Lambeth

BY TOBY PORTER toby@slpmedia.co.uk Monique is a tough teenager preparing for a long trip to Mongolia for charity. It would be a great idea for a gap year, if the

BY JAMES TWOMEY james@slpmedia.co.uk A music school which has been providing lessons to children for more than two decades has been saved from being kicked out of its home. The

BY KATE DENNETT toby@slpmedia.co.uk More than 100 people gathered on Sunday to protest against plans to sell a police station to the highest bidder for development. Mayor Sadiq Khan plans to

Housing minister Kit Malthouse has called a public inquiry into the plans for hundreds of flats in the middle of the Vauxhall one-way system, known as Vauxhall Cross. The hearing

The loss of community centres has been a huge contributing factor in the rise in London crime. But giving teenagers access to ping-pong will not solve this crisis. Livity, based

The number of people receiving specialist treatment for problem drinking in Lambeth fell sharply over the last three years, figures show. The British Liver Trust charity said the figures were

Men have all got one and most of them worry about how big it is. A brain. But when it comes to another part of their anatomy, some don’t seem

London’s Air Ambulance charity has announced the backing of The Oval for its 30th anniversary campaign Thirty Years Saving Lives. To celebrate the new partnership London’s Air Ambulance flew the

Fortune hunters discovered two buried treasure troves in South Central London last year, new figures reveal. The British Museum has lauded the fantastic discoveries made across England and Wales last

Dalya and her three young children finally left their adopted home in Lebanon five months ago. They had been afraid to go out of their house. So life in Herne

Solar panels would be installed on around 9,700 homes in Lambeth under new plans announced by the Labour Party on Thursday. Party leader Jeremy Corbyn says the policy could relieve

A housing association has given away £1,300 to a charity food kitchen. Network Homes has donated the money to homeless food charity Brixton Soup Kitchen. The housing association was introduced

One of international cricket’s most memorable landmarks is undergoing a transformation. The famous gasholders at Surrey’s ground, the Oval, are set to become a multistorey tower block of homes after

BY TOBY PORTER toby@slpmedia.co.uk A nine-year-old didn’t ask for a computer, a phone or fancy toys for her birthday. Instead, Chloe Placencia, from Oval in Kennington, asked her parents if

A Mental Health Awareness Week 2019 Event will feature a lecture on Black History as Therapeutic Practice. It is a feel-good community wellbeing event for MHAW 2019. The organisers will

BY MATT FARMER toby@slpmedia.co.uk A tenant has come up against his housing association when trying to get his leaky ceiling and floor fixed. Phillip Bowak has lived in a flat

BY TOBY PORTER toby@slpmedia.co.uk The parents of a two-year-old tot have made an empassioned appeal for donations to help save her life. Time is running out for Esme Handley –

BY IZZY WIGHTMAN toby@slpmedia.co.uk A student is set to walk a marathon next month to celebrate the life of her dad after he died from young-onset Alzheimer’s disease. Anne Manuel,

Thousands of emergency supplies were handed out by food banks in Lambeth last year, figures from a leading charity show. The Trussel Trust says a record number of packages were

House prices have fallen in Inner London since the EU referendum, following growth in the years immediately prior. It shows the local situation is even more extreme than the national

London has lost 8% of its police officers over the last decade, while violent crime levels have soared in the area. The Police Federation says that “society just isn’t as

Hundreds of people are being admitted to hospital with vitamin D deficiency at the King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. The vitamin helps people keep healthy bones, muscles and teeth,

If there’s one thing I really love about the Brixton community, it’s the amount of highly-concentrated common sense wrapped up in street corner conversations that have been taking place before

A murder investigation has been launched after an 18 year old man was stabbed to death in Elephant and Castle on Sunday May 5. Emergency services were called at around

A building which houses numerous business has been declared the first Living Wage building. The 11-storey International House in Brixton is owned by Lambeth council and run by 3Space. To

BY TOBY PORTER toby@slpmedia.co.uk An NHS consultant has been shortlisted to compete in this year’s Miss Universe. Gemma Gordon, 24, from the Oval, will compete against 40 women at the

A new urine test for cervical cancer could be “game-changing” for the more than 40,000 women in Lambeth who missed their last smear test. Researchers from the University of Manchester

Multiple sclerosis sufferers in Lambeth have likely lost part of their mobility benefit under the new system, data reveals. The MS Society says this is down to the “unfair and