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robot lends a hand in cancer backlog

By Kit Heren

kit@southwarknews.co.uk Guy's Hospital has been lent a new robot to help cover the backlog of cancer surgeries delayed by the Covid-19 pandemic.

Guy's and St Thomas' NHS trust was given the robot on loan until the end of the year, allowing another 300 cancer surgeries to take place. We reported in April that more than 19,000 people had been on surgery waiting lists for more than eighteen months at Guy's and St Thomas', as of January this year.

The hospital already has three Da Vinci surgery robots and uses them to carry out 1,100 operations in a normal year. Guy's uses the robots for taking out prostates, kidneys and bladders, as well as surgery for

people with lung cancer. The gynaecological, maxillofacial (mouth and jaw) and ear, nose and throat teams also use the robots.

Ben Challacombe, clinical lead for robotic surgery at Guy’s and St Thomas’, said: “Taking a robot on loan is a creative solution to the backlog of cancer and other complex operations caused by the pandemic and a real win for our patients.

“The benefits of robotic surgery include increased operative precision, leading to less pain, smaller scars and less time in hospital so patients can recover quicker.

“We are always looking for new and different ways to deliver the best care and our partnership with Intuitive and HCA Healthcare UK is a perfect example of that.”

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regional director in the UK and Ireland, said: “The pandemic has highlighted that there is a need for a transformative approach to the NHS’s recovery, and the use of our da Vinci robotic-assisted surgical technology aims to improve outcomes for patients and lower the total cost of care in ways that have never been more pertinent.

The NHS surgeries will take place on the private care floor at Guy's hospital, run by HCA Healthcare UK. Janene Madden, CEO of private care at Guy's, added: "We are proud to be working with Guy's and St Thomas' and Intuitive to extend access to robotic surgery to more NHS patients. This is part of our partnership with the Trust to support the delivery of time critical complex care throughout the pandemic."

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final call for UK’s longest serving railway employee

As a teenager he got lost, found himself in Waterloo Station and never left...

By Kit Heren kit@southwarknews.co.uk A man thought to be Britain's longestserving railway employee has retired from his job at Waterloo Station after 68 years.

Don Buckley, 82, has worked at Waterloo since 1953, when he came to London at the age of fourteen. He has been working three days a week helping disabled passengers and people who had problems with seeing around the station.

He arrived from County Kerry in Ireland in the 1950s, ending up at Waterloo by mistake. When he got to the UK he asked a taxi driver to take him to "the big station", meaning Euston. The driver took him to Waterloo instead.

Don was too young to work on the trains so was given a job in the station. Nearly seven decades on he was still there.

Among the many scenes and events that took place at Waterloo over his tenure, Don saw the last steam train leave the station in 1967, the

great train robber Buster Edwards setting up a flower stall outside after getting out of jail in 1975 and scenes from Skyfall and the Bourne Ultimatum being filmed. He also remembered the cinema in the station which ran until 1970.

Don was given an official send-off by station staff at the start of the month.

Commenting on his years at the station, Don said: “I have loved working at Waterloo for all these years. The station may have changed a lot since the 1950s, but it’s still such a special place and I feel so lucky to have had so many wonderful experiences working here.

“The people are what make the station special and I will miss my colleagues and customers immensely. While all good things come to an end, Waterloo will always have a very special place in my heart”.

Chico Coulibaly, regional manager for the station, said: “Don is a well-respected and much-loved member of our team. His wealth of knowledge about the railway, Waterloo and London is unrivalled, and he will be dearly missed by colleagues and customers alike.

"We would like to take this opportunity to thank Don for all his years of service and the significant contribution he has made at Waterloo. We wish Don all the very best for his retirement.”

At just one day old, Rodney was left in a Dulwich garden

By Katherine Johnston katherine@southwarknews.co.uk A day-old kitten has been rescued by the RSPCA after being found in a Dulwich garden.

The tiny kitten was completely alone and would not have survived much longer had the quickthinking Seeley Drive resident not immediately brought him indoors and placed him in a makeshift bed of a shoebox lined tissue paper.

Animal rescue officer Lisa Miller took him to Battersea on May 28 where he is now getting round-the-clock care. He has now been named Rodney.

She said: “This poor tiny kitten was found all alone in the garden with no mum.

“He was so young his eyes were still closed and there is no way he could have fended for himself, so he wouldn’t have lasted long if it wasn’t for the quick actions of the member of the public who found him.

“This time of year, between May and September, is known as kitten season when most of the kittens are born, which means our centres and branches are often inundated with litters.

“This little fella was likely born to a stray or

feral mum who perhaps got spooked and left him behind, but we also see lots of young kittens being abandoned around this time of year because their owners can no longer care for them.

“This is why we urge people to neuter their cats from four-months-old to ensure that they avoid unwanted and unexpected litters of kittens ending up coming into rescue centres like ourselves and Battersea.

“We are very grateful that Battersea could care for this little kitten and it shows just how important working with other charities is for animal welfare.”

Lindsey Quinlan, head of catteries at Battersea, said: “Battersea will never turn an animal away, loving their imperfections and expertly caring for them.

“Rodney has had a shaky start to life, but thanks to the great work of the RSPCA, he’s now been given the best chance in life.

“It’s still early days, but after providing him with round the clock care, he’s starting to turn a corner now.

“We’re hopeful he will grow into a healthy cat, and once ready, he’ll be neutered before Battersea finds a loving home for him to be the best cat he can be.”

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learned are potential signs of blood cancer; tiredness, a severe lack of energy, night sweats and difficulty in shrugging off infections.

"My health was deteriorating at an alarming rate. In just three weeks I went from my usual gym routine to being violently ill after a warm up.

“My heart would start racing after walking up a flight of stairs. I found it harder to go for the shortest of walks, and even started waiting for later trains to avoid crossing the bridge to a different platform.

“Before then I had no idea that my red and white blood counts had collapsed, or that my immune system was completely compromised.

“I had no idea that the smallest infection or virus could have killed me.

“I had no idea that I was practically a dead man walking.”

After a blood test sent off by his GP, Geoff received a phone call from Lewisham Hospital. Doctors told him he had to get to A&E ‘within the hour’ as he was so ill.

Soon after he was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia and since that point has had 100 rounds of intravenous and intrathecal chemotherapy, 24 fractions of radiotherapy, and taken more than 6,000 pills.

Since relapsing his brief return to work has been put on hold and he now describes himself as “hopeful, but also realistic, about pulling through". Currently he is having topup chemotherapy treatments and believes his best chance is to take part in a clinical trial for a new treatment at UCLH, called CAR-T cell therapy.

This experimental new treatment involves harvesting T-cells from the immune system, adapting them and then putting them back in the body in the hope they can fight the disease.

“I have been blessed with the most amazing family and friends who have rallied around me in a way I have found humbling and overwhelming,” he says.

“I would not be here today if it wasn’t for them.

“Their strength and support has kept me positive, and together we are as determined as ever to find that way out.”

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it’ as her ears rang and her vision ‘started to go white,’ after he hit her head on the ground and throttled her, jurors at Inner London Crown Court heard.

Godwin denied rape but was convicted by a jury. At the time of the attack he had been released on bail for two separate alleged sex assaults earlier in 2019.

He was said to have groped a woman on a bus in May that year and assaulted another woman in June at St Martin’s homeless hostel.

Christopher Amis, prosecuting, said Godwin was wearing a hooded top when he approached the girl as she walked through Tibetan Garden outside the museum.

“It was very dark, he said ‘hello’ and then he immediately attacked her, she thinks from behind.

“She described him grabbing her by the shoulders and dragging her a few metres away to a slightly less obvious area and throwing or getting her to the ground.”

He continued: “He said at one stage “stay down or I’ll kill you,” she thinks he banged her head three or four times.

“She tried to kick or punch him but found nothing worked, he was far too strong for her.

“He is a well built and burly or strong man, her fingernails were bitten so she couldn't even scratch him.

“She remembers screaming momentarily, that was when the defendant started to strangle her.

“He had hands around her neck as she

lay on the ground and was squeezing her very hard indeed, so much so she struggled to breathe.

“It all started to go white as she lost or began to lose consciousness.”

During the rape the victim was unable to scream due to the strangulation and she later told police: “He was on top of me, I thought he’s going to kill me, I actually thought that was it.”

Mr Amis told jurors: “The defendant accepts, now, that he had sexual intercourse with this young woman in the grounds of the museum in the early hours of that morning.

“But he claims now that it was with her consent and that he reasonably believed that she was consenting.”

After the attack, the victim made her way home in shock, eventually telling her mother and the police what had happened the next day.

Godwin, of no fixed address, was first due to be tried in April 2020, but the trial was abandoned after concerns were raised about his mental health.

He denied but was convicted of rape, assault by beating and assault causing actual bodily harm and was remanded in custody ahead of sentencing on June 29.

Detective Constable Stephanie Agass, said: “I would like to commend the woman in this case for her courage throughout the investigation. I would always encourage anyone who has been the victim of a sexual assault to come forward and speak with officers so that we can offer support.”

katherine@southwarknews.co.uk Crystal Palace and its fans are backing a 460km running challenge in support of a former Southwark News deputy editor who has battled leukaemia since 2017.

Geoff Hill, born in Croydon and now based in Hither Green, worked for the News in the early 1990s before going on to become ITV’s news editor.

He first became unwell four years ago, and soon after received a shock cancer diagnosis.

Since then he has undergone biopsies, radiotherapy, chemotherapy, a bone marrow transplant, a stem cell transplant and a month fighting sepsis in hospital - only to discover that his cancer had returned.

This month Geoff’s two brothers-inlaw, Lee Roberts and Jordan Smith, are running 460 km the length of London to Paris, all around the streets of south London in a ‘Palace to Paris’ run.

Starting at Selhurst Park, and with the backing of club boss Steve Parish, they have already raised an incredible £23,965 for the charity Cure Leukaemia.

The duo will be running 15km every day, with no rest days, until June 30 with the aim of raising £25,000 to help fund new research that could help Geoff, and people like him, who have exhausted conventional treatments.

On their JustGiving page they explain: “After several relapses, Geoff's leukaemia has now advanced to the stage where

Lee, Jordan, Crystal Palace ambassador and former footballer Mark Bright and Chairman Steve Parish with Geoff at Selhurst Park options are limited, and he is pinning his hopes on getting a place on a clinical trial to finally overcome this dreadful disease.

“Watching anyone suffer with any type of cancer is heartbreaking and, as a bystander you feel utterly helpless and unable to make things better.

“The past twelve months have been especially difficult for us being kept at arm's length because of COVID, unable to support Geoff and his wife Nat when they've needed us the most.

“While we're still not able to physically be with Geoff and Nat to help them directly, we've decided that we can raise awareness for Cure Leukaemia and the incredibly important work they carry out.”

The challenge will certainly be

Two ‘dangerous dogs seized after an attack’

By Katherine Johnston

katherine@southwarknews.co.uk Two ‘dangerous dogs’ have been seized after police said they escaped from a home in Nunhead and attacked a teenager.

The eighteen-year-old woman was walking a dog in Kimberley Avenue on March 14 with her mother when the two animals are said to have run out of the property and attacked her and her pet, leaving them both injured.

A warrant was executed on May 17 and both dogs safely taken by police to a secure location while an investigation takes place.

Inspector Tom Cornish, from Southwark Police’s neighbourhood policing team based in Peckham, told the News that the dogs’ owner had been interviewed and a decision about the animals’ future is ‘pending’.

Under the dangerous dogs act 1991 police have the power to seize dogs believed to be dangerously out of control. Owners can face fines, a ban on keeping dogs and possibly prison sentences.

Although some seized dogs are destroyed if believed to be an ongoing threat to the public, the courts can also issue ‘control orders’, for example committing owners to keeping the dog on a lead at all times in public.

gruelling, with temperatures expected to reach 28 degrees in the next week.

Among those inspired by their tenacity is ultra-marathon runner and comedian Eddie Izzard, who praised them for their efforts and told the pair to “run, walk, stagger - just get it done!”

Geoff, a father of three, has written about the impact of his illness on Crystal Palace FC’s website.

He described going from an active gym-goer at the peak of his fast-paced career to being constantly exhausted and knowing something was wrong.

"It’s hard to describe what was actually wrong; I just felt run down. I assumed it was some kind of virus,” he explained.

“I had symptoms which I have since

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By Court Reporter A homeless man who raped a teenage girl in the grounds of the Imperial War Museum while on bail for two previous alleged sex assaults is facing jail.

Eleas Alpha Patience Godwin, 45, attacked the seventeen-year-old as she took a shortcut through the Tibetan Peace Garden after a night out with friends in the early hours of October 15, 2019.

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By Kit Heren kit@southwarknews.co.uk A vulnerable pensioner living in council sheltered accommodation who was hospitalised with legionnaires’ disease more than two months after asking Southwark for help with dirty water leaking through his bathroom ceiling has slammed his “disgusting” treatment.

David, which is not his real name, turned 73 this week and has lived in his one-bed flat in Marden Square in Bermondsey for eleven years. In March this year he noticed water dripping through his bathroom ceiling, leaving a nasty brown stain on the wall.

He asked council officers via email to help seal the leak, but was told several times to contact another department.

Promises were made to fix the problem, but each time council staff missed the appointments, he said.

“I sent dozens of emails, saying stuff like ‘I’m exhausted, I want to throw myself off the balcony’. Sixty-nine days of mopping the floor. One day I was sitting in the bath and it felt like I was sitting in sewage because of the smell, the horrible smell of the stuff. It’s come down from the top floor- it’s basically stagnant water.”

In growing desperation, David contacted local MP Neil Coyle and North Bermondsey ward councillor and Southwark Lib Dem leader Hamish McCallum, both of whom said they would raise his plight with the council.

In the meantime, he was also growing increasingly ill and feverish.

Legionnaires’ disease is a kind of pneumonia caused by breathing in airborne water droplets containing the legionella bacteria. It can be very serious: one in four people with underlying health conditions die of legionnaires’ disease, according to US public health authorities.

“It affects your lungs, but I was also having hallucinations. I had hot and cold shivers. I had a heater but then I was opening the doors and windows.”

“It was on my mind the whole time.

