So London’s most baffling piece of public transport will open to the public a week on Thursday, with many unanswered questions about quite what it’s there for. London Reconnections has done a sparkling job on bringing together all the info on the Thames Cable Car, and last night the station was proudly displaying its EMIRATES […]
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‘Stop moaning’ – Greenwich Council welcomes Bike Week
You probably won’t notice, but it’s Bike Week this week, the UK’s “largest mass participation cycling event”. There’s some events run by Eltham-based Limited Edition Cycling, and if that whets your appetite, then you could always look in on Greenwich Cyclists and Lewisham Cyclists for more. Indeed, it’s a great opportunity to encourage you to […]
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Oranjecamping pulls out of Greenwich Olympic campsite
853 exclusive: Plans for an Olympic campsite on Greenwich Peninsula are being scaled back after Dutch firm Oranjecamping pulled out of the project just weeks before its planned opening date. Tickets are still being sold for Oranjecamping London, but the firm will now no longer be operating the site, whose backers hoped to attract 4,000 […]
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Greenwich Peninsula cable car station – final design revealed
You might have seen the Greenwich cable car in action over the bank holiday, with tests being stepped up. From halfway up the hill in Charlton, with the gondolas sat in pairs across the river, it looked a bit like a set of Christmas lights nobody had bothered to turn on. There’s still plenty of […]
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The strange case of Greenwich Time and a youngster’s extra leg
Its apologists say council propaganda weekly Greenwich Time exists to celebrate the people of the borough. It may well do, but only those who haven’t upset leader Chris Roberts. In its photography, GT’s well known for editing out, cropping out or even Photoshopping out those who aren’t close to the Dear Leader, which led to […]
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Greenwich Council defies cuts to feed hungry businessmen
Grateful subjects of the Royal Borough of Greenwich will, if they’re lucky, be getting the photomontage above on their doormats this week – yes, the centrespread of propaganda weekly “Royal” Greenwich Time features council leader Chris Roberts greeting the Queen by the Cutty Sark. No luck for his stooge, mayor Jim Gillman, who’s meant to […]
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Greenwich libraries dispute – GLL chief Mark Sesnan responds
Greenwich Council’s libraries were transferred to leisure provider GLL yesterday, but the dispute over the move continues. Strike action yesterday and today was cancelled by the Unite union after a legal threat from GLL, although Unite says 11 out of the borough’s 13 libraries were closed during the last two days of their management by […]
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Charlton Lido cock-up cost Greenwich Council £125,000
A blunder by Greenwich Council means it’s had to pay £125,000 to buy back the lease to Charlton Lido after the original scheme to revamp the open-air pool collapsed, it has emerged. Contractors are now on site working to have the Hornfair Park lido back in business for the summer after an earlier plan to […]
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