“I would rather be helping others. If I had sat at home with Covid going on I would have been drinking,” former homeless Londoner Lee said about clocking up 1,000 hours selflessly volunteering during the pandemic. “I remember someone saying to me ‘you need to keep busy and get structure into your life, otherwise you’ll go downhill and start drinking again’.”
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The owner of an iconic London music venue where the Rolling Stones once had a residency said he has budgeted for a full reopening of clubs and bars in September if venues are not allowed to open without restrictions this month. (June 21) Jeff Horton’s family have run the 100 Club in Oxford Street for decades.
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A healthcare support team is pulling together to raise money for a hospital charity by running a London marathon in August. A team of King’s Facilities Management (KFM) will run in the London Landmarks Half Marathon (LLHM) to support King’s College Hospital Charity, who are dedicated to supporting life-changing care for patients.
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Students often have trouble spotting the bleedin obvious. But some have been able to look at items smaller than their phones – an achievement which should be celebrated. Students at UAE South Bank in London have become one of the first schools in the country to look through an electron microscope, which can see things as small as an atom.
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Students who fancy a career within clinical research can now learn more about it from a prestigious hospital, although they have to be in Year 11. The annual King’s Health Partners (KHP) Summer School, organised by NIHR Guy’s and St Thomas’ Biomedical Research Centre, has opened for applications to local students living in Southwark, Lambeth and Lewisham.
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London today marks four years since the Grenfell Tower fire as Mayor of London Sadiq Khan says that “we must ensure nothing like this ever happens again”. On June 14, 2017, 72 people were killed when a fire engulfed the 24-storey residential building in west London.
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Historic stables in Bermondsey could be turned into workspace for locals, according to a report going before Southwark’s cabinet on tomorrow. The council is planning to buy the Old Southern Railway Stables at the junction of St James’ Road and Catlin Street to “preserve their heritage” but also to “make them productive and useful work spaces for local businesses and start-ups”.
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Blood donors in London are being urged by the NHS to make and keep an appointment to donate over the critical summer months, as demand for blood creeps back to normal capacity. Extra appointments have been added at four London donor centres to help meet this rise in demand.
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Carer’s Week is an annual campaign to raise awareness of the challenges unpaid carers face, and to recognise the contribution they make to family members and the community. The Merton Carers Strategy 2021-2026 which has been developed with carers, was launched last week during Carer’s Week to demonstrate the council’s commitment to make lives better for carers in Merton.
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A town hall is calling on residents to help shape its borough’s future post-pandemic. Merton Council has launched its biggest-ever community conversation, and is asking local people for their views on what the council’s priorities should be after the pandemic.
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Police say riders of illegal electric scooters react with “confusion” when officers confiscate them from London’s roads. This week, a team of officers took to Oxford Street for a day of action that saw them seize two dozen privately-owned e-scooters. The confusion, they readily acknowledge, comes from the fact that London’s relationship with e-scooters is still rather confusing.
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Sadiq Khan is set to call on the Government to “urgently” review construction safety laws to provide more financial protection for tenants and leaseholders after the Grenfell tragedy.
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Elderly Londoners were “on top of the world” after meeting for the first time in 15 months on Tuesday. Members spent a sun-soaked afternoon relaxing and catching up in the garden of the Albany arts centre in Deptford, after a year of lockdowns and isolation.
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More homes were built in Tower Hamlets than in any other London borough during Sadiq Khan’s first term as mayor, figures have revealed. The east London borough saw 4,306 homes completed between 2016 and 2021 under the GLA’s housebuilding programme, more than the bottom 11 boroughs combined.
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Pavements, roads and buildings across London will be transformed into an outdoor art gallery during the summer as the capital plays host to eight games in the UEFA Euro 2020 tournament. Photographs of more than 3,000 Londoners will be pasted across five locations in the capital during the tournament as part of the large-scale public installation “in a celebration of our diversity”.
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A company that sold knives to a child has been told to pay £25,000 in fines and costs following a court case brought by Croydon Council Trading Standards. The case against Daventry-based company Extreme GB LTD was the 17th and final in a three-year Croydon-led nationwide clampdown on knife sales to children which was backed by the Home Office and National Trading Standards.
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Councillors have unanimously approved a controversial redevelopment in one of central London’s most highly regarded council estates. Plans submitted by Westminster Council will see Darwin House, a block for elderly residents on the 1950s Churchill Gardens estate in Pimlico, demolished and rebuilt.
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Students often have trouble spotting the bleedin obvious. But some have been able to look at items smaller than their phones – an achievement which should be celebrated. Students at UAE South Bank in London have become one of the first schools in the country to look through an electron microscope, which can see things as small as an atom.
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A healthcare support team is pulling together to raise money for a hospital charity by running a London marathon in August. A team of King’s Facilities Management (KFM) will run in the London Landmarks Half Marathon (LLHM) to support King’s College Hospital Charity, who are dedicated to supporting life-changing care for patients.
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