A Brockley-based tech company has been helping schools raise much-needed funds with virtual fairs featuring everything from online bake-off competitions to pet shows. In the latest of our series about how the pandemic has affected people and businesses in SE London, NIKKI SPENCER met the woman behind Patchwork. At this time of year it’s usually […]
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‘If it carries on like this, we’re finished’: The dry cleaner struggling after lockdown
“Most days I make £30 or £50. These days if I get £80 I’m like a belly dancer. Some people bring just one item to keep me going until this black day is over,” says Tahir Karaoglan, who has owned Crofton Park’s Starlite Dry Cleaners since 1999. The Brockley Road shopkeeper is trying to articulate […]
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Mercury Man: Brewery’s free beer to cheer up cheesed-off bin crews
Lager than life as usual, 853’s special correspondent MERCURY MAN joins residents and a local brewery in cheering The Brilliant Binnies… Let’s hear it for unsung heroes of the lockdown, the binmen and women who cheerfully do the job that few of us would ever fancy. All across south east London, residents have been shouting […]
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Lewisham Council asks which streets it should open up to walkers and cyclists
Lewisham Council has revealed where it is considering making changes to the road network to make it easier to walk and cycle safely during the pandemic – and is asking the public for suggestions for other locations. 853 revealed at the weekend that both Lewisham and Greenwich councils were planning changes to help residents keep […]
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TfL bus cuts: New figures reveal SE London routes set for cuts are getting busier
Two south-east London bus routes which are threatened with service cuts saw an increase in passengers last year, according to new figures released by Transport for London. TfL plans to withdraw routes 53 (Plumstead station to Whitehall) and 171 (Bellingham to Holborn) from parts of central London as it grapples with money problems following the […]
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TfL plans permanent cutbacks for routes 53, 171 and 172 in huge bus axe scheme
853 exclusive: Transport for London is planning to make a huge swathe of cuts to bus routes in the centre of the capital – including stopping three of south-east London’s most important bus routes short of their current terminals. Route 53, which runs from Plumstead, Woolwich, Charlton and Blackheath through Deptford, the Old Kent Road […]
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TfL rules out St John’s station for Bakerloo Line Lewisham extension
Transport for London says it does not plan to build an extra station at St John’s on its planned extension of the Bakerloo Line to Lewisham. It is also ruling out building a station on Lewisham Way as part of the proposals, saying that existing plans to build stations at New Cross Gate and Lewisham […]
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