The water going ‘drip drip drip’. I kept thinking ‘if it comes out into the hallway it’s going to be getting worse’.

The leak was sealed in mid-May, but by this time he was already very unwell. Things came to a head on May 22, when he sat all day trying to drink a pint of water because he was sweating so much. He could only drink through a straw because he was struggling to breathe.

“By the end of the day, I must have sweated a gallon,” he added. “I’d only drunk a tiny amount of water. My temperature had been going up and up and up. I decided to phone for an ambulance.”

Doctors diagnosed him with legionnaires’ disease and he stayed in hospital for a week. “I’ve had thousands of injections, intravenously, injections in the gut. It’s left me totalled. I’m really shagged out.

“You don’t want to be tied to the wall with an oxygen line, I can tell you that.

It’s like being a dog on a lead.

“Specialists told me it could take months to get back to where I was.

I’ve been reading up on it and for some people it takes years. I just feel knocked out. I’ve been getting up, doing something and going back to bed. Just falling asleep, virtually. It’s terrible.”

Southwark Council has confirmed that the South London Health Protection Team are investigating one case of legionella in the area, but that there is no evidence of a wider outbreak.

David plans to sue the council for their actions, although he has to prove definitively that he got the disease from the leak into his flat. The long, brown water stain on his bathroom wall is still there, months after the leak started, so he is getting a chemical company to take a sample.

“It’s disgusting that they did nothing for so long,” he added. “They just gave us excuses - ‘it’s not us it’s them. No it’s not us it’s them’... They told us many many times that they were going to do it, but they never did. Just rubbish, absolute rubbish. I feel they’ve neglected their duty of care.”

The council was contacted for comment.

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they’re back - best of bermondsey

By Kit Heren

kit@southwarknews.co.uk Bermondsey’s Kirby Estate has once again got football fever, with the blocks bedecked with England flags and bunting ahead of Euro 2020.

It is the biggest display yet with nearly 400 flags and took four days to complete.

England are due to play their first game against Croatia on Sunday (June 13) and the residents of the estate off Jamaica Road have pulled out all the stops again to show their support. The residents first covered the estate in St George’s Cross flags for Euro 2012, and the move hit the national news at World Cup 2018.

This tournament was delayed a year due to the Covid-19 pandemic and estate residents say it makes their patriotic tradition even more important.

“It’s obviously been a tough year for everyone and people have sometimes kept to themselves but it’s amazing, as soon as you get the flags up it makes such a big difference,” said Chris Dowse, who helps organise the flags. “Suddenly people are out and talking to each other, you see the barbecues getting going - it’s great.”

Although England flags dominate the view, Chris pointed out that on the estate there are several fans of other countries competing in the Euros including French, Portuguese, Spanish and German supporters. A Scottish flag is also visible, belonging to a man with an English father and Scottish mother who both passed away recently.

“We’ve always said if you’re from another country, it’s not a problem, we’ll get [their flag] for you and we’ll put it up,” Chris added. “This year it’s a little bit different, if you want to get your flag we’ll put it up but not buy it because it costs too much money!”

In a further mark of community spirit, Chris’ partner printed memorials to

two people on the estate who died last year, and put them on flags outside their former flats.

At World Cup 2018, where England famously reached the semi-final at a major tournament for the first time since 1996, estate residents screened matches communally.

Colombian people living nearby joined for the second round game between the two countries.

This year the matches are not going to be screened communally in the estate to keep to social distancing rules. And with ‘Freedom Day’ - the end of social distancing - possibly set to be pushed back two weeks, England might have been knocked out of the tournament by the time Covid-19 rules are finally scrapped - or could be pushing for glory.

“It’s just my biased football fan view but I think that’s Boris’s way of keeping the England fans separated,” Chris added. “I know it’s ridiculous and it’s probably not true but it makes sense in a way.”

As well as the Croatia game on Sunday,

England’s other group stage matches are against Scotland the following Friday (June 18) and the Czech Republic the Tuesday after that (June 22).

Potters Fields is a Euro Fan Zone

By Kit Heren kit@southwarknews.co.uk Potters Fields is being transformed into one of two London fan parks for the upcoming Euro 2020 international football tournament, which starts this week.

Up to 2,500 people will be able to fit into the park next to Tower Bridge, according to the mayor’s office. Thousands of people are expected to come into the ‘football village’ throughout the day. The site will be open from 11am-10pm every day

during the tournament, which runs from June 11-July 11.

Large screens will show every game of the tournament other than England matches and games that kick off at 8pm on Sundays. That means between about 40-45 games will be screened, depending on how far England progress.

Organisers say they want the site to have a family atmosphere. They say this will be fostered by family-friendly activities like a virtual reality goalkeeper game, skills arena, opportunities to meet the mascot, ‘hangout spaces’, picnic tables, and an

official fan shop for the tournament. The site will also have bars, food stands and toilets, as well as a first aid area.

Letters were sent to local businesses and residents in February and at the end of May. Locals were also invited to an engagement meeting in March.

A representative of the Shad Thames residents association said the consultation went well.

The news comes after locals have complained of prolonged bouts of violence, drug dealing and other antisocial behaviour at Potters Fields Park since lockdown restrictions began to ease about three months ago. Police recently released photos of two men they want to speak to in connection with a stabbing outside City Hall in April.

London is one of eleven host cities of Euro 2020, which is taking place a year late because of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Both semi-finals and the final will be played at Wembley, as well as five other games.

Alongside Potters Fields, Trafalgar Square will serve as a fan zone for the tournament, showing every England game as well as the semi-finals and final.

The zone is free and run on a first come basis. Anyone who has more questions can get in touch with organisers at fanzones@jackmorton.co.uk.

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Man jailed for rape after a four year investigation

By Katherine Johnston katherine@southwarknews.co.uk A man has been jailed for 36 months for raping a woman at his home in Peckham, after a four year investigation.

Abiodun Adeagbo, aged 33, was sentenced on Friday, June 4, after a complex investigation spanning nearly four years. He was found guilty by trial at Inner London Crown Court after pleading not guilty.

His victim first reported the rape to police in January 2016. The court heard that she had arranged to meet up Adeagbo, whom she knew as Marvin, in July the previous year.

She had travelled into London by coach and met him at Victoria, believing they were going to the cinema. But he claimed to have forgotten his cinema card and they travelled to his Peckham flat to pick it up.

Upon arrival, he suggested going into his bedroom to eat and started kissing and touching her, before trying to undo her trousers. She described being visibly distressed and trying to stop him, telling police Adeagbo carried on and raped her.

Officers were able to identify the suspect based on information his victim provided when she reported the offence.

Three weeks later he was arrested at his home and denied his guilt during an interview. He was bailed but charged three years later, on August 10, 2019.

Detective Constable Benedict Harrington, of the South East Command Unit, said: “The sentencing is the result of a complex and lengthy investigation spanning a number of years.

“I hope this shows that justice can be brought no matter the time that has passed and that victims should always

feel able to speak up and come forwards to us.

"I hope the verdict brings the victim some closure after what has been a deeply upsetting and traumatising experience. She has stayed strong and supported the investigation and I commend her courage and bravery.

“The Met is absolutely committed to bringing justice to victims of sexual assault, and to making women and girls feel safe in London. Our teams stop at nothing to investigate reports of sexual offences and to provide support to victims.

“If you have been a victim of sexual assault or rape or you have information about an offender, contact police on 101 or 999 in an emergency – there are specially trained officers who will listen and investigate where needed."

Jailed: Abiodun Adeagbo

Police officer admits guilt at hearing

By Katherine Johnston katherine@southwarknews.co.uk

By Kit Heren kit@southwarknews.co.uk A fundraiser for Folajimi Olubunmi-Adewole has raised more than £151,000.

Bermondsey man Folajimi, known to friends and family as Jimi, died in April after jumping in the Thames near London Bridge in a bid to save a woman in the river late at night.

Jimi’s uncle Olumide WoleMadariola said the young man’s parents Michael Adewola and

Olusankami Adewole were “appreciative” of the many donations made in the wake of their son’s death.

Calls were made for Jimi to be awarded the George Cross in recognition of his bravery in the wake of his death. More recently family and friends said he should be honoured at Postman’s Park in the City. The park contains the Memorial to Heroic Self-Sacrifice, which commemorates people who died trying to save others.

PC Wayne Couzens admitted kidnapping and raping Sarah Everard in a court hearing on Tuesday.

Couzens, who was a serving police officer at the time of the 33-year-old south Londoner's disappearance, has not yet been asked to enter a plea for the murder charge, as his psychiatric reports are still being prepared.

He appeared in court via video link on the morning of Tuesday, June 8.

During the hearing his barrister told the court that Couzens also accepts responsibility for Everard’s death. He will next appear in court on July 9.

Claims that ‘protected Ada Salter Tree has been felled’ Exclusive

By Kit Heren kit@southwarknews.co.uk A Rotherhithe tree thought to have been planted in the time of beloved former Bermondsey mayor Ada Salter has allegedly been cut down to make way for a new housing block - despite being listed as protected from felling in the original planning application.

Local residents have also raised concerns that tree felling for the new block on the site of the Albion Primary School playground has been taking place in prime breeding season for nesting birds, possibly disrupting habitat and leading to the deaths of hatchlings.

Developer Guildmore is currently clearing the site to build a six-storey block containing 50 flats, half of which will be for social rent. Another twelve will be “affordable”, with the remaining thirteen to go for private sale. Work is due to finish in autumn 2022, according to Southwark Council’s website.

To build the houses, the developer needed to have twenty trees cut down, according to an impact assessment submitted as part of the planning application. Three more trees were deemed ‘Category A’ and these were not to be felled, according to the impact assessment, which is publicly available.

Among these trees was one of several trees of heaven on the site. The tree of heaven has a particular importance for Bermondsey and Rotherhithe. Ada Salter, who was mayor of Bermondsey in the early 20th century, launched a ‘beautification committee’ to clean up the area and make it a more pleasant place to live. That included planting more than 7,000 trees. The tree of heaven was reputedly her favourite,

and there are numerous examples in the Bermondsey and Rotherhithe area.

But local resident Steve Cornish said he was shocked to see the Category A tree cut down last week, despite its protected status in the planning application.

The fifteen-metre tree, which according to the impact assessment was in a good condition and still had more than 40 years to live, was felled last Thursday, June 3. Mr Cornish said he asked the fellers why they had gone against the impact assessment to cut the tree down, and claims he was told that a new report had superseded the old one. This new document, Mr Cornish said he was told, allowed for the Category A tree of heaven to be felled. A new report would have to be approved by council planners, but there appears to be no record of it on the planning application.

Both Mr Cornish and Sarah Vaughan of local group Trees for Bermondsey said they had asked the developers Guildmore and the council for an explanation, but had so far been met with silence.

“The response hasn’t been great from everybody,” Ms Vaughan said. “It’s typical Bermondsey and Rotherhithe - we don’t

have these ancient, veteran oak trees that are 500 years old that they have even in somewhere like Dulwich.

“We have a lot of trees that were planted perhaps not necessarily by Ada Salter but are certainly of that time - she was well known for planting the tree of heaven.

That particular tree was a good specimen.”

At the same time both Ms Vaughan, Mr Cornish and other concerned locals had spoken out about the fact that the trees were being removed at all in June. The height of nesting season is generally from March-August. By law contractors are advised to avoid felling trees during this period. If this is not possible then they are supposed to check thoroughly that they are not disturbing birds before starting work.

Mr Cornish said that he could hear birds, so he strongly suspected they were nesting. He added that it was “the worst possible time” to carry out the work. Ms Vaughan added that “it’s very odd that they’re clearing such a large site during nesting season.”

Guildmore and Southwark Council have been contacted for comment.

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By Katherine Johnston katherine@southwarknews.co.uk A man who brandished a gun while posing as a delivery driver in East Dulwich has been convicted - after have-a-go heroes helped restrain him until police raced to the scene.

Thirty-two-year-old Vicente Forde, from Greenwich, pleaded guilty at Croydon Crown Court on Monday, June 7 to possession of a firearm with intent to cause fear of violence. He has now been remanded for sentencing on Thursday, July 29.

The court heard that at 9,30am on Monday, July 13 last year, Forde knocked on the door of an address in Crystal Palace Road while dressed as a delivery driver in a high-vis jacket and holding an empty Amazon cardboard box.

When the door opened, he took out a shotgun hidden under his jacket and aimed it toward the door.

The resident, a man at home with his young daughter, who was on the phone at the time, reacted quickly and grabbed hold of the gun, trying to disarm Forde.

He told police Forde shouted at him to let go, threatening to stab him. He refused, despite being punched and kicked, before being able to wrestle the weapon away and throw it under a nearby car.

Several passersby, including a group of men doing some building work, came to the victim’s aid and helped restrain Forde while they phoned the police.

Officers later discovered the firearm was not only viable but also loaded with two live cartridges.

Forde was arrested and taken into custody, while the victim was taken to a south London hospital for treatment for bruising and a broken nose.

Police say they are continuing to investigate the incident.

Detective Constable Imran Hansraj, of the Specialist Crime Command, said: "The victim had no idea what was about to unfold when he saw what he thought was a delivery man bringing a parcel to his address.

“He had been home with his young daughter and was going about his business as usual when he was thrust into an incredibly frightening ordeal in which he fought for his life.

"His life was turned upside down in a split second by Forde's actions, which were wicked and cowardly in the extreme.

“He was disguised and armed with a lethal weapon but the victim displayed incredible bravery to disarm him.

“He was lucky that a number of members of the public took heed of his cries for help and came to his aid. They too deserve enormous recognition.

"I hope Forde will now spend a substantial amount of time in prison, and I am sure that London will be all the safer for it."

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Man wanted after ‘stabbing in the park’

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katherine@southwarknews.co.uk Officers are searching for a man they believe could be linked to a stabbing in Herne Hill last week.

Police are appealing for any information or witnesses to come forward after the victim was found in Effra Parade at 8.17pm on June 2.

The 20-year-old had been knifed in the leg.

He has now been discharged from hospital.

Officers believe the stabbing took place in Brockwell Park, a short distance away from where the man was found.

Police believe he was attacked in the nearby park and are trying to identify a man who was seen in the area earlier in the evening.

