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Around the World in Eighteen Miles: Eastlondonlines celebrates World Cultural Diversity Day 2013

Around the World in Eighteen Miles: Eastlondonlines celebrates World Cultural Diversity Day 2013

Today is World Cultural Diversity Day. This global event has been going for over a decade, and since 2011 it has been the basis for a 24-hour United Nations campaign called: “Do one thing for Cultural Diversity and Inclusion”. People everywhere are being asked to make one positive gesture towards integration and cultural…

Hackney young filmmakers shortlisted for national award in scheme set up to discourage smoking

Hackney young filmmakers shortlisted for national award in scheme set up to discourage smoking

Students at Hackney Community College have been shortlisted for their anti-smoking film What Will You Do About It? for the National Cut Film Festival awards. The Cut Film project aims to dissuade young people from smoking. It was started by the Deborah Hutton Campaign group, a peer to peer smoking prevention charity,…

Croydon Council takes part in Foster Care Fortnight to combat the lack of foster carers in the borough

Croydon Council takes part in Foster Care Fortnight to combat the lack of foster carers in the borough

Croydon Council has 700 children currently in care and they urgently need more foster carers to give these young people the chance of a home life beyond council accommodation. Active support for the annual campaign run by the charity Fostering Network aims to highlight the need for more than 9,000 new…

Vicky Foxcroft Labour’s PPC Lewisham Deptford

Vicky Foxcroft Labour’s PPC Lewisham Deptford

Lewisham Deptford’s constituency Labour Party has selected Vicky Foxcroft to succeed the veteran MP Joan Ruddock as the prospective parliamentary candidate in the next General Election expected to take place in 2015, according to a Labour Party activists’ website. She was selected from a shortlist of six women on Saturday…

Egyptian resort tragedy for Forest Hill family

Egyptian resort tragedy for Forest Hill family

An investigation has begun by the tour operator First Choice Holidays and local police after a child, 5,  from Forest Hill, Lewisham died in a pool while on holiday with her family in the Red Sea Egyptian resort of  Sharm el-Sheikh. The Foreign Office say the local consulate is assisting…

Poo-gate scandal at Brighton in Crystal Palace dressing room

Poo-gate scandal at Brighton in Crystal Palace dressing room

Crystal Palace had more than one of the most skilful sides in the Championship and the tactics of highly respected manager Gus Poyet to deal with on Monday May 13 as a national newspaper has revealed that their away dressing room in the Amex stadium had been defiled by human…

Short-list of six women to succeed Joan Ruddock

Short-list of six women to succeed Joan Ruddock

On Saturday, May 18, Labour party members in the Lewisham Deptford constituency will select a candidate to stand for the area’s Parliamentary seat in 2015. The party released a shortlist of six women aspiring to succeed the retiring MP, Joan Ruddock, who has been in Parliament for the area since…

Local papers say they are “essential to democracy”

Local papers say they are “essential to democracy”

The South London Press, one of the famous titles in London’s print media, is supporting Local Newspaper Week, by emphasizing the role of local papers as “being essential to democracy.” The paper has had a turnaround in fortunes and is bucking the trend in local paper closures and rationalization after…

Initiative to tackle violence against females

Initiative to tackle violence against females

Tower Hamlets has launched a new initiative this week to deal with the…

Palace Wembley play-off final tickets Sold Out!

Palace Wembley play-off final tickets Sold Out!

Crystal Palace have reported that all 33,000 tickets allocated to the club for their Wembley play-off final against Watford to secure a place in the Premiership next season have been sold out. They had only been available online since Tuesday this week. From 9 a.m. this morning only 8,500 seats…

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