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Featured local business - Clubtek

Forest

SE23

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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...

Lean Girls

Apr

2015

Sport England's default role is as whipping boy for grassroots sport's many failures, so it's no-wonder they are making more videos that build on the success of their universally-loved "This Girl Can" campaign.This video, exploring the range of sporting opportunities for women in the capital, includes a group of Girls Who Can go Nordic walking ...

Brockley rocks London’s cheap eats scene

Mar

2015

Time Out is asking Londoners to help it create the Top 100 "Cheap Eats" options in London and at the time of writing, Brockley is dominating the Top 10, with Brockley Market at Number One and Meze Mangal at Number Four.Voting's a piece of cake, so please back Brockley business here.With thanks to Marshall for ...

Standard fare for Bakerloo Line

Feb

2015

Property journalists - their boosterism makes BC look coy. Today's Evening Standard has got in as quickly to the Bakerloo bonanza as it advises its readers to.Today's Homes & Property section predicts that South East London will be transformed by the Bakerloo Line extension, which is coming sooner rather than later and highlights New Cross ...

The Iron Throne of Greater Brockley

Feb

2015

Lord Varys: Power resides where men believe it resides. It's a trick. A shadow on the wall. And a very small man can cast a very large shadow. - Game of ThronesLewisham Shopping Centre has been transformed into Kings Landing today, with a visit by the Iron Throne to promote the launch of season five in April ...

Brockley, Brockley, Brockley

Feb

2015

Television. You know its power, you crave its validation. Oh sure, the numbers might argue that no-one under the age of 25 watches live TV any more, you might protest that you are too busy watching SWAT teams raid gamers' houses on Twitch or sending Vines of your Whatsapp account to your Twitter followers, but ...

The Money Shot: News Shopper discovers Swinger Haunt in New Cross

Feb

2015

Don Jon: Money shot? There is no real life money shot. Real girls won't do that shit. You just gotta cum into the fucking condom.- Don JonThe News Shopper has trawled swingers forums to discover "London's last remaining sex cinema" in our midst and reports that the New Cross venue is a hang-out for people ...

Brockley: Life Changing

Feb

2015

@BrockleyCentral think I've just spotted Hilly Fields on the latest lottery ad! pic.twitter.com/lcOCuLsidA— Daisy (@cherrydelights) February 7, 2015 To celebrate 20 years of Lotto, the National Lottery ads are focused on giving people "a taste of what life as a lottery millionaire could be like". In this regard at least, their latest campaign, predominantly filmed ...

London: The best of times

Jan

2015

BC's been dwelling on the mountain of nostalgic coverage that accompanied the closure of Madame JoJo's in Soho. Celebrities and journalists have been lining up, to declare this not just the death of Soho, but of London itself: “Once [Soho] turns into a cascade of glass, then London is gone," says Rupert Everett.Madame JoJo's was ...

The Rivoli relocates to Walford

Jan

2015

Stock Character 1: It's hardly the Rivoli is it?Stock Character 2: Is the Rivoli still there?- EastEndersLast year, the BBC promised to gentrify Albert Square, to reflect the changing face of modern London. Last night, the first fruits of this strategy began to emerge, when Brockley's Rivoli Ballroom got a namecheck - its majesty held up ...

Standard: Brockley is a hotspot for 2015

Jan

2015

When your humble hyperlocal blogger is running from meeting to meeting, wondering how he's going to squeeze in a trenchant post or two, puff pieces about Brockley in the Evening Standard's Homes & Property section are like manna from heaven - particularly when they include incendiary phrases like:"The charms of Brockley lie almost exclusively within ...