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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.

Woolwich Ferry workers have overwhelmingly voted to strike over a victimised union rep. Workers operating the Woolwich Ferry, now run by Transport for London (TfL), will strike for eight days in May and June, Unite the union announced today (Friday 30 April).

Teachers at The John Roan School in Greenwich will be on strike tomorrow to defend a teacher of 20 years who is being faced with dismissal. National Education Union (NEU) representative, Kirstie Paton, is facing dismissal at a disciplinary hearing the next day, on April 30, for speaking out about health and safety in schools.  

Love them or loathe them it looks like despite a significant slowdown in building skyscrapers during the spring and summer in 2020, there was not the downturn feared because of the pandemic. According to New London Architecture’s annual review of skyscrapers over 20 storeys or more, there are 587 tall buildings in the pipeline in London – with 310 granted full planning permission and 127 under consideration.

One of the South East’s fastest expanding nursery groups for under-fives, is due to open a new site in Eltham, by early September. Fennies Nurseries, the nursery group, which has 11 sites around London, Surrey and Kent, is currently reconstructing a shell of a former building, on Westmount Road, Eltham which will be launched in September. 

A man has appeared in court after he stabbed a woman in her 50s to death in the early hours of Easter Sunday. Vasile Bratu, 39, of no fixed address appeared at Bexley Magistrates’ Court today where he was remanded in custody and next appears at the Old Bailey on Friday.

A woman in her 50s has died after being stabbed to death in the early hours Easter Sunday. Police and London Ambulance Service were called just before 2.30am on Sunday, 4 April, to a seriously injured woman inside a block of flats in Ravine Grove in Greenwich.

A woman died in the early hours of Easter Sunday after being stabbed in a Greenwich block of flats. Police and paramedics were called at 2.18am on Sunday, 4 April, to a seriously injured woman inside a block of flats in Ravine Grove, Plumstead Common.