Burglars have broken into the Three Buds café in Vauxhall Park twice in the span of two months. The first break-in occurred on 1 July 2026, and the second on 31 August. The burglars stole electronics, a phone, and coffee beans. They also cut electrical wiring to the café’s shutters during the first break-in. Hugo…
Pregnancy loss charity ‘The Worst Girl Gang Ever’ has launched a temporary exhibition at Bethnal Green’s Vagina Museum to mark Baby Loss Awareness Week (9 – 15 October). However, the charity also shared that they are in a constant state of financial precarity, relying almost exclusively on crowdfunding to sustain their peer-support services. The exhibition,…
The bar opened on Thursday 8 October and is an extension of Putney’s sole nightclub, Le Fez Open three nights a week, Annie’s Room offers dedicated bowling alley-style lanes for darts fans. It is located on Upper Richmond Road, an area off the high street largely dominated by retail shops and estate agents. Annie’s Room…
Barnet Council has approved a plan to tackle a projected £198 million budget gap by March 2029, leaving residents facing a sharp Council Tax increase and changes to essential public services. Behind the £198 million spreadsheet deficit is a reality that threatens to reshape daily life across the borough. Barnet is home to London’s largest…
Events Coordinator at The Dusty Knuckle Bakery, Verity Fulham, has confirmed the bakery’s award-winning Youth Programme will also be carried out at their new site in Blackstock Road, Islington: “we hope to run the programme soon, once the shop is fully up and running.” This will be The Dusty Knuckle Bakery’s third brick and mortar…
UAE investor, Arada, has been granted permission to begin pre-planning on the Great North Leisure Park redevelopment, despite arising concerns for Food Bank Aid’s distribution centre on the property. Food Bank Aid, a food and household goods donation distribution centre, supported over 30 food banks over last calendar year. Their donations helped approximately 20,000 North…
Clerkenwell residents and publicans report a whirlwind of excitement and sadness as James Bond actor Daniel Craig and team of associates set up shop in 18th century boozer and darts haven, the Horseshoe. Craig revealed in an interview with The Times that he and Soho House founder Nick Jones, restaurateur Charlie Carroll, and business collaborator…
An award-winning Woking wine bar has cited increases on national insurance, VAT and business rates as hitting retail and hospitality businesses in the town centre the hardest. Woking Borough Council announced at the beginning of October that it was planning to lift its “saturation zone”, first put in place in 2007 prohibiting licenses for new…
Tesco has kept Greenford waiting almost a year for its promised Broadway store, despite pledging to keep residents updated. When the 58-year-old Greenford Road store closed on 29 October last year, a spokesperson told EALING.NEWS Tesco was “always looking for the best ways to serve local communities” and would open a smaller Express in the…
An award-winning independent gym faces losing its home under plans to redevelop the YMCA hostel building in Crouch End. The project would see the hostel, which Luke Cawley-Harrison, leader of the Liberal Democrat group on Haringey Council, described as “end of life, not fit for purpose”, demolished and replaced with 174 en-suite rooms for young homeless people. This is not the…