A Lewisham councillor made an impassioned plea to council bosses to rethink a quarter of a million pound cut to children’s mental health services in light of the pandemic.
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Two teenagers have been convicted of manslaughter following the death of a 19-year-old in Southwark last year. Francois Kablan, from Bermondsey, died last May from a fatal stab wound to the chest.
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A network of rogue roofers conned thousands of pounds from vulnerable people in South London.
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A homeless hostel will open in Hammersmith later this year, despite residents’ outspoken fears that it will turn their community into “a ghetto”.
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A South London scheme tackling loneliness has received £90,000 to expand it programmes to people in Southwark and Lambeth. Thousands of old and young South Londoners will be paired up thanks to the new funding for a scheme aimed at bridging the age divide to tackle isolation and loneliness.
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Transport for London (TfL) has set out plans to make a series of trial changes extend the new Cycleway 4 route to enable safer essential journeys as part of an emergency response to the coronavirus pandemic.
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Southwark’s cabinet backed a 4.99 per cent council tax hike yesterday as it approved next year’s budget.
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A councillor who caught Covid is urging at risk communities it get the vaccine and help protect themselves and each other.
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A leading transport union has hit out at Transport for London after it told Tube staff to continue going to work despite concerns over the South African Covid-19 variant.
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Detectives have arrested a man in a 1983 cold case and are appealing for help in tracing relatives of the victim.
Christopher Ainscough, 50, was found dead in Windmill Court in Shoot-Up Hill, North London, with head injuries.
Less than 10 days before Christmas pubs across London were forced to close as coronavirus restrictions were tightened.
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Mayors are not known for their sartorial elegance – it must be those heavy chains and velvet robes. Lambeth’s, though, is no ordinary first citizen, despite his name – Philip Normal. Lambeth’s, though, is no ordinary first citizen, despite his name – Philip Normal.
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Half of Latin Americans in London are out of work as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, with many lacking access to basic healthcare.
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Lewisham East MP JANET DABY was just 10 and living nearby when the New Cross Fire tragedy claimed 13 lives. Here, 40 years after the horror, she talks of the trauma in the community and the lasting scars it left – as well as the resolve and determination which arose out of it.
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The London Assembly revealed today that Covid-19 positive cases and the number of patients on ventilators has decreased in the capital.
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London Mayor Sadiq Khan has called for “the biggest tourism campaign that our city and country has ever seen” after research suggested that central London has been hit hardest by the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Mayors are not known for their sartorial elegance – it must be those heavy chains and velvet robes. Lambeth’s, though, is no ordinary first citizen, despite his name – Philip Normal. Lambeth’s, though, is no ordinary first citizen, despite his name – Philip Normal.
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A woman who experienced crippling loneliness when first living in the city has set up a volunteering app to help people give anything from five minutes to an entire day for good causes.
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The Ministry of Justice has announced that two jails south of the Thames are among the 28 prisons nationwide to be given new X-ray body scanners to combat the black market behind bars.
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