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Piles of bags and boxes, 3 volunteers sort and pack donations at Kingsley Shipping.

Hurricane Melissa: relief donations pour in, amid warnings of 'dangerous new reality'

In Croydon, volunteers mobilised the relief effort for Jamaica, while a rapid weather attribution report showed the role of climate change in the catastrophic storms.

Cloud of fumes disappearing through narrow vents in the road, with green edging.

Unproven and "unbelievable": why is Lewisham rolling out Roadvent?

The council plan to install the innovation at a highly polluted site near a school or nursery, but Salamander found no real-world evidence that it works.

MTA New York bus in blue livery

Mamdani has pledged free buses for New York, could London be next?

"If New York City can consider making buses free, so can London and other big world cities", say campaigners Fare Free London.

Man carries a buggy containing a small baby up the spiral stairs, other pedestrians seen.

Campaigners call for Tfl to take over Greenwich and Woolwich foot tunnels

After years of broken lifts at both foot tunnels, campaigners are calling for Greenwich council to hand over management responsibility to Tfl.

Small crowd at event. 3 story blocks joined at entrance, red brick facade, orange/red tiles, window frames, balconies

Phoenix completes Passivhaus, affordable rent homes at Farmstead Road, Bellingham

Phoenix delivers its second scheme in Lewisham which meets the highly sustainable, low energy building standard. This will reduce residents' energy bills and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Climate Trace map shows PM2.5 represented by orange dots streaming across London, SELCHP is a concentrated source o at centre

New map shows air pollution streaming from SELCHP incinerator, Deptford - a "global super emitter"

The Climate Trace project found the SELCHP plant, which burns household waste for Lewisham and other boroughs, to be in the top 10% of PM2.5 air pollution emitters across the world.

Lewisham council urges government to consider nationalisation of failing Thames Water

Green opposition councillors brought a motion calling for Thames Water to be brought back into public ownership. The Labour group passed an amended motion, but keeps nationalisation on the table.