After a long shift, how would you expect a nurse at Lewisham Hospital relax? Shennoy Edge, from Plumstead, dons a pair of boxing gloves to follow in the footsteps of Anthony Joshua. The Greenwich Wire‘s special correspondent, MERCURY MAN, returns to tell us more. What I’ve always liked to do – I suppose it must […]
Mercury Man
Semi-retired local newspaper columnist.
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How Avery Hill’s food bank serves up helpings of community spirit
“Good God, it’s working so well!” That was what our special correspondent, MERCURY MAN, explained after visiting a very special food bank on the Avery Hill Estate. He took tea and cake with the pastor and volunteers who keep it all going. Talk about God’s work — the church that turns itself into a food […]
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South London Special League celebrates 20 years of changing lives
Football is for everyone – and the Kidbrooke-based South London Special League is marking 20 years of bringing sport and friendship to young people and adults from across the area. The Greenwich Wire’s special correspondent MERCURY MAN met the woman who kicked it off. It was 20 years ago today, give or take a day […]
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A former Greenwich councillor’s true story of sex, spying and scandal
Alex Grant hit the headlines a decade ago as a Greenwich councillor — but he has a new tale to tell of scandal and intrigue in public life. The Greenwich Wire’s special correspondent MERCURY MAN found out more. Of all the political scandals of the 1960s, Tory MP John Profumo misbehaving himself with Christine Keeler […]
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New Cross V2 attack: The professor honouring those lost on SE London’s darkest day
This year will mark the 80th anniversary of one of the worst attacks on British civilians in the Second World War, when 168 people were killed after a V2 rocket bomb hit a crowded Woolworth’s store in New Cross on a busy Saturday afternoon. The Greenwich Wire‘s special correspondent MERCURY MAN met the historian trying […]
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The Deptford Ravens will change the way you look at football
Returning to our website after an extended break on the A20 Riviera (between the bookies’ and the bookshop on Lee High Road), The Greenwich Wire‘s special correspondent MERCURY MAN put his boots on and met a side who are changing the face of football in southeast London… If you live and faff in Lee, as […]
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Mercury Man: Meet the bard of Floyd Road, Charlton match reporter Kevin Nolan
Our turf investment adviser MERCURY MAN salutes one of his colleagues from SE London’s old local newspaper – Kevin Nolan, who has reported on Charlton Athletic’s ups and downs for 36 years. You might know that Decathlon, the sports chain, calls the store in Charlton its “Greenwich” branch. Snob value, I suppose. Doesn’t affect me, […]
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Mercury Man: Meet the professor behind the TV drama Mrs Wilson
853‘s special correspondent MERCURY MAN meets a recently-retired Goldsmiths professor whose book was turned into a hit BBC drama… When you meet someone special for the first time your own life gets an unexpected lift, and that’s how it was for me a few years ago when I met Professor Tim Crook in the café […]
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