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A 19-year-old man has been taken to hospital after being stabbed in broad daylight in Streatham. Metropolitan Police officers were called to Wavertree Road at around 3.57pm on Wednesday, August 12, following reports of a stabbing.

Police were called to Wavertree Road yesterday (August 12) at 3.57pm following reports of a knife attack.

A 19-year-old was treated at the scene before being taken to hospital.

His injuries have since been confirmed as neither life-threatening nor life-changing.

A partial solar eclipse will cover South London tomorrow, beginning at 6:17pm and ending at 8:06pm.

The eclipse will reach a maximum at 7:12pm, when 90% of the sun will be covered by the moon.

It is virtually impossible to imagine what Metropolitan Police sergeant Martyn Blake and his loved ones have been through over the past four years.

Streatham Free Film Festival (SFFF) is back for its 11th year this September, bringing together residents, local businesses, community organisations and film lovers for an ambitious programme of free film screenings and special events across Streatham and neighbouring communities.

Transport correspondent JEREMY CLACKSON on a small victory for residents of Upper Norwood after more than a decade of lobbying their council

Steve Reed is claiming his first success in his newly restored role as a backbench MP.

As one Croydon MP adjusts to life on the back benches, another has made her first move up the greasy pole of Westminster preferment, reports our Political Editor, WALTER CRONXITE

Steve Reed, the MP for Streatham (and Croydon North, when he can be bothered), needs help.

Cllr Abrams said: “I would like to start by extending our deepest condolences to Chris’s family and friends, who have been through a four year ordeal and for whom the trauma is ongoing.

Streatham Hill Theatre in Lambeth and Borough Hall in Greenwich have been named amongst the 39 theatres across the UK threatened by a risk of closure, redevelopment or severe decay, writes Molly Hunt…