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Lambeth Green Party members gather online this evening for a hustings with eleven candidates seeking the party’s nomination for the expected Streatham St Leonard’s by-election.

Former Clapham East councillor Andrew Collins has left Labour and joined the Green Party, following what he described as ‘longstanding ally’ Martin Abrams into the party.

Streatham Common Station Reopens After Incident

VAL CUMBERBATCH:

CUMBERBATCH was born in Liverpool in 1915 and signed in at Barrow from St Matthews ARLFC in 1932 at the age of 17, making a try scoring debut at Wigan early 1933 - the result 11-11.

He left Barrow in 1946 for Liverpool Stanley where he retired 12 months later.

Simon Anthony, the Green Party councillor elected in North Acton, Ealing, on 7 May, has resigned citing health reasons. He is the fifth Green councillor in London to step down since the local elections, prompting a series of by-elections across the capital.

THREE men have been arrested after an alleged knife attack at a train station caused travel chaos.

Streatham Common station in South London was closed after the horrific altercation, which led to significant disruption on major train lines.

British Transport Police were alerted to the alleged fight at Streatham Common Railway Station at 11.25am this morning (May 17).

Two men in their 20s were found injured and were taken to hospital, where their conditions were confirmed to be neither life-threatening nor life-changing.

Several routes have been affected by a number of incidents.

Police in south London are urgently seeking a woman after CCTV footage showed what is believed to be a rape outside Gaumont Place, Streatham, at around 5:30am on Tuesday. The incident was not reported immediately, but came to light following a review of the footage the next day.