London News Roundup

Rachel Holdsworth
By Rachel Holdsworth Last edited 138 months ago

Last Updated 01 December 2014

Rachel Holdsworth London News Roundup

Enjoy your 'normal service' on the Northern Line. Photo by Mark T Simmons from the Londonist Flickr pool

  • The Mayor is after control of the courts and prosecution service. City Hall thinks it could help reduce repeat offending.
  • An injured cyclist lay in the road for over an hour today before paramedics got to her.
  • A bus driver has been arrested after a woman was killed crossing the road in Streatham.
  • Firefighters will strike for 24 hours on 9 December over pensions.
  • University College London will pay the London Living Wage to all its interns from today.
  • The Northern Line is running 'a good service', despite strike action.
  • Assistant Commissioner Cressida Dick is leaving the Met police for the Foreign Office.
  • Chinese tourists are avoiding London.
  • David Lammy: another fan of more devolution for London.
  • Russell Brand has joined the New Era residents protesting against their eviction. We think we might started reporting protests that guy doesn't turn up at.
  • Tenants living in studio flats so small the loo is in the shower are being evicted after complaining about noise from a music studio below them. Good job an attempt to ban revenge evictions is going well then, eh? Oh, wait...
  • A floating bookshop on Regent's Canal looks like it'll have to sail away.
  • Gillian Anderson and Tom Hiddleston beat all comers at the Evening Standard Theatre Awards.
  • Hopefully this Stoke Newington lettings agency will rethink its fees after a protest.