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Minnie Kidd House in south Clapham is the new home for all the sexual health services that were previously available from the Streatham Hill clinic.

Cabinet Member for Healthier Communities, said:

“For STI Awareness Day on 14 January we hoped to raise awareness of sexual health in Lambeth and highlight Minnie Kidd House as the newest clinic in Lambeth.

Funding, finances and some often frivolous behaviour best sums up the themes coming out of Lambeth Town Hall as we take a look back at our Brixton Buzz archive for the past year.

It was a year where Homes for Lambeth was put out of its misery, Lambeth made a move on taking services back in house, and a more commercial approach to running some areas of public life was taken.

Let’s take a look back on how Brixton Buzz kept an eye on the Council throughout the past year.

January

Leach Family update:

In May, the Friends of West Norwood Cemetery (FOWNC) kindly published an article I’d written on the Leach family who had a small chain of hardware shops, the first of which opened on Loughborough Road in the 1880s. Thanks to Tony Leach and Paul Adams who have shared incredible images of the family and their memories over the last few years.

One of London’s biggest parties is back to take another 1000+ crowd of dancers across the midnight finish line with headliners STONE COLD HUSTLE and a line-up of funk, soul, rare groove & disco specialists on the decks at Peckham Levels.

SLST honcho JAZZHEADCHRONIC, will be joined by headliners, Bristol’s finest, STONE COLD HUSTLE (LIVE), plus DJs KEITH LAWRENCE, AITCH B (SOUL II SOUL), Jazzcotech boss PERRY LOUIS and Reach Up Disco Wonderland DJs NICK HALKES + DJ DEKAYNE.

TfL plans to spend at least £650,000 on closing a residential street at its junction with the A23, Streatham High Road, removing trees and taking out disabled parking bays, in order to move a pedestrian crossing 50 yards south of its existing location.

Transport Commissioner Andy Lord conceded a short delay to the works on Friday, following an intervention by LIberal Democrat London Assembly Leader, Hina Bokhari AM.

Lambeth residents were shocked to learn last week that a planning application for a giant digital advertising screen has been given the go-ahead metres from their living room window.

The billboard company, Wildstone, were originally granted permission in 2019 to transform the existing paper billboard into a digital screen, before any tenants had moved into the newly built flats at 666 Streatham High Road.

This planning permission expired in September this year and residents were delighted that their case against the development was finally going to be heard.

In a powerful movement to combat alarming disparities in cancer outcomes, Black communities across South East London are joining forces to encourage the uptake of breast screening appointments for women aged 50 to 71, and for Black men aged 45 and over, who have a higher risk of prostate cancer, to talk to their GP about having a PSA blood test.

With data revealing that 1 in 12 Black men will die from prostate cancer compared to 1 in 24 white men, and Black women twice as likely to receive a late breast cancer diagnosis, the urgency for action has never been clearer.

South London anti-capitalist, rebel rousers Meatraffle have released their Christmas single – and it’s gone down rather well in the Brixton Buzz office.

They told us about the song:

Brave Face is the Christmas song that highlights the contrast of personal conflict and depression with the external period of this festival of ‘ joy’ that is encompassing .

its not a cynical jab at Christmas , all it is is a call to all the outsiders to wallow in their self pity to the point of martrydom and take solace in the winter melancholy with a kind of pride .

Christmas can be an especially tough time for dealing with money, and the debt advice kiosk in Streatham Library is open to offer free expert advice via video for individuals with financial difficulties or money worries.

Each kiosk is designed as a soundproof booth, ensuring conversations remain private and confidential.

This is a walk-in service, so no appointment is required.

Upcoming dates and times:

Streatham Library

London

SW16 1PN

More info here

Contact details Vincia Bennett, Library Manager

Three of the four MPs that cover our Brixton Buzz patch voted against the Assisted Dying Bill in the House of Commons today.

Florence Eshalomi (Vauxhall and Camberwell Green), Helen Hayes (Dulwich and West Norwood) and Bell Ribeiro-Addy (Clapham and Brixton Hill) all voted against the bill that was carried.

Steve Reed (Streatham and Croydon North) is the one MP from our area that voted in favour of assisted dying.