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London Underground weekend closures: Tube lines and Overground changes on May 1 and 2 If youre in the city this Bank Holiday weekend, heres all you need to know Social distancing and face covering rules remain in place (Image: Victoria Jones/PA Wire) Sign up to our newsletter for daily updates and breaking newsInvalid EmailSomething went wrong, please try again later. Sign up here! When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. Your information will be...

London Underground weekend closures: Tube lines and Overground shut on April 24 and 25 The Tube lines and overground shut on April 24 and 25 A commuter wears a face-mask as she prepares to travel on an underground train (Image: Getty Images) Sign up to our newsletter for daily updates and breaking newsInvalid EmailSomething went wrong, please try again later. Sign up here! When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. Your information will be used in ...

Chiara Wilkinson Steph, Nimoa and Nadine are helping to beautify a Hackney station. - Credit: Kyle Baldock A group of green-fingered volunteers have been hard at work beautifying Hackneys Overground stations. Energy Garden is London’s urban transformation gardening project, set up in 2011. It works with community groups across the city to grow food and plants at around 30 different stations, with more than 300 active volunteers.  The organisation has a mission to aesthetically transform Rect...

London Underground weekend closures: The tube lines and overground shut on April 17 and 18 Passengers are being urged to plan ahead and check before they make journeys as trains will be disrupted Passengers at a London Underground station (Image: Victoria Jones/PA Wire) Sign up to our newsletter for daily updates and breaking newsInvalid EmailSomething went wrong, please try again later. Sign up here! When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. Your...

Caitlin Tilley Published: 9:00 AM April 9, 2021    In a recent report the London Fire Brigade (LFB) said attendance times have not been affected by LTNs. - Credit: LFB Londons emergency services have expressed their support for low traffic neighbourhoods (LTNs). In its report, Fire Facts – Incident Response Times 2020, the London Fire Brigade (LFB) said last week: “We haven’t yet noticed any impact on our attendance times due to the LTN schemes established in 2020." The report, publis...

The best picnic, wine and meal deliveries for your park catch-ups Groups of up to six are now able to meet together outdoors, after the rules on social gatherings were relaxed on March 29. Great news for those with gardens, but lets not forget the joy of picnicking in the park. And, after a year of finding inventive ways to pivot, delivery services are planning to capitalise.  In London, a host of restaurants and delivery services have already confirmed that they’ll be delivering fine din...

Chiara Wilkinson The Three Compasses pub on Dalston Lane. - Credit: The Three Compasses After months of anticipation, prime minister Boris Johnson has given Hackney hospitality the go-ahead to welcome visitors for food and alcohol outside from April 12. So if you are wondering where to book in Hackney, the  Gazette has rounded up a few of the great beer gardens in the borough opening the week of April 12. The Adam and Eve, Homerton 155 Homerton High St, Homerton, London E9 6AS Adam & Eve p...

London Underground weekend closures: All the tube and overground lines closed on February 13 and 14 Three lines will be partly closed this weekend The London Underground (Image: Martin Keene/PA Wire) Sign up to our newsletter for daily updates and breaking newsInvalid EmailSomething went wrong, please try again later. Sign up here! When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. Sometimes they’ll include recommendations for other related newsletters o...

Will Durrant Kingfisher Cafe on Kingsland High Street. - Credit: Kingfisher Cafe A Dalston café fears it might be "on life support” by the end of the year if uncertainties around the coronavirus lockdown continue. Kingfisher Café on Kingsland High Street has lost around 90 per cent of its customer base during the lockdown as sit-down coffee and cake is banned under Covid-19 rules. Café manager Mustafa Cicekci says his business is reaching new extremes and that he is “stepping into the ...

“It’s all about food – whether its food parcels or ready meals, we do both.” Shukri Adan comforts her youngest daughter while she cries because she can’t join her mother, June 28, 2020. Every Sunday Shukri cooks almost 100 meals at home with her brother, Mahad, and some friends from the Somali community, and then delivers them to struggling families around Hackney. - Credit: Grey Hutton/National Geographic Society Covid-19 Emergency Fund Shukri and five other volunteers make meals thr...