Issue 1386
Established: 1987
Kids go wild for new park
50p
July 19 2018
Hamlet promotion roundabout renamed in Google Maps
ISKNIFECRIME OUTOFCONTROL INSOUTHWARK? Page 10
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SecondhighestlevelinLondon,statsshow POLITICIANS ARE set to meet urgently next week, to discuss how best to tackle the alarming rise in knife crime across the borough.
This week, figures from the Mayor of London’s Office for Policing and Crime showed Southwark to be the second highest in the capital for knife crime, with 805 incidents taking place in the last twelve months. Around the borough in the past week, 17-year-old Katrina Makunova,
By Chiara Giordano
chiara@southwarknews.co.uk
(pictured), was stabbed to death in Camberwell, there were two stabbings in just one day in Peckham, and a family in East Dulwich were held at knifepoint by armed robbers as they ransacked their house, with children asleep upstairs. The News has previously reported on a residents’ march in Rotherhithe, after a young mother was
stabbed whilst out walking with her children. The council has suggested it is open to discussions around using the Mayor’s Met Patrol Plus Scheme, although these options will be looked at in detail at a meeting of the Full Council next Wednesday. FULL STORY PAGES 6 & 7
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TWO STABBINGS IN ONE DAY
FAMILY HELD AT KNIFEPOINT TEENAGER STABBED TO DEATH
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