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Parks quality manual launched to help cash-strapped councils - from HortWeek

A licence hearing to determine the future of Brixton Academy has been confirmed for next month.

The pedestrian was pronounced dead at the scene

Community meeting called amid anger over death of man suffering from asthma who said "I can't breathe" as cops allegedly laughed

Power of__ Black Identity brief.”  The winning photos will be showcased at Lambeth’s Power of__ Festival exhibition in June before being displayed on billboards across London in September. As well as marking the 40th anniversary of the 1981 Brixton riots, the exhibition honours one year since 2020’s historic Black Lives Matter protests.  The Power of__ Festival exhibition celebrates the power of Black identity and its lasting impact on British culture, and will run for two days from J...

South African variant: Local restrictions could be needed in London to stop spread, expert warns Nicholas Cecil © Provided by Evening Standard PA Local restrictions may have to be imposed in London if surge testing fails to stop the spread of the Covid-19 South African variant, a leading disease expert suggested today. Professor John Edmunds, epidemiologist at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, stressed it was not yet clear whether the testing of hundreds of ...

Surge testing operations have been widened across London after further cases of the South African coronavirus variant were found. Three boroughs in south London have set up additional testing facilities to process thousands of residents, while a case of the variant was also detected in Barnet, north London. The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) confirmed the case in Barnet was unrelated to other clusters, but it had been isolated and the person’s contacts traced. Coronavirus surge t...