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• Through motor traffic banned from two South Bank streets

  08-11-2023 16:10 via se1.news
  
  The new measures were introduced on Wednesday afternoon when contractors uncovered the new signs that had been installed last week.The experimental changes have been introduced as part of the £8 million South Bank Spine Route project to improve the state of Belvedere Road and Upper Ground.In Upper Ground, motor traffic can now travel eastbound only on the section between Duchy Street and Broadwall (between the two halves of Bernie Spain Gardens), with cyclists able to use a contraflow.Belo
  
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• Ad billboard proposed behind Borough war memorial

  08-11-2023 11:00 via se1.news
  
  Advertising firm blowUP Media has applied to Southwark Council to display commercial images on a scaffolding shroud on the south side of Town Hall Chambers in Borough High Street, which forms the backdrop to the St Saviour's War Memorial.The giant advert would be in place for six months whilst works are carried out to the facade of Town Hall Chambers, the flats above The Bridge Tap pub.According to the heritage statement submitted with the application: "The scheme is supported by the Town Hall C
  
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• Prince Edward opens Haberdashers' Borough Academy

  08-11-2023 10:36 via se1.news
  
  Haberdashers' Borough Academy is now established in its permanent home at the former London Fire Brigade training centre in Southwark Bridge Road.The school first opened in 2019 in temporary accommodation whilst construction work continued.The academy now has almost 900 pupils across years 7 to 11 and will have pupils sitting GCSEs for the first time this academic year."We were thrilled to welcome the Duke of Edinburgh to officially open Borough Academy," said principal Declan Jones."It was wond
  
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• Harper Road: more crossings, wider pavements and traffic calming

  08-11-2023 10:19 via se1.news
  
  Plans for Harper Road are due to be signed off this month by Cllr James McAsh, Southwark's cabinet member for climate emergency, clean air & streets.The Harper Road scheme is part of the Southwark Spine, a route linking Borough and Dulwich first announced by the council eight years ago but to date still incomplete.The latest project includes new pedestrian crossings, speed humps and wider pavements.The Streets for People scheme was the subject of public consultation in April and May this yea
  
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  08-11-2023 09:00 via news.google.com
  
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• Lambeth calls on the Government to properly fund local services amid 'Inflationary Storm' confronting the borough ... - Love Lambeth

  08-11-2023 09:00 via news.google.com
  
  Lambeth calls on the Government to properly fund local services amid 'Inflationary Storm' confronting the borough ...  Love Lambeth
  
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• Benedict Birnberg

  08-11-2023 07:48 via se1.news
  
  One of his clients said to have meant more to him than any other was Southwark-born Iris Bentley, sister of Derek Bentley who was hanged for the murder of a policeman.When, after a long and controversial campaign, Derek was exonerated his sister had died a few months earlier. However, she had often spoken to her solicitor of a commemorative service at Southwark Cathedral once justice had been done. On 28 January 1999, the 46th anniversary of Bentley's hanging, the service was held at the ca
  
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