Greenwich Council leader Chris Roberts refused to answer a question about the trouble-hit Peninsula Festival at Woolwich Town Hall last night, despite the authority funding the event with £50,000. It follows the cancellation of the festival’s launch night, which had been due tonight, and the loss of last weekend’s London Blues and Soul Festival. Greenwich […]
Darryl Chamberlain
Journalist and SE Londoner. Founder/editor of The Greenwich Wire (also reporter, sub-editor, features editor, membership manager, head of finance and business development manager).
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Peninsula Festival delayed as Dutch show cancelled
Greenwich’s Peninsula Festival will now kick off a week later than planned after a second event was cancelled. If it Ain’t Dutch, it Ain’t Much! had been due to bring DJs to the festival site on Wednesday, but has been cancelled due to “circumstances beyond our control”. The Peninsula Festival will now start on Friday, […]
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Peninsula Festival gets blues as soul show scrapped
The launch event for the Peninsula Festival, which was due to star Jools Holland and Bill Wyman, has been cancelled with just a week to go. The two-day London Blues and Soul Festival had been due to feature performances from the former Squeeze and Rolling Stones stars alongside Marc Almond and Ruby Turner. It had […]
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No Travelcards on the two-speed Thames Cable Car
So London’s most baffling piece of public transport will open to the public a week on Thursday, with many unanswered questions about quite what it’s there for. London Reconnections has done a sparkling job on bringing together all the info on the Thames Cable Car, and last night the station was proudly displaying its EMIRATES […]
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‘Stop moaning’ – Greenwich Council welcomes Bike Week
You probably won’t notice, but it’s Bike Week this week, the UK’s “largest mass participation cycling event”. There’s some events run by Eltham-based Limited Edition Cycling, and if that whets your appetite, then you could always look in on Greenwich Cyclists and Lewisham Cyclists for more. Indeed, it’s a great opportunity to encourage you to […]
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Oranjecamping pulls out of Greenwich Olympic campsite
853 exclusive: Plans for an Olympic campsite on Greenwich Peninsula are being scaled back after Dutch firm Oranjecamping pulled out of the project just weeks before its planned opening date. Tickets are still being sold for Oranjecamping London, but the firm will now no longer be operating the site, whose backers hoped to attract 4,000 […]
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Greenwich Peninsula cable car station – final design revealed
You might have seen the Greenwich cable car in action over the bank holiday, with tests being stepped up. From halfway up the hill in Charlton, with the gondolas sat in pairs across the river, it looked a bit like a set of Christmas lights nobody had bothered to turn on. There’s still plenty of […]
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The strange case of Greenwich Time and a youngster’s extra leg
Its apologists say council propaganda weekly Greenwich Time exists to celebrate the people of the borough. It may well do, but only those who haven’t upset leader Chris Roberts. In its photography, GT’s well known for editing out, cropping out or even Photoshopping out those who aren’t close to the Dear Leader, which led to […]
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