SE1 Direct 494: Election Hustings, Walk to Work Week & more
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[ SE1 Direct ]     Issue 494

About this email newsletter: http://www.SE1direct.co.uk
Daily local news & features: http://www.London-SE1.co.uk

Monday 26 April 2010                          ISSN 1750-0656

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IN THIS BULLETIN
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* Local news & features from the London SE1 website
* Advert: South Bank Yoga
* What's on this week
* No local job vacancies this week
* Small offices & desk spaces for rent
* Hot topics from the London SE1 Forum
* Business Forum in association with Better Bankside
* Noticeboard: swimming at Downside Fisher Youth Club

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{ Local news & features from the London SE1 website }

Remember you don't have to wait till SE1 Direct drops into
your mailbox to get a local news fix. The London SE1 website
offers the latest news throughout the week. You can also see
the news on a map: http://www.London-SE1.co.uk/news/map

* What questions should we ask the election candidates?
Tell us: http://www.London-SE1.co.uk/community/election2010/

* Fire at Albert Barnes House on New Kent Road
Read more at: http://www.London-SE1.co.uk/news/view/4500

* St George in Southwark Festival 2010: pictures
Read more at: http://www.London-SE1.co.uk/news/view/4501

* Southwark Mysteries: a once-in-a-decade experience
Read more at: http://www.London-SE1.co.uk/news/view/4499

* Top Tory Liam Fox's Bermondsey home burgled
Read more at: http://www.London-SE1.co.uk/news/view/4497

* Chris Grayling at launch of Teenage Job Club
Read more at: http://www.London-SE1.co.uk/news/view/4496

* Man injured in fight at Newington Causeway job centre
Read more at: http://www.London-SE1.co.uk/news/view/4495

* Network Rail chooses Thames barges for Blackfriars project
Read more at: http://www.London-SE1.co.uk/news/view/4494

* Ammonia scare at London South Bank University
Read more at: http://www.London-SE1.co.uk/news/view/4493

* New book - Walking London's Monuments and Statues
Read more at: http://www.London-SE1.co.uk/news/view/4492

* Artists' tribute to Polish air crash victims
Read more at: http://www.London-SE1.co.uk/news/view/4498

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{ Advert }

Iyengar Yoga classes at Christ Church Blackfriars Road

Iyengar Yoga is based on the correct alignment of the body.
It helps to build stamina and flexibility.

When the body is correctly aligned then there is balance in
both the mind and the body.

Classes are open to beginners and it is an extremely
beneficial practice to those suffering with back, neck,
shoulder problems etc and also for many other medical
conditions.

For more information check out my website
http://www.southbankyoga.co.uk

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{ What's on this week }

Each week we select a few highlights from the community
and cultural events taking place over the next seven
days. For a comprehensive what's on guide visit
http://www.London-SE1.co.uk/whatson/ or pick up a copy of
our free monthly printed publication, 'in SE1'.

MY BEAUTIFUL LAUNDRETTE: ROXY'S EXTRAORDINARY FILM SEASON
Monday 26 April
8pm at Roxy Bar & Screen, 128-132 Borough High Street; �3
A milestone in mainstream queer cinema, with esteemed editor
Mick Audsley in conversation. Part of Roxy's 10-week
Extraordinary Film Season of screenings introduced by guest
speakers.
Info & map: http://www.London-SE1.co.uk/whatson/event/8779


GUIDED WILDLIFE WALK AT WATERLOO MILLENNIUM GREEN
Tuesday 27 April
12.30pm-1pm (meet by the jerk chicken stand) at Waterloo
Millennium Green,  Waterloo Road; free
Join Living Streets for a short guided wildlife walk around
Waterloo Millennium Green led by Mary O'Connor of Bankside
Open Spaces Trust and Jonathan Trestrum from Putting Down
Roots. 
Info & map: http://www.London-SE1.co.uk/whatson/event/8972


WATERLOO LOCAL HUSTINGS
Tuesday 27 April
7pm-9pm  at St John's Waterloo,  Waterloo Road; free
Meet your local candidates for Bishop's ward (Lambeth) and
Cathedrals ward (Southwark). Find out their priorities for
South Bank, Waterloo and Blackfriars, ask questions and hear
the debate. Chaired by Revd Giles Goddard. Debate starts
7.30pm prompt. Please arrive between 7pm and 7.30pm if you
would like to submit questions. Organised by WaCoCo and
South Bank Forum.
Info & map: http://www.London-SE1.co.uk/whatson/event/8958


