As the festive party season kicks in, Wandsworth residents are being urged to keep an eye on their drinking.

Help with rent arrears, debt, Housing Benefit, Council Tax and more is available from free sessions at the Western Area Housing Office, Holybourne Avenue, Alton estate.

Residents can expect to see improvement works to revive two key areas of Tooting Common over the coming months as part of the Tooting Common Heritage Project.

The council will resist a mobile phone company’s plans to erect a large telecom mast next to Tooting Common at an appeal being heard in the New Year.

There are more Christmas events, town centre light ceremonies and festive markets coming up to help tempt Wandsworth shoppers into local stores.

Christmas carols, music, mince pies and more are all part of a seasonal community celebration taking place on 14 December at York Gardens Library and Community Centre, Battersea.

The Nine Elms Vauxhall Partnership, as a Tate Exchange Associate, has launched a new arts engagement project which will bring clay and digital storytelling workshops to a network of galleries on the south bank of the Thames.

Ambitious plans to revitalise three housing estates in the borough have received a welcome boost with a Government announcement of extra funding for large scale housing regeneration schemes.

Hillingdon, Richmond, Wandsworth and Windsor and Maidenhead councils, together with Greenpeace and a resident of Hillingdon, have today served legal papers on the government for unlawfully supporting the expansion of Heathrow.

A rogue landlord who waged a campaign of harassment and intimidation against a young mother he wanted to illegally evict, has been heavily fined after being taken to court by Wandsworth Council.