date shown below: https://www.southwark.gov.uk/business/licences/business-premises-licensing/how-to-lodge-arepresentation Note: it is an offence to knowingly or recklessly to make a false statement in connection with an application. A person guilty of such offence is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale.

Date of application: 22 June 2020

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Notice of Application for a Premises Licence made under Section 17 of the Licensing Act 2003 Please take notice that I / we Billy Franks Have made application to Southwark Council for a new Premises Licence in respect of Billy Franks Ltd, 104 Druid Street, London, SE1 2HQ The relevant licensable activities and proposed times to be carried on, or on from the premises are

The retail sale of alcohol:

(on premises) (off premises)

Opening hours (online only):

Days

Start time

Finish time

Weds to Sun Mon to Sun

10:00 10:00

22:30 22:30

Mon to Sun

07:00

23:30

A register of all applications made within the Southwark area is maintained by: The Licensing Service, Hub 1, 3rd Floor, 160 Tooley Street, London, SE1 2QH A record of this application may be inspected by visiting the office during normal office hours by appointment on 020 7525 2000; details are also available on our website at http://app.southwark.gov.uk/licensing/licenseregister.asp It is open to any interested party to make representations about the likely effect of the application on the promotion of the licensing objectives. Representations must be made in writing to the Licensing Service at the office address given above and be received by the Service within a period of 28 days starting the day after the date shown below. http://www.southwark.gov.uk/business/licences/how-to-lodge-a-representation Note: it is an offence to knowingly or recklessly to make a false statement in connection with an application. A person guilty of such offence is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale.

Date of application: 25th June 2020 LONDON BOROUGH OF SOUTHWARK ROAD TRAFFIC REGULATION ACT 1984 SECTION 14(1) (PARK STREET, STONEY STREET, RUSHWORTH STREET, OMEARA STREET)

Notice of Application to Vary a Premises Licence made under Section 34 of the Licensing Act 2003 Please take notice that I / we Anna Fairhead-Benitez & Sergio Leanza have made application to Southwark Council to vary the Premises Licence in respect of 42 Peckham Rye, Peckham, London, SE15 4JR The proposed variation is as follows: To extend the hours permitted for the sale of alcohol, to allow for the provision of recorded music on Sunday to Thursday and to allow off sales of alcohol at the premises.

Days

Start time

Finish time

The retail sale of alcohol:

Monday to Sunday

09:00

00:00

The provision of regulated entertainment:

Sunday to Thursday

23:00

00:00

Opening hours:

Monday to Sunday

09:00

01:00

A register of all applications made within the Southwark area is maintained by: The Licensing Service, Hub 1, 3rd Floor, 160 Tooley Street, London, SE1 2QH A record of this application may be inspected by visiting the office during normal office hours by appointment on 020 7525 2000; details are also available on our website at http://app.southwark.gov.uk/licensing/licenseregister.asp It is open to any interested party to make representations about the likely effect of the application on the promotion of the licensing objectives. Representations must be made in writing to the Licensing Service at the office address given above and be received by the Service within a period of 28 days starting the day after the date shown below. http://www.southwark.gov.uk/business/licences/how-to-lodge-a-representation Note: it is an offence to knowingly or recklessly to make a false statement in connection with an application. A person guilty of such offence is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale.

Date of application: 25th June 2020

(TEMPORARY PROHIBITION OF TRAFFIC) 1.

2.

The Council of the London Borough of Southwark hereby gives notice that to enable works to be carried out by Wates/Gas, metro traffic services, H G Construction and SGN, it intends to make an order the effect of which will be to prohibit vehicular traffic entering part of the above named roads.

ROAD TRAFFIC REGULATION ACT 1984 SECTION 14(1) (SPA ROAD, NUTFIELD ROAD, DULWICH WOOD AVENUE, CRYSTAL PALACE ROAD, CROFTON ROAD)

Whilst the works are in progress, or whilst the authorised traffic signs are displayed, no person shall cause any vehicle to enter, proceed, stop, wait, load or unload in: (a) Park Street, between Redcross Way and No’s 20 (b) Stoney Street, between Winchester Walk and Rochester Walk (c) Rushworth Street, between Pocock Street and Webber Street (d) Omeara Street at it’s junction with Union Street

3.

