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I'm a councillor in the London Borough of Wandsworth; this blog mainly covers that, sometimes general politics and policy and occasionally anything else that takes my fancy.
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SW11 Literary Festival
This year’s SW11 Literary Festival launched at the Bellevue Pub on Battersea High Street earlier this week. The theme for the year is Monsters: which might be offensive to some of the more genteel authors on the programme, but is all good fun. The festival runs from 17 September until 3 October (you can download
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Posted in Regeneration
Also tagged Battersea High Street, Bellevue, Clapham Junction
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The SW11 Literary Festival
Last night saw the formal end of the SW11 Literary Festival with the closing event at Recipease in Clapham Junction. The event itself was fantastic, seeing the announcement of the winners of the recipe competition (which will all be part of a cookbook) along with some great food and company. But I really wanted to
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Be on the fourth plinth
Well… not quite… but this Sunday between 12 noon and 1pm Wandsworth will be represented on the fourth plinth in the shape of the Clapham Junction Town Centre Manager – Lorinda Freint. And while you can’t get up there with her personally, you can get your message there. Lorinda will be promoting the SW11 Literary
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Battersea Poems
The launch of the SW11 Literary Festival takes place tomorrow night, which made me think it’s probably a good time to highlight Battersea Poems again. Taking the text directly from the literary festival programme: Text in your poem and be part of creating a biography of SW11 written by you, the people who live, work
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Text in your Battersea Poems
I mentioned Battersea Poems in my weekly wrap-up last Friday and the service is now live. It’s good to see there are a few poems on there already – you can read them (and hopefully be inspired to write your own) on the Thumbprint City website. If you want to submit a poem you just
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Weekly wrap-up, 31 July
Summer laziness As I mentioned last week, things do start getting quieter during late July and August and my council work this week really showed that – I’ve managed to go the whole week without a single trip to the Town Hall. While that doesn’t mean I’ve done nothing (I’m sadly all too available on
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Posted in Weekly report
Also tagged Chuggers, police, St John's Road, Summer, SW11, Tooting
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