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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Former Greenwich councillor Liz Truss to become prime minister
The first Greenwich councillor to become a cabinet minister rose to the highest job in the land today – and has been invited back to Woolwich Town Hall to talk about the cost of living crisis by the council’s new leader. Liz Truss, who represented Eltham South between 2006 and 2010, beat Rishi Sunak to […]
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Call this the home of time? Let’s get Blackheath’s memorial clock fixed
853’s special correspondent MERCURY MAN turns back the clock to revisit one of his best-known campaigns – to fix Greenwich borough’s public timepieces. Public clocks not working. Thought I’d get straight to the point because the Ed’s been complaining upstairs that he’s fed up with me going on more digressions than Holden Caulfield. I tried […]
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Bully for you – quitting councillor rocks Greenwich Labour
It was meant to be a great week for Greenwich Council. Leader Chris Roberts had donned a penguin suit to collect the “council of the year” prize from the Local Government Chronicle, the trade paper for councils. “The event at London’s Grosvenor House Hotel followed a day of live judging for the top two categories […]
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