Clapham Breakfast Briefing

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.

Tuesday, September 28 in Clapham

Sunrise in Clapham | 06:56

Sunset in Clapham | 18:46

Clapham weather forecast

According to the Met Office, a generally cloudy day in Clapham with showers, sometimes heavy this afternoon, as a band of heavy rain arrives across western areas through the afternoon. Maximum temperature will be 18 °C.

Pollution | Low

UV | Medium

Clapham Traffic

According to AA's traffic news, there are severe delays of twelve minutes and delays easing on Cavendish Road Westbound between A205 South Circular and A3 Battersea Rise, with an average speed of five mph. There is slow traffic on Nightingale Lane from Hightrees House to Broomwood Hall Upper School and typical for this time of day, congestion on Aldebrook Road.

Clapham Junction

08:46 to London Waterloo is cancelled.

09:13 to London Waterloo is running 4 minutes late.

09:19 to London Victoria is running 4 minutes late.

Otherwise there is currently a good service operating through Clapham Junction.

The Northern Line

There is a good service currently operating on the Northern Line. For onwards travel, no service between Waterloo and Finchley Road on the Jubilee Line due to a signal failure at Baker Street is causing severe delays on the rest of the line.

What's Happening in Clapham

Head to our What's On page to see the incredible line-up of theatre, comedy and family & children's shows coming up as part of The Bread & Roses Theatre.

Fact of the day

The first person recorded for speeding was travelling at just eight miles per hour. According to Guinness World Records, the first person to be charged with speeding was Walter Arnold of the English village of Paddock Wood, Kent. On Jan. 28, 1896, Arnold was spotted going four times the speed limit in his 19th-century Benz—but since the speed limit at the time was just two miles per hour, that meant he was not going too fast by today's standards. The constable had to chase him down on his bicycle, issuing a ticket for £4 7s and earning Arnold the speedy distinction.