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According to this guidance it was split 50/50 from 2014-2020 and due to be 100% LA from 2020.
Dunno if they kept to it.
If they did I apologise.
GarveyLives
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Condolences to the family and friends of The Late Mariama Kamara, a community nurse, who had lived at the Railton Road house in which she lost her life since 1994.
She had reportedly recently established a magazine to keep the local Sierra Leonean community keep in touch with Africa.
Anyone with information that could help the investigation into her death is being asked to call the major incident room on 020 8649 0424.
Does anyone know what became of the 47 year-old man and 17 year-old male who were arrested on suspicion of murder on the evening of Wednesday 26 January 2022 and then bailed pending further enquiries to a date in late February 2022?
Gramsci
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The move to make central Brixton business move to entertainment / night time economy was partly due to way Lambeth Council pushed Brixton Challenge.
This was done with no thought of how to deal with affect it would have or extra services needed to make it bearable for residents.
Extra street cleaning, public toilets for example should have been built into any plan to focus development of central Brixton as entertainment centre.
This wasn't done. If it had been the pro and cons of might not have made it seem such a good option.
The Council learnt nothing from this. As can be seen with Pop Brixton.
David Clapson
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I wish we knew the inside story about the council and the nighttime economy. There must be lots of stats about the money and jobs provided by the venues, and the noise and fighting and litter and piss and vomit provided by the customers. I wonder if the time I remonstrated with a drunk in Rushcroft Rd is in the stats. He was pissing in a doorway, but not in the corner...he was aiming at the letterbox. I spoke up, he grabbed me, punched me and threatened to shoot me, but didn't produce a gun. He was too well dressed and groomed to be a street drinker, so presumably he got drunk in a bar on Coldharbour Lane. I reported it to the police. I wonder if things like that are a factor in the council's policies?
Btw, his view was that I, as a white incomer, had no right to lecture him, a black man, about where to piss. I often object to people doing antisocial or dangerous things in Brixton. About half the time I'm told that I'm a racist or that I have no right to complain.
Btw, his view was that I, as a white incomer, had no right to lecture him, a black man, about where to piss. I often object to people doing antisocial or dangerous things in Brixton. About half the time I'm told that I'm a racist or that I have no right to complain.
David Clapson
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I didn't see your post before I posted mine. But your post doesn't have any financial info. Surely money is what it's all about?
Do you know the background to the decision a few years ago not to allow more bars in Clapham High Street, or how it affected Brixton?
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DietCokeGirl
Fishing in the rivers of life
Banal question of the day: where can you find a low cost, quick and easy eyebrow wax nowadays? Not bothered about a fancy salon place, just a no fuss, walk-in, value for money option. All the places in the Arches have closed, and Morleys have hiked the prices up loads so looking for an alternative suggestion.
Doing another zine fair at Brixton Library for the Readers & Writers festival - if anyone makes zines/knows any good local or general zines at the moment get them to get in touch! Also any tips on where may take my snazzy poster... 
& while i'm here the library will also be doing a big book sale on Saturday 7th & 8th May - for all you diggers!
& while i'm here the library will also be doing a big book sale on Saturday 7th & 8th May - for all you diggers!
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If you can send a press release (in plain text) and some supporting pics (at least 735 pics wide) to brixtonbuzz - at - gmail.com I'll post something up for ya!Doing another zine fair at Brixton Library for the Readers & Writers festival - if anyone makes zines/knows any good local or general zines at the moment get them to get in touch! Also any tips on where may take my snazzy poster...
& while i'm here the library will also be doing a big book sale on Saturday 7th & 8th May - for all you diggers!
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Gramsci
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I think Superdrug used to.
My partner goes to new place next to the Pizza restaurant in CHL opposite the barrier block for manicures etc.
cuppa tee
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...by coincidence I glanced at Dominican Hair Republic on Brixton Road as I passed and I think I saw eyebrow waxing offered at £5 and remembered seeing your post....
could be mistaken though... Heres the website....
Dominican Hair Republic London – Top hair & beauty salon Brixton Road
DietCokeGirl
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Good lead, thank you....by coincidence I glanced at Dominican Hair Republic on Brixton Road as I passed and I think I saw eyebrow waxing offered at £5 and remembered seeing your post....
could be mistaken though... Heres the website....
Dominican Hair Republic London – Top hair & beauty salon Brixton Road
dominicanhr.co.uk
cuppa tee
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....no problem, btw I asked someone who is in a better position to recommend. and they suggestedsome alternatives, although no walk ins she knows of.....
in the same area as the Dominican Hair republic....
Run by locals...
Nude Aesthetics & Beauty | Home-based Venue in Kennington, London - Treatwell
Read consumer reviews and book online at Nude Aesthetics & Beauty, Kennington, London. Instant online booking 24/7 with Treatwell!
bella’s lash brow....
and said try looking down Stockwell setups she said
this one is close by The Groosvenor
Dani's | Beauty Salon
danisbeauty.co.uk
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I'm absolutely fucking devastated. I've known him for a quarter of a century. It felt totally shit to be in the Albert and not see him by the bar with his crossword.
