An 18-year-old man has appeared in court charged with conspiracy to murder in relation to the shooting of the Black Lives Matter activist Sasha Johnson. Johnson, 27, was shot in the head at a house party in Consort Road, Peckham, around 2am on Sunday and remains in a critical condition in hospital.
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Steven Harris felt like he had hit the jackpot when he got a job tuning and fixing pianos in Harrods department store after spending most of his life in care and coming out with no qualifications.
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A rise in local infection rates in Brixton and Stockwell, and some cases of the Covid-19 variant first identified in India having been detected in Lambeth. Lambeth Council is expanding its Covid-19 PCR testing operations to Brixton and Stockwell as a precautionary measure after the rise in cases.
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A charity fundraiser will on Saturday May 29 attempt to bust 8,718 burpees over a 12-hour period to raise money and awareness for a local charity that uses boxing to help young people. Tom Putnam attempt to break the Guinness Book of World Records for the most burpees in a 12-hour period will be supported by 12 Rounds Boxing Club on St John’s Hill.
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Plans for 3,500 homes around Millwall’s ground have been lodged, 10 years after the scheme was first approved and 15 years after the scheme was first revealed. The new plans have 1,000 more homes than the number agreed by planners in 2012.
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Lawyer Claire Holland is set to become the next leader of Lambeth council after being picked by her Labour colleagues. Her fellow Labour group councillors in the borough elected Cllr Holland to be their next leader, meaning she is likely to be voted into the town hall chief’s post at the next full council meeting on Wednesday June 2.
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One of South London’s best-loved landmark buildings is set to become an iconic community and wedding venue with a £6million refit. A £3.3million grant from the National Lottery Heritage Fund will help restore the Grade II* listed Brockwell Hall, its stables and coach house for local projects, weddings and corporate bookings.
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Black Lives Matter activist Sasha Johnson is in a critical condition after sustaining a gunshot wound to her head following “numerous death threats as a result of her activism”, her political party said tonight. The Taking the Initiative Party (TTIP) said in a statement Ms Johnson was shot in the head in the early hours of this morning.
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Runners are being urged to help keep a spring in a senior police officer’s step as he runs 200km to raise money for a Brixton road safety charity. Former Metropolitan Police officer Det Chief Supt Andy Cox, 43, is calling for Londoners to run, cycle or walk beside him as he completes an ambitious run for RoadPeace.
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For many of our grandparents and parents, the Second World War demanded they risk their lives to save us from an invasion by the Nazis under Hitler. One of those is Royston – known as Roy – Ellis, from Clapham.
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A faith leader has slammed police and town hall chiefs, after he successfully sued them for banning one of the speakers at an event he organised, in a case which has cost close to £900,000. The Met and Lambeth council were wrong to block preacher the Honourable Minister Louis Farrakhan giving a speech via video link at an event, because they breached his human rights, the High Court ruled on Monday.
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A school in Sydenham is expected to be “significantly demolished” and rebuilt to be make it compliant with planning permission after the outcome of an inquiry. Lewisham Council was involved in the planning inquiry after contractors for the Archdiocese of Southwark failed to comply with planning consent when building a new school.
Read MoreLambeth’s leader has stepped down after just two years in the job. Cllr Jack Hopkins, has announced that he has decided to step aside to hand over the reins of the town hall to a new leader.
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A small volunteer-led charity is offering free meals through every day of Ramadan to support young people who have suffered throughout the Covid pandemic. The Nations Africa Centre (NAC) based in Southwark, is once again running The Big Dinner project from April 12th to May 12th 2021.
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Labour has held on to four of its London Assembly constituency seats as the second day of vote counting begins to wind down. Merton & Wandsworth, which swung from the Conservatives to Labour in 2016, had been identified as a potential swing seat this year but incumbent Leonie Cooper won comfortably, increasing her majority from 4,301 in 2016 to 14,500 this year.
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Sadiq Khan has been re-elected as Mayor of London after beating Conservative rival Shaun Bailey. In a contest that was closer than many predicted at one stage, Mr Khan eventually won by 1,206,034 votes to Shaun Bailey’s 977,601 when second preference votes were taken into account.
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The family of a 14-year-old girl who went missing three weeks ago have appealed to her to get in touch. Renae Goode-Garrett, from Bexley, did not go back to school after the Easter break and walked out of her house on April 14, without telling anyone where she was going.
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A police watchdog has found racial bias played a part in a cop’s decision to stop a driver on the Old Kent Road. The Independent Office of Police Conduct has now said: The officer will now have to reflect and learn from this.”
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Hundreds of people are counting the cost of strong winds which have blown down trees and fences and caused thousands of pounds of damage. Gales of up to 50 miles an hour have swept across South London uprooting many landmark trees which have been there for decades.
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