The London Minute ⏰ Wednesday 2 July 2025
Sky garden plan, new music school, Wimbledon knife fears + Superman up the Shard
🌤️ Good morning London. Quite a short newsletter today. Here’s Wednesday’s London Minute.
🏗️ A fourth ‘sky garden’ skyscraper has been proposed for the City of London’s Fenchurch Street. - Ian Mansfield has the details in IanVisits.
🎵 The Royal Academy of Music is planning to open a new campus at London City Island. - Harry Low, BBC London News.
🚨 A man died after being hit by a lorry on Balls Pond Road in Dalston yesterday afternoon. - Joseph Reaidi, Hackney Gazette.
🎾 A spectator was removed from a tennis match at Wimbledon yesterday after a player raised concerns that he had a knife. - Geneva Abdul and Emine Sinmaz, The Guardian.
⮑ Where to watch Wimbledon on big screens around London. - Laura Reynolds, Londonist.
⮑ ‘All the celebrities spotted at Wimbledon’. - London World.
🚇 It’s even hotter underground. But which Tube line is the hottest? The Standard’s reporter Charlotte Ambrose took the temperature challenge.
🌡️ ‘The Debate: Should there be a legal maximum temperature for offices?’ - Anna Moloney, City AM.
🌳 A new proposal called Six-Acre Wood could bring a woodland of 280 native, drought-resistant trees to Clapham Common. - Best Of Clapham.
🏙️ A life-sized model of the Superman character was suspended at the top of The Shard yesterday morning as part of a film promotion. - The Shard published more information here.
☑️ If you like the colour grey, you might like this. New Balance has revamped its store on Oxford Street, casting it in ten different shades ‘to show off the diversity of grey.’ - Alyn Griffiths tries to explain it in Dezeen.
🖼️ Galleries can be good places to cool down. - Find all the latest reviews from Darren in London Art Roundup.
✌️ Better news
This section aims to include better news from all over London. It’s a wide range of things, and as always you’re welcome to submit yours here. My hope is that it inspires more civic pride and community spirit, new plans in your calendar and a few smiles or laughs along the way.
🏠 Council housing once sold off by local authorities under ‘right to buy’ schemes are being ‘reclaimed’ to be rented out to resettled refugee families. - Mike Brooke, Islington Gazette.
🍔 Seventeen restaurants in Peckham will be offering discounts this weekend to raise money to fight food poverty. - Evie Flynn, Southwark News.
🥭 A new short documentary called ‘The Superfood Map of Brixton’ has been released. - Find it on Brixton Buzz.
🛠️ A Reuse and Repair Fair is planned at Lea Bridge Library on Sunday. - Waltham Forest Echo.
🔵 Camden Council has unveiled a new blue plaque on its doorstep to mark the site of Britain’s first Caribbean Carnival. - Josef Steen, Local Democracy Reporter, Camden Citizen.
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