Residents at Care UK’s Smyth Lodge, in Frognal Avenue, Sidcup, marked Armistice Day by creating a sculpture of individually designed poppies in memory of their friends and family who have served in the armed forces.
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Layla Roche and her friend Nina McNeill collect winter supplies for rough sleepers every year. And they head out with a team of helpers to distribute them in Hammersmtih and Fulham.
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As of September 2020, almost 2,500 households were living in temporary housing across the borough – 760 of those were in nightly paid accommodation, the most expensive and insecure form of TA.
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The move, which would save the council £6m in wages and pensions, headlines a range of measures set to be discussed next week as the council desperately seeks to balance its pandemic-ravaged books beyond 2021.
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Planning board members of Greenwich council have been asked to approve the scheme, which would see 117 new flats built across four blocks, at the meeting on November 17.
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The £100 million rebuild of the main stand at Selhurst Park would see capacity at the stadium increase from 26,000 to 34,000.
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Nearly £27 million in possible cuts have been identified out of £40 million planned over the next three years.
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Usually the community would gather at the memorial in New Addington, but the coronavirus lockdown meant that instead there was a short ceremony outside the town hall where there was a moment of silence and the borough flag was flown at half-mast.
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In all six people were rescued from the fire at a block of flats in Great Suffolk Street, Southwark in the early hours of Saturday morning.
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The programme is designed to give interns the skills they need to enter the workplace. Only 16 per cent of adults with autism are in full-time employment.
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Nabil Abdulrashid, 35, of Croydon, this year reached the final of Britain’s Got Talent thanks to his brand of satirical comedy.
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A petition protesting the conversion of a mental health hospital into six blocks of towering flats is gaining traction.
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A secondary school has enrolled its students on a programme designed to kick-start its pupils’ social conscience.
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The Mayor has a fraught relationship with the outgoing president, sparring over everything from crime, racism and coronavirus to Mr Khan’s height.
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Afton Gavin, of Roundell House in Bowen Drive, Dulwich has complained about exposed wires, mould, incomplete repairs, delays for fixtures and overcrowding in her home. And she has now refused to pay her rent or let council workmen in because she said her family’s overcrowding has got so bad.
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Len Jones, 101-year-old president of Eltham and Well Hall’s Royal British Legion, laid wreaths at Greenwich’s war memorial on Sunday.
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The closure of some roads in the area to through traffic was introduced three months ago with the aim of encouraging more people to ditch their cars for short journeys and stop drivers from using side roads as a cut-through or ‘rat runs’.
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Doug Harper, 58, from Plumstead, was found to have stage two breast cancer in January 2012 after being made redundant, so struggled to make ends meet.
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We are proud to be working with amazing students and staff, with world-class facilities and brilliant sponsor and partner links. This is an exciting time at the UTC, and I’m looking forward to building on the strong foundations already in place.
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