Abby Jones meets Local Greens – a success story based on partnerships and sustainability

Local Greens' Herne Hill HQ

A decade ago, two..
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FARNHAM 131-6 (37.1)beatDULWICH 130 (49.2)by 4 wickets

Another horrendous batting collapse saw Dulwich Cricket Club go down to defeat by ..
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Pegasus Opera Company

A new Windrush Anthem commissioned by Lambeth council from the Brixton-based Pegasus Opera Company will premiere on..
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Lambeth council has extended tests that can identify variants of Covid-19 to another part of the borough.

West Norwwod joins Brixton, Sto..
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Lambeth council is expanding its Covid PCR testing operations to Brixton and Stockwell as a precautionary measure after a rise in local infe..
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Roads in central Brixton and around Brockwell Park could see a significant rise in heavy lorry traffic if plans for a new waste processing y..
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More than 200 home charging devices for electric cars have been installed in Lambeth with the help of government grants, but not one of them..
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DULWICH 75-2 (25)beatEPSOM 99 (38.3)by 8 wickets (D/L)

Dulwich Cricket Club are off to a good start in the new season, reports John Lewis..
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David Bowie's first home – 40 Stansfield Road in Brixton – on the day after his death was announced in January 2016

A new tribute album t..
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The Women’s Equality Party, with a strong presence in South London, was ‘best of the rest’ in the recent elections for the Greater London As..
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Members and supporters of the Brixton Palestine Solidarity Campaign will tomorrow (15 May) rally at the Herne Hill Gate of Brockwell Park to..
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The Black People’s Day of Action. Photo: Tim Ring/Alamy

A new series on the Brixton Uprising and the events leading up to it is coming to..
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The former home of burger chain Meatliquor on Brixton’s Market Row – it closed in January 2019 – will, from June, house Temaki, where your s..
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All Picturehouse cinemas, including Brixton’s Ritzy, are to reopen on Wednesday 19 May.

New releases to be screened will include Oscar an..
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The official Housing Ombudsman Service is to investigate Lambeth council over its failure to respond properly to a complaint from a tenant.

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OLD WIMBLEDONIANS 118 (27.5)lost toDULWICH 119-6 (38.3)by 4 wickets

After last season’s Covid-induced suspension, the AJ Fordham Surrey C..
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Brixton Brewery today (12 May) launches a new beer, Generation Pale Ale, in aid of local charity Age UK Lambeth.

Promoted by a bunch of c..
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Anne Fairbrother is a Brixton Village pioneer whose grandmother also worked in Brixton retail. She talks to Jessica Whitham about why her pr..
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Jack Hopkins (right) with Brixton Street Gym founder Terroll Lewis at the opening of the gym's new space on Somerleyton Road

Jack Hopkins..
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Dave Randall talks to drummer/composer Pharoah Russell about his life, music and most recent and personal release Rift, recorded with singer..
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Lloyd Leon Community Centre on Coldharbour Lane

Initial feasibility work is under way as part of a scheme to preserve, celebrate and deve..
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South London local Jenine Baptiste is founder of the Black Culture Market – two days to celebrate and support Black businesses.

It wi..
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Local churches are joining a nationwide scheme to offer free weekly workshops to help unemployed people find work.

Managers running the w..
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In Earl’s Court in 1981, just after the Brixton Uprising of that year, Ken Floyde saw a BMX race for the first time and had the idea to star..
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The BBC's Saved by a Stranger documents Marc Thompson's search for the counsellor who helped him after he was diagnosed with HIV as a teenag..
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How do you get from a cell in Brixton police station to backstage at the Royal Albert Hall?

Answer: the Grit School.

Now in its sixth ..
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Pearl Alcock. Picture: Brixton Society

Volunteers working to recreate a public platform and cultural hub in Brixton for London’s Black Qu..
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Lee Wilson outside the Department Store

A chance to see and touch an ‘inessential’ thing that you might want to buy will be one of the dr..
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Brixton Station Road is due to host three second hand bike markets on coming Sundays. The first will be on 23 May.

They are organised by ..
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Private rents in Lambeth are among the most unaffordable in London for single renters, the campaign group Generation Rent shows today (29 Ap..
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Covid test site in Brockwell Park

Preliminary findings from local “surge” testing for a Covid variant indicate no spread of it locally, L..
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Lambeth voters in delayed local elections on Thursday 6 May will have a choice of six candidates for the London Assembly in the Lambeth and ..
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Mogul Mowgli

Deeper Into Movies is showing two music films at Pop Brixton – the classic 1983 Talking Heads live performances of Stop Maki..
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A company bringing full-fibre broadband to large parts of London, including Lambeth, is urging local residents to apply for one of 225 new “..
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In a recent video Q&A, an architect for the development of the Lambeth Hospital site said Lambeth Council “pushed” for the plans to be dense..
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As part of 81 Acts of Exuberant Defiance’s ongoing commemoration of the fortieth anniversary of the Brixton Uprisings, Dexter’s Adventure Pl..
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Cllr Becca Thackray with the memorial bench

Professor Godfrey Boyle, a pioneer of renewable energy and a local resident, has been honoure..
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Wheels for Wellbeing, a Brixton-based charity helping disabled people enjoy cycling, has won a £1,000 grant from Tesco’s Bags of Help commun
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Home test kits are available for people who cannot get to a test site

More than 50,000 people in Lambeth have taken a PCR Covid test over..
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This exhibition by Matthew Beach, in Brixton’s San Mei Gallery, is rooted in the time he spent among the tropical plants in the Amazonian ra..
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Black African and Caribbean residents of Lambeth and Southwark are eight times more likely to be detained under the Mental Health Act than w
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Bell Ribeiro-Addy outside Streatham Place surgery

Local MP Bell Ribeiro-Addy today (22 April) joined anti-privatisation campaigners to op..
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Seven months after its launch, the Brixton Distillery Company’s Market Row Botanical Rum has won a silver medal in an international challeng..
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Emergency food parcels provided by Lambeth foodbanks more than doubled in the past year.

The foodbanks today (22 April) revealed a “stagg..
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Stephen Lawrence

Brixton charity Re:Sole, Brixton Village and Adidas will mark Stephen Lawrence Day tomorrow (22 April) with the launch o..
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Defend Yourself, an online exhibition by Brixton’s Black Cultural Archives, looks at the work of the Brixton Defence Campaign after the 1981..
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Jess Whitam surveys Brixton’s rapidly changing retail scene

Morleys shop window this week

As The Baron, one of Brixton’s oldest indepe
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Alex Wheatle, the Brixton Bard, who was the subject of the Brixton Uprising episode of the Small Axe TV series, reflects on responses to the..
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Colin Burns was one the first people to get their Covid-19 jab from a local pop-up clinic set up to help eligible residents to get their vac..
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Gargie Ahmad watched the Black Men’s Consortium and Tony Cealy perform Kwame and The Lockdown – keeping up the conversation about Black men’..
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