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ORANGE AND APPLE IN A STOCKING - THE CHRISTMASES OF YESTERYEAR
IN CASE you missed it we are in the middle of a credit crunch, so while it means cheap deals are on at Woolies until it closes its doors, the other result will be we all have to cut back here and there on our usual festivities.

THE HISTORIC ABBEY IN THE BERMONDSEY COUNTRYSIDE
12 Dec 08 - IF YOU ARE wandering round Bermondsey Square looking for an antique that may prove to be the bargain of the century, then maybe you should seek divine inspiration, as you are standing on an ancient site of a monastery that dates back to 715AD...

CAMBERWELL GREEN: THE SITE OF 'LEWD AND COARSE' REVELLERY
09 Dec 08 - CAMBERWELL GREEN has not always been up and coming, in fact at one point it was so wholly desirable that it even had its own fabulous fair. It was such an event that now the area has been nominated to receive a blue plaque to commemorate it...

CHAPLIN'S STRUGGLE ON THE STREETS BEFORE 'GOLDEN PAVED HOLLYWOOD'
28 Nov 08 - MOST LOCALS know that Charlie Chaplin is Walworth’s most famous son - but not everyone knows of his poverty stricken history before he made it big in the US...

THE 100-YEAR-OLD YOUTH CLUB WHICH HAS PRODUCED WORLD CHAMP BOXERS
25 Nov 08 - LACK OF youth clubs is the most common reason used for the rise in youth crime, but one corner of Bermondsey has had a centre which has looked after its youngsters for 100 years...

SKULL RETURNED TO MAORI
21 Nov 08 - A 200-YEAR-OLD skull was returned to a delegation of Maori people at a special ceremony at the Cuming Museum on Tuesday...

NEW EXHIBITION SHOWS WWII PLASTIC SURGERY
17 Nov 08 - CAMBERWELL ART College is set to host an extraordinary collection of pictures, that show plastic surgery being carried out during World War Two...

A ROLL OF HONOUR WHICH TELLS THE STORY OF WALWORTH'S LOSS
12 Nov 08 - WHEN TALKING about the First World War, it is tempting to think of trenches stretching across the horizon, with men like ants charging across the wasteland. But there is a more intimate story, as recounted by a simple booklet written in June of 1919.....

THE DULWICH MAN WHO HELPED REBUILD EUROPE (and took on the Nazi friendly Italian mafia at the same time!)
11 Nov 08 - EACH YEAR as November 11 approaches, the ‘News’ takes a look back at the heroism displayed by our men and women amongst the horror of war...

BEWARE THE GHOSTS AND SPIRITS OF SOUTHWARK THIS HALLOWEEN!
30 Oct 08 - IF YOU are out and about tomorrow night and you feel a hand on your shoulder, only to turn around and see nobody there, then maybe, just maybe, it will be one of the borough’s many ghosts checking to see how you are...

THE GOULISH TALE OF THE POOR RICH FERRYMAN OF SOUTHWARK
28 Oct 08 - SOUTHWARK CATHEDRAL has enjoyed a long and thriving existence overlooking the River Thames, surviving the devastating fire of 1212, the reformation of the sixteenth century and various proposals to demolish the building entirely in its 1000 year history...
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