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With our best wishes for Christmas and the New Year, James Hatts Editor, SE1 Direct ======================================================= [ SE1 Direct ] http://www.SE1direct.co.uk Issue 113 | 23 December 2002 ======================================================= >> IN THIS BULLETIN ======================================================= * What's on this week * Local news and features from London-SE1.co.uk * SE1 news from around the Web * In the London SE1 Forum ======================================================= [ What's on this week ] Not many events to report this week, but of course SE1's churches will be very busy over the next few days. For full details of Christmas services check out their websites: Southwark Cathedral (CofE) http://www.dswark.org/cathedral St George's RC Cathedral http://www.southwark-rc-cathedral.org.uk St George the Martyr & St Alphege (CofE) http://www.stgeorgethemartyr.co.uk St John's Waterloo (CofE) http://www.stjohnswaterloo.co.uk Our Lady of La Salette & St Joseph (RC) http://www.rc.net/southwark/london-bermondseylasalette Christ Church Southwark (CofE) http://www.christchurchsouthwark.org.uk ------------------------------------------------------- Full monthly what's on guide - http://www.inSE1.co.uk ======================================================= [ Local News and Features from London-SE1.co.uk ] Our team of contributors updates our news and features throughout the week at http://www.London-SE1.co.uk Here are some of the highlights from the past 7 days: CHRISTMAS PREPARATIONS UNDER WAY AT MANDELA WAY HOMELESS SHELTER Hundreds of volunteers with homelessness charity Crisis have been working to turn five London premises - including one in SE1's Mandela Way, off the Old Kent Road - into Christmas shelters. http://www.london-se1.co.uk/news/view/394 SHELL SHOP PLANS IN DOUBT Shell is considering appealing against the surprise rejection of its Waterloo redevelopment plans. http://www.london-se1.co.uk/news/view/393 PUT YOUR OLD MOBILE TO GOOD USE If you've recently upgraded your mobile phone, there's a new local scheme that can put your old handset to good use, reconfiguring donated mobile phones into personal safety alarms for vulnerable people in the area. http://www.london-se1.co.uk/news/view/395 MAD4COLOUR: BOROUGH MARKET'S NEW GALLERY A new contemporary art gallery, Mad4Colour, has just opened on Bedale Street near Borough Market. It replaces the Bedale Street Gallery, which has moved upstairs. http://www.london-se1.co.uk/news/view/391 SLEEPING BEAUTY AT THE YOUNG VIC Once upon a time the fairy Goody grants a childless king and queen a baby girl but becomes piqued at being banished from the infant's christening and casts a sleeping spell upon the child. http://www.london-se1.co.uk/news/view/392 ------------------------------------------------------- News throughout the week at http://www.London-SE1.co.uk ======================================================= [ SE1 news from around the Web ] Every week we trawl the web for news stories and features on SE1 people, places and organisations Gerhard Jenne on the pulling power of Konditor & Cook http://www.se1direct.co.uk/quicklink/go.php?id=272 Congestion charging: 180 more vehicles an hour for Tower Bridge Road, but Blackfriars Bridge will be much quieter (The Times) http://www.se1direct.co.uk/quicklink/go.php?id=273 Art student rolls through streets of SE1 (SLP) http://www.se1direct.co.uk/quicklink/go.php?id=271 ------------------------------------------------------- Seen an interesting SE1-related article? Let us know by emailing [email protected] and we'll include it ======================================================= [ In the London SE1 Forum ] Our weekly digest of topics raised in recent discussions at http://www.London-SE1.co.uk/forum/ - New Year's Eve - Top 5 posts this year - Elephant & Castle: a film - What's your favourite street in SE1? - Has the SE1 bubble burst? - 100-140 Union Street http://www.London-SE1.co.uk/forum/ ------------------------------------------------------- Got an opinion you would like to share with the rest of SE1? Visit http://www.London-SE1.co.uk/forum/ ======================================================= >> CONTACT DETAILS ======================================================= Contributions for the next SE1 Direct email bulletin to James Hatts at [email protected] please. 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