This year’s OnBlackheath festival will not be taking place because of a clash with the Euro 2020 fanzone in Greenwich Park, local residents were told last night. Last year’s event brought Jamiroquai and Grace Jones to Blackheath, but event organisers – who have moved the festival from September to July to try to attract bigger […]
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Lewisham tells Greenwich: Cough up for Blackheath fireworks
Lewisham Council is asking Greenwich Council to start paying towards the annual Blackheath fireworks display again, after revealing fundraising for this year’s event fell nearly £30,000 short of covering its costs. Greenwich withdrew its £37,000 share of funding for what was a jointly-run display in 2010, with council deputy leader Peter Brooks claiming it would […]
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Will breakfast boy Matt rise and shine as Labour’s winner?
It’s the biggest political battle Greenwich or Woolwich has seen for a generation, and it ends tomorrow. The winner will get the keys to a safe seat in Parliament and the chance to develop a career which could peak in one of the nation’s highest offices. The others are already working out their excuses. But […]
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Silvertown Tunnel and pollution: Greenwich Council’s dirty secret
Some of Greenwich’s most high-profile development sites suffer from air pollution far in excess of European limits, research carried out for No to Silvertown Tunnel has revealed. Volunteers, including myself, used tubes to record the pollution in the air at over 50 locations close to the A102, A2 and A206 for four weeks during June, […]
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