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 […]
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 […]
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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