After more than two years closed, a well-loved children’s theatre is preparing to reopen this summer following an £8.5 million makeover. The Polka Theatre in Wimbledon closed its doors for refurbishment in February 2019.
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Southwark Council has made changes to its Great Suffolk Street Low Traffic Neighbourhood (LTN) after journey times for locals increased. The Great Suffolk Street LTN scheme was installed in December 2020 as part of the London Streetspace Plan and response to the Covid-19 emergency to promote active travel and allow for social distancing.
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An asylum seeker has claimed staff at Home Office accommodation in Croydon refused to call an ambulance for her leading to her losing her unborn baby at just seven months. The Guardian recently reported that a woman was placed at Brigstock House in Thornton Heath after fleeing Angola in January 2020.
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Police are searching for a man who left a shopkeeper hospitalised after shooting him in the head with a BB gun in New Cross. A man in possession of an ‘air-powered weapon’ entered a shop on New Cross Road at around midnight on February 24 and made demands for cash.
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The owner of Westfield White City is hoping to build a skyscraper that could become the tallest building in all of West London. Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield has unveiled updated plans for a 46-storey tower. The tallest building in West London is currently the 35-storey Imperial West Residential Building in Wood Lane, although a 56-storey block is waiting to be built in North Acton.
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A surgeon has revealed how he saves the lives of mothers and babies – while they are still inside her womb. If you tuned into Gogglebox last week you may have seen the extraordinary scenes of doctors performing surgery on unborn babies inside the womb. It was pretty amazing stuff, and all carried out at St George’s Hospital in Tooting.
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Homeowners trapped in unsellable flats by the cladding crisis say there will be “summer protests and no end to campaigning” after MPs voted against protecting them from post- Grenfell fire safety costs. The Fire Safety Act, which is aimed at making homes safer following the 2017 disaster, passed through parliament last week.
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Deptford residents have launched a campaign to save a much-loved leisure pool that has already received over 1000 signatures in just 24 hours. Wavelengths Leisure Centre on Giffin Street, which has a leisure pool with flumes and a 25-metre fitness pool, has not reopened to swimmers since the first lockdown.
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With Londoners set to head to the polls tomorrow (May 6) to vote for the next Mayor of London, candidates today had one final chance to get their messages across to voters. The final opinion polls ahead of the election confirmed Sadiq Khan as the favourite in the race despite a late surge of support for his Conservative rival Shaun Bailey.
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Sadiq Khan has said he is hopeful that a victory in tomorrow’s mayoral election would give him “the right mandate” to negotiate with the Government. The current Mayor of London was in Waltham Forest today for the final day of campaigning before Londoners head to the polls tomorrow.
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Lambeth Council has approved plans to pay back tenants up to £26.55 million for overcharged water bills. About 23,000 current tenants and more than 12,000 former tenants could benefit. Last October the Court of Appeal dismissed an appeal from Kingston Council after it was ruled to have overcharged tenants when supplying water.
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