Lewisham

A ‘heroic’ passerby has rescued the owner of a burning pub after a blaze broke out in Forest Hill this morning. Two people have been taken to hospital after a fire spread through the apartment above the Bird in Hand pub on Dartmouth Road.

A woman has been charged with murder following the fatal stabbing on 17-year-old Levi Ernest-Morrison in Sydenham. Nichola Leighton, 36, of Lockwood Close, Sydenham will appear in custody at Bromley Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday, 14 April charged with murder.

The Mayor of London has declined to intervene in plans for a controversial development in Blackheath. GS8 and Vabel plan to demolish all business units in the Blackheath Business Estate to build 63 flats in two blocks of nine and seven storeys, along with a four-storey workspace building.  

Two pub owners have been taken to hospital after a fire broke out in their premises in Forest Hill. Asa Holmes, 49, and Monika Luckasova, 42, were taken to Lewisham Hospital to be treated for smoke inhalation after escaping from a fire in the Bird in Hand Pub in Dartmouth Road.

The familiy and friends of a teenager stabbed to death near his home have appealed for help in funding his funeral – amid claims his dying moments were filmed by those who attacked him. Levi Earnest Morrison died yards from his family in Sydenham Road, Sydenham, after paramedics and cops tried desperately to save his life.

A witness has described the scene of the latest fatal knife attack in London as “horrific”. A 17-year-old boy was stabbed to death in daylight on Sydenham Road, at its hunction with Hazel Grove, in Sydenham, on Saturday. 

An award-winning community gym in Deptford started making its own equipment to fit into people’s homes or offices to create a “pandemic-proof” element to its business. Commando Temple, located under three arches of the Greenwich to London Bridge rail link, also rented out £50,000 of its equipment in a bid to survive the past year.

A witness has described the scene of the latest fatal knife attack in London as “horrific”. A 17-year-old boy was stabbed to death in daylight on Sydenham Road, at its hunction with Hazel Grove, in Sydenham, on Saturday. 

Students will pay less rent if they are good neighbours to their over-55 neighbours in a block which has been given planning permission. The development, to be owned and run by Phoenix Community Housing, will involve the demolition of 16 vacant bedsits in Melfield Gardens, near Beckenham Hill station, to be replaced with 32 flats in two blocks between three and six storeys.  

New Cross Councillor Brenda Dacres is set to become the new deputy mayor of Lewisham. Lewisham’s mayor Damien Egan announced his intention to nominate Cllr Dacres for the role today (April 9), along with his intended nomination for a new cabinet member for jobs and skills (job share), Whitefoot Cllr Kim Powell.