Caroline Dubois has advanced to the quarter-finals of the women’s boxing after victory over America’s Rashida Ellis. Dubois, from Greenwich, was technically superior from the opening round, striking Ellis with jabs and straight left hands.
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The “Prince of Peckham” Kye Whyte claimed the nation’s first Olympic medal in BMX cycling in the early hours of this morning with silver in the men’s event. He and later gold medal winner in the women’s race, Bethany Shriever, celebrated as he lifted her in the air to mark their historic achievements in Tokyo.
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A fourth member of the Stockwell Six who had not been found, after three of them were cleared in the High Court, has been discovered overseas. Texo Johnson’s sister saw the publicity surrounding the case, including the South London Press interview with one of the three, Cleveland Davidson.
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The Croydon tram crash death inquest has seen a jury return a verdict of accident. The ruling comes more than four years since the tram derailed at Sandilands Junction on November 9, 2016.
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Paramedics and police could not save the life of a stabbing victim in his 20s after they were called to an altercation at Brixton Tube station. An investigation is underway after the man died following a call to the emergency services at 8.18pm on Wednesday, 21 July.
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An e-scooter rider stopped to apologise after toddler aged three was left in a serious condition in hospital after being hit in Lambeth – one of eight London boroughs undergoing hire trials for the bikes.
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Greenwich’s Millennium Dome was briefly considered as a tribute to Princess Diana, declassified documents revealed today. The death of Diana, in a car crash in Paris on August 31, 1997, caused some involved in the project to call for the dome to be a memorial to her.
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A flood alert is in place across south-east London this afternoon, with heavy rain and thunderstorms expected to arrive from 4pm today. Areas surrounding the Ravensbourne, which passes through Lewisham, Bromley and Greenwich, have been warned it could rise and flood properties.
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Two of South London’s main thoroughfares need a total of £180 million spent on them to make them safe for future years. The Rotherhithe Tunnel and Vauxhall Bridge need “urgent” upgrades in the next five years and may be forced to close if TfL’s financial situation does not improve, according to a senior TfL figure.
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A man has been arrested after teenager riding e-scooter died following an alleged hit-and-run in Bromley. The driver of the car was arrested on suspicion of failing to stop at the scene of a collision, causing death by dangerous driving and providing a positive alcohol breath test. Officers are appealing for witnesses to come forward after the fatal road traffic collision in Southborough Lane at approximately 1:20am on Sunday, 18 July.
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A woman in her 50s has died after falling from the sixth floor of a tower block in Greenwich. Officers and the London Ambulance Service tried to help the woman, but her injuries proved fatal and she was pronouced dead at the scene.
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London based property developer Richard Leahy has agreed to hand over assets worth almost £2 million to settle a civil recovery claim based on alleged involvement in cannabis cultivation, money laundering and fraud. The order relates to three London properties and £1,125,340 in cash in a bank account.
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Up 200 people are counting the cost of smoke and water damage after a 21st-storey fire left a tower block blackened by smoke. Five fire engines and around 35 firefighters were called to a fire at a block of flats on St Gabriel Walk in Elephant and Castle.
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A 60-year-old man is being thrown out on the street after the council grabbed his £800,000 house to cover the cost of his mother’s care home. Frank Walker’s house in Gellatly Road, Nunhead, is being seized by town hall social workers to pay a bill to look after his ailing mum, 83 – a great-grandmother.
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A 16-year-old boy who attacked six teenage girls as they made their way to school has been sentenced to four-and-a-half years in custody. The schoolboy, who cannot be named for legal reasons, stabbed two of his victims and sexually assaulted four others between November 2019 and November 2020 in Thornton Heath.
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The owner of a butchers has been ordered to pay more than £16,000 after inspectors found mice urine and droppings – and meat for sale which the rodents had gnawed. Wandsworth’s food safety ream found “the worst conditions they had ever witnessed” when they carried out a spot inspection of the Ary Halal Meat shop at 77 Upper Tooting Road.
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Amy Stone, 31, has already raised £2,000 for Macmillan Cancer Support, which also helped her after she discovered she had a potentially fatal cancer gene, BRCA1, which makes her more susceptible to breast cancer.
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England star Jadon Sancho, who was today having a medical ahead of a move to Manchester United, has been recommended for Southwark’s Freedom of the Borough.
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The director of a children’s charity today praised his “hero” volunteers after they saved a charity shop from the worst of Monday’s flooding in Raynes Park. Little Lives UK charity shop on Coombe Lane had nearly 15cm of flood water inside after a month’s rain in one day left the capital’s sewage system at bursting point.
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