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May 18, 2012, No comments

Campaigners protested in Brixton against the government’s welfare-to-work scheme yesterday, holding a ‘party’ to celebrate the end of one of the scheme’s contracts in south east England. Welfare rights campaigners …

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Black Cultural Archives opening delayed until at least July 2013

May 18, 2012, No comments

The new Black Cultural Archives (BCA) is now likely to open in July 2013, the Brixton Blog can confirm, after the building contractors went into admin ...

DELAYED: New playground is part of £1million Brockwell Park improvements

Brockwell Park playground opening announced

May 16, 2012, 1 Comment

A new £500,000 playground in Brockwell Park, Herne Hill, will open on June 1, Lambeth council have announced. The opening of the play area, replaci ...

TOWERING SUCCESS: The team with Charlie at the top of the Brixton fire tower

Inspirational Brixton teens take on sporting challenge

May 15, 2012, No comments

A group of seven Brixton teenagers will take on a life-changing challenge when they complete a series of gruelling physical trials for charity. Under ...

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    Veg box scheme opens Brixton collection point
    May 15, 2012, 1 Comment

    By Letisah Grosvenor An organisation that supplies locally-grown organic vegetable bags has opened its first collection point in Brixton. Local Greens, based in Herne Hill, delivers the weekly bags in ...

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    Public sector protests in Brixton
    May 10, 2012, 2 Comments

    Lambeth public sector workers joined the national strike today to protest against the government’s austerity cuts and pension changes. Local strikers picketed outside the Brixton Job Centre, Lambeth College and ...

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    If Walls Could Speak
    May 10, 2012, No comments

    Charlotte Bill was cycling down Coldharbour Lane in the early 1980s when she looked up and there, where before had been a set of plain bricks, was a huge skeleton ...