Road blocks could be reintroduced near a hospital, despite being removed after a controversial month-long trial in the summer. Wandsworth council is asking residents in Maybury Street, Carlwell Street and Aldis Street in Tooting on how to prevent cars from using their streets as a shortcut between the high street and Blackshaw Road.
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The coronavirus situation at St George’s Hospital in Tooting “is a little bit calmer now” but more than 230 people are still being treated for the virus. Junior Sister, Hannah Packham, said: “It is still a difficult time, and many of us are still anxious coming on shift about what lies ahead that day.”
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Almost 1.5 million people in London have received at least one dose of the Covid-19 vaccine, with the capital just shy of hitting its target. A total of 1,457,323 Londoners have now received at least one dose of the vaccine, with a further 63,451 having received both doses.
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A leading private school is one of a handful taking part in a pilot to give places to children who have been in care. A project to help vulnerable youngsters, the Royal National Children’s Springboard Foundation wants Alleyn’s, in Dulwich, to take them and transform their changes, partly funded by the government.
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The victim of a fatal stabbing in Parsons Green has been named as 18-year-old Hani Soloman. Police were called after a fight broke out between a group of men on Ackmar Road, Fulham, last Thursday.
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A mother and her children drank urine for four days after she was sent fake news suggesting it was a “cure for Covid”, according to a health watchdog. Her main source of information about the virus was a friend or relative who forwarded other people’s recommendations.
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A crowdfunding campaign is providing thousands children across the borough with laptops to help them learn during lockdown. The campaign, which has already raised nearly £97,000, was set up by London South Teaching School Alliance to get pupils across Southwark online, and the total raised will be matched by Southwark Council.
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Two people have been arrested after 30-40 party-goers broke lockdown restrictions in Wandsworth last Thursday.
Officers were called to a house on Juniper Drive just before midnight after reports of a house party.
An anti-racism political party’s zoom meeting was hijacked by a group of bigots spewing racist slurs. A group of racists infiltrated a zoom call on February 8 shortly after 8pm and triggered their verbal onslaught against Take the Initiative – a political party which aims to promote racial equality.
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There are hundreds of opulent properties in Kensington and Chelsea that have sat empty and unlived-in for years, according to council data. More than 70 homes in the borough – the wealthiest and smallest in London – have stood empty for more than 10 years.
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Residents housed by an independent housing association and charity are furious after having their housing problems ignored. Housing for Women have not listened to the voices of those they were meant to be helping in their building at The arches on Childers street in Deptford, say residents.
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Church leaders have come together to show support for the vaccination programme. In a joint statement that marks the end of the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, a host of church leaders who make up the partnership of Churches Together in South London (CTSL), have urged everyone to be immunised against Covid-19 to prevent its further spread and more deaths.
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A brand new cancer support service has launched in Wandsworth – and will be particularly crucial during Covid, with so many cancer patients currently having to shield and self-isolate. Macmillan has funded the set-up of this £199,000 srvice, which is available to any Wandsworth residents aged 18+, who are living with or beyond cancer.
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The mother of a 16-year-old boy stabbed to death outside a Croydon birthday party has written a heartbreaking love letter to her son.
Wesley Sterling was killed on April 18, 2010.
A student from Christ The King Aquinas sixth form school in Brockley has been nominated for a prestigious Lewisham Mayor’s Award. Amy Ohiomoba, 18, volunteered to give free online maths tuition to secondary school students who were falling behind in their studies during lockdown. The lessons were given to pupils whose parents could not afford extra tuition.
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A South London station assistant coaxed two upset people away from a platform’s edge – and helped two sisters aged three and five who had run away from home.
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One of South London’s biggest family attractions needs you to help it survive the latest lockdown. Battersea Park Children’s Zoo is appealing for public support as they face their third forced closure during the coronavirus lockdown. The zoo has organised a crowdfunder page to fund the essential upkeep of the animals until visitors can return.
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No traces of Covid have been found on London’s underground stations, Tubes and buses by scientists investigating the virus.
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A third rapid Covid-19 testing centre in Lewisham is set to open next week as the Council calls on residents who can’t work from home to get tested twice a week.
The testing centre, at Deptford Lounge, will open on Monday and provide tests that take no longer than 30 minutes to get results.
