Today (November 14) is World Diabetes Day, and the council is reminding local people they can use a simple online tool to check their risk of developing Type 2 diabetes.

Wandsworth residents are once again being offered free bags of grit and rock salt as part of the town hall’s annual winter initiative to tackle snow and ice.

Wandsworth residents are once again being offered free bags of grit and rock salt as part of the town hall’s annual winter initiative to tackle snow and ice.

Wandsworth Council has been recognised for the work it does with the Armed Forces.

Wandsworth Council has been recognised for the work it does with the Armed Forces.

Residents in Tooting are being reminded to take part in a public consultation on plans to improve a green open space that could soon have play equipment installed for younger children.

Residents in Tooting are being reminded to take part in a public consultation on plans to improve a green open space that could soon have play equipment installed for younger children.

More than 2,000 children from primary schools across the borough have this year been given special lessons using real life scenarios to help them stay safe, avoid dangerous everyday situations and even how to save a friend’s life.

More than 2,000 children from primary schools across the borough have this year been given special lessons using real life scenarios to help them stay safe, avoid dangerous everyday situations and even how to save a friend’s life.

As the nation prepares to honour its war dead and mark the centenary of the moment the guns fell silent at the end of the First World War, a small village in northern France has seen its historic wartime links with Wandsworth renewed and commemorated.