lambeth

There’s a corner of the Garden Museum dedicated to local history. Which seems appropriate given the church of St Mary-at-Lambeth that houses the museum was founded by at least 1062. Just to the left of the main entrance, above a rare, Grade II listed full …

By D. de la Pena Well they didn’t have much choice. Confronted with a Freedom of Information request from the Advisory Service for Squatters for a list of all the council’s empty properties they had to comply as the list was in the public domain. …

Ah, le credite crunch. The government are having to step in to lend PFI firms £2 billion of public money since they’re having trouble raising the cash on the open market. Schools in Greenwich, housing in Lambeth and street lighting in Lewisham and Croydon are …

And did those feet in ancient time, Walk upon… south London soil, Doing the Lambeth Walk? Though reading like a specially written song to celebrate a different Blake’s release to walk free on London land, this specially adapted verse is actually to draw your attention …

Ritalin-raging kids with anger management problems in south London are to be given foot massages in order to help them curb their aggression. Lambeth Council has ponied up £90,000 to fund a rabble of reflexologists who will travel across the borough, massaging the heels and …

Well, causes minor political infighting and gets hyperbolically labelled “librarygate”. Whilst other boroughs are sexing up their libraries, Lambeth stands accused of inventing temporary book lending services in order to tick Audit Commission boxes on accessibility. Such creative machinations apparently intended to secure Lambeth Council’s …

Lambeth is traditionally famous for its walk and its palace but here’s a new claim to fame for the borough – its residents are rubbish at keeping medical appointments. Last week, it was revealed that patients in Lambeth missed 69,886 primary care appointments last year. …

We turn now to Lambeth, a borough with a proud pugilistic tradition, where an epic battle is raging between two of nature’s most tenacious talents: Rattus rattus, or the black rat, and Lumbricus Terrestris, otherwise known as the humble earthworm. Sadly for fight-fans everywhere, the …

On the day a research report confirms what we’ve been resigned to for yonks, that 2 in 5 of us are priced out of first time homeowning in our capital, a news report about empty council houses in Lambeth Council rubs salt in our renter’s …

We don’t like to start the week off with a horrifying headline like this. Another tragic teen stabbing story (time to step up those new gory anti-knife ads?) marks this year’s 16th violent teen death in the city. We don’t have much information, but a …