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Double your money: Run To The Beat’s £20,000 council sweetener 26 Aug 2013 | 11:30 am
Organisers of the controversial Run To The Beat race are already planning to give Greenwich Council £20,000 to host next year’s event – even though this year’s half-marathon still hasn’t been given li...
‘We’ve had enough’: Foot tunnels’ friends fight back 22 Aug 2013 | 02:42 pm
In case you haven’t seen this elsewhere, a friends group is being set up for the Greenwich and Woolwich foot tunnels, badly damaged by a botched Greenwich Council attempt to refurbish them. For more ...
Greenwich Council’s pavement tax ‘could be illegal’ 20 Aug 2013 | 11:30 am
Those plants could cost… New Greenwich Council charges for small businesses which use pavements outside their premises could be illegal, opposition politicians are warning. But while the council is ...
Greenwich Council ‘in new Charlton Athletic stadium talks’ 19 Aug 2013 | 11:30 am
This is over a week old, but oddly, nobody has followed up a story which could have massive ramifications for both Charlton and Greenwich. According to Sky News’ City editor, Mark Kleinman, Greenwich ...
Greenwich Council’s zero hours cowardice on Channel 4 News 9 Aug 2013 | 10:00 am
“It sounds like the council leader is trying to run away.” If you didn’t see Channel 4 News last night, it’s well worth looking at, and not just for some fine camera work on Maze Hill. You know how t...
The Gilligan files: Greenwich Council’s cycling sulk revealed 6 Aug 2013 | 11:30 am
Almost Dutch-style in Greenwich – by the City Peninsula development Cyclists in Greenwich borough face missing out on “superhubs” proposed for North Greenwich and Abbey Wood stations after Greenwich ...
Ride London Freecycle – Good, but not good enough 4 Aug 2013 | 05:23 pm
Like most of the good things Boris Johnson promotes, this is another one that actually started under the previous mayor. Yesterday’s Ride London Freecycle – once the London Freewheel – was great fun a...
The night the wheels fell off at Greenwich Council 2 Aug 2013 | 11:30 am
The main highlight of Wednesday night’s Greenwich Council meeting was meant to be the motion about Greenwich Council’s refusal to deal with Andrew Gilligan, London mayor Boris Johnson’s cycling ambass...
Greenwich councillors leap on Lewisham Hospital bandwagon 1 Aug 2013 | 02:25 pm
There’ll be a few sore heads around Lewisham this morning after the government’s plans to downgrade the accident and emergency department at Lewisham Hospital were quashed by the High Court. While Jer...
An Olympic legacy lie: Greenwich Time’s peninsula pratfall 31 Jul 2013 | 11:30 am
For no real reason, council propaganda weekly Greenwich Time has run a double-page spread lauding the redevelopment of the Greenwich Peninsula. Well, other than that the sole reason the paper, funded ...
