The founder of the Eveline Day & Nursery Schools and MBE Maria Keaveney-Jessiman, has died aged 96. Maria, a Wimbledon resident, was awarded an MBE for her services to education in the Queen’s 2021 New Years Honours list just days before her passing in January.
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WILL BROOK’s grandad Percy Brook hardly ever talked about his wartime experiences. But the Peckham lad who joined up aged 21 went on to be awarded a medal for bravery. This is his story
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A theatre school in Bromley has helped students with their mental health after noticing issues arising caused by the prolonged lockdown.
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An initiative which gave children in Wandsworth creative materials and activities during lockdown has won a national award. More than 4,000 children received a Create & Learn PlayKit through primary schools and food banks to help keep them stimulated.
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The London Transport Museum is offering a chance to get creative with their free online art class. The event, on March 11, will guide you to make your own collage inspired by the museum’s collection of more than 2,000 posters.
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Nobel prize-winning author Kazuo Ishiguro and his daughter Naomi Ishiguro will make a rare public appear-ance to discuss their new novels in an online event.
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Environmentalist and author Ed Gillespie has released a collection of poems written in and inspired by the first lockdown. Confined to his flat on Brixton Hill with more time on his hands than usual, Mr Gillespie, 48, started writing a five-minute poem each day.
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We have another bumper 52-page South London Press for you, and 11 pages of great sport including coverage of Crystal Palace’s stunning late win at Brighton
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It follows a campaign by Jo Whiley whose younger sister Francis, 53, has the rare Cri du Chat genetic syndrome and was admitted to hospital after an outbreak in her Northamptonshire care home.
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A giant ice sculpture of Sir David Attenborough has been erected on the South Bank riverside as part of a new campaign against climate change
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For the pub industry it is March 3, when the Budget will reveal the support package available for pubs and brewers to help them survive and get going again when some semblance of normality returns.
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A woman and her daughter are appealing for help to pay for a CT scan for their Cavalier King Charles Spaniel whose eye swells and seeps blood and gunk.
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I was recently drawn for my first ever Prime Minister’s Question and had the opportunity to push the Government on the issue of children’s citizenship fees. It’s thanks to the brilliant work of campaign groups that this issue has been brought to light
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The founder of the Eveline Day & Nursery Schools and MBE, Maria Keaveney-Jessiman, has died aged 96. Maria, a Wimbledon resident, was awarded an MBE for her services to education in the Queen’s 2021 New Year’s Honour list just days before her passing in January.
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It is understood there are three protesters – two men aged 23 and 31 and one woman aged 62 – in the tree.
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Though the application was withdrawn just 10 days after being submitted, campaigners say they fear a “barrage of new lesser planning applications” that could see the trees gradually destroyed.
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Royal Greenwich Heritage Trust, ‘Living in Greenwich: tales through time’ is a major exhibition that explores the history and heritage of Greenwich
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It’s official – for civilians, living through the Covid-19 pandemic is worse than the Second World War. That is the verdict of Nell Pearce, who has lived through both and had her 95th birthday on February 2.
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His dad was from Bermondsey and he finished his career as a policeman with a nine-year stint in Wandsworth. But Harry Daley, whose autobiography was published posthumously, was anything but an ordinary bobbie. He was a true pioneer – the first openly gay officer in the force. Here historian STEPHEN BOURNE tells the story of the daring copper who had an affair with E M Forster and enforced the law while breaking it.
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