Author: Blake Foster

Jeremih, 14, went missing on Tuesday (December 31, 2024) from his home in the Sidcup, SE9 area. Police are urging anyone with information or who sees the teenager to contact them. A social media post from Greenwich MPS read: “MISSING- Please help us locate #missing 14 year old Jeremih from #SE9. “Last seen 31/12/24. “Any information or sightings, please call 999/101 quoting reference 01/7000323/25.“ Source link

Officers from the Metropolitan Police were called just before 10am today (January 3) with reports of a man found dead in Engineers Way.  The crime scene blocked off an entrance to the building (Image: Newsquest London) They were dispatched to the scene with colleagues from the London Ambulance Service, where the man was located.  Paramedics administered first aid, but the man was pronounced dead at the scene a short while later.  A passerby who was in the area at around 11am told this paper that she had seen “lots of police and ambulances” in the area.  A passerby described seeing…

Not to mention all main-line passenger trains running out of St Pancras being cancelled over the festive holiday. Engineers have now completed a £19 million scheme to replace the 160-year-old Agar Grove Bridge over the railway a-mile-and-a-half north of St Pancras station. The nightmare of noise, traffic barriers and street closures began on December 20 and finally ended when families on the Agar Grove estate woke up on Monday morning with the more gentle ‘rumble’ of trains running past their homes again. “The bridge at Agar Grove was more than 160 years old and needed replacing,” Network Rail’s Mark Budden…

High Road, Willesden was taped up by police from the morning of yesterday (December 28) and most of today (December 29) as forensics investigated the knife attack. Police were called to reports of a stabbing in Linacre Road, just off the High Road, at 4.16am. They were dispatched to the scene with the London Ambulance Service and air ambulance, where a man was found with serious stab wounds. He was taken to hospital but is understood to have died at Edgware Road before arriving there. Police at Willesden Green (Image: NQ) Investigating officers are confident that the victim was a…

Below is a list of major housing projects expected across the borough in the next 12 months. The schemes have all been previously approved by the local authority and are envisioned to make significant progress in the coming months. More details on each scheme can be found online via the council’s planning portal. News broke early in 2024 that the immense Morden Wharf scheme in Greenwich Peninsula was set to be redesigned by Jo Cowen Architects following the site being purchased. The ambitious project plans to deliver 1,500 new homes to the area in blocks up to 36 storeys tall.…

It was put on at Cranleigh’s banqueting suite in Hornchurch by Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust (BHRUT), which runs Queen’s. One of the volunteers is Jeffrey Marks, a 77-year-old from Hornchurch, who comes in twice a week to cut patients’ hair and help at meal times. “There are people worse off than me,” he says. “So if I can give a little back and help them, that’s all the better.” Patricia Pawley, 88, from Rainham, has been helping out since her husband died a year ago. She decided to volunteer “because of the lovely care he received” and now…

But David Batchelor, the Goldsmiths University lecturer who designed the stack of 35 stainless steel boxes, admitted the surrounding area will be ‘significantly brighter’ at night, as a result of his artwork. Batchelor, 69, made the remarks in planning documents submitted to Lewisham Council for the installation of the sculpture outside Goldsmiths University’s library in New Cross, South London. He said: “I imagine the work will be kept on during the day and evenings. The quality of light will change as the ambient lighting conditions alter. It will be significantly brighter at night but it will not dazzle passers-by.” The…

Newly recruited officers arrested people on suspicion of various offences including for drink driving, robbery, sexual offences, criminal damage, vehicle theft and possessing weapons. A number of community protection warnings have been issued for shoplifting and other crimes reported. The Police Now recruits, a seven-week graduate programme teaching essential policing skills, were joined with other Metropolitan Police officers to patrol the streets in south east London. They engaged with the public to offer protection and build stronger relationships with the community. Police Constable Victoria Ackford, who is currently on the programme, said: “Whilst patrolling the high street, we were thrilled that…

Alongside your classic chains like Pizza Express, Pizza Hut and Bella Italia are alternative options including Pizza Pilgrims and Japes.  But sitting at the top of the tree on TripAdvisor’s ranking of the best pizza in Soho is Rudy’s.  It’s easy to see why Rudy’s is gaining popularity – tasty pizza in causal surroundings, all while being well-priced.    Founders Kate and Jim Morgan opened their first pizzeria in Manchester back in 2015 and their restaurants have expanded across the UK, with sites in London in Soho, Spitalfields, Queensway, Shoreditch, Tottenham Court Road, and Westfield Shopping Centre.  We took a trip…

Recycling and waste collections for residential properties in Croydon will occur later than usual over Christmas 2024 and New Year 2025. Collections scheduled on Wednesday, December 25, and Thursday, December 26, will take place two days later. This means waste scheduled to be picked up on December 25 will be collected on Friday, December 27 instead, for example. Collections on December 27 will take place three days later on Monday, 30.  Those planned for New Year’s Eve will now come on January 2. Collections planned between December 31 and January 2 will arrive two days later, and those planned for…