Brockley Station balls-up

Duncan captured this mishap at Brockley Station, which will exacerbate the "ponding" at Brockley Station and cause further delays to the remedial works that have been taking place - not to mention the timetable for delivering step-free access on the west side.

Found cat on St Donatts Road

Gareth and Anna write:

We came home to our house on St Donatts Road last night (Saturday) to find a beautiful and extremely friendly cat on our doorstep hiding from the rain. He ran inside as soon as we opened the door and has made himself right at home.

There was a note round its neck asking if the cat belonged to anyone and gave a phone number which we duly called. It turned out to be someone three doors down who said that the cat had been in his garden for most of the last week.

The neighbour has tried asking all the usual local cat places to take it and apparently got him scanned for a microchip with John Hankinson Vet but without any luck. They're off on holiday for a week so we have said that we would take on the task of trying to find his owners.

To this end we'd be grateful if you could post this photo of him on BC to see if any readers know the cat or where he's from. We'll be putting up some posters too once it's stopped raining. Anyone with any info can email baker_gareth@hotmail.com

Square Pizza, New Cross

389 New Cross Road

A lifesaver for BC late last Friday night, the Square Pizza takeaway does ten inch pizzas for five quid and got on great with the post-pub crowd.

Click here for their website.

South London Press spawns seven new "hyperlocal" titles

Elizabeth Shaw: My God, we were so wrong. 
- Prometheus

The Press Gazette reports that the South London Press is spawning seven "hyperlocal" paid-for newspapers, covering each of the SLP's main areas of focus: Streatham, Brixton, Wimbledon, Wandsworth, Dulwich, Deptford & New Cross and Forest Hill & Sydenham (Brockley will presumably be covered by a combination of the latter two titles).

That's a hell of a lot of stabbings they will have to find on a weekly basis for their front covers.

Sir Ray Tindle told Press Gazette: “The South London Press has been a major paid-for weekly paper in London for 147 years. We are changing that from one paper into seven. They will be hyper-local papers covering the same footprint as old South London Press but in much more detail.

The papers will cost 50p.

Obviously, BC advocates the hyperlocal model, but it will be interesting to see whether a paid/print model is viable.

With thanks to Darryl.

Brockley MAX Kicks Off

The 2012 Brockley MAX Festival opens this evening, starting at 5pm with a performance by Ben Godwin at the regular stage, next to the Brockley Barge. For the full line-up click here.

Jubilee weekend at the Royal Albert

Emily from the Royal Albert writes:

We have DJs tonight and on Sunday along with our lovely British Sunday Roast. We will also be showing the Jubilee coverage.

On Tuesday from 3pm till 5ish we are doing some jubilee inspired face painting and arts & crafts with the lovely Morwenna for the kids.

All weekend we will be serving Pimms, Tea, Cakes, great Ales and our signature ‘Ju-belini’ Cocktail! We have also extended our opening hours so we are open Saturday 12-1, Sunday 12-12, Monday 1-12 and Tuesday 1-12.

Hilly Fields cafe aims for MAX opening

The new cafe on Hilly Fields is nearly ready to open, having experienced a slight delay due to the need to bury the telephone line serving the building, rather than run it in to the park on telegraph poles.

Pistachios' Aysin confirms that they are aiming to open at some point during the Brockley MAX festival and hope to have a confirmed date soon.