Long-awaited new trains for the Docklands Light Railway have returned to service, ten months after being withdrawn because one overshot a platform in wet weather. Three of the new B23 trains started running between Stratford International and Woolwich Arsenal in September last year, but were quickly pulled after the incident in November. The first of […]
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Campaigners want council to halt Lewisham Shopping Centre redevelopment
Campaigners hoping to halt the redevelopment of Lewisham Shopping Centre want the borough’s new Green council to stop a potential compulsory purchase of the old Citibank tower. Save Lewisham Shopping Centre wants more affordable housing added to the £1.5 billion redevelopment. Councillors approved the scheme in October, and that decision was rubber-stamped by the council’s […]
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Lewisham’s Model Market to reopen in ‘late summer’ with German Kraft in charge
Lewisham’s revived Model Market will open in “late summer” with the German Kraft brewery in charge of the operation, its owners have announced. Plans to bring back the much-loved street food market were announced last year, with the developer LandSec, which owns the site and the shopping centre, pledging to open up this spring. But […]
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Labour’s £150 bike vouchers will transform lives, Greenwich councillor says
Greenwich Labour’s election pledge to give every child in the borough a £150 voucher to buy a new bike is an “incredible policy” that will transform children’s lives, one of the party’s councillors has said. Aidan Smith, who is seeking re-election in Greenwich Park, spoke out as the flagship policy came under criticism from rival […]
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Boots gets new store as Lewisham redevelopment moves forward
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
Update, May 1: The planning application has been withdrawn, Salamander News reports. 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 […]
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