Agenda item

The Mayor announced the following:

• That a list of Southwark residents who had received an honour in the Queen’s New Year‘s Honour List 2010 had been circulated around the chamber on white paper.  The meeting offered its congratulations to all the recipients’ of the award.

• That the New Year’s Day parade had raised £2,000 for the Mayor’s charity.

The Mayor offered the meeting’s condolences to the families of:

·  Joan Khachik, former councillor and Mayor of Southwark

·  Peter Moore, town crier and assistant mace bearer and

·  Cyril Herbert, President of Bermondsey and Rotherhithe Branch of the British Legion.

Tributes were paid by Councillors Nick Stanton, Barrie Hargrove and Kim Humphreys.

The meeting also offered its condolences to Councillor Toby Eckersley on the death of his mother.

Thereafter a minutes silence was held and members were also asked to remember:

• The victims of the Holocaust as 27 January was Holocaust Memorial Day

• The victims of the Haiti earthquake.