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Featured local business - Clubtek

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I was already a regular visitor to Clubtek’s DJ shop when it was in Penge, but now they're even handier in Stanstead Road, just a few doors down from Shannon’s Garden Centre - another old favourite. It’s by no means just for DJs and bands...

Cobblers

Feb

2014

Music Monday: Little Mix in Peckham Chapel

Feb

2014

Litte Mix's most recent single 'Little Me' is in the great tradition of feminist-lite empowerment anthems. Song-wise it's not quite up there with Christina Aguilera's Beautiful or TLC's Unpretty - but hey, what is?Of course if you are going to sing a song advising your younger self to overcome adversity and 'Talk a bit louder, be a ...

School rules

Feb

2014

Lewisham Council is consulting on how school places in the borough should be allocated - always a hideous question.Specifically, they want to know whether from 2015/16, the children of school staff should be given priority (to help attract good teachers) and whether the way of calculating the distance from your front door to school should ...

SE London Strikes and Protests Round-up

Feb

2014

A quick round up of strikes and protests...Staff at Goldsmiths and other universities are staging another one day strike next Thursday in the ongoing national pay campaign. The last, two hour, strike on January 28th, was reported in Goldsmiths paper The Leopard:'As the nation-wide strike began, protesters took the opportunity to address the large mass ...

Lewisham Elections 2014 Voting Intentions / Poll Results

Feb

2014

In the second half of January we ran a poll asking respondents to answer three questions about who they intended to vote for in the elections taking place on 22 May 2014 in Lewisham: [...]

CPZs – lowering the democratic bar for grey goo

Feb

2014

"I earned capital in this campaign, political capital, and now I intend to spend it. It is my style. When you win, there is ... a feeling that the people have spoken and embraced your point of view, and that's what I intend to tell Congress, that I made it clear what I intend to ...

Layer Cake – Daniel Craig in Greenwich Park

Feb

2014

Sienna Miller's sometime 'brief encounter' with Daniel Craig has been making the news, after the former gave evidence as a witness in the News of the World phone-hacking trial yesterday. Miller and Craig appeared together - and had a fictional brief encounter - in Matthew Vaughn's 2004 London gangster movie 'Layer Cake'. As well as Craig ...