Urged by the supporters’ group the Holmesdale Fanatics, fans donated to the food bank instead of paying £14.95 to watch the Eagles’ Premier League game against Fulham on Saturday.
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Shah Aghlani’s mother Sakina Afrasehabi, and his aunt Fatemeh Afrasiab, 59, were trapped and died in the Grenfell Tower fire in June 2017. They were among 72 people killed in the tragedy.
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Luke Thomas, 35, of Beeton Way is receiving treatment for stage four skin cancer, but wants to move home to Wales to be with family.
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Holly Kane, 14, from Deptford, was with friends on Saturday near a footbridge in Rotherhithe Street, Rotherhithe, when a group of youths on bikes emerged from a nearby wooded area and started letting off fireworks in the street.
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Figures published last week showed that the borough’s uptake of childhood vaccines has fallen in almost all the childhood immunisations over the last three years.
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Charlotte Kerr, 35, of Clyde Road, Croydon was charged with murder on Monday. She will appear at Croydon Magistrates’ Court today.
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The Metropolitan Police has again asked the council to review Afrikiko’s licence after it found “numerous” breaches of Covid-19 laws, including operating illegally as a nightclub.
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Beavertown Brewery is launching a new spooky delivery service this Thursday and Friday and those who sign up could get a bespoke Halloween box delivered straight to their door complete with decorations, mouth-watering beer and a few spooky surprises.
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Bins being rolled out to neighbourhoods across Hammersmith, Fulham and College Park.
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It comes despite calls from Bromley’s Labour group to follow the lead of other local authorities, including neighbours Greenwich and Lewisham, to step in and provide meals for children who may otherwise go hungry during the school break
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The London College of Creative Media’s (LCCM) new status will enable young people to obtain internationally-recognised contemporary music qualifications by taking their exams within its facilities in Southwark.
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Dr Nnenna Osuji, Medical Director at Croydon Health Services NHS Trust, has been selected as one of London’s most inspiring black leaders, as part of the NHS’ Black History Month celebrations.
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A total of 48 railway stations, including South London rival Elmstead Woods, will battle it out to be crowned the nation’s favourite station this Friday.
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Antisocial behaviour, safeguarding, serious youth violence and hate crime have been covered in the training.
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For the past eight years, the children’s sustainably-grown fruit and veg has been taken to Borough Market to be sold, but this year social distancing restrictions at the market forced children to innovate.
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Trial researchers are looking for healthy volunteers aged 18-84, who are in easy reach of the hospital, in Camberwell, to participate in the trial.
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“I take my hat off to Yian. For a young man, his community spirit is inspirational. This is why I felt compelled to support his efforts to create awareness of Macmillan’s work.”
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DLD College and St Dunstan’s College won three awards at the Independent Schools of the Year 2020 Awards on October 8.
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The Nest has given more than 200 hours of one-to-one support. It has become a trusted source of mental health support in the local community.
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A charity shop with a food bank in the basement has been opened to help vulnerable people after job losses and salary cuts meant the number of families it needed to feed surged from 30 to almost 5,000.
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For most people avoiding long crowded commutes was one of the few perks of lockdown, but one person is happy to see people back on the trains. Gipsy Hill railway station worker Charles Dickson, 64, has missed chatting to the locals and is pleased to see people traveling again safely.
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A physiotherapist raised more than twice her target to help raise money for the hospice where she works.
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A murder investigation has been launched following the death of a man in Croydon yesterday. Police were called by the London Ambulance Service (LAS) shortly after 7.40am to a residential address in Clyde Road to reports of a stabbing.
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The number of coronavirus patients at St George’s Hospital in Tooting remains low, although numbers have increased slightly over the last month.
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The mayoresses of Lewisham have surpassed their funding target in their campaign to cover free school meals for children over the October half-term.
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A Central London bar owner is anticipating a ‘disastrous’ weekend ahead with Tier 2 restrictions in place.
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Miles of roads across central London now have 20mph limits in a bid to improve safety and air quality.
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