The London Minute ⏰ Friday 13 September 2024
Liverpool Street Station revamp, teen arrested over TfL cyber attack + a weekend of festivals including Greenwich Comedy Festival, London Podcast Festival, Camden Music Festival & Peckham Festival
🌞 Good morning London. Here’s Friday’s weekend London Minute.
🚉 Revised plans to overhaul Liverpool Street Station will be ‘substantially different’ to the original proposal. - Gino Spocchia, Architects’ Journal.
🚇 Not the news that Central Line users want to hear: We are unlikely to see improvements until the end of the year after delays to the arrival of refurbished trains. - Ross Lydall, Evening Standard.
🚦 Concert Hall Approach between the South Bank and Waterloo Station is getting pedestrianised. - Ed Cunningham, Time Out.
🛜 The cyber attack that hit Transport for London a week ago (reported in Minute edition 62) is much worse than first thought, TfL admitted yesterday, as it was revealed a teenager has been arrested in connection with the hack. - Jess Warren, BBC London News.
⮑ TfL has also contacted 5,000 customers to say email and bank account details could have been accessed. - Gwyn Topham, The Guardian.
🚗 Drivers who were wrongly hit by Ulez fines due to vandalised cameras will have their penalties cancelled, Transport for London (TfL) says. - Noah Vickers, The Standard.
🏗️ Old Street roundabout was meant to be a shining beacon for Britain’s very own Tech City. ‘Instead, we have 120 hefty bollards and paving built to deter rough sleepers’, writes The Guardian's architecture and design critic Oliver Wainwright, who describes it as ‘a grim £132m ‘abomination’.
📚 Waterstones will return to Oxford Street next month, eight years after it closed. - Jon Prynn, The Standard.
🦖 The Natural History Museum has announced a ‘major’ programme of transformation it says will mark ‘a step-change from being a catalogue of natural history to a catalyst for change’ in response to the climate emergency. - Esther Addley, The Guardian.
📆 Londonist’s lists of Things To Do This Weekend In London includes Greenwich Comedy Festival, London Podcast Festival, Camden Music Festival and Peckham Festival.
🥪 Dalston’s Snackbar cafe is closing. - Leonie Cooper, Time Out.
🏊♀️ Parliament Hill Lido will host a free Mental Health Swim event on Saturday. - Full details on Instagram.
📸 The leaves on some trees are already starting to turn, which means autumn is on the way. Photographer Stefania Crivellaro has shared six of her favourite spots to capture the changing season in all its glory.
⛳️ It’s a sporty edition of The Wimble this week. The Wimble is like a more hyperlocal version of this newsletter. Even if you’re not from Wimbledon, it’s a good read.
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Thanks for the link to the AJ article about Liverpool Street Station. That’s great news to hear new designs are being works up!!
Thanks for Wimble share 👌