He is described as black, around 5ft11, with a large build, wearing a grey tracksuit and white top with grey writing.

Detective Constable Kismet Green, who is leading the investigation, said: "We are keen to speak to anyone who was in the Brockwell Park area on Wednesday evening at around 20:00hrs.

"The park was busy because of the warm weather and we believe there will be people who witnessed the incident or noticed some sort of altercation.

"We would encourage anyone who knows anything, no matter how small, to get in touch."

Anyone with information should call 101 or, to remain anonymous, contact Crimestoppers.

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katherine@southwarknews.co.uk Detectives are searching for a man after an elderly woman was mugged in Herne Hill.

The victim was attacked on Monday, April 26, at 11.30am in Norwood Road. She fell over as she had her bag pulled from her, sustaining minor injuries.

Police would like to speak to the man, pictured, in connection with this incident and are urging anyone with information about his whereabouts to contact 101 or tweet @MetCC quoting CAD 7430/01JUN21.

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James Forde was charged on Sunday, May 30, with the murder of 74-year-old Christopher Martin.

The 23-year-old, from Wild Goose Drive, appeared at the Old Bailey on Thursday, June 3.

He will be back in court on Thursday, August 19.

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mother of sasha johnson appeals after lack of witnesses

By Katherine Johnston

katherine@southwarknews.co.uk Two weeks after her daughter was critically injured after being shot at a house party, Sasha Johnson’s mother has appealed for any witnesses to come forward and ‘stand up’ for her daughter.

Sasha’s mother, Ellet Dalling, said: ““What has happened to Sasha has left us devastated. She is currently fighting for her life in hospital with two children asking where their mummy is, what do I tell them? Someone must have information to what happened and to come forward.

“Sasha is passionate about standing up for others, please come forward and stand up for Sasha. Come forward to help us, I know it is not always easy but imagine if it was your daughter or the mother of your children. I believe there are people out there that can help.”

The 27-year-old Black Lives Matter activist and mother of two was attacked in the early hours of Sunday, May 23 in Peckham’s Consort Road.

She remains in a critical condition in hospital.

A man believed to be in his 20s was also injured at the scene with a superficial knife wound. He was later discharged from hospital.

Police have so far made five arrests in connection with the shooting.

All five were taken into custody on Wednesday, May 26.

One, aged eighteen, was charged with conspiracy to murder. The four others were released on bail until the end of this month.

Officers maintain that there is no evidence Sasha was the victim of a targeted attack, despite her friends claiming she had received numerous death threats.

Detective Chief Inspector Richard Leonard, said: “Yesterday marked two weeks since Sasha Johnson was shot.

“Although we have made a number of arrests, I am continuing to appeal to anyone who is yet to come forward to please speak with officers.

“I would also urge those who were at the party to make contact and tell us what you know. It is vital that

A mock-up of the plans for Southampton Way (Burlington Developments)

we gather as much information as possible to establish what happened in the early hours of that Sunday morning and why.

“Sasha remains in a critical condition, and her family has been left devastated by what has happened. We are in regular contact with them, and quite rightly, they have a lot of questions that are currently unanswered. You can help us to provide them with the answers they desperately need.

“Were you in the vicinity of Consort Road, or did you see anyone fleeing the area? Please do the right thing and call us, or Crimestoppers.”

Superintendent Kris Wright from the Central South Command Unit said: “Our thoughts remain with Sasha and her family at this time.

“My officers continue to work with the community and local authority to provide as much reassurance as possible to residents following this shocking incident.

“I would encourage you to speak with you Safer Neighbourhoods team if you have any concerns or wish to provide information.”

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Uproar as builders push for late working hours in Bermondsey

The Friends of Burgess Park crowdfund for ecology report

By Kit Heren kit@southwarknews.co.uk Activists are fundraising for an independent report into the natural environment in Burgess Park, in response to several proposals to build housing blocks next to the green space.

We have reported in detail on the proposals to build 32 flats on Southampton Way, on the south side of the park, in a building ranging from three to seven storeys. Council planners are due to make a decision in the months ahead, although no date has been set yet. All of the flats in this block would be “affordable”, although only six would be socially rented.

Four other housing developments could be built on nearby Parkhouse Street in blocks up to twelve storeys high, depending on decisions to be made by Tooley Street planners.

Community group Friends of Burgess Park objects to these plans on environmental grounds. Activists worry that the tall buildings will block out much of the sunlight, with potentially ruinous effects on the park’s plants and the animals that live among them.

Burlington, developers of the mooted Southampton Way homes, say that their environmental impact assessment takes into account the

shadowing effects of the proposed buildings.

“Concerns have been raised by some objectors about the potential overshadowing of the proposals upon the park, and the impact this may have upon its biodiversity,” boss Philip Patrick said in April.

“It should be noted that where the highest levels of shading will occur, close to the building, species have been chosen that thrive in shaded conditions. All areas of native planting will receive sunlight for significant periods of the day and as many of the species are shade tolerant, will continue to establish.”

But Friends of Burgess Park argue that impact assessments like this are “dismissive” and not wide-ranging enough - which is why the activists want to commission their own for the Southampton Way site.

So far they have raised more than £2,200 - well ahead of the original target of £1,500. They plan to commission the London Wildlife Trust, which has already done a survey of Burgess Park in 2013.

Friends of Burgess Park are also planning another survey for the St George’s Way woodlands on the east side of the park.

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By Kit Heren kit@southwarknews.co.uk A group of Bermondsey residents are in “uproar” after a developer asked Southwark Council to extend working hours on a local building to 9pm through the summer.

Tide Construction is building a ninestorey block that will house 250 students on the corner of St James’ Road and Catlin Street, on the site of an old petrol station.

The developer was originally given planning permission despite objections by local residents and councillors about the potential loss of sunlight from the block, which is considerably higher than its neighbouring buildings, as well as the lack of affordable housing included in the plans.

Now Tide is asking to keep builders onsite from 8am-9pm, Monday-Friday, and from 8am-6pm on Saturdays, for a period of about three months until the end of August, when building work is due to end. Builders would work seven staggered shifts under this plan, with the earliest running from 8am-4.30pm and the latest from 11am-9pm.

The developer said in a letter sent to council planners in May that this change would help its builders stick to social distancing rules amid the Covid-19 pandemic, while keeping

the construction programme “largely unchanged”. Eighty builders are allowed onsite now because of social distancing at any one time, down from the 140 the developer had planned for.

Tide added that building work had slowed because of this, and this change would help it stick to its building schedule.

The first batch of students are due to move into the block in August for the start of the new academic year.

People already living nearby are unhappy about the possible change. “It’s completely unacceptable,” said Robert, who grew up in a house across the road and whose mother still lives there.

“There’s a total uproar here. There are young children in the area, people with medical conditions - people who need to be able to rest and relax. Work going on that late is just not okay.”

He added that his mother had not been consulted about the possible extension of working hours.

The three councillors for the Old Kent Road ward all said they oppose the extended hours. “We continue to be frustrated by this developer’s attitude towards the local community,” Cllrs Evelyn Akoto, Richard Livingstone and Michael Situ told the News. “They seem determined to be bad neighbours!

“First, they ignored the usual social

housing requirements of the Old Kent Road area action plan and dismissed local residents’ concerns about the impact of the development on their homes. Now, they are seeking to significantly change the hours agreed for construction. This will cause noise for many more hours – up until 9pm!

That will make it hard for families trying to get their kids to sleep and mean that people will find it harder to enjoy their gardens at the weekend.

“We hear from residents that the developer already ignores the current hours, so we are also concerned that they will abuse any extended hours too when it suits them."

Tide said in its letter to the council that the noisiest part of the building work is over: demolition, piling, excavation and installing basement and ground floor slabs. The developer said that the next phases, including welding and internal work on building modules, adding brickwork cladding and landscaping, are not “noise generating”.

Tide added that “where noise levels from particular construction activities may cause some disruption” it “will write to neighbouring properties to let them know and set out what measures will be put in place to minimise disruption”.

The company has been contacted for further comment on the consultation.

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By Kit Heren kit@southwarknews.co.uk New plans for the other major new Rotherhithe development are available to view online.

Developers Art-Invest Real Estate plan to build offices, shops and cafes on the 4.5 acre Canada Water Dockside site on the east side of the dock.

Sitting next to British Land’s massive Canada Water masterplan there are also suggestions for indoor and outdoor public spaces, as well as a food hall, health centre and ‘community hub’. A central walkway would run through the site from Deal Porter’s Square to the site where the Printworks music venue is now and to the new park to be put in as part of the Canada Water masterplan.

Art-Invest said they had carried out wide-reaching talks with local residents and had spoken to people who had never taken part in a planning consultation before. Locals canvassed by the News said they were impressed with the plans.

The German developers, for whom this is the first major London project, hope the Canada Water Dockside site will bring 10,000 new jobs to the area.

Asked whether the widespread shift to working from home had affected ArtInvest’s plans, development director Luka Vukotic said: “We went through a very turbulent twelve months, which nobody could have predicted, but we’re also realising that we’re coming to an edge, where we need to see people, need to go back into the real world.

“Maybe not in the same way that we did previously - if you’re sitting in front of your desk and just doing a bit of work you can just do that at home. A large part of what we do is actually interaction with people.

That’s how we think offices will survive as workplaces of the future. A lot of the old style that is based around desk work will actually become obsolete in the future.

The offices that look like workplaces of the future - I look at the example of a diesel car versus an electric car, we used to drive diesel cars perfectly fine for many many years. But I think we’ve come to this point where most of the car manufacturers will be solely electric cars. And it’s such a big

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Canada Water: smaller development plans revealed as ‘offices of the future’

paradigm shift.

“It feels like we have seen a paradigm shift in office working where we’re used to coming to an office and sitting at a desk - but actually the future is going to look very different. And a lot of the offices that are only equipped to deal with day to day sitting at your desk will become something that people don’t want any more. These new places that are a lot more flexible will become a lot more desirable like electric cars.

“What’s amazing with Canada Water and the reason we became attracted to this place in the first place is... it’s got the

river and two great water bodies. It’s got a great community around it, we think that being able to go to the office and do more than just sit at work - go to Stave Hill Ecological Park in your lunchtime, or go to the athletics centre and run, join the angling club and do some fishing to relax.”

Unemployment was at 4.8 per cent from January-March, according to the Office for National Statistics and the Bank of England expects that figure to rise again later in the year as furlough comes to an end. With jobs getting harder to come by, some might be sceptical that office workers will be able to dictate terms to

their employers. But company bosses and their employees have both come to appreciate the importance of mental and physical wellbeing over the past year, Mr Vukotic said.

As for the impact on local public transport, which was already very busy before the pandemic, Art-Invest hope that the addition of the new development will not be felt too strongly, as the commercial space is likely to bring people in in the mornings and out in the evenings, in contrast to commuters who live in the area.

Anyone who wants to comment on

the latest plans should do so before June 21. The developer will submit planning permission later this summer.

Visit and comment on the plans at: canadawaterdockside.co.uk/haveyoursay

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were submitted in September last year to add a three-storey extension and build on the sides. Some locals objected to the mooted changes to the “architectural jewel”, as well as to the possible shading effect an extension could cause. Campaign group the Twentieth Century Society launched a plan to get the “architecturally significant” building listed.

Historic England gave the building a grade II listing last week, citing its design, high-quality materials and importance as part of the Docklands regeneration, as well as its association with Sir Michael, David Mellor and Terence Conran. Grade II is the lowest level of listing, given to “buildings that are of special interest, warranting every effort to preserve them”, according to Historic England.

Twentieth Century Society caseworker Coco Whittaker said after the decision: “We are delighted that we have been successful in safeguarding this building and that Historic England agreed with our submission that this is a major work by a renowned

architectural practice and for its association with two of the twentieth century’s most significant designers, Mellor and Conran.

“They also recognised its importance as an exemplar of the high quality of design encouraged by the London Docklands Development Corporation during the late-C20 regeneration of London’s docklands.”

The society added that they hope the listing means the redevelopment “will be sensitively redrawn”. The proposals are still under consideration

by Southwark Council planners.

Patty Hopkins, architectural partner and wife of Sir Michael, added: “We are very pleased to learn of the decision to list 22 Shad Thames, Grade II. The building was the result of a unique personal client/architect collaboration and is a fitting memorial to David, who undertook much of the building process with his own workforce and applied the same degree of care to the hand sanding of the internal concrete columns, as he did to burnishing his beautiful cutlery.”

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22 Shad Thames, designed by architect Sir Michael Hopkins, was built between 1988 and 1991, during the regeneration of the Docklands area. Owner David Mellor, a designer and cutlery manufacturer, commissioned Sir Michael to design a building that would serve as a showroom, workshop and office - as well as a home.

Sir Michael’s practice designed a six-storey concrete, glass and steel building with a flat on the top two floors, a showroom and light industrial unit on the ground floor and offices in between. The building won an award from the Royal Institute of British Architects in 1993 and a Civic Trust award a year later.

Designers Conran and Partners moved into the building in 1996. Plans

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Southwark in top ranking for gun possession

By Kit Heren

kit@southwarknews.co.uk Southwark is one of the boroughs where people are most likely to be carrying a gun, according to Met Police figures.

The borough saw 31 instances of gun possession over the twelve months to the end of April - the highest in London in the period. There were seventeen offences for possession of firearms with intent, which was the fourth highest over the same period.

These 48 offences gave Southwark the second highest rate of gun possession overall. Brent was highest with 52, with twenty-six counts of firearm possession, twenty-two incidents of possession with intent and four other gun offences. Lambeth was third, with incidents of possession, eleven with intent and three other offences, giving a

total of 44. Hackney and Newham made up the top five, with 44 and 43 offences respectively over the year.

Southwark’s gun possession rate rose over the past year, despite the Covid-19 lockdowns. From May 2019-April 2020, the borough had 38 instances of people found carrying a firearm.

The five boroughs with the lowest rate of gun possession over the past year were Kingston-upon-Thames with seven, Sutton with eight, Richmond with nine, Islington with twelve and Hammersmith and Fulham with thirteen.

London saw a spike in shootings last summer after the first lockdown ended.

There were no fatal shootings in the capital for nearly six months between November and March this year. But there have been two shootings in south London as restrictions started to ease in recent weeks.

