Wandsworth family’s heartache at turning off eight week old son’s life support
BY TOBY PORTER toby@slpmedia.co.uk The family of an eight-week old baby are to make an official complaint after his life
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Author: Toby Porter
Let’s get this party started with The Proud Group…this New Year
Celebrate the new year in spectacular fashion at one of two fabulous venues. The Proud Group announces exclusive line-ups for
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Rogue landlords have to pay out £109,000 after defying Southwark town hall
BY TOBY PORTER toby@slpmedia. co.uk Three brothers who rented out dangerous flats above the famous former Thomas A Beckett pub
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A modern old fashioned morality tale, with catwalk pizzazz and hashtags
It’s the Christmas holidays and you’re at the theatre watching a reimagined fairy tale. There are songs, garish costumes, audience
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Bus crashes into front garden in Streatham
It was red and it arrived at someone’s home, but it was a day late – and it was a
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The Muslim selling German sausages who will be giving away meals to the homeless on Christmas Day
The German Sausage Man has been a fixture near Lewisham Clock Tower for years – and now he will be
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Closing libraries in Lewisham ‘a false economy’ comments SSL representative Dr Alice Corble
Campaigners fear cuts to libraries could serve a devastating blow to local democracy. Lewisham council had lined up a £450,000
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Gang who used crowbars to threaten security guards are jailed
A gang of five men who carried out cash-in-transit robberies in South London over three years, threatening security guards with
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Three South London accountants jailed after claiming redundancy payments for staff who did not exist
Three accountants who tried to steal £710,000 from a government redundancy fund for workers whose employer had gone bust have
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Community campaigners protest: ‘Lewisham Town hall acted like HQ of authoritarian regime’
BY CALUM FRASER calum@slpmedia.co.uk A council meeting descended into chaos as several protest groups fought to get answers from town hall
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Not-so-fat men in red and white deliver early presents to hospice kids
Some Santas in red and white who had obviously been working on their waistlines have dropped in to give kids
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‘Our work doesn’t stop at Christmas’ says volunteers at King’s College Hospital
Medics don’t stop working at Christmas – and patients don’t stop arriving on the wards. So this year, the South
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Downham mum with cancer can’t afford to ‘catch a cold’ and fears Universal Credit will make her £400 worse off
BY TIM MCNULTY and TOBY PORTER toby@slpmedia.co.uk A cancer patient says she will be made so much poorer by a new
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Brixton school just falls short in nativity play of the year contest
A primary school is celebrating after being named as a semi-finalist in Virgin TV’s Christmas Stars competition – a search
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Palace players bring some cheer to kids stuck in hospital
Jesus saves but Joel Ward would have cleared off the line anyway. At least that’s what he could have said
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Joan lights up some faces with her Mother Christmas routine
Warm-hearted pensioner Joan Stewart took her sack of presents into hospital wards on Thursday to treat some of the small
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Rogue landlords must pay out £109,000 after defying town hall on overcrowding at Henry Cooper’s pub
Three brothers, whose negligent and dangerous management of rented flats above the former Thomas A Beckett pub on the Old
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Police appeal as cyclist fights for life after Wimbledon collision
Officers are appealing for witnesses following a collision between a car and a cyclist in Merton. Police were called by
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Residents say Lewisham is on a ‘downward spiral’ as Kingston council snap up chief executive Ian Thomas
Residents feel dejected after a nearby town hall snaps up their respected council boss. Lewisham’s ex-chief executive Ian Thomas has
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