A new service has launched in Croydon to give lonely pensioners someone to talk to. Age UK’s service, ‘Call in Time’, gives pensioners the opportunity to receive a weekly phone call from a trained volunteer to chat about anything and everything from grandchildren to gardening.
Justin Bieber is due to turn on the Christmas lights at Westfield Stratford on 7th November.
FRIDAY: One Monkey Don’t Stop No Show Avery and Myra Harrison exist in their own middle class Black family with their own Christian values. Things start to change dramatically when their young niece arrives from the rural South. The performance of One Monkey Don’t Stop No Show is at the Albany Playhouse in Deptford this [...]
Eighteen young people are in the running to become the new Young Mayor of Lewisham this year.
The artistic new underpass that runs beneath Norwood Junction Station has been revealed today.
A Croydon man has been ordered to sign the sex offenders’ register after being caught taking photos up women’s skirts on the London Underground trains.
An east Croydon school has been forced to temporarily close after a power outage resulted in a heating and electricity breakdown.
Hundreds of people gathered in east London yesterday to discuss activism and global issues in the wake of recent protests in the United Kingdom and abroad. More than 60 speakers delivered a series of lectures and workshops at different venues across Shoreditch in 6 Billion Ways, a free all day event aimed at “informing and [...]
Lewisham and Croydon Council have both approved budget cuts of tens of millions of pounds as part of their plans to implement government efficiency savings. The majority Labour council at Lewisham yesterday agreed to cut £33m over one year, saving a total of £88m over the next three years.
Conservative-led Croydon council has confirmed the proposal for £90m of cuts over the next 3 years. Care services, building costs and back-office spending were amongst the cuts agreed at the meeting last night. Council proposals confirmed include a freeze in council tax until next year and a £1 million budget for local groups and charities [...]
