On Saturday (4th July) Eltham North Councillor Dermot Poston addressed residents, trustees, friends, families and other guests at the 500th anniversary of Eltham United Charities.  Dermot is the longest serving trustee.

Eltham North Councillors Spencer Drury and Nigel Fletcher attended the Great Get Together at the old polytechnic ground where Blackheath Rugby Club now play.  It was a beautiful sunny day - so almost no one came in to speak to their Councillors!

Earlier this month a local resident alerted me to the fact that the Council was using small pieces of glass as grit when the snow fell.  I raised this and it went in many of the local papers where residents from across the borough outlined why they thought it was a stupid idea, including it will stick to your shoes and scratch wooden floors, kids will make snowballs with it in and it will puncture bike tyres.  One of the other problems is that it isn't being cleaned up and on Saturday I found some of this laying on the pavement and in the roads around Blackheath Westcombe ward - I

Unfortunately slow progress has meant that the castle is still dilapidated.  Hopefully this will change in 2009.