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his follows an incident on Woolwich Church Street, Woolwich, in the early hours of Monday November 30.

He became violent and told his mother that “she was the reason he had gone to prison” and attacked her.

Greenwich housing repairs could be disrupted after 120 carpenters, decorators, electricians and plumbers, who maintain the borough’s housing stock, voted by 98 per cent for strike action. 

TfL announced that the free car and pedestrian ferry from Woolwich to North Woolwich will not run from January 2 to 8, in addition to being out of operation on bank holidays over Christmas.

The New Fuel Bank, which launched on November 26 in Greenwich, is operated by Home-Start Greenwich (HSG) and working with the Fuel Bank Foundation and Feeding Britain, an organisation that aims to tackle hunger in the UK. 

A mother discovered her daughter hanging in their home and she died four days later in a tragedy which her secure hospital has been told was avoidable. An inquest heard the death of Claire Lilley, from Eltham, would have been avoidable if the staff of Oxleas House had told her mother she was a suicide risk when left alone for long periods.

Footage obtained from the store captures the man following the victim before pointing his mobile phone up towards the victim’s skirt.

Grade II listed 183-year-old Trafalgar Tavern – which featured in Charles Dickens’ 1865 novel Our Mutual Friend – fined by cops

The family of a man who has been missing for more than three years are appealing for the public’s help to find him. Shaune Jones, 49, who is from Eltham, was last seen in June 2017. He has not been heard from since.

A husband and wife from Blackheath have raised £4500 for charity having completed this year’s Swimathon challenge.

Police are investigating after footage showing a tow truck making a messy getaway crashed into parked vehicles. The video that surfaced online this week shows a white tow truck dragging a white Volkswagen Beetle, which was not attached to its hook properly, down the road and damaging four parked cars in the process.

The Royal Parks charity is inviting residents, park visitors and partners to express their views on plans to create new spaces for park visitors and reduce the volume of cut-through vehicle traffic in the parks.

A mother and son have been jailed for a total of 25 years for their involvement in a drugs and and gun-running gang.

A club has been fined £3,000 and runs the risk of losing its licence after town hall officers and the police found the venue hosting a crowded 300 people in breach of lockdown. CCTV footage revealed customers leaving the Treff Haus Purple Venue Club, Woolwich New Road after 10pm on 30 October.

Nine-year-old Angel, who attends Foxfield Primary School in Woolwich, won the Young London Print Prize over entries from 500 other young artists from schools spanning Woolwich, Thamesmead, Plumstead and Kidbrooke.

Police were contacted on November 5 after a member of the public spotted a fox with an arrow sticking out of its back in Parkgate, near Blackheath,

The colourful ape painting in Charlton was the last piece created in a month-long tour of the UK by artist Louis Masai

Security officers at a university claimed they were racially discriminated against by their employers after they did not receive hazard pay during the pandemic, despite claims their white colleagues received a £300 bonus.