It has been revealed that TfL’s £24 million spend on the failed Garden Bridge equalled more than half of all the money it spent on the capitals’ bridges over the last decade. Some £43 million of public money was spent on the Garden Bridge, the pet project of former London Mayor turned Prime Minister Boris Johnson and promoted by Joanna Lumley.
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A nineteen-year-old teenager has built up a community network of “neighbours helping neighbours” during the pandemic.
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Almost 250 new homes will be added to 600 already being built on a disused 50‐acre quarry site in Erith after changes to the plans were given the green light
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A lockdown start-up initiative has been helping small businesses to sell and build their brands whilst also fundraising to support small charities. The Croydon-based Loving Small Business (LSB) is an online initiative that sells subscription boxes consisting of products from small businesses across the country to help build brand-awareness.
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The e UK’s first LGBT+ retirement community is set to open, thanks to a £5.7 million loan from the Mayor of London. It will buy 19 homes within the Norman Foster-designed One Housing Bankhouse in Vauxhall to form a community to support elderly LGBT+ people in later life.
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A federation of further education colleges is gearing up for students to return on March 8. London South East Colleges is preparing to test returning individuals across its campuses in Bromley, Bexley, Orpington and Greenwich.
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A top headteacher has criticised the government’s roadmap for a quick return to schools on March 8, which is only five working days away. Steve Morrison, head of Kingsdale in Alleyn Park, Dulwich, has spoken out after the measures he has to take for his hundreds of pupils were confirmed last week – but shifted several times over the next few days.
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A husband and wife who ran two central London brothels using victims of human trafficking, have been jailed for a total of more than 12 years. Wai Tsang, 53, and Wenwen Pan, 41, ran brothels in High Street Kensington and Marylebone over a five-year period from 1 January 2015 to 17 January 2020.
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A man has been sentenced to life imprisonment for raping a woman in Peckham. Taofiq Laguda, 46, of Dagenham, was driving a car which was not his because he was banned – but he was still caught and sentenced on Thursday, 25 February at Woolwich Crown Court.
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Two men face a combined 36 years in prison after a National Crime Agency investigation found they were behind an attempt to smuggle cocaine worth £32million into the UK. Juan David Perea Lopez, 26 of New Cross, London, and Bashar Fares Al-Safee, 31 from North Kensington, London, arranged to import 400kg of the class A drug, hidden in a consignment of yams from Costa Rica.
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Transport for London has given travel advice ahead of bus drivers going on strike. Nearly 3,000 bus drivers with trade union Unite have taken action against parent company RATP Group over pay cuts and new contracts.
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Rail union leaders are demading urgent action after a string of 35 attacks on staff in one station.
RMT want more effective protection for drivers and staff at Lewisham railway station in the wake of a surge of COVID-related assaults on staff.
A teenager has been held for sharing terrorist material. On the morning of Wednesday, 24 February, officers from the Met’s Counter Terrorism Command arrested an 18-year-old man at a residential address in south east London.
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Lambeth residents who live and work in Oval are being asked to get a Covid-19 test after the South African variant was detected in the area. The variant has already been found in parts of West Norwood and some streets in Streaham.
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Hughroy Currie, who was British heavyweight boxing champion amid Frank Bruno’s heyday, has died aged 61. The Brockley-raised fighter, who had suffered from a string of health problems in his later years, died in hospital after catching Covid-19 and passed away on January 22.
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Four more days of strikes by London bus drivers are scheduled for early March, the Unite trade union has confirmed. Nearly 3,000 bus drivers who operate 80 routes in south-west and north-west London are currently on strike for three days between today (February 22) and Wednesday (February 24).
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An ex-minister has been criticised by a Whitehall watchdog for not declaring a new role with a think-tank. Conservative MP for Wimbledon Stephen Hammond has apologised for taking up the role of Joint Chair with Public Policy Projects (PPP) last year, without first seeking advice from the watchdog Advisory Committee on Business appointments (ACOBA).
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The founder of the Eveline Day & Nursery Schools and MBE, Maria Keaveney-Jessiman, has died aged 96. Maria, a Wimbledon resident, was awarded an MBE for her services to education in the Queen’s 2021 New Year’s Honour list just days before her passing in January.
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A leading private school is one of a handful taking part in a pilot to give places to children who have been in care. A project to help vulnerable youngsters, the Royal National Children’s Springboard Foundation wants Alleyn’s, in Dulwich, to take them and transform their changes, partly funded by the government.
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