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Author: James Twomey

News Southwark 

Southwark warns 16 schools are in financial crisis and could close

24 June 202224 June 2022 James Twomey 0 Comments

Plummeting student numbers mean more schools in Southwark are spending more than they receive in funding.

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London has worst unemployment gap for disabled people

24 June 2022 James Twomey 0 Comments

The significant unemployment gap for people with learning difficulties is being driven by social exclusion, segregated educational settings and a lack of support.

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Kensington & Chelsea News 

Teachers go on strike during exam season at school with ‘culture of fear and favouritism’

24 June 2022 James Twomey 0 Comments

Holland Park School was forced to shut its doors to all pupils except those sitting exams on Wednesday and further strike action could take place on June 28, 29 and 30.

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News Southwark 

‘I’m fighting for my job’: Railway workers head to the picket line for second day of industrial action

23 June 2022 James Twomey 0 Comments

Railway workers have set up picket lines across the south of the capital for a second day of national railway worker strike action.

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Bexley News 

‘There was this noise and it just opened up’: Bexley sinkhole swallows up width of road

23 June 2022 James Twomey 0 Comments

Bexleyheath residents said they were “shocked” after a huge sinkhole opened up in their quiet road on Tuesday evening at around 9pm.

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Kensington & Chelsea News 

Family of Oladeji Omashore, targeted with stun gun by police before death, ‘deeply distressed’ at Met actions

23 June 202223 June 2022 James Twomey 0 Comments

The initial Met Police media report claimed Oladeji “Deji” Omishore, 41, was in possession of a screwdriver, but on June 21 the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) confirmed Mr Omishore was instead holding a cigarette lighter. 

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Hammersmith & Fulham News 

E-bike battery caused Shepherd’s Bush high rise flat blaze

22 June 2022 James Twomey 0 Comments

The London Fire Brigade (LFB) has said an e-bike battery was the cause of a fire in a 12th floor flat in Shepherd’s Bush yesterday.

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News Wandsworth 

Union says borough will lose £250k every day parking wardens strike

22 June 2022 James Twomey 0 Comments

Wandsworth parking wardens have gone on strike today for the third time in a dispute over pay, meaning parking charges will not be being checked and penalty notices will not be being issued.  

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Lambeth News 

Use your feet to ‘Beat the Street’ and win prizes

22 June 2022 James Twomey 0 Comments

Some 136 Beat the Street boxes have been installed and are staging posts for those taking part by walking, cycling, scooting or rollerblading to different locations in the borough and accumulating points on a card. 

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TfL to fine motorists who drive in cycle lanes

22 June 2022 James Twomey 0 Comments

The government has introduced new powers allowing TfL and London boroughs to fine motorists who infringe on cycle lanes and cycle tracks in the same way that they currently do for bus lanes and yellow box junctions.

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Mayor of London to launch £545k pilot to improve digital divide

22 June 202222 June 2022 James Twomey 0 Comments

The mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, has announced a pilot programme worth £545,000 that will help 75,000 Londoners without access to the internet.

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Southwark underground station to have 17-storey block built on top
News Southwark 

Southwark underground station to have 17-storey block built on top

27 June 2022 James Twomey 0

City Hall has rubber stamped Transport for London’s proposals to construct offices above the 23-year-old transport hub.

Masseur jailed for 11 years after rape in Kensington Thai parlour
Kensington & Chelsea News 

Masseur jailed for 11 years after rape in Kensington Thai parlour

27 June 2022 Yann Tear 0
‘No way to treat Londoners’: mayor of London blasts Government over TfL funding deal
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‘No way to treat Londoners’: mayor of London blasts Government over TfL funding deal

27 June 2022 James Twomey 0
Blind woman left without food and forced to sleep on floor of council home
Hammersmith & Fulham News 

Blind woman left without food and forced to sleep on floor of council home

27 June 2022 James Twomey 0
Hunt is on for suited man after Victoria Coach Station attack
News Westminster 

Hunt is on for suited man after Victoria Coach Station attack

27 June 2022 Yann Tear 0
Five-and-a-half year jail term for hit-and-run driver
Croydon News 

Five-and-a-half year jail term for hit-and-run driver

27 June 2022 Yann Tear 0
Arrest made eight months on from Eltham bus sex assault
Greenwich News 

Arrest made eight months on from Eltham bus sex assault

27 June 2022 Yann Tear 0
Croydon council reveals £10m hole in parking budget
Croydon News 

Croydon council reveals £10m hole in parking budget

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