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Thamesmead is an area of south-east London,England,straddling the border between the Royal Borough of Greenwich and the London Borough of Bexley. It is located 11 miles (18 km) east of Charing Cross,north-east of Woolwich and west of Erith. It mainly consists of social housing built from the mid-1960s onwards on former marshland on the south bank of the River Thames.
The London Borough of Bexley is a London borough in south-east London,forming part of Outer London. It has a population of 248,287. The main settlements are Sidcup,Erith,Bexleyheath,Crayford,Welling and Old Bexley. The London Borough of Bexley is within the Thames Gateway,an area designated as a national priority for urban regeneration. The local authority is Bexley London Borough Council.
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Northumberland Heath is a neighbourhood and electoral ward in the London Borough of Bexley,south east London,England. Northumberland Heath is often referred to locally as "North' Heath" and is often considered to be part of upper Erith.
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Bromley College of Further and Higher Education,trading as London South East Colleges (LSEC),is a large college of further education and higher education operating in south-east London,England. It is a partner college of six of the twelve schools of the University of Greenwich. LSEC was established in 2016 by the amalgamation of Bromley College,Greenwich Community College and Bexley College. Its largest campus is in the town of Bromley,and others are situated in Erith,Plumstead and Orpington.
Teresa Pearce is a British Labour Party politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Erith and Thamesmead from 2010 to 2019,who was appointed as a Shadow Minister for Housing and Planning in September 2015. In the reshuffle of October 2016,Pearce was appointed as acting Shadow Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government,standing down after the 2017 general election to concentrate on her constituency.
The politics of the Royal Borough of Greenwich.
Abena Oppong-Asare is a British Labour Party politician. She was elected as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Erith and Thamesmead in the 2019 general election. She and Bell Ribeiro-Addy,both elected in the 2019 general election,are the first female British Ghanaian MPs.
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