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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...

Lancaster Environment Centre does it again!

Apr

2015

Those of you who came to our "Trees in the City" conference last spring will remember the excellent presentation given by Professor Barbara Maher of Lancaster University's Environment Centre (we posted an item on the original research here). In it she presented the astonishingly effective benefits of planting a screen of silver birch saplings alongside busy ...

Lewisham fat-shamed

Oct

2014

Lewisham has the 10th-highest rate of hospital admissions related to obesity in England, according to figures released by the NHS. The rankings are dominated by northern areas, but Southwark and Lewisham take 9th and 10th places respectively. The Mirror reports:In total last year there were 11,000 hospital admissions for obesity, almost ten times the figure ...

St John’s Medical Centre Behind Closed Doors

May

2014

GPs- Behind Closed Doors from Knickerbockerglory TV on Vimeo.GPs - Behind Closed Doors is the Channel 5 documentary, filmed at St John's Medical Centre, Loampit Hill, and starring Doctors Ferdinand and Jean Parker and a kebab knife wound. You can see episode one here. Thanks to Monkeyboy and Chris Wheal for flagging.

Matters Sahari

Apr

2014

The recent arrival of Saharan dust has again highlighted the subject of air pollution and is a reminder why trees are essential for the urban environment. See image here. After 15 years of warnings, the EU has now launched legal proceedings against the UK for failing to reduce "excessive" levels of nitrogen dioxide (NO2) air pollution - ...

Health Trees, Healthy People – Arboricultural Association Conference

Mar

2014

Following on from an increasing body of evidence of the link between human health (physical and psychological) and the wider green environment, the Arboricultural Association is holding a conference this September in London on the subject. It will run for three days between 14-17 September at The Royal Holloway, University of London. Details here: http://www.trees.org.uk/Amenity-ConferenceAnd here's a reminder of ...

The good people of Brockley

Oct

2013

Rachel writes:I don't know how else to do this, but I'd like to thank the three men who picked up my partner and cared for him while the ambulance arrived after he suffered a brain haemorrhage on Wickham Road on Monday. They also locked his bike up safely which I retrieved today.I am incredibly grateful ...

Hunt’s Lewisham A&E appeal thrown out

Oct

2013

PA reports:The Court of Appeal ruled today that Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt did not have the power to implement cuts at Lewisham Hospital in south east London. Three judges announced their decision on the second day of a hearing in London. Supporters of the highly-regarded hospital cheered when Lord Dyson, the Master of the Rolls, ...

A Breath Of Fresh Air

Oct

2013

More and more often we are coming across serious scientific research that backs up our sense that our urban trees are good for us, not just because they look stunning, but because they are making a significant contribution to our health in our gritty city environments. A case in point is research recently presented on BBC2's ...

Poor place suffers from poverty-related health problems

Oct

2013

The 2013 health profile of Lewisham is out! It's not pretty.We're winning on hip fractures (in your face, Eastbourne) and healthy eating (by virtue of the fact that Lewisham is not in the north of England) but not much else:Deprivation is higher than average and about 17,900 children live in povertyLife expectancy for both men ...

Lewisham and Greenwich create new NHS Trust

Sep

2013

A new Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust will be formed on 1 October 2013. The Trust will be responsible for Lewisham Hospital and community services in Lewisham, and for Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Greenwich.Lewisham Healthcare says:Services are not changing following the merger, and patient appointments are unaffected. Lewisham Healthcare and Queen Elizabeth Hospital serve similar ...