More than 2,500 bin collections were missed across Bexley in a six-week period this year, as the outsourcing giant Serco grappled with coronavirus and a messy, ongoing industrial dispute.
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If the slow tsunami of redundancies wasn’t daunting enough, this month’s unemployment figures were another ominous reminder of the UK jobs crisis.
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Ferries to help schoolchildren and key workers cross the Thames beside Hammersmith Bridge will be in place “early next year”. The Task Force set up to manage the restoration of Hammersmith Bridge made the announcement on Thursday after holding its third meeting.
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Tributes have been paid to a young children’s football coach who collapsed and died suddenly while playing a match with friends. Andrae Stevens Jr, 20, was playing his weekly five-a-side game at Goals Wimbledon on Thursday, September 17 when he suddenly fell to the ground.
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A warning has been given that it is “only a matter of time” before coronavirus cases in South London match higher rates seen for a few weeks in the west and east of the capital. A map of cases across the city put together by Merton council showed that boroughs south of the river currently have lower virus than those in north London. But Dagmar Zeuner, director of public health at Merton council, warned against complacency and said that testing data could also be unreliable.
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Capacity on the Northern line could be boosted, but Crossrail 2 will not realistically be affordable before 2030, according to a new list of priorities produced by Transport for London (TfL). The report, Investment to get London and the UK Moving Again, sets out a revised list of major projects which TfL is hoping to complete during the next decade, in light of the long-term funding negotiations it is having with the government.
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Police and staff from the Met joined other forces across the country in a minute’s silence this morning to pay their respects to Sergeant Matt Ratana, one week on from his murder. At 11am, Commissioner Cressida Dick and her management board led the silence outside the Empress State Building in west London.
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A council building inspector in charge of inspecting Grenfell Tower to check up on the work said he did not see any issues he needed to bring to the attention of bosses. John Hoban, who resigned from his job at Kensington and Chelsea council in March 2017, just months before the fatal fire, told the Grenfell Inquiry he was struggling with a huge workload.
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A museum will open a season of events in October for Black History Month which will explore the way Black history is told celebrate achievements from the diaspora.
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A senior NHS chief has explained a new strategy London hospitals will use to keep patients safe, even if the capital sees a huge second surge of Covid-19. Professor Tim Orchard, chief executive of Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, said hospitals across London were looking to create dedicated “hubs”, where non-Covid patients will receive routine, “elective” treatments and operations.
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A new series of artworks has been commissioned in busy public spaces in South London to promote civic pride and community strength.
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A school in Upper Norwood could close its doors for good amid financial problems and with its buildings not fit for purpose. Public consultation began today on a proposal to close Virgo Fidelis Convent Senior School in August 2021.
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An outdoor installation taking place across the windows of London’s Southbank Centre, runs from November 12 to December 13. No Lockdown in the Imagination will present audio, visual and written works selected from the 2020 Koestler Awards, which recognises art from people across the UK’s criminal justice system.
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A museum has won a national award for an environmental exhibition that aimed to raise awareness over the harms of plastic. Last summer’s Beat Plastic Pollution pop-up aquarium display at the Horniman Museum and Gardens has won a Museums + Heritage Award, at an online ceremony on September 22.
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He battled disease during much of his distinguished career at St Thomas’s Hospital and was one of the driving forces behind the drive to clean up London’s sewers.
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Transport for London (TfL) will face a “doomsday scenario” with the Tube and buses shut down if the Government doesn’t agree a second emergency bailout, the network chief has warned. Passengers would be forced to catch the Woolwich ferry – the only commuter service TfL is legally obliged to run.
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Open Letter to the Mayor of Lewisham – Dear Mayor Egan Why would you allow such foolish, damaging and potentially dangerous traffic schemes to be implemented in our borough? I have seen so many ambulances stuck in traffic, patients’ lives literally at stake, delayed getting to hospital or getting paramedic treatment on time.
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In 1871 and 1872, there was a series of ghost scares in Peckham and its vicinity. In November and December
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Plans to install 155 permanent anti-terrorism bollards around Windrush Square in Brixton were approved by Lambeth’s extraordinary corporate committee on Wednesday. The “heritage style, cannon-shaped bollards”, 1.1 metre high, are set to replace temporary ones put in over the summer in a bid to protect the square from terrorist attacks.
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