News in Clapham

Clapham Breakfast Briefing: Thursday, October 14

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.

Clapham Junction station will lose step-free access until March when lift maintenance work begins next week.

Passengers are being urged by Network Rail to double check their journey plans as they will not be able to rely on the lifts at Clapham Junction between Monday (October 18) and March 25, 2022.

Police find a loaded sub-machine gun and a revolver in an abandoned car in Lambeth.

An Operation Viper team along with a Neighbourhood Tasking Team conducted searches and patrols of Sackville Estate in Lambeth last Thursday (October 7) following a number of vehicles being abandoned in the area.

Local residents have objected to 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 from a restaurant to a 'drinking establishment with extended food provision' called Little Sister.

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.

A former Lambeth police officer punched a taxi driver after he couldn't pay the taxi fare, the Met Police revealed yesterday (Monday, October 11).

A Met Police misconduct hearing that began last Wednesday (October 6) determined that former Met PC James Gillies "would have been dismissed without notice" as he was found to have breached the Standards of Professional Behaviour "to the level of gross misconduct in respect of discreditable conduct".

Images have emerged of the gang of machete wielding thugs preying on cyclists in and around Richmond Park.

Following a violent assault on British cyclist Alexander Richardson last Thursday, this latest attack took place yesterday afternoon in broad daylight in Roehampton High Street, which is a busy road close to the entrance to Richmond Park.

Clapham Breakfast Briefing: Tuesday, October 12

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.

It used to seem as if the scourge of single-use plastic was destined to feature in our modern lives forevermore.

But paper straws have become the norm and re-usable water bottles are seen as much as fashion accessories as they are an everyday necessity.

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