An iconic West End club where everyone from the The Rolling Stones to the Sleaford Mods has played will trial technology designed to keep people Covid-secure when it is able to reopen, writes Julia Gregory.
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Lewisham Council announced on Wednesday that Bellingham ward Cllr Sue Hordijenko had passed away.
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Residents on a Deptford estate say they are worried about a repeat of the Grenfell tragedy because of fire safety risks from ongoing works.
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We have another bumper 52-page South London Press for you, out tomorrow. In it, a judge has said that it was “more likely than not” that children’s charity Kids Company would have survived had it not been for unfounded sexual assault allegations made by young clients of the charity against older clients.
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Councillor Leo Gibbons, vice-chair of Lewisham’s strategic planning committee, wrote a blog about a planning decision which was just about approved last December.
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Teachers working at local schools can now drive through restricted roads in Crystal Palace and South Norwood.
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Many of us would be lost without the mood-boosting power of our pets. It’s important to remember to keep our pets fit and active during lockdown, just as it’s important for us too. It helps keep our pets in shape and is vital for their mental health
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This lockdown seems to have been the hardest of them all and we have passed some very grim milestones in recent weeks. I therefore thought I should use this week’s column to try to spread some positivity among readers
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Teachers working at local schools can now drive through restricted roads in Crystal Palace and South Norwood.
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Members of the Lewisham Triangle Social Club, mostly elderly Afro-Caribbean residents from the Windrush generation, will now have nowhere to go when Covid-19 restrictions ease.
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This place was a find. I heard about the Beer Rebellion in Gipsy Hill, but only discovered the Peckham one by chance. At first the name and the look of the place suggested to me a bottle shop, but it’s a pub, albeit one that resists categorisation and is perhaps, as they self-describe, a little “weird”.
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Mourners are expected to line the streets of New Addington on February 19 to bid farewell to a pillar of their community, writes Tara O’Connor, local democracy reporter. Charlie Hustwayte spent more than 20 years as a coach at New Addington Amateur Boxing Club.
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Tony Collins, who has died aged 94, was the first black Crystal Palace player in 1957 – and the first black manager of a League, club, taking Rochdale all the way to the 1962 League Cup final. He played as a left-winger for Sheffield Wednesday, York City, Watford, Norwich City, Torquay United, Crystal Palace and Rochdale.
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How did Seymour Relton, a tortured former child typhoid patient and stockbroker from Brixton, come to be incarcerated for 54 years in Broadmoor mental hospital? In the latest of his series on South London Victorian killings, JAN BONDESON tells the story of the Brixton Matricide.
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An actor who landed a starring role in a new independent British crime film, Get Gone, is receiving rave reviews for his acting. Alex Guildford, 30, plays the lead actor Aaron in the gritty crime drama which has just been released on Amazon Prime Video.
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A hit stage play exploring racism and stereotypes of black masculinity is being shown online for the first time from February 24. Typical, produced by Soho Theatre and Nouveau Riche, follows the true-life story of black British ex-serviceman Christopher Alder and the injustice he has faced.
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A Brixton-based poet has released a collection of poems about spirituality and philosophy. The British-Nigerian poet Ricky G’s book is called The Leaves That Die and contains 27 poems.
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Wandsworth-born writer and poet Joseph Coehlo is releasing a £1 children’s book for World Book Day, to encourage young people to get into reading. The book, called Luna Loves World Book Day, forms part of Mr Coehlo’s series about Luna – a little girl who loves life.
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Lewisham Council successfully made a bid for funding to the Greater London Authority (GLA) through the Rough Sleeper Accommodation Programme (RSAP) to go towards buying the Sydney Arms.
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