London will be the first city in England to put hydrogen-powered double decker buses on the streets as a new fleet is launched today. TfL will today add 20 new zero-emission hydrogen fuel cell buses to its fleet to join the 500 electric buses currently in service in London.
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Transport bosses are warning e-scooter riders they cannot use them on London’s trains or at stations. Trials of the e-scooters are under way in Kensington and Chelsea, Hammersmith and Fulham, Richmond and Ealing to test them out on the capital’s roads. The City of London will join the 12-month trial on July 5.
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A talented teenager from Croydon went from sitting his A Level assessments one morning to the film set of a new Netflix drama the same afternoon. It was at this point that the major change in his life hit William Gao, who will star in the streaming service’s new drama, Heartstopper.
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The latest data shows cases of coronavirus are creeping up in the South London borough of Merton. One in 1,000 people in Merton tested positive for Covid in the week up to June 18. In fact in the seven days to June 18, there were 105.1 cases per 100,000 people or 217 individual cases.
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Parents are protesting against the closure of a Catholic primary school in Lewisham, which is causing them “panic, anguish and stress”. St Mary Magdalen’s School in Brockley is facing closure because of low student numbers and money problems.
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High speed mobile network coverage will be rolled out on the entire Tube network by 2024, TfL has today confirmed. The first stations, including Tottenham Court Road, Oxford Circus and Bank, will be upgraded with 4G coverage by the end of 2022, with the remainder of the Tube network to be upgraded in the following two years.
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Croydon Council plans to cut its senior management wage bill by more than £800,000 as the cash-strapped authority looks to balance its books. But a Conservative opposition councillor said the changes at the authority need to be more than just something written on a piece of paper.
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Matt Amos, from Deeley Road, secured the final amount needed last month and even had £130 to spare. In April, Mr Amos’ friend Katy-Louise Hicks, setup a GoFundMe page to raise funds for a mobility wheelchair to help him be more independent and help his mental health after a hard lockdown.
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The future of electric cars in London looks bright as the city’s roll-out of public charging points puts it at the forefront of the electric car revolution, according to new figures. Department for Transport figures revealed that Wandsworth currently boasts 596 charging points with Hammersmith and Fulham closely following with 528.
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A spike in referrals to children and young people’s mental health services in May is being “monitored closely”, a Lewisham committee was told yesterday (June 17). The details emerged when an update report on Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS)’s performance was presented to the children and young people’s select committee.
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A Greenwich-based refugee choir are releasing their first ever professionally recorded work for Refugee Week. The 5 track EP was devised and recorded by the Citizens of the World choir during the winter lockdown using Zoom and WhatApp voice notes.
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The number of Lewisham Council employees committing fraud has more than doubled in the past year. The increase, from four to ten, is not believed to be related to the pandemic.
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High speed mobile network coverage will be rolled out on the entire Tube network by 2024, TfL has today confirmed. The first stations, including Tottenham Court Road, Oxford Circus and Bank, will be upgraded with 4G coverage by the end of 2022, with the remainder of the Tube network to be upgraded in the following two years.
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Lewisham Council failed to protect a child in its care after she reported repeated incidents of physical, sexual, and emotional abuse, an ombudsman has ruled. Michael King, Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman, also found that “instead of being open and transparent”, the council blocked access to information and hindered both its own internal investigation into the allegations and the ombudsman’s probe into the local authority.
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Croydon Cemetery has become so overgrown some are having trouble finding the graves of their loved ones. Earlier this month, 91-year-old Keith McDowall made the trip to Croydon from Islington to visit the grave of his father, William, who died in 1942. But, in what he said was ‘possibly his last visit’ he was unable to find the grave due to the cemetery being so overgrown.
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City Hall Labour has criticised a new flexible rail ticket scheme that does not include journeys between stations in London. The Government today announced plans to introduce flexible pricing on tickets within England in a bid to make rail travel cheaper for those who may not be commuting five days a week following the easing of lockdown restrictions.
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Lambeth residents will celebrate Windrush Day 2021 with a new anthem, educational packs and community activities. The council hopes that Windrush Day will be a ‘real community celebration’ that will serve as a ‘meaningful, educational, and joyful tribute to the huge contribution made to British life by the Windrush Generation and their descendants’.
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A youth club is officially reopening next month in Grove Park eight years after it closed because of funding cuts. Thanks to the persistent campaigning of local residents, the Grove Park Youth Club is set to open its refurbished Bauhaus-inspired building from Monday, July 26.
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More than 150,000 over-18s in London received a first or second dose of the Covid-19 vaccine over the weekend as the capital makes the “final push” towards ending lockdown. Football clubs including Tottenham Hotspur, West Ham and Charlton Athletic saw a huge response from Londoners as they opened their stadiums as mass vaccination centres over the weekend, with everyone over the age of 18 now eligible to come forward for a jab.
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