The London Minute ⏰ Thursday 4 July 2024
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🌞 Good morning London. It’s polling day! Please vote if you haven’t already.
Take a friend, ask them to bring a friend! Vote!
Here’s Thursday’s London Minute.
🗳️ We all have one job today: Vote!
✏️ Polling stations are open from 7am to 10pm.
📍 Find your local polling station and list of candidates here and remember to bring photo ID. Accepted forms of ID are listed here.
📈 Now for the second-most important thing you’ll vote on today:
🕐 If you need a bit more information on what’s expected to happen when on Thursday night into Friday morning, here are The Guardian’s hour-by-hour timings. Based on initial estimates, which the Guardian emphasises are estimates, only about eight results will be in by 1am on Friday.
⮑ London-specific timings are predicted here on MyLondon.
⮑ MyLondon will have updates for all 75 London seats on its live blog. Its senior politics and transport reporter Adam Toms will be Tweeting from various counts here.
⮑ The London Spy also has its own minute-by-minute results schedule and expectations.
⮑ The exit poll results will go live at 10pm. - Channel 4 News explains the exit poll here.
⮑ I’ll include as much as I can in Friday’s 7am newsletter as usual.
⚠️ A polling station near Grenfell Tower has been taken over by 72 ‘wet floor’ signs, each bearing the text ‘Caution, Slippery Politicians’. - Charlotte Anderson, Your Local Guardian.
🚆 Trains between London and Heathrow were disrupted last night after widespread service cancelations. Elizabeth Line and Heathrow Express services couldn’t reach the airport due to a tunnel ventilation system fault in the Heathrow area. - Josh Salisbury, The Standard. There are no disruptions reported at time of publishing this morning.
🚔 In their first interviews since two pupils died after a Land Rover crashed into an end-of-term tea party, the current and former headteacher of a Wimbledon school say they feel let down by the Metropolitan Police’s investigation. - Lucy Manning, BBC London News.
🌯 After 12 years in business, Boxpark is set to close its Shoreditch site at the end of this summer due to the expiration of its lease. Landlords Bishopsgate Goodsyard have planning permission to redevelop the 4.5-hectare site into a new residential, retail, and leisure district. - Boxpark chief executive Simon Champion tells the East London Advertiser they will return to Shoreditch "as soon as we find the right opportunity".
🍝 A New York restaurant chain where a plate of pasta can cost up to £37 has applied to open in Mayfair. - Adrian Zorzut, Senior Local Democracy Reporter, MyLondon.
🍽️ Westminster City Council is poised to extend its fund £1.56m free school meals programme into the 2024/25 academic year. - Adrian Zorzut, Senior Local Democracy Reporter, MyLondon.
💰 Philanthropist Sir Jack Petchey OBE, whose charity foundation supported thousands of children across east London, died last week at the age of 98. - There are memories and tributes in this Hackney Citizen report.
💰 Details of the proposed tolls for the Blackwall Tunnel and the new Silvertown Tunnel will be announced in the days after the general election, Darryl Chamberlain reveals in The Greenwich Wire.
🧘♀️ Owners of The Lodge Space in Rotherhithe say they plan to re-open tomorrow, after a stand-off with bailiffs earlier this week. - The yoga centre shared this update.
🦆 The East London Waterworks Park charity has widened its plans for a wild swimming park on a former waterworks site in Lea Bridge, despite uncertainty about its future. - Sebastian Mann, Local Democracy Reporter, Waltham Forest Echo.
🎵 The Brixton Chamber Orchestra has announced plans for a summer estates tour of free live music around south London. - Brixton Blog.
⚽️ Elderly West Ham United fans are being ‘pushed into the hardest-to-access seats of its ground’, a fan group has claimed. - George Hayes, East London Advertiser.
♟️ Nine-year-old ‘chess prodigy’ Bodhana Sivanandan from Harrow will make history as the youngest person ever to represent England internationally in any sport. - Will Vernon, BBC London News.
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📈 The most-viewed links from the last newsletter:
OK, OK… here are the real top-3 links:
🎨 Eel Pie Island’s Summer Open Studios in London Art Roundup.
🎨 Mural that ‘sucks street pollution from the air’ appears on Euston Road.
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