Robert Firth
Local Democracy Reporter at MyLondon
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2 months ago |
londonnewsonline.co.uk | Robert Firth
By Robert Firth, Local Democracy ReporterA man who raped a homeless youth at knifepoint died after taking an overdose of bipolar medication in prison. Roy King, 61, took an overdose in January 2023, according to a Prisons and Probation Ombudsman (PPO) report into his death. King, originally from West Norwood, was jailed for an indeterminate period in 2007 for the protection of the public, after luring an 18-year-old man to Crystal Palace Park and raping him the year before.
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londonnewsonline.co.uk | Robert Firth
By Robert Firth, Local Democracy Reporter A Labour politician who oversaw the sale of a council house in a £3million deal has been criticised for entering a prize draw to win it. Southwark councillor Richard Livingstone told London Centric he had recently bought a raffle ticket to win the four-bedroom council home near Borough Market. But in 2013 he had supervised the sale of the same property, despite opposition from housing activists.
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mylondon.news | Robert Firth
A Labour politician who oversaw the sale of a London council house in a £3 million deal has been criticised for entering a prize draw to win it. Southwark councillor Richard Livingstone told London Centric he had recently bought a raffle ticket to win the four-bedroom council home near Borough Market. But in 2013 he had supervised the sale of the same property, despite opposition from housing activists.
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mylondon.news | Robert Firth
A South London childminder is locked in a dispute with a firm owned by a millionaire Labour party donor about trees overhanging her back garden. Cathy Erskine claims she has been asking AA Homes, owned by Anwar Ansari, to remove several trees on land backing onto her property since November 2024, when she claims a branch from one of them crashed into her garden and destroyed a shed during a storm.
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londonnewsonline.co.uk | Robert Firth |Yann Tear
By Robert Firth, Local Democracy ReporterOver half of Lambeth’s larger council homes were let to families outside of the bidding system in the second half of last year. Data obtained by a housing support group through a Freedom of Information (FOI) request shows 62 per cent of four bedroom homes and 51 per cent of three bedroom homes in Lambeth were allocated through the council choosing households directly.
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RT @DespoticInroad: *Social housing is not driving rent/house price inflation OR preventing building* Vienna (~60% social housing) = one o…
lol i know a friend of a friend who bought one of these 'modest two-bed flats' and they earn more than anyone else i know. obvz the reasons for why such flats are so expensive is the more interesting thing to talk abt.
Very little riles me more than the phrase “luxury apartments” being used to describe what are always simply modern, modest two-bed flats. What do these people want instead? Would they be happier if new builds were poor quality concrete boxes?
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