Disabled residents and young families have been left without running water for almost two weeks following flash flooding in Peckham. Tenants from Galleria Court, in Sumner road, have been without water since Sunday July 25, after floods filled the basement carpark during a weekend of heavy rainfall.
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Eight fire engines and around 60 firefighters have been called to a pub fire on Battersea Rise in Battersea. Fire crews were called just before 1pm today. Half of the roof is currently alight and crews are fighting to get the blaze under control.
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A teenager has been charged with murder after a 23-year-old was stabbed to death outside Brixton Tube station. Brandon Aldon McNeil, 18, of Lollard Street, was charged on Friday with murder, attempted murder and possession of an offensive weapon in a private place.
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A man has been charged with murder after a fatal stabbing in Greenwich. Cops found 29-year-old Reece Williams suffering from stab wounds in Welland Street in the early hours of Friday morning.
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A man in his 20s has been convicted and sentenced after he put the Government’s Chief Medical Officer Chris Whitty in a headlock. The man assaulted Professor Whitty as he walked through St James’s Park in Westminster last month.
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A man has been charged with attempted murder after two people were found with stabbed in Woolwich. Anton Rhoden, 27, of Samuel Close, was charged yesterday with two counts of attempted murder and will appear in custody at Bromley Magistrates’ Court today.
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The search for the ‘kissing couple’ continues as Crystal Palace Park gets ready to revive its iconic concert stage. Festival organisers are appealing to South London Press readers in a bid to identify the mysterious couple photographed in the 70s. The couple, captured by Croydon photographer Frazer Ashford, attended the Crystal Palace Garden Party, headlined by Rick Wakeman, in July 1974.
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New Zero Carbon councils housing is set to be built in Greenwich. Royal Greenwich planning board approved three new zero carbon council home developments, part of the Royal Borough of Greenwich’s Greenwich Builds programme to deliver over 750 new council homes across the borough.
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Hundreds of lamp-posts in Battersea Park are being upgraded with eco-friendly LED light bulbs to save tax payers money and help the environment. This latest park improvement project comes just days after the unveiling of the approved new design for the park’s toddler and junior playground where work is set to begin in September on a £250,000 upgrade.
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Lewisham residents can have their say on the council’s new waste management strategy. Lewisham Council has launched a consultation to help shape plans to reuse, repair and recycle more, as part of its pledge to deliver a Greener Future for the borough.
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Two more teenagers have been arrested over the fatal stabbing of 23-year-old Shane Jerome in Brixton. An 18-year-old male and a 17-year-old male were arrested in the early hours of Thursday morning.
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Lewisham residents will get the chance to have their say in an upcoming referendum. Lewisham Council will hold a vote on the Neighbourhood Plan for Grove Park on Thursday August 26, 2021.
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A gunman dressed as a delivery driver who lunged at an East Dulwich man at home with his young daughter has been jailed for six years.
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A Greenwich drug dealer who tried to escape cops by driving double the speed-limit on the wrong side of the road has been jailed. Zakariya Taibi, of Wickham Lane, pleaded guilty at Woolwich Crown Court on Tuesday to being concerned in the supply of class A and class B drugs, possession of criminal property and dangerous driving.
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South London’s youth ‘leaders of the future’ have shared emotional real-life stories and put forward their solutions on how to tackle knife crime in their communities. Organisers of the event, in memory of Damilola Taylor, hope to inspire change and encourage community strength to prove “it takes a village to raise a child”.
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The young victim of a fatal stabbing in Brixton has been named as police continue to search for his killer. Shane Jerome, of Thornton Heath, who was aged only 23, was stabbed to death at Brixton Tube station two nights ago.
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A man has been jailed for almost seven years after he attempted to stab a woman in a chaotic knife rampage through Battersea. Ibrahim Ajbeer, 30, of Moor Lane in Preston, Lancashire, was sentenced to six years and ten months in prison at Kingston Crown court on Monday.
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Metropolitan Police Commissioner Cressida Dick says she acted with “integrity” despite accusations that “incompetence and corrupt acts” hampered investigations into the murder of Daniel Morgan. Mr Morgan, a private detective, was found with an axe embedded in his head in the car park of the Golden Lion pub in Sydenham on March 10 1987.
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A mentally ill man has been found guilty of stabbing to death a “funny and caring” father. Forty-year-old Daniel Burrell was found guilty of the manslaughter of Barrington Davis, 54, and will detained in a psychiatric ward indefinitely.
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