Vulnerable young parents of newborns in Wandsworth are being given baby boxes, containing essentials like nappies and towels. The local council has launched the scheme, initially as a trial, to help ...

More than 14,000 new homes could be built in a south London borough over the next decade, under council plans to grow the local economy. Wandsworth Council has published a new “growth plan” outlining ...

A Wandsworth prisoner reads in a cell - where many spend up to 23 hours a day, according to a former inmate It has been described as a "dystopian Fawlty Towers" and a "powder keg" waiting to explode, ...

A prison officer who was filmed having sex with an inmate has been sentenced to 15 months in jail. Linda De Sousa Abreu, 31, was on duty at HMP Wandsworth in London when she entered the prisoner's ...

A scandal-hit prison where an inmate was filmed having sex in a cell with a female guard has been condemned as 'dangerously overcrowded' and infested with vermin in a damning new report. An audit ...

Additional staff and £100m of funding is to be redirected to HMP Wandsworth following what the prisons' chief inspector called a "catastrophic inspection", the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has announced.

A prisoner wrongly freed on Monday has handed himself back in, while police continue their search for a migrant sex offender who was also released in error. Fraudster ...

“Serious failings” have been identified in council homes across Wandsworth by the Government’s official watchdog. The ...

HMP Wandsworth still does not have some of the "most basic security systems" in place following the alleged escape of a prisoner last year, the chief inspector of prisons has warned. Charlie Taylor ...

Families come to live in Wandsworth in south-west London for the abundance of attractive Victorian and Edwardian homes, the river, the open green spaces of Wandsworth and Clapham Commons and an almost ...

A married HMP Wandsworth officer who romped with an inmate on camera has been spotted mocking her ankle bracelet at a London party. Linda De Sousa Abreu, who had sex with serial burglar Linton Weirich ...

Just two months ago, inspectors warned that HMP Wandsworth was “crumbling, overcrowded, vermin-infested” – with inexperienced staff struggling to keep tabs on more than 1,500 inmates. Charlie Taylor, ...