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Multimedia News Journalist and Writer

Thanks for stopping by. I'm a journalist, writer, and unserious cinema fan based in London. I specialise in hard-hitting local and political news, entertainment, and rapid-pace general news reporting. I've also got a history of high-impact investigations, spending too much time on research, and juggling too many stories at a time.

My work's been featured prominently in Private Eye, the Daily Telegraph, the London Economic, Southwark News, Clapham Junction Insider, and more, including in print, extensive video work, feature pieces, and high-impact investigations.

A curated section of my online work is available below, with more pieces highlighted on my LinkedIn. 

Southwark News •

Homes built for rough sleepers in Bermondsey remain empty two months after grand opening

Eight modular homes installed on a Bermondsey council estate to provide temporary accommodation for rough sleepers have remained empty two months after opening, writes Rich Brann…


The delay, according to Southwark Council, is down to Thames Water not connecting them to the water supply, with the company who built the homes saying trying to get a date from them “has been like pulling teeth.”Hill Group handed over the eight Solohaus homes to Southwark Council in a grand ceremony in mid-January...
Southwark News •

New Superloop bus route to link Dulwich to Clapham Junction and Eltham from 2027

Transport for London has confirmed that a new Superloop bus route will open in 2027 providing a new service across several South London boroughs, writes Rich Brann…


A public consultation for the SL15 route concluded that residents would “widely welcome” the new service, set to run from Clapham Junction towards Clapham South, Tulse Hill, Forest Hill, Catford, Lewisham and Eltham.The return route from Eltham, meanwhile, will include a stop in West Dulwich, allowing for quick links between busy...
Southwark News •

Southwark Council propose world-first wild swimming experience on the Old Kent Road

Wild swimming may be coming to the Old Kent Road at Southwark’s Grade II listed gasworks, writes Rich Brann.


Plans outlined at the council’s Overview and Scrutiny Committee described the proposal as unlike anything else seen in Europe, creating an accessible freshwater swimming experience with health benefits at the development site in Old Kent Road, to be renamed Livesey Park.The project would divide the historic gasworks in two, building a cold water swimming pool in one half and a natural...
South West Londoner •

WATCH: Save Wimbledon Park campaigners protest Royal Courts of Justice as new legal battle intensifies

Campaign group Save Wimbledon Park mounted a protest on Friday as the All-England Lawn Tennis Club (AELTC) began a new legal battle to authorise their expansion into the neighbouring park.


AELTC, world-famous providers of Wimbledon each year, want to build 38 new tennis courts upon a golf course that forms part of the nearby park and at a new hearing at the Royal Courts of Justice set to last days, their lawyers argue that a statutory trust placed upon the land has been invalid since its sale...
Clapham Junction Insider - Local Democracy Reporti •

Housing crisis takes centre stage in new play at Clapham’s Omnibus Theatre

A dark comedy supported by renters’ union ACORN runs at Clapham’s Omnibus Theatre this week, using farce and real-life mishaps to probe the pressures facing tenants amid a worsening housing crisis.
A new play dealing with the UK’s housing crisis head-on has opened at Clapham’s Omnibus Theatre, developed in coordination with the renters’ union ACORN.
Produced by Pound Road Productions, the cutting-edge comedy — titled The Good Landlord — tells the story of an unfolding crisis in a Birmingham flat...
Clapham Junction Insider - Local Democracy Reporti •

Is Wandsworth aiming for a lower housing target than before?

Wandsworth Council has unveiled new plans for housing presented as ‘ambitious’ even though they would deliver hundreds fewer homes a year than previous targets.
Council leader Simon Hogg announced a new plan in August that will deliver 14,000 new dwellings over the next decade in the borough of Wandsworth.
Unveiling the plans, Hogg said:
Echoing the Labour government’s ‘Growth, Growth, Growth’ mantra, the Wandsworth Growth Plan (pdf) will be driven by a new Clapham Junction Growth Corridor, stre...
South West Londoner •

Experts warn of looming London drugs crisis as deaths climb to new high

A group of experts have cautioned policy must change as drugs use deaths grew to the highest ever recorded in London.


New data from the Office of National Statistics (ONS) showed that the number of deaths in London due to drugs poisonings grew by 32% from 2023-24, far outstripping the average England and Wales rise of 2%.


This comes as scrutiny towards the danger of synthetic drugs and opioids has increased, with the number of deaths due to nitazenes — a type of synthetic opioid often hund...