London NHS chiefs are faced with the dilemma of how to reduce the huge patient waiting lists that have accumulated during the pandemic. One top-performing hospital group, Chelsea & Westminster NHS Foundation Trust has seen the number of patients waiting over a year for routine “elective” operations hit “over 1,000”.
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Covid has had an “extremely destructive” impact on children affected by the horrific Grenfell disaster, according to some of their teachers. They are seriously worried by the behaviour of some kids after they returned to school in September following weeks of lockdown.
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Covid has had an “extremely destructive” impact on children affected by the horrific Grenfell disaster, according to some of their teachers.
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A husband and wife who ran two central London brothels using victims of human trafficking, have been jailed for a total of more than 12 years. Wai Tsang, 53, and Wenwen Pan, 41, ran brothels in High Street Kensington and Marylebone over a five-year period from 1 January 2015 to 17 January 2020.
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Two men face a combined 36 years in prison after a National Crime Agency investigation found they were behind an attempt to smuggle cocaine worth £32million into the UK. Juan David Perea Lopez, 26 of New Cross, London, and Bashar Fares Al-Safee, 31 from North Kensington, London, arranged to import 400kg of the class A drug, hidden in a consignment of yams from Costa Rica.
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Transport for London has given travel advice ahead of bus drivers going on strike. Nearly 3,000 bus drivers with trade union Unite have taken action against parent company RATP Group over pay cuts and new contracts.
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Children will receive three Covid tests during their first week back at secondary school from March 8, Kensington and Chelsea Council has said.
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Children will receive three Covid tests during their first week back at secondary school from March 8, Kensington and Chelsea Council has said.
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TV presenter and Chelsea resident Anthea Turner has backed improvements to Battersea Bridge, admitting she is ‘relieved’ but the news. The speed limit will be cut to 20mph and a pedestrian crossing created to improve safety near the Battersea Bridge accident ‘blackspot’ where a jogger died last month.
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The army have joined forces with medics at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, to help support frontline staff. Soldiers have been deployed across hospitals, boosting morale amongst staff and taking on additional tasks around the wards.
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Owners of empty or under-utilised properties in Kensington and Chelsea are being asked to bring them back into use to help tackle the borough’s housing shortage. Kensington and Chelsea council will be contacting landlords of empty homes to encourage them to offer the properties to those in need at a subsidised rate – especially key workers.
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The speed limit will be cut to 20mph and a pedestrian crossing created to improve safety near the Battersea Bridge accident ‘blackspot’ where a jogger died last month. Transport for London (TfL) brought the moves forward following a campaign by residents and friends of jogger Jack Ryan, who died after he was fatally injured in a collision with a car on the north side of Battersea Bridge.
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There are hundreds of opulent properties in Kensington and Chelsea that have sat empty and unlived-in for years, according to council data. More than 70 homes in the borough – the wealthiest and smallest in London – have stood empty for more than 10 years.
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Some 9,000 council tenants will get a refund on their water bill after Kensington and Chelsea council was told to repay a £2.5m commission its housing management company earned for collecting water rates from Thames Water.
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The restaurant where Rita Ora held birthday drinks during lockdown has kept its licence but was told the breach “was completely unacceptable”.
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A councillor who caught Covid is urging at risk communities it get the vaccine and help protect themselves and each other.
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Plans for the first property development in a huge forthcoming transformation of Earl’s Court have been revealed.
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Dr Umar Ebrahimsa, a specialist registrar in infectious diseases and general medicine in London, told an online community gathering about caring for the seriously ill man.
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Residents are being asked for suggestions for how to spend an £8m Covid recovery fund in London’s smallest borough to help people weather the pandemic storm.
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The number of patients on specialist machines at leading London heart and lung hospitals has just exceeded the peak during the first wave of the pandemic.
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Kensington and Chelsea council has lodged a personal injury claim against two companies involved in the Grenfell Tower fatal fire.
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A number of homes in one of the capital’s wealthiest areas were yesterday damaged by flood water with a depth of around five feet.
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The ‘Better Streets for Kensington and Chelsea’ campaigners argue that the mile-long Kensington High Street cycle lane was removed “unlawfully” in early December.
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