The London Minute ⏰ Tuesday 2 July 2024
Glass smash drama behind Tate, stand-off at wellness hub, new train services + Wimbledon organisers' secrets
🌞 Good morning London. It’s a relatively short newsletter today, as there’s not a lot of new news from overnight yet. If I missed something, please share your news or events here. Here’s everything I could find for Tuesday’s London Minute:
💥 The street behind Tate Modern was closed to the public yesterday after two glass window panels fell from a residential high-rise building. Glass from the Neo Bankside development smashed on to Holland Street on Monday morning around 9am and during the previous night. - Lee Cheshire and Katherine Hardy, The Art Newspaper.
⮑ The Neo Bankside buildings were in the news last year when residents forced the Tate to restrict access to its viewing gallery.
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⮑ In separate ‘smashed glass’ news: bailiffs arrived at The Lodge Space on Lower Road in Rotherhithe yesterday to serve an eviction notice. But the yoga centre’s owners said the eviction was ‘unlawful’ due to an appeal, and claimed the bailiffs damaged property during entry. - It led to an ‘all day stand-off’ at the wellness hub, reports Isabel Ramirez in Southwark News.
🚈 Yesterday morning’s Overground disruption has been blamed on three fire alerts at separate stations. - William Mata, The Standard.
⛺️ A record high number of people slept rough in London over the last year — including more than 1,200 former private renters — new data reveals. - Noah Vickers, Local Democracy Reporter, The Fitzrovia News, spoke to many of the groups and politicians involved.
👮♂️ A teenager who killed a young father for his e-bike in Peckham has been jailed for life. - Isabel Ramirez, Southwark News.
🚄 Plans for new train services between London and Manchester have been unveiled following the cancellation of HS2’s northern leg. - ITV News.
⮑ There’s an HS2 explainer video on Jago Hazzard’s YouTube channel here.
🎾 Sir David Attenborough and David Beckham were among the first in the Royal Box yesterday at Wimbledon. - BBC Sport.
⮑ ‘Stella for £8.50 and Vodafone deckchairs – welcome to the Wimbledon queue’s new ‘activation’ zone’ - Sponsors have ‘intensified their presence’ at SW19, reports today’s Telegraph.
⮑ Around 1.5 million strawberries will be sent to the two-week event by Hugh Lowe Farms in Maidstone, which has been providing the tournament with berries for the past 31 years. - The farming family spoke to Iris Cleak of BBC News.
⮑ Even if you don’t like tennis, if you’re one of life’s well-organised people, you might appreciate the level of coordination happening behind the scenes to make the tournament happen. Sporting Intelligence journalist Nick Harris has declared it: “The best organised and most democratic major sports tournament in the country, and perhaps the world. And yes, I know that’s some claim, but the point of this piece is to try to detail exactly why.”
🎨 The fifth annual Brixton Blog & Bugle summer art show opened yesterday at Brixton library on Windrush Square and will run until 25 July.
🍿 A petition has gained almost 1,700 signatures in response to the news that Bromley Picturehouse cinema is set to close. - Amy Clarke, News Shopper.
🎨 A mural that campaigners say sucks street pollution from the air has appeared on the busy Euston Road, in a bid to remind election candidataes about the environment. - Mike Brooke, Islington Gazette.
💻 Transport for London has now donated more than 800 IT devices to schools across the capital including laptops, iPads and computers as part of the ‘Devices for Schools’ programme launched during the pandemic. - Waltham Forest Echo.
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