GET WALKING KEEP WALKING: LUNCHTIME FITNESS WALK
Wednesday 28 April
Meet 1pm outside Young Vic, 66 The Cut; free
Join Living Streets and The Ramblers for a 30 minute
lunchtime walk. You will discover the Imperial War Museum,
the Tibetan Peace Garden at Geraldine Mary Harmsworth Park
along with the obelisk at St George's Circus and more. You
will also receive a free Get Walking Keep Walking DIY pack
containing a full 12-week walking plan, a logbook and a step
counter.
Info & map: http://www.London-SE1.co.uk/whatson/event/8973


WATERLOO COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT GROUP GENERAL MEETING
Wednesday 28 April
7pm at Waterloo Action Centre, 14 Baylis Road
Whatever happened to Jubilee Gardens? West 8 (architects)
with Mike McCart, Southbank Centre & Ted Inman, South Bank
Employers' Group. Boris Johnson, Mayor of London, has
promised �1.5 million towards costs in order to get the
gardens opened for the Olympics in 2012. What do you think
of the plans?
St Thomas' Hospital serves a large number of people across
central and south London, and is a major teaching hospital.
It is also one of Waterloo's largest sites and improvements
and changes could benefit local residents as well as
patients and visitors. Steve McGuire explains.
Info & map: http://www.London-SE1.co.uk/whatson/event/7940


BLACKFRIARS NEW AND OLD: LUNCHTIME GUIDED WALK
Thursday 29 April
12pm-12.45pm; starts Southwark Underground Station, 68-70
Blackfriars Road; free
Join Living Streets for a 45 minute guided walk from The Cut
via Hatfields to Blackfriars Bridge detailing the history
and regeneration of the area. A great chance to learn more
about the area in which you work. Places will be limited to
the first 20 on the day so if you want to guarantee a place
email [email protected]
Info & map: http://www.London-SE1.co.uk/whatson/event/8974


DEPTFORD JACK IN THE GREEN: MAY DAY ECCENTRICITY IN BOROUGH
Saturday 1 May
Decorating the Jack from 10am; set off from The Rake in
Winchester walk just before 12 noon
The Deptford Jack in the Green will return to the Borough
this Saturday. A revival of a colourful and bizarre May Day
tradition. The Jack will set off from The Rake in Winchester
Walk and complete a circuit round some of SE1's most popular
pubs with a brief lunchtime foray across Millennium Bridge
and into the City of London.
Info & map: http://www.London-SE1.co.uk/whatson/event/8978


LAUREN CHILD BOOK SIGNING AT JOHN HARVARD LIBRARY
Saturday 1 May
11am-12.30pm  at John Harvard Library, 211 Borough High
Street; free; booking essential
Author and illustrator Lauren Child, best known for thee
Charlie and Lola books and Clarice Bean novels, is visiting
John Harvard Library. To book for this event email
[email protected] or call 020 7525 3889 and
leave your telephone number.
Info & map: http://www.London-SE1.co.uk/whatson/event/8835


SISTER ACT NUN RUN 2010
Sunday 2 May
Starts Potters Fields Park; �20 via
http://www.runnersworld.co.uk/nunsrun
Last year a thousand 'nuns' pounding the streets of London
raised more than �30,000 for Barnardo's. The 2010 run will
start on Potters Fields Park next to City Hall and make a
short loop around Shad Thames going under and then over
Tower Bridge. You'll pass the Tower of London and St Paul's
before crossing the river and returning past Millennium
Bridge and Tate Modern.
Info & map: http://www.London-SE1.co.uk/whatson/event/8517


GENERAL ELECTION HUSTINGS
Sunday 2 May
1.15pm-2.45pm  at Garry Weston Library, Southwark Cathedral,
London Bridge
With candidates from the Conservative, Green, Labour and
Liberal Democrat parties. Candidates have been asked to
address:
* Homelessness
* Regeneration and local community
* Immigration and sanctuary
* The role of churches and faith communities particularly in
relation to these issues
... and take questions from the floor.
Info & map: http://www.London-SE1.co.uk/whatson/event/8905


