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CONFIDENT THAT BLUE WILL BE A SUCCESS
29 Jul 10 - THE BLUE Market Place was always going to be revamped, as the extensive consultations clearly showed that the largest impact would be had by concentrating on the Market Place first, (‘Big pause for Lions statue’, News, July 15). ..
FIGHT THE CUTS
29 Jul 10 - COUNCILLOR NICK Stanton and Paul Kyriacou have hit out against cuts in Soutwark Council security work on the Four Squares Estate, (‘Will security work be scrapped?’, News, July 22). ..
OPPOSITION'S JOB IS TO ASK QUESTION
29 Jul 10 - I AM surprised to see the Labour leader already resorting to name calling in response to constructive opposition, (‘Council accused of wasting millions on new housing deal’, News, July 15). ..
TUBE SEAT REMOVAL IS PLAIN VANDILISM
29 Jul 10 - I HAVE just read your story on the seats that disappeared from Bermondsey tube, (‘Sit down protest as seats from award winning underground station vanish’, News, July 15)...
WHAT'S THE ALTERNATIVE TO STOP AND SEARCH
27 Jul 10 - IT'S ALL very well for Cllr Columba Blango to say ‘stop and search was draconian’, (Letters, July 15) and that continuing with this piece of legislation ‘did not lead to the arrest of a single terrorist suspect’.
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LABOUR HAVE TO ADMIT DEBT CRISIS
27 Jul 10 - DESPITE LABOUR admitting that "there is no money", we have labour activists complaining in the letters page about the new coalition Government's measures to tackle the mountain of debt they left the country with - more than £22,000 for every man, woman and child in the UK.
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ASK LONDONERS ABOUT TRAFFIC LIGHTS
27 Jul 10 - MAYOR BORIS Johnson wants to get rid of up to 145 sets of traffic lights and pedestrian crossings from London's streets.
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LOOKING FOR SCOTT LIDGET PEOPLE
09 Jul 10 - I AM on the look out for any old pupils of Scott Lidgett secondary school that was in Drummond Road, SE16 (which as we know is now Southwark College)...
DON'T DESTROY LOCAL GEM WHILE 'IMPROVING' THE MARKET
05 Jul 10 - ONE THING that your recent report on the proposals for The Blue Market in Bermondsey doesn't say is that Southwark plan to demolish the group of seven mature acacia trees and sheltered seating that make the market square one of the most pleasant in the borough ('Giant Lion Statue to be created for Blue Market', News, June 17).
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FABULOUS FARM
05 Jul 10 - I JUST wanted to write in support of Surrey Docks Farm...
DISGRACEFUL TO AXE FREE SWIMMING
05 Jul 10 - I WAS astonished to see that amongst the savage cuts announced by the Liberal Democrat-Conservative government was the end of funding for free swimming for the under-16s and over-60s from the end of July, just as the school holidays start.
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