Nurseries failing food hygiene standards

 
 
 
By Sylvia Rowley
 
Most nurseries and playgroups in Southwark are failing to meet basic legal food hygiene standards, an investigation by The Platform has found.

Blur to play Hyde Park comeback gig

By Paul Campbell
 
Twenty years after forming at Goldsmiths college, Blur have retreated from their country houses to launch another assault on Britain’s music scene. Following Led Zeppelin, The Police and their Britpop contemporaries The Verve, the band play Hyde Park next summer, in what will be their first gig since the end of the century.

Darts champ defies liver transplant

By Ciaran McCauley

 
Former world champion Andy Fordham made an extraordinary return to darts last weekend just six months after being threatened with a liver transplant.

Skeletons found under school

 
By Enjoli Liston
Thousands of human skeletons found under a Walworth school have been exhumed and moved to a cemetery in Essex – where they will serve as a windbreak.

Platformer wins Guardian award

 
By Abhijeet Ahluwalia
A Platform journalist, Sylvia Rowley, scooped a prestigious national journalism award from The Guardian last week.