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Parents say NHS decision to move children’s cancer services to central London location ‘puts children at risk’

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Woman dies after being rescued from Peckham house fire

A woman has died after she was rescued from a house fire in Peckham. On Sunday evening at around 7:40 pm, firefighters were called to a fire on Crane Street. Despite being saved from the first floor of the building and receiving emergency care, the woman died at the scene. The p

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Bermondsey man is through to the final of Britain’s best young chef contest

A man from Bermondsey is through to the final of a competition to find the UK’s best young chef. Karol Ploch, 28, a sous chef at Kerridge’s Bar & Grill, is one step closer to becoming this year’s Roux Scholar. He was one of three to get through from London in the semi-final judged by […]...

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 Khan challenged over amount of “blatantly visible” drug taking seen on the streets of London

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Unemployed people transform ‘anti-social behaviour hotspot’ into Camberwell community garden

Unemployed people have built a community garden on a patch of Camberwell land that was once a ‘hot

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Herne Hill children unveil road safety banner after car ploughed through school fence

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Brixton woman who ‘let her bulldog starve to death’ banned from keeping dogs

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MP Neil Coyle on ‘Tories in freefall, Labour plans for government, plus my fight against faulty chargers’

Failing Governments often try to use Budgets to get a bounce in the polls. Rishi Sunak’s latest pitiful Budget has bounced his former Party Deputy Chairman into the right-wing Reform Party and left his polling in continued freefall. The Tory psychodrama seems never-ending as they battle to define ...

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Evelina London chosen as new home of children’s cancer care services

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Faces of south Londoners jailed in March 2024 so far

Here are the names and faces of 18 of the men from south London who are now behind bars this March 2024.

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Camberwell man who murdered love rival on bus jailed for over 25 years

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Lewisham journey times would reduce with Bakerloo extension

Journey times between the Old Kent Road and Oxford Circus could be slashed from 38 minutes to 13 if the Bakerloo line extension goes ahead, it has been revealed.

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Why Southwark isn’t south east London’s unhappiest borough

A recent study revealed that Southwark is the unhappiest borough in the whole of south east London.

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Affordable homes for first-time buyers in south east London

These south east homes could be ideal for first-time buyers looking for an affordable entry into London’s property market.

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Cheapest rental options in Bexley, Bromley, Greenwich, Lewisham

We've had a look at what the cheapest rental price in each south east London will get you right now - as London is revealed to be the fourth highest place in the UK for spiking rent costs.

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The secret life of the Peckham hospital porter crowned UK’s best

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Police still searching for Bermondsey phone snatchers who ‘slashed’ victim’s face

Police are still searching for the thugs who slashed a man’s face in an attempted phone snatching in Bermondsey.  The victim, who is in his forties, was attacked on a towpath leading from Rotherhithe New Road to South Bermondsey Station on Wednesday, December 6, 2023. The assailants didn’t get ...

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Southwark Blue Plaques: James Henderson, trailblazing newspaper founder

A Dulwich-based newspaper owner, who founded the South London Press over 150 years ago, has been nominated for a Southwark Blue Plaque. James Henderson (1823-1906) started working for his local paper and became a key figure in developing the popular press and comics in Britain.

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Mash made in heaven as Arments celebrates National Pie’n’Mash Week

Arments Pie and Mash in Walworth is celebrating the first-ever National Pie’n’Mash Week by delivering the Cockney staple straight to a lucky household’s door. The shop, which has been around since 1881, was purchased by the Arments from the Evans family in April 1914 – three months before W...

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Southwark community gardens expanding amid fears finances could stunt future growth

Community gardens on estates across Southwark are flourishing but a councillor has expressed fears finances could stunt their future growth. Southwark residents have set up seventeen new community gardens with 220 food-growing plots in the last three years. But internal restructuring could mean less...