Lockdown may not have changed bedtime, but it has changed the way people of all religions gather to celebrate the stories that unite them. Every evening of Lent at St. Anselm’s Church in Kennington, people are congregating online to hear bedtime stories written and performed by young parishioners.
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More than 1,200 people were injured and 68 people were killed while walking on or alongside London’s roads in 2019, figures have revealed. Of those killed, 44 were people crossing the road, with similar numbers reported in provisional figures for 2020.
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London NHS chiefs are faced with the dilemma of how to reduce the huge patient waiting lists that have accumulated during the pandemic. One top-performing hospital group, Chelsea & Westminster NHS Foundation Trust has seen the number of patients waiting over a year for routine “elective” operations hit “over 1,000”.
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An MP has urged all residents to get vaccinated in a video with local leaders. Marsha de Cordova MP for Battersea has come together with local community and faith leaders, councillors and clinicians to build confidence in the Covid-19 vaccines.
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From Monday, 8 March, restrictions will ease very slightly meaning that people can meet outside with one other person for recreation. The Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, announced a four step roadmap for easing of the England-wide coronavirus lockdown last month.
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A father is planning to cut off his dreadlocks to raise money for the hospital that saved his daughter’s life after she developed a rare condition related to Covid-19. Molly Nana contracted Covid-19 at the end of November and started to deteriorate a few weeks later.
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Anti-vax campaigners went up against a plumbing company during an incident at the firm’s central London base. A determined group of mega-phone wielding anti-vaxxers congregated at Pimlico Plumbers Lambeth headquarters on March 4, protesting against the company’s support of the vaccination roll out.
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Thousands of new homes, road upgrades and public squares are all part of ambitious plans for Croydon town centre. The Croydon Growth Zone was set up in 2016 with the ambition of welcoming 10,000 new homes, public squares and retail development in the town centre by 2031.
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The Government has been urged to “come clean” about its £4.8 billion levelling up fund after it emerged some of the most deprived areas of London would miss out. Lewisham, Lambeth, Southwark and Greenwich have all been named by City Hall as areas with high levels of poverty but will be missing out on receiving the funds.
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A new £5.3 million community centre in New Addington has been completed. The Timebridge Centre in Fieldway will combine the Fieldway Family Centre and the Timebridge Community Centre.
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A Family-run bike shop in Forest Hill has become a victim to a smash and grab attack – but the thief accidentally turned himself in using GPS. Finches Emporium, in Perry Vale, had its shop front smashed and an £8,000 bike stolen in the early hours of last Thursday, while the family and their two young children were asleep upstairs.
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Residents in a Westminster crime hot spot which “attracts drugs and gangs” said they were concerned that it was the wrong place for an adult gaming centre. Experienced gaming company operator Gavin Tresidder wants to open the business in a former bookies shop in Queensway.
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Mayor of London Sadiq Khan will take over as the local planning authority on the controversial application to build a 20-storey office block. The application from Hondo Enterprises to build the tower in Pope’s Road, Brixton, was originally approved by Lambeth Council in November 2020 and was given the go-ahead by Sadiq Khan in December.
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Despite going for only a small rise in council tax, Westminster Council will have to find savings of up to £43 million over the next three years. It comes after the pandemic has ravaged its finances, particularly where the council lost money in the coronavirus pandemic from lost parking charges, business rates, unpaid council tax and rents.
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Up to 139,000 Londoners have had or are still experiencing long Covid according to new figures from the London Assembly. New research from the Office for National Statistics estimates that one in five people across the UK has had or still has long Covid, where symptoms such as fatigue or breathing problems persist for weeks or months after getting infected.
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Schools across Southwark have received laptops to help their most disadvantaged pupils, thanks to an outpouring of donations from the community which has raised over £100,000. The Laptops for Learning crowdfund hopes to reach its final target of £150,000 by Thursday.
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A newborn baby was given the gift of life, thanks to a 3D heart scan which helped diagnose his condition before he was born. Little Leo Coe is now a thriving seven-month-old who is starting to wean and loves his bouncer.
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A man has been jailed for 18 years after a ‘horrific’ machete attack in Tooting that left the victim with life-changing injuries to his arm. Noor Kayani, 37, of Gatton Road, was sentenced to 18 years imprisonment at Kingston Crown Court on Friday, 26 February.
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A man who has been living for more than a week in a tree in Battersea to save it from being cut down has spoken out about “dedicating” his life to protecting trees and how he manages to eat, go to the toilet and even work in them.
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