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In My View: Vicky Foxtcroft, MP for Lewisham Deptford
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In My View: Vicky Foxtcroft, MP for Lewisham Deptford
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In My View: Marsha de Cordova, MP for Battersea
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After 14 years in power, the Conservatives have failed the economy and our country. Their legacy is one of stagnation, ...
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Cash-strapped councils need to start finding better solutions
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As 62 of Lambeth’s most vulnerable residents prepare to be left out in the cold on Monday, politicians’ attitude towards ...
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In My View: Vicky Foxcroft, MP for Lewisham Deptford
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The 2023 has been a difficult year for many people across the country. From the public service workers locked in ...
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In My View: Marsha de Cordova, MP Battersea
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The Tories have been promising leasehold reform since 2019. Four years and three Prime Ministers later, the legislation finally arrived. ...
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Lift our children out of poverty
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I was shocked to learn, from the End Child Poverty Coalition, that in Dulwich and West Norwood there are 7,419 ...
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In My View: Janet Daby, MP for Lewisham East
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As 2023 draws to a close, I want to wish everyone a happy Christmas and new year. During this winter ...
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Don’t take it out on shop workers
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The run-up to Christmas is always a really busy time for retail workers, as shoppers can be stressed and things ...
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Help the homeless this Christmas
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This Christmas, hundreds of thousands of households will be facing the hardship and indignity of homelessness. Many will be stranded ...
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In My View: Harriet Harman, MP for Camberwell & Peckham
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Saturday, November 25 was the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women and it was White Ribbon Day, ...
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Give the founder of SLP a Blue Plaque
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Last month marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of the pioneering newspaper proprietor, James Henderson, who lived in East ...
In My View: Florence Eshalomi, MP for Vauxhall
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In My View: Florence Eshalomi, MP for Vauxhall
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Desperate move by Government
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The Government’s Autumn Statement on the finances of the nation released earlier this week makes for a good headline, but ...
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Uphill struggle but council will install school crossing
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As a member of the Get Across action group campaigning for a safe crossing outside Prendergast Ladywell school, I am ...
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In My View: Neil Coyle, MP for Bermondsey and Old Southwark
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Instead of focusing on national priorities and national interests, the Tory Government has spent even more time in political turmoil ...
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Families being priced out of sport at grassroots level
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Grassroots sport is struggling to cope with a double whammy that could threaten community clubs across London and kick our ...
In My View: Ellie Reeves MP for Lewisham West & Penge
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In My View: Ellie Reeves MP for Lewisham West & Penge
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Take a slow dash and help Sue Ryder charity
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We lost my dad to cancer in 2015, just 18 months after we’d lost my mum to the same illness. ...
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Blanket LTNs are just a hammer to crack a nut
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There is no doubt that there is a need for change in the way we live our lives, the way ...
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In My View: Streatham MP Bell Ribeiro Addy
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The King’s Speech was light on serious policy to address rising living costs or the crisis in our public services, ...
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Supporters get us ready for next natural disaster
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Last month we woke to news of a powerful earthquake hitting the Atlas Mountains in Morocco. A few days later, ...
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Spiralling out of control
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London boroughs have this week warned of a homelessness crisis that is “spiralling out of control”, as we head into ...
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‘Ben had limitless energy, determination and resolve’
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Benedict Michael Birnberg was born on September 8, 1930 in Stepney to parents who were schoolteachers. His father was mathematician ...
In My View: Vicky Foxcroft, MP for Lewisham Deptford
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In My View: Vicky Foxcroft, MP for Lewisham Deptford
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Looking after children from time they were born
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Greenwich council has launched two new Family Hubs to help give parents and young people get the best possible start ...
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Stop/start chaos for latest LTN
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Whichever way you feel about Low Traffic Neighbourhoods (LTNs), the opening day for the newest attempt to reduce car usage ...
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In My View: Marsha de Cordova, MP for Battersea
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I believe everyone should be able to live in a safe, decent, and affordable home. Sadly under the Tories’ watch, ...
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Lessons have not been learnt
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It seems we didn’t learn the lessons of last winter. If you can remember, the fuel, food and inflation crisis ...
Novel idea to help those displaced by conflict
Novel idea to help those displaced by conflict
In My View: Helen Hayes, MP for Dulwich and West Norwood
In My View: Helen Hayes, MP for Dulwich and West Norwood
You pay the cost of bringing housing back in-house
You pay the cost of bringing housing back in-house
Write a letter to someone dealing with cancer
Write a letter to someone dealing with cancer
State of prisons needs sorting
State of prisons needs sorting
In My View: Janet Daby, MP for Lewisham East
In My View: Janet Daby, MP for Lewisham East
Help us win bid to be the latest borough of culture
Help us win bid to be the latest borough of culture
We teach about healthy relationships at S.W.I.M
We teach about healthy relationships at S.W.I.M
Be heard, say no to violence
Be heard, say no to violence
Town hall not listening to our traffic demands
Town hall not listening to our traffic demands
Housing is the priority for brownfield site building.
Housing is the priority for brownfield site building.
In My View: Rosena Allin-Khan, MP for Tooting
In My View: Rosena Allin-Khan, MP for Tooting