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Big spending, big Questions: Trees, road safety, and empty shops on the agenda at Lambeth’s first Full Council of 2025

Some interesting questions – and answers – are on the agenda of the first Full Council meeting of the new year at the Town Hall this evening. Items up for …

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Lambeth history: 192-year old prize won by a Thames rower returns to Lambeth Archives

In 1833, a rower from Lambeth won the annual race to be the fastest on the Thames. The prize he won 192 years ago has just been returned to Lambeth. …

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Lambeth wants you to have a long, hard think about using your wood burner today

Today, Wednesday 22 January 2025, is Clean Air Night, when Lambeth Council is looking to spark a conversation about the health harms of air pollution from wood burning in the …

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Wide Awake 2025 festival – £49.50 pre-2pm tickets now on sale

If you’re the kind of person that likes to get to a festival early – and loves to grab a bargain to boot – than get in quick to bag …

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South London’s Hop Skotshne Klezmer Band play a rousing set aboard the Golden Hinde – see the photos!

Local Klezmer band Hop Skotshne performed a timber-rattling set in the bowels of the Golden Hinde ship in London Bridge last week. Now moored at Bankside, this full size reconstruction …

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Opinion piece: Recycling won’t cure the plastic plague, resident warns Lambeth

Recycling is a giant myth that has tricked millions of us into making the global plastic crisis worse while believing we are doing our bit to save the planet, a …

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Billericay Town 2-0 Dulwich Hamlet, Sat 18th Jan 2025 – match report

On Saturday, Dulwich Hamlet suffered another defeat, this time at the hands of table topping Billericay Town. Unfortunately our photographer Max was unable to make the game but on the …

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Brixton Rec hosts national volleyball event 

An audience of 300 is expected at Brixton Rec on Saturday 1 February for the final double-header of the 2024/25 volleyball season. London Giants Volleyball Club teams will feature in an exciting day of back-to-back high-level matches. The men’s team will be competing in the National Volleyball Sup...

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Censoring Palestine – The Big Lie, film screening at the Brixton Advocacy Academy, Fri 24th Jan 2025

The Advocacy Academy in Brixton is hosting a film screening of ‘Censoring Palestine,’ this Friday evening (24th Jan). They told Brixton Buzz: A genocide is happening in Palestine, but the …

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Brixton event will focus on the positives

Young people in Brixton – with help from adult mentors – are defying stereotypical images of local youth. Young artists working with Empower from Within (EFW) an artistic development programme, hosted a Christmas party for Project Smith Community Connectors. Now they are getting ready for an ...

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In photos: Seven goal thriller as Peckham Town lose at Tenterden Town, Sat 18th Jan 2025

Hardy Peckham fans making the  five hour round trip to the pretty town of Tenterden in Kent, had to watch their team suffer yet another defeat on a really awful …

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Join the free basic computer skills class at Brixton Library, every Monday afternoon

New to computers? Brixton Library offers free weekly classes every Monday afternoon to help you learn the basics. The lesson will teach you to set up an email, learn how …

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Timber! Big tree comes down in Brockwell Park overnight 

We are indebted to Dan Grennan for sending us in this photo of the large tree that had come down in Brockwell Park, close to the entrance by Brixton Water …

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Sexual health in south London: Minnie Kidd House takes over services from the Streatham Hill clinic

Minnie Kidd House in south Clapham is the new home for all the sexual health services that were previously available from the Streatham Hill clinic. Cabinet Member for Healthier Communities, …

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Celebrate culture, community, and life-saving blood donation in Brixton, 26th Jan 2025

The launch of a new NHS Blood and Transplant blood donor centre in Brixton helps to highlight the need for more Black blood donors – especially for people living with …

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Lambeth’s new Chief Exec to earn £230k amid school closures and special urgency decisions

Lambeth Council is set to pay incoming Chief Executive Ian Davis £230,000 per year. This is £40,000 more than his predecessor Bayo Dosunmu received. Davis will also receive an annual …

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Dulwich Hamlet announces the appointment of Bradley Quinton as first team manager until the end of the season

After a slew of disappointing results, Dulwich Hamlet manager Hakan Hayrettin was sacked earlier this month, and late last night the club announced that Bradley Quinton would be taking on …

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Reward and fresh appeal for information over murder of James Akinwande in 1994

The 18-year-old was chased, beaten and stabbed by a group of men after leaving the Vox nightclub in Brixton, south London.

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Police offer £20,000 reward for information about 1994 Brixton murder

James Akinwande was just 18 when he was fatally stabbed in Brixton

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Tiny Brixton back in business

Tiny Brixton, the small in-house venue showcasing big talents at Brixton’s Raw Material music charity, is reopening after a million-pound-plus refit.  A sold-out launch event at the Robsart Street HQ of Raw Material off Brixton Road on 1 February will be hosted by comedian Ali Woods. After its £...