The London Minute ⏰ Tuesday 25 June 2024
Hospital and bin staff plan strike, 'sparks fly' at hustings, swim warning, two cinemas closing + Brick Lane Beigel Shop returns
🌞 Good morning London. If these daily newsletters are too much, or you still don’t feel caught-up on last week, I’d recommend The London Spy’s weekly round-up. Now looking ahead, here’s Tuesday’s London Minute.
🚊 Tram passengers, including those travelling to the Wimbledon tennis tournament, are being urged to consider alternative routes due to strikes. - Jess Warren, BBC London.
🚇 Elephant and Castle tube station will get a new entrance and ticket hall, while work is on going to prepare for new tunnels connecting the Northern Line . - Go deeper into these and other local transport stories with Adam Toms’ London Underground newsletter.
🥵 An Army Foot Guard passed out during a rehearsal on the Mall as the temperature neared 30C (86F) yesterday. - BBC London.
🌞 Swimmers have been urged to ‘think carefully’ before swimming in waterways due to the ‘mini-heatwave’, the London Fire Brigade warned.
🚔 Police have released CCTV images of a man believed to have attacked Labour candidate’s Stella Creasy’s Walthamstow office with a hammer over the weekend. - Walthamstow Forest Echo.
🪧 Local strike news involving people from three different workplaces:
Refuse workers in Westminster are gearing up for possible industrial action in a row over bullying. - Robert Dex, The Standard.
Care workers, unpaid carers and care home owners have been rallying in Parliament Square, calling for a London living wage. - Lauren Stanley and Alpa Patel, BBC London.
Day surgery theatre nurses are to strike at two central London hospitals after bosses extended their shifts by an hour, Unite announced yesterday. - Maryam Kara, The Standard.
🗣️ ‘Sparks flew’ between the Conservative and Labour Chelsea and Fulham candidates over the Charing Cross Hospital refurbishment and support for Remain during the Brexit referendum at an otherwise well-mannered hustings over the weekend, reports Local Democracy Reporter Ben Lynch for MyLondon.
🥯 The famous yellow Brick Lane Beigel Shop is set to reopen tomorrow after a family dispute left it closed for months. - Alex Marsh, Hackney Gazette.
⮑ Siblings Aron, David, and Mazal have launched a £50,000 fundraising goal on Gofundme.
🎞️ Picturehouse has confirmed that two of its cinemas in London, at Fulham Road and Bromley, will close in the coming weeks. - George Lewis, Digital Spy.
🛍️ Shoppers in Fulham Broadway were ‘shocked’ to see the local branch of Whole Foods Market shuttered earlier this month, joining the street’s empty units including former Barclays, Nisbets and Wilko shops. - However, a handful of new shops are due to open soon, reports Fulham SW6.
🚙 A driver was caught out when the Thames tide at Richmond submerged their car in Twickenham at the weekend. - Reddit.
🍽️ Chef Joshua Hunter has announced he will close his Kew Village restaurant Hawthorn this weekend, less than 18 months after its launch, ‘due to unsustainable market conditions’. - James McAllister, Restaurant.
🎨 Bloomsbury has ‘a lot of hidden art gems dotted around the area that you may not be aware of’, writes Tabish Khan in Londonist: Urban Palette.
⮑ For a more general overview of art in the city just now, check out Tab’s latest roundup, including a top-five of exhibitions to catch now.
🎨 There are more exhibitions among Time Out’s list of free things to do in London this week.
📆 History Radar is a handy section of the Londonist Time Machine newsletter, highlighting upcoming events of interest to local history fans. - It’s curated here by Matt Brown.
🚇 A crew of volunteers have cleaned up a 1938-era art-deco tube train, which was hit by graffiti on the eve of a special tour. Now it will return to the tracks next month, reports Ian Mansfield of Ian Visits.
❤️🩹 A 76-year-old Hampstead film producer has been reunited with the ambulance crew that saved his life after he collapsed with a heart attack at a supermarket checkout. - Tom Foot, Camden New Journal.
“I’m so lucky to be alive because people in the supermarket that day knew how to do CPR and there was a defibrillator available. My chances of recovery would have been very low if that hadn’t happened there and then. I’m starting to play tennis and go swimming to get my strength back. I’m alive.” - Michael Toppin.
📌 The London Minute Community Noticeboard
📌 Your local news and events here! Get in touch using this form.
📈 The most-viewed links from the last newsletter:
⏰ Thank you for reading daily edition number 27. This newsletter remains independent, free, ad-free and proudly subscriber supported. There are 800+ free subscribers, sending more than 3,000+ visits to other local news sources since launch in May. The Minute is written between 5am and 7am every day and wouldn’t exist without paying subscribers. Thank you for supporting local news.
Love the newsletter and thanks for the shoutout for Londonist Urban Palette