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• Sainsbury's Local store now open at Waterloo Station 24 Feb 2023
• TfL sets 2025 start date for Southwark Tube Station office block 15 Feb 2023
• Council drops Blackfriars Road area Low Traffic Neighbourhood 31 Oct 2021
• St John's Waterloo: work starts on major restoration 4 Jul 2021
• Have your say on the future of Waterloo's Emma Cons Gardens 23 Jun 2021
• Green light for 17-storey office block above Southwark Tube 17 Mar 2021
• Low Traffic Neighbourhood: no through motor traffic in Webber St 17 Mar 2021
• WeAreWaterloo BID wins fourth five-year term 28 Feb 2021
• Green light for new council homes next to Southwark Tube station 22 Feb 2021
• Obituary: Graham Gibberd, Waterloo & South Bank historian 24 Dec 2020
• Police impose dispersal zone on South Bank & Waterloo 18 Dec 2020
• Mayor plans City Hall job losses as GLA prepares to head east 16 Nov 2020
• Man with life-threatening injuries after fight in The Cut 17 Sep 2020
• The Cut to be closed to through motor traffic 22 Aug 2020
• Thames Water thanks locals after six-month road closure 19 Jul 2020
• SE1 arts bosses welcome Government's bail-out for culture sector 6 Jul 2020
• New Marlborough Yard: first image of new pedestrian link 24 Jun 2020
• Blackfriars Road reopens to traffic after month-long closure 24 Feb 2020
• Blackfriars Road to remain shut for another fortnight 1 Feb 2020
• Blackfriars Road: burst water main shuts Southwark Station 21 Jan 2020
• TfL plans office block above Southwark Tube Station 15 Oct 2019
• Premier Inn's new Southwark hotel 'topped out' 29 Aug 2019
• Evans Cycles shuts The Cut shop, ending 98 years of local history 13 Aug 2019
• Lambeth axes funding for Coin Street children's centre 16 Apr 2019
• New principal Annette Cast takes the helm at Southwark College 8 Apr 2019
• Award-nominated kebab shop fined £60,000 by Home Office 27 Feb 2019
• Lambeth children's centres: 2,075 sign petition against cuts 14 Feb 2019
• Capital Kebab House in The Cut - is it London's finest? 6 Feb 2019
• TfL cuts opening hours of new Southwark tube entrance 5 Feb 2019
• Waterloo community celebrates Rosa Wright's 100th birthday 3 Feb 2019
• John Harvard Library to be closed one day a week 28 Jan 2019
• Southwark to regain its own FE college 30 Sep 2018
• Car Free Day event held in Bermondsey Street 24 Sep 2018
• John Calder, founder of Waterloo's Calder Bookshop, dies aged 91 16 Aug 2018
• Sadiq Khan responds to petition against RV1 bus cuts 27 Apr 2018
• Premier Inn to open new hotel in The Cut 6 Apr 2018
• Ufford Street: 274-room hotel approved on former college land 23 Mar 2018
• Sadiq says RV1 bus service cut will be reviewed after six months 28 Feb 2018
• RV1: clamour grows for TfL to reconsider cuts to bus route 21 Feb 2018
• Sadiq knocks £12 million off Southwark Fire Station price 23 Jan 2018
• Tanner Street: council trials motorcycle anchors (again) 17 Oct 2017
• TfL cuts bus frequencies in SE1 10 Oct 2017
• Kwame Kwei-Armah named as next Young Vic boss 26 Sep 2017
• Proposals for Old Kent Road's Underground station name 3 Aug 2017
• Architects call to save Southwark Underground Station 1 Aug 2017
• David Lan to step down as Young Vic artistic director 12 Jun 2017
• 'Smart benches' with free wifi & USB chargers coming to Southwark 15 May 2017
• Lewisham Southwark College to join Newcastle-based FE group 12 May 2017
• Man stabbed in Nelson Square on Sunday lunchtime 19 Mar 2017
• New artwork installed outside Southwark Tube Station 17 Jan 2017
• Judges in Waterloo as high street contest enters final fortnight 6 Nov 2016
• Waterloo International: shopping centre plans approved 2 Nov 2016
• Minicab and Smart car in Waterloo Road smash 22 Oct 2016
• Lower Marsh and The Cut: Britain's best high street? 19 Oct 2016
• Garden Bridge campaigners join 'Stand Up to Lambeth' march 8 Oct 2016
