A new National Safeguarding Adults Excellence Award has been launched this week by Bexley’s Safeguarding Adults Board (BSAB). The Board is inviting nominations for professionals and teams across England who have gone above and beyond throughout the pandemic and who continue to demonstrate an outstanding commitment to safeguarding adults and their families.
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The Millwall legend who marked Manchester United superstar Cristiano Ronaldo in the 2004 FA Cup final has slammed the poor state of a high-profile diving pool. Robbie Ryan who played 258 games for the Lions over one of their most successful periods, says his daughter Brooke has been left high and dry by the closure of the baths at Crystal Palace’s National Sport Centre
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An emergency ward charge nurse is the University Hospital Lewisham’s Employee of the Month for August 2021. Dexter Fegarido was nominated by colleague Hannah Pantaleon, a Senior Staff Nurse in the Emergency Department who said: “Dexter is such an inspiration and very hardworking, he ensures that his staff are always well-supported and treated with respect by everyone.
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Extinction Rebellion protesters blocked Tower Bridge with a van and caravan on Monday as the bank holiday came to an end. Activists from the group lay on the ground at the landmark to protest against government investment in fossil fuels.
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Millwall fans laid wreaths of poppies at a war memorial after finding out it had been vandalised. Lions supporters on their way to the club’s 2-1 home win over Blackpool on Saturday staged their own ceremony to remember war dead of the last century.
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A weekly dance and drama programme for youngsters, and a Spanish language group for parents were amongst groups that will benefit from £50,000 of grants this week (31 August 2021).
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The British Press Photographers has opened its annual exhibition ‘Assignments 2021 – The BPPA Exhibition’.
Delayed due to the Covid 19 pandemic, the exhibition returns to London’s Southbank at The Bargehouse, part of the Oxo Tower Wharf development.
Millwall will welcome television legend Jeff Stelling when he marches across the country for Prostate Cancer UK for a fourth time later this summer. Inspired by the loss of a close friend and a football hero to the disease, he wants 400 football fans to join him.
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A brain box who works in artificial intelligence is hoping to crack the toughest code – to win a beauty pageant. Ruchika Jain, of Tybenham Road, Wimbledon, is an award winning screenwriter and director of films, all of which was filmed from her home during lockdown.
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A charity music campaign will host two events in Peckham, to raise money for Afghanistan. The two fundraising events staged by #LIVEFORLOVE on September 3 include live music and a talks programme featuring some of the most exciting established and up-and-coming names in the UK electronic music scene. All proceeds will be donated to Afghanaid.
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A charity music campaign will host two events in Peckham, to raise money for Afghanistan. The two fundraising events staged by #LIVEFORLOVE on September 3 include live music and a talks programme featuring some of the most exciting established and up-and-coming names in the UK electronic music scene. All proceeds will be donated to Afghanaid.
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Fly-tippers have struck again in Balham – dumping rubbish including a bike helmet – right below a “no fly-tipping sign”. Wandsworth council spokesperson said: “Fly-tipping and littering are problems up and down the country and unfortunately people who leave their rubbish out on pavements and street corners are contributing to this.
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A mental health hospital and an addiction centre are highlighting their work by lighting up in purple on a day dedicated to overdoses. Pharmacists and nurses at the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust (SLaM) are now piloting a project to support people in contact with the NHS’s wide range of treatment services
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Campaigners are furious at the Government to extend the existing night planes which they say will hit residents living under Heathrow flight-paths. A resident-led campaign group has branded ‘gutless’ the Department of Transport’s failure to curtail the number of aircraft flying over south-east London.
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A list of 74 residential streets across Wandsworth should get a total of 111 bike hangars installed. The list has been drawn up following requests from local residents and will now be the subject of a consultation process in the next few days. If all are approved they would bring the total number of bike hangar locations available in Wandsworth to almost 170.
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A widow who lost her beloved husband to one of the most aggressive forms of brain tumour glioblastoma is backing an appeal to fund the world’s first major trial to see if a cannabis-based drug could help lengthen the lives of patients.
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Bermondsey locals are furious after a memorial dedicated to war heros who lost their lives was set on fire. A wreath on the Bermondsey and Rotherhithe War Memorial, which commemorates the sacrifices made by local people in both World Wars, was set alight in the early hours of Tuesday morning (August 24).
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A new lift at Wimbledon Park Tube station has opened, making it the 86th step-free station on the Underground network. It joins Wimbledon on the District line and Morden on the Northern line as being step-free stations in Merton, making journeys from the borough to central London more accessible.
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A volunteer-run charity which recycled tablets for children not in school during lockdown has appointed its first senior staff. Community TechAid (CTA) came together in March 2020 to help bridge the digital divide by collecting unwanted digital devices and refurbishing them for members of the community.
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