Early hours revellers lead to restaurant losing its licence
A restaurant can no longer serve alcohol after repeatedly staying open late and keeping neighbours awake. C’s, of Blackheath Road,
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Author: Toby Porter
‘Nanny Willett’ becomes the second man in 126 years to graduate nanny college
BY CALUM FRASER calum@slpmedia.co.uk A 21-year-old has become the second man in 126 years to graduate from a nanny college
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Southwark celebrates 400th anniversary of the Mayflower: Can you help mark Mayflower voyage?
BY TOBY PORTER toby@slpmedia.co.uk Residents are being urged to dream up ways to celebrate the 400th anniversary of the Mayflower
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Unearthing Victorian skulduggery
BY TOBY PORTER toby@slpmedia.co.uk Archaeologists have found the skeleton of a Victorian man who had been in a series of
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Southwark residents raise fears over new Tube entrance
BY TIM MCNULTY toby@slpmedia.co.uk Residents of a quiet Southwark street are fuming after rail chiefs ignored numerous complaints that a
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Sex assault victim waives anonymity in anger at attacker’s sentence
BY TOBY PORTER toby@slpmedia.co.uk The victim of a sex assault 35 years ago has waived her right to anonymity because she
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Food & Drink – Bar & Block
BY PALOMA LACY Bar & Block sounds rather like a trendy restaurant in New York’s Meat Packing District, at least
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IT Crowd star Katherine Parkinson completes 10K run for Barnardos charity
BY TOBY PORTER toby@slpmedia.co.uk Running is no joke but comedy actress Katherine Parkinson managed to complete 10k for a children’s charity last month.
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Walkers to raise funds at St Christopher’s Fun Walk in aid of Lewisham’s local hospice
BY TOBY PORTER toby@slpmedia.co.uk St Christopher’s Fun Walk on May 19, 2019 is the biggest fundraising day of the year
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Daniel Francis – Leader of Opposition’s address on Bexley housing crisis
I would like to wish all residents a Happy New Year for 2019 and hope they were able to spend time with their
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Lewisham Headteacher awarded an MBE in New Year’s Honour List
BY TOBY PORTER toby@slpmedia.co.uk One of Lewisham’s longest-serving headteachers has been made an MBE in The New Year’s Honours List
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John Roan School suffers huge setback as sponsor pulls funding and quits
Plans to convert a historic school into an academy have suffered a huge setback after the trust which planned to run it pulled out.
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Callous con-men are creating a stink by defrauding residents claiming their homes would be flooded with sewage
BY TOBY PORTER calum@slpmedia.co.uk Fraudsters are trying to swipe cash from residents by claiming their homes are about to be flooded with poo.
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Neighbours in Eltham land £30,000 each in the People’s postcode lottery
Six neighbours in Eltham landed £30,000 each with the People’s Postcode Lottery. Their postcode, SE9 4TA, was announced as the winner of
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The Met sued for £3m after raid on Home Office Advisor’s home in Lewisham
BY TOBY PORTER toby@slpmedia.co.uk The Met is carrying out an investigation into its own handling of a raid on a
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Dinosaur Pieces at Greenwich Theatre
TWO ONE ACT PLAYS 16 – 19 January Linked by common themes CARRIAGES & CORRESPONDENTS London 1856, the dawn of
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Millwall fans can play Where’s Wally in the stands today
By Tim McNulty Millwall supporters can play Where’s Wally during Sunday’s match as one fan dons the famous costume ahead
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Theatre: Ghost – Churchill Theatre, Bromley
Bill Kenwright’s production of Ghost – The Musical returns to the UK in 2019, following a spectacular international tour in
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South London Memories: Marc and Isambard Brunel’s Thames Tunnel, an act of heroic engineering
Crossrail now looks unlikely to be completed for another year, but digging under London and the Thames has always been
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