Oh my God it's green!

We've decided to change the colour scheme around on this site after almost a year of having the standard white background template. If readers have any further suggestions then do email us about it. We've also the link to Labour in London.

No one from the Labour Party got back to us to tell us whether it was now the official website for Greenwich so we're going to assume it is. If anyone has other local sites they would like us to link just drop us a line. The email link is above.

The logo has been taken down, not because of threats of legal action but because we are working on a new design. Watch this space.

South-East London Bloggers site

As it's Sunday we thought we're take the opportunity to promote another local blog we've just discovered in our traffic referrer logs. It's called SELblog and is about "Life and politics in Bromley, Bexley, Greenwich and Lewisham". Hopefully over the coming months we can work with the two people running it and cross promote stories that may be of relevance. Bookmark SELblog today.

Blogosphere heavyweights lend their support

We've just noticed that the man responsible for inspiring this blog, Guido Fawkes Esq, has commented in the post regarding the Council's legal team contacting us. We'd like to thank him for his kind words of support.

At the same time we've also noticed in the logs that Iain Dale has linked to us regarding the recent threats from the Council as well. We'd also like to thank him for his support and for highlighting the Council's attitude towards those who choose to use green.

Council legal department threatens us

It appears that the Council has had enough. We've received an email from Russell Power, the head of Legal, demanding that we stop using a logo similar to the Council's and, bizarrely, the same font and colour. Apparently, the use of "a rectangle shape with three lines running through it" as well as using "the same colour" and "the same style of lettering and the same size of font" makes it look like the sites are linked.

Russell, bless him, has written to Blogger so no doubt we shall receive an email from them shortly. Apparently the primary concern is people might think there is a "link between the Council and [the] blog".

Clearly the last story about Chris Roberts getting shouted at by Ken Livingstone must have made Roberts so angry he got on the phone to Legal. We hope the IT department has enough monitors to cope!

We have taken what Mr Powers has said and acted accordingly though. You will see above that there is no longer a rectangle, you will of course also note that there are only two lines and they are NOT the same as the Council's. We've also changed the legend to ensure no one get's confused. We're not going to change our use of the font though as it's a standard font available everywhere, as for the colour, we quite like green.

We're glad the Council takes fair comment and freedom of speech so seriously.