Category Archives: Lewisham

Five for Friday

Posted on 8 April, 2011 by Andrew Brown

Band site here. More about the band here. Band website here. Artist Myspace “The only way to change things is to shoot the men who arrange things.” Website here.

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Local Volunteers Needed

Posted on 31 March, 2011 by Andrew Brown

On the off chance that I still have any local readers (or indeed any readers at all).  I had the following by email the other day: SEEKING LOCAL VOLUNTEERS FOR A 3-4 MONTH STUDY. We are a design team from … Continue reading →

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More on local budget cuts

Posted on 21 December, 2010 by Andrew Brown

Steve Bullock in the e-newsletter he sends out tells us just what the scale of the cuts are in Lewisham: The Council had been planning to have to reduce its budget by £60 million over the next three years. Following … Continue reading →

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More for Less, or Less for Less?

Posted on 14 December, 2010 by Andrew Brown

Eric Pickles announced the local government settlement for the next few years yesterday saying he was expecting ‘more for less’.  We’ve been reminded that he does know local government, he spent time as a leader of a council in the … Continue reading →

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Ken and Carl

Posted on 21 November, 2010 by Andrew Brown

Political Scrapbook notices that Ken supported Carl recently.

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Blackheath Fireworks

Posted on 8 November, 2010 by Andrew Brown
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Carl Wins

Posted on 7 November, 2010 by Andrew Brown

 

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Families in Lewisham

Posted on 8 October, 2010 by Andrew Brown

Apparently there’s no publicly available data that allows us to try and work out the impact for Lewisham of the government’s proposals to do away with universality around child benefit. But the Guardian have made the data on family size … Continue reading →

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Teenage pregnancies

Posted on 7 October, 2010 by Andrew Brown

The Department for Education have released data on teenage pregnancies. The graph puts Lewisham in context with it’s statistical neighbours. If you take a look at the data you’ll see that Lewisham is unlikely to meet the target of reducing … Continue reading →

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Greenspace

Posted on 4 October, 2010 by Andrew Brown

I don’t think this is really surprising but interesting none the less.  Data from here.

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