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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...

Brockley Road – the new normal

Jul

2015

Having 'normalised' Brockley Cross and Lewisham Way with persistent targeted raids and interventions, local police now have the junction of Brockley and Wickham Roads in their sights.In recent weeks, the police have contacted local residents asking for witnesses to reported cases of anti-social behaviour and drug dealing in the area while last week, police were ...

Staff kills dog in Ladywell Fields

Apr

2015

Last month, BC ran a guest article by a local dog-walker who wanted to start a debate about dogs on leads in Ladywell Fields.BC is not familiar with the arcane canine community, so we assumed this issue was a fairly innocuous bit of discussion about protocol - akin to arguing the toss over whether one ...

Brockley war memorial clean-up earns six police officers Citizenship honour

Jan

2015

Lewisham Council writes:Six police officers were given citizenship awards on Wednesday night at the Council meeting by the Mayor. The officers are (L to R): Police Constable Terry Powell, Police Constable Danny Gobin, Police Constable Keith Galyer, Police Sergeant Ian Fearn, Police Constable Adam Elwood, Police Constable Andrew Collins.In the small hours of 30 July ...

Homophobic crime rises, reported rape not recorded as crime

Jun

2014

Two troubling sets of crime figures have been released in recent weeks.Firstly, recorded homophobic crime has risen dramatically across London, with Lewisham producing a 115% rise in the last year, from 32 cases in 2013 to 69 cases in 2014. The figures come courtesy of ITV News.Secondly, the News Shopper reports that one-fifth of reported ...

Bad Boys for the day

Jun

2014

Lest we forget. Lewisham's not all night markets and pop-art. The Met writes:Lewisham Police Station will be opening its doors to the public on Sunday 29 June as it holds an open day. This is the third time Lewisham Police Station has held an open day it will be a family event encouraging visitors to ...

Catford Bridge Tavern squatters evicted

May

2014

Nearly a year after the Catford Bridge Tavern was bought by Camden Bars, police have finally evicted the squatters who'd made it their home and deprived Catford of a decent pub. Lewisham MPS says:"Today at 07:30am after a possession order was obtained by the owners of the Copperfield PH, (Catford Bridge Tavern). Rushey Green SNT ...

Lewisham police numbers down by 68 since 2010

Mar

2014

The London Assembly Labour group have released figures showing the fall in local police numbers since 2010. They say:Latest figures released by the Mayor of London show that 68 police officers have been cut in Lewisham, a drop of 10% since May 2010. The latest figures show that despite the Mayor’s pledge to increase police ...

Undercover: police spies in South London

Mar

2014

'Undercover: the True Story of Britain's Secret Police' by Rob Evans and Paul Lewis is primarily about the work of the Special Demonstration Squad, a London-based police unit set up to infiltrate radical and not so radical movements. Of course the police Special Branch and other agencies have been using informers and undercover police officers ...

Self Evident app to cut crime

Sep

2013

BC Senior assuages his early-retirement-baby-boomer guilt by doing voluntary work for various good causes, the latest of which is a charity called Witness Confident, which aims to make reporting crime easier.This week, the charity launched an app called Self Evident (full disclosure: BC provided a very small amount of help with the launch), which allows people ...

Armed robbery on St Asaph Road

Sep

2013

Police are calling for witnesses after a four-year-old girl was held at gunpoint by a gang of armed robbers who threatened to pull the trigger in front of her grandmother at a house in St Asaph Road. The Standard reports: Rosemary Campbell, 47, was looking after her granddaughter at her Lewisham home when up to five ...