Plans to improve Jubilee Gardens on the South Bank to coincide with the Queen's Diamond Jubilee and the Olympic Games in 2012 still need another £1 million funding if they are to go ahead.
Six young people from Bermondsey and Southwark are being offered the chance to gain employment skills on 'The Apprentices Project' at WPF Therapy.
Sir Hugh Taylor, currently permanent secretary at the Department of Health, is to succeed Patricia Moberly as chairman of the NHS Foundation Trust that runs SE1's two hospitals.
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