London News Roundup

Rachel Holdsworth
By Rachel Holdsworth Last edited 111 months ago

Last Updated 08 February 2015

London News Roundup

He's not just poking at that crow (see below for more info). Photo: London Fire Brigade.

  • A cyclist has died after a collision with a truck in Bloomsbury Square, yards from where Francis Golding died in 2013.
  • Police are looking for a BMW driver after a pedestrian died in a suspected hit and run in Osterley.
  • After outcry over plans to deny social housing tenants access to the garden at One Tower Bridge, Southwark council has promised to look again.
  • Is 'pay to protest' about to be a thing? The police have told Campaign Against Climate Change it needs to hire its own security firm for next month's march.
  • An 18 year old was stabbed and police threatened by a group of 30 others in Hackney.
  • Boris Johnson's trip to the US prompts accusations that he's a part time Mayor. (Want to know about Boris's visits? We've mapped that for you.)
  • Ian Visits on proposals to open up unused underground platforms for a Heathrow rail link.
  • A history of Honor Oak Estate, pre and post-war.
  • The Fire Brigade rescued a crow. No, they really did.
  • Someone — tenner says an Arsenal fan — has tagged White Hart Lane as 'the shithole' in Google maps.
  • Have a look at photos of London in the 1970s: bowler hats, bus conductors, Star Wars and queueing for hot cakes in Peckham.
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