The mystery of disappearing bins in Crystal Palace has left residents baffled.
Residents say bins in the town centre began going missing at Christmas prompting a successful community campaign to get them replaced.
Waking watches in buildings seen as fire risks in the wake of the Grenfell disaster are costing Londoners an average of £12 million a month, – more than the rest of England. Data from the Government has found that the mean average cost of a waking watch in London is £20,433 a month per building, compared to £15,279 in the rest of the country.
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A Catford man and his elderly father, who suffers from a heart condition, have been left in thousands of pounds worth of debt after becoming stranded in Western Africa. Lloyd Junior Miller, from Laleham Road, and his 76-year-old father, Lloyd George Miller, from Somerleyton Estate in Brixton, were stranded in Gambia for over two months after an airline refused to fly them home.
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Some 9,000 council tenants will get a refund on their water bill after Kensington and Chelsea council was told to repay a £2.5m commission its housing management company earned for collecting water rates from Thames Water.
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London bus drivers fear their pay will be cut by over £2,000 a year, and plan to strike in a matter of days. Nearly 2,000 bus drivers are due to go on strike later this month over the wage cuts.
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Campaigners are defending a building on a Lambeth estate in protest of its planned demolition. Truslove House, on the corner of Roman Rise in Gipsy Hill, is a seven-bedroom hostel for homeless households on the Central Hill Estate, which is earmarked for redevelopment.
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Big changes could soon be coming to the streets of Wandsworth as new plans for improvements along Putney High Street and Wandsworth Town Centre have been unveiled by the council. Putney has already seen a number of improvement works since September 2019 and could see some more changes in the future.
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The multi-million cost of refurbishing Fairfield Halls is set to fall to Croydon taxpayers as the authority looks to wind down council-owned developer Brick by Brick. The council will not recover all of a £59 million loan given to the developer for the refurbishment of Fairfield Halls and adjoining housing development.
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Lockdown has forced the beauty industry to create more innovative ways of getting their products to shoppers with many turning to technology to do this. Reporter LOTTIE KILRAINE examines the top beauty tech developments in the lead up to Valentine’s day.
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It’s fair to say it’s been a tough year for our favourite local businesses as we continue in the third national lockdown – with no clear end date in sight. But despite the difficulties, some businesses have come up with ingenious ways to keep going.
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A 22-year-old Croydon man has been jailed after being found guilty of attempting to deal heroin and carrying a 30cm blade. Malakai Sanford, of Brockham Crescent, appeared at Croydon Crown Court on January 29, where he pleaded guilty to carrying a knife and possession of cannabis and heroin, with intent to supply.
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Lambeth council’s wholly owned housing delivery company, Homes for Lambeth, can build 20 affordable homes on Ropers Walk, Trinity Rise. The scheme, now approved by the borough’s planning committee, aims to cut carbon emissions by 80 per cent, as the council tries to become carbon neutral by 2030.
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Tributes have been paid to a selfless charity worker who could say hello in more than 40 languages and would collect donations for refugees on his days off.
Peter Hall was a well-known figure in Croydon and spent many years working with the homeless and refugees in South London.
The number of racist hate crimes reported to police across London rose dramatically following the first lockdown, a Freedom of Information request has found.
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It’s fair to say it’s been a tough year for our favourite local businesses as we continue in the third national lockdown – with no clear end date in sight. But despite the difficulties, some businesses have come up with ingenious ways to keep going.
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Mental health supported housing charity, Quo Vadis Trust, have been working with Lewisham Council to help with the homelessness crisis fuelled by the Covid-19 pandemic.
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A Roehampton corner shop has been closed by the police after more than £35,000 of drugs, weapons and stolen items were seized last year. Police executed two warrants at Lloyds Food and Wine on Medfield Street and a linked residential address in December 2020.
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Gas company staff have staged strikes in uproar against proposed new contracts that they claim would force employees to accept worse conditions or risk losing their jobs.
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A charity is raising money selling homemade Valentine’s Day cards painted by homeless artists.
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