Study to monitor air schoolchildren breathe
BY JAMES TWOMEY james@slpmedia.co.uk A new study which will put air monitoring technology in school children’s backpacks is taking place
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Fan thanks ambulance staff for saving his life
BY JAMES TWOMEY james@slpmedia.co.uk A football fan who survived a heart attack while watching his beloved Arsenal play Tottenham Hotspur
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‘Sistine Chapel’ opens after £8.5m refurb
BY JAMES TWOMEY james@slpmedia.co.uk The “Sistine Chapel of the UK” reopened last weekend after renovation works saw it closed for
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Not enough flats are affordable…
A plan to build a 34-storey tower has been thrown out by London’s deputy mayor for housing, as it does
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MP resigns from her town hall duties
BY JAMES TWOMEY james@slpmedia.co.uk Two town hall officials have resigned, telling residents they could not do the job properly alongside
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Ex-homeless man is made an MBE
BY JAMES TWOMEY james@slpmedia.co.uk A former homeless man who was once stabbed and lived on the streets for 10 years
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Bacon opens ward at hospital who saved his life
A TV and radio presenter has opened new wards in a hospital. Richard Bacon – former Blue Peter presenter and
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Pair guilty of killing relative
BY JAMES TWOMEY james@slpmedia.co.uk A man and a woman have been convicted of stabbing to death a 66-year-old man who
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Town hall demands funds for education
BY JAMES TWOMEY james@slpmedia.co.uk Town hall officials have revealed plans to put pressure on the Government after cuts of £33.6million
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13 year old boy left in critical condition after house fire in Croydon
A 13 year old boy was taken to hospital last night after being caught in a house fire in Thornton
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15 year old boy stabbed in Forest Hill
A 15 year old boy was stabbed in the chest in Forest Hill last night as knife crime in the
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Tony Lord tells of the tale of the ‘cuckold’ tram driver
My dictionary defines the word ‘cuckold’ as ‘a man whose wife is unfaithful to him’. In 1916 Johann Eriksson, a
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St Christopher’s holds ‘Fun Walk’ to fundraise for children’s hospice this May
A family fun walk on May 19 will raise funds for a hospice. Lewisham resident Judy Debenham, who has worked
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Gas pipe repairs in Peckham are moving up the road and ahead of schedule
Gas works which are expected to last a year have entered another phase, affecting motorists, buses and cyclists. Pipes are
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Afro Aerobics – Beating a drum and getting fit in Brockley
An aerobics class held its first sessions after receiving funding in the shape of a £1,000 grant from Tesco’s Bags
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Win a £750 prize…know your history and win cash for school
Pupils have been given a chance to win a £750 prize and learn about their community’s history. Students in Years
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Music: SoFF Music Jazz Jam
BY JAMES TWOMEY A weekly jazz jam night that takes place in a pub will celebrate its 20th anniversary with
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Disinformation and martyrs – Joe Harmston’s production of The Rubenstien Kiss is bravely executed and painfully topical
Nationalism, extremism, espionage, witch hunts – these are all epithets for society today. Yet look back 60 years and these
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A villain who uses race to incite murder – small theatre’s Raj-based Othello has Moor power
Christopher Walker reviews William Shakespeare’s Othello, playing at the Union Theatre until April 6th . https://www.uniontheatre.biz/whats_on.html Box office – 020
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