Streatham News

A Christmas gift list has been put together by Lambeth Council so local people can help sanctuary-seeking children in the borough get the chance to enjoy some festive seasonal cheer.

The scheme is part of the council’s Soak Up Lambeth programme, which aims to improve drainage using natural processes to reduce the impact of surface water flooding using a series of SuDS schemes for estates, schools, highways, and parks.

As one Brixton chicken shop closes, another opens – although there are few similarities between them.

Other Side Fried – the only restaurant in the chain – reopened as Buster’s Hamburger Bar on 1 November after frying chicken on Atlantic Road since 2017.

London Mayor Sadiq Khan has thanked the police officer who shot Chris Kaba dead, just one week on from refusing to apologise to him.

Four men have been jailed for life for the murder of a teenager who was shot in the head at point-blank range outside a party and then slashed with a machete.

Clapham & Brixton Hill MP Bell Ribeiro-Addy has launched a Christmas Card Competition today, inviting local school pupils to design her annual festive greeting card.

Brixton is one of the 115 Post Offices threatened with closure under plans announced today (13 November) by the provider.

Lambeth invited Living Wage Champion employers and officials from Greenwich Lewisham, Merton, and Southwark to a “Good work and inclusive employment” event on Tuesday, 5 November at Lambeth Town Hall.

Word from the Cabinet

A couple have been reunited with their cat which was found whimpering in a garden two-and-a-half miles away after being taken from their driveway five days prior.

A couple have been reunited with their cat after he was stolen by a crook and captured on their doorbell camera.

Anabela Cunha and her husband Joseph were left horrified after seeing the man bizarrely waddling away with Simba between his legs.