I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice-cream. But some of us are going to have longer arms to buy them from this van. The floating Mr Whippy was 15ft above the South Bank with a selection of red toppings, from traditional sprinkles to chilli flakes, with visitors invited to create an ice cream truly unique to them.
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It was once where most of South London’s hydro-electricity was generated. Now you can become a superpower yourself by getting vaccinated in Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall. One of the nation’s top tourist attractions is unveiling its latest installation as an NHS vaccination pop-up
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People living in south-east London and beyond are being invited to a special COVID-19 mass vaccination event at The Kia Oval, the home of Surrey County Cricket Club, this Saturday 17 July. From 8am to 8pm the Pfizer vaccine will be on offer at the stadium for everyone aged 18 and over. Second doses will also be available to anyone who had their first jab at least eight weeks ago, before 23 May 2021.
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A school in debt to the tune of over £200,000 is set to close as pupil numbers plummet. The 156-year-old primary school in Southwark will close in September, council documents show.
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She’s the influencer and slightly more glamorous face of Crouchy’s Year Late Euros. And former Radio 1 DJ Maya Jama was all over social media this week with her tartan suit – and 6ft 11in basketball boyfriend Ben Simmons.
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Bob Wright has proved he has got the Wright stuff. Bob joined a safety equipment company in 1971, after getting fed up with his first job. That has clearly not been a problem at Kee Systems, once of Battersea and now in Earlsfield – because he has just celebrated working there for 50 years.
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Residents will have a lot less time on their hands if lockdown regulations are lifted this month. So here are some time-saving tips to improve your home without needing lots of time, from social media platform Tiktok Genesis Collection have made sure you won’t miss out on trending content and therefore revealed the top 10 TikTok home hacks that are sure to change your life.
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A senior nurse HAS warned that hospitals are anticipating a third wave of covid. Lead nurse for critical care Elaine Manderson said that Chelsea and Westminster Hospital is “anticipating that there will be a third wave. We have our plans in place.”
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Two brothers who shot an innocent law student in the face as he was returning home from a night out, have been convicted for their parts in the attack. The 20-year-old victim had been on his way home near West Croydon train station when he stopped to speak to people in the street.
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The Streatham Food Festival is back for its 12th year celebrating the huge range of food on offer in Streatham’s local bars, cafes and restaurants. After a challenging year for independent eateries faced with both Covid and Brexit the festival will encourage food lovers to get back out and sample the delights on their doorstep.
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There are so many pubs in Clapham, it can be hard to remember the names. But one couple, Rose Maclachlan and Rory Chisolm won’t have that problem from now on. They’ve had one named after them – and it was the pub they met in. They met two years ago at the Rose and Crown on a works bash, after two months working at financial services company, AON.
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An “evil” teenager has been found guilty of stabbing to death two sisters, after writing a ‘sacrificial pact with a demon’ in the hope that he would win the lottery. Danyal Hussein, 19, a former pupil of Thomas Tallis School, Kidbrooke Park Road, Eltham, repeatedly stabbed Bibaa Henry, 46, and Nicole Smallman, 27, after using his own blood to sign a pact with mythical King Lucifuge Rofocale.
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Three black men who were jailed nearly 50 years ago on false allegations of attempting to rob a police officer have today had their convictions quashed at the Court of Appeal. Courtney Harriot, Paul Green and Cleveland Davidson together with three friends (all aged between 17 and 20) were arrested while travelling on the London Underground from Stockwell station in February 1972.
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Parents of a school’s pupils are fundraising to mount a legal challenge to it axing 24 special needs staff and three teachers redundant. They have nearly collected all of their £1,500 target to block the plan by The John Roan School in Maze Hill, Greenwich.
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A £10,000 reward has been offered for anyone who can solve the mystery disappearance of a teenage Peckham girl, last seen in South London 23 years ago. Carmel Fenech, brought up on the North Peckham Estate, was aged just 16 when she vanished in 1998 in nearby Camberwell and it is feared she may have been murdered.
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You’ll have a hard time finding the world record for a 300-yard sprint these days. The global best time for this distance, which translates as about 275m, is 137 years old. It is held by a newsagent’s messenger from
Putney, Harry Hutchens, who lived the latter part of his life in Catford and is buried in Brockley. TOBY PORTER tells his story.
Former West Brom and Birmingham defender Paul Robinson has been appointed first-team coach at The Den – and it might lead to some confusion. The 42-year-old former left-back has notched more than 650 career appearances to his name and will now assist Gary Rowett and his assistant Adam Barrett for the 2021-22 campaign.
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Two Olympic hopefuls and a former European silver medallist are backing a campaign to save the athletics track where they first pulled on their spikes. Katie Snowden, from Balham, who on Tuesday was selected to run for Team GB in Tokyo next month, is one of a duo of Herne Hill Harriers (HHH) campaigning for Tooting Bec Athletics Track to be refurbished.
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A man has been stabbed to death and 16-year-old arrested at an illegal rave in South Bermondsey. Police were called at around 11.50pm on Saturday to reports of a male stabbed inside an industrial unit in Stockholm Road where an unlicensed music event had been taking place.
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