David Boston, who has died aged 89 was for 28 years director at the Horniman Museum – he also helped secure, in 1985 when its funder, the Greater London Council, was scrapped by the Conservative government.
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Hughroy Currie, who was British heavyweight boxing champion amid Frank Bruno’s heyday, who has died aged 61, had another career running sound systems across London.
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The second week of pub gardens opening and it has been as tricky as ever to get a table. On something like my seventh attempt at booking one, I managed to secure a seat in the pleasant outdoors of The Conquering Hero in Beulah Hill.
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Lambeth schools will miss out on £680,000 of funding for disadvantaged kids after the government has changed the pupil premium policy. Schools receive £1,345 for every primary age pupil or £955 for every secondary age pupil who claim free school meals to help them with their progress and improve their exam results.
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Your latest 52-page South London Press – More than 110,000 people signed a petition to have a 20-year old hero remembered with a plaque on London Bridge. Plus 11 pages of South London sport, including exclusive interviews – Jason Euell talks about his appointment as Charlton first-team coach. All that plus much more…
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Teachers at The John Roan School in Greenwich will be on strike tomorrow to defend a teacher of 20 years who is being faced with dismissal. National Education Union (NEU) representative, Kirstie Paton, is facing dismissal at a disciplinary hearing the next day, on April 30, for speaking out about health and safety in schools.
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Well-wishers and bereaved friends and family of a man who drowned trying to save a woman in the Thames have donated more than £60,000 in tribute to his sacrifice. Folajimi Olubumnmi-Ademole, 20, selflessly threw himself off London Bridge to try and save the flailing struggler in the early hours of Saturday – but only managed to become a victim himself of the river’s swirling undercurrents.
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The creative sector has been hit hard over the last year by the consequences of Brexit and the Covid-19 pandemic. While I welcomed the Government’s much-touted £1.57billion Cultural Recovery Fund, it was too little too late for some venues, and many creative workers – particularly freelancers – will not benefit from it.
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We are all too aware of these common allergy symptoms in humans, particularly now as we enter hay fever season – but did you know that some pets can suffer from allergies too?
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The RSPCA is appealing for information after a beloved cat was found dead in suspicious circumstances, near where two were also shot with airgun pellets. Eight-year-old Leo’s body was discovered by members of the public who reported it to their owner who had been desperately looking for him.
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A Peckham-based food and loneliness charity is doubling the amount of meals they are giving out from the end of April. In addition to their Cook and Collect service that runs on Saturdays, FoodCycle will also run the service on Wednesdays.
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A chart-topping musician has joined calls for a clean air charter after a schoolgirl died as a result of pollution in Lewisham. Love Ssega, who once fronted international band Clean Bandit, described the death of nine-year-old Ella Kissi-Debrah as ‘appalling’ and said more needs to be done to tackle air pollution.
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A prestigious independent school has just moved students and staff into a £25m new development – the biggest there since it was founded almost 150 years ago. St Dunstan’s college, Stanstead Rd, Catford, now has a new junior school building, STEM centre and sixth form centre.
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A Lebanese street food company is on the shortlist to become the next Kebab King or Queen. BEYRoots have joined five other street vendors from across the UK in Quorn Foods’ new street food competition, which sees each entrant create a unique dish from Quorn’s new “Makes Amazing” range.
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Six students from the Lewisham school of Muralism have helped a community group create a mural on the side of Lewisham Shopping centre on the theme of migration.
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A music charity for young people based in Wandsworth is set to play a live-streamed concert over zoom on Friday April 30.
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Christopher Walker reviews the Young Vic’s production of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof now streaming.
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She was poor but she was honest. But Jane Clouson should have realised it was “not done” for the son of the house to marry the parlourmaid. Here, on the 150th anniversary of her death MIKE GUILFOYLE tells her tragic story which remains one of the most iconic unsolved murders of 19th century Victorian London.
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A Former tank driver who got his break in journalism at the South London Press is to set off on a two-month charity bike ride.
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