The London Assembly has called on Sadiq Khan and Transport for London to provide data on what would happen if a future mayor dropped tolls on the Silvertown Tunnel. Drivers will be charged to use the new tunnel when it opens in 2025, along with the Blackwall Tunnel, with the money paying back the £2 […]
June 2022
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Creek Road’s £4.2 million cycle route will open by July, Greenwich Council says
A £4.2million stretch of segregated cycle track in Deptford is finally set to open by next month – over a year after it was completed. Greenwich Council has confirmed to 853 that the stretch of Cycleway 4 on Creek Road is on track to open in the coming weeks, raising the possibility that it could […]
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Greenwich’s ex-deputy leader in race to be Labour candidate in Derby
Greenwich Council’s former deputy leader is angling to become an MP in the East Midlands – just weeks after winning her seat back at the town hall. Denise Scott-McDonald, the cabinet member for health and adult social care, is on the long list to be Labour’s candidate for Derby North, the authoritative Labour List website […]
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Mercury Man: Help Deptford’s 999 Club campaign for women escaping violence
853‘s special correspondent MERCURY MAN asks for your help with an important cause. With this one I think we need to get down to business straight away, if you don’t mind. No messing. I’d like as many of you as poss to click on to change.org/999Club-PreventingHomelessness and bring some help to what has for too […]
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Levelling down: Route 53 to be cut back to Elephant under TfL bus cuts
Government cuts mean bus route 53 is set to be cut back again so it no longer runs beyond Elephant & Castle, Transport for London has announced today. The one-time trunk route from Plumstead, Woolwich, Charlton, Blackheath, west Greenwich and Deptford is one of a number of victims of a swathe of cuts which are […]
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Deptford fire: Victims’ flats looted after blaze wrecked Creek Road block
Residents who had to evacuate their homes after a huge fire in Deptford have had their flats plundered in the aftermath of the blaze. Bank cards, TVs, laptops and jewellery were among the items stolen from Meridian Point on Creek Road, which was seriously damaged in the fire on April 26. Staff at a shop […]
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