A 60-year-old man is being thrown out on the street after the council grabbed his £800,000 house to cover the cost of his mother’s care home and Metropolitan Police officer Wayne Couzens lied to detectives and claimed to have been blackmailed into abducting his victim Sarah Everard. We have 11 pages of sport, including an exclusive interview with Millwall winger Jed Wallace.
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Bob Wright has proved he has got the Wright stuff. Bob joined a safety equipment company in 1971, after getting fed up with his first job. That has clearly not been a problem at Kee Systems, once of Battersea and now in Earlsfield – because he has just celebrated working there for 50 years.
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Some diesel drivers using short-stay parking in Lewisham will have to pay nearly triple from October, in a bid to tackle the climate crisis. The council’s plans to introduce emission-based short-stay parking charges and to consult on charging motorcyclists for parking will go before the Mayor and cabinet on July 14.
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Family-run Saqi Books in Westbourne Grove suffered £20,000 in flood damage after Monday night’s deluge. The BBC’s Inside Culture and Civilisations star donated £400 to a crowdfunding appeal for the store, which specialises in Arabic publications and books about the Middle East and North Africa.
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Fears have emerged that Croydon could face a “summer of knife and gun crime” following the murder of two teenage boys in less than 10 days. A 16-year-old boy was stabbed in Bensham Manor Road, Thornton Heath on July 9. He died in hospital two days later.
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Almost 200 cases of the Covid Delta variant have been detected in Wandsworth in the last week. The highly contagious Delta variant, first identified in India was found in 1,250 cases in Wandsworth by July 7 – 191 more cases than the week before, according to Public Health England (PHE).
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Artists from South London have swept up a number of music awards nominations. Arlo Parks, AJ Tracey, Shygirl and ENNY are among the musicians to be nominated for the AIM Independent Music Awards.
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Hundreds of fans of brutalist architecture are begging Croydon Council not to demolish South Norwood Library. The council plans to relocate the service to a new building near Norwood Junction Station. Now a petition to save the existing library in Lawrence Road has gathered more than 500 signatures in three days.
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Shipwright is an atmospheric new venue located in the grounds of the historic Master Shipwright’s house near Deptford on the banks of the river Thames.
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Visitors to the Tate Modern will be able to draw all over its walls as part of a free programme of playful art-inspired activities for families, writes Charles Harrison.
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To mark the first anniversary of the release of her debut album Honey For Wounds, singer, songwriter and musician Ego Ella May is releasing a deluxe edition of the LP, on June 25
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Talawa, will be bringing the rave to Fairfield Halls theatre in September. Run It Back, which will include a live set is set in an explosive club night and hopes to immerse the audience in black British club culture with dance and physical theatre
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A school in debt to the tune of over £200,000 is set to close as pupil numbers plummet. The 156-year-old primary school in Southwark will close in September, council documents show.
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Bunnies’ needs can be more complex than some other pets so despite their popularity they can unintentionally become neglected. The good news is there are lots of simple things you can do to help keep your rabbits healthy, happy and living their best lives
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My thoughts and prayers go out to the friends and family of Denardo Samuels-Brooks, the teenager fatally stabbed in Prentis Road. My thanks go to local emergency workers who dealt with the incident and the support services who are dealing with the aftermath.
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Merton Council’s housing boss has resisted calls to stand down after shocking living conditions were exposed on the Eastfields Estate in Mitcham. Mouse infestations and serious damp are just some of the problems residents have been facing. The estate is managed by Clarion Housing on behalf of Merton Council and is earmarked for regeneration.
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A report into what went wrong with the Fairfield Halls refurbishment was pulled from a Croydon Council meeting at the last minute yesterday. The council’s general purposes and audit committee was expecting to hear the latest on an independent report into the multi-million pound revamp of the arts venue carried out by council-owned developer Brick by Brick.
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A growing community of artists is producing beautiful work – but hardly anyone is seeing it. Westminster road-based Hart Club, an art gallery for disabled artists, is aiming to change that by running a fundraiser for their new three month summer art school, which will help launch the careers of emerging neurodiverse artists.
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I didn’t expect to find this. On a recommendation I set out to find The Cricketers, only discover that there is not one but three pubs of that name nearby.
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