'It was a lifeline': LGBTQ+ charity Metro closes with fears for young service users
In a funding environment increasingly hostile to LGBTQ+ communities, Metro closed its doors, with a loss of around 64 jobs.
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Lewisham local elections: Who are your councillor candidates?
Lewisham’s mayoral and councillor candidates for the May elections were announced today. Find your candidates in our table.
Youth Lates: £30m investment to reverse 'catastrophic' youth club closures
City Hall announced funding for at least one late-night youth club in every London borough, offering young Londoners 'somewhere safe to go'.
Deptford: Greens launch campaign to topple Labour across London
In a sign of the Green Party's hopes for Lewisham, they chose Deptford for the launch of their local elections campaign, promising to topple Labour and hold off Reform.
Convoys Wharf, Deptford: London's new emergency housebuilding rules heighten local fears
Local residents were offered a site visit, but the recent announcement has increased concerns about low levels of social housing and exclusion of local communities from the planned development.
'Should we be marching on the lot?': A new book charts Deptford’s decades-long resistance
Author Roger Green uses his work alongside housing campaigners Voice for Deptford to suggest strategies for communities fighting regeneration which excludes them.
London’s temporary accommodation crisis - Lewisham pledges 'five basics’
With 76,000 households now in temporary accommodation across London, councils have been asked to commit to provide the 'five basics' covering cooking facilities, laundry, Wi-Fi, storage and clear information.