Weekend Round-Up
From Royal Park to Park Royal, via West Ham, Newham and Waterloo. We bring you a tour of the weekend’s news.
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Weekend Round Up
Our round-up of the weekend’s stand-out news stories.
Woman Dies In Fire Near Station With Removed Engine
A pensioner has died in a fire in her home, just 90 seconds away from a fire station that had one of its engines withdrawn by London Fire Brigade before the firefighters’ strike in October.
Extra, Extra
Read all about it…roundup of the rest of the day’s news, including worrying noises about future Tube strikes and a sticky situation for Boris.
Friday Quiz: London’s Fires
Hawley Arms on fire, 2008. Image by M@. It’s the 344th anniversary of the Great Fire of London this week. See how much you know about this and other capital conflagrations. Fires of London » funny quizzes As always, let us know in the comments …
Arrest Made Over Tower Block Blaze
Photo / Nicobobinus A woman was arrested last night in connection with a fire that blazed through the top four levels of a tower on the Cambridge Estate in Kingston. Dramatic video footage showed the upper levels of the 15-storey Madingley block engulfed with smoke …
Grass Fires On The Increase
It might be cloudy today but the weekend is set to be another blinder – so let us don our Cassandra hat and bring you the news that all this heat is sparking (heh) an increase in grass fires. A Walthamstow allotment was scorched on …
Downed Phone Exchange Makes Cash King
By suburbanslice We’ve already reported that a BT phone exchange at Paddington seems to have been attacked by two-fifths of The Planeteers yesterday (unfortunately not Ma-Ti). As well as affecting phone and internet services in North and West London (and beyond), here at Londonist Towers …
Fire In Paddington Cripples Phone Lines
Twitter is abuzz with news that a fire and flood in Paddington telephone exchange has knocked out land lines in large areas of North-West London. Lord’s cricket ground, near St John’s Wood, are among those affected and report that service could be disrupted for up …
One Dead In Euston Fire
A fire at a block of flats beside Euston station has left one person dead. The blaze began early this morning in Grafton Place, and at its height, 60 firefighters were at the scene battling the flames. Aside from the one fatality, all other occupants …
Shoreditch Fire Update: Two Clubs ‘Destroyed’
Fire fighters are still hosing down the hot timbers following a large fire in Shoreditch yesterday. A four-storey block of offices, restaurants and clubs was gutted in the blaze on Tabernacle Street, which took over seven hours to bring under control. Although nobody is reported …
