She was born in Kilkenny in 1973, the eldest of six children, and grew up on a farm. A rural life in Ireland, though, was not for her. “I was always interested in spreading my wings and exploring the world,” says Rosanna Lawes, who in October announced that in spring 2025 she will be stepping […]
Two borough by-elections took place on Thursday, one in Redbridge and the other in Greenwich. Their results were intriguingly different from those of the pair held a month ago, one of which was also for a Greenwich seat. On that occasion, the contest was for the marginal (normally Conservative) Eltham Town & Avery Hill ward. […]
It is a paradox of Tottenham’s Broadwater Farm estate that it stands very close to a large public park but isn’t a terribly green place. Its western side looks out over the Lordship Recreation Ground in the Moselle valley. The estate’s very name harks back to the area’s still fairly recent rural past. Yet for […]
Over ten years in the planning and due to open next May, the V&A East Storehouse promises “unprecedented access” to the famous London museum’s “behind-the-scenes world” with daily opportunities for the public to explore what used to be called its reserve collection in a bespoke space on the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park (QEOP). What will […]
This may come as a surprise. But not very long ago, before too many of Britain’s politicians and too much of its media succumbed to, caved in to, or sought to appease forces of populism from both left and right, it was widely-agreed that London was an economic and cultural asset that benefited Britain as […]
With one in 50 London residents now living in temporary accommodation at a cost to the city’s local authorities of some £3 million a day, the capital’s housing crisis is threatening to “break borough budgets”, the cross-party London Councils group warned today. New figures from the group, which represents all London boroughs, show a 10 […]
Walk down Commercial Road as night draws in and look up at the residential tower blocks that crowd in, canyon-like. How many have their lights on as residents busy themselves with food and leisure? Not many – in some blocks, barely 10 per cent. Maybe people are still on their way home from work, are […]
A new chair and chief executive are to take over at the London Legacy Development Corporation (LLDC), ushering in the next phase of the continuing evolution of the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. Shazia Hussain, currently deputy chief executive of Waltham Forest, has been appointed to succeed Lyn Garner as chief executive, and Suki Kalirai, an […]
