There’ll be a few sore heads around Lewisham this morning after the government’s plans to downgrade the accident and emergency department at Lewisham Hospital were quashed by the High Court. While Jeremy Hunt’s Department of Health has been given leave to appeal, even this brief pause in the battle is one that’s worth celebrating. It’s […]
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Popular councillor Mary Mills out in election sensation
Peninsula ward councillor Mary Mills has been deselected by her local Labour party this evening, as the battles within Greenwich Council’s ruling party to stand in next year’s poll get ever more vicious. One of the very few Greenwich backbench councillors with a profile beyond her local party, she has served the area on the […]
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Will Greenwich Labour pick right-wing party founder for council?
Yesterday, this website reported on the shenanigans as Greenwich borough’s political parties select their candidates for next year’s council elections – and how leading Labour figures have suffered for their loyalty to outgoing leader Chris Roberts. Keepers of the Roberts flame are still battling away, though. But one of those ultra-loyalists – who has been […]
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Blackheath Bluecoat School going out on the up
Remember Greenwich Council deciding to close Blackheath Bluecoat school, and councillors ignoring a protest by pupils to guzzle wine at a party over the road? Well, the pupils have responded in the best possible way – by cracking on with their studies. The result… Blackheath Bluecoat Church of England Secondary School is celebrating after being […]
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Greenwich Council’s paper goes shy about mayor’s knees-up
One of the more curious aspects of Greenwich Council’s response to the horrific events in Woolwich two weeks ago was leader Chris Roberts’ determination that the council’s business would carry on as normal, despite the scene of tragedy just yards from the council’s headquarters. So, as the News Shopper’s Mark Chandler revealed last week, Roberts […]
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Woolwich set to get its Crossrail station after all
Woolwich is a step closer to getting on the Crossrail map, as Greenwich Council and Berkeley Homes have now pencilled in a deal on how its station will be paid for. Transport for London’s board will consider the deal at a meeting this Thursday. Crossrail, due to begin service in 2018, will link Maidenhead and […]
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City Hall asked to probe Greenwich Council foot tunnels fiasco
City Hall officials have been asked to investigate the handling of Greenwich Council’s botched £11.5m redevelopment of the Greenwich and Woolwich Foot Tunnels, where work has been stalled for over a year. Greenwich & Lewisham assembly member Len Duvall has referred the matter to auditors at the Greater London Authority to establish what went wrong […]
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Silvertown Tunnel: Neighbouring boroughs voice their fears
The propaganda battle from City Hall and Greenwich Council over the Silvertown Tunnel has gone up a notch again, after the Transport for London consultation reported, surprise, surprise, “continued support for new river crossings in east London“. Of course, a dodgy survey proves very little. You can offer children a year’s supply of sweets and […]
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