A row over funding for repairs for Hammersmith Bridge broke out at last night’s budget meeting at Richmond Council. The council’s Conservative group proposed an amendment to next year’s budget to provide a £2million capital contribution for the repairs to Hammersmith Bridge.
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Covid has had an “extremely destructive” impact on children affected by the horrific Grenfell disaster, according to some of their teachers. They are seriously worried by the behaviour of some kids after they returned to school in September following weeks of lockdown.
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Lewisham Council has launched a consultation aimed at making children’s journeys to and from school within its Lee Green low traffic neighbourhood (LTN) “safer and healthier”.
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London Mayoral candidate Shaun Bailey has been criticised for claiming that people may use a universal basic income to buy drugs.
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Human rights organisation Liberty has written to Westminster Council following claims that homeless people were filmed as they slept on a street in central London.
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Police raided a 50-person illegal rave at a leisure centre in Sydenham on Saturday night (February 28), according to council sources. Officers were called to a “commercial building” in Kangley Bridge Road just before midnight to reports of an unlicensed music event.
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A woman donated £500 to a soup kitchen in memory of her late husband after he died before they could use it. The Soup Kitchen, set up by Councillor Tauseef Anwar and sponsored by Muslim Hands, runs outside the Lewisham Islamic Centre every day.
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Nearly three quarters of bus and Tube passengers quizzed by a travel watchdog reported wearing a face covering. The Transport Focus survey found nine out of ten people felt safe on the trains and four in five bus passengers.
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The brother of the former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has been charged with ten offences of breaking Coronavirus restrictions.
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Work is underway to restore a Lambeth playground that was a key site in the 1981 Brixton uprising against racism, unemployment and police behaviour towards black people. The BIGKID Foundation plans to turn the derelict Dexter Road Adventure Playground on Railton Road into a place for local young people.
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A Metropolitan police crackdown on crime has seen over 154 drug and weapon arrests and a further 62 reports of Coronavirus restriction breaches in less than a week.
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Over 90 per cent of all cars in central London now comply with the Ultra-Low Emission Zone (ULEZ) minimum requirements, new data from City Hall has found.
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Lewisham Council is offering rapid Covid-19 tests to anyone without coronavirus symptoms who needs to leave the home for work. Rapid tests are now easily accessible to residents across the borough with a fourth test centre opening at Ignition Brewery today.
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Londoners are most concerned about violent crime in the capital – and this could be a main factor when it comes to electing a new Mayor. The majority of voters identified violent crime as a major worry across all 32 London boroughs, according to new research, despite the Met Commissioner has insisting last week that violent crime is ‘not up’.
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An unused brand new library could soon be sold off by Croydon Council as it looks to save money amid its financial crisis. South Norwood Library is one of five earmarked for closure by the local authority. The others affected are Broad Green, Bradmore Green, Sanderstead and Shirley.
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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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Fares across TfL services will today increase by 2.6 per cent in line with the national increase in rail fares. The increase was first announced in December by Mayor of London Sadiq Khan who said the Government had “forced” him to accept it as part of an emergency funding deal for TfL.
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A Clapham man who murdered a ‘heroic’ victim using a large hunting knife in a Brixton park has been sentenced to life in prison. Levi Paschal, 34, of Clarence Avenue, Clapham, was found guilty of murdering 38-year-old Lee Casey in August 2019.
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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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