Young mother Sasha Johnson was shot in the head at a party in Peckham last month. Police arrested five men.

Cameron Deriggs, eighteen, has since been charged with conspiracy to murder. The other four were released on bail. Ms Johnson remains in a critical condition in King’s College Hospital.

In Brixton last week a man was shot and stabbed. Police have arrested a seventeen-year-old boy on suspicion of attempted murder.

Officers launched Operation Elie in March in a bid to curb the gun violence and prevent a repeat of the end of the first lockdown last year. Police have seized 121 guns so far this year, including three submachine guns.

“When the restrictions were lifted last July sadly we saw the highest volume of lethal barrelled discharges since 2018.

As we move out of the latest restrictions we have been working hard across

A gun recovered during a police operation in Forest Hill in May

London to prevent a similar spike in gun crime to that seen last year…

“Sadly, we’ve seen the murderous impact of guns return to our streets in recent weeks but this has only redoubled our determination to

Four years on from the London Bridge terror attack

stamp down on gun crime. We created Operation Elie to bring the lessons from last year together with skills and expertise from across the Met and really bear down hard on those using guns in London.”

Less than two years later, the area saw another attack

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Major, nurse and former mayor to be remembered at Southwark Cathedral

A memorial service has been held for victims of the 2017 London Bridge terror attack on the fourth anniversary of the tragic events.

The Bishop and Dean of Southwark, London Mayor Sadiq Khan and Southwark Council leader Kieron Williams were among those who laid wreaths at the ceremony outside Southwark Cathedral by London Bridge.

Dean of Southwark Andrew Nunn said: “On the evening of the 3rd of June 2017 eight people lost their lives. Eight people working here, enjoying this place, relaxing in its inclusive atmosphere.

They were eight people from around the world, as were the 48 people whose injuries we know about and the many people who were mentally and emotionally scarred that evening.

“Then in November 2019 there was a second attack in this area, as two people were killed and others injured at Fishmongers Hall. And for many in this community, old wounds were reopened and old memories were revived.”

Attendees laid their wreaths at the foot of an olive tree planted in commemoration of the victims of the attack.

“The olive tree… was planted and blessed on the first anniversary of the attack,” the Dean added. “Around its base are written some words from the Bible. The leaves of the tree are for the healing of the nations. Those words are as true today as they were back then.”

Among the 48 people who were injured in 2017 was Millwall fan Roy Larner, who screamed “f*** you, I’m Millwall” and was stabbed eight times as jihadis armed with hunting knives tried

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to force their way inside the Borough Market pub he was drinking in.

Four police officers were also wounded. A British Transport Police (BTP) officer was seriously injured in the head, face and neck as he responded to the attack. Three Met Police officers were also hurt.

At the service, Warren Scott of the British Transport Police (BTP) read from the Bible’s book of Romans. David Quirke-Thornton of Southwark Council gave a reflection on his experiences of the aftermath of the 2017 attack.

“To be honest, it still feels like yesterday,” the director of children and adult’s services said. “Sometimes it feels like time and space get confused in our minds, but perhaps we remain unsettled in our hearts. In our minds we try to make sense of what happened...

“We hoped that the inquest would help us to make sense of it all. But in truth the more we know, the more we realise just how utterly senseless it was.

And that is deeply painful still. Within minutes hearts were broken, lives were changed forever. Words fail to describe

the sadness of it all.

“In the aftermath many people came to this place. They bowed their heads in deep respect and stood in silence. In a gesture of love and solidarity, Muslims lined London Bridge and handed out 3,000 roses to people walking over the bridge. Hundreds of imams joined faith leaders here to say ‘not in our name’.”

Cathedral staff limited the numbers who could attend the service last Thursday, June 3, because of Covid-19 concerns, although the service was held outside. People who were not invited were able to watch on the cathedral’s YouTube page.

Council leader Mr Williams said: “Our thoughts are with everyone affected by the dreadful events that happened four years ago today.

“Whether you were here in person or joining us from afar, we hope the service today brought some comfort to know that we are in each other’s thoughts.”

Mr Khan added: “On the fourth anniversary of the appalling terrorist attack on London Bridge, Londoners are once again uniting to remember the

victims, their loved ones and the heroic first responders who ran towards danger to try to save lives.

“This cowardly attack sought to fracture our communities and destroy our way of life. It was not only an attack on London, but an attack on the freedoms and values we as Londoners hold dear.

Despite the loss of eight precious lives, the unshakeable spirit of our city serves as a reminder to all who would seek to divide us that they will never succeed.

“Four years have passed but Londoners will never forget the innocent victims of that tragic day. We will continue to mourn their passing and honour their memory by remaining united. I am proud that Londoners recognise we have so much more in common than that which divides us and I know we will help heal our great city by staying true to the values that bind us together.”

We will continue to mourn their passing and honour their memory

A memorial service is to be held on June 23 for Major Denise Capstick, the former nurse, mayor of Southwark and Bermondsey councillor who died earlier this year aged just 56.

The service will be at Southwark Cathedral from 3pm-4pm on what would have been Denise’s 57th birthday. The service will be followed by tea. Everyone who would like to come is welcome.

Organisers have asked attendees to arrive by 2.45pm.

Denise, a former nursing matron at Guy’s and St Thomas’ and an army major who served in Iraq, died of a brain tumour in February after being diagnosed in 2019.

She had also been Liberal Democrat councillor for the Bricklayers and Grange wards from 1998 to 2014, mayor of Southwark from 2002-2003, and Southwark Council cabinet member for health and social care from 2006-2007.

Many people whom Denise had helped over her long career of service to others paid tribute to her in the wake of her death.

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CHILDREN EXPERIENCING anxiety or worries around COVID-19, and who have not returned to school, are being supported by Evelina London to help them back into school. More than 70 families in Southwark and Lambeth get one-to-one advice from our School Nursing Service’s COVID-19 Wellbeing Clinic.

For some children, young people, or their families, returning to school after national lockdowns created strong feelings of anxiety or worry, or even prevented them from returning. For others it has impacted on other parts of their daily life such as healthy eating, exercise and sleep.

Within a week of contacting, or being referred to Evelina London, families had a 45-minute phone or video call where specially trained school nurses listen to their concerns and provide tailored advice to help support the family to feel comfortable in returning to school.

The advice and tips can range from the importance of routine, fresh air and sleep, to the benefits of school for child development and general information about COVID-19.

The team is also trained to help parents with their own wellbeing, and signpost them to professional support for coping with anxiety or stress where needed.

Louise Karagoz, COVID specialist school nurse, said: “We’re pleased we’ve been able to support so many families with anxiety around COVID-19 with the creation of this clinic, offering quick access to practical help and advice to support them through this extremely challenging time.

“We also offer face-to-face sessions with children or young people to talk through any worries they have and what can be done together, and with the school, to help. This can include reducing how much news they watch, going for walks, talking to someone, or relaxation exercises.”

Young people aged 11-19 can also contact the school nurses with questions anytime by text through our ChatHealth service, on 07507 332150.

Children, young people, from 5 to 19 years old, and their families from Lambeth and Southwark can use the clinics. Please call 020 3049 4777 to speak to our School Nursing team or text our ParentLine service on 07520 631 130.

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hospitals and it is important that you seek medical help if you or your child needs it. If you have an emergency, call 999.

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southwark angels Helping in crisis

evelina gives Baby arthur the ‘world’s most expensive drug’ A baby has undergone a new form of potentially life-saving gene therapy treatment at Evelina London Children's Hospital - one of four hospitals in the UK that now provides the treatment.

Baby Arthur was born six weeks premature in December with spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), a rare and serious genetic disorder. By using the new drug Zolgensma, doctors can allow babies with SMA to sit and crawl, breathe without a ventilator and live longer.

Arthur’s father Reece said: “This is the best possible treatment and will give him the best possible life he can have, and we are so grateful that the NHS is here for him.

“When we found out that Arthur would get the treatment, and be the first patient, I just broke down. It had been such a whirlwind few weeks, filled with lots of anxiety and adjustment as we learnt about his condition and what it might mean for him and our family.

“The way the treatment works is incredible, where the gene is hidden in a virus, and is given to him in a simple canula. We still don’t know what the future will hold, but this gives Arthur the best possible chance for a future.”

Babies like Arthur with SMA may now be able to have a one-off gene therapy treatment to go for the root cause of the disease with the aim of preventing it from progressing further.

Left untreated, children with the most

common type of SMA often do not survive past early childhood.

Zolgensma is now available to NHS patients. It was first approved in the US in 2019. The drug has been called the ‘world’s most expensive drug’ at £1.79 million list price per dose.

Marian Ridley, Director of Evelina London said: “At our specialist children’s hospital we look after the sickest children and young people. Spinal Muscular Atrophy is a

devastating condition, so to be able to provide this life-changing treatment is hugely exciting.

“Research and innovation are a big part of what we do at Evelina London, including big leaps forward in treatment for rare conditions such as SMA. Healthcare is always evolving and through new treatments we are able to offer more life-changing care and treatment to the growing number of children and families that need us.”

Volunteers needed for summer food collection Baby Arthur and his father Reece

Elephant statue to make a comeback

The elephant statue that used to stand outside the Elephant & Castle shopping centre is coming back to the area.

The shopping centre is being knocked down to make way for a major new

development, with a fierce and longrunning legal campaign against the demolition dismissed by the court of appeal last week.

The elephant statue has been freshly painted and is being installed in Castle

Square, which is part of the new development. It is due to be unveiled on June 26 at a special ceremony.

The day will include a performance of Elephantastic: The Story of a Travelling Elephant, a short play written and directed by Southwark Playhouse artistic director John Whelan.

The fifteen-minute performance tells the story of the local area through dance, narration and music, and covers famous people who lived in the local area, like Charlie Chaplin, early feminist writer Mary Wollstonecraft and Michael Caine.

Local businesspeople welcomed the arrival of the elephant statue. Juan Olivares, CEO of Inara Money Transfer, called it "a symbol of Elephant and Castle" and "an iconic sculpture".

Faye Gomez, owner of Kaieteur Kitchen, added: "Elephant and Castle [has] been a long-standing home for most of us traders, so it's a great pleasure to have the statue back in Castle Square."

Two big food charities are looking for volunteers to help hand out food in Bermondsey and Rotherhithe this summer.

Charities FareShare and the Trussell Trust will be collecting long-life food from July 15-July 17 charities in big Tescos across the UK to support children and families throughout the summer holidays.

Food given during the collection will go to support food banks in the Trussell Trust’s network and to local charities supplied by FareShare, including holiday clubs providing healthy meals and activities to young people outside of school terms.

The charities need volunteers to encourage shoppers to leave their donations in the collection point at the front of stores, and to raise awareness of the campaign online.

Richard Smith, supply chain manager at the Felix Project, a food distribution charity in Deptford that works with FareShare, said: “More people than ever are struggling to put food on the table and will do for months if not years to come as the economy recovers. We have seen a huge increase in people turning to their local grassroots community groups for support and demand for food remains high.

“We would be incredibly grateful to anyone who is able to volunteer just

two hours of their time this year to encourage more shoppers to donate much needed long-life food to those who need it most.”

Emma Revie, chief executive of the Trussell Trust, urged people to help online as well.

“We’re seeing more people than ever struggling in extreme poverty and pushed to the doors of food banks because they do not have enough money to survive," she said.

"This isn’t right. But over the last year, we have been overwhelmed by the support people in Southwark have shown towards food banks in our network by donating food at Tesco.

This summer, we would be so grateful if people can share shopping lists of their local food bank’s mostneeded items on their social media, support the Tesco Summer Food Collection when they are next in store, and encourage friends and family to donate. Together we can make a difference and work towards building a hunger free future.”

Tesco will top up customer donations made in store by twenty percent in cash.

To find out more about volunteering and to sign up visit: https://fareshare. org.uk/foodcollection/ This extra food drive is on top of the usual donation events Tesco organises before Christmas.

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Bermondsey’s top maths and physics students

Andras Bard Two students in Bermondsey have been awarded places on prestigious maths and physics summer schools.

City of London Academy Southwark's Noa Barcons Daniels has won a 50 per cent scholarship to an artificial intelligence programme in the US run by Stanford and MIT professors. Andras Bard, also at the academy, has been given a place on a virtual summer school run by the United Kingdom Mathematics Trust (UKMT).

Year 12 student Noa will learn about artificial intelligence and will get to work with data collected from NASA’s Kepler space telescope.

"I felt very happy I was given this chance, and have been trusted to use it well; I am just very relieved that I got

Noa Barcons Daniels in," Noa said. "I think it will be a great opportunity to develop my skills and knowledge to be able to become an aerospace engineer" Andras, who is in Year 10, was one of just 120 students who took part in the UKMT's maths challenge to then be invited to the group's summer school - putting him in the top 1.5 per cent of competitors. Andras also won an award at his school last year for leadership.

Their principal Mike Baxter said: “Both Noa and Andras have shown, through hard work and perseverance, that doors are opened to those who are prepared to push. I am sure that their immersion in maths and related challenges over the summer will expose them to even greater minds and challenges. Many congratulations!”

Ariadne and Ada fundraising

schoolgirl is baby fox rescuer

A nine-year-old girl from Dulwich has raised over £200 for the RSPCA after the charity rescued a baby fox from her family’s garden.

Ariadne Dimopoulou collected the money from craft projects such as making pom poms for dog leads and selling them in the park.

She also made and sold her own dog treats and completed a sponsored 5k run in Brockwell Park.

As well as donating over £277 to the charity, Ariadne also donated her toys to the RSPCA Croydon, Crystal Palace and District branch to raise further

funds for animals in the area.

Ariadne said: “Ever since I was little I’ve always loved animals. There were lots of stray cats in Greece where my dad’s family is from which was so sad.

“It’s heartbreaking to think that so many animals don’t have a loving home.

So I thought why not help!”

Ariadne, who has two guinea pigs called Tango and Edgar, added: “We had a baby fox in our garden at the beginning of May who looked very poorly and could barely eat so we phoned the RSPCA and they came really quickly and rescued it.

“I already liked the RSPCA but then

that happened and me and my brother Alex were amazed!”

She has been fundraising with help from school friend Ada Emral also a student at Sydenham High School GDST. Ada added: “I want to say a big thank you to the RSPCA for helping all of the animals.

