A violent robber who stabbed a hotel concierge worker – on the phone to his girlfriend at the time – for his second-hand Gucci bag has been convicted of murder. Samuel Odupitan, 24, followed Tyler Roye off a tram in Woodside, Croydon, before robbing him and fatally stabbing him six times.
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A mother discovered her daughter hanging in their home and she died four days later in a tragedy which her secure hospital has been told was avoidable. An inquest heard the death of Claire Lilley, from Eltham, would have been avoidable if the staff of Oxleas House had told her mother she was a suicide risk when left alone for long periods.
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This team of engineers has helped complete a 7.6km central section of main tunnel under the Thames to create a new supersewer.
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Police are appealing for help in trying to find a boy who has gone missing in Wandsworth today. The 11-year-old has not been seen since he disappeared during the day and his carers are worried where he might have gone – as are police.
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A man has been charged with the murder of a rapper who was reportedly killed as he took shopping to his grandmother. Terrell Davis, who was a half-brother of London-born US rapper 21 Savage and himself performed as TM1way, was stabbed to death in Ramilles Close in Brixton Hill, just before 6pm on 22 November.
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Richard Taylor has spent two decades campaigning against youth crime – so that more families are not devastated the way his was in 2000.
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There are now only a handful of cases in South London of the condition, about which very little is known other than it is somehow linked to Covid-19.
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Grade II listed 183-year-old Trafalgar Tavern – which featured in Charles Dickens’ 1865 novel Our Mutual Friend – fined by cops
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Pandemic regulations mean University Hospital Lewisham and Queen Elizabeth Hospital mean Santa will have to social distance this Christmas. So Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust charity has set up a new virtual Christmas appeal to spread festive cheer to patients young and old across both hospitals.
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Protestors trying to block centuries-old trees from being felled for a bridge to be rapaired face being ousted from their tents by bailiffs.
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A converted double decker bus bringing affordable, fresh food to chronically underserved areas will
soon be on the streets of Wandsworth and Lambeth.
A husband and wife from Blackheath have raised £4500 for charity having completed this year’s Swimathon challenge.
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Librarians in Wandsworth’s Putney Library were excited and surprised to see an unexpected delivery this month – a parcel from Greece containing an overdue library book.
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Police are investigating after footage showing a tow truck making a messy getaway crashed into parked vehicles. The video that surfaced online this week shows a white tow truck dragging a white Volkswagen Beetle, which was not attached to its hook properly, down the road and damaging four parked cars in the process.
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wo colleges are jointly campaigning to make this difficult Christmas a little more special for the area’s less fortunate young people.
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His victims are fuming at the short extra jail tally for Roy McKechnie, 55, of Goldsmith Road, Peckham who was handed the extra sentence at Croydon Crown Court on Friday.
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The grandad duo have already notched up more than 10 million hits on YouTube – their biggest “banger” is Dents in a Peugeot, with 1.6million views.
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Junior doctor Abigail Jamieson thanked the Ronald McDonald House in Tooting, which provides eight rooms of free accommodation for parents with children at St George’ Hospital in Tooting.
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A club has been fined £3,000 and runs the risk of losing its licence after town hall officers and the police found the venue hosting a crowded 300 people in breach of lockdown. CCTV footage revealed customers leaving the Treff Haus Purple Venue Club, Woolwich New Road after 10pm on 30 October.
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