Jude Kelly, artistic director of the South Bank Centre, has announced early details of the opening season at the refurbished Royal Festival Hall.
Residents and organisations opposing the licensing of a lapdancing club in Tooley Street protested on the steps of Southwark Town Hall on Wednesday night.
A week-long public vote is under way to select the winning design of a transportable meeting and performance space which will come to the South Bank in 2008.
In a lecture at Southwark Cathedral, The Archbishop of Canada has said that his successor could be a woman.
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