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All this week, we're going to be looking at stories that have been brought to us by listeners

who wanted to be guest editors of the programme.

Today it's the turn of parent governors at a secondary school in South London, Vanessa and Toby,

who when they applied to the Today program called their idea,

The Ballad of the Disappearing Children,

because they'd noticed that far fewer children and families were living where they lived in South London.

Exclusive research for the programme carried out a result of that story idea has shown that primary school numbers have fallen by 5% in London in the last five years,

and they're projected to continue falling at double the rate of the rest of England.

In Southwark, where our listeners live, four primary schools have closed in the last two years alone.

Our correspondent Harry Farley went there to meet them.

For here, I'll take away.

For here, thank you. Thank you.

Thank you very much.

You would have cousins and, you know,

grandmothers and things at the school gig.

And that's going because a lot of those people are being priced out.

Ten years down the line, it's the ripples that come out from gentrification

that aren't really noticed.

I'm talking to Toby and Ness in an upmarket coffee shop,

oat milk, cappuccinos and almond croissons and the like.

It's part of a new development of luxury flats called Elephant Park in South London.

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