The Thames Clippers riverbus service which links SE1's Bankside and London Bridge City piers with Canary Wharf has a more secure future thanks to a financial package announced earlier this month by Ken Livingstone.
Illusionist David Blaine has now been in residence at Potters Fields for more than three weeks, but the patience of police and local residents is wearing thin in the wake of a number of incidents of anti-social behaviour in the and around the park.
A man whose body was found on a Scottish mountain range was identified last week as missing backpacker Timothy Derrick, who lived in Southwark Bridge Road.
The Mayor's Totally London Tour came to the South Bank and Bankside this weekend, with street entertainment in Waterloo and a special Sunday opening of Borough Market.
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