“I saw a sign near my dad’s office about an animal being found in Lambeth by the RSPCA, so when I heard that my friend helped raise money for the RSPCA, I wanted to as well.

“I think it’s a very kind and wonderful thing to help animals and save their lives so thank you so much RSPCA!”

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harriet harman

MP for Camberwell & Peckham

‘We need a new law which protects women and girls from men, even if they don’t know them’

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s the man responsible for abducting and raping Sarah Everard admits his guilt, my thoughts remain with her family for whom this is not just “a difficult time” but who face a lifetime of loss.

She was walking home when she was attacked and in the sympathy that followed was a strong protest from women and girls about their lack of safety on our streets.

Across the media, but above all on social media, women and girls spoke out about their experiences. It was not just some women and girls but all of them. Women and girls lead very different lives depending on their race, class, region and age, and whether they are disabled or not, lesbian or straight.

But the outpouring of complaint showed that this one thing we have in common.

We all face harassment and threat on the street. Half-hearted attempts by some in the media to portray those complaining as “snowflakes” who should see it as a compliment when they are followed down the street or pestered for their number, melted away in the force of evidence of the menace that women and girls face. And it’s nearly always a girl or woman on her own who’s targeted. And often by a group of men What became completely clear was that a girl in her uniform walking home from school on her own in winter after dark would be followed and menaced not despite being very young but because of it.

We’re talking here about men in cars or vans kerb-crawling a girl or woman on her own, calling out to her to get in the vehicle, asking for her phone number. The fact that it’s totally obvious to him that she not only doesn’t welcome this but is also frightened by it doesn’t stop him.

What sort of society are we if we ignore the complaints and justified fears of women and girls about the threat they are under when they are walking home, from school, work or an evening out?

Of course the answer is that this should not happen and we should no longer accept it as a normal part of life.

We need the signal to go out loud and clear that women and girls are entitled to walk in our streets, day or night, without

being subject to uninvited “attention”. And to stop it we need a clear signal to men that they can no longer do it with impunity and a clear reassurance to women and girls that they shouldn't put up with it, that they can complain and he’ll be punished.

That means we need it to be clearly illegal.

There are MPs from all parties who want new laws on this and I have drafted and presented to the House of Commons a raft of new offences which should be included in the Police, Crime, Courts and Sentencing Bill which we are now considering.

Kerb-crawling is already a criminal offence if the man is trying to buy sex from a woman. This is to protect local communities blighted by kerb-crawling by men looking for prostitutes. But it’s not a criminal offence to harass a woman or girl except for prostitution.

It should be. And it should be punishable by revoking his driving license. No man should use his freedom to drive as a license to harass.

At present it’s a criminal offence for a man to repeatedly harass a woman. This is an important law to deal with stalking and domestic abuse. But it’s only an offence if it’s a “course of conduct”.

We need a new law which protects women and girls from men who target them even if they don’t know them.

We’ll all grieve with Sarah Everard’s family as they face the ordeal of the conviction and sentencing of the man who took their daughter’s life. But we can insist that her death becomes the moment when we finally call time on men who harass and intimidate women. It’s not just that women and girls feel unsafe on our streets.

They aren’t and we must change that.

And the Met Police have major work to do to analyse why such a dangerous man was a serving police officer.

What sort of society are we if we ignore the complaints and justified fears of women and girls

Lakanal’s sister block emptied: Marie Curie residents told they have to leave for at least a year over fire safety problems I honestly cannot believe this has been allowed to happen! If they had put things right after Lakanal maybe Grenfell wouldn’t have happened!

Jan, via Twitter

Exclusive: Bermondsey homeowner’s flat repossessed after cladding scandal Quick to collect rent but take forever on repairs or remedial work. We know people escaping abuse having to pay double - mortgages on existing homes they can’t live in anymore and rent on an alternative dwelling. Boris Johnson is late to act on EVERYTHING. End our fire safety cladding scandal.

Humans of the cladding scandal, via Twitter

What an awful story to hear. John was the only innocent party in this. I bet Hyde’s words are hollow as they kept racking on costs. The government needs to step in to help all those affected by the industry failures to build safely.

Paul Bullock, via SN website

Sad story. Thanks for sharing. Shared ownership is a marketing scheme to get renters to part with their savings and then get locked in as long term tenants with high service charges. It also keeps the property price of modern flats artificially high.

Mark, via SN website

An "affordable housing" scheme that left this man with nothing. Many more will follow because housing associations & City Hall policies fail to mitigate the impact of the building safety crisis on shared ownership leaseholders. This is shocking.

He refused and asked John to complain to the Housing Ombudsman! We also wrote to Hyde Housing and they refused help.

UK Cladding Action Group, via Twitter

Dreadful story. I wouldn't wish my personal cladding situation on anyone, yet I know I'm "lucky" that I'm not a part owner liable for 100% of the costs. Disgusting.

Chris Rodgers, via Twitter

Open gardens event in Dulwich raises funds for foundation in memory of war hero Dulwich Open Gardens is a great event in a worthy cause. The bench and tree at the junction of Turney Road and Dulwich Village are also in remembrance of Mark.

Dulwich Tennis, via Twitter

Crimscott Street: Plans submitted for Bermondsey block with no affordable housing Honestly?! They did this nonsense a lot in the past- do they think we aren’t wise to it now? Disgraceful.

Moore Flannery, via Facebook

Harassment, gender pay gap and mental health: Young bermondsey journalists report And there you go - published journalists before entering Year 9! Well done to all involved in this project and to Southwark News for supporting our pupils’ aspiration!

Compass School, via Twitter

Cladding Victim, via Twitter

I can't understand why more isn't being made of this scandal. It makes a mockery of 73 people burning to death. How is it possibly in any way the leaseholders' fault?

Richard Curtis, via Twitter

We wrote to Stephen Greenhalgh months ago about John's plight and requested help.

The young Compass journalists article

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The magnificent display on the Kirby Estate is needed now more than ever!

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ummer has arrived in full bloom seemingly out of nowhere, after months of dreary rain, as if to coincide with the imminent end of lockdown and the start of Euro 2020.

Residents of the Kirby Estate in Bermondsey have decked out their homes in England flags in a show of support for manager Gareth Southgate’s men ahead of their first game against Croatia on Sunday, just as they did for the World Cup in 2018 and in tournaments going back to Euro 2012.

But this is more than a gesture of patriotism and football fandom. As one of the organisers told us this week, this year the flags take on a special meaning, after the isolation of the last fifteen months.

As in many estates, the blocks face inwards, meaning residents look out of their windows to see a sea of flags. They see a display of unity, and community, after the last year of disruption, anxiety and tragedy, often faced alone. Sadly, two people on the estate died in the past year, but residents have made sure they are not forgotten. Two special flags have been made to commemorate their passing.

Of course, in a vastly diverse city like London not everyone on the estate is English. Anyone who comes through will see prominently displayed Portuguese and Scottish flags, among others, and bunting with the flags of all 24 countries taking part.

Aside from the excitement that more hardcore football fans will take from the tournament, this is the value of a competition like Euro 2020 - value that will be even more keenly felt after lockdown. The tournament allows and encourages people to show their patriotism and feel a sense of community by coming together with some of the freedoms we are used to - something that we have all sorely missed over the past year.

Come on England!

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This will mobilise local businesses, funders, community groups and residents to give their time, money, networks and influence to make a long-term difference to lives and futures.

So if you think it’s time for change and that you can help make it happen, we need you!

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CRYPTIC PUZZLE Clues Across

1 I try aid for the drought condition (7) 5 Established as in a plot (5) 8 Cream of sounds? (4) 9 1 have water and rum in the goldfish bowl (8) 10 Then drums sort out the atmosphere disturbances (13) 13 Appear from these embarrassing moments (4) 14 Shoot back with one on the peak (4) 17 One who believes in always giving thanks before meals? (7,6) 19 Less usual to find a foreigner (8) 20 Carry the animal (4) 21 But not necessarily a tree that was planted earlier (5) 22 Renew the French sheen (7)

Clues Down 2 Outlines the plans for part of the golf course (6) 3 Disturb the grandee (7) 4 Take back the skill of the French man as a shopkeeper (9) 5 Will the second-rate survive the explosion? (5) 6 Sound pleased it’s mounting the footrest (7) 7 Mad to go back, and inquires for the linens (7) 11 One who always hesitates to speak. (9) 12 I’m too old-fashioned for this deadlock (7) 13 Looked about right, so took the leading role (7) 15 Serving several purposes in public transport (7) 16 1 chatter about the robber (6) 18 The man who is satisfied at five hundred going to the front? (5)

QUICK PUZZLE Clues Across

1 Orator (7) 5 Anything giving great pleasure (5) 8 Drop (4) 9 Contrary (8) 10 Reluctance (13) 13 Man-eating giant (4) 14 Immense (4) 17 Inquiring into (13) 19 Most spacious (8) 20 Cut off (4) 21 Gloomy (5) 22 Entreaties (7)

Clues Down

2 Tracts of level country (6) 3 Uniting (7) 4 Softening (9) 5 Strip of leather (5) 6 Clear (7) 7 Locks of hair (7) 11 Steersman (9) 12 Mixed (7) 13 Easily understood (7) 15 Convince (7) 16 Reply (6) 18 Slippery (5)

Solutions to last week’s crossword Cryptic

ACROSS: 4 Purred 8 Engross 10 Princes 11 These 12 Tides 13 Clearance l6 Outweighs 19 Depot 20 Taken 22 Crayons 23 Tangent 24 Sateen DOWN: Septic 2 Ogle 3 To be or not to be 5 Uninteresting 6 Receding 7 Disuse 9 Spain 14 Elephant 15 Edicts 17 Trust 18 Sanity 21 Knee

Quick Puzzle

ACROSS: 4 Spiced 8 Employs 10 Thought 11 Steep 12 Enter 13 Strangers 16 Abstinent 19 Trust 20 Nasty 22 Reasons 23 Holiest 24 Dressy DOWN: 1 Beasts 2 Apse 3 Compensations 5 Processionals 6 Cogitate 7 Deters 9 Style 14 Regulate 15 Stared 17 Smash 18 Trysts 21 Seed

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possibilities of touch Jenny Klein and Erika Trotzig met on the MA Fine Art at Central St Martins and after graduating during the 2020 lockdown knew they had to find some creative momentum in a year that had wiped out their final degree show, writes Michael Holland.

Photo by Prudence Upton

Together they developed the concept and the title for a group show with fellow graduates from their year: The Possibilities of Touch.

‘Our need to touch has become more apparent than ever,’ says Klein. ‘Its possibilities, its limits, and the way our imaginations respond to what we cannot touch is a particularly potent theme in a climate where touch and its traces have become fraught and loaded.

‘Taking this idea as its starting point, the show is not only a response to the challenges of graduating during the pandemic but also a step towards rethinking ways in which new interactions can take place.’

Jenny and Erika contacted the

other artists, particularly sculptors, whose work evokes different ideas about touch and tactility, and asked them to respond to the theme. Now, along with Alexander Dixon, Giulia Federici, Emma Louise Moore, Ellie Niblock, Jacqueline Nicholls, Brian O’Callaghan, and Sara Shishkova, plus Arts Council funding, the artists have secured Safehouse 1 & 2 for an exhibition of their work in June.

Jenny recalls 2020 being ‘a difficult time to graduate due to the sudden cancellation of the final degree show, which we had all been working towards for several months.’ Nevertheless, since then the graduates have managed to continue with their practises and had some significant success.

For example: · In 2020 Alexander Dixon’s work was featured in White Cube’s Tomorrow London online exhibition and he was shortlisted for the ACS Studio prize and the Hix Award. · Emma Louise Moore is a finalist

for 2021’s National Sculpture Prize. · Jenny Klein, Giulia Federici, Alexander Dixon and Jacqueline Nicholls were included in London Grads Now at the Saatchi Gallery in September 2020.

The artist says, ‘The Safehouse spaces were chosen because these are atmospheric spaces with a tactility all of their own… Receiving the Arts Council Funding has been a terrific boost. It has enabled the expansion of the show to make it both more exciting as an exhibition and also much easier to facilitate social distancing and to be Covidsafe. Because of Covid, there will not be one specific opening night, instead, there will be artists present every evening to welcome visitors.’

The Possibilities of Touch is on at Safehouse 1 & 2, 137-139 Consort Road, Peckham, SE15 3SN. Dates: June 10th - 13th. Times: 12 - 8pm.

Admission: Free.

Playing for real money!

The Money, conceived and directed

by Seth Honnor, is a new concept in theatre whereby the audience creates the entertainment and become the stars, writes Michael Holland.

The Money is played out in the Council Chamber of County Hall and begins with those who paid £30 to be Silent Witnesses watching those who paid £20 to become the Players discuss how to spend a pot of real money, so the temptation to buy the cheaper ticket and participate is strong.

Silent Witnesses, however, must be exactly that - Silent - but if they feel they have something to contribute they can buy in for £20. And that becomes very tempting as the waffling amongst the Players becomes irritating.

The rules of The Money are quite simple, but strictly adhered to: The money cannot be given to a charity, cannot be divided

between the players, it must stay within the law, and everyone must agree to whatever happens to that money. They have 60 minutes to reach a decision, and all must sign the agreement they come up with, while a digital clock eats away at the time, second by second.

The first 20 minutes are taken up with the frivolous suggesting ways that they can all go to the bar and get drunk.

‘Not when there is a mere £240 in the pot and a glass of wine costs £12 they won’t,’ thought the sensible amongst us who had already been to the bar. Plus, it would surely count as dividing the money up, albeit after turning the cash into alcohol, and didn’t take into account the two teetotal Muslim women.

It was at this point that a young man strode down the steps and rung the large hand bell to show that he wanted to buy in.

He threw two tenners onto the table and declared that he and his three friends were skint drama students who needed more funds to get through the academic year.

Alas, others in the group had trust issues and thought they would spend it in the pub. ‘I promise we won’t,’ bleated the actor unconvincingly.

