Obituaries

Sir Jack Petchey CBE, who invested millions into young people, including £2m for Southwark youths has died. The philanthropist and...

That one man came to epitomise the Bermondsey spirit, or how he said it himself, “the last bastion of Cockneydom...

Bermondsey woke up this week to the sad and sudden departure of one its biggest champions, as news broke of...

The sudden passing of Bermondsey’s Russell Dryden has been announced this afternoon. A large than life character, who was the...

It was fitting that former professional violinist, Sally Brooke-Pike, at ninety-one years of age, should host the most musically uplifting...

Tributes poured in following the passing of Damilola Taylor’s dad, Richard, including from a close friend who said he went...

A Rotherhithe photographer, who was behind countless album covers for stars including Iggy Pop, Depeche Mode and Elvis Costello, has...

The owner of the famous estate agents Field and Sons, on Borough High Street - one of the oldest Southwark...

We said farewell to several key characters in Southwark's tapestry this year, including a renowned boxing coach, a fierce political...

Benedict Birnberg, the trailblazing civil rights lawyer who defended anti-Apartheid politicians and Black civil rights activists, long before it was...