LONDON BOROUGH OF SOUTHWARK

The alternative route for affected traffic, (2a) Park Street, Emerson Street, Sumner Street, Southwark Bridge Road, Southwark Street, Borough High Street, Bedale Street, Winchester Walk, Stoney Street, Park Street. (2b) Clink Street, Pickfords Wharf, Winchester Square, Cathedral Street, Montague Close, Tooley Street, Duke Street Hill, Borough High Street, Southwark Street, Stoney Street, Park Street. (closure managed by traffic marshalls) (2c) Webber Street, Blackfriars Road, Pocock Street, Great Suffolk Street. (2d) Union Street, Borough High Street, Southwark Street. Southwark Street, Southwark Bridge Road, Union Street.

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.

(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 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 the works are in progress, or whilst the authorised traffic signs are displayed, no person shall cause any vehicle to enter, proceed, stop, wait, load or unload in: (a) Spa Road, at it’s junction with Grange Road and Neckinger (b) Nutfield Road, between Frogley Road and North Cross Road (c) Dulwich Wood Avenue, between No’s 51 and Dulwich Wood Park (d) Crystal Palace Road, between Whateley Road and Underhill Road (e) Crofton Road, between Lyndhurst Grove and Peckham Road

3.

The alternative route for affected traffic (2a) Grange Road, Southwark Park Road, St James Road, Dockley Road. Rouel Road, Lucey Road, Yalding Road, Southwark Park Road. (2b) Frogley Road, Archdale Road, Northcross Road. (2c) Gipsy Hill, Dulwich Wood Avenue. (2d) Whateley Road, Ulverscroft Road, North Cross Road, Darrell Road. (2e) Peckham Road, Bushey Hill Road, Lyndurst Grove.

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.

6.

The works will be in operation for (2a) 20th – 31st July. (2b) 19th July, if due to adverse weather conditions, then the works will be in place on the 2nd August. This closure will be managed by traffic marshalls. (2c) 18th July, if due to adverse weather conditions, then the works will be in place on the 20th July. (2d) 14th – 17th July.

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.

7.

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

6.

The works will be in operation for (2a) 15th – 27th July. (2b) 17th – 18th July. (2c) 20th - 22nd July. (2d) 20th July (2e) 22nd – 24th July.

Dated this 2nd July 2020

7.

Nicky Costin Road Network & Parking Business Manager

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

Dated this 2nd July 2020

Southwark Council Environment and Leisure Network Management PO Box 64529 London SE1 5LX Ref:(2a)5410/SEC50/PARKSTSITE(2b)5295/LBSCR11291-1 (2c)5364/LBSCR11346 (2d) 5255/W116948292-0182amendednewdates

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

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Southwark News, Thursday July 2 2020

Millwall fail to Tyke chance

Mason Bennett fires towards goal

Lions struggle to find attacking fluency at Oakwell THE LINE-UPS 13 Walton

3-4-3

6 Andersen

18 Sollbauer

41 Palmer

14 Ludewig

27 Mowatt

Halme 84’

28 Simoes Inacio Chaplin 45’

3 Williams

Styles 60’

7 Brown

9 Woodrow Thomas 75'

9 Bradshaw

20 Bennett

7 J Wallace

Smith, 69’

Skalak 90’

Mahoney, 80’

6 Williams 11 Ferguson

Thompson, 90’

17 Ritzmaier

16 Molumby

Woods, 80’

3 M Wallace

5-2-3

5 Cooper

4 Hutchinson

12 Romeo

33 Bialkowski

SKY BET CHAMPIONSHIP BARNSLEY - 0 MILLWALL - 0

Date: Saturday 27 June, 2020 Attendance: 0 Man of the match: Shaun Hutchinson Referee: Jeremy Simpson

By Sports Reporter sports@southwarknews.co.uk FANS OR no fans, Barnsley remain something of a bogey team for Millwall.

This was the ninth time in twelve games the Lions failed to beat the Tykes and it was difficult to make a case that they deserved three points last Saturday.

Gary Rowett tried to, but the statistics showed no shots on target.

The Lions did go closest when Shane Ferguson’s 21st-minute free-kick crashed down off the crossbar and

was scrambled away.

Gerhard Struber’s hosts had five efforts on goal, though none of them really caused a problem for Bart Bialkowski.

