South West Londoner

The total number of food parcels distributed across London have more than tripled in the last seven years, data produced by food bank charity, The Trussell Trust has revealed.

End of year data released by the Trust shows that there has been a 231% increase in food parcels distributed by Trussell network food banks across the city since 2017.

In the last full financial year (2023-2024), the Trust provided nearly half a million emergency food parcels across London, with a record 162,418 of these parcels given to children alone.

Residents of Streatham described the not-guilty verdict rendered to the officer who shot Chris Kaba as a “travesty of justice”, while others argued new information on Kaba’s gang affiliation changed their view.

Metropolitan Police firearms officer Martyn Blake, 40, was acquitted of the murder of Kaba, who was shot dead in his car in Streatham two years ago, on October 21 – a verdict which generated mixed reactions among the district’s residents.

The Green Party candidate for Streatham and Croydon North suggested that both locally and nationally, the Labour party avoids honest dialogue with the public on matters such as Gaza.

The safe Labour seats in Lambeth of Streatham and Croydon North, Clapham and Brixton Hill, Dulwich and West Norwood, and Vauxhall and Camberwell Green, all re-elected their Labour MPs with a large majority.

Parents in Streatham Vale are campaigning to save their local nursery after it closed its doors in March citing a budget shortfall.

Sprig Ludens Nursery, Streatham Vale, had previously served a relatively deprived area, and had been praised for the quality of its outdoor space.

Parents criticised nursery operator the Streatham Youth & Community Trust (SYTC) for what they see as the poor way it handled the closure.

Following the tragic passing of Nottingham Panthers player Adam Johnson on the October 28th after his neck was cut by a skate blade, British ice hockey has contended with a wave of negative publicity.

Despite only being a niche sport in the United Kingdom to begin with, the widespread availability online of distressing footage of the incident risks alienating potential fans even further.

Pupils from a Streatham primary school spent a week this month analysing samples of Moon rock.

Streatham Wells Primary School received the samples between Monday and Friday last week through the Borrow the Moon loan scheme run by the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC).

Each class had the chance to experiment with the samples and learnt about classifying different rocks and soils, and parents came in to see what the children had been learning.

A seven-year-old fan of Streatham Redhawks ice hockey was brought to tears when he found out his favourite team would be wearing his logo on their shirts.

Since the start of last season, the Streatham Redhawks have had a distinctive heart-and-ribbon design on every single one of their jerseys, in honour of Mickey Pickett, an ultra-fan of the side with a rare genetic bowel condition.

Mickey, known affectionately to everyone on the team as ‘Little Mickey’, was diagnosed at birth with Hirschsprung’s disease, which meant he lacked nerves in his lower intestines.