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the new chinese opposite the library is very very good, and cheap. mung bean salad sounds weird but was heaven sent, got north chinese, szechuan and cantonese fare on the menu
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dynamicbaddog said:
LOBBY THE COUNCIL

Joint lobby of Full Council Meeting by all the library campaigns. Meet outside the town hall in Catford 6.45pm Thur 23rd. Bring placards, banners, your voice and loads of friends! (will be finished by 7.30 when you can choose to go into the meeting - a number of library related questions are on the agenda)
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I'll be there
 
ska invita said:
the new chinese opposite the library is very very good, and cheap. mung bean salad sounds weird but was heaven sent, got north chinese, szechuan and cantonese fare on the menu
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Been there b4 it changed its name. Looks very colourful now.
 
I can see where the new lesiure centre is going to lose some green areas.....but where is the bus station on the new map?
 
I think it should be to the left of the triangular green patch in the after pic? Between the train lines.

You can transpose its position from this pic below.

 
That's going to involve a lot of work during a recession...

What's going to be where the roundabout is now?
 
These are the same people who spent 200k knocking down a historic parade of shops to make a temporary garden.
 
Ive been sent details for the latest films at Hither Green Cinema- http://www.hithergreenhall.org/. Films are to be shown on the last Sunday of the month.

Halloween Night- Oct 31st
The Corpse Bride @ 3.30pm
The Rocky Horror Picture Show @ 6pm
The Orphange @ 8pm

Harold and Maude (!)- November 28 @ 5.30pm

Its a Wonderful Life- December 19 @ 6pm
(with mulled wine and mince pies)

Tickets are £3 or £6 for all day tickets.
Available from: 07956 614 007
Also: You Dont Bring Me Flowers on Staplehurst Rd, The CooperLocke Gallery on Hither Green Lane, or turn up on the night.
 
Ive just been told that Ben Elton headlined a gig at Lewisham Theatre for Dave (the TV channel). It was broadcast last night.
Last time I walked by, the biggest acts booked were Derek Acorah and Richard Blackwood!

While I hope Ben was smothered on stage with an Aldi shopping bag, I am sorry to have missed Tom Stade.
In the first episode, join Ben Elton as he returns home to Catford, South London to host a night of riotous stand-up with special guests Jason Byrne and Tom Stade.

Filmed at the Broadway Theatre, Ben entertains the locals and the nation with his first televised stand-up show in ten years. Topics that light up the stage are the rebranding of creationists, pube jokes through the years and the world before digital cameras.
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repeats:
Mon 11th October 2010 (23.00, Dave)
Thu 14th October 2010 (23.00, Dave)
Fri 15th October 2010 (23.20, Dave)
 
Looks like Labour have held on in the Ladywell by-election (not my ward, but the next one).

PB4P got more than the Tories by the look of it!
 
Did anyone else go to the Blackheath fireworks? Really enjoyed them myself, and, being high up, you could see a number of other displays in the distance.
 
I saw them from a bus stop in Lewisham, looked impressive but imo if you've seen one display you've seen them all.
 
oryx said:
http://www.lewisham.gov.uk/CouncilAndDemocracy/HavingYourSay/OurLewishamOurSay/

Lewisham Council are consulting on possible cuts.

I've had my say/rant about how the mayor's office and Lewisham Life should be the first things up against the wall, and how vulnerable adults'/children's services should not be subject to any cuts.

I'm well aware of the tokenism and tick box culture of this sort of thing, but us Lewisham urbanz should shout about what we think about where cuts should fall.
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With the government awarding BSF contracts to private companies at a time of severe cuts to public spending, where local councils are being forced to make substantial savings, you have to wonder whether tax payers are receiving value for money? Are exemplary procurement practices being promoted?
Public sector workers are starting to make a stand. An employee working in the borough has brought a multi discrimination case against Babcock Education and Skills Limited, (formerly VT), and a subsidiary of the FTSE 100 Company Babcock International Group PLC.

With the government awarding BSF contracts to private companies at a time of severe cuts to public spending, where local councils are being forced to make substantial savings, you have to wonder whether tax payers are receiving value for money? Are exemplary procurement practices being promoted?
Public sector workers are starting to make a stand. An employee working in Lewisham has brought a multi discrimination case against Babcock Education and Skills Limited, (formerly VT), and a subsidiary of the FTSE 100 Company Babcock International Group PLC.
http://www.school-info4u.com/support-files/employment_tribunal_decision_babcock_education_and_skills_ltd.pdf
The London Borough of Lewisham - Partnering with construction company, Costain, it formed Learning21 – the only BSF consortium in which the design, construction, ICT and FM services are led by an education company. This joint venture successfully secured the contract to form a Local Education Partnership (LEP) with Lewisham to deliver a £210m pathfinder programme to rebuild and refurbish all of the borough's 17 secondary and special schools. It began in 2007, with the construction of the first two schools and the rollout of ICT provision across the whole secondary school estate. Babcock provides innovative ICT solutions and managed services (provision of hardware, ongoing support and continuing professional development for staff) under a BECTA-accredited ‘Managed Service’. In August 2010 phase 3 of Lewisham’s Building Schools for the Future was agreed. Under the third phase of the project, the Borough’s Local Education Partnership vehicle (LEP) established a PFI project company to rebuild Deptford Green secondary school in order to provide new education and community facilities and to service those facilities over 25 years. Fixed-rate funding for the PFI contract was provided by Aviva, raised through a private bond offer. The LEP also contracted with the Borough to install an entirely new suite of ICT equipment and provide a 5-year managed ICT service at Deptford Green school from its completion using strategic BSF funding for ICT. The LEP is already providing a managed ICT service at seven further schools within the Borough which were part of the first two phases of the BSF programme, or which have either been recently built or refurbished by others. Under the ambit of a 10-year Strategic Partnering Agreement between the LEP and the London Borough of Lewisham, the LEP has exclusivity to work with the Borough on its c. £230 million education modernisation programme to undertake building improvements, facilities management services and the provision of a top-class information and communications technology (ICT) service to secondary schools throughout the Borough. Under the first phase of the BSF programme, the LEP entered into a PFI contract for two secondary schools in the Borough and the provision of managed ICT services at a further 5 schools.
 
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