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...That may be changing. On April 9, John Hunt, a 56-year-old nurse in Croydon, south London, managed to have his official baptism record amended. Religious leaders from the Southwark Diocese had previously refused to delete Hunt's record of baptism, claiming it was an important historical detail. But after Hunt published a renouncement of his Christianity in the London Gazette, a journal of record dating back to the 17th century, those same religious leaders agreed to include it alongside his official baptism entry. "It's about time some of us stood up to be counted," Hunt said after...
...fact, talking CCTV cameras - the latest high-tech weapon in the war on littering, graffiti, vandalism and other antisocial behavior. Sixteen of the borough's 84 surveillance cameras have been wired for sound, making London's first video monitoring network with a broadcasting capacity. A second borough, Southwark, will soon adopt the same system...
Corker and Kirby, along with the mayor of Southwark, snipped the ribbon with a pair of giant scissors. And Southwark Council Leader Nick Stanton inaugurated the tap, ordering a pint of Guinness with a five-pound note...
Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71 kicked off the ceremony, held in the hallway outside the pub, by describing the connection between Harvard’s Queen’s Head and a tavern in Southwark, England, with the same name. John Harvard bequeathed the Southwark locale to the University in the 19th century, but it later burned down...
Stanton and other representatives from Southwark were honored with an invitation-only dinner yesterday evening. The 50-odd guests included administrators, students, Corker’s family, and the present, past, and future fun czars, with name tags labeling them Fun Czars I through...