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HELPFUL LEGAL ADVICE
Advice providers and council act after law centre closes
Advice providers in Brixton are working with Lambeth council to pick up the pieces...
Support Brixton Advice Centre staff’s sponsored walk
Fred Taggart Honorary Secretary Brixton Advice Centre calls for community solidarity
Staff and trustees from Brixton Advice...
PLANNING & HOUSING
‘Progress’ on Duke of Edinburgh ahead of licensing hearing
“Significant progress” has been made in the dispute over a licence application by the Duke of Edinburgh pub on Ferndale Road, according to licence...
Council withdraws ad hoardings plans for consultation
Plans for advertising hoardings in parks and open space across Lambeth have been withdrawn by the council after planning applications for them drew social...
COUNCIL
Council takes direct control of play and youth services
Young Lambeth Coop (YLC), established by the council in 2014, which has had a major role in commissioning local work with young people, lost...
Lambeth Question Time at Brixton Library
Lambeth council are hosting a day of activities and workshops around Windrush Square on Friday 6 September from 10am-4pm. Representatives of the council, local...
Council to sign deed on future of Brockwell Park
Lambeth council is to make an agreement with a specialist charity that it says will protect Brockwell Park, with some exceptions, from development and...
Government orders council to get on with Cressingham residents’ transfer plan
Central government has told Lambeth council that it must cooperate with a proposal to transfer the demolition-threatened Cressingham Gardens to an organisation of residents.
It...
CRIME
Brixton Ballers recover stolen wheelchair
Wheelchair basketball player David Batista has his £5,000 sport chair back after a sting operation involving the police led to its return.
Percy Hutchful, coach...
SCHOOLS & EDUCATION
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CELEBRATING BRIXTON PEOPLE
Young Brixton entrepreneur meets worldwide web creator Tim Berners-Lee
Young Brixton entrepreneur Charles Clayton, 16, recently met Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the world wide web.
Charles, a student at Evelyn Grace Academy...
Local history
Havelock Ellis a Brixton pioneer
Steve Powdrill recalls the life and work of Havelock Ellis a radical Brixton resident of more than 100 years ago
Why do we love who...