Think of Speakers’ Corner and what comes to mind? The spot where Karl Marx stood in 1855 to protest against the Sunday Trading Bill, hoping it would herald the English Revolution? Where the Pankhursts once proclaimed the cause of votes for women? Where Pan-Africanists Marcus Garvey and, later, Walter Rodney, spoke regularly during their time studying […]
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A Purley resident has complained of being subjected to fumes from burnt oil and “fishy odours” for up to 12 hours a day ahead of a council decision on a local takeaway. This Is Local London | News …
A 5,000-capacity open air venue in Charlton Riverside has been granted a licence by Greenwich Council despite the council’s own noise team raising strong objections. This Is Local London | News …
The disturbingly hot summer, with its concocted media furore about “vertical drinking” and its heroic claims about late night alcohol consumption being a mighty force for growth, is fading into autumn (just about). That doesn’t mean the heat has gone out of disagreements between Conservative-run Westminster City Council and Baron Khan of Tooting – still […]
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IRO Sushi will launch its latest branch at 151 Central Road, Worcester Park, on August 22, with a grand opening event starting at 12pm. This Is Local London | News …
As usual, headline reactions to the latest A-Level results, published last week, focussed on how bad it is that London schools did best. Almost 33 per cent of A-level entries were awarded A* or A grades, extending their lead over the rest of England. Other areas saw improvements too, but all the talk, yet again, […]
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Ryan Dinnage, from Croydon, sexually assaulted a woman in her caravan after the Royal Windsor Horse Show – he has been jailed for eight years. This Is Local London | News …
As a young teenager I had loads of time with nothing to do. Outside of school, the paper round, homework and housework, I spent a lot of time…staring. My imagination was never more captivated than when inside a good stare, usually with headphones on, listening to music. I stared most at the posters on my […]
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Bexley council leaders have urged the Transport Secretary to approve Southeastern’s plans to upgrade its ageing train fleet. This Is Local London | News …
There were three by-elections in London on Thursday 9 July, one of them in Camden and two of them in Lambeth. Camden’s Regent’s Park election has been given special treatment in a separate piece but the Lambeth polls had interesting results that conflict with the mild encouragement for Labour in Camden. The 7 May elections […]
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