Boots has moved into a new store in Lewisham Shopping Centre as preparations for the mall’s redevelopment go on. The health and beauty chain moved into the old Wilko store at the centre of the mall on Wednesday, adding more consultation rooms and boasting optician and hearing care services. A £1.5 billion redevelopment is planned […]
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‘I found comfort in boxing’: Meet the nurse from Plumstead who’s staying strong
After a long shift, how would you expect a nurse at Lewisham Hospital relax? Shennoy Edge, from Plumstead, dons a pair of boxing gloves to follow in the footsteps of Anthony Joshua. The Greenwich Wire‘s special correspondent, MERCURY MAN, returns to tell us more. What I’ve always liked to do – I suppose it must […]
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Lewisham’s Fox and Firkin pub plans to expand into nearby shop
One of southeast London’s best-known pubs is planning to extend into a nearby shop unit. The Fox and Firkin in Lewisham High Street has taken over a closed-down antiques shop two doors along the road, and hopes to open a food court and café. An application to Lewisham Council to install extractor fans on the […]
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Lewisham’s closed Ravensbourne Arms could be turned into ten-room HMO
A pub in Lewisham that had been at the centre of a campaign to turn it into a community music venue could become a ten-room HMO if a developer is successful. The Ravensbourne Arms on Lewisham High Street closed in 2016 after the pub company Antic secured permission to turn the top floor into flats […]
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New DLR trains to return by late summer – but passengers warned of more closures
New Docklands Light Railway trains will finally return to service by late summer, Transport for London has announced – but parts of the network will need to be closed at times so further tests can take place. Three of the new B23 trains started running on the Stratford International to Woolwich Arsenal route in September […]
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Silvertown Tunnel buses will be free until May, TfL confirms
The three buses that run through the Blackwall and Silvertown Tunnels will remain free until May 27, Transport for London has said. The concession was introduced in April last year to promote the Silvertown Tunnel and the two routes running through it – the 129 between Lewisham and Great Eastern Quay and the SL4 between […]
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Lewisham’s nine-screen cinema to finally open next year
An operator for the cinema in the Lewisham Gateway development has finally been confirmed – bringing movies back to the town centre for the first time in 40 years. Lewisham Council announced on social media that the Irish movie chain Arc Cinemas will take on the nine-screen cinema in the troubled development between Lewisham station […]
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Lewisham shopping centre development set to inch forward with council deal
Plans to knock down Lewisham shopping centre and replace it with 1,700 homes and a new mall are set to take a small but vital step forward next week when plans for the council to compulsorily purchase the Citibank tower are discussed. Lewisham councillors backed the plans, put forward by the shopping centre’s owner Landsec, […]
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