Journo Portfolio Logo

South West Londoner

South West Londoner: first for all your online news, reviews, features and sport from across Wandsworth, Merton, Richmond, Kingston and Lambeth.

← Back to all Publications

Featured Writers

profile picture

Benjamin Youell

I'm an NCTJ-qualified journalist working as a news reporter at the Daily Star Online. I have experience in both regional and national news. I completed a history degree at King's …

View Portfolio
profile picture

Oscar Ress

Sports Journalist with articles for The Cricketer, South West Londoner and Dub Sports. Sports NCTJ at News Associates. Former Sports Editor of Concrete

View Portfolio
profile picture

Lily Jobson

View Portfolio
profile picture

Benjamin Macready

I have significant experience as a writer, and I am a Gold Standard NCTJ certified journalist. I have written: a play, a guide to the portraits on display at the …

View Portfolio
profile picture

Mia Williams

View Portfolio
profile picture

Daniel Mulhern

Aspiring Journalist

View Portfolio

Latest Articles

Innovating Industries - Episode 2: Restaurants

Have you ever wanted to know what goes on behind the scenes of some of the UK’s leading industries? The Innovating Industries podcast explores exactly that, plunging into the troubles they face, their current achievements and finally their next steps. In this three part series, we focus on three sectors …
By Julius Lawless-Master
• South West Londoner

South West London loneliness reduced by the Walk and Talk Movement

The Walk and Talk Movement was initially founded in 2021 to help bring together communities of people who were suffering from loneliness after the pandemic. Since then, more than 500 weekly Walk and Talk events have been successfully run by the community and more than 10,000 participants have joined. They …
By RUTH STAINER
• South West Londoner

Londoners frustrated by lack of UK employers providing menstrual support

Just over one in ten UK workers (12%) say their employers provide support for menstruation and menstrual health, new data has shown. According to the data by CIPD, respondents’ most common types of menstrual support currently provided by their employers were free period products (18%), menstrual leave (15%) and time …
By RUTH STAINER
• South West Londoner

Refugee Tales’ five-day walk for asylum seekers set to finish in Wandsworth

Refugee Tales is set to embark on its annual walk in solidarity with asylum seekers, migrants and refugees next week, finishing with an evening event in Wandsworth on July 9th. Beginning on July 6th, the organisation’s supporters will walk from Edenbridge to Westminster and, on each evening, host an event …
By RUTH STAINER
• South West Londoner

Inside the UK’s top performing arts schools

Each year, thousands of budding performers audition for dance and drama schools across the UK. These highly competitive institutions select the best-of-the-best to train into industry professionals. There’s no business like show business, but what is it really like inside these institutions? Former students from Bird College and Masters Performing …
By Nicole Haynes
• South West Londoner

Teen pregnancy falls in London but Croydon with highest rate

Conception rates amongst girls under 18 have been steadily dropping in London, more than halving between 2012 and 2022, according to a recently released Office of National Statistics (ONS) dataset. The amount of under-18s having pregnancies dropped from 879 in June 2012 to 379 in June 2022, signalling a 57% …
By Anna Kerr
• South West Londoner

London has no housing support for male domestic abuse victims

London has no refuges or safe houses for male domestic abuse victims, new data from a male domestic abuse charity has shown. The data from Mankind Initiative, shows that whilst England and Wales, as of March 2023, has 45 male accommodation provisions, none of these were in the capital. Under …
By RUTH STAINER
• South West Londoner

200th anniversary of the RNLI: The value of Teddington Lifeboat Station

The Teddington Royal National Lifeboat Station is one of the country’s busiest, with its thirty-plus voluntary crew protecting the people of Richmond through to Hampton. This year marks the Royal National Lifeboat Institution’s (RNLI) 200th anniversary of saving lives, with recent RNLI data revealing that its lifeboat crews and lifeguards …
By RUTH STAINER
• South West Londoner

WATCH: Science Museum hosts late-night event on the theme of 'Create' | South West Londoner

On the evening of Thursday 9 May 2024, the Science Museum in South Kensington opened its doors to another of its renowned ‘Lates’ events. The theme on this occasion was ‘Create’ — a wide topic but one which allowed the public to interact with scientists and artists on a multitude …
By Emily Cooke
• South West Londoner

South West London hit hardest by soaring rental Costs, ONS data reveals | South West Londoner