POLAND AIR CRASH MEMORIAL CONCERT IN THE BOROUGH
Monday 3 May
7pm at St George the Martyr,  Borough High Street; free;
donations to Katyn Families Association
Concert in memory of the 96 victims of the Smolensk plane
crash on 10 April who died on their way to commemorate the
22,000 Poles killed in the Katyn massacre of 1940.
Violinists Filip Cwizewicz, Michal Cwizewicz and Daniel
Pioro perform works by Mozart, Wieniawski, Mendelssohn,
Dvorak, Szymanowski, Part and Messiaen together with
pianists John Paul Ekins and Carson Becke. Filip and
Michal's great-grandfather and Daniel's great grandfather
were both victims of the Katyn executions in 1940.
Info & map: http://www.London-SE1.co.uk/whatson/event/8975


WILLIAM BLAKE'S LAMBETH: GUIDED WALK
Tuesday 4 May
6.30pm at Waterloo Library, 114-118 Lower Marsh; free; book
via 020 7926 1075 or [email protected]
I wander thro' each charter'd street, Near where the
charter'd Thames does flow. And mark in every face I meet
Marks of weakness, marks of woe. William Blake is one of
Britain's most world-renowned poets, artists and thinkers.
His life in Westminster is widely celebrated, yet his decade
in Lambeth from 1790 to 1800, when he produced arguably his
greatest works, is undervalued and little known. Discover
the traces of Blake's Lambeth with archivist Jon Newman. The
walk lasts one and a half hours. Part of the Lambeth Readers
and Writers Festival.
Info & map: http://www.London-SE1.co.uk/whatson/event/8901

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{ Local job vacancies }

* Earn a Bit Of Extra Money By Helping the Over 50s in SE1
* Farm work opportunities, Surrey Docks Farm [volunteers]
* Opinion panel member for a TV company

Details at http://www.london-se1.co.uk/classifieds/jobs

Why not advertise your job vacancy here? Only �9.99:
http://www.london-se1.co.uk/classifieds/jobs/add-a-job

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{ Small offices & desk spaces for rent }

* Office space in Bermondsey Street
* Commercial space to let - Alaska Buildings

Details at http://www.london-se1.co.uk/classifieds/offices

Why not advertise your office space here? Only �9.99:
http://www.london-se1.co.uk/classifieds/offices/post-advert

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{ Hot topics from the London SE1 Forum }

Our weekly digest of new topics started at
http://www.London-SE1.co.uk/forum/list/1

* Kitten found - Aylesford House, Long Lane
    http://www.London-SE1.co.uk/forum/read/1/125696
* Barefoot London Marathon
    http://www.London-SE1.co.uk/forum/read/1/125682
* What's up with Albert Barnes?
    http://www.London-SE1.co.uk/forum/read/1/125679
* E.F. Mountain Ltd
    http://www.London-SE1.co.uk/forum/read/1/125651
* Southwark Council Elections 2010
    http://www.London-SE1.co.uk/forum/read/1/125619
* Court Tavern history
    http://www.London-SE1.co.uk/forum/read/1/125585
* Hays Galleria stalls
    http://www.London-SE1.co.uk/forum/read/1/125568
* Wine Bar with outside seating in Borough
    http://www.London-SE1.co.uk/forum/read/1/125490
* Violette Szabo ("Carve her name with Pride")
    http://www.London-SE1.co.uk/forum/read/1/125466
* Bermondsey school closed due to volcanic ash
    http://www.London-SE1.co.uk/forum/read/1/125441
* Cardboard boxes for moving house
    http://www.London-SE1.co.uk/forum/read/1/125437
* Old Warehouse Great Suffolk Street
    http://www.London-SE1.co.uk/forum/read/1/125432
* Attack on Great Dover St...
    http://www.London-SE1.co.uk/forum/read/1/125403

To see all the current active forum topics, go to:
http://www.London-SE1.co.uk/forum/list/1

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{ Business forum in association with Better Bankside }

* Looking for meeting space
    http://www.London-SE1.co.uk/forum/read/7/124522    
 
Read more at http://www.London-SE1.co.uk/forum/list/7

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{ Noticeboard }

The Downside Fisher Youth Club in Bermondsey has started an
'Aquatic Swimming Club' and is also offering free swimming
lessons to all Southwark young people Monday - Friday, 6pm -
9pm.
 
The Aquatic Swimming Club provides swimming opportunities to
all young people from Lifeguard training to 'Aqua Boxing',
'Water Polo' to 'Swim Fitness' and 'Sychronised Swimming'.
 
Free swimming lessons are also available to all those who
are beginners, weak swimmers and/or with no or very little
swimming experience.
 
Please call Downside Fisher Youth Club on 020 7407 0093

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