Posted on May 24, 2013 by Eastlondonlines and saved under Lewisham, Local News
The Metropolitan Police are very pleased to announce, Thursday May 23, that Justeena Everest, 14, missing from home since May 8, 2013 has “returned safe and well.” The missing persons alert was covered by local and national media organisations and the police “thank the media for their assistance.”…
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Posted on May 23, 2013 by Anette Hanssen and saved under Hackney, Lead Stories, Local News
A new planning application for a Sainsbury’s at Wilmer Place, Stoke Newington has been submitted to Hackney council, a month after the previous refusal. A spokesperson for Newmark Properties said: “After carefully considering the reasons for refusal we have submitted a revised application to Hackney Council which aims to fully…
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Posted on May 23, 2013 by Benedikte Granvig and saved under Arts, Business, Hackney, Lead Stories, Local News, Society, Transport
A new website/app from Transport for London and a free pop-up university are just two of the many glimpses into the not-so-distant future that are currently on display at Digital Shoreditch. From Monday May 20, thousands of techies, entrepreneurs and investors are gathering in Shoreditch Town Hall for the third…
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Posted on May 22, 2013 by Padraigh Perkins-Edge and saved under Hackney, Local News, Society
A new Kickstarter campaign has been launched to create a village hall in Shoreditch. The plan is to renovate a disused 1950’s Warehouse and turn it into a space that will serve the local community. Kickstarter is a new form of community empowerment in the digital age. It began in…
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Posted on May 22, 2013 by Eastlondonlines and saved under Crime, Lead Stories, Lewisham, Local News
A large area of south east London is under a security alert with an investigation into what is being described by the Home Secretary as a “barbaric and sickening attack” resulting in the death of a man in John Wilson Street, Woolwich, a busy junction of the South Circular. A…
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Posted on May 22, 2013 by Hana Walker-Brown and saved under Crime, Lead Stories, Lewisham, Local News
Stephen Lawrence has been honoured with a blue heritage plaque in tribute to his life. Lawrence is the third person to receive this kind of memorial. The plaque was unveiled during a service led by Chairman of the Stephen Lawrence Charitable Trust, Symon Sentain and Doreen Lawrence, Stephen’s mother, at The Stephen Lawrence Centre in…
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Posted on May 20, 2013 by Saskia Black and saved under Arts, Education, Hackney, Lead Stories, Local News, News
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,…
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Posted on May 20, 2013 by Flo Neve and saved under Croydon, Lead Stories, Local News, Society
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…
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