A charity fundraiser will on Saturday May 29 attempt to bust 8,718 burpees over a 12-hour period to raise money and awareness for a local charity that uses boxing to help young people. Tom Putnam attempt to break the Guinness Book of World Records for the most burpees in a 12-hour period will be supported by 12 Rounds Boxing Club on St John’s Hill.
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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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An artist is launching a series of collages tracking bus journeys from people excluded from public transport. The Walkie-Talkies was created by socially engaged artist Michelle Baharier, who is originally from Camberwell.
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A dentist is calling on his council landlords to ensure that his surgery does not flood again after water gushed into consultation rooms, forcing the cancellation of 100 appointments. Dr Keval Shah said Kensington and Chelsea Council needs to sort out the problem after two floods at the building in Chelsea’s King’s Road in the last six months.
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A West London strip club has fended off claims that it should be banned from reopening due its location next to two schools. Secrets, in Glenthorne Road, Hammersmith, was given the green light by councillors for its licence renewal application on May 19.
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For families who usually rely on free school meals, juggling childcare with tight budgets and feeding their children can be difficult. Greenwich council will be providing hundreds of free meals to any child that needs them over the school holiday. From Tuesday 1 – Friday June 4, meals will be available at libraries, centres and adventure play centres across the borough.
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A leading independent fostering agency is urgently appealing for more foster carers as post-pandemic demand soars. Banya Family Placement Agency in Herne Hill says foster carers are desperately needed as the number of children requiring safe home environments has boomed since the Covid-19 pandemic began.
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Lewisham Council is consulting residents as it develops a five-year strategy (2021 – 2026) to tackle domestic abuse and all forms of violence against women and girls in the borough. It comes after Covid-19 lockdown restrictions meant victims were confined to their homes with abusers, sparking a spike in calls to police and domestic abuse helplines.
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Three stunning gardens are to open next month to raise money for a foundation helping sixth formers in some of London’s most deprived areas. Three gardens that back on to Dulwich Park will open on Sunday June 13, with tea and delicious homemade cakes up for grabs at 142 Court Lane.
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A takeaway in Fulham was given a food hygiene rating of zero after mouse droppings were discovered and an inspector found “filthy and greasy” equipment. East Ocean in North End Road said it has hired pest controllers and ordered a “deep clean” of its premises after the devastating inspection in March.
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A Grenfell campaigner has called for independent experts to look at the ways Kensington and Chelsea council spent £406m money on recovery from the disaster and said the “abuser was left in charge of the abused.” At a council overview and scrutiny meeting she called for an independent review of the council’s spending on services and recovery after Grenfell, instead of the authority “marking its own homework”.
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The developer behind the mammoth Canada Water masterplan has secured a £100 million loan from Homes England, the government’s housing delivery agency. The loan, which aims to speed up the residential part of the development, comes as British Land posted a loss of more than £1 billion for the second year running.
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Campaigners against Lambeth Council’s controversial estate regeneration programme are set to hold a protest next Friday (June 4). The protest, organised by Save Central Hill Estate, will be held outside Lambeth Town Hall from 2pm to 6pm.
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A housing association has a court order to get £81,000 back from a tenant after he sublet his flat to someone else – while living in a home of his own abroad. Hyde’s Tenancy Enforcement team successfully obtained a £81,000 money Judgement [last month] against former tenant Luis Alberto Mendes Monteiro on the Kennington Park Estate.
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A “key cultural and entertainment” festival will help kickstart the summer of recovery in the West End. The Underbelly Festival will set up its Spiegeltent in Cavendish Square, near John Lewis in Oxford Stre
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Having a mortally ill baby daughter is enough to turn even the biggest, strongest dad to blubbering mush. James Barber had to watch powerless as his daughter Hebe was admitted to first one hospital, then another, as her acute kidney failure worsened when she was just two years old.
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Sadiq Khan has called on the Government to provide “clarity” over its guidance to people living in areas affected by the “Indian variant” of Covid-19. It was revealed this week that the Government had updated its advice on areas affected by the variant of concern, including Hounslow in west London, warning against “all but essential travel” to or from the areas.
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Owners of homes which have languished empty for years should watch out as Kensington and Chelsea Council wants to see people living in them again. The borough has 1,916 empty homes – the highest ratio in London. This includes 1,179 which have been sitting empty for more than six months.
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