A top headteacher has criticised the government’s roadmap for a quick return to schools on March 8. Steve Morrison, head of Kingsdale in Alleyn Park, Dulwich, has spoken out after the measures he has to take for his hundreds of pupils were confirmed last week – but shifted several times over the next few days.
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It has been revealed that TfL’s £24 million spend on the failed Garden Bridge equalled more than half of all the money it spent on the capitals’ bridges over the last decade. Some £43 million of public money was spent on the Garden Bridge, the pet project of former London Mayor turned Prime Minister Boris Johnson and promoted by Joanna Lumley.
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The brother of the former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has been charged with ten offences of breaking Coronavirus restrictions.
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Schools across Southwark have received laptops to help their most disadvantaged pupils, thanks to an outpouring of donations from the community which has raised over £100,000. The Laptops for Learning crowdfund hopes to reach its final target of £150,000 by Thursday.
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A newborn baby was given the gift of life, thanks to a 3D heart scan which helped diagnose his condition before he was born. Little Leo Coe is now a thriving seven-month-old who is starting to wean and loves his bouncer.
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Southwark residents face a 4.99 per cent council tax hike after the budget – including £14.7 million in cuts – was approved at council assembly on last Wednesday, February 24.
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A top headteacher has criticised the government’s roadmap for a quick return to schools on March 8, which is only five working days away. Steve Morrison, head of Kingsdale in Alleyn Park, Dulwich, has spoken out after the measures he has to take for his hundreds of pupils were confirmed last week – but shifted several times over the next few days.
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A man has been sentenced to life imprisonment for raping a woman in Peckham. Taofiq Laguda, 46, of Dagenham, was driving a car which was not his because he was banned – but he was still caught and sentenced on Thursday, 25 February at Woolwich Crown Court.
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A teenager has been held for sharing terrorist material. On the morning of Wednesday, 24 February, officers from the Met’s Counter Terrorism Command arrested an 18-year-old man at a residential address in south east London.
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London South Bank University (LSBU) has become the first university to be independently accredited as meeting National Quality Standards for services supporting male victims of sexual violence.
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Southwark Council is hosting a webinar in a bid to ease concerns about being vaccinated against Covid-19. Although the majority of people offered a vaccine have taken it, there is still reluctance among some communities.
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A taxi company has donated free round-trip vouchers to help older people who are not able to get to their vaccination appointments. Age UK Lewisham and Southwark has teamed up with Uber to offer up to £15 off round trips to some of the most vulnerable people to get their Covid-19 vaccination.
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Dulwich residents are furious at experimental road closures around Dulwich Village, which are making their journeys more difficult. There are currently closures at Burbage Road, Calton Avenue, Turney Road and Townley Road.
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A former NHS worker battling ovarian cancer is now seeking treatment in Germany after being misdiagnosed multiple times and severely let down by the NHS. Alice Jackson, from Denmark Hill, repeatedly contacted her doctor over concerns for her health, only to be told to “stop worrying about nothing” – before being diagnosed with late-stage ovarian cancer.
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A leading private school is one of a handful taking part in a pilot to give places to children who have been in care. A project to help vulnerable youngsters, the Royal National Children’s Springboard Foundation wants Alleyn’s, in Dulwich, to take them and transform their changes, partly funded by the government.
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A prominent mosaic artist has created a bird-themed mosaic for Dulwich College. Tamara Froud from Catford in London, has been commissioned by DUCKS, Dulwich College Kindergarten and Infants’ School, to create a wall-mounted mosaic at the building’s main entrance.
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Southwark cabinet minister for housing Leo Pollak has quit after it emerged he had not been transparent about a Twitter account that he managed, which slammed community groups. He has apologised to leader Cllr Kieron Williams for “a serious error of judgement that doesn’t meet the standards of openness and accountability that you would expect of a public representative”.
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A leading private school is one of a handful taking part in a pilot to give places to children who have been in care. A project to help vulnerable youngsters, the Royal National Children’s Springboard Foundation wants Alleyn’s, in Dulwich, to take them and transform their changes, partly funded by the government.
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A crowdfunding campaign is providing thousands children across the borough with laptops to help them learn during lockdown. The campaign, which has already raised nearly £97,000, was set up by London South Teaching School Alliance to get pupils across Southwark online, and the total raised will be matched by Southwark Council.
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Piers Corbyn has been arrested and released on bail following complaints by Southwark council over leaflets comparing the Covid-19 vaccination roll out to Auschwitz. Mr Corbyn, 73, who is the brother of the former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, was arrested with another man on Wednesday on suspicion of malicious communications.
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More than 70,000 people in South London are thought to be living in buildings with cladding that is unlikely to meet current building standards, government figures show. Southwark has been worst affected by the crisis, with an estimated 16,982 people living in potentially dangerous housing.
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The aged oaks have broken through a boundary wall bordering Dulwich Upper Wood, causing bricks to fall from part of the 50-metre wall.
But working with local residents, the council came up with a new plan to build the wall along the line of the former kerb. The design, backed by 80 per cent of those who responded to a consultation, includes creating a new pavement that nudges into the highway.
Piers Corbyn, the climate change sceptic and brother of the former Labour leader, is facing a police investigation over ‘disturbing’ leaflets likening Covid-19 vaccination efforts to the Nazi concentration camp, Auschwitz.
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