Lewisham

A county line drug dealer who used fake names to fool cops has been jailed for supplying crack and heroin. Enoch Odubanjo, 22, of Egmont Street, Lewisham, ran a county line called the ‘Fiver’ line, which was a phone number offering the sale of crack cocaine and heroin in the Chatham area.

Readers will get a new seven-day library in their shopping centre from January. Lewisham Council is opening the hub in Catford town centre, as the borough looks ahead to its year as the Mayor of London’s Borough of Culture.

Sabina Nessa, 28, from Kidbrooke, has been remembered as “kind, caring and absolutely dedicated to her pupils” by Lisa Williams, head of Rushey Green Primary School, Catford, where she worked.

Sister Midnight lost its original space in lockdown but has since re-established itself as a community benefit society to save Lewisham High Street’s Ravensbourne Arms by transforming it into a community pub.

The Livesey Memorial Hall, which is home to a monument commemorating workers from the South Suburban Gas Company of London who died in both World Wars, is a Grade II listed building and an asset of community value.  

A grandmother who worked for the London Ambulance Service for 25 years died when medics accidentally put a feeding tube into her lung and failed to spot it for more than 10 hours. Maura Irwin, 77, had the nasal feeding tube misplaced into her lung after suffering a debilitating stroke, which then filled up and killed her, an inquest heard.

Police have launched an appeal after becoming “increasingly concerned” for the welfare of a Lewisham woman who vanished from a Catford shopping trip a week ago. Daniela Longhin, 51, has been missing from her home since Monday 13 September and officers from the South East London Missing Persons team are working to locate her.

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.