Greenwich

With only 20 tickets left, applicants also have the opportunity to meet the judges on September 25.

Hasan Sasmaz punched a revenue enforcement officer in the face and grabbed another by their throat.

The approved application represents a revised scheme from a previous proposal to have blocks stretch up to 35 storeys-tall. Greenwich council advised developer Criterion Capital to reduce the height of the project at a meeting in May this year.

The scheme would see a set of three residential blocks being built on Boord Street including 352 new homes, while an 18 storey block on the opposite side of the site would deliver 340 student rooms.

One school in particular is benefiting from an initiative to improve access to books – Fossdene Primary in Victoria Road – which has had its library completely renovated with a book-vending machine stocked with 150 books that children can redeem with tokens awarded for good behaviour in class.  

On Sunday, Tom Carthew, who attended The John Roan School, Westcombe Park Road, will travel to Wales to take on the gruelling triathlon challenge. 

The photograph captures a previously unknown gigantic supernova remnant.

Residents living around Eltham High Street have claimed individuals are targeting pensioners on the road in pickpocketing and theft offences, with one woman having close to £2,000 in cash taken.

Greenwich Green Investment is inviting residents, businesses and organisations to make low-risk investments into environmental projects in their local area from as little as £5. 

Ged Corbett was sentenced to HMP Thameside in April 2023 after failing to comply with the requirement of the sexual offences order. He was sentenced a week after he was released from HMP Hull following a previous assault conviction.

Schools were invited to nominate students to recognise their achievements in GCSEs, A-levels and BTecs, to attend a special ceremony hosted inside Woolwich Town Hall’s historic Victoria Hall.  

New figures revealed demand for blood to treat sickle cell patients has gone up by more than 50 percent since 2016. 

The two blocks, which would be between 12 and 15 storeys high, have had a series of changes to windows and fire safety elements put forward by the developer of the scheme.

Greenwich council has received an application to build 190 new student rooms on Woolwich Road, 35 per cent of which would be classed as ‘affordable’.

Greenwich council has partnered with AirTEXT to send free alerts to residents when bad or polluted air is forecast. 

Nominations for the Best of Royal Greenwich Business Awards 2024 will be open until October 7.

The fountains will be switched off at the end of November to protect the pipes during the winter, and turned on again at the start of March next year.