Record number of young people turn out to vote in new youth parliament
Members of the youth parliament influence key decisions that affect young people.
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Southwark
Men who caused havoc on South London trains jailed for 12 years after violent robberies
During one robbery a victim was punched and kicked in the face.
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Network Rail announce major closures for February half term
The work will replace the old 1980s signalling equipment with new technology.
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Police ‘concerned’ for boy, 15, missing for nearly two weeks
He left his home on November 7, and has not been home since.
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Council offers to scrub graffiti off businesses for free
People have been travelling to the area to spray tags on the streets.
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Residents ‘heartbroken’ at borough with 4,500 empty homes while thousands more on housing wait list
The borough has seen an increase of more than 700 empty homes since last year.
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81-year-old woman stuck in flat with “abusive” neighbour and home broken into
She has been asking to be moved from the property for two years.
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‘I felt free’: Southwark’s deputy mayor cycles bike for first time
More than, 1,800 people have taken part in the council’s cycle training course since July.
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Primary school gets STEM books from first company in UK to use Nobel prize winning DNA technology
The company was the first in the world to successfully use a Noble-prize winning genome editing treatment.
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‘The council don’t understand how serious this is’: Parents plead to stop cuts to SEND nursery
A single mum who’s non-verbal son attends the nursery said she relies on the staffs support.
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Community fridge opens at church to help tackle London’s ‘food waste scandal’
The community fridge at has redistributed thousands of kilos of excess food.
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Two major mental health charities announce merger to support more people
One in four people currently experience a mental health problem of some kind each year.
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Man who offered teenage girls modelling jobs before selling them as escorts is jailed
Officers spent two years investigating the case which covered a period of 20 years.
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140-year-old Art Deco sausage shop saved from closure by heritage grant
Historic England has today revealed its Heritage at Risk Register 2023.
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Couple guilty of murdering step father whose body is yet to be found
A video allegedly showed the step-father confessing to sexually assaulting the step-daughter.
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Man whose father was stabbed to death helps install life-saving bleed control kits at Millwall FC
Days before his 13th birthday his father was attacked by a gang at their home.
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Rail network calls on public to help as it reveals 170,000 people reported missing each year
One person goes missing every 90 seconds in the UK.
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