At a full council meeting in Croydon on Monday, Yvette Hopely was officially brought into office as Mayor. Yvette Hopely said it is “going to be challenging.” She is taking over the post from the previous Mayor, Eddy Arram (2012-13). John Cartwright, 44, member of the conservative party says that…
Fairfield Halls will be working more closely together with Croydon Council in the future management…
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…
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…
Planning permission for the Beddington Lane South London Incinerator has been granted following months of deliberation and protest. After a vote on April 24 resulted in a tie, the incinerator was granted the go-ahead at a re-vote at the Sutton Civic Centre on Wednesday May 15. The Sutton Council Development Control…
A new project in Hackney called “Take Care of the Pennies” has been set up to tackle the crisis of one in five elderly residents in the borough living below the poverty line. “Take Care of the Pennies” and local community organisations are pledged to help end the plight of…
26 years after private detective Daniel Morgan, was found murdered with an axe embedded in his head in a Sydenham car park, after an inquest, several police investigations and trials and no convictions, after allegations of police corruption and collusion with the now defunct News of the World newspaper, his…
A substantial drop in the number of high earners employed by Hackney, Tower Hamlets and Lewisham have been noted in a national survey of council employee remuneration by The Taxpayers’ Alliance. In 2011-12 Hackney Council reduced the number of employees earning more than £100,000 from 21 to 11. Tower Hamlets,…
The Conservative Party group at Tower Hamlets Council used the Freedom of Information Act to reveal that Deputy Mayor, Ohid Ahmed, took a taxi ride costing £140 with two colleagues and complain they could have saved public money by going on public transport. The journey was made in December 2011.…
Local residents have criticised a new housing scheme in Salcombe Road, just off Kingsland Road in Dalston, that’s been approved by Hackney council. Campaigner David Spurring complains that the only concession the developers had given them was ‘bricks.’ He said the new building was “incredibly ugly and institutional looking” and…
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