A private boys’ school in Croydon has responded to “deeply concerning” allegations of misogyny and harassment. Whitgift School was named at least nine times on the Everyone’s Invited where website which collates anonymous experiences of sexual, harassment, abuse and assault.
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‘We must remember we are spending taxpayers money’ was the warning to Croydon Council as it heard the latest financial update. The council is no longer under a Section 114 notice, which bans all spending, but faces serious financial challenges over the coming months.
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A team of researchers at King’s College Hospital has identified new clinical criteria to more accurately predict which patients with acute liver failure (ALF) will most likely benefit from a liver transplant. A study published in the Journal of Hepatology, reveals which patients are less likely to recover from the trauma if they do not get a new liver.
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A music school which had thousands of pounds worth of equipment and instruments stolen by a practised burglar has received a massive grant to emerge from lockdown. World Heart Beat Music Academy is to receive £67,514 from the second round of the Government’s Culture Recovery Fund.
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A ‘heroic’ passerby has rescued the owner of a burning pub after a blaze broke out in Forest Hill this morning. Two people have been taken to hospital after a fire spread through the apartment above the Bird in Hand pub on Dartmouth Road.
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Everyone in Lambeth should get a Covid-19 test, the council leader has said. The advice follows the announcement of “the largest surge testing operation to date” after 44 confirmed and 30 probable cases of the Covid variant first identified in South Africa were found in Lambeth and Wandsworth.
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The Mayor of London has declined to intervene in plans for a controversial development in Blackheath. GS8 and Vabel plan to demolish all business units in the Blackheath Business Estate to build 63 flats in two blocks of nine and seven storeys, along with a four-storey workspace building.
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An American burger chain is set to open up a branch in Croydon town centre. Wendy’s announced last month it wants to bring the chain back to the UK after 21 years. A planning application submitted to Croydon Council shows that Wendy’s has plans for the former Barclays bank on the corner of George Street and Wellesley Road.
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On May 6, Londoners will have a record number of candidates to choose from as they head to the polls to decide the next Mayor of London. A total of 20 candidates are standing in May’s election, but while voters may be familiar with current mayor Sadiq Khan and his challengers from the Conservatives, Liberal Democrats and Greens, there are many more candidates in the running.
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One of the South East’s fastest expanding nursery groups for under-fives, is due to open a new site in Eltham, by early September. Fennies Nurseries, the nursery group, which has 11 sites around London, Surrey and Kent, is currently reconstructing a shell of a former building, on Westmount Road, Eltham which will be launched in September.
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An award-winning community gym in Deptford started making its own equipment to fit into people’s homes or offices to create a “pandemic-proof” element to its business. Commando Temple, located under three arches of the Greenwich to London Bridge rail link, also rented out £50,000 of its equipment in a bid to survive the past year.
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The number of passengers using Tube and bus services in London rose this morning as lockdown restrictions eased, initial data has revealed. TfL has said that as of 10am this morning, the number of passengers making journeys on the Tube rose by 18 per cent from last week, while bus journeys rose by 15 per cent.
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Fearful tenants have staged a protest demanding they not be evicted for any failure to pay their rent during lockdown. A protest was held on Saturday [april 10] by renters in Southwark and Lambeth, calling for property company Uncle to promise no evictions for tenants who’ve got behind on rent payments during the pandemic.
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An 18-year-old man has been arrested today on suspicion of the attempted murder of James Bascoe-Smith, aged 17. The teenager has been taken to a South London police station where he remains in custody.
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Students will pay less rent if they are good neighbours to their over-55 neighbours in a block which has been given planning permission. The development, to be owned and run by Phoenix Community Housing, will involve the demolition of 16 vacant bedsits in Melfield Gardens, near Beckenham Hill station, to be replaced with 32 flats in two blocks between three and six storeys.
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A couple who used credit cards, cheques and false identities to pay for their luxury lifestyle – then complained about a cop who investigated them – have been jailed for a total of five years. The couple, who lived in Queenstown Road, Wandsworth and Gatliff Road, Chelsea conspired together to commit at least a total fraud of £87,897, using fake documents to buy Rolex watches from luxury West End shops.
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A small business on the Bermondsey Beer Mile was kept afloat through the pandemic by its “incredible” customers, its founder said. Hannah Rhodes launched Hiver in 2013, a craft beer company that infuses its lagers and ales with honey from urban beekeepers, with a focus on sustainability.
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Reform UK – formerly the Brexit Party – has announced a new candidate ahead of next months election. Robert Poll will be a candidate for Croydon and Sutton in the upcoming London Assembly elections on May 6.
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Give a man a fish and you will feed him for a day, teach a man to fish and you will feed him for a lifetime, so the saying goes. For community group Walworth Golden Oldies, teaching pandemic-weary elderly people how to become silver surfers is top of list now that they have been awarded new townhall funding.
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