• Waterloo Library: council leader opens temporary venue 20 Sep 2016
• Ofsted finds improvement at Lewisham Southwark College 21 Jun 2016
• 'We Knit Waterloo' show inspired by history of shopping streets 17 Apr 2016
• Lambeth joins Southwark in setting 20 mph speed limit 5 Apr 2016
• Lewisham Southwark College could join Newcastle-based group 9 Mar 2016
• Melior Street Garden to share in Tesco carrier bag windfall 1 Mar 2016
• Fenella Fielding cuts Old Vic's Twelfth Night cake 9 Jan 2016
• Lewisham Southwark College in The Cut 'topped out' 15 Nov 2015
• Local residents & firms lack confidence in police says Neil Coyle 4 Nov 2015
• Council and college remain at odds over future of FE in Southwark 9 Aug 2015
• Council unveils FE plan to replace Lewisham Southwark College 9 Jul 2015
• Lewisham Southwark College staff strike over job cuts 5 Jun 2015
• In pictures: Open Streets London in Great Suffolk Street 31 May 2015
• The Cut to be shut to motor traffic for three weeks 15 May 2015
• Coffin carried from college to City Hall to highlight FE threat 25 Apr 2015
• 'Inadequate' Lewisham Southwark College faces 'daunting' challenges 1 Apr 2015
• Southwark tube development: Styles House residents will have final say 31 Mar 2015
• Waterloo Library: little enthusiasm for volunteer-run service 20 Mar 2015
• The Cut to the Croisette: council in Cannes to woo Waterloo developers 9 Mar 2015
• Council: 'no deal' with Southwark tube station developer 6 Mar 2015
• 300+ homes to be built above Southwark Underground Station 2 Mar 2015
• New principal pledges to make FE college 'beacon of excellence' 21 Jan 2015
• Travel and technology incubator to open at More London 3 Dec 2014
• Progress at Lewisham Southwark College 'insufficient' says Ofsted 26 Nov 2014
• Secure motorbike parking trial on The Cut 22 Nov 2014
• Fire engine response times up since Southwark Fire Station shut 15 Nov 2014
• Postboxes sealed up after keys go missing 15 Oct 2014
• £10 to see New Year's Eve fireworks 17 Sep 2014
• Centenary of Waterloo-born Labour foreign secretary George Brown 2 Sep 2014
• Man arrested for attempted murder in Sainsbury's Local in The Cut 26 Aug 2014
• Homeless Londoners perform on Young Vic stage 25 Aug 2014
• Thames cutter crews compete in Port of London Challenge 24 Jul 2014
• KCL staff & students march from Waterloo to Guy's in jobs protest 10 Jul 2014
• Artist and activist Veronica Planton remembered at Waterloo exhibition 6 Jul 2014
• Protests mount over King's College London academic job cuts 25 Jun 2014
• Cutting from Lambeth Palace fig tree presented to Pope Francis 24 Jun 2014
• Homes, shops and restaurants suffer power cut in The Cut 11 Jun 2014
• Tesco Express opens in The Cut 3 Jun 2014
• Tesco Express to open next to Sainsbury's Local in Waterloo Road 18 May 2014
• Principal of troubled LeSoCo college quits 13 May 2014
• LeSoCo wins go-ahead for Waterloo campus revamp and new homes 6 Apr 2014
• Paddy Power threatens legal challenge to betting shop clampdown 18 Mar 2014
• Planners veto 7-storey tower opposite The Old Vic 7 Mar 2014
• Supermarket war in Great Suffolk Street as Sainsbury's takes on Tesco 27 Jan 2014
• Waterloo: put your bin out at wrong time and face £1,000 fine 24 Jan 2014

On the forum

• FLATS ABOVE SOUTHWARK TUBE
• Road closures
• Bermondsey Street closure
• The Cut to close to traffic from 19th October
• Street Population Waterloo
• Police cordon on the Cut
• Young shoplifters on bikes with football
• Part pedestrianisation. A fresco dining etc as Covent Garden
• Pret a Manger - The Cut
• Coronavirus alert
• Virgin media slow in SE1
• Lost bunch of keys Sunday 02/02/20 - Union St/The Cut/Lower Marsh
• Gales bakery opening on the Cut
• Ian Allan railway model shop knife sale
• Chaos this morning Blackfriars Rd/The Cut
• Shopping centre..
