Lambeth

Lambeth Council will refuse to enforce Home Office rules that mean people can be deported if they sleep rough. Changes to the Government’s Immigration Rules in December 2020 introduced rough sleeping as grounds to take people’s right to stay in the UK away.  

The young victim of a fatal stabbing in Brixton has been named as police continue to search for his killer. Shane Jerome, of Thornton Heath, who was aged only 23, was stabbed to death at Brixton Tube station two nights ago.

Paramedics and police could not save the life of a stabbing victim in his 20s after they were called to an altercation at Brixton Tube station. An investigation is underway after the man died following a call to the emergency services at 8.18pm on Wednesday, 21 July.

An e-scooter rider stopped to apologise after toddler aged three was left in a serious condition in hospital after being hit in Lambeth – one of eight London boroughs undergoing hire trials for the bikes.

Police will be patrolling road blocks to tackle ongoing vandalism as the council looks to prosecute those responsible. Lambeth Council bosses began creating LTNs (low traffic neighbourhoods), sets of road closures with the aim of reducing car use and promoting active travel, under Covid-19 lockdown measures last year.

Three men have been arrested after the body of a man in his 40s was found in Lambeth. The victim is yet to be formally identified but the 44-year-old is said to have died as a result of ‘multiple injuries’. Cops were called by the London Ambulance Service just before 7am last Monday (July 12) to New Park Road where the body of a man was found.

The Consultant Connect system allows clinicians at South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust (SLaM) to contact nearby hospital doctors in over 80 specialties for recommendations on their patients, without the need for a full referral.

Young people will put forward their own solutions for stopping rising knife crime in a day-long forum. Leaders of the future and people with first-hand experience of the trauma resulting from gang beefs will push for solutions which address poverty and inequality at the “Hackathon” at Lilian Baylis Technology College, Kennington, on Saturday.

Townhall planners have sided with a campaign group that is raising concerns about air quality and kids’ health over a business move. Metal company Southwark metals want to move one of their scrap metal yards to Windsor Grove, West Norwood. But MP for Dulwich and West Norwood Helen Hayes addressed a Lambeth planning committee earlier this month.

Residents were “horrified” on Friday morning (July 16) to find black oil poured all over planters in a low traffic neighbourood (LTN) in Lambeth. The liquid, branded “dangerous and filthy for kids walking to school”, was also poured over the plants in the wooden barriers in Tulse Hill.

Amy Stone, 31, has already raised £2,000 for Macmillan Cancer Support, which also helped her after she discovered she had a potentially fatal cancer gene, BRCA1, which makes her more susceptible to breast cancer.

A man in his 30s has been charged with the murder of a 16-year-old boy who was stabbed to death in Lambeth. Keane Flynn-Harling was found dead after being stabbed in Oval Place, at 11.45pm last week. A 36-year-old has been charged with his murder today.

She’s the influencer and slightly more glamorous face of Crouchy’s Year Late Euros. And former Radio 1 DJ Maya Jama was all over social media this week with her tartan suit – and 6ft 11in basketball boyfriend Ben Simmons.

Metropolitan Police officer Wayne Couzens lied to detectives and claimed to have been blackmailed into abducting his victim Sarah Everard, it has been revealed. Couzens, 48, pleaded guilty today to murdering the 33-year-old marketing executive who vanished while walking to her home in Brixton from a friend’s house in March.