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Issue 168 | Monday 19 January 2004

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* What's on this week 
* ADVERT: Open Days at Topnotch Health Club
* Local news & features from the London SE1 website
* SE1 news from around the web
* In the London SE1 Forum

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[ What's on this week ]

Here's our pick of this week's community and cultural
events. For a more comprehensive what's on guide check
out 'in SE1' - see http://www.inSE1.co.uk for details.
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BERMONDSEY COMMUNITY COUNCIL PLANNING MEETING
Thursday 22 January
7.30pm-10pm at Aylwin Girls School, 55 Southwark Park
Road, SE16
Special meeting of Bermondsey Community Council to
consider planning applications. Agenda includes 59-63
Bermondsey Street (construction of four-storey rear
office block with glazed link to main building No. 59
to provide additional offices and  provision of new car
parking space with access off Bermondsey Street), The
Circle, Queen Elizabeth Street (to extend building at
7th floor level to provide 4 flats together with
associated car parking [Renewal of planning permission
dated 27/08/1998]) and Spa School, Monnow Road
(erection of part single storey part double height
building attached to eastern side of existing dining
block to form sports hall, fitness room and changing
rooms).
http://quicklink.se1direct.co.uk/?id=536

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[ ADVERT: Open Days at Topnotch Health Club  ]

TOPNOTCH HEALTH CLUB - ST THOMAS STREET

Still thinking about that new years resolution? To help
get you started Topnotch are running a series of OPEN
DAYS from Thursday 22nd until Sunday 25th January. You
will have the opportunity to try the club for FREE on
one of these days only. In addition there will be a
massive saving of 75% off the joining fee should you
choose to join.

Call 020 7403 1040 or e-mail Neil below to reserve your
trial place.
STOP THINKING ABOUT IT, DO IT TODAY!
[email protected]

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[ Local news & features from the London SE1 website ]

The London SE1 website team updates the SE1 news and
features throughout the week:
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SECRETARY OF STATE APPROVES GUY'S AND ST THOMAS'
FOUNDATION BID
Secretary of State for Health John Reid is supporting
the Guy's and St Thomas' Hospital NHS Trust application
for NHS Foundation Trust status.
http://www.london-se1.co.uk/news/view/789


STABBING AT THE ANCHOR BANKSIDE: POLICE APPEAL
Police are appealing for witnesses to a stabbing at a
Bankside pub that could have been life threatening, but
for a fraction of a millimetre.
http://www.london-se1.co.uk/news/view/788


POLICE SEEK NATWEST IDENTITY FRAUDSTER
Police are seeking a man who on 31 October 2003 used
false identification pretending to be a 'Dr Marlowe' to
make a cash transfer of �50,000 in the NatWest bank on
Westminster Bridge Road.
http://www.london-se1.co.uk/news/view/787


TOURIST INFORMATION CENTRE TO OPEN ON BANKSIDE
Southwark Council is opening a new Tourist Information
Centre at Bankside attraction Vinopolis, 18 months
after the closure of the Southwark Information Centre
at the southern end of London Bridge.
http://www.london-se1.co.uk/news/view/786


BISHOP OF WOOLWICH TO RETIRE
The Bishop of Woolwich, Area Bishop for Southwark, is
to retire.
http://www.london-se1.co.uk/news/view/785


LOTTERY FUNDING FOR YOUNG TO MEET WW2 VETERANS
A scheme giving young people the opportunity to learn
first-hand from veterans about their Second World War
experience has been launched at the Imperial War
Museum.
http://www.london-se1.co.uk/news/view/784

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[ SE1 news from around the Web ]

Each week we trawl the web for news and features about
SE1 people, places and organisations
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Rebirth of 'Southbankside' by Hugh Pearman
http://quicklink.se1direct.co.uk/?id=626 - S'day Times

Jubilee Gardens to host London gay Pride event?
http://quicklink.se1direct.co.uk/?id=623 - Rainbow Ntwk

South London Press follows up SE1 forum post complaints
http://quicklink.se1direct.co.uk/?id=622 - SLP

Steam-powered buses coming to route RV1 in six months
http://quicklink.se1direct.co.uk/?id=620 - Local London

Police to question Paul McCartney over Blaine fracas
http://quicklink.se1direct.co.uk/?id=624 - Telegraph

Woman plunges into Thames near HMS Belfast
http://quicklink.se1direct.co.uk/?id=621 - SLP

Southwark property prices up 9 per cent
http://quicklink.se1direct.co.uk/?id=625 - Standard

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[ In the London SE1 Forum ]

Our weekly digest of topics raised in recent
discussions at http://www.London-SE1.co.uk/forum/
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- Good quality tiler needed
- New flats proposed at Potters Fields
- SoBo
- Loose covers for sofas
- Car boot sale?
- Oxo Tower exhibition
- Good SE1 garage?
- The Hartley
- Dressmakers in SE1?
- Yummy meal at the Bermondsey Kitchen
- Riverside lighting
- Final Furlong pub

To read and respond to all these discussions and more,
go to: http://www.London-SE1.co.uk/forum/

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Editor: James Hatts - email [email protected]

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