Start-up architectural company from Bexley shortlisted for business award
A start-up company has been shortlisted for a business award just nine months after launching.
Read moreA start-up company has been shortlisted for a business award just nine months after launching.
Read moreA pub relief manager and his regulars let out a colossal cheer when his scratch card was confirmed as a £250,000 winner – and he had only popped out to pick up some lemons.
Read moreA man has been given a three year Football banning Order after pleading guilty to racially abusing a player earlier this year.
Read moreA new homelessness hostel that could prevent more than 150 people a year from ending up on the streets has opened in Bexley. If someone is homeless or at immediate risk of becoming so, they can stay at the Stepping Stones hostel – run by charity body Porchlight and funded by Bexley council – for up to six weeks.
Read moreA rare bird, which hasn’t been seen in the borough of Bexley since 2013, has been spotted at a nature reserve which activists claim is under threat from a new waste-burning incinerator.
Read moreBexley’s waste collection workers are set to consider renewed strike action, in the same week that councillors are due to a discuss a report highlighting the reasons behind thousands of missed bin collections in the borough so far this year.
Read moreSidcup Library has been closed until further notice after a staff member was in close contact with someone who subsequently tested positive for Covid-19, the local authority has confirmed.
Read moreMore than 2,500 bin collections were missed across Bexley in a six-week period this year, as the outsourcing giant Serco grappled with coronavirus and a messy, ongoing industrial dispute.
Read moreLondon Mayor Sadiq Khan has made the “difficult decision” to abandon a legal challenge against controversial plans for a new waste-burning incinerator on the River Thames, with the cash-strapped office citing “substantial costs” of continuing with the case as the reason. Mr Khan’s office confirmed yesterday the judicial review, which had been due to start this month, would no longer go ahead.
Read moreBexley councillors have been warned to “consider carefully” their use of social media, after a report was tabled showing half of all complaints against elected members since May this year involved online activity. Bexley’s code of conduct committee heard that social media misuse was the source of four of the eight complaints logged against councillors since May.
Read moreAn arts and culture centre set in an old library is set for a £1million renovation. The Exchange, in Erith
Read moreA man has been charged with the murder of his wife in Bexley. Leslie Winnister, 68, of Becketts Close, Bexley
Read moreBy Lachlan Leeming, Local Democracy Reporter Long-running plans to relocate Beckenham Library to the nearby public hall have been shelved,
Read moreAlmost 11,000 people have signed a petition calling on a primary school to refrain from removing foxes from its land.
Read moreThe Queen’s former cleaner has been recognised by a care home group for her positive attitude during lockdown. Vera Ward,
Read moreStudents and staff at Christ the King Sixth Forms celebrated another year of examination success at all three sites. Students overcame adversity, taking part
Read moreA teenager has been jailed for seven-and-a-half years after a man died following a row about stolen cannabis. The 17-year-old
Read morePolice have seized a suspected handgun and drug paraphernalia after discovering a cannabis factory inside a vacant flat. At just
Read moreThe Queen’s former cleaner has been recognised by a care home group for her positive attitude during lockdown. Vera Ward,
Read moreThe Met has said its investigation into the murder of Stephen Lawrence 27 years ago has reached the end of
Read moreA man has been charged over an unprovoked attack on a woman. Billy Hibberd, 30, of Boxgrove Road, Abbey Wood
Read moreBy Lachlan Leeming, Local Democracy Reporter Political figures in South-east London have expressed fury over the possibility of the Docklands
Read moreBy Lachlan Leeming, Local Democracy Reporter Bexley council’s power-brokers are holding a “continual conversation” with Government over emergency funding as
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