The Latest Breaking News from South London

Huge 1,000-home development in south London set for approval

Signal Park in Tolworth looks set to see hundreds of new homes built, pending the green light from Kingston Council

Evening Standard · Mar 19

London mother, 33, dies from sepsis after being prescribed wrong antibiotics

Aleisha Rochester, a bank cashier from Croydon, south London, died two weeks after undergoing a routine procedure to remove an abscess from her left armpit

Evening Standard · Mar 11

Teacher who worked out in gym while she was meant to be supervising students sacked

Mrs Iwobi sacked from south London school for issues including underperformance and health and safety breaches

Evening Standard · Mar 4

Victory for Jude Law and Dominic Cooper as Blackheath car park development put on hold

Jude Law, 53, who grew up in Blackheath and went to the nearby John Ball Primary School, said the plans were not the answer to London’s growing housing crisis

Evening Standard · Jan 28

Plans for wild swimming pond inside 'landmark' Grade II south London gasholder

The proposals are part of wider efforts to regenerate the Old Kent Road in south London

Evening Standard · Jan 20

"A profoundly modern album - puzzling, but endearingly so." Dry Cleaning continue to charm and confuse with excellent, expansive third album, Secret Love

South London post-punks evolve their sound, stay utterly unique

Louder · Jan 10

Dry Cleaning: Secret Love review – the south London band double down on their haunting, peculiar brilliance

The standout act in the sprechgesang wave, the four-piece’s newly expansive sound carries singer Florence Shaw’s distinctive tales of mundane lives spiralling out of control

The Guardian - UK · Jan 1

Richards vs Azeez: Fight time, undercard, latest odds, prediction, ring walks tonight

South London light-heavyweight rivals headline Matchroom’s first-ever Africa show in Ghana

Evening Standard · Dec 18, 2025

Dry Cleaning on making (sheer genius) music for 'oddballs'

South London’s Dry Cleaning have just written their best album so far by delving ever more into their own weirdness

Evening Standard · Dec 6, 2025

South London Mum Confronts Uber Eats Rider Caught Eating Her McDonald's Order

Mum catches Uber Eats driver eating her McDonald's order in viral video.

International Business Times UK · Dec 2, 2025