A golf course and scout hut are set to be sold off by Croydon Council in a bid to save money in the wake of its bankruptcy. As the council continues to deal with its financial crisis, it hopes that selling off the golf course, scout hut and two other assets will make £2.1 million, and save £120,000 a year.
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For husband and wife team, Chuong and Stephanie Van Dang, the lockdown over the past year has resulted in the start of a new business venture, Yum Seng – a successful dim sum and cocktail meal kit business based in Lambeth. After Chuong and Stephanie moved house, they missed their local dim sum restaurants and couldn’t find any that compared, so they decided to start their own.
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NHS Blood and Transplant is today launching its first national campaign for people to donate plasma for medicines, including at the Croydon donor centre. Plasma donation only restarted in April after a gap of more than 20 years and few people know what plasma donation is. An NHSBT survey shows only 23 per cent of the public know about it.
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A Southwark Home Office Immigration centre is set to be bulldozed to make space for new offices, a park and a gym. Plans to demolish the immigration centre and transform it into a 27-storey office block were approved by a Southwark planning bosses on July 19.
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NHS Blood and Transplant is today launching its first national campaign for people to donate plasma for medicines, including at the Croydon donor centre. Plasma donation only restarted in April after a gap of more than 20 years and few people know what plasma donation is. An NHSBT survey shows only 23 per cent of the public know about it.
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A wheelchair user has told how his commute has dropped by a whopping 80 minutes – as the Hammersmith Bridge finally reopens. Londoners living close to the now infamous bridge rejoiced as it reopened to cyclists and pedestrians on July 17 after an almost two year closure.
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Balham has had one of the highest Covid infection rates in London recently – but locals don’t seem to care. The area’s infection rate in the week leading up to July 14 was 707.8 per 100,000 of the population – according to government figures.
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A London underground station has been forced to close due to 300 staff being ‘pinged’ by the NHS app and forced to self-isolate. The transport chaos seen over the weekend has already been dubbed ‘The Ping-demic’ and could continue to wreak havoc across London’s transport network as more people return to the office.
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Police will be patrolling road blocks to tackle ongoing vandalism as the council looks to prosecute those responsible. Lambeth Council bosses began creating LTNs (low traffic neighbourhoods), sets of road closures with the aim of reducing car use and promoting active travel, under Covid-19 lockdown measures last year.
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The Consultant Connect system allows clinicians at South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust (SLaM) to contact nearby hospital doctors in over 80 specialties for recommendations on their patients, without the need for a full referral.
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Even a superhero would hesitate to climb a rope as high as the tallest building in the world in two hours. But looking at fitness coach Harri Pereira’s muscles, readers might be tempted to think he can do it (once they have recovered from swooning).
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Young people will put forward their own solutions for stopping rising knife crime in a day-long forum. Leaders of the future and people with first-hand experience of the trauma resulting from gang beefs will push for solutions which address poverty and inequality at the “Hackathon” at Lilian Baylis Technology College, Kennington, on Saturday.
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A new chief executive of a town hall is welcomed this month. Hannah Doody has been formally confirmed as the new Chief Executive of the London Borough of Merton at a full council meeting, and took on her new role on July 7. Ms Doody is taking over the new position from Ged Curran who is retiring after 17 years.
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As the final curtain drops after the recent epic Wimbledon Championship’s mens finals, another curtain lifts in Wimbledon at the end of this month. Polka Theatre is setting up shop in the Queen Road’s Centre Court Shopping Centre with a new pop up theatre space in the shopping mall.
Read MoreCroydon University Hospital will not say how many coronavirus patients being treated have had one or two vaccinations. The hospital in London Road is currently caring for 27 Covid-19 patients, four of whom are on ventilation.
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A plea for an end to violence in Croydon this summer has come in the wake of two teenagers losing their lives to knife crime in less than 10 days. Demarie Omare Roye, 16, was stabbed in Bensham Manor Road, Thornton Heath on July 9, he died at Croydon University Hospital two days later.
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Townhall planners have sided with a campaign group that is raising concerns about air quality and kids’ health over a business move. Metal company Southwark metals want to move one of their scrap metal yards to Windsor Grove, West Norwood. But MP for Dulwich and West Norwood Helen Hayes addressed a Lambeth planning committee earlier this month.
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An EastEnders script writer who used her own experiences to write the storyline about Ruby Allen’s miscarriages is doing a sponsored walk this month to raise money for charity. Natalie Mitchell, 38, originally from Brenley House, Tennis Street, Borough and now living in Bexley, signed up for the Miscarriage Association’s Miles That Matter 21 with husband Sam Wainwright, a construction engineer.
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A whole year group at a Croydon school will not be able to attend the last week of term due to coronavirus cases. A positive case from a Year 8 pupil at Shirley High School means the year of more than 100 children will be taught remotely.
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