Londonist (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago
We all know that Thai food can prove hazardous , but if you're thinking of visiting your favourite seafood restaurant anytime soon, then stop reading now: a Wandsworth woman died after suffering an allergic reaction to a Thai prawn soup - despite never having a prior problem with prawns. Elizabeth Hoborough was discovered gasping for breath by her husband in the early hours of the morning of...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 43 minutes ago
... for a two-bed property in London's inner city boroughs like Westminster, Kensington & Chelsea, Wandsworth and Lambeth, can reach anything up to £500,000. This means the marketplace for first-time buyers has narrowed dramatically. So for those on a joint income of £65,000, the highest value property they could acquire without any assistance is in the region of £240,000. In central London...
Tangential Ramblings (Free subscription) | yesterday
... 1.9km) and the difficult one before the end of my road (another 2.3km). If it's touch-and-go on Wandsworth Road, it can get as exciting as Anneka Rice or Annabel Croft running from their helicopter towards a small castle watched by bewildered, aged onlookers to shouts of encouragement from Wincey Willis and words of ambivolence from Kenneth Kendall , all while a clock ticks down in the corner...
Tangential Ramblings (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
This morning's run was good. I extended it a little, with a minor inroad back into Battersea Park, plus a return route up Queenstown Road instead of Silverthorne, forcing me back down Wandsworth ...
Luke's Blog (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008
... and Haringey Greenwich and Lewisham Havering and Redbridge Lambeth and Southwark Merton and Wandsworth North East (containing boroughs: Waltham Forest, Hackney, Islington) South West (containing boroughs: Hounslow, Richmond upon Thames, Kingston upon Thames) West Central (containing boroughs: Westminster, Kensington & Chelsea, Hammersmith & Fulham)
Londonist (Free subscription) | 05/12/2008
Forget rivers of blood, famine and locusts; Tooting and Putney motorists, cyclists and motorcyclists are suffering the daily torment of perpetual potholes , some up to 6 inches deep. The local paper delved into council funding and found that their budget for footway and carriageway repairs was £1m less than it was 3 years ago. Wandsworth blame this on the cyclical nature of funding from central...
MayorWatch (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
Wandsworth council has reminded Londoners that they may face prosecution if they break byelaws and light fires or barbecues in the borough's parks and commons.
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
... council; Patrick Frederick, chief executive of Aimex International; Edward Lister, leader of Wandsworth council, and Andrew Gordon, a senior executive at the financial firm PricewaterhouseCoopers, who will act as independent expert adviser. Ken Livingstone's bid for a third mayoral term was dogged by allegations of corruption and cronyism. His senior race adviser, Lee Jasper, faced allegations...
Phil Taylor (Free subscription) | 05/08/2008
... two from Westminster and Bexley and now two more are lending a hand from Hammersmith & Fulham and Wandsworth. Stephen Greenhalgh, leader of Hammersmith & Fulham is famous for cutting their council tax by 3% two years running since his gung ho young group were elected in May 2006. Edward Lister has 15 years experience as leader of Wandsworth grinding out efficiencies. The A Team are...
MayorWatch (Free subscription) | 05/08/2008
... Council, Patrick Frederick, Chief Executive of Aimex International, Edward Lister, Leader of Wandsworth Council and Andrew Gordon, Head of Investigations within the Forensic Services group of PricewaterhouseCoopers who will act as Independent Expert.The review of the LDA will focus on recent allegations of mismanagement and corruption in the awarding of grants as well as detecting conflicts...
IndyBlogs (Free subscription) | 05/08/2008
... the card around. As I'm inevitably carrying debit cards, credit cards, organ donor cards and, uh, Wandsworth Resident Parking Discount Cards around with me, I can't say I find the Oyster card particularly cumbersome. But it is an interesting little experiment. One of Woebken's more interesting observations, however, has nothing to do with technology, but good old fare-dodging deception:...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 05/07/2008
Inmates at Wandsworth prison are being trained in radio for their own inhouse radio station, Radio Wanno
Belfast Telegraph (Free subscription) | 05/05/2008
O'NEILL, ROBERT JAMES DAVIDSON (JIM) May 3, 2008, peacefully, at the Marie Curie Centre, late of Wandsworth Road, Bangor, dearly-loved husband of Jean and loving father of Kenneth, father-in-law of Karin and grandfather of Collin. Funeral Service will take place on Wednesday 7th May in Russells Funeral Church, 4A Holborn Avenue, Bangor at 12.00 noon with interment afterwards in Clandeboye Cemetery....
Luke's Blog (Free subscription) | 05/04/2008
... Brent & Harrow +9.4% City & East +8.6% Lambeth & Southwark +8.0% Enfield & Haringey +5.9% Merton & Wandsworth +5.2% Greenwich & Lewisham +4.9% West Central +4.1% Barnet & Camden +3.6% Ealing & Hillingdon +3.5% Croydon & Sutton +1.3% Havering & Redbridge +1% Given that quite a few of the places in all three seats are or include key parliamentary marginals, take any extrapolations of likely...
Iain Dale's Diary (Free subscription) | 05/04/2008
Remember the 1990 local elections? Some of us do. It was a night when the Conservatives took a helluva drubbing, but still held the flagship councils of Westminster and Wandsworth. Kenneth Baker went on TV to proclaim what a fantastic night it had been for the Conservatives and the media, bless 'em, swallowed it hook, line and sinker. Eighteen years on the Liberal Democrats deployed a similar...
