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Thursday 22 October 2015

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News & features published on 22 October 2015
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Resident-led housebuilding plan held up by funding wrangle

An innovative project to build new council-rent homes in Bermondsey has put its operations on hold amid claims that Southwark Council has failed to provide promised funding.

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Attempted rape in Newington Causeway: police renew appeal

Detectives are appealing for help to trace a man they wish to speak to in connection with an attempted rape in Newington Causeway near Elephant & Castle.

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Road safety initiative launched at Elephant & Castle

If you travelled through Elephant & Castle on Thursday morning you can't have failed to notice the heavy police presence.

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Four violent robberies around Elephant & Walworth - police appeal

Detectives are investigating a string of violent daytime robberies of women around Elephant & Castle and Walworth during September.

Tweets on 22 October 2015

Work continues into the night at Elephant & Castle to turn the 99p store into Poundland for Saturday relaunch pic.twitter.com/EN1l2mNvTW

via Twitter for iPhone

SpotMonkey .@TfL works on Blackfriars Rd @se1 have made junction so unsafe they've got wardens to ask ppl to follow signs. pic.twitter.com/yRiuLAGGPz

via Twitter for Android (retweeted on 6:17 PM, Oct 22nd, 2015 via Twitter for iPhone)

SaliBerisha1 @se1 Anyone mentioned poor waterpressure in Elephant&Castle? @thameswater say there's a leak just south of the roundabout

via Twitter Web Client (retweeted on 6:17 PM, Oct 22nd, 2015 via Twitter for iPhone)

LambethArchives Close to Waterloo is @MorleyGallery head there at 6pm for free talk & tour of exhibition by Jon Newman, curator & archivist

via Twitter Web Client (retweeted on 5:33 PM, Oct 22nd, 2015 via Tweetbot for Mac)

Some aspects of procurement "shouldn't have happened" and "action needs to be taken to address them" - TfL's Clive Walker

via Twitter for Mac

CarolinePidgeon Tough questions to TfL audit manager re garden bridge. Too many answers not clear and watering down of report language.

via Twitter for iPhone (retweeted on 4:37 PM, Oct 22nd, 2015 via Twitter for Mac)

Under pressure from @Len_Duvall TfL audit boss Clive Walker confirms TfL procedures contravened in procurement @LondonAssembly

via Twitter for Mac

Abellio has retained the contract to run the 344 bus route

via Twitter for Mac

jpmaytum Excellent news! @LeatherMktCBS funding to be resolved 'by the end of the month' ow.ly/TISHr Thanks to @markwilliams84

via Hootsuite (retweeted on 4:25 PM, Oct 22nd, 2015 via Tweetbot for Mac)

Jason_Cobb Good to see @VauxhallLabour debating bloody at next CLP meeting.

via Twitter Web Client (retweeted on 4:17 PM, Oct 22nd, 2015 via Twitter for Mac)

Man from TfL not prepared to comment on propriety of Boris's early meetings with Heatherwick @LondonAssembly

via Twitter for Mac

Watch LIVE webcast as @LondonAssembly members grill man from TfL about #GardenBridge procurement audit https://t.co/gtpaG2WrYt

via Twitter for Mac

PippaCrerar Today's top fact: architects behind Elephant & Castle shopping centre came 2nd in comp to build Sydney Opera House. What might've been...

via Twitter for iPhone (retweeted on 3:04 PM, Oct 22nd, 2015 via Tweetbot for Mac)

KneadToWander There's a busker on the Thames in playing Christmas music. Help, @BetterBankside! Can we ban it in Bankside until at least Nov? :-)

via Twitter for Android (retweeted on 2:32 PM, Oct 22nd, 2015 via Tweetbot for Mac)

Someone's now started a 'Save F***koffee' petition against "anally retentive and gormless" objectors ...
https://t.co/AqrMyuMpFt

via Twitter for Mac

Sir Nicholas Serota talks about the impact Tate Modern has had on Bankside: https://t.co/H5GW62xu1l

via Twitter for Mac

Just published - Resident-led housebuilding scheme @LeatherMktCBS held up by funding wrangle with Southwark Council goo.gl/fb/cbQlqB

via Google

Suspect TfL audit boss will get a hard time from @LondonAssembly re procurement from 2pm.

via Twitter for iPhone

RT @liz545: Police launch road safety initiative by, um, parking on the pavement. https://t.co/zqeYURZekp

via Twitter for iPhone

10 per cent of Southwark Foodbank users are people in work, @coyleneil tells Commons committee: https://t.co/fhlGlVLKZx

via Twitter for Mac

Just published - Attempted rape in Newington Causeway: police renew appeal goo.gl/fb/QYgfSF

via Google

Just published - Road safety initiative launched at Elephant & Castle goo.gl/fb/TUqnbb

via Google

Just published - Four violent robberies around Elephant & Walworth - police appeal goo.gl/fb/9pySNa

via Google

standardnews The managers of F***offee in Bermondsey have been told to remove their 'offensive' sign bit.ly/1hWskQC pic.twitter.com/UNbfOJFkB3

via TweetDeck (retweeted on 11:31 AM, Oct 22nd, 2015 via Tweetbot for Mac)

@MrTimDunn An old sign. But there are plans to turn it into a post-modern installation as well.

via Twitter for Mac in reply to MrTimDunn

£6m flat off Albert Embankment - with £14,000 of designer clothes thrown in: https://t.co/NOjxuAMmwl

via Twitter for Mac

RT @JeydaKubilay: Your new @Poundland store is opening 24.10.15 in #Elephant&Castle, with 1p going to @Macmillancancer for EVERY £1 spent! …

via Tweetbot for Mac

laurentphotog @se1 found nationwide contactless card on london road going towards e&c, handed in to barista & baker

via Twitter for iPhone (retweeted on 10:49 AM, Oct 22nd, 2015 via Twitter for Mac)

Southwark response- interesting pres by David Quirke-Thornton
bambuser.com/v/5868650 bambuser.com/v/5868693
@Sthwarkscrutiny

via Twitter for Mac

A certain coffee shop in Bermondsey Street has been told to take its sign down https://t.co/AbjxElmk8O

via Twitter for iPhone

Police road safety operation at Elephant & Castle this morning pic.twitter.com/i0Xi1jp4ou

via Twitter for iPhone

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