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VIEW from Westminster VIEW from Westminster
15 May 09 - THIS SRPING there have already been lots of new, good and positive things appearing locally, for our community, and young people in particular. ..

VIEW from town hall VIEW from town hall
15 May 09 - FOR COLLEGE ward councillor Michelle Holford, the priority for her ward at the very south of the borough is all about youth...


VIEW from Westminster VIEW from Westminster
08 May 09 - ON JUNE 4th every voter in Southwark will have the chance to decide who represents them in the European Parliament. This election is important and every vote will count. There are 9 London MEPs who represent people from Southwark. ..

DISABILITY corner DISABILITY corner
08 May 09 - THIS WEEK it's the 3rd year anniversary of my column "Disability Corner". ..


VIEW from town hall VIEW from town hall
08 May 09 - AFTER BEING brought up playing on the bomb site of post war Peckham Councillor Barrie Hargrove is determined to preserve what Hitler's bombers did not manage to destroy. ..

DISABILITY corner DISABILITY corner
27 Apr 09 - THIS WEEK I am going to be discussing the NHS. ..


VIEW from Westminster VIEW from Westminster
17 Apr 09 - HAPPY EASTER to all Southwark News readers. I hope everybody who wants to has had some chance for a rest...

FLOWER power FLOWER power
17 Apr 09 - ALTHOUGH growing season is well underway, the weather in April is usually very unsettled as the month progresses towards late spring...


DISABILITY corner DISABILITY corner
14 Apr 09 - THIS WEEK I am going to do something very unusual and respond to a letter through my column instead of the letters’ page, as it raises some serious issues and a response in the letters’ page given its size would not do it justice. ..

VIEW from city hall VIEW from city hall
08 Apr 09 - I'VE OFTEN been accused of being more interested in management than politics...


VIEW from town hall VIEW from town hall
08 Apr 09 - FROM EDINBURGH via Birmingham, to collecting for miners outside Bermondsey Town Hall and then finally onto Camberwell, Cllr John Friary now couldn’t imagine himself living anywhere else. ..

DISABILITY corner DISABILITY corner
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VIEW from town hall VIEW from town hall
27 Mar 09 - OUT DISTRIBUTING party pamphlets from the age of just ten, Cllr Mary Foulkes was never in any doubt that she wanted to join the Labour party...

DISABILITY corner DISABILITY corner
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DISABILITY corner DISABILITY corner
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VIEW from Westminster VIEW from Westminster
06 Mar 09 - COLLAPSING INTO floods of tears in public is not considered respectable behaviour for politicians, but I can't think of a time that I felt more like doing just that than last week's Mayor's Question Time at City Hall. ..


FLOWER POWER FLOWER POWER
06 Mar 09 - THE LAST two weeks of February were characterised by calm, mild weather with grey, overcast skies. ..

VIEW from town hall VIEW from town hall
06 Mar 09 - PEOPLE GET into politics for all sorts of strange and complicated reasons, but in Dora Dixon-Fyle’s case it was rather more straightforward...


VIEW from Westminster 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...

DISABILITY corner DISABILITY corner
27 Feb 09 - THIS WEEK I would like to tell you how proud I am of Southwark Disablement Association (SDA) and my colleagues, as during the recent spell of bad weather, when 95 per cent of businesses closed their doors and did not operate, SDA were open throughout, helping the disabled and vulnerable people of Southwark. ..