A family has given more than £10,000 in thank you gifts to hospital staff after they saved the lives of two of them at Christmas. Georgie Theobald, from Denmark Hill, Camberwell, has put a smile on thousands of faces at King’s College Hospital because staff helped save the life of her grandmother and her son.
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Westminster Tory councillors have heavily criticised the Government’s decision to impose taxes on goods bought by foreign shoppers. Until 2021, tourists from outside the EU could claim a VAT refund on any retail purchases made in the UK. The policy was thought to have helped the West End become a magnet for fashionistas from China, the Middle East and around the world.
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A leisure pool in Deptford at risk of not reopening is running at a deficit of about £400,000 per year, Lewisham Council has said. Locals this week expressed dismay after it emerged that the Wavelengths leisure pool might be closed for good. Wavelengths closed along with all other leisure facilities across the borough when the UK went into lockdown.
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A new drop-off point for donations to Bromley Borough Foodbank has opened at The Glades shopping centre amid growing pressure on the charity’s resources. Figures released this week by the Trussell Trust, a national foodbank charity, show that the pandemic has seen a dramatic increase in the number of people using foodbanks across the country.
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Teachers at The John Roan School in Greenwich will be on strike tomorrow to defend a teacher of 20 years who is being faced with dismissal. National Education Union (NEU) representative, Kirstie Paton, is facing dismissal at a disciplinary hearing the next day, on April 30, for speaking out about health and safety in schools.
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A former flagship department store and offices will be knocked down to make way for modern work spaces, shops and a village square in Victoria. The 1970s House of Fraser department store in Victoria Street closed for the last time in 2019. There has been a department store in the street since 1871 when the Army and Navy Co-operative Society leased distillery premises and expanded rapidly in the 1870s.
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Mayoral candidates Sadiq Khan and Shaun Bailey will tonight hear testimonies from Londoners impacted by the housing crisis as community organisers demand action. Organised by London Citizens, a chapter of community organising charity Citizens UK, tonight’s accountability assembly will see the leading candidates in the mayoral race hear the issues facing Londoners as they are asked to sign up to a people’s manifesto.
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Products from firms connected to the Grenfell Tower refurbishment will not be used on buildings owned by Kensington and Chelsea council. Deputy leader Kim Taylor-Smith made the pledge at the housing and scrutiny committee following revelations that contractors had used Kingspan insulation on the multi-million pound Barlby School and adjacent Queensmill special school which is due to open this autumn.
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Lambeth Council hopes to increase the uptake in healthy start vouchers among eligible residents from 44 per cent to at least 70 per cent in the next year. The NHS Healthy Start scheme gives vouchers to support pregnant women, babies and toddlers. People are eligible if they are pregnant at least 10 weeks or have a child under four and get benefits.
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Lambeth council has said it is ‘grateful for the incredible response’ to the enhanced Covid-19 PCR testing that has now been completed. Lambeth council worked in partnership with Public Health England and NHS Test and Trace to deliver this enhanced in testing in a response to a cluster of cases of the variant first identified in South Africa locally.
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A map showing the proposed locations of 70 e-scooter parking bays across Westminster and the West End has been revealed. Westminster is one of many London boroughs that have joined Transport for London’s plan to roll out an e-scooter rental scheme this year.
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For some, the hardest part of the pandemic was being unable to visit a friend or loved one in hospital for days or weeks on end. Now, two major hospitals have become the first in all of north and west London to resume visits, including to see patients who have Covid.
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Lewisham Council has failed to allay concerns that a leisure pool in Deptford will not reopen. Wavelengths Leisure Centre closed along with all other leisure facilities across the borough when the UK went into lockdown.
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The RSPCA is appealing for information after a beloved cat was found dead in suspicious circumstances, near where two were also shot with airgun pellets. Eight-year-old Leo’s body was discovered by members of the public who reported it to their owner who had been desperately looking for him.
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South West Londoners have looked on in disbelief at the debacle over Hammersmith Bridge, since cracks in its Victorian pedestals forced its closure two years ago. With less than a fortnight to the London mayoral election, candidates from the four main parties have stated how they think it should be fixed and who should pay for it.
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New offices on the former South London Mail Centre site in Nine Elms have been approved unanimously by Wandsworth Council’s planning committee. Work is expected to begin on the site on Nine Elms Lane this summer. It will see an eleven-storey building built, complete with a rooftop terrace, and will mainly house offices as well as some flexible space for start-ups and community groups to use.
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Residents living near Wimbledon Park are frustrated that the park has not opened its gates earlier during the pandemic. The opening times have not changed in twenty years, and residents feel this does not allow them enough time to exercise before work, or to make the most of the daylight hours.
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After standing empty for nearly eight months, Croydon’s tallest building is now ready to welcome new residents. Renters have been waiting months to move into the new Ten Degrees development at 101 George Street – the world’s tallest modular building.
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Months on from his stay in intensive care at St Mary’s Hospital in Paddington Mr Choucair is still suffering from tiredness and the emotional after effects of covid. He lost his mother, sister, brother-in-law and three young nieces in the tragic fire at Grenfell Tower nearly four years ago .
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