• Scam at a Santader cycle station
• Site of Evans cycles The Cut
• Tall Buildings on the South Bank
• Vision for Southwark Station
• TFL 2nd entrance for Southwark Tube
• Tesco Elephant and Castle closed?
• New Burrito style takeaway on the Cut , opposite Southwark station
• Kebab place in The Cut
• 16 New Phone boxes in Waterloo
• Waterloo Millennium Green
• Waterloo Cuppa with a Copper
• Southwark Tube: new entrance
• LAMBETH LABOUR VOTES FOR THE COLONEL!
• Southbank Tandoori on The Cut closed - becoming a burger place!
• Clothing Alterations Recommendations?
• Blackfriars hotel planning permission
• Trees Baylis Road
• The Cut roadworks
• Butchers on Great Suffolk Street to close
• Lambeth proposal 2 way cycle lanes Roupell St etc
• Messing with BHS / Marshalsea - TFL
• KFC to replace the Roxy
• ATM in The Cut..a warning
• Hatfields Roadworks
• Lesoco college. The cut
• St Mungos - anti social behaviour
• Rats in Emma Cons Gardens
• Hatfields Road off The Cut SE1
• Another stressful disruptive weekend
• clothing alterations!
• Coffee shops in Elephant/Blackfriars
• Fireworks
• Shouting - Bermondsey Street on Saturday Night??
• Dog-friendly pub
• SDV Jewellers
• Proposed 275 bed Hotel in Ufford Street
• Card skimming SE1
• Curry House recommendations
• Incident in Nelson Square
• Greensmith butchers
• London Bridge Dry Cleaners
• Civil Defence in SE1
• Clothes alterations
• One tower bridge retail
• At long last
• Flat Iron Square
• Can you name and shame empty property in SE1 with the light on 24 hours?
• Tate viewing platform
• GP Appointment a months wait
• Blood donors
• Blackfriars Road Post Office
• byrons
• Thanks to a North Lambeth good samaritan
• Nigel Farage Westminster Flotilla
• Corner of Isabella and Joan Street
• Safe entry to St Thomas's
• Drinking outside the pub - when is there too many
• The post ...again ...and again ...
• Virgin Media broadband - super slow speeds at night
• The Old Vic, The Caretaker, and "those suffering from mental ill health in the UK"
• Food huts on Blackfriars Road
• Mugging on Hatfields witnessed at approx 1820hrs today
• E&C Greasy Spoon
• Cars / motorbikes on Sunday night
• Increase in vermin?!
• Secondhand bike shops
• diversion tonight thats causing chaos on hatfields/the cut ?
• The impact of closing Newcomen Street to traffic
• Merger of Lewisham Southwark Newcastle College
• Blackfriars Rd blocked off by police
• Road accidents
• Ban bikes
• Westminster Bridge Road Cycle Superhighway
• Chinese takeaways
• Resurfacing works The Cut - Ear Plugs needed ?
