Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust has launched its 2025 Christmas Toy Appeal, inviting local communities to bring festive cheer to young patients spending the holidays in hospital. This year, the appeal has partnered with Lewisham Shopping Centre, helping to raise awareness and donations across the local area. Biskers, the Trust’s friendly new charity mascot, has […]
Thirty years on, the Student Radio Awards have grown from a niche celebration into one of the most important nights in British broadcasting. The scale may have changed, but the spirit remains the same: a room full of young people with more ideas than sleep, gathering to celebrate what happens when creativity, caffeine, and courage […]
A bid to have Shepherd’s Bush Market in west London listed as an asset of community value (ACV) has been turned down by Hammersmith and Fulham Council. The application, submitted earlier this year by Friends of Shepherd’s Bush Market, sought to protect the historic market’s future following approval of major redevelopment plans from developer Yoo […]
A pharmacist caught selling Botox without seeing patients has been suspended for 18 months after a BBC undercover investigation exposed a dangerous black market in injectable cosmetic treatments. Cornelius Agoye, who operated Pharma Aesthetics London in Rainham, east London, was secretly filmed supplying licensed Botox to a BBC reporter posing as a beautician. He was […]
A five-year-old boy has died after a wall collapsed on him and a young girl at an adventure golf course in south-east London. Emergency services were called to Sidcup Family Golf in Chislehurst at about 17:40 GMT on Sunday following reports that a child had been injured when part of a wall gave way. Both […]
A kitten has died after reportedly being thrown from a moving car in Welling, south-east London, in what the RSPCA has described as “a really distressing and upsetting discovery”. The young tabby-and-white cat, thought to be less than six months old, was found at the junction of Burns Close and Chaucer Road at about 19:40 […]
Plans to redevelop Liverpool Street Station have once again been pushed back, following further updates to the application by Network Rail. The proposal, which aims to partially demolish parts of the busy London station and construct a tower above the adjoining Grade II* listed former hotel, will now face a longer wait for approval from […]
The Docklands Light Railway has temporarily withdrawn its new B23 trains just six weeks after they were introduced due to brake malfunctions. The automated carriages, which began operating in early October, caused one train to overshoot a platform, prompting Transport for London to remove three services from the timetable while engineers investigate. Scott Haxton, TfL’s […]
A 26-year-old woman from Feltham, west London, has been fined £1,000 by Hounslow Council after placing a single cardboard envelope next to full communal bins outside her flat. Loretta Alvarez, a single mother, explained that the bins, shared by around 25 properties, were overflowing and she had left the envelope on top of other cardboard, […]
A hospital trust has been fined more than £500,000 and a ward manager given a suspended prison sentence after the death of 22-year-old Alice Figueiredo, who took her own life while under the care of Goodmayes Hospital in Ilford. Ms Figueiredo died after using bin bags from a shared toilet on the Hepworth Ward, despite […]
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