The naval charity that owns much of Greenwich town centre is planning to sell some of the properties there it has owned for centuries – but says it is holding on to Greenwich Market. Greenwich Hospital is looking for £80 million from the sale, according to the property industry website CoStar, which first reported the […]
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Greenwich street trees still face cutback – despite residents’ campaign
Much-loved trees in a street near Greenwich station still face being cut back after residents began a campaign to stop them being chopped down. Hyde Housing applied to Greenwich Council for permission to fell the trees in Straightsmouth and in a nearby courtyard last month. The housing association said the trees were damaging a boundary […]
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Weekend Hopper: Pay one fare, get all day free on TfL buses this summer
London mayor Sir Sadiq Khan is offering unlimited daily bus journeys for the cost of one fare over six weekends during the school summer holidays. The Weekend Hopper promotion, which will run from July 25 until August 31, means that once a passenger pays for one trip on a bus or tram, all the other […]
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Labour wins Greenwich Council election after ‘bruising’ losses to Greens and Tories
Labour has kept hold of Greenwich Council after the most dramatic council election in many years – but its majority was slashed in what the party leader admitted was a “bruising day”. The Greens won 13 seats and the Tories went from four to six councillors. Reform UK won just one seat, in Eltham Page, […]
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Tories win back Bexley Council – defying the pundits and Reform UK
The Conservatives hailed a “community fightback” as the party defied the pundits and held onto Bexley Council – despite a determined effort from Reform UK. Both the Tories and Labour lost some seats to Reform – but Nigel Farage’s party failed to carve the same inroads in Bexley that it made nationwide and across the […]
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As it happened: Greens surge, Tories gain but Labour win majority in Greenwich
It’s all over in Woolwich after the most dramatic Greenwich Council election count for some years. DARRYL CHAMBERLAIN and RASHMEE ROSHAN LALL were live from the count providing updates on what happened. The final results were declared at about 7pm after counts for 23 wards and 55 seats. A party needs 28 seats to win […]
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Antique Chinese carpet returns to Eltham Palace after 80 years
An antique Chinese carpet has returned to its original home at Eltham Palace after 80 years and will go on show to visitors from Saturday. The carpet was donated to English Heritage by the estate of Mrs MR Bernard, the niece of Stephen Courtauld, who lived with his wife Virginia in the art deco mansion […]
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Bleak Greenwich flyover to be transformed by a ‘wall of stories’
East Greenwich is to get a “wall of stories” that will tell the tale of a part of the borough that is industrial, gritty and occasionally, world-beating. A nearly 15ft tall graphic artwork will transform the main wall of the Angerstein flyover, taking it from dreary slab of grey concrete to a representation of the […]
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