Housemates spend hours bailing out water to save home during floods
Friends forced to create makeshift sandbags to protect the basement level of their home as flood water rushed in
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Southwark
Eight charged with drugs offences after police raids across Southwark
Police carried-out a number of warrants in the borough on Wednesday and the following people all appeared at Croydon Magistrates’ Court on Thursday.
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Campaigners fighting to save green space from housing development
Council has to build 11,000 homes by 2043. Campaigners are fighting to save green space in Southwark after the council outlined 28 estates in the borough on which it hopes to build new homes.
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Tens of thousands told to self-isolate by Track and Trace
‘Pingdemic’ causing havoc across South London. The increase in people being told to self-isolate has led to the government saying ‘critical workers’ including those in food production and transport will be exempt from isolating.
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Man to appear in court today charged with murder of woman in East Dulwich
36-year-old died on Friday evening after an incident in Lordship Lane, East Dulwich. A man will appear in court today charged with murder following the death of a woman in East Dulwich.
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Capital battered by storms as more than double July’s average rainfall falls in just a few hours
Clapham and Camberwell among South London areas battered by storms. Tube stations – including North Greenwich on the Jubilee line – were forced to close due to flooding, while water also poured into Kennington Tube station.
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Southwark Council is sitting on £877,676 of overpaid council tax because residents failed to ask for it
Southwark Council is sitting on £877,676 of your overpaid council tax because owed residents have failed to ask for it. There are 2,794 overpaid council tax accounts in the borough – a Freedom of Information request from the Local Democracy Reporting Service showed.
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Southwark Home Office immigration block to be bulldozed for new offices and park
A Southwark Home Office Immigration centre is set to be bulldozed to make space for new offices, a park and a gym. Plans to demolish the immigration centre and transform it into a 27-storey office block were approved by a Southwark planning bosses on July 19.
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Rotherhithe Tunnel and Vauxhall Bridge both need a total of £180million spent on them by struggling TfL to be safe for the future
Two of South London’s main thoroughfares need a total of £180 million spent on them to make them safe for future years. The Rotherhithe Tunnel and Vauxhall Bridge need “urgent” upgrades in the next five years and may be forced to close if TfL’s financial situation does not improve, according to a senior TfL figure.
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Guy’s and St Thomas’ refuses to say if 39 Covid patients have been vaccinated or not
Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust is refusing to share whether its Covid patients have been vaccinated or not. Covid cases are skyrocketing in the UK – deaths are at their highest level since March. Figures show that, as of July 16, there are 3,786 people in hospital with Covid-19 and another 63 people died after catching the virus.
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South London property developer agrees to hand over £2million in assets to settle claim over fraud, tax evasion and money laundering claims and growing cannabis
London based property developer Richard Leahy has agreed to hand over assets worth almost £2 million to settle a civil recovery claim based on alleged involvement in cannabis cultivation, money laundering and fraud. The order relates to three London properties and £1,125,340 in cash in a bank account.
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