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SOUTHWARK IN 2008
02 Jan 09 - AT THE END of every year, you always hear people saying ‘Where has the year gone? They seem to go by faster and faster’. And yet, once you start to think back about the events of the whole year, you realise just how much has taken place...

CHEQUERED HISTORY
18 Dec 08 - BY AND large, Southwark Police seem to be winning the battle against crime in this borough, so what a shame when they drop the ball with something so ridiculous that it makes the whole force seem inept...

A SORE IN SOUTHWARK'S SIDE
18 Dec 08 - IT'S THE biggest challenge facing Southwark Council and unsurprisingly the Audit Commission singled it out in its annual Corporate Assessment...

GUILTY WILL BE PUNISHED
12 Dec 08 - ANOTHER GRIM week for Southwark, with two cases in court over the murders of local teenagers...

SUFFERING FOR THEIR ART
11 Dec 08 - IT IS SO prime a location that no-one really ever knew exactly what they wanted for it - a museum, amusement park, eco development, even, at one point, a tethering spot for a hot air balloon to give tourists a view of London.....

ROBBED OF HER DAUGHTER
05 Dec 08 - THEY SAY the hardest thing imaginable is to outlive your own children - no matter how they died. But how much worse it must be when you haven’t even been given the opportunity to bury your own flesh and blood...

GET OUT AND VOTE FOR PARK CASH!
05 Dec 08 - IT SEEMS that even the Mayor of London has been bitten by the talent show bug, with his 'vote for cash for your favourite park' idea...

BUY MORE THAN A POPPY
27 Nov 08 - REGULAR READERS will have noticed the ‘News’ commitment to the British Legion this year...

LET'S REALLY MAKE THIS IDEA WORK
20 Nov 08 - NICK STANTON'S plan to get youngsters in to part time jobs may have its plus and minus points, but the old school message that work can be a good way to shape young people is right...

DAVE WALKER: A TRUE GENTLEMAN
20 Nov 08 - THE PAST seven days has been momentous for boxing in the borough, we are all aware that David Haye is on the brink of something massive and we hope and pray he pulls off his audacious plans...

MOVE CITY HALL TO COCKFOSTERS
13 Nov 08 - IF ONLY City Hall had never been built in Southwark, with London's Mayor cycling to somewhere like Cockfosters every morning to get to work...

ARE THERE HOMES OR NOT?
07 Nov 08 - YOU CAN'T fit a square peg into a round hole and likewise you can't fit 275 tenants into 47 properties. The figures on the decanting of the Heygate Estate just don't add up...

GOVERNMENT MUST FOOT BILL
31 Oct 08 - WHY ON earth is Southwark Council paying for the De Menezes inquest? The hefty bill for an inquest into a death, which was of national importance and took place in a neighbouring borough, should not be put on to an already overstretched budgeT.....

WHEATSHEAF IS JUST THE START...
30 Oct 08 - IT IS WITH a heavy heart that we see the first victim of the much hated Thameslink programme be hit. ..

DON'T FORGET TO BUY A POPPY
24 Oct 08 - READERS WILL only have to hark back to their history lessons at school to recall the tales of the World Wars...

LESSONS LEARNT OVER PASSES
20 Oct 08 - THERE IS no doubt that Southwark Council royally cocked-up when issuing the new nationwide freedom passes - but it appears that on this occasion they have accepted blame and taken steps to ensure it never happens again...