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WAS WAR HERO'S DOOR BROKEN?
A QUESTION mark hangs over whether a communal door on the estate where 90-year-old war veteran Geoffrey Bacon was fatally attacked was broken on the day, the ‘News’ can reveal.

TRIBUTES PAID TO COUPLE WHO DIED A DAY APART
A MUCH-loved married couple who were a feature of a Bermondsey estate for more than thirty years have died, just a day apart.

YOUNGSTER MEET RIO
A YOUNG football hopeful from Peckham got the chance to meet one of the sport’s biggest stars and present him with an award.

News

ORIGINAL CAMBER-WELL HAS HEALING POWERS AND IS IN MY BACK GARDEN
WITH HOPES that the ancient Camber Well might soon open to the public, the ‘News’ went this week to investigate a mysterious tale of Trojans, magical healing powers and a ghost, all in one Camberwell lady’s back garden. ..

2007 - BODY LEFT ON ESTATE
AS PART of our long-running series on the borough’s unsolved murders, this week the ‘News’ reports on a young man whose dead body was left lying in the middle of a Walworth estate for a day...

ESTATE MONEY TO BE SPENT ELSEWHERE
RESIDENTS OF a Bermondsey estate have been told that money intended to make their homes safe from ‘drug users’ and ‘drinkers’ will be spent instead on improving housing in other parts of the borough...

Sport

LIONS QUIET ON AUSTIN
MILLWALL BOSS Kenny Jackett was yesterday staying tight-lipped, after the Lions were blasted for their deadline day pursuit of Swindon Town striker Charlie Austin...

LIONS' 'NO' FOR THEO
MILLWALL REJECTED a deadline day proposal from Huddersfield Town to take their striker Theo Robinson on loan...

NO REF BLUES FOR LIONS
THERE WERE a lot of things that Millwall fans thought promotion would bring them...

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Food & Drink

PUB FOOD HAS COME A LONG WAY
I DON'T feel ashamed that sometimes I want more from lunch than a cheese and onion cob wrapped in clingfilm, writes Oliver Pugh...

FROM TURKEY TO THE FAR EAST IN CAMBERWELL
The warm August sun fades in the evening sky...

ALL CHIPPER DOWN AT THE CLIPPER
When I was growing up Redriff was pretty much a ghost town and completely isolat...

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Arts & Listings

SOMETHING FOR THE WEEKEND
SOMETHING FOR The Weekend is the latest exhibition of works from the Bermondsey Artists’ Group, famously based in the Cafe Gallery in Southwark Park but using a bigger space for this show in order to exhibit performance, installation, paintings and works in transition.

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Cinema

BEAUTY QUEEN SHOW AT YOUNG VIC
Martin McDonagh’s 14 year old play is given a well deserved revival. Written in an almost musical Irish dialect the language is vivid and often biting, however, you certainly don’t have to be Irish to enjoy this play.

JENNIFER LOPEZ VEHICLE IS YET ANOTHER NAUSEATING ROM-COM
THE BACK UP PLAN: Releases May 7th 2010...

FURRY VENGEANCE - DON'T MAKE MOTHER NATURE YOUR ENEMY
DAN SANDERS is a businessman who lives in a sleepy town out in the sticks...

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Health & Fitness

EXERCISE ON THE WATER FRONT
IF YOU'RE wondering how you'll get into tip-top bikini shape for summer, what better place for you than a gym with stunning waterside views. With a newly opened £2.39m gym at Surrey Docks Watersports Centre in Rotherhithe, there are no more excuses for avoiding the treadmill, writes Emma Ailes...

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