Plans to make it easier for buses to enter and leave North Greenwich bus station look like they have been dropped after Greenwich Council leader Danny Thorpe unveiled a legal agreement to replace the peninsula’s busway with a dual carriageway. The 17-year-old busway, a legacy of failed plans for a guided bus service to the […]
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News about Danny Thorpe, former council leader, from The Greenwich Wire.
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Cheap start-up rent for operator of £600,000 Plumstead Slade toilet cafe
The operator of a new cafe in Plumstead which Greenwich Council is spending over £600,000 converting from a public toilet will get a discounted rent for the first five years, papers released on Friday evening reveal. Plans to convert the closed convieniences at The Slade, near Plumstead Common, caused uproar among backbench Labour councillors last […]
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‘You knew our business plan’: Stricken outdoor charity Wide Horizons hits back at Greenwich Council leader
The chief executive of outdoor adventure charity Wide Horizons, which has announced its closure, has denied claims by Greenwich Council leader Danny Thorpe that his officers had been left unaware of the organisation’s financial situation until just days before a crunch meeting to decide its future. Wide Horizons, based in Eltham, is to close on […]
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Greenwich Council leader sobs as Labour suspends fraud charge councillor
Greenwich Council leader Danny Thorpe cried last night as he addressed colleagues about suspended councillor Tonia Ashikodi, who has been charged with fraud and perverting the course of justice. Thorpe nearly broke down as he updated last night’s full council meeting on what has happened to Ashikodi, who will appear in court on 6 August […]
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Greenwich Labour councillor owned a house while living in a council flat
A Greenwich Labour councillor lived in a council flat in Plumstead while being named as the owner of a house in Thamesmead which was not declared on her register of interests, an 853 investigation has found. Tonia Ashikodi, who was re-elected in Glyndon ward in last month’s elections, was named as the owner of the […]
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Help us look for dumped knives, Greenwich, Lewisham and Bexley’s top policeman says
Greenwich borough’s top policeman has appealed for communities’ help in dealing with knife crime – including helping officers look for weapons hidden in bushes. Metropolitan Police Commander Simon Dobinson, who controls the police service in Greenwich, Lewisham and Bexley, told a Greenwich Council-convened community meeting held in Woolwich on Tuesday that the public needed to […]
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Greenwich Council leader to scrap Painted Hall mayor-making junkets
New Greenwich Council leader Danny Thorpe has pledged to stop having mayor-making ceremonies at the Old Royal Naval College and plans to move them back to Woolwich Town Hall. While most councils make do with modest events at their own town halls, but since 2006 Greenwich has regularly blown a five-figure sum on a lavish […]
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Greenwich cyclist deaths: New council leader invites City Hall chiefs to lethal junction
New Greenwich Council leader Danny Thorpe has invited new London transport chief Heidi Alexander to come and see the road where two cyclists were killed earlier this month after mayor Sadiq Khan cancelled planned safety improvements. Thorpe has asked Alexander, the new deputy mayor for transport, along with walking and cycling commissioner Will Norman to […]
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