The Freedom Pass, which ensures free travel to London’s over sixties, could be cut back after the elections when a reduced Government grant will mean that local councils are expected to pick up a bigger part of the tab.

The word ‘stress’ is a trespasser in most vegetable gardens, but Evelyn Community Garden in Lewisham is now hosting a new kind of allotment therapy, thanks to the work of the London Action Trust.

It’s not often that you would find a policeman in casual clothes being ordered to turn out his pockets by a black teenage boy dressed in a hoodie and baggy jeans – and rarer still to see the policeman meekly complying. But at Sedgehill school in Lewisham such scenes are soon to be a regular [...]

One man carries a bass, one a keyboard, and the other two carry a cannibalised bicycle which they gingerly set on its handlebars before adjusting the mic stand. It’s not often that centre stage is reserved for a push bike, but Levenshulme Bike Orchestra is no ordinary band.

As the festive season winds down, London-based charity Thames Reach is calling on the public to remember those left most exposed to potentially fatal freezing temperatures.

After years of neglect, the Talbot pub in Brockley, Lewisham, has been restored to its former glory. Crowds of people crammed into the pub for its grand opening last weekend, the culmination of several months cleaning and sprucing up the bar.

A Youth-centred organisation, Second Wave, has introduced a new outreach programme that unites secondary school kids and Territorial Support Group (TSG4) police officers through theatre.

In the current debate regarding the road beyond recession, the common wisdom is that bailing out the banks is the way forward, but the platitudes that investing in young people is laying the foundations for the country’s future are all too quickly forgotten.

Mayor of Lewisham Sir Steve Bullock has agreed to write to recycling firm Veolia asking them to justify their controversial work in the West Bank.

Isle of Dogs residents said they feel “terrorised” by antisocial behaviour in their ward at a meeting with police and councillors this week.