The London Minute ⏰ Thursday 26 September 2024
Eurostar Stratford plan revived, fresh hope for Hammersmith Bridge, local Restaurant of the Year revealed + rain forecast to stop by Friday afternoon
☔️ Good morning London. Here’s Thursday’s London Minute.
💧 The Met Office is warning of continued heavy rain and thundery showers today. It’s due to clear up by Friday afternoon, making way for a drier weekend. - The forecast is here.
🚔 Eight men have been arrested on suspicion of murder following the fatal shooting of a man in Bethnal Green’s Weavers Fields park last month. - The Met Police published this update.
🚅 Plans for Eurostar trains to stop at Stratford International could be revived. - Holly Munks, Time Out.
⮑ East Ham MP Sir Stephen Timms told The Standard: “It would be another very significant boost to employment and prosperity in east London.”
🛜 An investigation is underway after Wi-Fi at Euston and Victoria stations were among 20 UK stations hacked in a ‘cyber security incident’. - Paul Burnell, BBC London News.
🚦 Campaigners have welcomed a ‘significant step’ in in a long campaign to reopen Hammersmith Bridge, after a taskforce focused on finding funding was reconvened. - Hammersmith Today.
🍽️ The Silver Birch restaurant in Chiswick has been named ‘London Restaurant of the Year’ at the AA Hospitality Awards. - Leonie Cooper, Time Out.
🚦 Volunteers have been directing traffic at Highgate High Street after temporary traffic lights failed. - Nathallie Raffray, Ham & High.
🏗️ Dangerous cladding has finally been removed from a building in Bermondsey that is home to a youth centre and 26 flats. - Isabel Ramirez, Southwark News.
🎾 Former Coronation Street star Thelma Ruby has vowed to chain herself to the All England Club if the £200million Wimbledon expansion plans go ahead. The 99-year-old has been living on Wimbledon Hill Road opposite the tennis courts for more than 30 years. She said: "Let them arrest me.” - Zara Woodcock, The Mirror.
"The club talk about planting new trees, but can you imagine how long it would take for newly planted trees to give the benefits that we now get from mature trees? I look several times a day out of the window and it gives me strength to carry on. It gives me inspiration." - Thelma Ruby.
💥 A video shows the moment refuse workers in Barnet had a narrow escape when a bin lorry exploded. It is thought to have been caused by a battery or aerosol that had wrongly been thrown away in a black bin. Nobody was injured. - The BBC published the video here.
🎭 The Clapham Fringe Festival has re-branded in a bid to showcase Lambeth’s underrepresented culture and history. The festival, now called Lambeth Fringe Festival, returns for its ninth year this month withnearly 150 shows across 23 venues. - Amelia Morgan, South West Londoner.
🌃 The 21-storey high ‘Can of Ham’ skyscraper at tower at St Mary Axe has been put back on sale for a reduced price two years after the first attempt to sell it. The distinctive building has an asking price of £322m. - Saskia Koopman, City AM.
🖼️ ‘The Top Exhibitions To See In London: October 2024’ - Tabish Khan, Londonist.
🐿️ Islington’s ‘Get Stuffed’ taxidermist has been stuffing and preserving Londoners' dead pets for over 40 years. The owner has some stories to share in the latest London Spy feature, written by Joshua Taylor.
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