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Dead Sun - West Norwood Cemetery

West Norwood Cemetery is one location for BBC One's pre-apocalyptic crime drama “Hard Sun” which starts on Saturday 7 January.

South London Theatre

South London Theatre hopes to return to West Norwood in the spring of 2018. Hard hat tours of the Old Fire Station are to be organised shortly as the conversion works enter the final six months. Keep an eye on their website.

Strictly comes to West Norwood

In November, Strictly Come Dancing featured a short video of Aston Merrygold and his professional partner Janette Manrara practicing their paso doble at West Norwood Cemetery.  Aston Merrygold is a singer-songwriter (remember JLS?), dancer and TV personality. The opportunity to practice in the Cemetery clearly inspired the couple as they ended the evening in second place. The choice of Cemetery was most appropriate as Eric Morley, creator of the precursor of Strictly – “Come Dancing”, is buried there.

Boundary Commission latest proposals

Did you make comments last November on the Boundary Commission proposals to split West Norwood into two constituencies? If you felt this was an absurd idea, the published latest proposals show your views have not been adopted, and the Commission cannot even be bothered to let you know.

The Boundary Commission is still proposing to split up the Norwood wards into two separate parliamentary constituencies giving us two different MPs, though the detail has changed:

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