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Furious homeowners say they are being forced to pay £7,000 each just to park their cars on their own driveways by a 'greedy' in a controversial new scheme.

Lambeth Council in south London has identified 200 properties in the borough where motorists are 'illegally parked' because they are using driveways that do not have a dropped kerb, meaning they have to drive across council-owned pavements to park on their own land.

Families are to be charged to park on their own drives by a Labour council which could raise up to £1million in fees.

Nearly 200 homes in Streatham Vale have been marked with a red X where Lambeth council says occupants have been driving 'illegally' over pavements to park on their land.

The local authority's so-called 'kerbside strategy' is now demanding that people living in houses with 'illegal crossovers' make their drives official.

It means people would have to pay £4,000 to obtain 'dropped kerbside access'.

The police officer charged with murder following the fatal shooting of Chris Kaba will be publicly named on January 30 next year.

Recorder of London Mark Lucraft KC ruled today that the Metropolitan Police marksman will be identified after legal hearings at the Old Bailey last month.

Judge Lucraft said that the officer's name and date of birth will be made public next year, but that their home address or any image of them cannot be published.

A US fried chicken chain that's 'more popular than KFC' has announced plans to open another 20 branches in the UK this year.

Wingstop currently has 57 sites across Britain and has revealed the locations of the first six it plans to open - with the others still being kept under wraps.

These will include dine-in restaurants in Swansea, Newcastle, Lakeside shopping centre in Essex, Streatham in south London and Cardigan Fields in Leeds.

The fast food chain will also open a kitchen in Brighton that will be used for takeaway deliveries.

A man has been arrested after five people were allegedly stabbed near an Asda supermarket.

The victims were reportedly attacked at a Sainsbury's Argos distribution centre close to the store in Beddington, London.

Paramedics and the air ambulance rushed to the scene shortly after 10am on Thursday.

Five people were taken to hospital, the London Ambulance Service said.

A Metropolitan Police spokesperson said: 'At 10:15hrs on Thursday, 23 January, officers responded to reports of a stabbing at a commercial address on Marlowe Way, Beddington.

Residents living on a busy south London high street have blasted plans to move a pedestrian crossing 50 yards at an apparent cost of more than £650,000.

Transport for London, which is chaired by Mayor Sadiq Khan, is plotting to make the changes on Streatham High Road - which forms part of the A23 - over safety concerns.

They say that the crossing must be moved from near Woodbourne Avenue to just off Gracefield Gardens junction after there were 21 collisions there in three years.

A Premier League club has been forced to apologise after one of its player's rubbish was illegally dumped rubbish outside a block of flats.

Angry residents got in touch with Crystal Palace to report Jefferson Lerma, 30, for fly-tipping.

After an investigation, the club found that the Colombian midfielder had paid for a 'legitimate waste disposal service' to remove the rubbish 'in good faith'.

A Greggs super fan who lost more than four pounds by eating nothing but sausage rolls for a week, said he wouldn't recommend it to others because 'your body is going to feel rubbish'.

Former retail worker Saj Cavet polished off 36 of the baker's iconic pastries during the seven-day challenge which he ate them for breakfast, lunch and dinner.

The 25-year-old swapped his usual healthy diet for the British staple and dropped to just over 14 stone from 14st5llbs.

London Mayor Sadiq Khan has thanked the police officer who shot Chris Kaba dead, just one week on from refusing to apologise to him.

Mr Khan directly thanked officer Martyn Blake for shooting the gangster dead during a 2022 vehicle stop, but did so by referring to Mr Blake by his codename NX121.

Kaba was shot dead by Sergeant Blake as he tried to ram his car through police vehicles in Streatham, south London, in September 2022.

A couple have been reunited with their cat which was found whimpering in a garden two-and-a-half miles away after being taken from their driveway five days prior.

Anabela Cunha and her husband Joseph were left horrified after seeing the man walking away with their cat Simba screaming in agony and distress.

The ginger and white cat, six, was stolen from outside their home in Mitcham, south London, last Thursday and the couple quickly alerted the police.