Naomi Bennett-Hall, co-founder of Ultimate Planet and resident of Bellingham in Lewisham, has been shortlisted as one of five people in the… ...

History has been made in Lewisham, with the first black woman winning a directly-elected mayoral role. Brenda Dacres ran for the Labour Party in the south-east London borough and won with 21,576 ...

A woman from Lewisham quit her high-flying marketing career and spent her life’s savings turning an empty railway arch into a gym.

A south-east London borough has elected its first black woman to serve as mayor. Voters in Lewisham elected Labour’s Brenda Dacres to be the directly-elected mayor as she gained 21,576 votes ...

History has been made in Lewisham, with the first black woman winning a directly-elected mayoral role. Brenda Dacres ran for the Labour Party in the south-east London borough and won with 21,576 ...