Clapham Breakfast Briefing: Friday, October 15

Clapham Breakfast Briefing is a daily column dedicated to morning 'must-knows' from around town and other useful tid bits: weather, traffic, travel and trivia news in a nutshell.

Sunrise in Clapham | 07:20

Clapham weather forecast

UV | Low

Clapham Traffic

Traffic is not looking too bad in Clapham this morning, as per the AA's traffic news.

Clapham Junction

Severe delays between Sydenham and West Croydon due to an earlier signal failure at Penge West.

There are no train cancellations and very few delays affecting travel through Clapham Junction

The Northern Line

The Northern Line continues on in its three week undisrupted streak of good service. If only that was enough to make the night tube return for Clapham, too.

Catch up on Clapham

A post-work ride around Richmond Park is a ritual for many Clapham residents. However the machete wielding gang who attacked British cyclist Alexander Richardson last week continue to blight roads around Roehampton. The first pictures of the gang targeting cyclistswere taken after Monday's most recent attack, which saw armed police called to the scene.

Local residents oppose a new bar on Battersea Rise where existing venues already mean they encounter "vomit, urine and even human faeces" on an almost daily basis.

Darwin and Wallace, which owns No. 32 in Clapham Old Town, has applied to change the use of 35-37 Battersea Rise but among the 28 objections, residents have raised fears including rubbish piling up, increased traffic, the impact on children's sleep and the risk posed to property values.

What's Happening in Clapham

Make sure to check out What's On in Clapham this weekend of all weekends. From the premier of new play Breaking Up With Reality to the Clapham Book Festival where Michael Morpurgo will speak about his new book When Fishes Flew, head to our What's On page and put dates in your diary ASAP.

Fact of the day

Big Ben is not actually called Big Ben. The world famous landmark is in fact called the Elizabeth Tower - Big Ben is the name of the bell that lives inside it.