Clapham Breakfast Briefing: Wednesday, October 13

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 slow moving Eastbound on The Avenue towards Cavendish Road and congestion has built up in both directions on Clapham Common South Side.

Clapham Junction

As we reported yesterday, an operating incident at Enfield Town continues to effect overground services with minor delays between Liverpool Street and Cheshunt.

The Northern Line

There is a good service operating on the Northern Line and except for minor delays on the District Line between Richmond and Turnham Green, all other underground lines.

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.

What's Happening in Clapham

South London's freshest female-led artists continue to shine in Women Do South at The Bread & Roses Pub.

Meanwhile, above the pub in the Bread & Roses Theatre, today is the last day to see Miss Margarida's Way. Billed as a darkly hilarious satire on dictatorship, join Miss Margarida's Year 8 classroom for lessons at once funny as well as insane.

Fact of the day

'Squid Game' creator Hwang Dong-hyuk wrote the show in 2009 but saw it rejected by studios for 10 years. At one point financial struggles forced him to stop writing the script and sell his $675 laptop.

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