11 h. ago Ten fire engines and 70 firefighters tackle south London house blaze as three taken to hospital

London Fire Brigade said it received 17 calls about the fire in the early hours of Tuesday morning

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11 h. ago Boy and two adults rushed to hospital after house blaze as roof collapses and 70 firefighters rush to scene

Around 70 firefighters and ten engines were sent to the scene of the blaze in Morden, south-west London, shortly after 4am on Tuesday morning.

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16 h. ago LIVE: South London house fire sees three including child rushed to hospital

LIVE: South London house fire sees three including child rushed to hospital  mylondon.news

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16 h. ago LIVE South London house fire sees 60 firefighters rush to scene to control blaze

LIVE South London house fire sees 60 firefighters rush to scene to control blaze  mylondon.news

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28 h. ago Marvel star Dominic Cooper fights plans for housing development in south east London

Dominic Cooper has called on Lewisham Council to revisit the controversial housing proposals in Blackheath

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36 h. ago Battersea Power Station set for 200 new council homes in £9bn transformation

The new homes are part of a drive to provide more affordable housing in south London

Economics

5 d. ago Mum with 'lost soul' face tattoo killed daughter, 8 before taking her own life

Danielle Parkinson, 31, and her daughter Iliza, 8, died in hospital following the blaze at their home in Huddersfield, Yorkshire, days after the mum was released from mental health services

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6 d. ago Four children rushed to hospital after huge blaze tears through block of flats in central London

FOUR children have been hospitalised after an inferno tore through a block of city centre flats. The London Fire Brigade scrambled eight fire engines and sixty firefighters to the blaze in Lambeth, London, this morning. Two flats were completely destroyed by the flames with more than 20 residents forced to evacuate the 11-storey building shortly...

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2 w. ago Small suburban home where David Bowie grew up and wrote his first chart hit Space Oddity is set to be opened to the public

The interior of the house in Plaistow Grove in Bromley, south-east London, will be restored to how it was when the teenage songwriter was living there in the 1960s.

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2 w. ago David Bowie’s childhood home to open to public after 1960s restoration

South London house to feature never-before-seen archival items and creative workshops for young peopleOn the evening of 6 July 1972, thousands of young people across the UK had their lives changed when the sight of David Bowie performing Starman on Top of the Pops was beamed into their living rooms. Come the end of 2027, Bowie fans will be able to walk the very floorboards where the young David Jones grew up, when his childhood home in south London, is opened to the public for the first time.Ahead of the 10th anniversary of Bowie’s death this weekend (he would have turned 79 on Thursday), the Heritage of London Trust has announced that it has acquired the two-up, two-down house at 4 Plaistow Grove, Bromley, where Bowie lived from 1955 to 1968. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Swiss nightclub fire footballer, 19, is in 'terrible pain' and has burns covering 30% of his body after he was caught up in deadly blaze, as parents rush to his hospital bedside

In a statement, FC Metz announced that their youth team player Tahirys Dos Santos, 19, is among those to have been injured and is currently receiving treatment at a hospital in Germany.

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3 w. ago ‘It’s cooler than saying I bought this on Asos’: the big car boot sale rebrand

Whether Vinted’s to blame or TikTok’s to thank, people are flocking back to car parks in search of secondhand bargains. How did the car boot get hip again?It’s a crisp Sunday morning in south-west London. Tucked within rows of terrace houses, the playground of a primary school has been transformed into an outdoor treasure trove. Tables are filled with stacks of books and board games; clothes hang from metal racks or are piled into boxes which are strewn over a hopscotch. It’s the 10am opening of Balham car boot sale. A modest queue filters through the entrance: families, pensioners, fashion influencers, TikTokers.Three friends – Dominique Gowie, Abbie Mitchell (both 25 years old) and Affy Chowdhury (26) – arrived an hour earlier, to set up. They are selling at a car boot for the first time, enticed by the growing hype circulating on social media. “If you go out and say: ‘Oh I bought this at the car boot,’ I think it’s actually cooler than saying I bought this on Asos,” says Dominiqu...

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