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FIRE CHIEF SLAMMED
THE BOSS of the London Fire Brigade has been condemned for appearing to trivialise the deaths of six people in the Lakanal House fire as a statistical blip, sparking outrage from a crowded meeting at City Hall.

RESIDENTS TO SPLIT £100K AFTER WORK HALT
22 May 13 - RESIDENTS OF an Elephant and Castle tower block are set to share in £100,000 compensation after a building contract fell apart, leaving their homes like a building site for months...

ELEPHANT & CASTLE REGENERATION BOSS MOVES TO AUSTRALIA
22 May 13 - THE MAN heading up Lend Lease’s redevelopment of the Heygate Estate is moving to Australia, it has been confirmed...

BENEFITS MELTDOWN
22 May 13 - STRUGGLING FAMILIES have swamped the council with desperate calls for help to pay their rent after the government introduced the bedroom tax last month...

CRUNCH TIME: BISCUIT FACTORY HOMES PLAN OK
16 May 13 - PLANS FOR eight hundred homes to be built on the site of an old biscuit factory in Bermondsey have been approved by the council. ..

FAMILY APPEAL DRUG SMUGGLING INVESTIGATION
15 May 13 - A ROTHERHITHE man who was convicted of masterminding an estimated £25million-a-year drug smuggling ring is set to appeal his conviction...

CALLS FOR SHOPPING CENTRE CPO AT ELEPHANT
15 May 13 - PRESSURE IS mounting on Southwark Council to force developers to hand over Elephant and Castle shopping centre so that its regeneration can finally take place...

PRATS ON A HOT TIN ROOF?
09 May 13 - ROOFERS USING a blow-torch at Walworth’s town hall sparked a blaze that tore through the Victorian building for hours and left it in a burnt-out ruin, fire investigators believe. ..

£60M COST FOR SPRINKLERS IN ALL TOWER BLOCK FLATS
09 May 13 - FITTING SPRINKLER systems to dozens of Southwark’s high-rise buildings following the Lakanal House fire that killed six people in 2009 could cost almost £60million...

JAILED FOR SPIKING CAN OF RED BULL
09 May 13 - A CALCULATING sex predator who spiked a woman’s can of Red Bull with ecstasy so he could have sex with her has been jailed for eight years...

THREE YEARS FOR RAPIST BUT MP MAY CALL FOR INCREASED TERM
25 Apr 13 - A DRUNKEN thug who was jailed for just three years for raping a seventeen-year-old girl could have his sentence increased after the intervention of Bermondsey MP Simon Hughes...

REVAMPED LEISURE CENTRE BILL KEEPS RISING
25 Apr 13 - A HEFTY bill will be handed to the council for fixing massive condensation problems in a newly refurbished leisure centre, after extensive damage was found during repair works...

15,000 IN BOROUGH AT RISK OF MALNUTRITION'
25 Apr 13 - DOCTORES HAVE warned that fifteen thousand people in the borough are at risk of malnutrition and are in danger of serious complications if they become ill...

MUM STASHED GUNS IN HER BEDROOM
25 Apr 13 - A DULWICH mum was found with a loaded assault rifle and semi-automatic pistol lying around in her bedroom, as well as £40,000 of drugs including heroin in her flat...

BENEFITS STAFF CAUGHT MAKING FALSE CLAIMS
18 Apr 13 - TWO THE council’s benefits staff have been sentenced after they were caught making false benefit claims on a “large scale”...

DRUGS UNIT 'ON FIRE' AS CANNABIS FACTORY AND HEROIN HAUL FOUND
18 Apr 13 - A CANNABIS factory stacked with more than 400 plants – including one taller than 13ft – was discovered in Rotherhithe in the same week that £1million of heroin was taken off the streets by Southwark police. ..

LIONS FAN DIES AT WEMBLEY
18 Apr 13 - THE GRIEVING friends of a Millwall fan who died of a heart attack after watching the Lions lose at Wembley have paid tribute to “the most remarkable man”...

POWER FROM THE PEOPLE - APPEAL FOR LOCALS TO HELP FUND BERMONDSEY SOAP
17 Apr 13 - MOST PEOPLE have at some stage thought that if they were in power they would do a better job of running the council than the suited politicos normally at the reins...

PASSERBY'S 'SCRAMBLE FOR CASH AFTER ALLEGED WALWORTH ROBBERY'
10 Apr 13 - MEMBER OF the pubic scrambled for cash which ended up blowing around in the middle of road during an alleged armed robbery on a car in Walworth last week, according to eye-witnesses...

THIS IS BIERMONDSEY - BEER FEST PLAN FOR PARK
10 Apr 13 - MUNICH’S OKTOBERFEST could be brought to Bermondsey this year if plans for the festival are approved by Southwark Council. ..

INSIDE THE GUTTED CUMING MUSEUM
10 Apr 13 - THESE SAD pictures are the first public glimpse inside the charred ruins of the old Walworth town hall and Cuming Museum. ..

BOROUGH'S 45% LESS HEALTH CASH THAN RICH AREAS
03 Apr 13 - SOUTHWARK COUNCIL is set to receive 45 per cent less public health funding per person this week than several more affluent boroughs, it has been revealed...

THE HORROR
03 Apr 13 - THIS IS the moment that the family of Dayana Francisquini watched on in horror as their loved ones were killed in the raging inferno at Lakanal House...

£12,500 - THE SCANDALOUS COST OF A 90 MINUTE COUNCIL MEETING
03 Apr 13 - THE BILL for a single meeting of the full council assembly at Southwark’s own HQ is £12,500 – and includes the cost of hiring in a set of curtains...

EASTER COMES EARLY FOR RESURGENT LIONS
21 Mar 13 - WHAT A difference a week makes. Before Millwall’s midweek heroics at Ewood Park, there was a sense that their season was unravelling. Injuries were mounting and poor form was setting in...