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Lewisham park takes London Planning Awards prize - Horticulture Week
Last Updated - 27/01/2012
Lewisham park takes London Planning Awards prize
Horticulture Week
Judges were unanimous in hailing the good maintenance regime at Margaret McMillan Park, Lewisham, and access to all as key features. Mehron Kirk, a landscape architect at multidisciplinary firm BDP, led the design team. The awards are run by business ...
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NHS Trust launches new learning disability scheme - EastLondonLines
Last Updated - 26/01/2012
EastLondonLines
NHS Trust launches new learning disability scheme
EastLondonLines
Lewisham NHS Trust has launched a new scheme for residents in the borough with learning difficulties. The 'Hospital Passport' scheme provides people with learning disabilities with a personal information document to carry when they receive medical ...
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Stolen bikes seized from address in Lewisham - EastLondonLines
Last Updated - 26/01/2012
EastLondonLines
Stolen bikes seized from address in Lewisham
EastLondonLines
Ten bikes, believed to have been stolen, have been seized by the Metropolitan Police Service at an address in Lewisham. Officers from the Cycle Task Force were looking for a red 'Specialized Allez' bike, which was reported stolen on January 11.
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Charlton vow to slap racist supporters with life-time bans after police raids - Daily Mail
Last Updated - 26/01/2012
Daily Mail
Charlton vow to slap racist supporters with life-time bans after police raids
Daily Mail
Police launched dawn raids on houses in Bexley, Greenwich, Lewisham and Bromley on Wednesday in connection with the alleged incident following the clash against Martin Jol's side at Craven Cottage on January 7. The men arrested are aged between 20 and ...
Nine Charlton Athletic fans held over racist chantsBBC News
Nine held over racist soccer chantsThe Press Association
Charlton Athletic supporters arrested following racist train chantsThis is Local London
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“Very friendly pub” to replace rowdy boozer - EastLondonLines
Last Updated - 25/01/2012
EastLondonLines
“Very friendly pub” to replace rowdy boozer
EastLondonLines
The pub has been closed as a result of what Lewisham police called “poor management”. It will be replaced by The Catford Bridge Tavern. The new pub will offer food, drinks and a traditional British pub atmosphere, manager Richard Salthouse told ...
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Law change could avoid polling station chaos - News Shopper
Last Updated - 25/01/2012
Law change could avoid polling station chaos
News Shopper
By Mark Chandler » A CHANGE in the law could prevent the chaos which marred the local elections in Lewisham, a report says. The House of Lords Constitution Committee is calling for a guarantee that voters arriving at a polling station before 10pm ...
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Community campaign against Sydenham police station closure - This is Local London
Last Updated - 25/01/2012
Community campaign against Sydenham police station closure
This is Local London
By Mark Chandler » ONE of Lewisham borough's five police stations could be closed down and sold off, campaigners say. Lewisham police say no decision has been reached to shut Sydenham station, but a community campaign has already begun to save it.
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The Cafe of Good Hope has been awarded in the first round of Lewisham Business ... - News Shopper
Last Updated - 24/01/2012
EastLondonLines
The Cafe of Good Hope has been awarded in the first round of Lewisham Business ...
News Shopper
By Nina Massey » THE Cafe of Good Hope has been recognised in the first round of Lewisham's Business Awards. On January 23 Sir Steve Bullock, Mayor of Lewisham, visited the cafe in Hither Green Lane, to present a Social Enterprise Award.
Jimmy Mizen 'hope' cafe wins business awardEastLondonLines
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Green Chain events running across Lewisham - News Shopper
Last Updated - 24/01/2012
Green Chain events running across Lewisham
News Shopper
Many events are planned for the Lewisham area, including Nature's Gym at Chinbrook Meadows, Grove Park on February 9 from 11am to 2pm. A nature trail discovery session runs on February 15 at the Horniman Museum in London Road, Forest Hill.
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Man guilty of murdering “defenceless” pensioner - EastLondonLines
Last Updated - 23/01/2012
EastLondonLines
Man guilty of murdering “defenceless” pensioner
EastLondonLines
A 27-year-old man has been found guilty of stabbing a “defenceless” pensioner to death at his home in Lewisham. Andrew Monk, 27, from Horn Park in Greenwich, was convicted of the murder of James Land, 79, at the Old Bailey today, where he will be ...
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Review: Meze Mangal, Lewisham - News Shopper
Last Updated - 23/01/2012
Review: Meze Mangal, Lewisham
News Shopper
I only mention this because I noticed a flat for let just down the road from Meze Managal on Lewisham Way and I'm going to suggest he moves there. When I visited the shop at 1pm, narrowly avoiding being bisected by a skinny-jeaned skateboarder, ...
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Lewisham to receive more than £3m from Boris' Outer London Fund - News Shopper
Last Updated - 23/01/2012
Lewisham to receive more than £3m from Boris' Outer London Fund
News Shopper
LEWISHAM will benefit from more than £3m investment from the Mayor of London's Outer London Fund. Boris Johnson announced £50million of funding to benefit 23 projects in 18 boroughs on January 18. Lewisham Council has welcomed the cash, £1.49m of which ...
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Could the DLR or Bakerloo line be coming to Bromley? - This is Local London
Last Updated - 23/01/2012
Could the DLR or Bakerloo line be coming to Bromley?