Shaun Hutchinson recovered from a bang to the knee he sustained against Derby the previous weekend to take his place in a back five.

Shaun Williams replaced Ryan Woods in midfield, and Mason Bennett came back into the side in place of Ryan Leonard.

Bennett had Millwall's first halfchance in the second minute when his shot was blocked, but it was a scrappy opening fifteen minutes pockmarked by fouls by both sides.

The Tykes had the game's first effort on target in the eighteenth minute as Bialkowski tipped over Cauley Woodrow's long-range drive.

Ferguson then curled a direct freekick off the woodwork after Jayson Molumby had been fouled. Ferguson

Fergie gets new deal – but duo set to depart

By John Kelly

johnk@southwarknews.co.uk SHANE Ferguson has signed a new long-term deal as Millwall announced their retained list for the 2020-21 season.

Northern Ireland international Ferguson joined the Lions on loan from Newcastle in the summer of 2015 before making the move permanent the following January.

He signed his previous contract in February 2019.

The Lions also officially confirmed this week that their longest-serving player, Aiden O’Brien, has signed a deal until the end of the season.

Millwall have released Harvey Bradbury and Jesse Debrah, a centre-forward and defender who spent time on loan at Morecambe and Dulwich Hamlet respectively this season.

Hayden Muller, who was in the match-day squad for the first time against Derby, has signed his first professional contract.

The club have taken up options to extend the contracts of Ireland under-21 international Danny McNamara and striker George Alexander for another year.

On their website, Millwall said: “The club would like to place on record its gratitude to Bradbury

and Debrah for their hard work and professionalism throughout their time at Millwall and wish them the best of luck in their future careers.”

New deals: Shane Ferguson, Dan Moss, Isaac Olaofe, Rob Strachan.

Extended until end of 2019-20: Aiden O’Brien.

Options triggered for 2020-21: George Alexander, Rueben Duncan, Danny McNamara, Harry Ransom, Ryan Sandford, Sam Skeffington, Besart Topalloj, Joe Wright.

First professional contracts: Jayden Davis, Alex Mitchell, Hayden Muller, Sean O’Brien.

Released: Harvey Bradbury, Jesse Debrah.

was the provider three minutes later when his free-kick was headed wide

by Murray Wallace.

Jed Wallace crossed in the 32nd minute for Bennett whose header was blocked and then Barnsley responded but Marcel Ritzmaier shot wide.

Conor Chaplin came on for Elliot Simoes at half-time and two minutes into the second period had a shot charged down.

Bialkowski denied Alex Mowatt in the 50th minute as the hosts made a positive start to the second period.

Neither side had found any real flow an hour in, Jed Wallace's attempted through-ball to Bennett that was cut out summing up the away side's frustration.

Bialkowski kept out Marcel Sollbauer's 63rd-minute header as the Tykes looked for the goal that would take them from last to above Luton in the league.

Rowett made his side's first

substitution when he brought on Matt Smith for Tom Bradshaw, who had a difficult afternoon against his former side.

Bialkowski saved Jacob Brown's shot with sixteen minutes left as both sides stepped up the search for a breakthrough.

Murray Wallace curled a right-footed shot wide of the far post with thirteen minutes left before Barnsley went down the other end and Jake Cooper made a crucial challenge in the sixyard box to deny Chaplin.

The only real positive for Millwall was the return of Ben Thompson, who made his first appearance since December when he came on as a late substitute. He had one effort in addedtime, but fired over.

There was one final chance for the home side, but Mads Andersen couldn't beat Bialkowski as the sides drew for the first time in thirteen games against each other.

Shane Ferguson

Southwark News, Thursday July 2 2020

SKY BET CHAMPIONSHIP MILWALL - 1 Bennett 21’ SWANSEA - 1 Bialkowski og 66’ Date: Tuesday 30 June, 2020 Attendance: 0 Man of the match: Mahlon Romeo Referee: James Linington

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Play-off hopes Den-ted

By John Kelly at The Den johnk@southwarknews.co.uk THE PROBLEM with these mustwin games is that Millwall are quickly running out of them.

The 1-1 draw against Swansea on Tuesday night felt like a should-havewon game, and Murray Wallace will certainly be thinking about his late chance and what might have been.

