A senior Lewisham councillor is to raise extending TfL’s cycle hire scheme further into SE London when he meets City Hall’s walking and cycling commissioner next month. In June, Greenwich Council’s transport cabinet member, Sarah Merrill, said that she would be keen to see Santander Cycles extended along the route of the new Cycleway 4 […]
September 2021
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Southeastern sacked: Greenwich Tories join calls for TfL to take over SE London’s trains
Conservatives on Greenwich Council have joined calls for southeast London’s rail services to be taken over by TfL after Southeastern was sacked as the area’s train operator yesterday. Grant Shapps, the transport secretary, announced yesterday morning that a government-owned company would be taking over trains in SE London, Kent and East Sussex from 17 October […]
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Blackheath fireworks off because of austerity cuts, Lewisham Council says
There will be no Blackheath fireworks display this year because of Lewisham Council cuts, a senior councillor has said. The annual display, a fixture of SE London’s calendar since the late 1980s, was one of London’s most popular before the pandemic, regularly bringing more than 80,000 people to the heath and boosting local businesses across […]
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Now bring in TfL to run our trains, MPs demand after government sacks Southeastern
Greenwich borough’s MPs have called for TfL to take over southeast London’s train network after the Westminster government suddenly stripped Southeastern of its franchise. Transport secretary Grant Shapps announced this morning that the government would be taking over the rail company after allegations of fraud. He said Southeastern had owed the government more than £25m […]
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Labour leader Starmer ‘not familiar’ with Silvertown Tunnel – despite being London MP
Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has admitted he is “not familiar” with the arguments over the controversial Silvertown Tunnel – even though the project is being championed by his party’s London mayor. Tunnel opponents were baffled by Starmer’s reluctance to discuss the project in an interview with ITV News – especially as the Labour leader […]
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Sabina Nessa: Vigil to be held for teacher murdered in Kidbrooke
A vigil will be held on Friday evening for Sabina Nessa, the teacher who was murdered in Kidbrooke last week. Police believe that the 28-year-old, who worked at Rushey Green Primary School in Catford, was killed in Cator Park, on the Kidbrooke Village development, at about 8.30pm last Friday. Her body was not found until […]
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Greenwich Council blocks disabled people from social care scrutiny meeting
Representatives of Greenwich social care users have been blocked from attending a meeting held to discuss increased charges because the council is refusing to hold it online. At the beginning of last year councillors voted through a package of cuts to the social care budget, resulting in bigger bills for some of the borough’s most […]
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Woolwich Works boss: My Robin Hood approach will help local community
Woolwich’s multimillion-pound, new 15,000-square metre creative district will open its doors for the first time this week. The boss of Woolwich Works, the venue at the heart of the venture, took NIKKI SPENCER for a look around. James Heaton is the first to admit that there were a few times in the past year or […]
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