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Lambeth Police have issued an appeal to help find a man missing from Brixton.

Philippe Fraser, 36, has not been seen since Tuesday 8 June when he left his home above the bar Hootananny in Brixton.

Lambeth Council has encouraged anyone who lives or works in Clapham to take a Covid-19 PCR test after 422 new cases of coronavirus were confirmed in Lambeth in the seven days to June 15.

A pop-up testing site on Clapham Common which was due to close has been kept in operation following a rise in confirmed cases of the Delta variant.

Balham Tube Station will be partially closed until late December

From Monday June 28 Balham Tube Station will be 'exit only' between 7.30am and 9.30am on weekdays due to planned escalator works.

The Eden Nature Garden in Clapham has launched a fundraising campaign to urgently repair its wildlife pond, currently being drained of water by the ancient Oak tree nearby.

Clapham has few secrets so well kept as the Eden Nature Garden. Adjacent to St Paul's Churchyard, Eden Nature Garden is a haven of tranquillity, having been transformed in 2000 from disused church land running alongside Matrimony Place.

When she began writing Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone J.K. Rowling lived in none other than Clapham Junction.

Unlike King's Cross and St Pancras stations, our busy local station was never noticeably present in the wonderful wizarding world Rowling created. At least, not to serve any travel purposes.

Clapham Picturehouse is offering a 30% discount on memberships to celebrate its post-lockdown re-opening with a schedule of films that includes A Quiet Place II, Ammonite and Nomadland.

Built in 1910 upon former horse stables, Venn Street's Picturehouse has been a staple venue amongst local cinemagoers for nearly thirty years – its screens having ousted the green-cloth tables of Clapham's snooker hall in 1992.

The American fast-food chain Chipotle is to open a restaurant in Clapham this summer, having taken over the former GBK site on Northcote Road.

Having made its UK debut in 2010 with a site on Charing Cross Road, Chipotle has more recently been expanding into "villages" across the capital.

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