A local pensioners’ group has helped spark a national campaign to prevent people from dying at home alone this Christmas. Charity Dying Matters, which was set-up to challenge attitudes to bereavement, launched the Home Alone campaign yesterday to encourage people to support their vulnerable neighbours through the Christmas period and…
Gypsy and Traveller groups are protesting against Mayor Boris Johnson’s review of the ‘London Plan’, which proposes to scrap previously agreed targets for increasing the number of sites in the capital.…
A leading charity is appealing to businesses in East London to help house homeless people over the Christmas period.…
Plums, apples, pears, cherries and apricots will one day be harvested in Haggerston, thanks to the London Orchard Project, twenty volunteers, a bunch of kids from Hackney City Farm and Russell Miller of Hackney based “Tree Musketeers” who demonstrated how tree planting should be done. Digging proved to be hard…
Sex industry workers and their supporters picketed Hackney Town Hall yesterday, opposing proposed regulations that could effectively close down their industry.…
Lewisham community groups have been urged to take over five local libraries in a bid to save them from closure. Libraries in New Cross, Blackheath, Sydenham, Grove Park and Crofton Park are under threat as the council cuts back on public spending. But Lewisham Mayor Sir Steve Bullock is hoping…
Lewisham has hit back at research stating that the area is the most expensive place to be buried in London. Figures obtained from a selection of London boroughs indicate that Lewisham burial fees are in fact lower than some London boroughs. In Bromley the burial fee is £1715, whilst in…
A new rape crisis centre is to open in Hackney with a grant of £300,000 from the Mayor of London’s office.…
Care services in for adults in Croydon are “performing excellently”, with the latest inspection report giving the highest possible rating.…
The family of murdered schoolboy Jimmy Mizen has opened a café on Hither Green Lane, Lewisham, in his memory. The Café of Good Hope, which was opened yesterday at 2pm, is owned by the Jimmy Mizen Foundation, a charity established by Jimmy’s family to commemorate his life. The building that…
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