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Group of 11 young people at the Hill Station, smiling for camera tables behind and art work on walls

Dinner on the Hill: Lewisham’s one-of-a-kind and completely free restaurant

For two years, Dinner on the Hill has been serving a free three-course restaurant experience for families facing food insecurity.

Protest in Trafalgar Square, placard stating Protect the Dolls, #TransLivesMatter

'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.

Lewisham civic suite, foyer to glass office building with council crest at the right.

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.

Sadiq Khan meets youth worker and Wayne James - all beaming - at Marcus Lipton centre, brick walls and book shelf behind them.

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'.

Zack Polanski with Hannah Spencer MP, looking at someone out of shot and smiling broadly after the launch.

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.

Image of glass building at end of pier which developers say will be a restaurant, campaigners sceptical.

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.

View of site through windows of glass building - the only building that has been built. Convoys Wharf sign visible through window

'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.

Fix the Five Basics campaigners at Newham council talking to officers with banner "Fix the Five Basics" with icon of each.

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.

Kayode and a supporter holding signs: Mayor Kayode Damali and I vote for Kayode.

Independent Kayode Damali launches bid for Mayor of Lewisham

Damali, the candidate who calls himself the 'tiktok mayor', launched his campaign to become mayor in the local elections on 7 May.

This image and images embedded in text below show the seats in half a donut shape. For March 26, 50 Labour seats and 4 Greens

'One-party state'? When did Labour take over Lewisham?

Later than you think .. we take you on a whistlestop tour of the council's recent history.

Instructor and participant both smiling with raised hands doing finger exercises

Could you be an instructor for Love to Move?

Parkinson's UK, in partnership with British Gymnastics Foundation, is offering training for individuals or community groups to become volunteer instructors for their innovative seated exercise programme.

Red curved boardwalk over new wetlands, already provided in phase 1.

'Dangerous precedent' - Canada Water regeneration approved with 9% affordable housing

City Hall approved a revised planning application for the Canada Water Masterplan with only 9% affordable housing, despite opposition from Southwark council, residents and campaigners.

Newly widened pavement and new zebra crossing (under wraps) at Harefield Road and road works to widen pavement on west side of Brockley Road, cyclist navigating the single lane.

Brockley Road safety scheme begins but more roads ask to join

Pavement widening at the Harefield Road / Coulgate Street junction has started, while residents from Shardeloes, Drakefell and Gellatly roads campaign to be included in the programme.

Holly Hayman and Asher Charman from Castle Cinema standing in front of graffiti covererd building, also Janet Daby MP, Mayor Brenda Dacres and 4 Lewisham council cabinet members, 17 February.

More questions than answers about Castle Cinema Catford

Lewisham council's surprising response to my freedom of information request suggests they were premature with their announcement about the "community-owned" cinema.