An investigation has been launched into the death of a woman whose body was found in Kidbrooke. Officers believe they know the identity of the woman, who is aged in her 20s, but they await formal identification and confirmation that next of kin have been informed.
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The family of a boy whose brain tumour surgery was delayed due to Covid have raised more than £69,000 of a half-a-million pound target for treatment abroad. Parents of Alexander Josephs, aged seven, from south-east London, have been told he has a 20 per cent chance of beating his cancer.
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A 12-year old from Bromley has made the final of a national driving competition – despite not being old enough to hold a driving licence. Stan Owen, who goes to Hayes Secondary School, has achieved a place in the final of the Young Driver Challenge 2021, having beaten off stiff competition from hundreds of other entries
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When Carmen Loscialpo was struggling to cope through gruelling cancer treatment, the strength to carry on came from an unexpected source – her two young daughters aged just eight and five. Carmen, 36, said: “The fear of the unknown and how to cope alone was bringing me down until I saw how well my girls were coping with everything, after the initial shock.”
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A man has been charged with murder after his father was found stabbed to death late at night on Tuesday. Sean Maurice, 29, of Widmore Road, Bromley, was charged on the evening of September 15 and is due to appear at the Old Bailey on Monday.
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Sian Bayley, formerly a Local Democracy Reporter, now senior reporter at The Bookseller, has been announced as the winner as part of the Regional Press Awards which showcase the very best in regional and local journalism from across the UK.
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Cops have released an E-fit as part of a search for the man who robbed couples at knifepoint in a Lewisham park. The man wanted after a spate of knifepoint robberies in Brookmill Park, that left one victim hospitalised.
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A watchdog has found hundreds of thousands of pounds worth of knock-off cigarettes in a raid. Bexley’s trading standards, along with the Metropolitan Police, removed 62,940 of the illegal fags from a grocery store in Erith during a raid recently.
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A 37-year-old man has been left hospitalised in a critical condition after hit and run in Bromley. Cops were called at 3.37am on Saturday, August 28, after a man was found injured at the junction of Woodbank Road and Lincomb Road.
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A grandmother’s coffin has been shattered and one of her murdered grandchildren’s remains allegedly lost by a funeral firm. The incident has heaped misery upon Mary Adekoya, who had hoped to unite her mum, Judith, and her tragic children in one grave at South London Crematorium in Streatham Vale.
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Undercover shop watchdog officers have exposed a shop which flouted lockdown laws – after it repeatedly broke rules which stopped Covid spreading. The owner of Sabina Hair & Cosmetics Ltd in Greens End, Woolwich, has been ordered to pay thousands in fines after he admitted he ignored the pandemic restrictions to continue trading.
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