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Palm Sunday in Borough Market marks start of Holy Week

Around 600 people joined in the annual Palm Sunday procession from Borough Market to Southwark Cathedral. Following the blessing of palms, the cathedral choir sang the anthem Hosanna to the Son of David by Thomas Weelkes. Also present was the congregation from St Hugh's church in Crosby Row.

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Southwark to host UK memorial service for terrorist victims

This just in from the Department for Culture, Media & Sport: The service will commemorate those 13 British lives lost overseas last year in the Sharm el-Sheikh, Kusadasi, Turkey and Doha, Qatar bombings. Invitations to family members and survivors will be sent out shortly.

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The mayor, the dean and the lapdancing club

Stephen Bates in The Guardian follows up the row about the Tooley Street lapdancing club that we reported on Wednesday: For centuries, the south bank of the Thames has had an exotic reputation for theatres, taverns, bear gardens and ladies of easy virtue. But a late night nude lap dancing

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Octavia Hill estates sell-off on Watchdog

The sell-off of homes in Waterloo and Union Street (and elsewhere) by the Church Commissioners was featured on Watchdog tonight.

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'Grand Prix Priest' spotted at London Bridge

...dancing a jig while waving a banner advertising the Second Coming.

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In the footsteps of JS Bach - sponsors needed

Later this month Rick Jones, who sings in the choir at Southwark Cathedral, is setting off on a 250-mile walk which retraces the steps the composer JS Bach took 300 years when he somewhat impetuously marched from Arnstadt in the former East Germany to Luebeck near Hamburg to hear

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Cathedral boasts top toilets

Southwark Cathedral's loos have been named one of the "top places to go in London" by the Evening Standard, who were impressed by the linen towels and smart wooden fittings.

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Do you remember the Pope's visit to Southwark?

This is from the weekly newsletter of St George's Cathedral: Is there any member of the parish who could assist Kate Forshaw of the BBC with regard to the visit of the Pope to Southwark in 1982? She would like to speak to anyone who was present at

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Palm Sunday in SE1

Today is Palm Sunday. Southwark Cathedral's procession started in Borough Market and featured on BBC News bulletins reporting on the controversy over abortion. The Southwark Cathedral congregation was joined by members of St Hugh's, Crosby Row Meanwhile the congregations of Christ Church Southwark and St John&

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SE1 priest to run half-marathon

Days after the defrocking of Fr Neil Horan- who gained worldwide notoriety for his antics during the Athens Olympic marathon last year - at a meeting with the Archbishop of Southwark, the Most Revd Kevin McDonald, a member of the St George's Cathedral clergy has announced that he is

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"The church, the fetish boss and the sushi ban"

Those who followed the epic Club Wicked saga on the forum last year may enjoy the latest instalment from from today's South London Press

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Slee's Southwark Santa School

This week's Church Times has a caption competition featuring none other than the Dean of Southwark Colin Slee at the recent Santa School held at his cathedral.