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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...

London Bus Garage Models

May

2014

Perhaps a bit of a niche product, but if you're stuck for a present for the public transport enthusiast in your life you could always buy a model card building kit of Catford bus garage......or Nunhead bus garage (now demolished - was at 20 Nunhead Lane):...or Peckham bus garage (demolished in the 1990s, it was ...

NHS Pay Protest at Lewisham Hospital, St Thomas’ & St George’s – 5 June 2014

May

2014

On 5 June health workers across the country will be taking part in a day of action protesting the Government’s decision to refuse a 1% pay rise to the majority of NHS staff. The pay rise was recommended by the Independent NHS Pay Review body but rejected by Conservative Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt. Many health ...

Reliable handyman

May

2014

Crofton Park Station to get new operator

May

2014

Transport operator Govia has been awarded the TSGN rail franchise, by the DfT for a seven-year period, starting in September 2014. TSGN is the largest rail franchise in the UK in terms of passenger numbers, trains, revenue and staff and covers the Southern, Thameslink and Great Northern Services.As part of the deal, Crofton Park Station ...

Lovely Local people

May

2014

Governors wanted for Childeric Primary School

May

2014

John Stevens writes:A few years ago, in a moment of public spiritedness I volunteered to Lewisham Council to be a governor at a local school. After a few months I was offered a place as a community governor at Childeric Primary School in New Cross (round the back of the New Cross Inn) – and ...

Birds’ threatened conversion opposed

May

2014

Renovation work has begun on-site at 253-255 Malpas Road, the buildings that were once home to Birds Dress Agency. The developers are seeking to convert the building to residential use, a plan strongly opposed by the Brockley Cross Action Group and the Brockley Society.A planning application has been submitted to the Council the alteration and ...

Labour sweeps Lewisham in Euro elections

May

2014

After sweeping the local elections, Labour dominated Lewisham's European election vote too, taking 32,507 of the borough's votes, ahead of the second-placed Green Party, who won 10,228 votes. UKIP finished third (8,720), ahead of the Conservatives (8,161). The Lib Dems trailed-in fifth (4,252).

Will we build again? – thoughts on radical housing

May

2014

I went to some of the Radical Housing weekend in New Cross last month (26th April), one of a series of events across London from the Radical Housing Network. The day of talks at Cafe Crema in New Cross Road was packed, and I caught Owen Hatherley talking about the history of Council housing in ...

Gas safety certificate

May

2014