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PARKING FINES DON'T EXACTLY ENCOURAGE HEALTHY LIVING!
25 May 12 - Whilst running around Peckham Rye Common and park on Sunday (6th May) I was taken aback to see cars parked on Straker Road (on the Common) were being photographed and, I presume, ticketed by Southwark parking attendants. ..

DOING ALL WE CAN TO GET YOUNG PEOPLE JOBS
25 May 12 - I AM writing this letter in response to your article about youth unemployment rates in Southwark published on Thursday 11 May...

LOCAL BOBBIES NEED A PERMANENT STATION
25 May 12 - I BELIEVE it is time for the police to come in from the cold. They have had bad publicity through poor leadership and rogue officers, who are not representative of the force as a whole. ..

HOST OF HOUSING PROBLEMS TO ADDRESS
25 May 12 - YOUR ANALYSIS of the Southwark Council housing policy in your editorial last week highlights a number of problems which might occur in the provision of a positive Council housing policy in the Borough...

BOROUGH FREEDOM THANKS
25 May 12 - IT WAS a great honour for me to be one of those who received the honorary freedom of our borough at the splendid ceremony in St George’s Cathedral last Saturday...

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)...