Comedy with Bridget Christie and Frank Sanazi this Friday

Coming up…

There are a couple of events coming up to tell you about:Our next gardening session at Brockley Common will take place on Monday 6th May from 10am - Midday.Please bring suitable clothing and gloves (if you have them).Secondly we have been in discussion our neighbours Transition New Cross for a while about putting an joint ...

Made in Lewisham: 100 years of Cinema

New Cross and Deptford Free Film Festival features an illustrated talk 'Made in Lewisham - 100 years of Cinema' with Neil Gordon-Orr. The talk will focus on New Cross, Deptford and Brockley in particular, looking at the places where people have watched films and the places films have been made in. Basically a visual tour of ...

The Brockley Sofa

Kate Sibley wants your vote in a sofa competition for the Design Museum and Made.com. She writes:I am co-director of Sibley Grove, a small local design studio hoping to move into one of the new business units in Martins Yard soon.I am writing as we have been shortlisted in a sofa design competition for Made.com, ...

Police the peace

Lewisham Police have responded to the findings of a report published this morning, which suggests the borough has been the least peaceful area of the country over the last decade. Chief Superintendent Russell Nyman, Lewisham Borough Commander said:The peace index shows that the UK has become a more peaceful place and the end of financial ...

2nd May 2013 – Local Business Network Lunch

We’ve had a request to post this meeting, so for all local small businesses and home workers….The Hilly Fields Network, a local business network, or the first time ever, are holding a meeting in Hilly Fields, in the Cafe, on Thursday 2 May from 12pm-2pm http://hillyfieldsnetwork.org.uk/2013/04/23/hilly-fields-network-catchup-lunch-2-may-2013/    

South London Samba – new drumming ensemble in the local area

Are Yuppies ruining London? Regeneration and the City.

Lewisham: ‘Least peaceful local authority’

Global think tank, the Institute for Economics and Peace, has released a report today, which finds that Lewisham is the 'least peaceful' part of the country.The study defines peace as "the absence of violence or the absence of fear of violence" and is based on Home Office crime data (murders, violent crime, weapons crime and ...

‘Mad Tracey from Croydon’

I used to love Tracey Emin. Her breakthrough exhibition at the South London Gallery in Camberwell 'I need Art like I need God' (way back in 1997) really blew me away, and I still think that she has brought some material into the art world boys club that has rarely found expression there before - young ...