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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...

Remembering the New School for New Cross Campaign

Mar

2013

Ten years ago the biggest local issue in New Cross was not the NHS - nobody dreamt then that Lewisham Hospital's services could one day be under threat - but education. Specifically the shortage of secondary school places had become a crisis with many local children being unable to get into local schools and only ...

Lewisham Hospital Next Steps

Feb

2013

After the determination of the mass demonstrations against the threat to services at Lewisham Hospital, and the bitterness following the Government's decision to proceed with the plans, campaigners face a long fight between now and the planned implementation of closures a couple of years down the line. But the movement definitely isn't going away. While the ...

Fight goes on to Save Lewisham Hospital

Feb

2013

Hundreds of people gathered outside Lewisham Hospital last night in the aftermath of health secretary Jeremy Hunt's announcement in Parliament on the future of emergency and maternity services. Hunt had been forced to acknowledge the strength of the opposition to cuts and modify the recommendations put to him by the Trust Special Administrator he appointed to review ...

You saved our lives, now we’ll save yours

Jan

2013

As health secretary Jeremy Hunt ponders whether to commit political hari-kari by approving a high profile closure of essential NHS services at Lewisham Hospital, a last minute musical intervention shows further evidence of how the threat to emergency and maternity services has united so many people with a common purpose to defend free healthcare in ...

Lewisham Hospital Demonstration No.2

Jan

2013

Today's march against the threatened closure of Accident & Emergency and Maternity services at Lewisham Hospital was huge, with estimates ranging from 15,000 to 25,000. Certainly it seemed bigger than the similar demonstration last November where the crowd was estimated at 10 to 15,000 - and that was the largest protest in Lewisham for at least ...

Lewisham Hospital: Countdown to Victory?

Jan

2013

With momentum building up towards tomorrow's demonstration against the threat to Lewisham Hospital, here's some of the latest developments.Polly Toynbee Weighs InPolly Toynbee points out some of the national implications of the Lewisham situation in this Guardian piece today, and notes that the rules regarding making this decision, if actually followed, would prevent the closure: ...

Lewisham Hospital Protest at Department of Health

Jan

2013

In the build up to this Saturday's big Save Lewisham Hospital demonstration, supporters mounted a 'mums and buggies' protest outside the Department of Health headquarters in Whitehall today, with around 60 parents with their children blockading the entrance. Currently 4,000 babies are born every year at the hospital, but maternity services will be radically reduced ...