I know that the current second national lockdown is very difficult for many residents and businesses, both in my constituency and across the rest of Southwark.
Many constituents have written to me to raise their concerns about the impact that the second lockdown is having on local businesses, access to sports and recreation including swimming and the closure of churches, mosques, synagogues and other places of worship.
We all know that people can get SAD (Seasonal Affective Disorder) – sometimes known as ‘winter depression’ – at this time of year and it might seem like our pets are under the weather too, but how much do the seasons really affect pets?
PDSA Vet, Anna Ewers Clark, said: “Pets don’t suffer with SAD in the same way as we do, but that’s not to say they don’t feel different at this time of year.
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Before a global pandemic hit, Norbury showed serious signs that it was on the up.
The good work of local group Love Norbury – persuading everyone to take pride in the area and generally clean up after themselves – seemed to finally be paying off and money began to trickle down and away from the trendier suburbs.
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With theatres closed once again due to Covid-19 it is easy for us as an industry to either desperately search for ways to continue what we were doing before, either online or maybe next month with socially distanced audiences, or just to cease operation until this is all over so that we can turn everything back on in 2021.
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Before powerful tools like the internet and social media, the drum beat around race activism in Britain, as well as globally, was generated mostly by radical print media, writes Will Brook.
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An Americana-inspired five-piece band, No Coward Soul, have released their second album called The Boondox.
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When Joseph Conrad, below, wrote The Secret Agent, he recalled a South London incident which was the inspiration for its main character.
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South Westminster’s award winning cultural community festival SouthWestFest has launched a crowdfund campaign to help fund a re-imagined safe and socially distanced festival for 2021.
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While many live pantomimes may not be able to go ahead this Christmas, one production will bring the magic of panto into your living room with The Legend of Moby Dick Whittington.
Streaming into your homes throughout December, this epic adventure will ensure that the whole family have a whale of a time.
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The Royal College of Art has teamed up with a town hall to offer mentoring support to three emerging artists and makers in Wandsworth aged 16 to 25.
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As well as testing the very outer limits of the NHS, bringing the country to a standstill and perhaps unexpectedly leading to an explosion in the domestic production of banana bread, the pandemic has also brought changes to our vocabulary.
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David Selby, who has taught as a deputy head and English teacher in Croydon for more than 30 years at Whitgift and Royal Russell schools respectively, has chosen to donate £1.50 from each copy of Rufus needs a Haircut he sells to NHS Charities Together.
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Southwark council’s leader urges residents to stay home to stay safe.
The new national restrictions began on November 5. Cases of Covid-19 are on the increase across the country and Councillor Kieron Williams, leader of a large, inner-city council is reminding residents that this year they need to stay at home.
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Due to the Covid pandemic, this year’s flu vaccination programme has been expanded to include more at risk groups including parent carers and children and young people with long-term health conditions or a learning disability.
This follows new analysis that shows an increased risk of having coronavirus with flu.
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With close to 10,000 households on Lewisham’s housing waiting list, our borough has been at the sharp end of the UK’s housing crisis.
Many constituents have been waiting years to secure new housing.
At the same time, I am conscious that this is a political crisis, driven by drastic cuts to local authorities.
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It’s been a difficult year for Santa and the elves.
Social distancing in the workshop has meant production has been tricky at times but they are still on target to have everything ready for Christmas Eve. Amazingly, Santa has still found time to team up with us at the NSPCC, to send personalised letters all the way from Lapland.
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Three weeks ago, I did something I once took for granted, and recently feared I’d never get the chance to do again. I went for dinner and to see a show.
Sadly, I caught one of the last performances of The Great Gatsby at its Immersive London home in Mayfair but, rest assured, it will rise from the ashes once more, as soon as Government rules permit.
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We may be back in lockdown but at Greenwich Theatre we remain determined to present some of the most exciting new work around, so the Government’s confirmation that we can work in the building on rehearsal and streamed performances was certainly a welcome one.
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Five generations of a family have worked to keep the lights on across London for almost 100 years, and there’s a possibility of a sixth generation continuing the tradition in the electricity industry.
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The trial of Ada Williams became a sensation in 1913 when, in response to the taunts of her husband, she killed her own son, born before she married him. JAN BONDESON writes that as Suffragettes campaigned for the vote and a world war loomed, opinion was divided on whether she was villain or victim. And despite the death sentence being handed down, she managed to cheat the hangman.
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A beginner’s film-making weekend is looking for participants to sow new seeds of grassroots cinema as the industry takes a hit from COVID, writes Charlie Parry.
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A playwright is staging a crowdfunding campaign to help put on a play which uses documents about the events leading up to the Grenfell Tower disaster, writes Julia Gregory.
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A Clapham photographer’s Covid-inspired snaps of people sitting on a Clapham Common bench have bagged him a three-month slot for his latest exhibition – Covid Tales From Tom’s Bench.
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A coalition of industry leaders and street performers, supported by comedian Eddie Izzard, joined forces at the weekend to protest against Westminster City Council and their proposed new busking and street entertaining restrictions.
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Staff, parents and pupils at a school are pulling together to support families struggling in the pandemic.
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A group of West London head teachers have banded together to investigate why so many staff are leaving the profession.
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New restrictions closing restaurants to dine-in customers will curtail their income, according to Claudia McKenzie, manager and owner of Park’s Edge Bar & Kitchen in Herne Hill.
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