Editorial

SAD NEWS FOR FISHER
15 May 09 - MANY PEOPLE in the north of the borough will be deeply saddened to learn that Fisher Athletic Football Club has been wound up...

GET RADICAL
08 May 09 - THE 'FUTURE Peckham' debate is welcomed, yet how radical is the thinking behind it? ..

A LITTLE BIT MORE BITE
17 Apr 09 - IT'S HIGH time that Southwark's community wardens were given some teeth...

OUR JADE WAS NOBODY'S FOOL
27 Mar 09 - JADE GOODY'S premature parting is nothing short of tragic and like everyone in her home community we mourn her death. ..

WONDER WOMEN
20 Mar 09 - WHEN YOU think of women who make an impact in Southwark, you don’t have to look very far. Two of the borough’s three MPs, the council’s Chief Executive, Southwark’s London Assembly Member, to name just a few...

POLICE CONCERN
20 Mar 09 - IN THE week that Rotherhithe cabbie John Worboys was found guilty of preying on women he drugged in the back of his cab, it is troubling to read the Independent Police Complaints Commission's report into an investigation of an alleged rape of a fifteen-year-old...

SMOKE AND MIRRORS?
27 Feb 09 - SOUTHWARK NEWS made much of its Council Tax freeze in its annual budget a few weeks back. But if the costs of many essential services are rising, then isn't it just smoke and mirrors?..

LEADING BY EXAMPLE
23 Feb 09 - FOR A borough that is traditionally towards the very top end when it comes to violent and serious crimes in the capital, it is no easy task to be Southwark’s Borough Commander. ..

ANSWER THE FUNDING QUESTIONS
09 Feb 09 - EVEN BEFORE the recession struck, people in Southwark were feeling the pinch, as the council lambasted central government for a £35 million shortfall over three years...

YET ANOTHER CUT BORIS?
30 Jan 09 - WHILE RUNNING the risk of becoming something of a stuck record, we note for another week that Mayor Johnson seems hellbent on removing any possible transport benefit earmarked for Southwark...
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HEARTFELT TRIBUTE
30 Jan 09 - THE OUTPOURING of grief around Southwark Park Road for the couple tragically killed in a car crash in India speaks volumes about the high regard for the Bermondsey shopkeepers...

VITAL TRUST
22 Jan 09 - THIS IS the second week, as part of our revamped paper, where we have looked more closely at where our local MPs stand on national issues...

COST RAIL
22 Jan 09 - HEATHROW, PADDINGTON, Whitechapel and Woolwich - all historic Southwark landmarks that make up part of this proud borough. Or at least you might be forgiven for thinking this...

TRAM FIGHT
20 Jan 09 - LET'S HOPE the tram bid can be resurrected - it's about time someone fought a proper battle for some real transport through Southwark...

GPs BEWARE
15 Jan 09 - ARE SUPER-CENTRES, like supermarkets, the way forward for our health service? And like the chain store giants, will it mean more things in one place, but ultimately less choice for the user?..

ONLY A COUNCIL WOULD!
08 Jan 09 - DO YOU think any private company in the land would allow themselves to fork out £162,000 pro rata for a prime job in its organisation that can only be half done? ..