The South London Post

According to CommunitySafe, a crack house on Coldhardbour Lane was closed down earlier today: Lambeth Borough Police together with Lambeth Council and the Housing Partnership have worked together to shut down a property that was used for drug dealing. The crack house in Boatemah Walk, Angel Town Estate Brixton, SW9 was today served with a [...]

Labour leader in Lambeth Steve Reed is facing a misconduct charge today, when Lambeth’s standard’s committee considers a complaint from Betty Evans-Jacas about his alleged behaviour when she jumped from Labour to Tories prior to last May’s local elections: Lambeth Council leader faces misconduct charge (From Your Local Guardian): Disciplinary action, including the suspension of [...]

It’s the fourth Urban Green Fair in Brockwell Park this Saturday, 5th September (although, somewhat poignantly, it seems to be marked this morning by the emergence of ugly great litter bins everywhere). The event runs from 11am to 7pm, and features workshops, features, children’s activities, food, fun and lots of stuff about practical, cost-effective energy [...]

The Health Protection Agency has released its statistics on sexually-transmitted infections in the UK, and it makes pretty grim reading for anyone concerned with the welfare of young people in South London. The HPA’s data by region can be seen here as a PDF. We’ve also uploaded it to our public Google docs area. The [...]

The excellent people at London SE1 have produced their monthly what’s on guide for the London SE1 area – well worth downloading the PDF and having a browse.

Those nice people at the Stockwell Partnership have sent us details of the Stockwell Festival & Expo on Saturday 25th September in Larkhall Park, 1.00pm-6.00 pm. The theme of the festival is Cohesion, Creativity and Wellbeing Event highlights include: On the Pineapple Stage, local street dancers Dance Starz, Stockwell Good Neighbours choir, acrobatic cheerleaders Fyer [...]

If you like a beer and a natter, Southwark is increasingly the place not to be, according to this story from the Morning Advertiser. ‘Labour should apologise for pub closures’ – General news – Politics – Morning Advertiser: Southwark tops the list, losing 110 of its pubs, followed by Liverpool with 100 and Birmingham with [...]

Is Borough Market – bastion of the foodie, weekend destination of the cheese-hunting gourmand – headed for UK high street banality? The current actions of the charitable trust which controls the market indicate that it might be, according to this Guardian story: The last three remaining fruit and vegetable wholesalers based at permanent stalls have [...]

Has Herne Hill turned into a nest of illegal booze-sellers? The South London Press (never known to shirk from an exaggeration) certainly thinks so, claiming that “unlicensed traders” are showing up after dark to flog booze out of the back of their cars: Jim Davidson, who owns picture-framing shop Brockwell Art studios in the street, [...]

We were away for most of last week and we’re just catching up. Here’s what we missed last week: Blackfriars station is closing for two months from 20 November (though trains will still run through it) as part of the Thameslink upgrade works. And there’s also asuggestion from LibDem Simon Hughes that the station should [...]