Amongst the Silent Witnesses there was a collective thought of, ‘No chance, mate’ and a mass wondering whether he had learnt anything in his first year…

Where were the worthy causes and ideas? How could all the players be so selfish? What about kids with cancer and homeless people, my companion and I asked ourselves. By now I was dying to buy in and put my idea of spending the money on hiring magicians and musicians and funny men to put on a show on a special children’s ward but I knew I would

not have been able to stop myself venting my feelings on those that were still trying to find a way of boozing the cash up or putting it all on one number at a roulette table. And that would not have got them on my side to agree to it, so I stayed in my seat.

We decided there must be a plant in the crowd. Someone there just to stir things up. One woman who said she was a lawyer seemed to have a lot to say for herself, and this man sitting below us kept switching sides. I reckoned that the ‘plant’ would be the one who would never agree, thereby stopping anyone from winning and the money getting carried over to the next performance. ‘We can’t let that happen,’ declaimed the Irishman. ‘I’ll be gutted if the next Players found a way of spending all the money on drink!’

The clock ticked away. Several others bought in and the ideas improved; they were now more beneficial to mankind, if only in a small way.

Time was spent on discussing whether to buy lots of Big Issues from lots of vendors, until a woman rang the bell, paid her money and said, ‘The Big Issue is a charity.’

A Random Acts of Kindness proposal nearly got the money but leaving gifts around the streets for lucky people to find and keep was said to be not Covid-safe. A lady who worked in Great Ormond Street Hospital suggested spending it on toys for the hospital, while another said to go out and give it to homeless people. ‘But most of them will spend it on drinks and drugs,’ opined one Player. ‘So what,’ cried several others in unison.

At 55 minutes a lady entered the fray and said she would arrange for three musicians to play in Covid wards in three different hospitals. This was the last chance for them to forget their trust worries and to agree and sign the contract in time or else lose the money. And so the lawyer wrote

out the words that everyone would agree to. The Silent Witnesses didn’t think they could sign it in the time left and watched as the contract went around the Chamber with the last signature going on with just seconds to spare.

The two mediators checked that the number of signatures matched the number of Players, then checked the wording.

‘Oh no!’ We heard. ‘You haven’t put a date when this will be happening,’ she said to the lawyer, who now looked more like the accused. There was an audible intake of breath as everyone present saw the money slipping away. She looked at the erring woman, then at her colleague. They went into quiet dialogue. Then, to the lawyer, while giving her a withering look, ’Put the date there, where it says Date’.

Andrea, the winning lady, took away over £300 to provide music for Covid patients as the assembled crowd discussed what we had witnessed. My companion decided that the lawyer was a plant and that Andrea is a fraud who will keep all the money for herself. I begged to differ, although I thought her idea for live music would have been dismissed if she had suggested it early in th0e hour, and hoped the toys for kids in hospital might have got a better hearing.

There is, however, a system whereby you can follow the post-performance action and see exactly how the money was spent.

This is a fantastic idea that puts the audience right in the action and makes them the performers as they create the ups and downs of good drama.

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History

New Normandy memorial honours Camberwell VC hero Sidney 'Basher' Bates

The new Normandy Memorial in France, honouring those who fought in Normandy and at the D-Day landings including Camberwell VC hero Sidney ‘Basher Bates’, was officially opened last weekend by HRH the Prince of Wales.

The memorial was unveiled in Versur-Mer, overlooking Gold Beach, to mark the 77th anniversary of the Normandy landings.

Costing £30 million and designed

by British architect Liam Collins, it bears the names of all 22,442 who died during the invasion - the largest ever by sea - and also honours French civilians who died during the conflict.

Sidney Bates was posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross, the highest military honour for gallantry, after he sacrificed himself to hold the Perrier Ridge for the Allied Forces against a German Panzer advance.

Shot three times, hit by mortar, and seeing his childhood best friend killed, he carried on charging until he collapsed, eventually wrapping himself around his friend’s machine gun and continuing firing, all while critically injured. His actions helped save his division, and forced the enemy to retreat.

Bates was taken to hospital and died two days later. He was just 23 and had only been in France for two months. Before the war he had been a keen boxer and well-known happy prankster who had joined up after saying goodbye to his family - some of whom still live in Camberwell - with a pint in The Sultan pub.

Maintaining the Allies’ strategic position on the ridge is one of many small victories that ultimately helped turn the tide and win the war.

As his great nephew told us when Bates was nominated for a Southwark blue plaque: “Even though he was from a very humble background his actions changed the course of many lives and saved many lives.

“It is so important that we continue to remember what sacrifice these young lads made to give us a better world to live in.”

Bates was held in such esteem that when his family home was destroyed during the Blitz, Winston Churchill personally intervened to ensure his parents were financially supported.

As the epitaph on Corporal Sidney Bates VC’s headstone reads: ‘His parents proudly remember him as a true Camberwell boy and a loving son.’

Sidney's bereaved parents collecting his Victoria Cross at Buckingham Palace

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ROAD TRAFFIC REGULATION ACT 1984 SECTION 14(1) (GILKES PLACE)

ROAD TRAFFIC REGULATION ACT 1984 SECTION 14(1) (RUBY STREET, MURDOCK STREET) TEMPORARY PROHIBITION OF TRAFFIC AND TEMPORARY WAITING RESTRICTIONS

TEMPORARY PROHIBITION OF TRAFFIC 1.

The Council of the London Borough of Southwark hereby gives notice that in the interest of public safety, it intends to make an order, the effect of which will be to temporarily prohibit vehicular traffic at the junction of Gilkes Place and Gilkes Crescent.

2.

The effect of the order is to prohibit vehicular traffic from entering Gilkes Place from Gilkes Crescent and from entering Gilkes Crescent from Gilkes Place.

3.

Access to Gilkes Place will be maintained from the junction of Dulwich Village. Gilkes Crescent will be accessible from the junction of East Dulwich Grove.

4.

The alternative route for access to Gilkes Crescent is Dulwich Village, East Dulwich Grove, Gilkes Crescent. Access to Gilkes Place will be maintained from Dulwich Village.

5.

The restriction will be in place from the 18th June 2021 following a Section 14(2) notice.

6.

Further information may be obtained by contacting Road Network & Parking Management at ttmo@southwark.gov.uk

1.

The Council of the London Borough of Southwark hereby gives notice that to enable works to be carried out by, Pooch Construction, it made an order the effect of which would be to prohibit vehicular traffic from entering part of the above name roads and also to introduce waiting restrictions as detailed below.

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: (c) Ruby Street, at it’s junction with Murdock Street for a distance of 28m in a southerly direction (d) Murdock Street, between No’s 24 to it’s junction with Old Kent Road.

3.

(c) Ruby Street, Eastern side, extend the existing double yellow lines located at the junction with Hyndman Road, southwards along the kerb line for a distance of 24.25m (d) Ruby Street, Western side, between Hyndman Street and Murdock Street remove 14.87 of existing double yellow lines

Dated this 10th June 2021 Ian Law Traffic Manager Southwark Council Environment and Leisure Network Management PO Box 64529 London SE1 5LX Ref 5779

Whilst the authorised traffic signs/road markings are displayed, no person shall cause any vehicle to wait, including waiting for the purpose of loading/unloading “at any time” in (a)

4.

The alternative route for (2a & 2b) Old Kent Road, Hyndman Road.

5.

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

6.

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.

The restriction will come into force on the 18th June 2021 – 17th December 2022.

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

8.

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

Please take notice that I / we Sugo Holdings Limited Have made application to Southwark Council for a new Premises Licence in respect of Commercial Unit 2, H2 West Grove, Elephant Park, London, SE17 1FY

Dated this 10th June 2021

The relevant licensable activities and proposed times to be carried on, or on from the premises are

The retail sale of alcohol:

Days

Start time

Finish time

Monday to Sunday

12:00

21:30

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 (or by email via licensing@southwark.gov.uk) and be received by the Service within a period of 28 days starting the day after the date shown below.

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

Date of application: 10th June 2021

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Ian Law Traffic Manager London Borough of Southwark Network Management Traded Services Environment and Leisure 160 Tooley Street, PO Box 64529 London SE1 5LX Ref:

LONDON BOROUGH OF SOUTHWARK CONSOLIDATION AND REVIEW OF TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT ORDERS FOR ‘MAP-BASED’ SCHEDULE FORMAT The London Borough of Southwark (Charged-For Parking Places) (Map-based) Order 2021 The London Borough of Southwark (Free Parking Places, Loading Places and Waiting, Loading and Stopping Restrictions) (Map-based) Order 2021 1. Southwark Council hereby GIVES NOTICE that on 10 June 2021 it has made the above orders under sections 6, 45, 46, 49, 63 and 124 of and Part IV of Schedule 9 to the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 , as amended.

2. The general effect of the Orders are: (a) to consolidate the provisions of all existing Orders designating on-street charged-for parking places, free parking places, loading places and waiting, loading and stopping restrictions on streets in the London Borough of Southwark; (b) to update the terms and conditions for the use of on-street free parking places, loading places and waiting, loading and stopping restrictions as well as all on-street charged-for parking places set by those Orders. These reflect the Council’s current parking policy in terms of eligibility for permits and applicable fees and charges, and any applicable exemptions; and (c) to provide for the use of a ‘map-based’ schedule, to be read in conjunction with the Orders, describing the location, type of the restriction, class of vehicle, the hours of operation and where applicable, the Controlled Parking Zone in which the parking places are located (and thereby the permit types to be displayed on or indicated in relation to vehicles left in parking places).

NOTE: there are no changes to the existing layout, type or amount of provision of on-street charged-for parking places, on-street free parking places, loading places and waiting, loading and stopping restrictions, other than as detailed above, to the terms of use thereof (and any applicable fees and charges) as is currently published online by the Council, as a result of the making of these Orders.

3. Any trial schemes enacted through ongoing Experimental Traffic Orders continue to progress through to the appropriate evaluation and completion of each scheme.

4. The above Orders supersede the provisions and replace the London Borough of Southwark (Parking places) (Map-based) (No. 1) Order 2021 and the London Borough of Southwark (Waiting, Loading and Stopping Restrictions) (Map-based) (No. 1) Order 2021, as made on 25 February 2021.

5. Copies of the orders, which will come into force on 14 June 2021, are available for inspection via our online portal (https://streets.appyway.com/southwark); or by appointment at Highways, Southwark Council, Environment and Leisure, 3rd floor hub 2, 160 Tooley Street, London SE1 2QH. For booking appointments and for requests to view any other relevant documents please contact traffic.orders@southwark.gov.uk or 020 7525 3497.

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

Dated 10 June 2021 Dale Foden Head of Service - Highways, Environment and Leisure

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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; 186 WARHAM STREET LONDON SOUTHWARK SE5 0SX (Ref: 21/AP/1762) Construction of a single storey 'airspace' extension to existing residential building to create two additional self-contained residential units Reason(s) for publicity: AFFECT (Contact: Hajnalka Kurti 020 7525 3701) 45 PECKHAM HIGH STREET LONDON SOUTHWARK SE15 5EB (Ref: 21/AP/1810) Proposed roof, rear extensions, and internal remodeling to create 6 no. apartments from existing 2 no. flats over ground floor commercial unit using existing stair access from street frontage; upgrade to the commercial shopfront.

(Within: Rye Lane Peckham CA) Reason(s) for publicity: STDCA (Contact: Vendela Gambill 020 7525 7976) 91 GROVE PARK LONDON SOUTHWARK SE5 8LE (Ref: 21/AP/1841) Replacement of existing rear extension with new single-storey rear extension (Within: Camberwell Grove Conservation Area CA) Reason(s) for publicity: STDCA (Contact: Danielle Campbell 020 7525 2427) 3 STRADELLA ROAD LONDON SOUTHWARK SE24 9HN (Ref: 21/AP/1838) Construction of a single storey outbuilding in rear garden of dwellinghouse. (Within: Stradella Road CA) Reason(s) for publicity: STDCA (Contact: Agneta Kabele ) 67 BELLENDEN ROAD LONDON SOUTHWARK SE15 5BH (Ref: 21/AP/1854) Rear glass extension at second storey level (Within: Holly Grove CA) Reason(s) for publicity: STDCA (Contact: Anthony Roberts 020 7525 5458) FLAT 22 179-181 BERMONDSEY STREET LONDON SOUTHWARK SE1 3UW (Ref: 21/AP/1899) Replacement of existing French Doors to balcony with bifold doors (Within: Bermondsey Street CA) Reason(s) for publicity: STDCA (Contact: Rose Sharkey ) 146-156 GROSVENOR TERRACE LONDON SOUTHWARK (Ref: 21/AP/1887) Replacement of all single and double glazed and single timber casement windows to be replaced with double glazed timber casement windows, like for like in design. (Within: Grosvenor Park CA) Reason(s) for publicity: STDCA (Contact: Danielle Campbell 020 7525 2427)

201 TOOLEY STREET LONDON SOUTHWARK (Ref: 21/AP/1907) Variation of condition 5 of application 19/AP/7041 Condition Number(s): 05 Conditions(s) Removal: A minor change is required, not a removal of the condition. Please see next section. The proposal seeks to vary the condition as follows (as permitted by Southwark Council's premises licence) 08:00am -11:00pm; on Sunday-Thursday 08:00am - 12:00pm; on Friday-Saturday 09:00am - 03:00am Bank Holidays (New Years Eve/ day and Boxing Day) The differences as compared to the approved hours of operation are as follows: . Change in closing time from 11:30pm to 11:00pm on Mondays - Thursdays (30 minutes earlier) .

Change in closing time from 11:30pm to 00:00 on Fridays (30 minutes later) . Change in closing time from 11:00pm to 03:00am on Bank Holidays (New Year's Eve, New Year's day and Boxing Day) (4 hours later on 3 days in a year).

The above changes would be managed in such a way that they would not have a detrimental impact on neighbours as explained in the statements that follow. The operational hours applied for are in line with other bars in the area and the Council's Statement of Licensing Policy.

The longer hours requested relate to 3 public holiday days over the Christmas and New Year period, and 30 minutes extra on every Friday.

The marginal increase in the opening period is requested by the business owner on the basis that staying open later will drive additional business and will boost their revenue (and business viability) without increasing fixed costs.

