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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Armed units of police swooped on a street in Brixton after gunshots were fired. Detectives investigating the firearm discharge in Listowel Close, Brixton at 2.30pm yesterday, Tuesday, are appealing for anyone with information to come forward.
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A mother cat and her five-month-old kitten have been allegedly been shot and killed in attacks only two weeks apart. Ani Powell, 29 from Holmsdale Grove in Barnhurst found her two-year-old cat dead in the garden with a bullet-like wound on her side, and only two weeks later found her five-month-old kitten profusely bleeding with the same injury.
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A woman has been charged with murder following the fatal stabbing on 17-year-old Levi Ernest-Morrison in Sydenham. Nichola Leighton, 36, of Lockwood Close, Sydenham will appear in custody at Bromley Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday, 14 April charged with murder.
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A man has been charged following a stabbing in Brixton which left a 17-year-old male critically injured. Leon Rashid, 18, of Dunheved Road, Thornton Heath has been charged with attempted murder; possession of an offensive weapon and possession of a class B drug (cannabis).
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The familiy and friends of a teenager stabbed to death near his home have appealed for help in funding his funeral – amid claims his dying moments were filmed by those who attacked him. Levi Earnest Morrison died yards from his family in Sydenham Road, Sydenham, after paramedics and cops tried desperately to save his life.
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A witness has described the scene of the latest fatal knife attack in London as “horrific”. A 17-year-old boy was stabbed to death in daylight on Sydenham Road, at its hunction with Hazel Grove, in Sydenham, on Saturday.
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Everyone over the age of 11 who lives or works in Lambeth is being asked to take a PCR Covid-19 test after new cases of the variant first identified in South Africa were found in the borough. The additional testing being introduced will help quickly identify any further cases and help limit any potential spread.
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A witness has described the scene of the latest fatal knife attack in London as “horrific”. A 17-year-old boy was stabbed to death in daylight on Sydenham Road, at its hunction with Hazel Grove, in Sydenham, on Saturday.
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A charity supplying surplus food to hard-up families has more than doubled the number it gave out during the pandemic. Fareshare, which redistributes edible food that would otherwise have gone to waste, has donated more than 40,000 packs from its Deptford depot to 254 London charities.
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Detectives are appealing for information and witnesses after a stabbing in Southwark. Police were called by paramedics in the early hours of this morning, at 12.18am on Sunday, 11 April, to a report of male with stab injuries in the More London Riverside near London Bridge rail station – yards from City Hall.
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