Woolwich Ferry workers have overwhelmingly voted to strike over a victimised union rep. Workers operating the Woolwich Ferry, now run by Transport for London (TfL), will strike for eight days in May and June, Unite the union announced today (Friday 30 April).
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A Metropolitan Police officer who groomed teenage girls for sex was arrested at work in Bromley after being caught in an undercover sting. Detective Constable Mark Collins, 58, admitted one count of attempting to incite a child to engage in sexual activity and six counts of attempting to engage in sexual communications with a child.
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Police believe they have found the body of a schoolboy who fell into the Thames from Tower Bridge last week. The 13-year-old, a pupil at Ark Globe academy in Elephant & Castle, was travelling to school with a friend by bus on the morning of 20 April when he got off and then went missing.
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Warnings that there is the risk of another surge of coronavirus have been made by the director of public health at Merton Council. Between April 15-21 there were 54 new Covid cases in the borough, a rate of 25 cases per 100,000 – this is up from 21 per 100,000 the previous week.
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A man who kidnapped a girl on her way to school before raping her in an alleyway has pleaded guilty. Kadian Nelson, 27, was caught with his hand over the girl’s mouth on a camera phone and fled when confronted in Singleton Close, Mitcham.
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Well-wishers and bereaved friends and family of a man who drowned trying to save a woman in the Thames have donated more than £60,000 in tribute to his sacrifice. Folajimi Olubumnmi-Ademole, 20, selflessly threw himself off London Bridge to try and save the flailing struggler in the early hours of Saturday – but only managed to become a victim himself of the river’s swirling undercurrents.
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Bus strikes scheduled for today, Monday 26 April, were last night suspended following an 11th-hour improved pay offer. Bus drivers employed by London United, a subsidiary of French company RATP, based at seven depots in South and West London have been involved in a series of strikes in a dispute over pay.
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A pupil of the Ark Globe Academy in Southwark is still missing after “falling into the River Thames from Tower Bridge.’ The boy, thought to be 13, did not arrive for classes on Tuesday morning.
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A hero passerby who jumped in to the River Thames to help a woman who had fallen off London Bridge has died, City of London Police have confirmed. The man bravely jumped into the river shortly after midnight on Saturday April 24 after seeing a woman fall from London Bridge.
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This weekend community growing spaces across London will offer up a whole crop of activities encouraging people to get growing this Spring. The Good to Grow weekend of action is taking place from Friday 23rd to Monday 26th April at 60 community growing spaces across the UK, 30 of which are in London.
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A money-spinning road restriction has had its signs changed – but only after it netted millions for a town hall. Lewisham council has changed the signage around a modal filter within a low traffic neighbourhood (LTN) after it issued more than 17,000 fines to drivers in four months.
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An Ecuadorian man has been convicted for running a fake passport factory from his attic. National Crime Agency officers arrested Rodolfo Napoleon Carpio Gonzalez, 46, outside his home in Battersea, on 10th April 2019.
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Two teenage boys have been charged over the murder of 17-year-old Levi Ernest Morrison in Sydenham on April 10. Levi, from Sydenham, was found collapsed on the ground with a knife wound at the corner of Sydenham Road and Hazel Grove in Sydenham on Saturday, April 10.
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A man has been stabbed in Dulwich trying to flee into a restaurant. Spinach in Lordship Lane was cordoned off after the incident – the victim was run off the road by a moped and ran into the busy restaurant only to be attacked inside.
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Six men have been convicted of firearms offences after police found a revolver a car after cops swooped following a long surveillance. The sting led to the recovery of the weapon inside a blue Toyota Prius on Wood Vale, Dulwich, on 4 July 2019, Woolwich Crown Court heard.
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The family and friends of a teenager stabbed to death near his home have raised their target amount for help in funding his funeral. Levi Ernest Morrison, 17, died yards from his family in Sydenham Road, Sydenham, after paramedics and cops tried desperately to save his life.
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A gravedigger who pulled a landlord unconscious from his burning pub has said he was just doing “what had to be done”. Joe O’Rourke saved the life of Asa Holmes by dragging him from the Bird in Hand in Dartmouth Road in Forest Hill on Monday.
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A second arrest has been made in connection with a fatal stabbing in Sydenham as the lead investigator appeals for those with information to share what they know with police. A 17-year-old male was arrested on suspicion of murder on Wednesday, 14 April in relation to the fatal stabbing of Levi Ernest-Morrison, 17, in Sydenham Road, Sydenham on Saturday, 10 April.
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Surge testing has been extended into Southwark after the South Africa Covid variant was found there. A case was discovered in Rotherhithe, where targeted door-to-door testing is now taking place.
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