South West London is bearing the brunt of the burden of escalating rental costs in the city, according to new figures from the Office of National Statistics. Kensington & Chelsea, Hammersmith & Fulham, Wandsworth, Lambeth, Richmond upon Thames, and Merton were in the top 12 London areas with the highest …
By Anna Kerr
• South West Londoner

Relief for Tories in Croydon and Sutton as they retain potential swing seat

The Conservatives have held the Croydon and Sutton seat in the London Mayoral elections, in a relief win for the party after a crushing overall defeat by Labour. Tory candidate Neil Garratt won 64,674 votes compared to Labour’s Maddie Henson, who got 54,380 votes, securing a 10,000 strong majority. The …
By RUTH STAINER
• South West Londoner

London elections: Sadiq Khan wins record third term as mayor | South West Londoner

Labour’s Sadiq Khan has secured a record third term, beating Conservative rival Susan Hall. Khan secured 43.7% of the vote, whilst Hall secured just 32.6%, a significant shift towards Khan compared to his win over Shaun Bailey in 2021. His commitments include free school meals for all primary school children …
By Anna Kerr
• South West Londoner

Despite decline in contraceptive prescriptions, pill remains most popular

While the total number of contraceptive prescriptions in the UK* has decreased, the pill remains the most commonly prescribed method, new data has shown. The data, obtained from the NHS Business Services Authority via a Freedom of Information request, shows the total number of contraceptive prescriptions decreased by more than …
By Hannah Bradfield
• South West Londoner

Eurovision interviews: In conversation with hosts Sweden, Moldova and Latvia

Eurovision contestants came together to perform their songs in London before the big day in Malmö on 11 May. The London Eurovision Party is an annual event which was held this year near Tottenham Court Road, offering audiences a preview of contestants’ songs and providing acts with an opportunity to …
By Libby Jennings
• South West Londoner

Children's cancer care moving from St George’s and Royal Marsden

NHS England announced last month that specialist children’s cancer services will move to the Evelina London by October 2026 at the earliest. Care for children aged 15 and under at both St George’s Hospital in Tooting and Royal Marsden in Sutton will be forced to move, at an estimated cost …
By RUTH STAINER
• South West Londoner

A celebration of 200 years of the RNLI with Kingston choir Euphonix

Kingston-based community choir put on a lunchtime concert last week in aid of the RNLI’s bicentennial anniversary earlier this month. Euphonix, a community choir of up to 100 members, which began in 2009, performed at Kingston’s Rose Theatre last Wednesday, raising money in aid of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution …
By RUTH STAINER
• South West Londoner

'Beaming with Queerness' - How the West London Queer Project has transformed the LGBTQ+ community

The West London Queer Project, a non-profit Community Interest Company (CIC), aims to provide a support network and give a voice to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and other sexual and gender identifying people (LGBTQ+) in west London at a time of great uncertainty and challenge. Their LGBTQ+ History Month …
By RUTH STAINER
• South West Londoner

REVIEW: Yaatra in Westminster is the tastiest Indian I've ever had

When every other person in London seems to have plans for Valentine’s Day, I highly recommend meeting your pal for an Indian next year. That’s what I did, anyway. Except it was no ordinary Indian, it was quite possibly the tastiest Indian I’ve ever had. Yaatra is located inside a …
By Maggie John
• South West Londoner

Richmond remembers pandemic loss for Day of Reflection

The Richmond community are remembering lives lost during the Covid-19 pandemic with a wall of reflection for the fourth annual Day of Reflection this Sunday. The wall, hanging poignant written messages dedicated towards loved ones, has been placed in end-of-life charity Marie Curie’s Richmond shop to encourage individuals to commemorate …
By RUTH STAINER
• South West Londoner

Owl stolen from Wimbledon and Putney Commons in suspected targeted attack

A tawny owl has been stolen from Wimbledon and Putney Commons. Merlin, who is nearly 30 years old, has lived in a locked aviary in a stable yard on the commons since 2017 and was cared for by a specialist team until Saturday. Angela Evans-Hill, who was working as duty …
By RUTH STAINER
• South West Londoner

Strictly star Ellie Leach to commence stage acting debut at Richmond Theatre

Strictly Come Dancing winner Ellie Leach will commence her stage acting debut in Richmond this month. The reigning champion will be playing Miss Scarlett in the 75th anniversary tour of CLUEDO 2 at Richmond Theatre from the 29th of February. This comes following her Glitterball trophy victory in December with …
By Nicole Haynes
• South West Londoner