A High Court judge has rejected a legal challenge to controversial road blocks which have provoked a massive reaction across South London. Lambeth’s “Low Traffic Neighbourhoods” (LTNs) will stand, after the legal action by disabled resident of Brixton, Sofia Sheakh, backed by campaign group One Lambeth.
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A teenager has died after being found stabbed in a quiet street a few hundred yards from where another teenager was stabbed to death in April. A murder investigation has been launched following the killing Miall Walk, Sydenham after 21.30hrs on Friday, 25 June.
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A traumatised and stunned mother is searching for answers – and justice – after her son was shot dead on his doorstep. Vina Poleon’s son Matthias, 27, was brutally gunned down last week as he left his home in Bedford Hill, Balham.
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A police officer has suffered burn injuries at the scene of a fire that badly damaged a flat. An explosion was heard after police entered the building in New Cross at about 1.30pm, the Met said.
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With rates of COVID-19 rising across the capital, a London-wide drive to encourage more people to take up the COVID-19 vaccine is being rolled out. Southwark Council is working closely with the NHS South East London CCG to boost engagement activity in several wards where there are relatively low rates of vaccine take-up in people over 40.
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The number of daily Covid-19 cases recorded in Lambeth has risen by 50 percent since the start of June, with case rates rising to 150 per 100,000 people. Between 50 to 80 new cases are being reported per day – a rate not seen since October 2020 during the Autumn wave.
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Why is His Majesty’s Troopship Windrush so important in our island’s history?
TOBY PORTER writes about the crucial history of the ship, its life as a Nazi propaganda vessel before the Second World War, its war service, and how it eventually came to sink.
Friends and family of a father gunned down on his own doorstep have raised almost £5,000 for his funeral expenses. Matthias Poleon, 27, was ‘brutally’ shot in the chest and left to die by masked shooters who sped off in a car as witnesses reacted with horror, at around 11pm on Thursday.
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Low tunnels under Clapham South Tube station – empty but for some bunk beds and scattered furniture – are a crucial landmark to why Windrush Day is so important to South Londoners. They were home and shelter for a few vital months for many of the families which ended up staying here after arriving on these shores in His Majesty’s Troopship Empire Windrush.
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Four people have been charged with murder following the fatal stabbing of a teenager in Prentis Road, Streatham on Thursday. The Met said, although formal identification is yet to take place, the family of the deceased has been informed and he has been named as 17-year-old Denardo Samuels-Brooks.
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A second teenager has been charged with conspiracy to murder over the shooting of the Black Lives Matter activist Sasha Johnson, the Met has said. The 27-year-old remains in a critical condition in hospital.
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A top south-west London doctor is urging people to get their second vaccination as soon as possible, with the number of Covid-19 cases starting to rise. Crystal Palace’s Selhurst Park ground and Harlequins’ Twickenham stadium are among the places residents can get their second jabs in Croydon, Merton, Sutton and Kingston.
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F W Evans, the cycle shop, began in Lambeth and then thrived as a single shop in Kennington, from 1921. The chain now has 50 stores from Plymouth to Glasgow, selling and repairing bikes and acting as a hub for the cycling community. Here TOBY PORTER looks at its history, including an interesting correspondence founder Frederick had with one of his regular clients.
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A man has died after being knifed in the chest in a broad daylight attack in Streathamn. More than a dozen police cars rushed to Prentis Road, Streatham, this afternoon following the incident at around 4.16pm.
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A young woman has died after she was hit by a marked police car responding to a 999 emergency call. Witnesses said the 25-year-old pedestrian was crossing the road when she was struck and thrown into the air at about 11.20pm on Wednesday.
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Tens of thousands of residents of an estate have been told they will get a refund on their water bills after a discount to their landlord was not passed on to them. Thousands of 1,372 families who live on the St Martin’s Estate in Brixton have been told they will get thousands back after overpaying a string of South London housing associations.
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Sunday, June 6 marks the 100th anniversary of Southwark Bridge – which will be lit up for the occasion. It has survived a bombing during the Blitz, witnessed tragedy on the Thames and appeared in a Harry Potter film. TOBY PORTER tells its story.
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A crash involving a motorcycle caused massive back-ups all around one of South London’s busiest hubs, near the Oval Tube station. A collision involving the bike happened on Camberwell New Road in Kennington shortly after 1pm.
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Two drivers have been arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving after a moped rider, 25, was killed in a collision involving two cars. Police were called just after 4.20pm on Saturday May 29 to reports of a car in collision with a moped on St Helier Avenue, close to Netley Gardens in Morden.
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