A new wellness clinic has been launched for Black and Asian residents to help detect long-term health conditions. The new service, launched by Guy’s and St Thomas’ and in partnership with local faith and community groups, is for residents in Lambeth and Southwark.
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A young filmmaker, who dropped out of teacher training to pursue her dreams, has been awarded a scholarship to attend a world-famous film school. Chinaza Onyechi, from Peckham, has been awarded MetFilm School’s first Black Student of Talent scholarship, to attend the film school based at London’s Ealing Studios.
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Residents will get the chance to choose which community projects bag a share of £2.9 million funding. Lewisham residents are being encouraged to submit their ideas to the council of what they want to see funded in their local area.
Read MoreLambeth has announced a ‘new vision’ for the development of the borough from now until 2035. At a full council meeting on Wednesday, September 22, members voted to adopt the Lambeth Local Plan 2021.
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Crystal Palace Football Club’s biggest fundraising event is back this October. Fans, football legends and supporters will be taking part in CPFC’s Palace for Life Marathon March to raise funds for disadvantaged people in South London.
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A women’s football club has raised over £1,700 for Afghan refugees. South East Parakeets FC, took part in five hour five-aside match to raise money for refugees and displaced families. Club co-founder Amy Doyle, from Lewisham, came up with the idea and organised the match that took place at St Dunstan’s five-aside pitch in Catford on Sunday, September 26.
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The sky’s the limit for one charity worker who has helped raise almost £5k to support seriously ill children and their families. Rachel Tween, 53, who works as House Manager at Ronald McDonald House Tooting, took on a skydive from 10,000 feet this weekend.
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The Mayor of London has awarded Greenwich a grant of £38 million to build new affordable homes in the borough. The funding will be used to build hundreds of new council homes as part of the Greenwich Builds programme.
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A memorial service is to be held for Met officer Matt Ratana who was killed in line of duty. One year on from his murder, the Metropolitan Commissioner Dame Cressida Dick has announced a special memorial service will be held in November.
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A Tooting barbers full of customers has suffered an arson attack in broad daylight. Cops were called at around 6.45pm on Friday, August 27, to the venue in Upper Tooting Road, after reports that a flammable liquid had been thrown at the property.
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A man in his 20s has been arrested on suspicion of murder following the death of a lorry driver. Vitali Skrypniak, a 45-year-old Ukrainian lorry driver, was fatally stabbed outside Belvedere Railway Station, Bexley, last Saturday.
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A new festival featuring three days of inspirational storytelling in the heart of London will be held next week. The programme celebrates a diverse range of talent, including leading authors, poets, screenwriters, debut novelists and comedians.
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Police investigating the murder of Catford teacher Sabina Nessa have released the full CCTV clip of a man they want to speak to. Ms Nessa, 28, was walking to meet a friend at a pub near her home on Astell Road just before 8.30pm last Friday, but never arrived.
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Hospice staff ‘delighted’ after a visit from a Royal Princess at the opening of a new £6.5 million education centre. St Christopher’s Hospice, in Sydenham, welcomed its Royal Patron, HRH Princess Alexandra, The Honourable Lady Ogilvy, to its brand-new Centre for Awareness and Response at End of Life (known as St Christopher’s CARE) yesterday.
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Young people aged 12 to 15 in Greenwich will soon start receiving their Covid-19 jab. Greenwich GPs, supported by Oxleas Young Greenwich school nurses, are rolling out the vaccination programme to schools across the borough.
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A young family has been ‘torn apart’ after a father in his 40s was stabbed to death and left to die on the street. Vitali Skrypniak, a 45-year-old Ukrainian lorry driver, was fatally stabbed outside Belvedere Railway Station, Bexley, last Saturday.
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A Streatham MP has criticised cops after a thirteen-year-old boy was left with a swollen eye and cuts in a stop and search. Benjamin Olajive, 13, was on his way to McDonald’s last Tuesday when he was swarmed by police responding to a report of a black person with a knife.
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A county line drug dealer who used fake names to fool cops has been jailed for supplying crack and heroin. Enoch Odubanjo, 22, of Egmont Street, Lewisham, ran a county line called the ‘Fiver’ line, which was a phone number offering the sale of crack cocaine and heroin in the Chatham area.
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A man has been charged with murder after his father was found stabbed to death late at night on Tuesday. Sean Maurice, 29, of Widmore Road, Bromley, was charged on the evening of September 15 and is due to appear at the Old Bailey on Monday.
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