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Climate change campaigners block traffic near Tate Modern

Climate change activists blocked traffic on Southwark Street and Southwark Bridge Road on Sunday with the aim of disrupting London Fashion Week events at Tate Modern.

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Climate change activists @ExtinctionR blocked traffic on Southwark Street and Southwark Bridge Road on Sunday after… https://t.co/Aa05f3P09p

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Less than two weeks left to submit your entry for the @Waterloofestiv short story competition london-se1.co.uk/news/view/9822

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The Sun reports that Peppa Pig fans sparked a security scare at Southbank Centre — by invading the stage
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List of businesses in Newington Causeway, late 1830s pic.twitter.com/vAZgh7X6TI

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London during the Great Fire from the Bankside, Southwark https://t.co/ObqeFcUjXA

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Buses around London Bridge will be curtailed on Monday afternoon due to the weekly @united_phd minicab congestion c… https://t.co/YH4nFjTbZi

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David Mitchell on #netcurtaingate Neo Bankside / Tate Modern: “the next time this happens, it won’t be a popular ch… https://t.co/uNo58TuTtv

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RT @GreshamCollege: Not long until we meet #LondonsFirstFilmmaker... 🎬

@ianchris revisits a historic film location in preparation for his…

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RT @nmac1968: With the renewed reporting of the scandalous waste of public money on the abandoned garden bridge, it's worth reminding ourse…

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A few nuggets from the #gardenbridge trust board minutes that are interesting in the light of Osborne's Evening Sta… https://t.co/0ttQrCD1mn

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The @ExtinctionR campaigners are also intermittently stopping northbound traffic on Southwark Bridge Road pic.twitter.com/P5Op8fzkjb

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Southwark Street - @ExtinctionR intermittently halting traffic to highlight climate change pic.twitter.com/AaYkpgr9JJ

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RT @JambusterLondon: A300 Southwark Bridge Road (SE1) (Southbound) and A3200 Southwark Road - Protesters are blocking the southbound lane i…

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RT @AndyBanksideSE1: @se1 Flash climate change protests onSouthwak Street. Chaos with London Fasion Week at Tate Modern and cranes going up…

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City Hall, Potters Fields Park, One Tower Bridge. pic.twitter.com/pwnvlIe8Wx

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Hay’s Galleria with the Kipling Estate beyondpic.twitter.com/7uTDhR4Cozoz

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If you stand in the right place you can just see @Southwarkcathed at the side of the Walkie Talkie pic.twitter.com/m9OoDkWIPF

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Tower Bridge and Butler’s Wharf from the new public roof garden at 120 Fenchurch Streepic.twitter.com/ASAhGkA3dKdK

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RT @se1: Joanna Lumley in 2014 suggested at a #gardenbridge board meeting that the bridge could have a 1p toll to enable the trust to recov…

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RT @se1: In 2014 the #gardenbridge trust again discussed prospect of installing turnstiles and levying a 1p toll to cross the bridge. "The…

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RT @se1: In September 2014, the #gardenbridge trust board was told that Sarah Sands, then editor of the Standard, wanted to make 2015 the '…

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RT @se1: In summer 2017 Lord Davies met transport sec Chris Grayling, who left him with the impression that the Government was prepared to…

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RT @se1: #Gardenbridge Trust minutes show that Boris Johnson issued a "plea" to trustees nto to give up prior to the 2017 general election…

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RT @se1: In late 2016 Sadiq Khan is said to have approached Thomas Heatherwick at a private event "and told Thomas he wanted the #gardenbri…

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RT @se1: The #GardenBridge trust board agreed to approach the editor of the Evening Standard to help them "apply pressure" on Coin Street C…

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RT @se1: Minutes of the #GardenBridge trust show that Joanna Lumley was unhappy with Dan Pearson's landscape design, feeling it was quite d…

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RT @se1: In Autumn 2016, the #gardenbridge trust board received a report that final costs of the bridge would be up to £220 million - but a…

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RT @se1: During a #gardenbridge board meeting in summer 2016, chair Lord Davies received a text message from Lambeth leader Lib Peck asking…

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se1 Joanna Lumley suggested in 2016 that ownership of the could be handed over to the Royal Parks

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RT @se1: Joanna Lumley met George Osborne at a Christmas carol service in 2015 and he "made it very clear" that the #gardenbridge was "assu…

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RT @se1: Interesting that while he has still Mayor, Boris Johnson met #gardenbridge trustees and TfL officials at Portcullis House.

(Marga…

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RT @se1: ITV wanted rights to use the #gardenbridge free of charge for filming (it would have been next to their HQ), but Sky was a sponsor…

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RT @se1: In 2015, Lambeth Council's then chief executive Sean Harriss suggested that the #gardenbridge could charge a toll but only between…

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RT @se1: #gardenbridge boss Bee Emmott told the trust board in autumn 2015 that the then chief exec of Lambeth Council, Sean Harriss, "had…

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RT @se1: When Lambeth Council briefly pulled its support for the #gardenbridge in 2015, trust chair Lord Davies was at a dinner with Tessa…

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RT @se1: Lord Davies suggested in summer 2015 that the #gardenbridge trust take out adverts in the papers with the slogan "the bridge is fr…

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RT @se1: In summer 2015, Thomas Heatherwick told the #gardenbridge trust board that he had recently met George Osborne, then still Chancell…

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“The question is: why on earth should anyone believe any promise or statement that this man makes, about anything,… https://t.co/MtxZiKDazv

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