News

PRINTER'S STOLEN BOOK RETURNED AFTER SIXTY YEARS
17 Dec 09 - A BOOK stolen from Bermondsey Library by a very high profile writer has finally been returned to Southwark after 60 years...

EVENT WILL HAVE TO CHANGE TO SURVIVE SAYS BOROUGH'S POLICE COMMANDER
24 Jul 09 - THE EVENT at Southwark Park will have to change to survive, following the stabbing that prematurely ended this year's festival, borough police Commander Wayne Chance has said...

FILMMAKER LOOKS FOR MEMORIES
26 May 09 - A FILM maker is looking to capture the memories and stories of the Heygate Estate, before the people who have lived there for decades are moved to other areas...

ALL SYSTEMS GO ON LEISURE CENTRE
15 May 09 - WORK IS now well underway on the multimillion-pound overhaul of the Dulwich Leisure Centre, as part of Southwark Council's eagerly-anticipated £12.3m Leisure Investment Programme...

GREEN FLAG HOPE FOR ROTHERHITHE
15 May 09 - FRIENDS OF Russia Dock Woods are showing judges around the Rotherhithe park tomorrow as it is inspected for a Green Flag award...

COUNCILLORS CREATE A SONG AND DANCE ABOUT MAYOR'S CHARITY
15 May 09 - COUNCILOORS WHO fancy themselves as the next Leona Lewis and Alexandra Burke are set to strut their stuff at a charity black-tie event this weekend...

BLAKE'S HEAVEN
15 May 09 - DOZENS OF delighted residents joined local schoolchildren and artist Stan Peskett as the Goose Green mural was officially unveiled on Sunday afternoon...

MAN PINNED BETWEEN SKIP LORRY AND CAR IN SUSPECTED ROAD RAGE
14 May 09 - A MAN was rushed to hospital fighting to keep his legs, after a suspected road rage incident saw him squashed between a skip lorry and a passing car. ..

COUNCIL TAX FIRM 'TO BE DROPPED BY SOUTHWARK'
14 May 09 - THE COUNCIL is due to drop the contractors who collect Council tax next week...

BERMONDSEY'S NEWEST LANDMARK: THE LEANING TOWERS OF THE BLUE!
14 May 09 - BERMONDSEY NOW has its very own "leaning towers of the Blue" after two delivery lorries are thought to have crashed into two neighbouring phone-boxes last week...

People

SHARP AS A PIN
04 Mar 09 - I MUST be losing it. I went to an interview at one of London's top tailors dressed like I'd just come off a building site: jeans, boots, bomber jacket.

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In The Dock

HOXER ESCAPES JAILS
26 Feb 09 - A SERIAL 999 hoaxer from Walworth narrowly escaped a jail sentence last Thursday at Tower Bridge Magistrates’ Court.

COMMUNITY SENTENCE
AN ASSAULT on a woman on a Bermondsey estate has seen h...

JAIL FOR REPEAT OFFENDER
A MAN who tried to swallow his stash of cocaine after h...

Columns

VIEW from Westminster
27 Feb 09 - TWO WEEKS ago Southwark News exclusively broke the news that the East London Line Phase 2b extension through the heart of Southwark has been given the green light.