Edit: He deserves a thread of his own.
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GarveyLives
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Further images of Prince Charles' 11 November 2021 visit to Brixton to meet young people who have set up their own businesses through the Prince’s Trust Enterprise programme:
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The suspicion is that the contempt with which the local residents concerned are held on trendy internet fora and the hostility that they face in the increasingly contested public spaces and places in which their families have frequented and lived for decades is far less to do with any affection for the monarch or the immediate heir to the throne (however misplaced), and far more to do with their refusal to genuflect to people like you.
GarveyLives
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Many relative newcomers to the area may be unaware this was tried 41 years ago ... 300 people were injured and the physical damage caused came to an estimated £7.5m (1981 prices).
GarveyLives
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There was a stabbing in Electric Avenue on Saturday night. Two taken to hospital after broad daylight stabbing in Brixton I was relieved when I read it because nobody died. Which I suppose explains why it's not been widely reported. It seems our local threshold for "stabbing news" excludes an event where people are merely wounded. Makes me want to live somewhere else.
It is doubtful whether there is anything particularly unusual about the current levels of communal violence in central Brixton and the immediately surrounding areas (since the introduction of cocaine into those areas following the rebellions against oppression in 1981 and 1985), but there are, no doubt, some statistics somewhere that will shed definitive light on the matter.
The reason that these incidents are largely unreported is that overwhelmingly, the victims of such violence are not members of Britain’s ethnic majority and therefore, their lives - and those of their families - simply do not “matter”. If one looks at the comments on trendy internet for a, many of those killed or seriously injured are no even humanised or dignified with a name, and when they are, the result is often ale-fuelled fury.
Notably therefore, so far as the Brixton area is concerned, the victims tend to be dehumanised by way of this silence unless they are members of Britain’s ethnic majority or there is resulting disruption to bus services, at which point, the violence suddenly becomes a matter of concern.
This approach can produce some strange anomalies. For example, a couple of dozen people kneeling down in the centre of Brixton to protest about the brutal murder of a man 4,000 miles away in another country is news, but the brutal murder of someone who is not a member of Britain’s ethnic majority in Brixton or the immediately surrounding areas - even a child - is not.
Hopefully, this helps you to understand.
Gramsci
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As usual Garvey you use these tragedies to take a pop at U75 and Brixton Buzz.
In actual fact Brixton Buzz referred to the murder you reference in a previous article as "tragic". And ask people to come forward if they witnessed anything.
Coldharbour Lane remains closed off after 54-year old man stabbed to death on Sat 29th June 2019
Shortly before 6pm last night, a fight broke out on Coldharbour Lane, Brixton, near the junction with Moorlands Road, which resulted in a 54 year old man sustaining serious stab injuries. [Update: …
www.brixtonbuzz.com
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As Gramsci has pointed out, Brixton Buzz was one of the few media outlets to report on this incident, despite your pathetic, dishonest attempts to twist the facts to suit your tired agenda.
Coldharbour Lane remains closed off after 54-year old man stabbed to death on Sat 29th June 2019
Shortly before 6pm last night, a fight broke out on Coldharbour Lane, Brixton, near the junction with Moorlands Road, which resulted in a 54 year old man sustaining serious stab injuries. [Update: …
www.brixtonbuzz.com
Brixton news, rumours and general chat: Summer 2019
I've just learnt that a Brixton venue has a 'Guest Experience Coordinator'. Now that's a job title. Why so coy?
www.urban75.net
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Tolpuddle
Cooperative council-my arse.
This report was 'released' via a FoI request I made. It was never officially released despite what must have been considerable expense in the work involved. A reason was never given, there had been much political interest in the commissioning of it but once Captain Jack et al read it they felt it didn't reflect what they wanted to see, so, off to the bin it went.
Rushy
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There was a lot of research into nuisance arising from saturation and Clapham High Street was consequently brought under special measures under the guidance of Rachel Heywood (who I think was Community Safety lead). I could not understand at the time why they were dealing with problems caused by saturation in Clapham and then blithely encouraging it in Brixton - ironically in Rachel's own ward.
According to The Bugle the night time economy in Brixton has surged to 150% of its pre-covid levels (compared with 10% in Croydon and less than 100% across London). The NTE also accounts for over 40% of Brixton's entire economy which is the largest proportion in the country. For London as a whole the figure is in the 20s. In Croydon it is less that 20%. Great that existing businesses have recovered but it strikes me as unbalanced for a major hub such as this.
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I've certainly noticed that the bars and clubs are way busier in Brixton post-lockdown, but given the amount of new licensed premises/cocktail bars that keep appearing it's no surprise that it's beginning to look like Coldharbour Del Sol.
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