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‘Glass Mill’ replaces Ladywell leisure centre.

‘Glass Mill’ replaces Ladywell leisure centre.

Lewisham residents are satisfied with the newly built Glass Mill leisure centre that opened last week.   A Lewisham resident, Gail Mitchell, 47, said: “I just had an aqua class it was fun, the pool was so nice, in fact it was a lot better than the old Ladywell facility.”…

New project to renovate key Goldsmiths building

New project to renovate key Goldsmiths building

  The main building of the Goldsmiths campus, a familiar landmark for local and those stuck on traffic on the A2 in New Cross, is  to receive a £1.4 million refurbishment this summer. The Richard Hoggart Building, named after the literary critic and former warden of the College is over…

Chakrabarti: “Cuts to legal aid breach human rights”

Chakrabarti: “Cuts to legal aid breach human rights”

Cut to the legal aid budget threatened human rights, Shami Chakrabati, Director of Liberty, said at Goldsmiths College this week.  Under the Legal Aid Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act civil law cases can no longer be funded by legal aid, which came in to force in April 2013. Legal…

Man on murder charge over Deptford arson death

Man on murder charge over Deptford arson death

A man has been charged with the murder of Giuseppina Fazzani, the 82 year old who has lost her life in the Deptford arson attack last week. Tuan Anh Le, 22, a Vietnamese national of no fixed abode was arrested on June 1. He has also been charged on two…

Four arrested in gang activity crackdown operation

Four arrested in gang activity crackdown operation

Four alleged Lewisham gang members were detained during raids on  May 30 by the Trident Central and Lewisham gang units of the Metropolitan Police. The four men aged between 16-25 years have been charged with gang related crimes that include intent to supply the Class A drug, crack cocaine. A…

Woman dies in Deptford High Street arson attack

Woman dies in Deptford High Street arson attack

In what has been condemned by police as a “vile’’ incident, an elderly woman died in an arson attack in Deptford High Street in the early hours of Wednesday. Giuseppina Fazzani, 82, who lived in a flat near a Vietnamese restaurant died in a fire that broke out at 1:40…

Closure of Ladywell Leisure Centre could bring Lewisham’s long wait for a cinema to an end

Closure of Ladywell Leisure Centre could bring Lewisham’s long wait for a cinema to an end

The closing of one of Lewisham’s leisure centres may see the borough getting something that it hasn’t had for many years — its own cinema. Ladywell Leisure Centre will close as soon as soon as the new Glass Mill Leisure Centre on Loampit Vale opens in a few weeks. However,…

Hither Green house searched in Lee Rigby murder inquiry

Hither Green house searched in Lee Rigby murder inquiry

A house in Hither Green, in Lewisham,  was raided and searched on Bank Holiday Monday and a man, 50, arrested in Welling as the number of arrests in the Metropolitan Police inquiry into the murder of soldier Lee Rigby in Woolwich reached 10. Around 500 officers from the Metropolitan Police…

Family of murdered drummer visit Woolwich scene

Family of murdered drummer visit Woolwich scene

Hundreds of people in Woolwich looked on in respectful silence today during a twenty minute period when members of the family of murdered soldier Drummer Lee Rigby of the Royal Fusiliers visited the scene of his death and then the  entrance to Royal Artillery Barracks which has become another shrine…

Science made simple for Kurdish media

Science made simple for Kurdish media

A Goldsmiths postgraduate student’s online project based  in Lewisham called Zanstekan, aimed…

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