It is believed that a sixth form student at the Quest Academy in Selsdon has tested positive for coronavirus. An email sent to staff by the school confirms that a girl has received a positive test result. The school, in Farnborough Avenue, has not responded to a request for comment.
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Londoners are likely to be advised in the near future to only use public transport for essential journeys, according to the director of public health for Westminster and Kensington and Chelsea.
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Lambeth council has been “inundated” with requests for low traffic neighbourhoods across the borough – but doesn’t have money to implement more.
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Covid-19 and Brexit uncertainty have played a part in increasing the cost of the expansion of a special needs school in Lewisham.
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John Archer, London’s first Black Mayor, reversed Churchill’s claim that “If a man is not a socialist by the time he is 20, he has no heart. If he is not a conservative by the time he is 40, he has no brain.” He moved to the left as he got older. He was first elected as a Progressive – or Liberal, but joined Labour by 1919 and was the election agent for Britain’s first Asian MP, a Communist, by 1922.
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Maurice Dorfman manned the counter of his haberdashers’ shop for 60 years until he was taken to hospital and died two months later in February, aged 87. He left hundreds of mourning customers but no relatives, so the premises will now become a set of units.
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Streatham Festival A festival set to take place this weekend will feature online events for the first time as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic. Streatham Festival 2020, which starts today until October 18, will have virtual events, as well as a range of physical ones, celebrating all aspects of the arts.
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An exhibition tracing the history of photography through nature, touted as the first of its kind, will open this autumn.
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The number of people claiming benefits in Lewisham has more than doubled since the national lockdown came into force.
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7 Hours on Earth, set in Graveney School in Tooting and crewed by determined students, re-works Shakespeare’s classic A Midsummer Night’s Dream into a wildly entertaining school caper with a twist of science fiction.
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A town hall has started a new platform to show off the best of the borough’s creativity in a digital setting. Wandsworth Art, a new website dedicated to helping residents connect with local artists, has more than 200 artists already signed up to take part, with the number growing daily.
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Lewisham council has won a national award for transforming the borough’s Youth Offending Service (YOS). The MJ Awards, held by local authority magazine the Municipal Journal, were held on October 2. Lewisham’s entry was described as “compelling and inspiring”.
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Applications for permission to hold events attracting up to 15,000 people to two Croydon parks have been temporarily withdrawn following concerns from local residents. Separate applications for Purley Way Playing Fields and Addington Park were submitted by Croydon council.
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Police will push for a Woolwich off-licence to be stripped of its permission to serve alcohol after a 12-year-old boy was witnessed selling booze to customers at the business. Blessing Snacks, in Frances Street, also known as CB Food Stores, is set to have its licence reviewed at a Greenwich Council meeting on Tuesday.
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The Rotherhithe Tunnel could face further closures after the cost of repairs was revealed to be much higher than originally thought. Sadiq Khan announced at Mayor’s Questions that the overhaul could be as much as £178m, up from a previous estimate of £120m. Transport for London (TfL) will not be able to pay for the project without central government funding.
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People hoping to get a coronavirus test were left driving around a car park in Morden on Friday after an error on the government’s booking portal told them to go to the wrong site.
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The number of London schools with illegally toxic air has dropped dramatically since 2016 – down 95 per cent in four years. More than two million Londoners lived in areas over the legal limit for air pollution four years ago, but that figure is down 94 per cent to 119,000 people.
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A Fulham GP has been “suspended” by the national health and care watchdog in order to protect patients’ safety.
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Protesters against the Lee Green low traffic neighbourhood said the scheme was dividing people rather bringing them together. A crowd gathered outside Lewisham Library on Saturday to voice their concerns about the traffic-calming measures.
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