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WHY WON'T LABOUR DEBATE OUR IDEA FOR PARISH COUNCILS
10 May 12 - THANK YOU to your paper for opening up a debate about local democracy and the possibility of parish councils in Southwark. ..

OH YE OF LITTLE FAITH!
10 May 12 - And TO think a few games ago, some faint hearted Millwall supporters were calling for manager Kenny Jackett’s head, quoting ‘he had lost the dressing room’. Oh ye of little faith!..

DID ANYONE KNOW HENRY BASS?
10 May 12 - HENRY FREDRICK Bass - does anybody remember him?..

YET ANOTHER ATTACK ON HEALTH SERVICES
23 Mar 12 - I READ your article in the issue of March 15th on the withdrawal of funding for Alzheimer’s sufferers with mounting disbelief...

SCHOOL PLACES
23 Mar 12 - WE ARE writing in response to your article on secondary school places in Southwark ("Every child placed at a Secondary", Thursday 8 March)...

GREEN PARTY FOUGHT FOR LIVING WAGE
23 Mar 12 - SHAME ON the Lib Dems for claiming they started the process to make Southwark Council a living wage employer...

WHAT'S SO GREAT ABOUT REDUCING TEEN PREGNANCIES
23 Mar 12 - I UNDERSTOOD the purpose of journalism was to present the reader with the facts and let them draw their own conclusions...

TEEN PREGNANCY DROP IS WELCOME
23 Mar 12 - I AM writing to share my delight at the reduction of teenage pregnancy rates in Southwark for 2009/10...

LEFT ON LIGHTS ARE SUCH A WASTE
23 Mar 12 - ALL THE lights are on, 24 hours a day, in every single room facing the street in the new houses built by developers St George plc at the foot of Camberwell Grove...

IT WASN'T A TAXI !
23 Mar 12 - YOU RAN a story about a 47 year old man who was convicted of touting, but your reporter said he took them to his waiting taxi...

WHAT'S SO BAD ABOUT REMOVING BARRIERS?
23 Mar 12 - WHO ARE these people that are whinging about the barriers being taken down in Jamaica Road? And what are they actually crying about?..

DICKENS WOULDN'T HAVE CARED ABOUT COMMUNITY COUNCILS
24 Feb 12 - SIMONE HUGHES suggests Charles Dickens might have questioned “our Labour council’s determination to undermine communities by the forced centralist merger of community councils”...

COUNCILS NEED TO SUPPORT THEIR LOCAL BOOKSHOPS
24 Feb 12 - Following the recent six hour debate in the House of Commons on the Future of our Town Centres and High Streets and Mary Portas’ findings that too many shops were closing and high streets are struggling to the detriment of their communities..

STOP UNDERAGE ALCOHOL SALES
24 Feb 12 - IT'S TIME for our shopkeepers to face up to their responsibilities over alcohol sales...

WE'RE SUPPORTING SMALL BUSINESSES
24 Feb 12 - I AM writing in response to your editorial "Bookies odds on favourites," (9th February)...

STOP BETTING SHOPS
17 Feb 12 - I APPLAUD Rowena Davis for launching the ‘High Streets First’ campaign to give communities a say over the number of betting shops in their area...

TESSA IS TO BLAME
17 Feb 12 - IT WAS The Gambling Act 2005 that Labour MP Tessa Jowell implemented in the last Labour Government that has created this problem - Made worse by her deregulation of slot machines making betting shops even more profitable...

PM PAY DEBATE
17 Feb 12 - I WRITE with regard to your article “Refusal to back PM pay” published in last week’s edition of your paper...

HEADLINE SEEKING
17 Feb 12 - CAMBERWELL GREEN desperately needs a new library and we are determined to do the right thing for local residents by delivering one...

PIER PRESSURE
17 Feb 12 - THE UNCERTAINTY over the future of Greenland Pier is absolutely unacceptable and is causing a great deal of distress to the 600 local passengers who use the service to get to work every day. ..