Wallace would probably score that header in the 75th minute seven or eight times out of ten. He was in space from Jed Wallace’s corner, with time at the back post to pick his spot. Wallace went for power and the ball went past the post.

With four minutes left Wallace had a more difficult chance, again from his namesake’s corner, and this time his header hit the outside of the post.

There were no fans again at The Den but to their immense credit the Lions played like they were being roared on by a full house. Oh how Millwall supporters would have loved Jake Cooper’s fierce but fair tackle on former Charlton midfielder Conor Gallagher just before half-time.

After the final whistle the Millwall players hit the turf, such was their exhaustion. Mahlon Romeo probably reached the ground first. He was outstanding.

Millwall’s goal owed to Romeo’s tenaciousness and intelligence. Swansea had kept the ball for a lot of the first 20 minutes, and were building again when Romeo decided enough was enough. He came in off the right wing to make one tackle and then another, before shifting the ball on to Mason Bennett.

Suddenly it was four on three. Bennett had options but chose the right one, Jed Wallace surging forward on the right. Wallace’s first attempted cross was blocked by Ben Wilmot, but the ball broke invitingly for the Lions attacker. Wallace looked up to see Tom Bradshaw at the back post, and then

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Murray Wallace heads just wide Bennett racing into the box. Wallace was composed, choosing just the right time to cross low and Bennett slammed in his first Millwall goal high into the net.

Unfortunately for Bennett, and for Millwall, he got a knee in the back either during the celebrations or just after the goal and struggled on for the rest of the half. He could barely run and it was no surprise he didn’t come out for the second half, Connor Mahoney coming on.

That meant Millwall lacked that thrust on the left. Mahoney doesn’t have the same pace.

Rowett felt his side lost a bit of momentum around the hour mark

Charlton

VS

Millwall show improvement but time running out and six minutes later Swansea were level. Shaun Hutchinson fouled Conor Gallagher 22 yards out. Rhian Brewster curled the free-kick towards the top-left corner, Bart Bialkowski tipped it onto the bar but the ball bounced down off his back and in.

Millwall found reserves of energy and left it all on the pitch. Murray Wallace should have won it.

Hutchinson had perhaps been fortunate six minutes in when he clipped Brewster who was going through on goal. The Lions defender escaped with a yellow card.

Bialkowski palmed away Yan Dhana's resulting free-kick before, from a Kyle

Millwall

Naughton cross, Brewster thought he was impeded and appealed to Linington, but no penalty was given.

In the fifteenth minute Gallagher’s shot deflected off defender Wallace and went just past the post.

Bennett then gave Millwall the lead and Jake Cooper preserved it with a brilliant goal-line clearance from Brewster’s effort.

Andre Ayew did the same as Millwall made a bright start to the second half.

Bradshaw would have had a tap-in without Ayew’s intervention.

Swansea then had their period of pressure and levelled with 24 minutes left.

In the 73rd minute Millwall had a strong case for a penalty and surely a red card for Wilmot, who appeared to bring down Bradshaw, but referee James Linington played on.

Wallace had those two late attempts, but it wasn’t to be.

Millwall couldn’t have given any more.

Millwall: 5-2-3: Bialkowski; Romeo, Hutchinson, Cooper, M Wallace, Ferguson; Woods, Williams; J Wallace, Bradshaw (Smith, 85), Bennett (Mahoney, 45).

Swansea: 4-2-3-1: Woodman; Naughton, Cabango, Wilmot (Guehi, 83), Bidwell; Byers, Grimes; Ayew, Gallagher, Dhanda (Celina, 59); Brewster.

The Valley July 3 Kick-off: 8.15pm

Matt Smith’s header finds a way through for a last-minute winner against Charlton

Proud record on line for Lions

By John Kelly

johnk@southwarknews.co.uk MILLWALL ARE protecting a 24-year, eleven-game unbeaten record against Charlton at The Valley on Friday night.

The Lions and the Addicks were heading in different directions in March, with Lee Bowyer’s side plunging into the relegation zone for the first time this season after their last game before football’s suspension.

But they have given themselves a big chance of beating the drop with their form since then, and have surprised those who thought they were destined for an immediate return to League One when their best player, Lyle

Taylor, said he wouldn’t play again this season.

