Letters

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POST: Unit A302, Tower Bridge Business Complex, Clement's Road, London, SE16 4DG
EMAIL: letters@southwarknews.org
FAX: 020 7237 1578
All letters should include a street address.

I DON'T FIND IT SAFE ON THE HEYGATE
14 Nov 08 - AFTER HAVING read the article in the Southwark News, November 6, pages 7 and 11, I would like to ask you if you ever talk to people who live in the blocks Ashenden, Claydon, Kingshill etc...

WHY WON'T THE MAYOR INVEST IN US?
14 Nov 08 - THE NEWS that the Mayor is now unlikely to proceed with the Cross River Tram (CRT) is a bitter blow for many of Southwark's residents and businesses...

DO YOU KNOW ABOUT SWIMMING RACE?
14 Nov 08 - FOR THE last ten years or more I have been researching my family history, and I have discovered that my maternal great grandfather, Alfred Francis Ibbott, who lived in Rotherhithe, participated three times in an extremely prestigious swimming race.....

PFI ON THE AYLESBURY MUST BE ABANDONED
14 Nov 08 - THE AYLESBURY privatisation plan is in deep trouble, unworkable on any terms and must now be abandoned...

ALL WE WANT IS A FAIR GO FOR HISTORICAL FISHER
13 Nov 08 - I WRITE in response to Sarah from Rotherhithe's letter to the ‘News’ last week...

RE-DEDICATION OF OUR WAR MEMORIAL
12 Nov 08 - I WRITE with reference to your recent article regarding the Bermondsey and Rotherhithe War Memorial at West Lane...

GREAT ARCHITECTURE DOES NOT HAVE TO COST EARTH
06 Nov 08 - BARRY DUCKETT raised some interesting points in his letter to the ‘News’ last week (October 30), but he entirely misrepresented my point of view...

WE NEED TO KEEP FIGHTING FOR TRAM
06 Nov 08 - THE WHOLE community is working hard to keep the Cross River Tram alive and to secure the funding needed to make it a reality, as highlighted in Southwark News...

COUNCIL MADE RIGHT DECISION ON FISHER
06 Nov 08 - MAY I congratulate Southwark Council in making the decision in trying to find the money to refurbish and regenerate Southwark Park Athletics Stadium...

THANK HEAVENS FOR HEALTH AND SAFETY!
06 Nov 08 - I WONDER whether I may be able to use the pages of the Southwark News to thank all those helpful people in the world of Health & Safety, who prevented me from coming to serious harm at the Surrey Quays shopping centre this week. ..

HELPING TO SELL POPPIES HAS BEEN REWARDING
06 Nov 08 - FOR ABOUT 17 years now, I have organised a Remembrance Sunday service at the War Memorial in Borough High Street and I must thank everyone who has supported it over the years...

IF YOU WANT TO HELP, PUBLISH DIRECT LINES
06 Nov 08 - THE HISTORIC Southwark Town Hall Council Chamber was part of the Camberwell Vestry Hall built in 1873 not 1973 (October 23, p10)...

WE NEED A NEW LIBRARY FOR THE COMMUNITY
04 Nov 08 - I READ with interest Mr Bates’ attack on Paul Noblet over the library in Surrey Quays...

THE POLITICAL SYSTEM IS BROKEN
04 Nov 08 - TWELVE YEARS ago as a local opposition councillor, I came up with the simple idea that if we included provision for safe cycle-lanes every-time we refurbished a street or footpath, over a decade we would at little extra cost ensure that our kids did not have to risk their lives.....

FISHER IS AN ASSET SO WE MUST NOT LOSE IT
04 Nov 08 - IN RESPONSE to last week’s article regarding Southwark Council shelving Fisher Athletic's stadium proposal, I was very surprised and somewhat alarmed to read the council intend to redevelop the existing site on the edge of Southwark Park without Fisher's involvement...

SORRY TO SEE SGT McCLUSKEY LEAVE
04 Nov 08 - WE ARE really sorry to hear that Sgt McCluskey is leaving the Surrey Docks Safer Neighbourhood Team following a promotion, and would like to publicly thank him for his tireless work to cut crime in the area...