Supplying London with food causes more than 15,400 kilotons of CO2 emissions each year, a new report has found. Research from ReLondon (formerly the London Waste and Recycling Board) and Circle Economy has found that around 15,483 kilotons of CO2 is produced each year through the production, transportation, consumption and disposal of food in London.
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A Holocaust Memorial is at risk of not being be built opposite the Houses of Parliament due to a new legal challenge. A High Court judge has allowed an appeal to go ahead as the memorial could be built at the Imperial War Museum instead.
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Battersea Power Station is set to open exciting new shops and restaurants soon as the latest development stage nears completion. The £9 billion project will see the creation of luxurious new homes, shops, cafés, offices and over 19 acres of public space – it should open in summer 2022.
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Cyclists could soon see permanent changes in Croydon town centre. In August 2020, Croydon Council put temporary cycle lanes in using TfL funding made available during the Covid-19 pandemic. The authority now wants to make the changes permanent.
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Two London councils have been at war for 10 years over one small residential road. County Gate, in Bexley, borders Greenwich and residents have becoming increasingly frustrated as speeding cars use their street as a short-cut to the A20.
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A single mum has spoken out about her “nightmare” experience of living through a large fire that broke out on the 20th floor of a block of flats. Around 70 firefighters rushed to a tower on Westbridge Road, Battersea on Tuesday (October 12), just after 8pm.
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The sale of the Croydon Park Hotel was “not ideal” according to government inspectors who advised delaying a deal. A report from the Croydon Improvement and Assurance Panel published this week has criticised the council’s sale of the controversial hotel.
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Two doctors who treat patients with head and neck cancer are set to finish a £100,000 fundraising feat with a run of 100km, or more than 62 miles. Dr Benjamin Miller and Dr Aleix Rovira, from Guy’s and St Thomas’, have been doing a monthly run, starting with 10km, then adding an extra 10km each month.
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Three generations of one family are now all in Girlguiding, after a five-year-old enrolled 32 years after her grandmother had watched her mother do the same thing. Alison Hope started the Blackfen Rainbow unit 32 years ago, and one of her first tasks was to enrol her own daughter, Louise.
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Housing chiefs have unveiled plans to repurchase properties sold off under the Right to Buy scheme in bid to stave off the increasingly acute housing crisis. Up to 100 properties will be brought back into public ownership under the ‘Right to Buyback’ programme.
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A shop in Westminster has closed down after a police raid found drugs hidden in sweet packets. Officers discovered large quantities of cannabis at Fashion and Media News off licence on Great Tichfield Street – near Oxford Circus Station.
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Elderly and vulnerable residents feel “forgotten” as the communal space at their sheltered accommodation block has been left in a horrible state. The common area is now unusable after a leak more than three months ago that still hasn’t been fixed.
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Only 14 grants from the Government’s £30 million Waking Watch Relief Fund have been paid out in London, totalling less than £1.7 million. The fund was introduced in December 2020 to cover the cost of replacing waking watches with fire alarm systems in buildings that have fire safety defects.
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Theatre is all about telling stories, and at Greenwich Theatre we love to support the work of some of the newest storytellers around.
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Thousands of children in London are still being forced to miss school due to Covid-19. Over 10,000 children missed school due to Covid related reasons in the capital in the week leading up to October half term.
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The number of Londoners hiring e-scooters as part of TfL’s trial rental scheme has increased since the expansion of the Ultra-Low Emission Zone, figures have revealed. The three operators involved in the trial – Tier, Dott and Lime – reported a 30 per cent increase in the number of new users in the week following the expansion of the ULEZ.
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The Met police have put Woolwich under special measures for Bonfire Night after the firework chaos which took over the town Centre. Four police officers were badly injured and 30 were arrested after allegedly throwing lit fireworks at each other and innocent bystanders on Halloween (October 31).
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Five London secondary schools have each been awarded £10,000 by Sadiq Khan to help them accelerate student-led environmental projects. Following his return from the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow earlier this week, the Mayor of London announced the winners of the Climate Kick-Start Prize at an event at the Barbican this morning.
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House prices in continue to soar as rich buyers from abroad return and snap up homes after the easing of coronavirus restrictions. Wealthy jet-setters are adding to the highest rise in property prices in London’s most expensive area since 2015.
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