News in Clapham

A long-term commitment by Clapham commercial cleaning company Cleanology to fair pay has resulted in a win at the prestigious Living Wage Champion Awards.

Cleanology CEO Dominic Ponniah celebrated the win with staff, saying: "Of all the awards Cleanology has won in recent years, this has the most significance.

All traffic signals are out on the A24 Clapham Common South Side, near Windmill Drive.

Drivers travelling in all directions have been advised to use caution at this junction between Elms Road and Narbonne Avenue.

Clapham can officially head to Lane Eight for its daily caffeination, with doors to the new coffee shop open at 6 The Pavement.

Britain may be a nation of tea drinkers but its capital, and our slice of it in Clapham, is in a seriously committed relationship with coffee.

Anyone who has read any part of the Report on the abuse of children in the care of Lambeth Council will be disgusted and alarmed. The extreme abuse of defenceless children by paedophiles and sadists in Lambeth over decades is stomach-churning. Lives were devastated.

The question is not just how this sexual and physical abuse could happen, but how it could happen for decades.

Lambeth Council has apologised to the hundreds of people who as children were subjected to horrendous cruelty and sexual abuse in its care homes.

The damning report published by the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA) this morning follows a succession of inquiries that failed to establish the truth about how paedophiles came to look after children in Lambeth's care.

Lambeth Council failed to protect over 700 children in its care from sexual abuse

Lambeth Council allowed hundreds of children in its care to be subjected to levels of cruelty and sexual abuse on a scale that is "hard to comprehend", an independent inquiry has found.

Families fear the London floods are "a taste for things to come" after torrential rain and thunderstorms caused chaos in the capital.

The flooding saw vehicles trapped, buses flooded and businesses forced to close, as Battersea's Queenstown Road became "a canal".

Victim of fatal stabbing in Brixton named as appeals for information continue

The victim of the fatal stabbing in Brixton last week has been named as 23-year-old Shane Jerome.

Battersea Rise closed after water main burst.

A burst water main on Battersea Rise has closed the road eastbound between Bolingbroke Grove and Clapham Common Westside.

Yet another retailer has shut up shop on St John's Road, with L'Occitane en Provence the latest store to permanently close on the High Street.

L'Occitane has come a long way since 1976 when founder Olivier Baussan, then 23-years-old, began selling essential oil produced from wild rosemary and lavender at open-air markets in his native Provence.