A cyclist has died this morning after a collision at the Woolwich Road roundabout in east Greenwich where mayor Sadiq Khan cancelled plans to improve road safety. The rider is reported to have been hit at about 8.20am at the A102/A206 junction, where the Blackwall Tunnel approach and Woolwich Road meet. Khan removed the junction […]
May 2018
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New Woolwich Ferry vessels take to the water for the first time
The two new boats that will run the Woolwich Ferry from 2019 have been successfully launched for the first time at their shipyard in Poland. Dame Vera Lynn and Ben Woollacott took to the water at the Rementowa shipyard in Gdansk earlier this week, ahead of the two-month closure of the ferry service this autumn, […]
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Sizwe James takes on regeneration role in Greenwich Council’s new cabinet
Thamesmead Moorings councillor Sizwe James has been handed the regeneration portfolio in new Greenwich Council leader Danny Thorpe’s first cabinet – putting him in charge of Woolwich’s controversial Spray Street development scheme, proposals for thousands of homes at Charlton Riverside, and other major planning issues. James takes over from Thorpe in the new role, now […]
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Lewisham East by-election: The stats behind the political story
The Westminster circus is parking its caravans in south-east London ahead of the Lewisham East by-election on 14 June, caused by the departure of Labour MP Heidi Alexander. Yet many of the statistics about the area spouted in the early stages of the poll have been misleading or just plain wrong. 853‘s resident stats geek […]
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Silvertown Tunnel approved – but Greenwich councillors throw out TfL legal deal
A Greenwich Council scrutiny panel voted yesterday to send back a legal deal with Transport for London about the construction of the Silvertown Tunnel – even though officers warned TfL could walk away from the agreement now it has permission to build the tunnel. The decision does not prevent TfL from building the tunnel, which […]
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New Greenwich Council leader Thorpe promises planning shake-up
853 exclusive: Incoming Greenwich Council leader Danny Thorpe has promised he will shake up the borough’s planning system – and will not sit on the borough’s main planning committee. No cabinet member will sit on the Planning Board, the committee which decides on major developments across the borough, he told Labour councillors in a manifesto […]
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Danny Thorpe to be new Greenwich Council leader after revolt fails
853 exclusive: Shooters Hill councillor Danny Thorpe is to be the new leader of Greenwich Council after winning an internal vote of Labour members on Wednesday evening, 853 can reveal. Rebel councillors had hoped to install housing cabinet member Averil Lekau, who had spoken out against a Thorpe-backed plan for a cruise liner terminal in […]
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Mercury Man: Through the pinhole with Wulfie Mayfield
It’s bank holiday weekend, so 853‘s special correspondent MERCURY MAN marks May Day by downing tools and getting someone else to do all the work. As you all knew, Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day was last Sunday. You did know, didn’t you? It’s been held on the last Sunday in April since 2001. My own pinhole […]
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