QPR bosses have said it is unlikely they will be able to build a new stadium in the borough of Hammersmith and Fulham. The club says the council has not supported plans to move to the Linford Christie Stadium and now the Rangers may have to move to another London borough.
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A single mum has been waiting months for her landlord to sort out a mice infestation in her flat – forcing her to mix cement and try to fix them herself. Elaine Barry moved into her dream home in Ladbroke Grove with nine-year-old daughter Shayra in September.
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An abortion clinic has been put under special measures as staff did not have proper training to identify abuse. Staff at the Gynae Centre in Westminster were discovered to not have the appropriate safeguarding training, and medicine posted to patients was not labelled properly.
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A family festival is back and packed full of events and activities this October half-term.
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Council officers spent months debating what type of grass to put on the Marble Arch Mound, a council meeting heard on Wednesday night. After officers spent months debating whether sedum plants or grass should carpet the 25 metre structure, plants still began to drop off the mound on its opening day.
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Almost 3,500 people tested positive for Covid-19 in London on October 28, while more than 1,000 people were in hospital with the virus. Between October 17 and October 23 – the most recent complete week of data – a total of 26,465 new positive cases were identified in the capital, an increase of almost 4,000 from the previous week.
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A Battersea primary school has celebrated harvest festival by collecting donations for a food distribution charity. On the last day of the Autumn term, pupils at St Mary’s RC Primary School dedicated a day of goodwill to City Harvest, raising money and collecting much needed food for the charity.
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Two East Dulwich schoolboys are giving up their free time to hug 100 trees in a bid to prevent deforestation. Thomas Pickles, 11, and his eight-year-old brother Daniel are planning to hug 100 trees this weekend to raise funds to help save rainforests and fight climate change.
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A Croydon GP says doctors are fed up with being “punched in the teeth” over face-to-face appointments and claimed telephone appointments were putting less pressure on surgeries. When the Covid-19 pandemic hit last year, GP surgeries across the country started to offer telephone appointments as standard, often before seeing patients face-to-face.
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Sadiq Khan received his Covid-19 booster jab and flu vaccine on Friday as he urged fellow Londoners to do the same, with the situation in the capital “finely balanced”. The number of new Covid cases in London continues to rise, with the rolling seven-day rate of infections higher this October half-term than at the same time last year.
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October is Black History Month. The reason this is important is that the past contribution of black people to our history in the UK is all but overlooked.
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Harrowing 999 calls during the Grenfell Tower fire show the London Fire Brigade (LFB) was not prepared to deal with the tragedy, a lawyer claims. QC Leslie Thomas told the inquiry that operators lacked adequate training and equipment to advise people inside the tower on the night of the fire.
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Our four-legged family members can be curious creatures, and pooches in particular love to investigate things using their mouth.
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It’s Halloween this weekend. Here are some ghoulish, tasty and some very, very scary things to do – if you dare! Halloween at Battersea Power Station, Spooky Maze, DNR virtual reality arcade, Diane Chorley’s Spookalicious and more!
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A Wandsworth care home failed to tell a woman her mother had died for two weeks. The shocking details came to light through an Ombudsman report. Miss D complained to Rosedene Nursing Home in Wandsworth for not keeping proper records and contact details of herself when her mother (Mrs M) died.
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A new festival marking Black History Month with Batuke, contemporary dance, Calypso, choreo-poem, Lover’s Rock and more is in full swing in Lambeth. The festival is brought together by a host of history-makers and children of the Windrush generation who have made a massive contribution to the arts and culture in the UK.
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In the era of Jack the Ripper, there were many other murders of gruesome proportions. Part two in next week’s South London Press
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A hospice was celebrating after fundraising by an 80-year-old widow hit the £100,000 mark. Peggy Taylor started raising money for St Christopher’s Hospice in Lawrie Park Road, Sydenham, after her husband Keith died there 24 years ago.
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A campaign to provide safe spaces for woman and girls in the wake of the murder of Sarah Everard has launched this week. Businesses in Balham, Earlsfield, Furzedown and Tooting can sign up to the scheme, which will show women and girls who feel unsafe that they can go inside.
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