“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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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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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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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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Mercury Man: The brothers from Kidbrooke who fought apartheid
To mark the May Day bank holiday, 853’s special correspondent MERCURY MAN has a tale of how two working class brothers from a Kidbrooke council house did their dangerous bit to help bring down apartheid in South Africa. They made their undercover contribution in August 1970 when – after being advised to get proper haircuts […]
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Mercury Man: Bill Crow, the Charlton musician who’s keeping it real
Our special correspondent and turf investment adviser MERCURY MAN returns for a bank holiday chat with a Charlton-based singer-songwriter who explores his life in his music. For those of us grappling with old age – trying to take our onesies off without an involuntary forward roll across the room – it’s wonderful when one of […]
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