• Empty shops in Lower Marsh
• Las Congas club 516 Old Kent Road
• Fireworks cleanup
• Freshcut sandwich shop - The Cut
• The Cut closures
• Strange Procession along the Cut/Hatfields last night
• SE1 post - lack of deliveries have been waiting on a lot of things recently..
• Mint Street Adventure Playground - funding cuts
• New E&C road layout appears to be working?
• Blackfriars Road - Delays
• Is anybody using the new Bike Super Highway?
• Venison pies
• Good family walk?
• Crows - Great Dover Street Area
• TFL consulatation "Smartphone displays Uber app London taxi rules would 'end Uber'"
• Early morning ice cream?
• Borough Map
• Scam?! Man knocking on door asking for £20
• Mowing the Lawn
• "Blackfriars Circus"
• Speeding on Bermondsey Wall West
• Neil Coyle abstains from vote on Welfare Bill
• Councillors' register of interests/hospitality
• Thai Silk
• Charles Dickens Pub
• Road works and closures in SE1
• Tesco The Cut
• The Cut/Blackfriars Road
• Waterloo Station Breakfast
• Open Streets - 30 May 2015
• Princess Street Surgery- a rant and a moan
• LeSoCo consultation meeting regarding building works
• Quietway Cornwall Road
• Development on top of Southwark Station
• Stamford Street
• Squatters in old antiques warehouse?
• Fake Beggar around The Cut/Waterloo
• Yet another Hotel (shipping containers)
• Fruit juice drums - Waterloo
• 'Flypast' of expensive cars
• Hearing Big Ben...?
• Southwark College (LESOCO) The Cut SE1
• Looking to borrow a blow up bed...
• Be Aware at ATMs
• Upholstering rush seated chair
• Need some sewing help :-)
• Food and drink
• Hotel GB: Bermondsey Square
• Street clutter on Bermondsey Street
• Hoxton hotel
• Post box on The Cut and Blackfriars Road
• Social Cleansing in Southwark
• Lower Marsh Hotel
• Waitrose
• £10 charge for fireworks
• Street 'furniture' on The Cut
• Squatters in 16-18 Marshalsea Road
• Cyclists V motorists Vpedestrians part 638
• small washing machine
• Planning for people who live in Southwark now
• Tesco Long Lane - rip-off alert
• 20 mph speed limit not for Bikes
• Lost 3-legged cat - Waterloo area
• Tesco / Sainsbury's
• France v Germany tomorrow
• Blackfriars Road refuge
• Power Cut - The Cut (Ironically)
• Dare I even whisper it ;-)
• LESOCO Construction on The Cut
• Massage on The Cut (Yong Kang Health Centre)
• Coffee in Waterloo
• Peter John's Leaders Statement 27th May
• Queen's Arms Spa Road - closed for good?
• RESTURANT /TAKE AWAY SPACE IN SE1
• Queen Elizabeth St Tesco Express
• Subway
• ANOTHER Tesco?!?
• Llewellyn Fine Art 124 The Cut
• Power cuts and service outages
• C10 passengers revolt
• Dry Cleaner near Stamford St
• London's first Open Streets event
• Disposal of old pc - Help!
• Costa Coffee on Walworth Road
• Homes & Pub to be knocked down on Blackfriars Road
• Street lights in Rockingham Street / Arch Street alleyway
• Pedestrian crossing Tower Bridge Road / Abbey Street
• Cycling in Central London
• Massage Parlour on The Cut
• Blackfriars Road remodelling
• Tesco, The Cut, SE1
• Premier food and wine on The Cut?
• Developers have approached the council to buy another block of flats
• Need a good hairdresser
• Stolen Bikes
• Just a Pic of Squatters taking over the disused office building on Joan street
• Supermarket overcharging
• Another shop on Lower Marsh scheduled for closure?
• Dog Fouling the footpaths and green areas.
• Are 10000 new council homes in Southwark enough?
