The London Minute ⏰ Weekend edition 5 - 7 July 2024
London's election results as Corbyn wins and Tories wiped out, more cinema closures, £1.1m council house + Barbie exhibition opens
🌞 Good morning London. Here’s Friday’s London Minute, starting with all the election updates as of 7am, followed by your usual local news round-up.
🗳️ Key results from overnight:
Keir Starmer gives victory speech in Tate Modern. - ITV News (text + video further down).
Labour gains five seats from Conservatives: Finchley & Golders Green, Eltham & Chislehurst, Bexleyheath & Crayford, the Cities of London & Westminster (for the first time) and Chipping Barnet.
The Tories now have no MPs in central London for the first time.
Liberal Democrats gain three seats from the Conservatives: Carshalton & Wallington, Sutton & Cheam and Wimbledon.
Jeremy Corbyn holds his Islington North seat as an independent. - Report from Rafi Mauro-Benady, MyLondon.
⮑ “We put out a message of hope and people responded” - Corbyn in the Islington Gazette.Former Labour and now independent candidate Faiza Shaheen ‘sends strong message to Labour’, beating them to second by 79 votes in Chingford and Woodford Green, where Sir Iain Duncan Smith was re-elected. - Ines Santos, MyLondon.
Diane Abbott retains her seat as the MP for Hackney North and Stoke Newington.
Labour win Cities of London & Westminster for the first time.
6.38am: Labour gains Chelsea and Fulham from the Conservatives. - BBC News.
⮑ Minister Greg Hands lost his Chelsea and Fulham seat to Labour’s Ben Coleman by just 152 votes. - Rachael Burford, The Standard.
🗣️ Hundreds of Hackney primary school pupils took to the streets for a mock election parade urging Londoners to vote. - Sami Quadri, The Standard.
🗞️ Non-election news:
🍿 Cineworld is planning to shut around a quarter of its UK cinemas in its latest restructuring, according to Sky News city editor Mark Kleinman.
⮑ MyLondon has a list of the cinemas in London ‘that could be at risk’.
🎸 ‘Ed Sheeran claiming ‘all of London is sketchy’ sparks a huge debate.’ - Danni Scott, Metro.
🏠 Southwark Council is planning to sell a £1.1m council house yards away from Borough Market. - London SE1.
🍋 A family has thanked clinicians at Evelina London Children's Hospital for saving their daughter's life after she was born with a tumour the size of a lemon attached to her heart. - Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust.
“As the scans continued we realised how serious Amelia's condition was. She had so many tumours, one was squashing her lungs and another on the mitral valve in her heart. We decided on the name Amelia as it meant fighter – and she's lived up to her name.” - Mother Weeta Kan.
📚 Residents have called for Croydon council to reconsider plans to close Shirley Library, claiming it would receive more footfall if it was open more often. The council says the results of a review will be published in September. - Harrison Galliven, Local Democracy Reporter, South London Press.
💝 Opening today, The Design Museum’s latest exhibition showcases the life and times of Barbie. - Ian Mansfield of Ian Visits had a look around during a press preview in Ian Visits.
⮑ Here are some other reviews: Oliver Wainwright gave it 4/5 in The Guardian, Anne Soward described it as ‘fantastic’ in Wallpaper, while Kat Williams of The London Mother says: “It’s really fun for the little ones and very nostalgic for the grown ups”.
🎾 With Andy Murray taking his final bow at Wimbledon this year, a new campaign aims to keep him present in SW19 by re-naming a local road ‘Murray Mile’. - Claire Rutter, SW Londoner.
⮑ This week’s edition of The Wimble has local events listings, a Q&A with Norman Plastow MBE and a photography exhibition by local children.
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📈 The most-viewed links from the last newsletter:
⚠️ ‘Caution, Slippery Politicians’ sign outside Grenfell polling station.
🚔 Wimbledon school 'let down' by Met Police fatal crash investigation.
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