Greenwich

A charity is offering support to refugees and non-EU migrants in South London to settle better in the UK. Groundwork London, with a centre in Lambeth, launched their integration programme Together South earlier this year catering specifically to south Londoners.

Greenwich’s Millennium Dome was briefly considered as a tribute to Princess Diana, declassified documents revealed today. The death of Diana, in a car crash in Paris on August 31, 1997, caused some involved in the project to call for the dome to be a memorial to her.

A woman in her 50s has died after falling from the sixth floor of a tower block in Greenwich. Officers and the London Ambulance Service tried to help the woman, but her injuries proved fatal and she was pronouced dead at the scene.

It’s never too late to change your change your career, a nursery worker has found as she studies to teach adults instead. Grace Daramola, from Greenwich, previously worked for more than 24 years in childcare, working with children under the age of five.

The family of an eight-year-old Greenwich boy with a rare terminal disease are raising money for a medical trial that could help save his eyesight. Kavyansh Dubey, known as Kavy, was diagnosed with Battens Disease when he was just four years old.

Four teenage boys, one as young as fourteen, have been charged with murder after a fifteen-year-old was stabbed to death in Woolwich. Police have named the victim as Tamim Ian Habimana, who died from a single stab wound last Monday.

The Council, the Metropolitan Police, and the wider Safer Greenwich Partnership, have said they will remain “fully committed” to tackling violent crime across the borough, following the senseless murder of  a teenager in Woolwich on Monday evening.

A Council leader has spoken of his shock after the ‘senseless murder’ of a 15-year-old in Greenwich this week. Cllr Danny Thorpe, Leader of the Royal Borough of Greenwich, said: “This is a senseless murder and one that has shocked the community and the Council.

An “evil” teenager has been found guilty of stabbing to death two sisters, after writing a ‘sacrificial pact with a demon’ in the hope that he would win the lottery. Danyal Hussein, 19, a former pupil of Thomas Tallis School, Kidbrooke Park Road, Eltham, repeatedly stabbed Bibaa Henry, 46, and Nicole Smallman, 27, after using his own blood to sign a pact with mythical King Lucifuge Rofocale.