• Southwark Liberal Democrats - your thoughts on Transport & Environment
• Walworth Surplus Store
• Need a washing machine fixed - AVOID
• Union Street "exceptional says it all"
• serious RTA the cut junction blackfriars road
• Trav-O-lator
• Dog walkers of SE1 - advice needed please .
• Why are there so few coffee shops in SE1?
• Exhibition of Barratt's major development of Blackfriars Rd.
• Fresh Grimsby Fish
• Vandalised trees
• French Restaurant Coming to the Street
• Dog on top of a lamp post ??
• Closure of Southwark Fire Station-Public Consultation
• Co-op in Southwark Bridge Road
• Elliott's Row Conservation Area
• The Elephant: Can You Recognise It From These Pictures?
• Public bicycle pump in Kennington Road
• Power Cut, Nelson Square
• Dog mess on Union Street
• Vandalism in Tabard Park by the council!
• Broken windows around Union Street area
• Tesco Tooley Street New Tills
• Bells of SE1
• Council Tax cuts
• Cat found in Southwark SE1
• Brunch 12 people this Sunday
• Picture framing
• If it happened tomorrow how would you fare?
• Which SE1 pub is your local?
• Use of a wet tile saw
• Christmas lights on Waterloo Road
• Waterloo Bar and Grill closed down
• Exciting news Pret to open in BHS
• Reliable Jewellers
• Burritos - Blackfriars Road
• Yet another Sainsbury's
• The Siege of The Elephant: Convergence against gentrification of The Elephant Nov 17th 2012
• Advice on plants to grow on a dead tree
• Changes to council tax benefits
• Supermarkets
• Moonraker noise
• Dry Cleaners close to Waterloo
• Early Morning bottle collection - Hatfields
• Moving to Great Dover Street
• Plant Massacre
• Metal inspection covers on New Kent Road
• Critical Mass
• Council Spitefully Vandalise Heygate Community Gardens
• Olympic Lanes
• Motorbike noise? Reporting?
• Best Butchers!
• Suspicious activity around City Walk / Vesta Court area
• Small fire on The Cut
• Greet Street/The Cut bombing 17.04.41
• Road closures for Thames Diamond Jubilee Pageant
• HERITAGE WATCH SE1 and SE17
• Premier Food & Wine's alcohol licence revoked
• Ladies Hair Do
• Bomb damage The Ring SE1
• New barbershop on Great Suffolk Street
• Pie and mash
• Byrons Burgers on the cut
• Postage Increase
• Recommendations for Pedicure in SE1?
• Looking for a Man with a Van
• SE1 vs East North of the river
• Electrical Repairs - E&C
• Light bulbs
• Livebait (The Cut) closed down
• Muna's Grill
• Community Council Mergers good or bad idea??
• Insult from Southwark Council
• Noisy/Polluting Unmarked Aircraft/Helicopters
• Dr Salter statue stolen reward!
• Parks in SE1
• Where To Watch The Rugby In SE1
• Sainsburys in the Cut
• Florist
• New Barbershop
• Riots - updates and is everyone OK?
• Faith in Human Nature
• Salon, SE1
• Noise from Isabella Street
• simon hughes fighting our corner
• UFO above Southwark Bridge Road
• Pensioners social clubs - anything left?
• Very Hot: What's council doing?
• Fox behind The Young Vic
• Reed.. Agora... Paddy power... Coral.. As bad as an high street can get
• Have the council finally lost it?
• Borough Market traders evicted
• Bicycle wheel theft - Why?
• Tescos delivery Bermondsey
• Free school meals for all pupils in Southwark despite cuts
• Cleaning Services Cuts in Southwark
• Taxis?
• Anti-Cuts March 26th March
• Attacked this morning - any SE1 witnesses?
• Closing down sale - kitchen shop - The Cut
• Simon Hughes not present at forest sell-off vote
• Dickens Square
• Cheap bite out
• Elephant and Castle Shopping Centre to endure
• Yet another Tesco!
