Southwark News

Tower Bridge Road businesses pull together to seek improvements
London SE1
Businesses in Tower Bridge Road have got together to submit an application to Southwark's £1 million community restoration fund as a growing consensus emerges that the street needs improvement. Suhel Ahmed, whose family have run Tower Tandoori for more ...

London SE1
Funeral of Canon Eric James at Southwark Cathedral
London SE1
The funeral of Eric James, a former precentor of Southwark Cathedral, was held in the cathedral on Friday afternoon. Eric James, precentor from 1966 to 1973, died on May Day aged 87. The Dean, the Very Revd Andrew Nunn, was celebrant at the Requiem and ...

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Theatre Review: The Hairy Ape @ Southwark Playhouse
Londonist
The Hairy Ape by Eugene O'Neill has landed at Southwark Playhouse. First performed 90 years ago, it's easy to see why the play has been resurrected. In a time of austerity and job losses the playwright's rant against the ruling classes, giving voice to ...

Financial Times
Flâneur among the flowers
Financial Times
The walk runs from Kentish Town (“that healthful suburb dear to the heart of the piano maker,” according to The Piano Journal, 1901) to the FT's headquarters in Southwark (where Shakespeare worked and sometimes lived) past King's Cross and various ...

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Call for 'protected status' to prevent burials in park
South London Press Today
Southwark council has been considering options to tackle a shortage of burial space in the borough. Ideas proposed included taking parts of Honor Oak Recreation Ground, off Brenchley Gardens in Honor Oak, to dig new graves. The recreation ground was ...

Veolia Waste to Energy Facility to Supply District Heating in Southwark
Waste Management World
Southwark council is moving forward with an ambitious plan to create an underground pipe network to bring heat from Veolia Environmental Services' Lewisham waste to energy facility into the heart of six housing estates. The council said that the soon ...

Southwark Playhouse eyes home in Elephant and Castle
Stage
Southwark Playhouse has applied for planning permission to turn an office space in Elephant and Castle into a temporary venue for the company while its current home is redeveloped. As reported in The Stage last week, the venue has been allocated space ...

Daily Mail
UK Facebook hacker sentenced to jail for a year
ZDNet UK (blog)
The unnamed victim contacted the FBI, who traced the Facebook hack to the UK, and got PCeU officers to track down Crosskey. The hacker was sentenced to a year in prison at Southwark Crown Court on Wednesday, having pleaded guilty at an earlier hearing.
Briton, 21, gets 12 months in jail after FBI and Yard tracks him down for ...Daily Mail
UK man to spend year in the clink for Facebook account hackRegister
Sompting man jailed for hacking FacebookThe Argus
Worthing Herald -Rutland and Stamford Mercury -Naked Security
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BBC News
Southwark to build 1000 new council homes
Out-Law.com
Southwark Council has announced a new target to build 1000 new council homes before 2020 in an attempt to meet its priority for delivering genuinely affordable housing in the borough. 17 May 2012 The proposal to build the new homes focus on utilising ...
Southwark promises 1000 new council homes by 2020BBC News
New council homes proposed for Long LaneLondon SE1
Council pioneers new heating projectspecifinder.com (press release)
24dash (press release)
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Daily Mail
Masseur 'groped woman as she lay naked and then offered her loyalty card ...
Daily Mail
The woman, who cannot be named, visited for her first ever massage after booking discounted treatment through a health and beauty website, Southwark Crown Court was told. Giving evidence, she told jurors she had visited the clinic in March last year.
Masseur 'in sex assault on two lawyers'Evening Standard
I FEARED GROPING MASSEUR WOULD RAPE ME IN SPAExpress.co.uk
Sir Paul McCartney's masseur 'groped worker'The Sun

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How well do you know Southwark?
BBC News
How well do you know Southwark? Activities are not organised by the BBC unless stated otherwise. Neither is the BBC responsible for the accuracy of the information provided. If you are under 18, ask your parent/guardian before taking part in any ...

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Daily Mail
UK man to spend year in the clink for Facebook account hack
Register
Faced with a mass of computer forensic evidence against him, Crosskey pleaded guilty to two hacking offences contrary to Britain's Computer Misuse Act. He was sentenced to 12 months of imprisonment at a hearing at London's Southwark Crown Court on ...
FBI investigation leads to Sompting man being jailed for Facebook hackingWorthing Herald
Jail for Facebook account hackerRutland and Stamford Mercury
UK jails man for hacking Facebook accountWTVC

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BBC News
Southwark promises 1000 new council homes by 2020
BBC News
Southwark has 20000 people on the waiting list for a council property. Since 2004 only 450 new council homes have been built across the whole of London. And despite tens of thousands of affordable properties being built, demand is still outstripping ...
Southwark to build 1000 new council homesOut-Law.com

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The Guardian
Money becomes new church battleground
The Guardian
And both are directors of the company set up last month to implement this scheme, the Southwark Good Stewards Company. It is the latest, and perhaps the most serious, move in a bitter power struggle within the CofE and the wider Anglican communion.

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Spoonfed
Rehearsal Room Drama: Tender Napalm
Spoonfed
Ahead of Tender Napalm's return to Southwark Playhouse, Naima Khan gives you taste of the rehearsal room of one of last year's most celelbrated plays with its new cast Tom Byam Shaw and Lara Rossi. Under the arches near Southwark Playhouse, ...

Daily Mail
Masseur 'sexually assaulted' woman while her husband waited in reception
Daily Mail
She told the jury at Southwark Crown Court: 'He was very, very close to my anus and he definitely brushed it a couple of times. 'At first I thought it was sloppiness, like when a hairdresser snips your ear, but when he did it again I thought this is ...
Sir Paul McCartney 'cancelled massage after his employee was groped', court hearsTelegraph.co.uk
Sir Paul Mccartney - Sir Paul Mccartney's Employee Testifies Over Alleged AssaultContactmusic.com
Sir Paul McCartney masseur accused of sexual assaultGigwise
Herald Sun
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BBC News
Icelandic artist makes Southwark's Jubilee window
BBC News
A stained-glass window, made in Iceland, has been installed in Southwark Cathedral to mark the Queen's Diamond Jubilee. A new stained-glass window commissioned to mark the Queen's Diamond Jubilee has been installed in Southwark Cathedral.
More details released for jubilee pageantPractical Boat Owner Magazine
Here's where to see the 'world's biggest outdoor party': Details of Jubilee ...Evening Standard
Where To Watch The Diamond Jubilee FlotillaLBC 97.3
London Loves Business
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London SE1
New council homes proposed for Long Lane
London SE1
Southwark Council has announced plans to build 1000 new council homes by 2020 - starting with a development of 25 to 30 homes on the site of the former Borough & Bankside area housing office on Long Lane. The council will use cash received from ...
Central London borough announces building of 1000 new council homes24dash (press release)

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Straits Times
Michael Caine given freedom of London borough
The Bostwana Gazette
Oscar-winner Michael Caine Saturday received the freedom of the London borough of Southwark, where the veteran British actor grew up. The 79-year-old received the honour in a ceremony at St George's Cathedral, not far from the Elephant and Castle ...
Civic award for Sir Michael CaineMorley Observer
Michael Caine - Sir Michael Caine Receives London Civic AwardContactmusic.com

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Sky News
The 21-year-old, from Lancing, West Sussex, admitted computer misuse offences and was sentenced at Southwark Crown Court. Detectives from the Metropolitan Police's e-crime unit launched an investigation after he hacked into the account on January 12 ...
UK jails man for hacking Facebook accountWTVC

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