By Tim Dickens, co-editor When I first saw talk of a Brixton-based reality television show, alarm bells rang. It’s the kind of story that will get Twitter tongues wagging and [...]
By Melody David The chancellor’s new ‘Help to Buy’ scheme, offering prospective buyers up to 20% of the value of their new-build home and mortga ...
Richard Pope, who lives near Market Row, wrote to us last week about his experiences of the changes there. Here, he argues for residents and traders w ...
By Donna Sinclair There has been an upsurge of violence in Lambeth this year: the borough faces a crisis of youth crime. We some of the highest crime ...
A lot had been discussed recently in our community and in the press about Brixton’s indoor markets at Brixton Market Row & Brixton Village and the change they are going [...]
By Tim Dickens and Zoe Jewell, Editors It was nearly 11pm at the end of a long, stuffy planning meeting at Lambeth Town Hall when the committee finally got round [...]
Cllr Pete Robbins We can understand why people may be disappointed that homes for social rent will now be ‘affordable rented’ homes. However both the developers and the council’s hands [...]
Our Features Editor Luke Massey gushes unrestrained about just why Bookmongers on Coldharbour Lane is so totally awesome (opinions may be Luke’s)… Bookmongers has everything a second-hand bookshop should have: [...]
By Luke Hildyard Tonight, the Lambeth Council licensing committee will gather to decide the fate of a Brixton institution, the 414 nightclub on Coldharbour Lane. The club has been closed [...]
This article by our Features Editor Luke Massey was originally posted on Huffington Post here. As I sat enthralled by the scandal-fuelled circus of the Leveson Inquiry last year: there was [...]
