You can’t teach an old dog new tricks, they say – perhaps because an old dog already knows all the tricks. But an old dogs’ home? Battersea Dogs’ Home, which celebrates its 150th anniversary tomorrow (June 3) has been adapting to its charges’ needs throughout its history – including admitting man’s best friends’ jealous rivals, cats, in 1883.
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A “charity for charities” is running its first fundraiser to allow it to continue helping grassroots charities support their communities. As part of their Aviva Community Fund campaign, Battersea-founded online service Link UP London are sharing stories of how their support has helped charities benefit people across London.
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The Government has insisted it will not pay more than one-third of the costs to fully repair Hammersmith Bridge. The announcement was made today, as the Department for Transport (DfT) unveiled the details of TfL’s latest £1.08 billion funding agreement, intended to last until December.
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A grandmother who faced the prospect of losing an eye due to cancer has kept her vision thanks to innovative robotic surgery. For the first time in the world, surgeons at Moorfields Eye Hospital and Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust undertook the delicate procedure using a robot to successfully remove a tumour next to a patient’s eye.
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With spring in full swing, many of us have been busy scrubbing, sorting and sprucing up our homes. Though we might love that feeling of a squeaky-clean space, it can create a surprisingly dangerous environment for our pets.
Read MoreThe past year has been incredibly difficult for us all. Public health fears, economic uncertainty and social isolation created the perfect environment for mental ill health to thrive. Even prior to the pandemic, mental health services were in a perilous state following a decade of underfunding by consecutive Conservative governments. Despite promises of parity of esteem between physical and mental health, the reality was anything but.
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Her first single shot to Number 1 in the Urban Influencer Chart where it stayed for a solid six weeks, and now the singing vegan mum is back again. JB Rose, originally from Lewisham, released her first single “Back to Love” last Summer which she wrote after her cousin was killed in a knife attack and to “encourage people to be our brother’s keeper and love one another”.
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A high profile co-educaitonal private school has announced it will blaze a trail in staging mixed-gender sport. St Dunstan’s College, Catford, London, has announced that from September 2021 it will move to gender-neutral games.
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Pupils tried out Jaffa Cakes and a less famous brand last month – but it wasn’t in their lunch break. They were being shown how scientific experiments can produce helpful results – and sometimes end up finding crucial cures.
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Dog walkers are marched from Hyde Park to the Greek Embassy this Saturday to raise awareness of strict regulations preventing dog adopters from taking their pets home. Hannah Marie-Hill, 27, from Purley in Croydon, began planning the march after hearing multiple heart-wrenching stories of dogs left to die on the streets of Zante.
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A leading transport union has threatened London-wide industrial action over the Government’s “disgraceful” new funding package for TfL. The £1.08 billion deal will secure TfL financially until December but comes with several conditions attached.
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Pupils tried out Jaffa Cakes and a less famous brand last month – but it wasn’t in their lunch break. They were being shown how scientific experiments can produce helpful results – and sometimes end up finding crucial cures.
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Campaigners have failed in a High Court legal bid to block the bulldozing of South London’s biggest landmark retail mall, the crumbling 55-year-old Elephant & Castle Shopping Centre. But they have hailed improvements to the billion-pound project as a victory.
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A housing association tenant in Lewisham has been living with a hole in his ceiling for 15 years. Ignatius Okafo, 58, who has a partner and three-month old baby living with him, has won two disrepair cases against Hyde, who run his building, but they have yet to fix the problem.
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The Government has today agreed a new £1.08 billion funding package for TfL that will extend financial support to December 11. As part of the deal, TfL will be expected to make further cuts, including to its pension scheme, or find new sources of income over the next two years.
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Dog walkers are marched from Hyde Park to the Greek Embassy this Saturday to raise awareness of strict regulations preventing dog adopters from taking their pets home. Hannah Marie-Hill, 27, from Purley in Croydon, began planning the march after hearing multiple heart-wrenching stories of dogs left to die on the streets of Zante.
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A battling six-month-old tot given just two years to live because of a crumbling spine has started a pioneering NHS treatment which may save his life. Arthur Morgan, from Lewisham, become the first patient in England to treated with a new, potentially life-saving drug for spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) – which costs £1.79million per dose.
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Life may not be a beach at the moment, but Second Wave are trying to make it more buoyant. The youth creativity organisation based in Deptford, has received the highest award a voluntary group can receive in the UK.
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A teacher has shared her experience of teaching during the pandemic at a national education event. Sam Shallcross, Head of Computing at Bromley High Junior School GDST, was asked to speak at Discovery Education’s Learning for Now — a special online event which explored how teachers can deliver an enriched curriculum that gives children the skills they need for life.
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