Women-only housing tower block plan for Hammersmith rejected
Women’s Pioneer Housing (WPH) wanted to build 270 new homes near White City.
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Author: Yann Tear
Stark warning from top official: Some schools in Southwark may have to go
Ofsted rates 98 per cent of schools in the borough ‘good’ or ‘outstanding,’ but many are struggling due to plummeting student numbers and a lack of money.
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Woolwich Ferry strike planned for next week
The Unite union has announced the stoppage will be from Monday (October 24) until Friday after 87 per cent of the workers who took part in the ballot voted for strike action.
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South London bus drivers’ delight after landing 10.5 per cent pay rise
The workers who will benefit operate routes throughout south London and are based depots across the region, including ones at Bexleyheath, Camberwell, Croydon, Merton, Morden Wharfe, New Cross, Peckham, Putney, Stockwell and Waterloo.
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Never too old to learn : Streatham care home honours it’s special ‘graduates’
Uplands Care Home in Leigham Court Road, Streatham, prides itself on being a hotbed of learning and enthusiastic pensioners have embraced programmes which have also included live online ‘tours’ of far-flung places, dancing and singing classes and even graffiti spray painting.
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Six charged with Michael Jonas murder in Penge five years on
The 17-year-old was attacked in Betts Park, Anerley, on November 2, 2017.
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After 10 years, Herne Hill restaurant owner still yearns to be free of pavement-clogging eyesores
She claims they have blighted her business for a decade and wants the council and companies involved – O2 and Vodafone – to help her get back to how it once was.
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‘Aldi’s Next Best Thing’ to see Lewisham Chinese restaurant contender on Channel 4 TV series
Danni runs Happy Eating House, which produces small-batch sauces and chilli oils, and was picked from hundreds of applicants competing for a life-changing contract to stock Aldi stores nationwide.
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Damilola Oloruntola killing: Greenwich man becomes second person charged with murder
A murder investigation was launched on Wednesday, September 28, after 23-year-old Dami Oloruntola, suffered fatal stab injuries in Brookhill Road, Woolwich.
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Recognition for brilliant Peckham violinist who fell out with Beethoven
A blue plaque went up for George Bridgetower, at Jack Jones House, 12 Reedham Street, 244 after the day of his birth.
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Dry cleaning firm helping to provide smart wear for Brixton job hunters
The dry cleaning and laundry company ihateironing has teamed up with Lambeth Council’s Brixton Tate Library to aid low-income residents dress for success.
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Brenda’s shops were the centre of the community
For 30 years, from 1970, the couple ran businesses in Lewisham Model Market, which became known as The Black Market for two obvious reasons – because of its mainly West Indian products and customers, and because of the family surname.
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Lambeth council blasted for felling more trees than it plants
Figures released by the local authority have shown that the number of trees felled was significantly higher than the number of trees planted in both 2019-20 and 2020-21, leading to a net loss of 344 trees during those years.
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Forest Hill tree must come down to aid footbridge repairs, council insists
Those opposed to the scheme convened on Sunday to put up banners, frame a plan of action and start up a petition.
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Businessman facing US extradition for alleged role in helping Russian oligarch evade sanctions
Graham Bonham-Carter, from Guildford, Surrey, is alleged to have assisted sanctioned Russian national, Oleg Deripaska, by concealing the ownership of Deripaska’s properties.
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Victoria Coach Station attack sees man given court date for GBH
Jack Rogers, 33, of Bromley Road, Beckenham, is due to appear at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday, November 30, charged with Section 18 GBH with intent.
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Bexley councillor who posted inflammatory Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe tweets suspended
On May 24, Cllr John Davey – who has courted controversy before with social media posts – responded to a Tweet accusing Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe of ‘playing politics’ on her return from incarceration in Iran, by saying: “Can we ask for a refund? We can send her back as she’s so ungrateful.”
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Multiple arrests after defiant Just Stop Oil protesters block Knightsbridge
All were arrested at Scotch Corner by Knightsbridge Tube Station for “willful obstruction of the highway” and taken to a number of central London custody suites.
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Documentary Are They Hostile? charts the punk scene and its home
Are They Hostile? charts the punk and new wave scene between 1977-82 in what they say is the birthplace of UK punk – Croydon.
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