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Chishuru: Famed West African restaurant reveals opening date for new site

Chishuru won countless plaudits after launching in Brixton in 2020, but closed last October

Evening Standard

Asake pays tribute to Brixton Academy crowd crush victims with poem at concert at London’s O2 Arena

He played a two-and-a-half minute video to a 20,000-strong crowd at the O2 Arena in Greenwich on Sunday on his return to the capital

Evening Standard

Asake review – Afropop beacon mistimes underwhelming London return after Brixton tragedy

Arriving 90 minutes late, Asake seems frustrated during his too-safe set, which included a tribute to the two people killed at his last show in the capital

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Teenager who stabbed 16-year-old boy in Tube knife fight at Brixton station jailed for six years

The victim refused to cooperate with the British Transport Police investigation

Evening Standard

Oktoberfest 2023: Electric Brixton to host its first-ever beer-fuelled Bavaraian knees-up

Up to 2,100 revellers a night are expected to descend upon SW2 for the new Oktoberfest party

Evening Standard

Woman injured after being struck by motorbike near McDonald’s in Brixton

A woman has been rushed to hospital after being struck by a motorbike in a busy south London high street.

Evening Standard

Liberté, egalité, solidarité: The night four "mean Frenchy bitches" lit up London with Brutal Pop, discothèque-noir and punk rock fire

SUN shines while heading up a new, noisy French revolution in Brixton

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How Brixton battled a billionaire — and won

When an office block threatened to change the face of Brixton forever, locals protested. Josh Barrie reports on the fight to save the soul of SW9

Evening Standard

Skin: ‘I get bored if things aren’t hard’

The singer, 55, talks about headlining Glastonbury, getting an OBE and having itchy feet

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Texan billionaire DJ’s controversial 20-storey Brixton tower plan scrapped

A controversial 20-storey tower proposed for Brixton by a billionaire Texan DJ has been scrapped after a years-long community campaign against the project.

Evening Standard

En Root: South London’s first plant-based pub to become permanent after summer pop-up

En Root is emerging as one of South London’s foremost dining destinations, with spaces now in Brixton, Clapham, and Peckham

Evening Standard

Bird on the wire nest on Electric Avenue?

Letters: Brixton new-build | Derek Malcolm tributes | Stonehenge trees instead of tunnel | Send her Victorias | Chelsea on the cheap

The Guardian - UK

OPINION - London will become a dystopia of gated living if we fail to build houses

The first place I lived in London as an adult was the Ralph West Halls of Residence, on Albert Bridge Road, opposite Battersea Park. I was 17, it was the height of punk, and I lived just a spit from King’s Road in Chelsea. Since then I’ve lived in most…

Evening Standard

Sufferah: Memoir of a Brixton Reggae Head by Alex Wheatle review – triumph over adversity

In a searing account of early trauma at the hands of social services and the police, the award-winning writer finds joy and empowerment in his love of music

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Reclaiming Windrush Square: why urban development projects need to heed local voices

Windrush Square is a vibrant public plaza at the heart of Brixton, in the London borough of Lambeth. It was first named in 1998 in commemoration of the arrival of the Empire Windrush, which docked in Essex in 1948, carrying 1,027 passengers, at least 500 of whom were from the…

Louder

Hawkwind detail mammoth eleven-disc Space Ritual box set

Hawkwind will release a 50th anniversary box set of Space Ritual in September

Evening Standard

Sadiq Khan: Questions need answering before O2 Academy Brixton is reopened

Mayor Sadiq Khan said the O2 Academy Brixton’s future as a music venue was a ‘secondary’ issue, compared with the police investigation into what happened on the night

Daily Record

Young sons of Brixton Academy crush victim 'starting to realise mum isn't coming home'

Rebecca Ikumelo, 33, and security worker Gaby Hutchinson, 23, died days after being hurt when ticketless fans tried to get into a show in December.

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The Independent UK

Plea for help from relatives of those who died after Brixton Academy crush

Metropolitan Police Detective Chief Inspector Nigel Penney says a criminal investigation is being conducted involving a range of potential offences.

Evening Standard

Brixton Academy crush: Corporate manslaughter probe launched as family reveals agony of children who lost mother

Rebecca Ikumelo and Gaby Hutchinson died after ticketless fans tried to force their way into a concert by Nigerian Afrobeats artist Asake in December

Evening Standard

Prisoner found by police in Brixton five days after escaping jail transport van

A prisoner who slipped out of his jail-bound security van before escaping officer’s clutches on the Victoria Line train has been found by police.

Evening Standard

Appeal after man escapes from police custody in Brixton

Police have issued an appeal after a man escaped from custody in south London.

Daily Mirror

Police warn 'do not approach' burglar who ESCAPED prison van and fled on transport

Kwami Richards, 42, escaped from the van outside Brixton Police Station in South London at 2pm yesterday - police chased him into Brixton Underground Station where he jumped on a train

Evening Standard

Musician Fuse ODG says Met Police ‘racially profiled’ him after being handcuffed in Brixton

Singer Fuse ODG has claimed he was “racially profiled” by the Met Police after he was handcuffed by officers in south London.

Evening Standard

Family of woman stabbed to death in Brixton question year-long wait for trial

Johanita Kossiwa Dogbey was murdered in broad daylight as she walked home on May 1

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