Honor Oak Park resident Gareth P Jones is celebrating as he launches his new children’s book, Solve Your Own Mystery: The Monster Maker. Set in the fictional town of Haventry, the reader plays the role of a yeti detective’s assistant who must solve a mysterious crime. You can follow hundreds of possible paths to work out which of the weird and wonderful characters could be the culprit.
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A new charity single has been launched to help fund potentially life-saving cancer treatment for 10-year-old girl Chole Balloqui. Downloads of the single, ‘Glitter’, written and performed by RaRa and sponsored by Pimlico Plumbers, will contribute to a target of £100,000, which will enable Chole to travel to the United States for treatment for Stage Four High Risk Neuroblastoma.
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Croydon Council has been branded a “slum landlord” after a scheme that helped them crack down on dodgy private landlords was not renewed by government. The landlord licensing scheme had allowed the authority to carry out checks on 38,000 homes and prosecute landlords.
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Campaigners have staged a picnic protest against three festivals this summer on Clapham Common. Parts of the common will be fenced off under an agreement between Lambeth council and Festival Republic, to accommodate the events over the August Bank Holiday.
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Two tall thin towers have shot up near East Croydon Station in the past few months. It is the latest development in the town centre and will see more than 450 new flats built.
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Residents living on a West London street are suffering from a “never-ending” cycle of fly-tipping. Heaps of waste are being repeatedly dumped along a street in Hammersmith with four separate cases ocurring in one month.
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Sadiq Khan has been accused of “blatantly ignoring his own contribution” to worsening air quality in parts of London by environmental campaigners.
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Students and staff at an academy in Greenwich are celebrating this week after receiving a prestigious award for the third time. Harris Academy Greenwich was awarded The World Class School Quality Mark for providing students with excellent academic qualifications and support to become well-rounded and socially responsible young adults.
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Fresh plans to build 50 extra rooms at a new hotel complex in Maida Hill have gone to council planning bosses. Developer The Collective (Taxi House) Ltd plans to build a hotel, offices and shops at a former taxi office and street cleaners building.
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London’s sewer system is getting a £4.1 billion upgrade and fresh pictures show its progress. Tideway is upgrading the capital’s sewer system to cope with its growing population, branding it a “super sewer”.
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Parking wardens are set to strike and could cause a parking free for all in Central London. Westminster wardens working for NSL parking are set to strike over pay and conditions.
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The Croydon tram network will be hit with major disruption this month while vital work is carried out. For 16 days trams will not run between Wandle Park and East Croydon.
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Hammersmith Bridge could be saved within a year thanks to new £6 million repair plans. It is hoped the new plans will save £24 million after Hammersmith and Fulham Council approved an urgent proposal to stabilise the bridge.
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Almost 100 residents in Wandsworth complained about their council tax bill last year, with 20 winning their fight for a lower rate. But the remaining residents were made to keep paying their Wandsworth Council tax bill as is.
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Pressure from school kids has forced Croydon Council to U-turn on plans to close two children’s centre. In a bid to save cash, the council wanted to shut Shirley Children’s Centre and stop services from Purley Oaks Children’s Centre.
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Some young people are being “covert” in getting their Covid vaccines because they don’t want to be seen to be “selling out” to the government, medics have been told. It is a marked difference to the start of the national vaccine programme, when many of the first cohort of people getting the jab were keen to share the news with friends and neighbours.
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A developer is having a second shot at replacing two houses in Purley with a block of flats nearly a year since a first application was refused. Plans have been lodged for the demolition of a pair of semi-detached houses and the building of 22 flats in Foxley Lane.
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Veterans are outraged by the Metropolitan Police’s decision to tear down a gazebo used to shelter Gurkhas on hunger strike – branding the force “inhumane”. Gurkha veterans have been on hunger strike outside Downing Street since Saturday, campaigning for the same pension costs as British soldiers.
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The Westminster Labour party has called for all major projects to be suspended after the council’s mismanagement of the £6million Marble Arch Mound. Deputy council leader Melvyn Caplan, who was responsible for the Marble Arch Mound, has resigned after the council admitted the project will actually cost £6m, three times the amount previously stated.
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