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A Streatham nursery has announced it will close due to lack of funding needed to maintain a “good quality” of provision for children.

Sprig Ludens Outdoor Nursery in Abercairn Road, Streatham Vale, has provided affordable childcare focused on outdoor learning since 2018.

The Streatham Youth and Community Trust (SYCT), the charity which runs Sprig Ludens, said the decision was the result of the Government’s “failure” to provide funding to cover the real costs involved in free child care.

Streatham bantamweight Chris Bourke was stopped in the sixth round as he failed to land the British and Commonwealth belts on Friday night.

The 29-year-old was a big favourite to claim the two titles – which were both vacant.

But Lane – now 18-10-2 – poured on the pressure in the sixth round to force the referee’s intervention.

Bourke’s record drops to 13-2 and it is the second time he has come up short challenging for the domestic crown after being outpointed in 2022 by Marc Leach.

Residents have lost their battle to stop the construction of a 14-storey tower after a council approved the plans – despite 1,000 people objecting to them.

Lambeth councillors waved through the proposals to build 237 homes in five blocks on the site of a Homebase store in Streatham, on Tuesday evening.

More than 1,000 residents had signed a petition demanding the height and density of the planned development in Woodgate Drive be reduced.

Plans to put a 14-storey tower in an area with a more suburban than inner-city feel, have taken a step forward despite more than 1,000 people objecting to the proposals.

Planners from Lambeth council have recommended councillors approve the 237-home scheme on a site currently occupied by a Homebase store in Woodgate Drive, Streatham.

But residents have branded the proposed development ‘monstrous’ and written to Lambeth councillors asking them to reject the proposals when they go before a planning committee this week.

She said: “We’re the original crew. We’ve still got it.

“My best moments over the years have been with Kate, Claudia, the original girls.

“And boy did we have so much fun. We’re still running things, we’re still doing it.

“I look back and we’ve done so much, we’re like sisters.”

Naomi has always been fiercely proud of her South London roots. She dedicated her British Fashion Council’s 2019 fashion icon award to her manor.

More than 500 residents have launched a last-ditch campaign to halt plans for a “monstrous, Soviet-style” 14-storey tower block.

Developers want to bulldoze a Homebase store in Woodgate Drive, Streatham Vale, and replace it with five blocks containing 237 flats, 35 per cent of which will be “affordable”.

More than 1,000 Lambeth residents have lodged objections with Lambeth council, whose planning committee will discuss the development on Tuesday.

Streatham came away on the losing end of a close encounter with the Chelmsford Chieftains on Saturday evening as the Chieftains took a 4-3 win via the shootout.

It was a close game with neither side ever getting a more than one-goal advantage throughout.

Luke Brittle and Ryan Watt set up Ziggy Beesley in the 10th minute for the Streatham opener.

The Chieftains answered back quickly – just one minute and 45 seconds later – as Jay King set up Cameron Bartlett to tie the game.

Sadiq Khan has “applauded” Lambeth council for suspending a controversial low traffic neighbourhood (LTN).

The mayor said it was clear the Streatham Wells LTN had caused “unintended consequences” and that it was the right decision to suspend it.

Labour-run Lambeth said the combination of the Streatham Wells scheme and “frequent roadworks by Thames Water and other bodies” had caused a “significant strain on bus services” on the A23.

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Residents have expressed their relief after a council announced the suspension of a controversial Low Traffic Neighbourhood (LTN) scheme with immediate effect.

The Streatham Wells LTN trial scheme was cut short yesterday following “concerns about public transport delays”, and “anticipated disruption from planned Transport for London (TfL) construction works,” Lambeth council said in a statement.

The LTN covered Leigham Avenue, Culverhouse Gardens, Valley Road and Gleneldon Road.