This is Local London
For Bromley this involved extending the DLR from Lewisham to Bromley North via Hither Green and Grove Park. The study also considered extending the Bakerloo line from Elephant & Castle to Lewisham via Camberwell and Peckham or Old Kent Road and then on ...
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Robin Gibb: 'How my obsession with the Titanic has helped save my life' - Daily Mail
Last Updated - 22/01/2012
Daily Mail
Robin Gibb: 'How my obsession with the Titanic has helped save my life'
Daily Mail
Many years now separate us from the Hither Green rail crash in Lewisham, South London, but it haunts me to this day. It changed me for ever. Forty-nine people were killed and many hundreds more were injured, some of them terribly, on the evening of ...
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RJ with his father Robin Gibb at their home in Oxfordshire - Daily Mail
Last Updated - 22/01/2012
Daily Mail
RJ with his father Robin Gibb at their home in Oxfordshire
Daily Mail
Many years now separate us from the Hither Green rail crash in Lewisham, South London, but it haunts me to this day. It changed me for ever. Forty-nine people were killed and many hundreds more were injured, some of them terribly, on the evening of ...
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Primary Teaching job - Ages 5 to 11 in Lewisham - TimePlan
Last Updated - 21/01/2012
Primary Teaching job - Ages 5 to 11 in Lewisham
TimePlan
Interested in the Key Stage 1 teaching job in Lewisham? Apply online now or call Nathalie on 020 8371 8000. TimePlan Education believes in Equal Opportunities in employment for all. TimePlan Education Group is committed to safeguarding and promoting ...
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"Inadequate" Southwark College to merge with Lewisham College - London SE1
Last Updated - 21/01/2012
London SE1
"Inadequate" Southwark College to merge with Lewisham College
London SE1
Plans for Southwark College to be dissolved and join forces with its Lewisham further education counterpart have been announced in the same week as the publication of an Ofsted report which gave the institution the lowest possible grade.
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Mother's appeal to catch teenager Charlie Wright's killer - BBC News
Last Updated - 21/01/2012
BBC News
Mother's appeal to catch teenager Charlie Wright's killer
BBC News
Charlie Wright, 17, of Eltham, a student of Lewisham College, was shot in the face at a house in Park Mews, Calvert Road, Greenwich, in April 2010. His mother, Lisa Wright, appealed for information about her son's killer on what would have been his ...
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Tributes to 'young at heart' musician Andy Ropek - South London Press Today
Last Updated - 20/01/2012
South London Press Today
Tributes to 'young at heart' musician Andy Ropek
South London Press Today
Andy Ropek, 52, from Lewisham, devoted much of his life to live music. A keen musician himself, he played bass in a long line of bands and will be remembered by many for The Icarus Club – a weekly live music night that he founded with close friend Phil ...
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Tributes to 'young at heart' musician - South London Press Today
Last Updated - 20/01/2012
Tributes to 'young at heart' musician
South London Press Today
Lewisham council wants to place the 30m TV on the heath to show BBC coverage of the Games this summer. The so-called “Community Live Site” will include sporting activities, fairground rides and a giant tent where tea dances, films, story-telling and ...
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Adventure centre to get facelift - The Press Association
Last Updated - 20/01/2012
Adventure centre to get facelift
The Press Association
Residents from Forest Hill, in Lewisham, have formed an action group to carry out repairs at the outdoor centre on the southern edge of the Snowdonia National Park. The group decided to take action as the charity-run centre in Aberllefenni is used by ...
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Unemployment levels in Tower Hamlets and Hackney among the worst in the country - EastLondonLines
Last Updated - 19/01/2012
EastLondonLines
Unemployment levels in Tower Hamlets and Hackney among the worst in the country
EastLondonLines
Hackney is among the top 10 per cent of jobless local authorities in the country, while Lewisham falls just outside of this percentile. The figures also carry bad news for Lewisham residents, showing the borough to have the worst job density in the ...
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On the edge: the fix that makes teens mad - Sydney Morning Herald
Last Updated - 19/01/2012
On the edge: the fix that makes teens mad
Sydney Morning Herald
The 17-year-old from Wagga Wagga died on Monday after teenage thrill-seeking went terribly wrong, just days after a Sydney boy was hit and killed by a train while graffitiing in a tunnel at Lewisham station. With testosterone pumping, boys were more ...
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On the edge: the fix that makes teens mad - Sydney Morning Herald
Last Updated - 19/01/2012
On the edge: the fix that makes teens mad
Sydney Morning Herald
The 17-year-old from Wagga Wagga died on Monday after teenage thrill-seeking went terribly wrong, just days after a Sydney boy was hit and killed by a train while graffitiing in a tunnel at Lewisham station. With testosterone pumping, boys were more ...
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Lewisham National Union of Teachers has slammed plans for the Hatcham Temple ... - News Shopper
Last Updated - 18/01/2012
Lewisham National Union of Teachers has slammed plans for the Hatcham Temple ...
News Shopper
Lewisham National Union of Teachers has slammed plans for the Hatcham Temple Grove Free School claiming it will have a “skewed” admission system. The school, to be run by Haberdashers' Askes' Federation, has said it will prioritise admission of ...
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