Wednesday night at the council: Greenwich councillors declared a climate emergency last night – but studiously avoided mentioning the borough’s most controversial environmental scheme, the Silvertown Tunnel. Labour councillors accepted a motion from the Conservatives mostly beefing up their original pledge, promising to make the borough carbon neutral by 2030, or earlier if possible, with […]
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LGBT school row MP Roger Godsiff resigns from Charlton Athletic trust
The Labour MP who supported parents objecting to their children being taught about same-sex relationships has resigned from Charlton Athletic’s community trust, the leader of Greenwich Council said last night. Godsiff, a former ceremonial mayor of Lewisham who is now an MP in Birmingham, gave his support to protesters at Anderton Park Primary School, inside […]
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Greenwich Council-backed New Wine Church to welcome gay marriage opponent
A church backed by Greenwich Council is to welcome an opponent of gay marriage to Woolwich next week – just days after it painted rainbow-coloured “pride” crossings in the town centre. There are no rainbow crossings outside New Wine Church, whose Maximise Life event next week will feature Creflo Dollar, a televangelist who opposes abortion […]
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Greenwich Council considering new bid to be borough of culture
Council chiefs have revealed that Greenwich is looking into bidding to be London’s borough of culture in 2021. The capital’s current pick is Waltham Forest, in east London, but Greenwich Council is considering putting the borough forward for the next round. At a regeneration scrutiny meeting on Thursday night, councillors were told that the authority […]
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You don’t represent us, John Roan parents tell anti-academy campaigners
Concerned parents have called for stability at a 340-year-old school at the centre of an ongoing row over becoming an academy. John Roan School in Blackheath was hit with an academisation order after a damning Ofsted report found it to be inadequate last year. The government has said that United Learning will take the school […]
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Schoolchildren plead with Sadiq Khan to scrap Silvertown Tunnel
Schoolchildren from Kidbrooke have pleaded for the Silvertown Tunnel to be scrapped, as protesters hit City Hall for a second time this morning. Pupils and teachers from the Thomas Tallis school joined environmental campaigners from Extinction Rebellion and the Stop the Silvertown Tunnel Coalition to pressure London mayor Sadiq Khan to backtrack on the controversial […]
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Other traders interested in Woolwich Public Market, Greenwich Council says
853 exclusive: Other traders are interested in taking on the empty Woolwich Public Market after Street Feast abandoned its street food market there, Greenwich Council has told this website. The Public food and drink space opened in the dilapidated market in March 2018 after Street Feast, which also operates Model Market in Lewisham and Hawker […]
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Charlton Athletic trust to discuss chair’s backing for anti-LGBT education protesters
853 exclusive: The Labour MP Roger Godsiff’s position as the chair of Charlton Athletic Community Trust looks to be in question after he was given a formal warning by his party for supporting parents who objected to their children being taught about same-sex relationships. Godsiff, a former ceremonial mayor of Lewisham, gave his support to […]
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