Lewisham’s London Borough of Culture 2022 programme We Are Lewisham launches on Friday. Proud borough resident NIKKI SPENCER looks forward to the year ahead. After being postponed for 12 months due to the pandemic, Lewisham is finally set to have its year in the cultural spotlight with an array of events that will put the […]
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Archbishop Desmond Tutu’s Lewisham links remembered as anti-apartheid hero mourned
Leaders in Lewisham have been paying tribute to Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate who helped end apartheid in South Africa, after his death at the age of 90. A contemporary of Nelson Mandela, Tutu played a key role in overthrowing the racist policies that governed the country until 1991. He trained as […]
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Christmas rail works hit Lewisham, New Eltham and Sidcup trains
Major rail works will wipe out train services through Lewisham, Hither Green, New Eltham and Sidcup over the Christmas holiday and into the new year. An £8 million upgrade programme will see points replaced south of Lewisham, hitting rail services on the Sidcup, Hayes and Orpington lines for eight days between 27 December and 3 […]
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Get a booster at The Valley this weekend – and help others get jabbed too
Charlton Athletic’s stadium is becoming a vaccination clinic this weekend as demand soars for Covid-19 booster jabs. Long queues have been seen outside hospitals and pharmacies this week after doses were made available to all adults in response to the spread of the Omicron variant. The most high-profile vaccination centre in south-east London will be […]
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Hundreds of homes due as Lewisham Centre owners seek views on rebuild
Plans to redevelop the Lewisham Centre to include hundreds of new homes have inched forward this week with the mall’s owner asking locals to take part in a new consultation on the scheme. Land Securities, one of Britain’s biggest commercial landowners, first ran a consultation during the summer to get locals to tell them what […]
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Street Feast: Firm behind Woolwich’s Public and Lewisham’s Model Market collapses
The company behind Lewisham’s Model Market and the failed Public in Woolwich’s old covered market has gone out of business – with its founder complaining of being “completely screwed over”. Street Feast ran a number of food courts across London, including Model Market, which closed its gates for the last time only last month. It […]
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Jools Holland backs turning Lewisham’s Ravensbourne Arms into music venue
Former Squeeze star Jools Holland has backed a plan to turn the closed Ravensbourne Arms pub in Lewisham into a community music venue. The team behind Sister Midnight Records, a former shop and music venue in Deptford, are trying to raise £500,000 from SE Londoners to buy the pub, which closed five years ago after […]
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Help for Afghan refugees in Greenwich: Church launches appeal for clothes
11pm update: The church says it now has enough clothes but could do with nappies and volunteers – read on for the story as it was this morning. A church in east Greenwich is appealing for clothes to help refugees from Afghanistan who have just arrived in southeast London. Christ Church on Trafalgar Road is […]
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