Council leaders have blasted the Met Police’s “manhandling” of women attending a vigil for Sarah Everard on Saturday (March 13). Ms Everard, 33, vanished near Clapham Common on March 3 after leaving a friend’s home to walk home.
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Four new mobile operating theatres are being set up in the car park at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Roehampton to help tackle long waiting times. Work to install the modular operating theatres began today.
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Low paid school staff could be made redundant as head teachers plan for a radical restructure. Hundreds of teaching assistants, learning support workers and midday meal supervisors in Lambeth primary schools may be axed in a borough wide shake up devised by headteachers.
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Mayor of London Sadiq Khan has called for a full independent investigation into the Metropolitan Police’s “completely unacceptable” handling of a vigil for Sarah Everard this weekend. The force was widely condemned following the vigil on Saturday where officers clashed with crowds who had come to mourn the death of Sarah Everard and stand up to violence against women.
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Three schools in Bexley, all part of The Primary First Trust, are running their own food banks to support the local community during the Covid-19 pandemic. The three schools, Mayplace Primary School, Lessness Heath Primary School and Barnehurst Infant and Junior School, have created food banks to support their pupils and families who are finding it difficult to make ends meet through lockdown.
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A restaurant has celebrated delivering its 100,000th meal to key workers by getting a helping hand from actress Joanna Lumley. Panas Gurkha in Lewisham has been a mainstay for huge numbers of people throughout the struggle of the pandemic and that was marked by soldiers and staff at Royal Artillery Barracks in Woolwich last Thursday.
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Thousands of British frontline workers have been given skincare products to stop their skin drying up, since lockdown began. Dr.PawPaw, based in Elmfield Road, Bromley, has donated 125.000 products to frontline workers from NHS staff to teachers, retail workers and carers.
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The developer whose plan for a 23-storey hotel invoked a backlash from Hammersmith residents is instead looking to build student halls. Due to the drop in international tourism and business travel, Dominvs Group has revealed that banks are currently unwilling to lend money for the hotel scheme.
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Spotting a seal in the River Thames in London always causes a bit of a stir. But recently their appearances seem to have become more common, even in West London in places such as Barnes and Teddington.
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Headline acts including Dizzee Rascal and The Streets will take to the stage in Crystal Palace Park this August as it hosts it’s first ever open-air festival. The Crystal Palace Bowl – where Bob Marley played his last and biggest London concert – will be revived this summer with the South Facing Festival running from the 5-31 August.
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For Chelsea Pensioner Thomas Wright this month heralded a red letter day as scarlet as his uniform. It meant that he could finally see his daughter Christine after lockdown rules meant nominated visitors could see their loved ones at care homes, even if they had to don face coverings.
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Two men have been convicted of the ‘savage’ murder of the Kennington drill rapper Bis who was stabbed nine times in an alleyway in Deptford. 20-year-old Crosslom Davis, known as Bis, from the group Harlem Spartans, was allegedly chased by a gang at 3.30am in December 2019, before being beaten and stabbed to death on the corner of Creekside and Creative Road.
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Ravensbourne School in Hayes Lane, Bromley, has had donations from local businesses including Bromley Football Club, generous members of the public and West Kent’s Provincial Grand Lodge.
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The Archdeacon of Croydon was the first person to be vaccinated at a new vaccination centre in the Centrale shopping centre. It opened yesterday and an area on the upper level near Starbucks has been transformed so jabs can be delivered by NHS staff and volunteers .
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There are growing calls for the Metropolitan Police to classify misogyny as a hate crime amid conversations about the issues of harassment and violence faced by women.
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London’s streets are not safe “for women or for girls,” London Mayor Sadiq Khan has said in the wake of Sarah Everard’s disappearance. Speaking to LBC Radio yesterday, the Mayor of London said that men, especially those in positions of power, must take steps to address the issues facing women in the city.
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After 27 years as a councillor, the former leader of Croydon Council has resigned. Tony Newman stepped down as council leader in October as a financial crisis gripped the authority – but until Wednesday he remained a councillor for the Woodside ward.
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A pizza boss who cooked the books to commit tax fraud has been jailed for four years after an HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) investigation. Abassin Badshah, 35, was the franchisee of a Papa John’s pizza takeaway in Catford. He evaded paying £669,000 in Income Tax, National Insurance and Corporation Tax.
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Sir Bob Geldof has lent his support to the campaign to stop a 100-year-old black poplar tree from being felled in Battersea to make way for electric cables for a new housing development. The long-term Battersea resident and singer-songwriter said in a statement provided to Extinction Rebellion Wandsworth that the council should “leave our tree alone”.
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