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DAY OF CELEBRATION RUINED BY IDIOTS
19 Apr 13 - IT WAS a day for tens of thousands of Lions-loving fans and families, ruined by a handful of idiots - but of course the headlines served only to rubbish the name of Millwall FC...

MILLWALL BACK ON TRIAL
15 Feb 13 - NO ONE can condone the footage broadcast by Sky on Monday night. The evidence is clear, and it’s damning...


WHAT TIME DEMOCRACY?
03 May 12 - WOULD YOU pay an extra £45 a year in order to have local council meetings you could attend? Possibly, or even probably not...

RESPONSIBLE JOURNALISM IS ALWAYS OUR AIM
26 Apr 12 - RESPONSIBLE JOURNALISM is always our aim..


WE SHOULD BE STREET PARTY CAPITAL OF LONDON
13 Apr 12 - The GENEROSITY of United Saviour’s Charity should be applauded – as they once again prove how committed they are to the area. ..

FINISH THE SAFETY WORK QUICKLY
16 Mar 12 - THE LAKANAL fire of 2009 shocked the whole community - six lives lost, including an eleven-month-old baby, and harrowing tales of families looking on in horror, knowing their loved ones were trapped in the Camberwell tower block...


112 AND COUNTING!
16 Mar 12 - BERMONDSEY GIRL Grace Jones has become the oldest person in the UK, and while it’s not exactly something to celebrate, given the sad passing of the previous holder of the title, it is still a remarkable achievement...

KICK GANGS OUT
17 Feb 12 - MANY WILL be celebrating the departure of the eight known gang members deported last week in a new operation to rid us of this scourge on our borough...


COUNCIL DID WELL
17 Feb 12 - THE COUNCIL should be congratulated for bumping ex-service men and women up the housing list. ..

WATT A BRIGHT IDEA!
03 Feb 12 - IT'S APPROPRIATE that the council has made thousands of pounds’ worth of energy savings in the borough’s libraries - places of learning...


MEND FENCES
03 Feb 12 - IT SEEMS a strange argument for the Charter School in Dulwich to suggest that a path that it uses for access is too dangerous to be used as a ‘safe walking route’ – and therefore that an entire area of council estates is excluded from its admissions...

IRONY OF THE DEMOCRACY COMMISSION
26 Jan 12 - ONLY IN these extraordinary times (where no council service is safe from cuts) could a Democracy Commission result in the culling of three community councils...


A HUGE INSULT TO CHAMPION OF THE POOR
24 Nov 11 - IT'S SUCH an insult to the local community that a bronze statue of one of Bermondsey’s most famous citizens - Dr Alfred Salter - has been stolen – by suspected scrap metal thieves...

ALL LIT UP
24 Nov 11 - FOR YEARS, people around Rotherhithe have welcomed in the festive season when they’ve seen the wonderful Christmas decorations go up at Peter Thorpe’s house in Rotherhithe Street...


APALLING BLUNDERS
10 Nov 11 - IT'S SHOCKING that one of our largest major hospitals - and one which is seen as offering first class and even pioneering treatment in many fields - can make such catastrophic blunders as have been revealed in a new report. ..

LAUGHABLE PUNISHMENT
10 Nov 11 - DOES IT really send out a strong message to ban two teenagers from every McDonald’s in the country for fighting in a Walworth Road branch? Not really. ..


JUST SHAMEFUL
23 Sep 11 - A VICIOUS attack on a woman in her eighties, which left her with a dislocated shoulder and too afraid to return home, just makes you ashamed to have people who would do this sort of thing in our midst...

NIP THE YOUTH GANGS IN THE BUD
23 Sep 11 - IT MAY just be 25 to 30 people at the very core, but our in depth feature this week on gangs in the borough and surrounding areas makes it very clear that this is a real and serious issue...


DO MP CHANGES HELP THE PUBLIC
16 Sep 11 - ASK YOUR average man or woman in the street, and many will struggle to tell you the difference between their local councillor and their local MP. ..

SOUTHWARK'S OBESITY TIME BOMBS GONE OFF
08 Sep 11 - SOUTHWARK IS suffering from an obesity epidemic - and the numbers involved are simply staggering...