Tunnelling work on the £2 billion Silvertown Tunnel has begun, a decade after Boris Johnson first proposed the crossing and four years after it was given the go-ahead by the government. Jill, the 82 metre-long tunnel boring machine being used to dig the crossing has been launched, Transport for London confirmed today, putting it on […]
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‘It’s got to be London’: We’re ready to be Eurovision host city, Sadiq Khan says
London should clearly be chosen as the host of next year’s Eurovision Song Contest because the capital has a significant Ukrainian population, Sadiq Khan has said. The UK will host the 2023 competition as this year’s winners Ukraine are unable to perform hosting duties due to the ongoing war with Russia. But as cities including […]
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Children under 10 across London to be ‘urgently’ offered polio boosters
Nearly one million children in London are to get polio vaccines after the virus was discovered in the sewage in eight northeast London boroughs. Heath experts discovered the virus in samples from the network leading to Beckton treatment plant this spring. Since then they have expanded their testing across London and found polio in samples from […]
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Sun Wharf: 19-storey Deptford Creek tower approved despite neighbours’ light fears
People living next to Deptford Creek fear they will be left living in “near complete darkness” after Lewisham Council approved a 19-storey tower block close to their homes. Councillors on Lewisham’s strategic development committee narrowly blacked plans to knock down a warehouse at Sun Wharf in Deptford, next to the Greenwich railway line, to make […]
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TfL gets another two-week extension to its emergency funding deal
Transport for London has been granted another short-term extension to its emergency funding deal by the Government, it has been announced. The £200 million bailout agreed in February was set to expire on 24 June but a stalemate in negotiations over a long-term funding agreement saw the deadline extended until 11.59pm this evening. But with […]
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Lifting City Airport Saturday flight ban ‘would be a disgrace’, campaigners say
Campaigners have hit out at plans to expand London City Airport and allow more flights on Saturdays. The airport, in the Royal Docks, has launched a public consultation on its proposals, which include scrapping a ban on flights after 1pm on Saturdays and allowing more flights early in the morning. Bosses want to increase the […]
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Nelson and Drake to stay in New Cross as Goldsmiths keeps statues
Statues of Lord Nelson and Sir Francis Drake will stay in place on New Cross Road after local residents said they wanted them to stay. Student campaigners at Goldsmiths University had demanded that four figures – Nelson, Drake, the 17th century admiral Robert Blake and an anonymous naval figure – should be removed from the […]
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Woolwich riots inspired me to enter politics, Greenwich Council’s leader says
Greenwich’s new council leader says that he decided to enter politics after seeing Woolwich’s Wetherspoon pub burn down on TV during the London riots 11 years ago – and had to flee gang violence while he was at school. Anthony Okereke, who replaced Danny Thorpe as Labour leader last month, told the Local Democracy Reporting […]
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