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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...

New Cross Fire Station Saved – but cuts continue

Jul

2013

New Cross Fire Station seems to have been spared the axe, according to the latest proposals due to be considered by London Fire and Emergency Planning Authority (LFEPA) on Thursday 18 July. Clapham too has been saved, but 10 stations are earmarked for closure including three in South London: Southwark, Downham and Woolwich.There has been fierce ...

David Shenton: Cartoons of Gay Life and Death

Jun

2013

Space Station 65 in Kennington is currently hosting These Foolish Things, an exhibition of works by cartoonist/illustrator David Shenton. Shenton's work has been featured in the UK gay press since the late 1970s, in publications such as Gay News and Capital Gay, as well in a range of other papers and magazines from Positive Nation ...

Details of Saturday’s anti-BNP Protests [updated Friday lunchtime]

May

2013

Update Friday 31 May, 13:15 pm - the latest position is as follows:- The BNP have now been banned by the Metropolitan Police from marching to Woolwich to Lewisham and told they can only march in Whitehall;- Having initially said that they would defy the ban, the BNP has now agreed to switch its demo ...

BNP plan march on Lewisham

May

2013

Just got back from opposing the English Defence League in central London. Considering it was a sunny bank holiday, they failed to make a big breakthrough in terms of numbers in the aftermath of the killing of Lee Digby. But we shouldn't be complacent, the opposition was only of a similar size, and at times the EDL ...

Woolwich Killing

May

2013

Is there anything useful left to say about the killing of soldier Lee Rigby his week? Writing a South East London blog with occasional pretensions to a critical political perspective I feel like I should, and the local connections to the story are not limited to the scene of the killing in Woolwich's John Wilson Street. ...

For Lovers Everywhere

Feb

2013

Happy Valentine's Day all you lovers and want-to-be lovers. On this day in 1661, Samuel Pepys recorded in his diary that he celebrated Valentine's Day and visited Deptford and Woolwich:'Up early and to Sir W. Batten’s, but would not go in till I asked whether they that opened the door was a man or a ...

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 ...