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Since 1973 Waterloo Action Centre (WAC) has served as a community hub, offering a wide range of services including Waterloo Legal Advice Service. However the centre says a new community sector strategy which the London Borough of Lambeth is consulting on puts its future at risk.
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Waterloo Action Centre: peppercorn rent
The authority says voluntary sector organisations occupy a range of council-owned buildings, paying widely differing fees and charges. It plans to standardise rates.
WAC currently pays a peppercorn rent and says the council’s proposals could result in its rent rising to £45,000 a year plus £5,000 building insurance within four years. The centre, which is funded by grants and renting space to community groups, says the new rent would represent a third of its income. Leases would be granted for a period of up to 10 years but the centre says a 25-year lease is usually required by charitable trusts to give capital grants for b
What lies beneath: Eerie pictures show generations of coffins lying in the dusty catacombs underneath West Norwood Cemetery
London s West Norwood Cemetery is the world s first ever Gothic-style cemetery, and was opened in 1837
The 40-acre grounds are a mixture of a historic monumental cemetery and modern lawn cemetery
Catacombs lie below two chapels demolished that were damaged in bombing during the Second World War
A number of notable figures are buried at the cemetery, including Baron Julias de Reuter, founder of the Reuters news agency, Sir Henry Tate, sugar merchant and founder of the Tate Gallery, and Sir Henry Doulton
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£5 million boost for local authorities to tackle air pollution
Air Quality Grants awarded across England to fund local projects for cleaner air
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9 March 2021
Local authorities across England have been granted more than £5 million in government funding to deliver innovative projects to improve air quality.
The money, from the government’s Air Quality Grant, helps councils develop and implement measures to benefit schools, businesses and communities and reduce the impact of dirty air on people’s health. More than double the funding awarded in 2020 has been made available for this year’s grant, meaning a raft of particularly strong applications are being supported.
Green man traffic signal replaced by woman at pedestrian crossings in London
While some icons wear heels, others wear jackets and flat shoes
Why did the Londoner do a double-take as they crossed the road?
To look at the new traffic light designs of course.
Transport for London has unveiled a series of new icons at crossings across the capital.
Rather than the traditional image of a person wearing a dress to signify gender, the signals feature a range of women in different shapes and sizes.
The specially designed symbols veer away from the common narrow representations of women and showcase a range of females from high-heeled, bun wearing ladies to bobbed- haired, jacket-wearing individuals.