A Lewisham primary school is facing closure because of low student numbers and money problems. Public consultation began on Monday, April 19 on the plan to close St Mary Magdalen’s School in Brockley.
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The Emery Walker Trust is holding an online talk by Hammersmith “mudlark” Jason Sandy, after he donated some notable finds to the trust.
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What would you do if you were told you had four years to live? This is the question faced by Michael Spencer, the main character of Jack Holden’s new play Cruise, when he and his partner are diagnosed with HIV in 1984, writes Alexandra Warren.
Read MoreLambeth residents and campaign groups have met resistance from in their efforts to change how the council is run. Lambeth council is currently run with a cabinet system, where most powers are given to a small group of councillors.
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A Peckham-based food and loneliness charity is doubling the amount of meals they are giving out from the end of April. In addition to their Cook and Collect service that runs on Saturdays, FoodCycle will also run the service on Wednesdays.
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Musician and veteran Eddie Capone is walking 300 miles throughout April to raise money for an arts centre in memory of the victims of the New Cross fire. This is the first stage in Mr Capone’s fundraising plan for the centre – through which he hopes to raise £1 million.
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Three empty railway arches in Southwark are set to be converted into a sustainable transport hub and a community and cultural space. The project aims to turn two arches in Ewer Street into a transport and management centre that will reduce carbon emissions in the area.
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Three women who have lost their sons to knife crime in south London have joined a campaign to encourage people to call Crimestoppers.
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Two pub owners have been taken to hospital after a fire broke out in their premises in Forest Hill. Asa Holmes, 49, and Monika Luckasova, 42, were taken to Lewisham Hospital to be treated for smoke inhalation after escaping from a fire in the Bird in Hand Pub in Dartmouth Road.
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Clapham-raised musician and rapper Ed Accura is releasing his second film tackling the topic of why so many black people don’t swim.
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The book Kelmscott Chaucer was the culmination of the life’s work of designer, poet and Arts & Crafts originator William Morris who lived in the now iconic Red House in Bexleyheath. 125 years after the
publication of that seminal work, Alexandra Warren tells his story
The families of people who have died of Covid-19 have begun work on a memorial wall on the Embankment opposite the Houses of Parliament.
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They are also appealing for eligible people to book their Covid vaccine by calling 119 or going on to the NHS website.
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On the front of an unassuming townhouse in The Chase, Clapham is a Blue Plaque bearing the name Natsume Soseki, who lived there between 1901 and 1903. The Japanese writer, beloved in his own country for his poetry and novels, spent two influential but unhappy years there, alienated from English society as a virtual recluse. Alexandra Warren tells his story.
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Peep Show actor Paul Clayton, from Shortlands, has published his second page-turning novel – a psychological thriller called The Hoax. It tells the story of a struggling mum of three whose youngest son goes missing, and is returned by a fairy godmother-like character Cora.
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Police officers working to identify and arrest those suspected of committing a linked series of robberies in south west London between October and November 2020, where the majority of the victims were women, have arrested one man and charged two others.
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The yoga instructor had the idea for a nationwide clap to show appreciation for frontline workers after seeing something similar in her native country, the Netherlands.
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More than 700 candles were lit in front of the Old Palace Bromley yesterday, where a service was held in memory of those who died of Covid-19.
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The BBC is hosting a live discussion with Labour candidate Sadiq Khan and Conservative candidate Shaun Bailey ahead of the mayoral elections.
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