Arts & culture
The presence of thousands of Tate Modern Visitors looking into the glass-walled homes of Neo Bankside residents from the art gallery's top-floor viewing platform did constitute a nuisance in law, the Supreme Court has ruled.
Politics & local government
The Labour Party's headquarters has returned to Southwark, 26 years after it left the borough for Westminster.
Police & crime
British Transport Police are carrying out a two-month operation to combat "organised begging" around London Bridge Station and people selling packets of tissues on board trains.
Arts & culture
The Kino Bermondsey cinema is closing down this week, marking the end of a decade and a half of movie screenings at Bermondsey Square.
Southwark
The Ship pub at the junction of Borough Road and Borough High Street has closed down after more than two centuries.
Police & crime
Officers believe the two men in the images may have witnessed the incident but have not yet come forward. Detective Chief Inspector Brian Howie, from the Met's Specialist Crime Command, said: "If you are the people in these images, or if you know who they are, then
Postal services
Blackfriars Road Post Office will close later this month after the private operator that has run the branch for the past five years announce its intention to withdraw the service. Post Office bosses describe the closure as 'temporary'.
Planning & Development
Plans for a 14-storey block of student accommodation with 219 bedrooms next to the Inner London Crown Court on Newington Causeway have been approved by Southwark Council's planning committee.
Planning & Development
Plans for two new hotels on Albert Embankment with a total of nearly 900 bedrooms have been approved by Lambeth councillors.
Arts & culture
Three unoccupied penthouse apartments at the top of a South Bank skyscraper could be the setting for a new Channel 4 Big Brother-style reality TV show next spring.
Health
Cladding that doesn't meet current fire regulations is being removed from the Cancer Centre at Guy's Hospital, five years after concerns about the materials used in the £160 million building were identified in the aftermath of the Grenfell Tower disaster.
History
The statue of Thomas Guy outside the hospital he founded has been put back on public display for the first time since it was covered up in summer 2020 amid controversy about the benefactor's possible financial links to the slave trade.
Police & crime
A local man has been jailed after he caused the death of a woman when a car he was driving collided with a pedicab outside Tesco Express in New Kent Road.
Police & crime
Detectives have named the victim of a fatal stabbing in Waterloo's Lower Marsh on Saturday morning as 32-year-old Adrian Keise. They have renewed their appeal for witnesses to come forward.
Police & crime
Local police have warned that the Borough High Street area "has a large problem with street drinking and alcohol abuse" and formally objected to plans for an off-licence that currently closes at 2am to be able to sell booze 24 hours a day.
Transport
Six months on from the creation of a segregated cycle lane on part of Druid Street, Southwark Council is inviting local residents and businesses to comment on how well the scheme is working.
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