Agenda item

To receive any announcements from the Mayor, members of the cabinet or the chief executive.

The Mayor :

·  Thanked Charter School for allowing council assembly to use their school.

·  Announced that a list of people who worked or lived in the borough who had received an honour in the Queen’s New Year’s Honours list which had been circulated around the chamber.

·  Announced that he encouraged all councillors and members of the public to join him for Holocaust Memorial Day on 27 January 2014, from 10am, at The Amigo Hall, St George's Cathedral, and Geraldine Mary Harmsworth Park. He advised that the Southwark memorial was now one of the largest gatherings in London and that the guest speakers would be Margaret Hodge MP, Chair of the Public Accounts Committee, and Susan Pollack, Holocaust Survivor.

Councillor Peter John, the leader of the council made an announcement regarding a meeting with local community groups Southwark Living Streets, SE1 Safer Roads and Borough Babies, who had been campaigning for pedestrian crossings on Borough High Street to make it safer to cross.  The leader announced that funding would be found for the new pedestrian crossings at the earliest opportunity.