Around a thousand people took part in the House of Homosexual Culture Christmas Fayre on Saturday at St John’s Waterloo.
"I am thrilled to be with you in this year to celebrate gloriously the four hundredth anniversary of John Harvard's baptism," Revd Professor Peter Gomes of Harvard University told the Sunday morning congregation in Southwark Cathedral.
Limited edition posters designed by leading contemporary artists will be given away at Waterloo tube station every day this week.
Borough underground station on the Northern line will be exit-only during weekday peak hours for the next year whilst major lift works are carried out.
Skills minister David Lammy has visited Newham College's Academy for Fashion, Textiles and Jewellery at the Fashion and Textile Museum in Bermondsey Street.
Sir Terence Conran, founder of the Design Museum and leading light in the revitalisation of Butler's Wharf, was last week awarded an honorary doctorate by London South Bank University.
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