The business owner notes that earlier concerns raised by residents had been met through conciliation during the Premises Licence Application. The Premises Licence has now been granted and that allows the business to operate within the specified hours. The Premises Licence was granted by the Councillors at a hearing, as a result of agreement through conciliation with the Metropolitan Police, Southwark Licensing Unit and the Neighbouring residents. The Licensing Sub-Committee ha... (Within: Tower Bridge CA) Reason(s) for publicity: STDCA (Contact: Martin McKay 020 7525 1818) PLOT H1 ELEPHANT PARK LAND BOUNDED

BY WALWORTH ROAD, ELEPHANT ROAD, DEACON STREET AND SAYER STREET NORTH ELEPHANT AND CASTLE LONDON SE1 (Ref: 21/AP/1819) Redevelopment of the site to provide an 18storey building (including a mezzanine floor) plus basement and rooftop plant of a maximum height of 85.73m AOD providing 49,565sqm

GEA office floorspace (Class E(g)(i)) and 8,800 sqm GEA areas of floorspace for the following flexible uses; office/retail/services/food and drink/medical or health floorspace (Class E(g)(i), E(a), E(c), E(b) or E(e)), including ancillary cycle parking, accessible car parking, servicing, plant, roof terraces, landscaping, public realm improvements and other associated works incidental to the development (such as revising the layout of Deacon Street). The application is accompanied by an Environmental Statement submitted pursuant to the Town and Country Planning (Environmental Impact Assessment) Regulations 2017, which can be viewed on the council website southwark.gov.uk using the reference number. A hard copy of the application documents is available for inspection by prior appointment at Elephant Park Project Office, 21 Ash Avenue, Elephant Park, SE17 (Monday to Friday 9:00am-5:00pm) by contacting david.shiels@dp9.co.uk. Electronic copies of the Full ES and ES Non-Technical Summary are available free of charge, provided on request by contacting david.shiels@dp9.co.uk. Reason(s) for publicity: EIA MAJ (Contact: Victoria Crosby 020 7525 1412) PLOT H1 ELEPHANT PARK LAND BOUNDED

BY WALWORTH ROAD, ELEPHANT ROAD, DEACON STREET AND SAYER STREET NORTH ELEPHANT AND CASTLE LONDON SE1 (Ref: 21/AP/1819) Redevelopment of the site to provide an 18storey building (including a mezzanine floor) plus basement and rooftop plant of a maximum height of 85.73m AOD providing 49,565sqm GEA office floorspace (Class E(g)(i)) and 8,800 sqm GEA areas of floorspace for the following flexible uses; office/retail/services/food and drink/medical or health floorspace (Class E(g)(i), E(a), E(c), E(b) or E(e)), including ancillary cycle parking, accessible car parking, servicing, plant, roof terraces, landscaping, public realm improvements and other associated works incidental to the development (such as revising the layout of Deacon Street). The application is accompanied by an Environmental Statement submitted pursuant to the Town and Country Planning (Environmental Impact Assessment) Regulations 2017, which can be viewed on the council website southwark.gov.uk using the reference number. A hard copy of the application documents is available for inspection by prior appointment at Elephant Park Project Office, 21 Ash Avenue, Elephant Park, SE17 (Monday to Friday 9:00am-5:00pm) by contacting david.shiels@dp9.co.uk. Electronic copies of the Full ES and ES Non-Technical

Summary are available free of charge, provided on request by contacting david.shiels@dp9.co.uk. Reason(s) for publicity: EIA MAJ (Contact: Victoria Crosby 020 7525 1412) FLAT 17 3 ANGEL LANE LONDON SOUTHWARK SE17 3FD (Ref: 21/AP/1495) Installation of a dark grey metal aluminium canopy within landscaped terrace (Within: Walworth Road CA) Reason(s) for publicity: STDCA (Contact: Ibrahim Azam ) 1 WINCHESTER WHARF 4 CLINK STREET LONDON SOUTHWARK SE1 9DL (Ref: 21/AP/1858) Installation of non-illuminated removable signage (Within: Borough High Street CA) Reason(s) for publicity: STDCA (Contact: Rose Sharkey ) 31 DENMARK HILL LONDON SOUTHWARK SE5 8RS (Ref: 21/AP/0075) Display of externally illuminated signage with goose neck lamps. 1 projecting sign to be trough lit externally illuminated in solid wood finish. (Within: Camberwell Green CA) Reason(s) for publicity: STDCA (Contact: Kerri Simpson 020 7525 3487) Dated: 08 Jun 2021 - comments to be received within 21 days of this date.

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batting collapse see dulwich slip to fourth FARNHAM 131-6 (37.1) beat DULWICH 130 (49.2) by 4 wickets

By Sports Reporter sport@southwarknews.co.uk Another horrendous batting collapse saw Dulwich go down to defeat by four wickets in their AJ Fordham Surrey Championship Division 2 match at Farnham.

Dulwich chose to bat but found scoring difficult against accurate bowling by the Farnham seamers. Five wickets went down for just 45 runs, though loose shots were the main cause of most of these dismissals. Robbie Goldsworthy bowled his ten overs straight through to take the first four wickets for only 17 runs, and 15-yearold Luke Griffiths took a good return catch to claim the fifth. Will Bancroft and Michael Harms came together in the 22nd over and added 41 for the sixth wicket in 15 overs. Bancroft made most of the running, scoring 34 off 67 balls before picking out the long on fielder.

Any hopes that skipper Jon Lodwick would repeat his heroics of last week were soon dashed when he was run out for just 2. Two more wickets fell in the 42nd over to reduce Dulwich to 98-9.

Alex Gledhill joined Harms and the pair added 32 for the tenth wicket before Harms was run out in the last over, having faced 68 balls for his 26. Gledhill remained undefeated for 11 as Dulwich were dismissed for 130.

Nathan Thorpe, nephew of former England batsman Graham, opened the Farnham reply with Guy Hicks, and the pair posted 34 in seven overs against

Lodwick and Simon Harwood. 16-yearold leg spinner Ahmed Khan imposed some restraint, but the pair had advanced to 59 in the 17th over when slow left armer Frankie Brown got the breakthrough, dismissing Thorpe for 28, and he followed up with a second wicket three balls later, and a third in

his next over. Khan also struck in the intervening over as Farnham declined from 59-0 to 66-4. But Hicks remained and skipper Tom Grimes helped him add 23 for the fifth wicket before the latter fell to Brown for 11. The spinners could make no further inroads as Hicks and Russell Golding added 38 for the

Davidson-Richards stars as South East thrash Storm

By Sports Reporter sport@southwarknews.co.uk Alice Davidson-Richards’ highest ever list A score helped South East Stars trounce Western Storm by six wickets at the Kia Oval.

The Kent-born opener plundered 92 with a six and nine fours as the hosts made light work of chasing down a victory target of 246.

Davidson-Richards shared a second wicket stand of 154 with fellow England hopeful Sophia Dunkley, who also fell for 92 shortly before victory was secured with 41 balls to spare.

Earlier, England skipper Heather Knight top scored for Storm with 73, skipper Sophie Luff making 55 in their 245-8, whilst Tash Farrant claiming four for 58.

Fi Morris’ promotion to opener backfired when Farrant nipped one between bat and pad to pluck out her off-stump.

Knight survived a scare when inside edging another Farrant delivery over the stumps, but that aside looked in imperious form. A gorgeous on-drive off Freya Davies and two delicate late cuts stood out as she moved to 50 from 63 balls with nine fours.

Luff provided excellent support in a stand of 91, playing two glorious

inside-out off drives for four through extra cover.

At 124 for one Storm looked in command, but Davies returned to trap Knight lbw. Luff completed her half century in 80 balls before being castled by Dani Gregory, and despite a belligerent 27, including two sixes from Anya Shrubsole, Storm’s total looked a little light.

Smith began the chase with a flurry of boundaries only to tickle a wide one from Lauren Filer straight to leg-slip.

Davidson Richards was given a life on 17 when wicketkeeper Natasha Wraith failed to cling on to a catch down the leg side off Shrubsole. It proved a costly miss as the righthander, helped by six fours raced to 50 in 62 balls.

Sophia Dunkley kept pace from the other end, her backfoot drive through extra cover arguably the shot of the day as the 100 partnership was raised in 122 balls.

Dunkley’s own 50 came in 63 balls before Davidson-Richards thumped a Knight delivery for six over cow corner and then brought up the 150 partnership with a sumptuous cover boundary.

Sadly, there would be no century as she edged behind off Nicole Harvey with 60 needed. Harvey also claimed Alice Capsey cheaply and Georgia Hennessey bowled Dunkley with the

scores level, before Stars coasted home.

Stars vice-captain Bryony Smith said: “The way we went about things today was fantastic, especially with the ball.

“They had a good partnership with Heather [Knight] and Sophie [Luff], but the way we pegged them back and then went out there and played our brand of cricket with the bat.

“They were only going at four and over so we were never out of the game. Sometimes you look at a board when the opposition are 100-1 and you think they are flying, but they weren’t going too quickly. We knew we had a lot of spin in the middle to bowl in the same place as much as possible to peg them back a bit.

“Alice [Davidson-Richards] might have been aware it was her highest list-A score – I wasn’t. She has been working really hard, so to see her making runs was really good to see.

“It is good fun batting with Alice as we are good friends. We didn’t have a settled opening partnership, last season, especially when I was away with the England bubble, but this winter Alice was batting really well.

We know each other well so it felt quite natural and we play in quite a similar way, so thought we’d give it a go.”

sixth wicket, and it took the return of Harwood to remove Golding for 26 with the score on 127. Hicks hit the winning boundary to finish on 56 not out and see Farnham to their victory after 37.1 overs. Brown finished with 4-26 off his ten overs while Khan had 1-28 off his ten.

Dulwich slip to fourth place in the table after this defeat, but are only one point behind the two teams that have overtaken them into joint second.

Next week they have a home fixture against Oxted and Limpsfield, who are currently seventh having won one, lost two and had two rained off.

Southwark Dynamos U11’s cruise to Football League Cup success

By Sports Reporter sport@southwarknews.co.uk Southwark Dynamos U11s won the South East London & Kent Youth Football League Cup following a 2-0 victory over Dulwich Hamlet Juniors FC om Sunday.

The biggest crowd of the season saw Jay Martin and Daniel Samardzhiev score second half goals to see the Dynamos complete the first part of a potential cup double.

Both sides were deserved of their

place in the final as the Dynamos continued their unbeaten campaign and lived up to their mantra ‘Dynamos never give up’ to bring the trophy back to Bermondsey.

It was a huge team effort from a group of players that have created a fantastic bond between themselves and deservedly secured cup glory.

Team: Thomas Freaza, Sonny Hawtin, George Humphreys, Lennie Kavanagh, Lukas Kluftinger, Rylee Lonergan, Jay Martin, Daniel Samardzhiev, Bobby Turner, Harry Vanstone, and Richie Walsh.

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By Sports Reporter sport@southwarknews.co.uk A crowd of more than 100 watched on as Docklands Under7s won the Selkent Vase cup in their first season together.

The three-way final took place after Dulwich Village comfortably beat Parkwood Rangers.

Docklands played Dulwich in their

first game, but whilst the opening period was end-to-end, there was nothing to spit the sides. In the second, though, Docklands pushed on and hit the woodwork on several occasions.

However, the opener finally came when a handball on the line saw Docklands awarded a penalty that Dara Sanni confidently fired into the top left-hand corner to secure the victory in a game that was played at an

themselves 6-5 up with just five minutes remaining, but Docklands levelled at 6-6 before scoring the 13th goal of the game to win 7-6. Docklands showed plenty of character to come from behind to secure the cup in what was a perfect end to their first campaign together.

Team: Dara Sanni, TJ Bent, Gabriel Facey, Rhys Barton-Fahy, Sonny Pavey, Caiden King, Parker Lovel.

it’s a 4G pitch and we practice a lot on the one at St. Paul’s ground and it just suited us.

“Charlton looked alright and were playing a lot more direct, which suited our defensive style, and we just kept playing our game of knocking it around.”

Loding praised the Invicta goalkeeper, who he felt kept Charlton in the game saying: “To be fair, though, their ‘keeper was outstanding, and it could have been 5-0 or 6-0. They had a couple of chances as well, which they didn’t take, but I’m happy. I think we made it hard for ourselves by not taking our chances, but he did have an outstanding game. I think if we’d have gone in at half-time at 3-0 or 4-0, it would have been a totally different second half, but we were up against it a little bit. If they’d have nicked a goal, that would have spurred them on a little bit, but I did think their keeper did save them.”

The game had moments where Charlton seemed to be mentally trying

to unravel the away side, but Loding was happy with how his team dealt with the psychological side of the game: “I think they came out, especially in the first half, to try and wind us up. That just doesn’t work with us, and a few comments were a bit underhanded, but I thought all the Millwall team really played well. Jay Lemonius was outstanding, Tom Collier was outstanding, Robb Barr and the subs who came on did a really good job. It was a good team performance all round.”

Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the Romans’ fixtures have been behind closed doors, but Loding expressed how happy he would be to have fans at their games when restrictions are lifted next season.

He said: “It’d be great – we’ve got such a good facilities at St. Paul’s that if anyone wanted to come down and watch us, it would be amazing to see some people there. Even our away games, like coming down to Charlton, it’d be good to bring a bit of a following.”

Romans continue 100 percent record with Charlton victory

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By Sports Reporter sport@southwarknews.co.uk Millwall Romans’ playermanager, Paul Loding, thought his side played ‘really well’, and said it could have been ‘5-0 or 6-0’ if it was not for the ‘outstanding’ contribution of the opposition goalkeeper in his side’s 2-0 away win in the London Unity League

against Charlton Invicta last Sunday.

The Romans went into the game unbeaten, and the two LGBTQI friendly teams produced a physical game that lived up to its South London derby nature. Goals from Millwall’s Baz Morally and Jay Lemonius were the difference.

Loding said: “I thought we played really well, and they are not a bad side at all.

They like to play out from the back like we do, but the pitch really helped us here,

Webster perfect fit for welfare role

By Sports Reporter sport@southwarknews.co.uk MILLWALL LIONESSES’ Alex Russell says Kelly Webster will “go above and beyond” as she takes over from the club’s assistant manager as the new Player Liaison Officer (PLO).

The role is a unique position at the club, functioning as a direct communication link between the players and both management and backroom staff at club meetings if there are any issues or queries both on and off the pitch.

