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Great news for cancer sufferers, as UK's first specialist shop opens at Guy's Hospital

Hopefully shops like this will spread across the country and lead to more stores that can help people with the treatment and equipment they need

Corbyn's proposal for residents to have a ballot on estate regeneration is indeed worth 'looking into'

"It is the lack of understanding - often because residents have not been armed with all the details - that has caused so much upset over regeneration projects. Whether Corbyn’s ballot will work remains to be seen, but it’s definitely worth looking into"

Are police cutbacks counter intuitive?

People’s habits have changed massively over the past decade, and policing has to reflect that. But the events that led to this decision to close all but one of Southwark's police front counters feel somewhat like a self-fulfilling prophecy

Boris digs himself deeper into a whole

Cartoon by Christian Adams

Hive won the prize

Peckham beekeeper crowned best in London

Cartoon: Jimmy Jukes receives his MBE

Cartoon by Christian Adams

Letters to the editor: 23/11/17

This week you wrote to us about: the need for EU citizens to maintain small businesses, and locals' victory in ensuring the future of Peckham's multi-storey carpark and cinema

Dulwich MP: Gov's budget needed to tackle tax avoidance, and invest in renewable energy and NHS

"Tax avoidance and evasion means that there is less money to spend on the public services like our NHS and social care, which we rely on," writes Helen Hayes MP

environmental columnist tells council: 'Start protecting vulnerable residents from terrible deaths in our cold winters'

Donnachadh McCarthy has been an environmental campaigner in Southwark since 1992 and is author of “The Prostitute State – How Britain’s Democracy Has Been Bought”

Letters to the editor: 07/12/17

Letters to the editor: 30/11/17

This week: points on Dulwich Hamlet coverage; an unimpressed take on the Queen's wedding cake; and a thanks for the coverage of the New Southwark Plan

Letter to the editor: 16/11/17

This week: calls for government funding for councils to build houses; help with Heathrow flight-path hell; and response to our columnist's views on cycle paths