A permanent chief executive has been appointed at Croydon Council. Katherine Kerswell will take on the £192,474-a-year role after being appointed the interim chief executive in September last year as the council was facing bankruptcy.
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A luxury hotel could become the focus of one of London’s biggest ever property deals if it sells for over £1 billion. The Westbury Hotel in Mayfair will be given a facelift which its owner, Cola Holdings, hopes will make it more valuable than some of the city’s most recognisable skyscrapers.
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Wealthy residents of Chelsea and Sloane Square fear a return of nuisance boy racers who hurtle around in noisy supercars. With lockdown lifting and international travel starting to pick up, locals worry their brief respite from deafening Lambos and Bugattis could come to an end.
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Local communities in London should be given more say over the future of high streets to prevent further decline, according to a new report. The Centre for London thinktank has called on the Government to rethink its plans to extend permitted development rights, which would allow for shops to be converted into homes without planning permission if they are vacant for more than three months.
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Health bosses had to increase the number of people giving the Covid vaccine after the popularity of a mobile evaccine bus in Chinatown took them by surprise. The event was widely advertised amongst the Chinese community, and was also advertised by councillors and health officials and 300 people got the Covid vaccine during the afternoon event.
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Croydon Council could need to shell out more money on “remedial works” for the Fairfield Halls project. The refurbishment of the arts centre as well as a car park and public domain works cost £69 million which was originally set to be covered by the building of 400 homes on land next to the venue.
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Pubs opened for indoor drinking last week for the first time since December, the end of a nearly six-month hiatus for some pubs unable to open at all.
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A skin cancer patient who recently died of the disease, spoke in her final months about the dangers of not being skin aware, in the hope of encouraging others to take care in the sun. Mum-of-two Nicky Horton, who passed away in February [2021], was first diagnosed with skin cancer in 2017. Her initial diagnosis led to several years of extensive and, at times radical, treatment at St George’s Hospital, Tooting.
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David Jones, a poet and painter who was acknowledged as an influence by such English titans as T S Eliot and Graham Greene, was inspired by his Brockley home and by his religion.
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Streets will come to a standstill to mark the passing of a woman whose mistaken shooting sparked a riot. Cherry Groce’s last journey through Brixton takes place this morning.
You can now take a scroll through the lives of South Londoners at the Horniman Museum with the reopening of the From Birth ’til Death: Scrolled Life Stories exhibition this week, writes Connor McLaughlin.
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The Natural History Museum has unveiled a new addition to the collection that is literally out of this world.
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Lewisham Council held its first hybrid AGM in the borough’s history on Wednesday (May 26), with 25 councillors attending in person. The remaining councillors attended virtually but were not allowed to vote, as per the law.
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Not seen in London for more than half a century, Staircase by Charles Dyer was a West End and Broadway hit at its premiere in the late 1960s.
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Catford raised Ray Blk has released her new single Dark Skinned, along with a live Vevo performance of the track.
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Having a mortally ill baby daughter is enough to turn even the biggest, strongest dad to blubbering mush. James Barber had to watch powerless as his daughter Hebe was admitted to first one hospital, then another, as her acute kidney failure worsened when she was just two years old.
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The sun is set to rise again in Wimbledon this summer with the return of its literary festival, writes Rachel Griffiths.
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The Southbank Centre is opening an outdoor audio installation by award winning reggae poet Linton Kwesi Johnson.
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A Deptford musician who had £20k worth of equipment stolen by thieves has reached his fundraising target to help rebuild his livelihood. Young Warrior said he felt ‘crushed’ both financially and mentally after he was targeted by thieves on March 8.
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