It is not often you are cheered up by listening to the news nowadays but on 19 October BBC London news did just that when it reported on the glimmers of industrial regeneration in Southwark, south London.
From the late 1700s to beyond the mid-20th century, London was an industrial powerhouse. But recent decades have witnessed massive deindustrialisation of our capital city.
The recent opening of a new large factory in the heart of London is bucking that awful trend. Hopefully other projects will follow.
The Isembard engineering company, at 160,000 square feet on 3 floors, proclaims it is the largest factory to be opened in London since the second world war and employs 100 people. Isembard makes parts for robotics, defence and aerospace, and it has plans to double its staff over the next year
• A longer version of this article is on the web at www.cpbml.org.uk