The London Minute ⏰ Monday 24 June 2024
Thousands march for nature, MP's office attacked, new Cycleways planned, e-bike pavement parking ban + 25 years of Heath Hands
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🚇 There are ‘severe delays’ on the District and Hammersmith & City lines this morning due to ‘a late finish of engineering work’. - Check for updates on the TfL status page here.
🚔 Walthamstow MP Stella Creasy’s office was attacked in the early hours of Sunday, reports Marco Marcelline in the Waltham Forest Echo.
⮑ The MP said: “Message to whoever attacked my office last night. You don’t intimidate me and you don’t belong in the political process. Same as those circulating malicious and false leaflets. Police already on this to find you - will press for the strongest penalties for such an anti-democratic attack and I know Walthamstow won’t be cowed or influenced by your violence either.”
🚨 Three teenagers are due at Wimbledon Magistrates’ Court today charged with the murder of 20-year-old Sebastiaan James-Kraan, who died in hospital after being shot in Ealing. - The Met Police published this press release.
🪧 Actress and screenwriter Dame Emma Thompson led thousands of people on Saturday’s Restore Nature Now march through central London. - She spoke to Sky News.
🚲 TfL has announced ten new Cycleways, add another 35km to the city’s cycle network. - The list is here.
⮑ Further Cycleways are planned this year across outer London including the construction of two of the biggest Cycleways in London: Cycleway 9 (Hammersmith to Brentford) and Cycleway 23 (Dalston to Lea Bridge) in Hackney. Both are planned to be completed by late 2024.
⮑ Wandsworth Council is going to ban riders from parking e-bikes on pavements. - Charlotte Lillywhite, Local Democracy Reporter.
🐾 Dog walkers were in a ‘blind panic’ when they found meat spiked with needles in a Willesden park. - Joseph Reaidi, Brent & Kilburn Times.
✈️ A plane crash in an Upminster woodland which left two people seriously injured was caused by a sudden loss of power, a report has found. - Josh Salisbury, The Standard.
🏗️ The doors have opened at the One Ashley Road flats in Tottenham Hale, described as the ‘front door’ to the Heart of Hale masterplan. - Isabelle Lomholt takes a look inside for e-architect.
🌳 Volunteers from the Heath Hands charity are celebrating 25 years of community activities. Conservation and garden maintenance are at the charity’s core, which now runs around a dozen activities and volunteer sessions a week. In total thousands of people are involved every year, contributing more than 15,000 hours of volunteering at Hampstead Heath, Highgate Wood and Kenwood. - Karin Oleinikova has more in Ham & High.
⮑ The charity commissioned Matt Maran to create this short film:
🏴 Bermondsey’s Kirby Estate gains plenty of media attention when residents cover it in England flags during football tournaments – but with money tight, the display nearly didn’t happen this year, reports Isabel Ramirez in Southwark News.
🍻 A former train ticket office at Fulham Broadway will become a Wetherspoons after councillors approved the pub chain’s plans despite 20 local objections. - Ben Lynch - Local Democracy Reporter, Fulham SW6.
🏳️🌈 RuPaul’s Drag Race winner Ginger Johnson and Married at First Sight contestant Ella Morgan are among performers announced for this year’s Pride in London. - Josh Salisbury, The Standard.
⮑ ‘Gay old time: inside the UK’s first LGBT+ retirement home’ in Vauxhall. - Tom Faber, FT.
🏐 Ten outdoor venues across London will host a series of pop-up sports and activities from July to kick off a ‘Summer of Sport in the City.’ - The list of venues is in this article by Maryam Kara in The Standard.
😍 ‘The Best Date Spots in London’ - Lauren O’Neill of Dining Out enlists her friends to share their top spots to eat and drink with someone they fancy.
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🎪 Underbelly Festival’s Spiegeltent to return, offering ‘a slice of Edinburgh Fringe’.
🤧 Why pollution levels are currently making hay fever worse.
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