Tuesday 13 December 2011
News & features published on 13 December 2011
Local teens invited to seek election to Southwark Youth Council
Last week 65 young people from across Southwark came to the Globe Academy in Harper Road for the launch of the borough's new youth council.
Man jailed for London Bridge and Waterloo railway graffiti
A man who sprayed graffiti on trains and railway structures - including many incidents around London Bridge and Waterloo - has been sentenced to 21 months in prison.
Southbank Centre's winter garden grotto on Queen Elizabeth Hall roof
The rooftop garden at the Queen Elizabeth Hall - one of the success stories of this summer's Festival of Britain 60th anniversary celebrations - has reopened with a winter twist.
Borough Market hosts community Christmas lunch for older locals
More than 100 older Southwark residents sat down to lunch in the Jubilee Market at Borough Market on Sunday at the market's annual Christmas event for the local community.
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Tuesday recap: Southwark Youth Council; 21 months in jail for rail graffiti; South Bank grotto; Borough Market Xmas http://t.co/QBEdbqmb
RT @katoi: Pigeons having a bath in a puddle in Bermondsey this morning. #quietnewsdaytweets http://t.co/y22toCbs
@MarkHammill yep
Planning committee getting more help from public gallery drafting their reasons for refusal than from officers on top table
Kate Hoey querying head of planning's approach and why he is not helping committee to formulate reasons for refusal
Lambeth head of planning pushing hard for committee to approve Albert Embankment scheme.
Brian Coleman will be most upset. Lambeth planning committee poised to reject Albert Embankment scheme. £££ for LFEPA at stake.
Cllr Ling - acting chair - moves that officer reccommendations be approved re Albert Embankment. No one will second her.
Cllr Brathwaite gets applause when she says daylight and sunlight to your home are important for mental and physical wellbeing.
Light expert for developers say Whitgift House residents won't notice any difference in hours they will need to have electric lights on
@appleblossombea she is supporting the scheme. Fire station will stay. Luxury flats above and behind
Dexter says Lambeth fire station is of strategic importance because of proximity to Parliament and other potential terrorist targets
In three years crews from Lambeth fire station on Albert Embankment have mobilised 7,500 times
Now Rita Dexter, deputy commissioner of @londonfire, is addressing the committee
Now @cllrcampbell says she and @se11 and @srm1977 all oppose Florian Place scheme
Objector George Turner says bulk of section 106 cash at Florian Place will go to Northern Line extension - no benefit to immediate locality
Michael Ball of WCDG says @londonfire will get £43m from developers Native Land if they get permission for 265 homes @ Albert Embankment
Only 8 per cent of dwellings in new Albert Embankment development are 'affordable'.
Objectors to Florian Place development have unfurled a large banner at planning applications committee @lambethtownhall
@appleblossombea the old fire brigade HQ and the site to the rear of it
Kate Hoey MP is here with the objectors to the Albert Embankment development
If planning permission is granted @londonfire will get substantial capital sum from sale of the site
At @lambethtownhall where redevelopment of old @londonfire HQat Albert Embankment is on agenda
No building summed up 2011 quite like the Shard, says @jonathanglancey http://t.co/0Es5sPAT via @guardian
@swklibdems Which story?!
Chaucer ward councillor Poddy Clark (@swklibdems) profiled by @markpack on @libdemvoice http://t.co/gOBvJZwI
The development is called Florian Place - after St Florian, patron saint of firefighters
Tonight Lambeth planning committee decides on huge redevelopment scheme at the former @londonfire HQ on Albert Embankment
Why no toucan crossing on New Kent Road? asks Charlie Holland http://t.co/o1FiKtp0
Just published - Southwark launches elections for youth council @peterjohn6 @cath_mcdonald et al @ Globe Academy http://t.co/GDoW75id
Just published - Man who sprayed graffiti at London Bridge and Waterloo jailed for 21 months http://t.co/jzDKPPac
Just published - @southbankcentre's winter garden grotto on Queen Elizabeth Hall roof http://t.co/70it37wb
Just published - @BoroughMarket hosts community Christmas lunch for older locals http://t.co/UL2oNIZi
Fire brigade serves enforcement notice on Lambeth Council re Lambeth Towers corner @Kennington Road and Lambeth Road http://t.co/bh7ALAm5
On day @maryportas suggests cutting market bureaucracy, Southwark cttee will formally de-designate Tower Bridge Road http://t.co/h1xTapJ9
Lambeth Council is closing its parking shop at the corner of Lambeth Road and @Kennington Road
http://t.co/yW07AphC
@hayleyunlikely It seems to have reopened now
Sorry for SE1 website downtime - am rebooting server - should be back soon.
Sounds like the Tower Bridge drama is over
@Goodforlunch Any idea what's wrong with it? Somerthing to do with the scaffolding and last night's wind perhaps?
RT @mbnvz: so got half way over tower bridge and got told to turn around and get off quickly because it's unsafe #londonsfallingdown
RT @Citycyclecop: #ct TRAFFIC UPDATE: Tower Bridge closed due to a defect on the Bridge. Please take alternative routes
Olympics and Olympians in Southwark and Lambeth http://t.co/qStUpLMK - lecture tonight by Len Reilly of @LambethArchives
Ghost Walk round Borough and Bankside tonight http://t.co/GSHGbBOS
@bridgewithout funded from within the. £444k
@colmhowardlloyd funded from within the £444k
Southwark Council is hiring an 'Olympic Intelligence Analyst' to help it understand the extra £444k it will have to spend during the Games
Lots of @boroughmarket on last night's @ITV1 Countrywise Kitchen - see it on @itvplayer http://t.co/ugJMEA2o
Community Carols at @oasiswaterloo this lunchtime featuring a Salvation Army brass band and @oasisjohanna choir http://t.co/b0jk1a0w
Peta Bridle's exhibition of pictures of @boroughmarket & environs at Southwark Cathedral refectory well worth a look http://t.co/42GLjWuU
Have you lost an iPhone on Borough High Street this morning? http://t.co/HOd2oOHG
#supersewer exhibition at Royal Festival Hall till 1pm http://t.co/5Mveozte
Carols with the Portcullis Singers this lunchtime at Christ Church in Blackfriars Road http://t.co/KjRxYgbI
Plans for new Guy's Hospital Cancer Centre @khpahsc on display @lb_Southwark foyer in Tooley Street for next 2 days http://t.co/ULx96hqb
RT @swanevent: Why is there a dummy man hanging from scaffolding outside the Tate Modern? Disconcerting sight from our office...!
Weston St taped off - scaffolding collapse http://t.co/8PMnhz91
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