The last day of Stoke Newington literary festival and the pouring rain did not stop crowds coming in to see the final poetical and lyrical line-up.…
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EastLondonLines investigates new start-ups in Croydon, starting with hair salon Positive Elements…
Girls from The Only Way is Essex swapped spray tans for saucepans for a cook-off to raise awareness of food poverty. Lauren Goodger, Peri Sinclair, Frankie Essex and Lauren Pope were challenged to create a meal for three costing only £1 as part of the national poverty campaign ‘Live Below…
A man has pleaded guilty to starting the fire which destroyed the 144-year old Reeves furniture shop during last summer’s riots.…
“They’re the Viagra of the Thames,” said a fishmonger at Billingsgate market, pointing to his dejected school of jellied eels. Slimy, silver coils glazed in what looked like wallpaper paste; they did not seem immediately passion inciting.…
Sam, 39, from Bromley, is a mother of two, and has been a user of Lewisham’s Parent Support Group for over a year. While waiting for her weekly counselling session, she talks anxiously about her 15-year-old daughter, who has run away from home for the fourth time. Sam also has…
Elevating Success, which offers educational training programmes to local individuals, finished their first enterprise programme in December. Eight out of the ten trainees who made it to the final stage were women. These successful candidates are now embarking upon their first entrepreneurial venture, marking the increasing influence of women in…
Although the murderers of Stephen Lawrence were sentenced on Wednesday, wider issues of social justice in the south London community still need to be addressed, the Deptford centre named in the teenager’s honour have said today. The Stephen Lawrence Centre was opened in Deptford, in 2008 to continue the legacy…
London’s longest running Rape and Sexual Abuse Support Centre in Croydon is set to receive £10,000 from the London Mayor. The grant will help more individuals seeking support after sexual abuse.…
In 2012, Steve Bullock, one of the country’s first elected mayors, will enter his tenth year as the Mayor for Lewisham. Over the last year, the borough has been affected by the riots in August, suffered dramatic surges in knife crime and gang violence and now many of its residents…
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