Millwall Community Trust ambassador Webster was chosen due to the close bonds she has with people at the club, and outgoing PLO Russell felt she was the ideal successor.

“It’s fantastic news,” Russell, assistant to boss Katie Whitmore, said. “In my opinion, clubs need to do more about the mental wellbeing of players in a modern club.

“Having people in roles like a PLO does exactly that, and I think that someone like Kelly is suited perfectly to the role.

“Kelly was chosen as she will go above and beyond to help anyone. New players, old, retained players or even trialists. That partnered with Katie’s philosophy of ‘role models’ works perfectly together.”

Russell praised the players but joked that Webster would be kept busy in the role.

“They’re a cracking bunch of girls, so they never made the job particularly hard,” Russell added.

“What I will say, though, is that you can see the difference between a happy squad and a squad with something on their mind. In football, you need to try and get any advantage possible to give yourself a better chance of winning, so it won’t be a role where Kelly will get many days off, unfortunately.

“But that won’t be a problem. Kelly loves helping and will go above and beyond to do so.

“Kelly has a wealth of experience.

Kelly has probably been in and around changing rooms since before I was born.

You can’t put a price on experience and what it brings to a dressing room. Kelly is also a very approachable character, something which became hard for me to juggle when becoming assistant manager.

“Kelly is a role model who has a ‘never say no’ attitude. She will help any and every one at the ground or away from football.

“Her contributions to helping the NHS and building the Lions Food Hub up from scratch don’t go unnoticed.

“She’s really building a legacy and, as management, that’s something I’m very proud on Kelly’s behalf for.”

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incredibly high standard; with many supporters describing it as one of the best junior football matches they’d ever seen.

In their second game, Docklands needed another victory to ensure the Vase headed back to Bermondsey and got off to a flying start when they were 3-0 up inside the opening five minutes.

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Softened the blow Cup success helped Brown deal with Millwall departure

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By Jake Sanders sport@southwarknews.co.uk There aren’t many worse phone calls to receive as a footballer than finding out you’re going to be released.

But winning major silverware is certainly a good way of getting over it.

And that’s exactly what happened to James Brown, whose eight-year affiliation with Millwall will come to an end at the end of this month after the club decided against offering him a new contract.

An injury prevented the 23-year-old from getting out on loan last summer, but he replaced the returning Danny McNamara at St Johnstone in January to gain regular first-team experience having failed to appear for Gary Rowett’s team before Christmas.

Brown’s fortunes changed under Callum Davidson, making seven appearances in total, including against both Celtic and Rangers, with the last of those as a late substitute in the Scottish Cup final victory over Hibernian last month to complete a historic domestic double.

But Brown had to quickly deal with the low of being let go by Millwall

following the high of winning a second trophy of the season after St Johnstone’s Scottish League Cup glory back in February.

“It wasn’t too bad one to take because I sort of already knew myself, going up to Scotland I went to earn a contract elsewhere, and sometimes that is the reality of football,” the right-back told the News when asked how he coped.

“Obviously, it’s disappointing to be let go from a club you have been at for eight years, and there are a lot of good people there and friends that I will keep for the rest of my life, but it softened the blow with the latter stages of St Johnstone’s season, because we did so well.

“Also, in the back of my mind, the club and me knew my time was going to be up, so it wasn’t too much of a shock.”

He officially found out that he would be leaving during the final few weeks of the campaign but had an incline that his Lions days would be limited just months after penning his final deal.

“I knew at the beginning of the season to be honest. I tried to get out, but I picked up an injury the week before the transfer window closed, so I couldn’t get out anywhere,” Brown

revealed.

“I was there for two or three months just training well and trying to get myself ready to go. I got a phone call two weeks before the end of the season, but it was nothing out of the blue, so it was half expected.”

The defender made just four senior appearances for Millwall, three of which were under Rowett, and whilst he recalls signing his first professional contract as his best memory in SE16, he leaves with a tinge of disappointment following his lack of first team involvement since penning that first deal more than five years ago.

He said: “I had been there since I was 15, I don’t think anything could top that feeling at that age, but I think how young I was, that one will always stick with me.

“But the strangest time for me was when Neil Harris left, and the gaffer came in. I was 22, and I got offered a new deal, which is rare at that age considering I hadn’t really played in the first team.

“So, I thought that would be my chance to go and challenge Mahlon [Romeo], but then I played one or two games, and didn’t really get a look in. It was frustrating more than anything to be given a contract at that

age and not get a look in, so that was disappointing.”

Brown made the switch to the Scottish Premiership early during the midst of a pandemic, meaning he missed the opportunity to say goodbye to his Lions teammates at Calmont Road due to current Covid-19 regulations.

Therefore, a message in the team WhatsApp group had to do.

“The last time I was there was a home game in early December and said what I could goodbyes wise, knowing I was going to go,” said Brown.

“I had to whack a message in the group chat and leave, so it’s not ideal, but in these times it’s not easy to pop back in.

“But there’s a lot of boys that I will keep in contact with, I have got some good close friends, so it’s a new chapter, but there is always players and staff that I will speak to for the rest of my life.”

But what is Brown going to miss about Millwall having spent more than one third of his life there?

“I think it’s the comforts of having been there for so long. It’s just that normality of used to going in every day,” the right-back admitted.

“You can see with Willow [Shaun Williams] moving on, there is a lot of

players that stay there for a long time, so it shows that it’s an environment that players like being in.

“It’s that sense of something you get used to, and it’s a place that players like to stay. It’s a good dressing room, the everyday of being with them. “ Brown told the News that he’s been offered a contract by St Johnstone and is already in talks over a permanent move.

Should a deal go through, Brown could get the chance to play in Europe next season, with the Saints’ Scottish Cup final victory securing a place in the third qualifying round of the Europa League.

And he’s already relishing the prospect of European nights at McDiarmid Park.

He said: “They are career highlights for us, so whoever we draw, it’s something the club will hold on to and the players will look forward to.

“The boys are excited for that, it’s not every day you get the chance to play in Europe, especially, with no disrespect, St Johnstone are not the biggest club in the world, so events and nights like that with a packed stadium – it’s massive for the city and the town and that’s what brings places like that together, so the boys are looking forward to it.”

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By Jake Sanders sport@southwarknews.co.uk With five games left of the National League season, Isaac Olaofe’s chances of becoming a history-maker appeared to be slipping away, but the striker never stopped believing that Sutton would eventually get the job done.

Millwall youngster proud of turning dream into reality was cut short by Covid-19.

But whilst that spell was nothing to write home about, his second stint with the U’s was more than memorable.

Olaofe said: “I already had a good relationship with the players and the manager, and the manager was trying to get me back. When he noticed I wasn’t playing, he was very eager to get me back, because for someone of my

Lions confirm Portman Road visit

By Jake Sanders sport@southwarknews.co.uk Millwall have added another friendly to their pre-season schedule with a visit to Ipswich Town on Saturday 31 July.

The Lions have already confirmed the trip to Gillingham on Tuesday 27 July and will continue their preparations for the start of the 2021-2022 Championship season by travelling to Portman Road four days later.

Ipswich endured another tricky season at League One level last term, finishing 9th, five points outside the top-six following another failed promotion bid and are managed by Paul Cook after Paul Lambert’s February departure.

age it’s important to get as much gametime as possible.

“After the first 10 games, I could feel something in the group, the energy. You know when you feel like you have a good team spirit, and a good bunch of lads.

“And when you have all of that, it’s what makes a title-winning team. So, when we won the league the way we did after a 42-game season to consistently

Mitchell suffers play-off heartache

By Jake Sanders sport@southwarknews.co.uk It’ll be the first competitive meeting between the sides since Millwall claimed a 3-2 victory in East Anglia on New Year’s Day 2019 thanks to second-half goals from Shane Ferguson, Jake Cooper, and Tom Elliott. It will also see Bartosz Bialkowski return to Portman Road for the first time since leaving for SE16 in 2019.

Kick-off is 3pm and will be the Lions’ final pre-season friendly before their campaign gets underway the following weekend, with their fixture list to be released on Thursday, June 24, at 9am.

be top three, it’s just amazing.”

Olaofe already has big aspirations of becoming a regular in Millwall’s firstteam having been given a taste in the Non-League.

But the 21-year-old told the News that making history is something that he always dreamt of as a youngster.

“It’s amazing because as a little kid, you always want to be remembered in

Alex Mitchell’s campaign ended in disappointment after his Bromley side were beaten 3-2 by Hartlepool in the quarter-finals of the National League play-offs last Sunday.

The Ravens were attempting to set up a semi-final date with Stockport County on Sunday and move one step closer to reaching the Football League for the first time in their history, but found themselves 3-0 down after 24 minutes following a disastrous first half.

Half-time substitute James Alabi, who was introduced along with former Millwall defender Byron Webster, struck just three minutes after coming on thanks to a Mitchell assist, but Bromley’s second goal, which was eventually awarded to Webster, didn’t arrive until deep into stoppage time, leaving them just seconds to find an equaliser.

It was just a second defeat in 10 Bromley appearances for Mitchell since arriving in the middle of April but completed a successful loan spell for the 19-year-old, who’ll be looking to be given an opportunity to impress Gary Rowett in preseason.

history,” the striker said.

“Just knowing that you have got a club and area that will remember you.

Your face will be the cover of their history, and just knowing that when you walk through the doors there will be a massive picture of the title-winning team, and that’s something that can’t be replaced, whether we live up to 100 or 200 years, that will always be there.”

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The south London outfit had been cruising to the title less than two months earlier having been four points clear of second place with three games in hand in their bid to reach the Football League for the first time in their 123-year history.

However, a 3-2 loss at Notts County on a Tuesday evening in May saw their promotion hopes taken out of their hands.

The 21-year-old had equalised that day, but Torquay’s victory at Chesterfield 24 hours earlier meant that Sutton now needed favours elsewhere to avoid going through the lottery of the play-offs.

“In football, sometimes you have got to expect the worst,” the striker told the News. “We lost that one, but it’s all about how you react. And every game we lost this season, we won the next couple of games, and that’s what we did after Notts County.

“It was a tough one to take, it was a very big game, but we managed to turn it around, we won every game until the last day when we had already won the league.”

That defeat at Meadow Lane was a turning point for Sutton, who’d win their next four matches to seal their place in League Two next season – with Olaofe scoring the nerve-settling third goal against Hartlepool in front of more than 1,000 fans at Gander Green Lane.

It topped off quite a remarkable turnaround for Olaofe, whose season started with a failed loan spell in Scotland with St Johnstone.

He initially made the switch along with Danny McNamara for the whole season but was recalled by Millwall less than three months later after making just two appearances in the Scottish Premiership.

Olaofe was back on the move less than seven days later, but this time a lot closer to home when he returned to Sutton for the season. He’d spent the last couple of months in 2019-2020, although that

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By Jake Sanders Sport@southwarknews.co.uk James Brown said that Danny McNamara’s progression over the last 12 months has inspired him to become a regular at first-team level.

’I can be an asset’

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By Jake Sanders Sport@southwarknews.co.uk Isaac Olaofe is looking to continue his momentum by earning a spot in Gary Rowett’s first team squad next season following his heroics for Sutton United last term.

The 21-year-old, who’s yet to make a senior appearance for Millwall, scored 14 goals in 37 league appearances, plus two more in the FA Trophy, to help the U’s win the National League title and gain promotion to the EFL for the first time in the club’s history.

Olaofe’s 16 goals not only helped fire

Sutton into the big time, but meant he netted more than Millwall’s entire strike force combined. And with Matt Smith’s future still undecided and Kenneth Zohore back at West Brom, there could be a window of opportunity for the youngster to seize next season.

Gary Rowett recently told the News that he will sit down with him to discuss his future having previously hinted that a loan move to the Football League could happen.

But the Lewisham-born forward isn’t focussed on anything other than scoring goals in pre-season in a bid to try and force his way into the firstteam reckoning for the upcoming Championship campaign.

“I’ve got a lot of momentum from

the current season, so I’m going to go back in pre-season, work hard and try to pick up from where I left and get myself into the squad,” the 21-year-old told the News.

“My focus is on pre-season and seeing how it goes from there. I just must keep my head down, try to improve and keep on working hard to get more goals.

“I would like to say I set my targets high and do feel like I can be an asset and have an impact on the team, but I have got to be patient, wait for the right opportunity, and wait for the manager to say that I can be involved, but I have got good momentum, so I just need to go into pre-season and keep working hard.”

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Academy graduates in the current setup, and there are two that have given Olaofe real hope of eventually breaking into the squad.

He said: “The loan move to Sutton helped me develop as a person, so the fact I am still at Millwall just shows the Academy system is working as you can see through Billy Mitchell and Danny Mac, and how they have been pushed through shows there’s a pathway for myself.

“They both deserve their opportunity. The 10 games when I was up in Scotland, Danny Mac was the best player on the pitch in nine of them, and I am so glad he has been able to push himself into the firstteam.”

Brown will leave Millwall when his contract expires at the end of this month having made just four senior appearances – the last of which coming post-lockdown last July against Huddersfield.

Following his release from Millwall last month, Brown has spoken of his admiration for McNamara’s rapid rise which has quickly seen him become a key part of Gary Rowett’s team.

McNamara spent the first half of loan season on loan at St Johnstone before returning to make 16 Championship appearances for the Lions, whilst Brown replaced him and enjoyed a successful spell north of the border from January onwards, winning the domestic double.

Having come through the ranks together in SE16, Brown was full of praise for his former Lions teammate.

“Danny’s got everything; he has all the attributes to be a really good player at international level as well,” he said.

“I think it’s more his attitude, he’s not had the easiest path into the first-team, but he’s finally broke in at 22 so I think it just shows his mentality more than anything. He’s a good solid lad, but there’s two good wing-backs there, so I think in that position I think the club are going to be fine going forward.

“He’s shown he can do it; I still believe I can get to that level – I might take a different route, it might take a big longer, I might take a different pathway, but I still believe it’s a standard I can reach, but you’ve got to take big inspiration from players like that.

“It’s nice to grow up with someone like Danny, and he has done it. So, you have got to take a bit with you and use it as motivation. But Danny is a top player, just like Mahlon.”

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