Letters

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WE NEED TO PREVENT AN ACCIDENT IN WALWORTH
28 Nov 08 - I WOULD like to make a suggestion about the traffic lights on the Walworth Road, at East Street market and Penrose Street, as this junction is waiting for a serious accident to happen.....

SOUTHWARK'S CAVALIER ATTITUDE TO TAX PAYERS
28 Nov 08 - ON SATURDAY, November 22, a questionnaire from Southwark Council regarding proposed works to the pavements and road surface of Fort Road, SE1, was posted through my letterbox. ..

CAT PUNISHMENT NOT ENOUGH
28 Nov 08 - I HAVE been following your recent reports on the killing of the ship's Belfast cat Kilo; also the outcome of the trial of the girl who was found guilty of committing this dreadful crime. ..

THERE'S BEER AND THEN THERE'S BEER
28 Nov 08 - IN RESPONSE to Mr Watson’s letter printed on November 10 ‘We need some cheap beer in Walworth’, there is beer and then there is beer...

WHO ARE THE WINNERS IN DEVELOPMENT GAME?
28 Nov 08 - I WRITE in response to the excellent article in last week’s ‘News’ headed ‘Second development allowed to drop affordable homes number’...

GOMM ROAD WAS HERE IN 1888
25 Nov 08 - GAVRIEL HOLLANDER is mistaken for thinking that the recently deceased Richard Carr-Gomm gave his name to Gomm Road...

WE MUST NOT GIVE UP ON THE TRAM YET
21 Nov 08 - THE MAYOR'S announcement that he is planning not to pursue the Cross River Tram is a huge blow to the whole community who have worked tirelessly to secure this much needed transport project (Tram is dumped in new transport plan 4 November)...

WILL BORIS BE A ONE TERM MAYOR?
21 Nov 08 - IN LAST Thursday’s ‘News’ Nov 13 Phil Bale asked the question "why won't the Mayor invest in us?" ..

WHY DON'T WE GET A VOTE ON 20MPH PLAN?
21 Nov 08 - IN ANOTHER blinding example of the old adage "The Squeaky Wheel Gets the Oil", it seems a few noisy campaigners may succeed in getting their wish to reduce traffic all over Southwark to the snails pace of 20mph...

WE NEED SOME CHEAP BEER IN WALWORTH!
21 Nov 08 - AS SOMEONE who enjoys a pint of beer I am amazed at the prices at the various pubs I pop into along the Walworth Road...

PEDESTRIANS HAVE TO LEARN ROAD SAFETY TOO
21 Nov 08 - OF COURSE it always sad when someone is killed in a road accident and it is admirable that those with the power try to come up with schemes to cut down on those accident figures: Speed bumps, road-narrowing, chicanes, etc...

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...

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...

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.....

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...

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...