Editorial

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SIGN OF THINGS TO COME?
11 Mar 10 - A TWO month period of early closures of the Guy’s Minor Injuries Unit won’t spell disaster - as long as it’s a one off, rather than a sign of things to come...

ACTION NEEDED
11 Mar 10 - FIVE DEATHS in two years - and how many more will there be before action is taken to stop cyclists falling under the wheels of lorries on Southwark’s streets?..

DO THE BENEFITS OUTWEIGH THE TRAFFIC CHAOS?
05 Mar 10 - THE DAILY tailbacks stretching down Jamaica Road from the Rotherhithe Tunnel should be telling Transport for London planners that they’ve got something severely wrong...

KEEP RESIDENTS IN THE KNOW
05 Mar 10 - AFTER THIS paper revealed that residents in the borough’s tallest tower block were not consulted over a plan to sell off their homes and put them on a housing list, you would have thought Southwark Council would be keen to ensure such a shameful scenario remained just a one off. But apparently not...

THE SOUND AND THE FURY
26 Feb 10 - THE STAND-off between the Ministry of Sound and developers Oakmayne calls into question just how well thought out the entire £1.5 billion regeneration of the Elephant and Castle was from the beginning. ..

MINISTRY ROW WAS OBVIOUS!
23 Feb 10 - THE STAND-off between the Ministry of Sound and developers Oakmayne calls into question just how well thought out the entire £1.5 billion regeneration of the Elephant and Castle was from the beginning...

THOSE AFFECTED SHOULD BE FIRST TO KNOW
12 Feb 10 - WE'VE SEEN it so many times before, but it never fails to shock - critical decisions about people's lives taken, seemingly without the slightest regard to those people themselves...

DREAM HOLIDAY
01 Feb 10 - IF YOU went to your bank and asked for a ten year ‘debt holiday’ on your credit cards, what do you think they’d say?..

MOVING IDEA
01 Feb 10 - WIDESPREAD AND across the political board opposition hasn’t convinced Southwark Primary Care Trust to abandon its plans to relocate drug and alcohol services from Camberwell to Blackfriars...

THE GOOD, THE BAD & THE UGLY
04 Jan 10 - 2009 - a year of real achievements and also great sadness, with Southwark making not only ours, but national headlines, for both good and bad reasons. ..

DO CONTRACTS HAVE ANY BITE?
23 Dec 09 - AS WE'VE said before - Southwark Council is right to force council tenants to keep their dogs under control. But the apparent lack of available detail on how exactly this will be enforced and maintained makes you wonder whether it has been properly thought through, and indeed, whether it's worth the paper it's written on...

MERRY CHRISTMAS
23 Dec 09 - MAY WE take this opportunity to wish all our readers a very merry Christmas...

LET RESIDENTS KNOW THE RISKS
18 Dec 09 - IF YOU live in a tower block in Southwark, our front page report this week will not make for easy reading...

ENDGAME
18 Dec 09 - IT SOUNDS like something Beckett could have written himself - sixty years after a first edition of his work Murphy was stolen from Bermondsey Library by Harold Pinter, it’s finally turned up...

TELL US HOW IT REALLY IS!
11 Dec 09 - WHEN ARE we going to get some plain talking over the regeneration of the Elephant & Castle?..

PROGRESS, BUT AT WHAT PRICE?
04 Dec 09 - AT LONG last some substantial progress on the vitally important regeneration of the Elephant & Castle...