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The Labour Party are facing calls for an investigation into their campaign tactics after a postcard campaign targeted 250,000 women at risk of breast cancer, saying that a Conservative government would scrap two-week specialist referral for suspected breast cancer patients. Apart from being completely untrue, this type of scaremongering is downright shameless.
Locally, too, Labour have [...]

During a recent inspection of the Woodvale Estate in Knight’s Hill,  our Knights Hill ward Action team members (Carl Belgrove and Nicholas Rogers) found the area to the rear of the estate, by the boundary wall, to be badly maintained. Vegetation had grown unacceptably, and this was creating a threatening environment - especially at night [...]

Residents in West Norwood have been badly let down by Lambeth Council and the local MP. In 2006, Lambeth Council decided to site a dustcart depot in Vale Street, West Norwood. This was supposedly temporary until September 2009, in order to create space for a much-needed new school in East Brixton and to…

After conjuring up fake libraries to fool the government inspector, Lambeth Council’s latest illusion is to make one of London’s oldest and best libraries disappear completely. In its “Lambeth - Yours to Explore!” map, all Lambeth’s libraries are marked except Upper Norwood. Gipsy Hill councillor Graham Pycock said: “The library has been here for 110 years; how can Lambeth possibly lose it?” On the Norwood version of this publicity document, West Norwood Library is praised as Norwood’s only library with Upper Norwood Library receiving no mention. Graham adds: “When I tackled the publicity department about this they implied that this was deliberate policy…