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Featured local business - Clubtek

Forest

SE23

Hill

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...

Ken Loach, The Spirit of ’45, April 30th

Apr

2014

Celebrated film director Ken Loach (supporter of new political movement Left Unity) and Bill Kerry (Co-founder the Equality Trust) discuss equality in the UK prior to screening of Loach's film The Spirit of ’45 for New Cross + Deptford Free Film Festival 2014.The screening will take place at New Cross Learning (formerly known as the ...

#Lewisham2014

Apr

2014

Zod: I win. I always win... Is there no-one on this planet to even challenge me?- Superman IIThe Council elections are coming up on May 22nd, which means that Brockley Central and a host of other local bloggers will be covering the various local election races, which Labour will invariably win.To try to help people ...

London: Bubbles vs Spikes

Apr

2014

When someone says "it's different this time" it's time to run for the hills. So, there is every chance that another property bubble could be inflating at the moment. But the existence of bubbles doesn't mean there are not long-term trends at work, and the London property market looks more like Google than Clickmango.London property ...

Greens launch war against the machines

Apr

2014

Sarah: How are you supposed to know? Fucking men like you built the hydrogen bomb. Men like you thought it up. You think you're so creative. You don't know what it's like to really create something; to create a life; to feel it growing inside you. All you know how to create is death... John: Mom. Sarah: ...

New Cross and Hither Green – A foreign land for Farage

Mar

2014

This weekend, Nigel Farage told his party conference in Torquay that parts of Britain have become "unrecognisable".Curiously, he chose a train journey from Charing X to Kent to illustrate his point, claiming that he rode through London Bridge, New Cross and Hither Green to Grove Park before his nerves were calmed by the sound of ...

Brockley’s uncommonly good beer

Jan

2014

Like Nigel Farage, Heidi and Joan feel entitled to a lunchtime pintDebbie from the Brockley Brewery writes: Our Pale Ale has been invited by Heidi Alexander MP, to guest at the Strangers' Bar in the House of Commons this week. Brewers Andy and Rachel joined Heidi and Dame Joan Ruddock at the launch.

Olaniyan elected Lewisham’s Young Mayor

Oct

2013

Emmanuel Olaniyan has been elected the 10th Young Mayor of Lewisham, achieving over 50 per cent more votes than the second place candidate. The 15-year-old Forest Hill School student won with 40 per cent of the vote and will have a £30,000 budget to play with during his one-year term.Watch his manifesto here. More about ...

Cllr Johnson to step down in 2014

Oct

2013

Brockley Councillor Darren Johnson this morning announced that he will not seek re-election next year. The London Assembly Chair says:It’s been a real honour representing Brockley Ward for the Green Party on Lewisham Council since 2002. However, I’ve made the decision to step down and not seek re-election when my current term ends next May. ...

Lewisham Deptford selection process clean

Sep

2013

Back in July, Unite's manipulation of the Labour Party's parliamentary selection process looked like it would become a much bigger political storm than eventually materialised and when Lewisham Deptford candidate Vicky Foxcroft got dragged into the story, we predicted it would be an issue which dragged on. However, we were wrong. East London Lines reports:A ...

Tories call for investigation of Labour’s Lewisham Deptford selection

Jul

2013

The Unite / Labour controversy is threatening to envelop the Lewisham Deptford, following the recent selection of Unite worker Vicky Foxcroft as Labour's candidate for the safe seat in the next election. The Daily Mail reports that: Scotland Yard was today asked to investigate fresh claims of law-breaking over union influence in the Labour party. ...