Time and Talents has been asked by the Bermondsey and Rotherhithe Community Council to investigate the interest in setting up a civic society or urban parish council for Rotherhithe. For the purpose of this activity Rotherhithe is defined according to…
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Southwark Civic Awards for Rotherhithe & Bermondsey Choral Society and Bede House
The Rotherhithe and Bermondsey Choral Society was awarded the Liberty of the Old Metropolitan Borough of Bermondsey at the Southwark Civic Awards held at St George’s Cathedral on Saturday. The award was collected by Sue Heath-Downey and Prem Goyal. Pearly…
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Saturday cocktails and gourmet Sundays at Brunel Museum
Wild food and wild cocktails await you at the new season of Midnight Apothecary at the Brunel Museum in Rotherhithe. Wild gourmet chefs The Foragers (of Dead Dolls Club fame, Dalston) have teamed up with pop-up roof garden cocktail bar…
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Rotherhithe man jailed for rape of 17-year-old
A man from Rotherhithe was jailed on Monday for the rape of a 17-year-old girl. 24-year-old Frank Walker of Shipwright Road was sentenced at Woolwich Crown Court to 36 months imprisonment. On Saturday 28 July last year the victim attended…
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Rotherhithe New Road walking and cycling bridge now open
The long-awaited Connect2 bridge across Rotherhithe New Road next to South Bermondsey Station was opened on Friday afternoon by Cllr Peter John, Labour leader of Southwark Council. The ceremony was delayed after Cllr John and council colleagues were stuck…
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SE16 and SE8 off-licences face alcohol sales bans
Two Southwark off licences have had their right to sell alcohol suspended after they were caught selling to an underage customer during a pre-Christmas operation. Both Payless on Jamaica Road SE16 and Costless Express on Lower Road (just across the…
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Slow SE16 broadband raised at Southwark Council meeting
At this week’s Southwark council assembly the problem of poor broadband speeds on the Rotherhithe peninsula was raised by Cllr David Hubber. Hear his supplementary question and the response from Cllr Peter John, leader of the council: listen to ‘Slow…
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Simon Hughes: we must find super sewer alternatives that are “greener, more sustainable and more cost-effective”
“It is not too late to have an alternative to a super-sewer down the middle of the Thames,” Simon Hughes MP told Parliament this week. The current solution is to pour millions of tonnes of concrete into building a super-sewer…
Assembly member seeks urgent meeting over Rotherhithe Tunnel gridlock
Everyone in Bermondsey must now be aware of the traffic chaos resulting from the enforcement of new width restrictions on the Rotherhithe Tunnel. Drive from Folkestone to near surrey quays station: 1hour and 20mins. Surrey Quays station to home/off Jamaica…
Civic Trust Award for Canada Water Library – and a commendation for Dilston Grove
Canada Water Library has received two prestigious awards in the space of a month: a 2013 EDGE Award in the physical category and a Civic Trust Award. “We are thrilled to have won two notable awards,” said Cllr Veronica Ward,…
