66 ‘pauper’ funerals held in Greenwich in past two years
Almost £140,000 has been spent on funerals for people whose families cannot afford to pay in the past two years.
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Author: Charlie Stong
Hospital staff to dish up thousands of meals for patients over Christmas
More than 1,000 Christmas Day meals will be served to the bed-bound – with about 7,200 dished up across Christmas in all.
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London lags behind in booster race
In Westminster, just one in five people have been triple-jabbed, compared to the national average of 40 per cent.
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Plans for seven-storey block near park thrown out
Southwark council recommended the plans be thrown out to construct 32 ‘affordable’ homes on the edge of Burgess Park in Peckham.
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Central London music venue loses £330k in two weeks due to restrictions and Omicron fears
The Piano Works in Leicester Square has lost hundreds of thousands of pounds from cancellations as the new Covid variant spreads through the capital.
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16-storey block approved despite fears it could turn area into “Hong Kong”
The building will include offices and creative space, as well as more than 70 flats, but many people are furious at plans.
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Sexual predator who attacked six women in 12 days is jailed for life
Joshua Victorin, 25, of Albany Road, Walworth, was sentenced at Inner London Crown Court yesterday to a life sentence and will serve a minimum of eight years and eight months’ imprisonment.
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Four boys – two aged three and two aged four and all related – die in tragic Sutton house fire
Firefighters worked tirelessly to save the boys – two aged three and two aged four, who are are all related to each other – but tragically they were pronounced dead when they arrived at hospital last night.
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Artwork highlights problem of air pollution around London’s schools
The brightly-coloured signs celebrate clean air and highlight the invisible problem of air pollution.
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Nearly all hospitalised Covid cases in the autumn were unvaccinated
And a leading local GP is urging Londoners to get their booster jabs as soon as possible.
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Plan ahead due to engineering works on the railways this Christmas
Several separate sets of engineering work will affect journeys through parts of South-west London
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Quarter of all deaths in Croydon since start of pandemic due to the coronavirus
The borough has recorded more than 1,000 coronavirus deaths since March 2020.
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Search for killer after man stabbed to death in Elephant and Castle
Witnesses have described how a man wearing a motorcycle helmet burst into the restaurant in Hampton Street, Elephant and Castle, at around 7.45pm last night before attacking his victim.
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Body found in hunt for Evelina worker Petra Srncova
The death is being treated as unexplained but initial enquiries suggest the circumstances are not suspicious. A post-mortem examination will take place is due course. While formal identification awaits, Petra’s family have been informed of this development.
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Story time in a magical underwater world at London Zoo
Parents, guardians and their babies will be taken on a journey through the ocean to explore all the sights, sounds, and textures of the ocean at Christmas.
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Former council boss fired after suffering PTSD following Grenfell disaster successfully sues employer
Rachel Wright-Turner developed Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) when supporting residents impacted by the fire.
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DNA advance leads to conviction of man 20 years after death of pensioner
Junior Young, 39, of no fixed address, was on Monday found guilty of the manslaughter of Hilda Lockert, who died after being robbed outside her own front door in Brixton in April 2001. He was also found guilty of robbery.
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Two women and two children dead after house fire in Bexleyheath
Six fire engines and about 40 firefighters were called to the blaze in Hamilton Rad at around 8.30pm last night.
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Healthcare Assistant Marsha Lord stars at the COP26
A healthcare assistant will be featured in the COP26 climate change conference this week. Marsha Lord works at St George’s Hospital, which aims to be carbon neutral by 2040 and which generated enough power for the National Grid to boil 46 million kettles in 2019-20.
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