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Mayor of London Boris Johnson visited Elephant & Castle on Thursday to see at first hand the Metropolitan Police's new knife crime operation, Operation Blunt 2.
The Prime Minister and five cabinet ministers visited the Beormund Community Centre in Abbey Street on Wednesday to launch the Government's draft legislative programme.
Vauxhall Labour MP Kate Hoey is to serve as unpaid commissioner for sport in the City Hall administration of Conservative Mayor Boris Johnson, it was confirmed on Thursday.
A new school will be built in Shorncliffe Road off the Old Kent Road after Southwark councillors resolved to grant planning permission.
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A 35-foot sculpture of a stag made entirely of scaffolding has been installed on a building site at the Elephant and Castle.
The Russian Ambassador, the Mayor of Southwark and Simon Hughes MP were among those who gathered with war veterans at the Soviet War Memorial on Friday to mark the 63rd anniversary of VE Day.
On Bank Holiday Monday Southwark Cathedral hosted its first interfaith youth arts event with Christian, Muslim and Jewish young people.
Arts Reviews
In this new play by Phil Porter, three children dream of escape from a crumbling eye hospital where patients arrive but never leave and the children's ward seems to be run for the benefit of the dictatorial Nurse Cakebread.
Shakespeare's Globe's new season begins with a persuasive production of King Lear by Dominic Dromgoole.