Millwall’s top scorer this campaign, Matt Smith, headed an injury-time winner for a 2-1 victory when the sides met at The Den in November.

matCh details

Possible Millwall starting XI: 5-2-3:

Bialkowski; Romeo, Hutchinson, Cooper, M Wallace, Ferguson; Molumby, Williams; J Wallace, Smith, Bennett.

Match odds

Charlton 15/8 Draw 2/1 Millwall 7/5

Last meeting

Championship: November 9, 2019: Millwall 2-1 Charlton (Hutchinson 6, Smith 91; Leko 51)

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Last chance saloon 'Until we're out we'll keep fighting'

By John Kelly johnk@southwarknews.co.uk GARY ROWETT insists Millwall can still make the play-offs as the Lions prepare for Friday night’s derby at Charlton.

Millwall are five points off Cardiff in sixth with six games to go.

Lee Bowyer’s Addicks were in the relegation zone when the Championship restarted but are unbeaten in three games, winning two and keeping three clean sheets.

Charlton drew 0-0 at Neil Harris’ Cardiff on Tuesday.

“I’ve been impressed with them but at the same time they’ve scored two goals from set-pieces and won [their first two games] 1-0,” Rowett

said. “If you take those opportunities and defend well as a team then you win games, just like we could have done. I’ve been impressed with their results so far.

“You go there as a local derby and there’s no fans there, so it’s not really going to be like a local derby feel, is it? So actually for us we should be able to go there and play with a little bit of freedom.

“They’re fighting for their lives and we’ve got to play well to win it. We might need to make some changes.

It’s going to be hard for one or two to go again in a third game in six days.

It might be that we’re really going to test the depth of our squad, which at the moment is a little bit of a concern because we haven’t got a big squad

Millwall announce retained list

EFL talk 202021 season start

By John Kelly johnk@southwarknews.co.uk THE EFL were meeting this week to discuss a proposed start date for the 2020-21 season.

Gary Rowett speaks after the 1-1 draw against Swansea on Tuesday and have some key injuries.

“I think we can still make it. In this division one or two wins changes the whole outlook very quickly. You’ve seen it [Tuesday night], we’ve done everything to win the game and until we’re out of it we’ll keep fighting.

“Charlton’s a club I’ve played at.

They’ve had so much turmoil over the years, haven’t they? I know our fans won’t feel sorry for them but from the outside you feel sorry for the fact they haven’t had a lot of stability, they’ve gone from one owner to the next owner and it’s just felt like they haven’t had a chance.

“I think what Lee’s done brilliantly well this year is he’s kept it level, they’ve kept their head above the water at the minute which is going to

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be their aim. They need to stay in the division to be able to build again with the new owners that they’ve got.

“Their struggles are not really my problem, and it’s whether we can go there to win the game to put them in a difficult position.”

Rowett doesn’t believe it will be the same without fans.

“Not really because there’s no atmosphere. But we’ll still treat it like a game we want to win, and we’ll still recognise the importance for our fans that are watching.

“But there’s not going to be a hostile atmosphere, anything [like that] to get the team going other than they want to win. They want to win every game, as you’ve seen [Tuesday night].”

The current Championship campaign is due to end on July 22, with the playoffs in early August.

It was agreed to end the regular League One and League Two seasons in May, with relegation and the play-offs decided on a points-per-game basis.

Coventry and Rotherham finished in the top two and will return to the second tier next season. The first legs of the League One play-off semifinals will take place this Friday, with Portsmouth, Oxford, Wycombe and Fleetwood vying for the remaining Championship place.

The EFL were also set to discuss when the next transfer window will end at their board meeting on Wednesday morning.

Some reports suggest the 202021 campaign could begin in early September, with the transfer window deadline extending into October.

The Championship is also likely to begin behind closed doors, potentially until halfway through the season.

Millwall have to make decisions on several players after the end of the season. There are doubts over Aiden O’Brien’s future as his short-term deal ends in July.

The Lions extended the deals of a number of players this week (see page 34) as they confirmed their retained list for next season.

Millwall boss Gary Rowett is working on plans behind the scenes with head of recruitment Alex Aldridge as clubs face uncertainty over how the financial impact of coronavirus will affect the transfer market.

Rowett is determined to strengthen his squad this summer and will have a clearer picture of the time frame to work in when a transfer deadline date is set.

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