Finchley Road fire: Local residents call for donations to be made to victims as chaos continues October 28, 2015 Local residents have started collecting donations to help the victims of the Finchley Road fire earlier this week, as the traffic chaos continues more than two days in. On Monday a fire broke out in a shop below a number of flats on the road in Hampstead, NW3. At its peak 70 firefighters tackled the blaze, [...]
Central Line and Metropolitan Line Tube delays: Travel chaos as signal failure at Leyton and Finchley Road affects commuters October 28, 2015 Central Line commuters faced a disrupted journey this morning after a signal failure caused severe delays throughout the line. The incident, which occurred at Leyton at around 7:30am, caused knock-on problems as far as Epping, Transport for London said, with minor delays on the entire line. https://twitter.com/centralline/status/659275247049420800 TfL said it was unable to give an estimate [...]
Crossrail 2 consultation launched by Transport for London to decide station locations on route October 27, 2015 Crossrail 2 is a step closer to becoming reality as Transport for London launched a public consultation on the exact route and where stations will be located along it. "This consultation gives people the chance to comment on where we are proposing to put station entrances, work sites and ventilation shafts needed to run Crossrail 2," [...]
Finchley Road still closed after huge fire, in which pregnant woman one of 25 rescued by London Fire Brigade October 27, 2015 Finchley Road was still closed in both directions this morning after a huge fire broke out in a shop with flats above it yesterday. Firefighters rescued 25 people from the fire in the Hampstead, NW3 area, as the fire engulfed the shop and filled the flats with smoke. Two of these people – including a [...]
Jubilee line reopens but Metropolitan line at Finchley Road Tube station remains closed as fire crews continue to attend blaze above chicken shop October 26, 2015 Commuters to Finchley Road faced delays this evening, after both the Tube station and Finchley Road itself were closed as a blaze at an apartment block continued to rage into its 11th hour. Both the Metropolitan and Jubilee lines were closed, while the road was blocked off in both directions. However the Jubilee line has since reopened, according to [...]
TSSA union boss Manuel Cortes throws down Night Tube gauntlet to Boris Johnson October 26, 2015 A boss of one of the four main transport unions has thrown down the gauntlet to London Mayor Boris Johnson over the Night Tube, urging him to agree a meeting to restart talks. Manuel Cortes, general secretary of TSSA, has written to Johnson calling for him to meet union members to resolve some of the [...]
Boris Johnson says hoverboard ban is “ludicrous and nannying” and they should be legal on Britain’s pavements after consulting Transport for London October 26, 2015 London mayor Boris Johnson must be a fan of Back to the Future. Just days after the world celebrated Back to the Future Day (if you missed it, that's the future date Marty McFly travels to from the 1980s), Johnson has called for hoverboards to be legalised. The new tech devices, also known as self-balancing scooters, were [...]
London’s housing crisis: Instead of building east or building up, it’s time for managed release of green belt land October 26, 2015 The capital’s housing crisis is an issue often swept under the carpet in people’s cramped, sub-standard living rooms. Having just launched its Housing and Planning Bill, the government is continuing to reassure people about that its plans to roll out one million new homes by 2020 in order to solve the sticky situation in which [...]
Seven points to ponder from Jeremy Corbyn’s alternative to the northern powerhouse October 26, 2015 Jeremy Corbyn has been under pressure from more moderate Labour politicians for his economic plans, but what does he want to achieve in his desire to see the North returned to a "great engine of prosperity" and how would he do it? Here are the seven things to take from Corbyn’s “Northern Future” proposals. The [...]
UK house prices at their most affordable in 13 years… but not for Londoners October 26, 2015 HOMES in England and Wales are at their most affordable in 13 years, new research from Hamptons International claims, as households benefit from rising incomes and lower cost of goods. The estate agent’s latest Ability to Buy index increased by two per cent year-on-year in the second quarter to bring it to its highest level [...]