A ‘heroic’ passerby has rescued the owner of a burning pub after a blaze broke out in Forest Hill this morning. Two people have been taken to hospital after a fire spread through the apartment above the Bird in Hand pub on Dartmouth Road.
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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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Everyone in Lambeth should get a Covid-19 test, the council leader has said. The advice follows the announcement of “the largest surge testing operation to date” after 44 confirmed and 30 probable cases of the Covid variant first identified in South Africa were found in Lambeth and Wandsworth.
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The Mayor of London has declined to intervene in plans for a controversial development in Blackheath. GS8 and Vabel plan to demolish all business units in the Blackheath Business Estate to build 63 flats in two blocks of nine and seven storeys, along with a four-storey workspace building.
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An American burger chain is set to open up a branch in Croydon town centre. Wendy’s announced last month it wants to bring the chain back to the UK after 21 years. A planning application submitted to Croydon Council shows that Wendy’s has plans for the former Barclays bank on the corner of George Street and Wellesley Road.
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Two pub owners have been taken to hospital after a fire broke out in their premises in Forest Hill. Asa Holmes, 49, and Monika Luckasova, 42, were taken to Lewisham Hospital to be treated for smoke inhalation after escaping from a fire in the Bird in Hand Pub in Dartmouth Road.
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On May 6, Londoners will have a record number of candidates to choose from as they head to the polls to decide the next Mayor of London. A total of 20 candidates are standing in May’s election, but while voters may be familiar with current mayor Sadiq Khan and his challengers from the Conservatives, Liberal Democrats and Greens, there are many more candidates in the running.
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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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One of the South East’s fastest expanding nursery groups for under-fives, is due to open a new site in Eltham, by early September. Fennies Nurseries, the nursery group, which has 11 sites around London, Surrey and Kent, is currently reconstructing a shell of a former building, on Westmount Road, Eltham which will be launched in September.
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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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