Follow us on Twitter Facebook Audioboo YouTube Flickr Foursquare RSS Email

The Mayor and the skateboarding sheep

The Mayor of Southwark, a freeman of the City of London, exercised her right to drive a sheep across a City bridge today.

Her walk over the Millennium Bridge with a fibreglass sheep on a skateboard was sponsored to raise money for the Surrey Docks Farm.

sheep

Cllr Hilary Wines' arrival was announced by London's Town Crier Peter Moore. With the Mayor were children from Redriff School singing Professor Pip's Wibbly Wobbly Bridge song.

sheep

sheep

Get SE1 news by email every week

For the latest local news and events direct to your inbox every Monday, you need our weekly email newsletter SE1 Direct.

7,300+ locals read it every week. Can you afford to miss out?

Read the latest issue before signing up