• Police, Blackfriars Road
• Laundrette closure on The Cut
• mobile fishmonger
• Late Dining in SE1
• Ideas for places to visit in SE1 for a team building treasure hunt
• Tesco deliveries in SE1 area
• Hate to Post it-but THE POST
• Places to eat near Travelodge Waterloo
• Could Borough High Street be more pleasant?
• Moving to SE1
• Travelodge Southwark and children
• Lower Marsh redevelopment - scandal
• Changing of Blackfriars station name
• Restaurants/'doggie-bags'
• General questions about Southwark
• Food hygiene in restaurants etc.
• Looking for a childminder
• Car scratch repair
• The Cut - New Shops
• Removing traffic lights
• Hairdressers
• Railway Tunnel Westminster Bridge Road
• Cycle Repair - Druid Cycles
• Simon Hughes - new Lib Dem Deputy Leader
• Papa Johns takeaway right on Tower Bridge Road at 168a
• Does anybody know where i could buy ribbon?
• Part/Full Time Job? Bar or Office..? I'm good!!!
• Well done Millwall
• Quick question re vegetable stall in Lower Marsh
• Southwark Travelodge - anywhere good to eat nearby?
• Models still needed for charity!
• Glass attack in Baltic restaurant
• Be a model for charity in SE1
• Labour's London Borough Lambwark!
• Helium Balloon/Card Shop
• Great Dover Street
• Never-ending 'streetworks'
• Strange Signs and Portents
• A good hard working MP
• Arrows, arrows, everywhere!
• Noise at night in Tennis Street
• Seville oranges
• DAB
• Three-legged cat out in the cold!
• Christmas Eve Dinner?
• Christmas Wreath
• Early life in Bermondsey
• Emma Cons pavement
• 35mm photo processing and printing - any recommendations please
• SE1 Indian Takeaways
• How can YOU improve SE1?
• Students escorted from LCC premises
• Bermondsey Square food market
• How many on here shop down East Street Market
• Largish plant pots required
• Pub reviews
• What was going on this afternoon?
• Kindness in SE1
• Conman fleecing public money Alert!!
• Kids eating in SE1
• Taxis
• Loitering men - dispersal area
• 80 year old father (orphanage in Union Street)
• £3.95 for a slice of Cheese???
• police with machine guns were just running up and down union st
• Bookstores in SE1?
• What's your favourite road name in SE1?
• Broken traffic lights
• Street works on The Cut and Waterloo Road
• Reasonable priced placed where you can eat?
• Want a wormery? Have mine
• Waterloo East - new entrance
• New restaurant in former Goode Foods shop, 104 Tooley Street
• Bermondsey Square Hotel area
• Hair Cuts
• English Bull Terrier found on The Cut
• Which pub should I go to in SE1?
• A2 Great Dover Street
• Supermarkets in SE1?
• Has anyone had any post since the snow?
• Cheap alterations, trouser hemming
• Babysitter wanted
• Birds in SE1
• Southwark Council to refuse licenses
• Blackfriars Road local social history in the Daily Mail
• Small party/gathering!
• Christmas Trees
• Greensmiths Lower Marsh - new supermarket!
• Lost Tabby, South Bank & The Cut
• Between The Bridges A Photo Essay On Webber St
• Horse drawn carriages in Waterloo!
• Plumbing problem expert advice needed
• Recommendations for Party Venues...
• Beggars Waterloo/Borough
• Fire Station and the pavement
• Looking for a Cozy Coffee Shop
• Sorry - where exactly is this air raid sign?
• Open House, this weekend
• Peabody Buildings Roupell/Duchy Street
• Looking for Christmas party venue for 100-150
• Mens Haircut/Grooming in SE1
• 43-46 Blackfriars Road - 75-metre hotel and office building
• The Libertine
• Motorbike noise