by Rob McGibbon | Mar 24, 2025 | News, Shopping
Whole Foods Market (for that is, indeed, its full name) will open next Wednesday (25th March 25), marking the American company’s first new location in the UK since 2014. The new 21,800-square-foot store – opposite Royal Avenue at No.120 – will open...
by Rob McGibbon | Mar 20, 2025 | News, Planning
Defiant residents in the block of flats immediately next to the proposed One Battersea Bridge development have unveiled colourful protest posters. Eight impressive tarpaulin wraps have been strapped across the balconies of the five storey building called Thameswalk...
by Rob McGibbon | Mar 20, 2025 | Council, News, Politics
The leaders of the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea Council have waved through its budget for 2025-2026. Following a full council meeting on 5th March, the budget was signed off. Council tax will go up by four per cent – one of the lowest increases in...
by Rob McGibbon | Mar 13, 2025 | News
ようこそ to the new Japanese shop that has taken over the space left empty by Space.NK at the eastern end of King’s Road. The shop unit opposite Bluebird has been closed for many months and has been something of a dispiriting, ghostly sight for residents and...
by Rob McGibbon | Mar 10, 2025 | News
by Rob McGibbon An escaped pet budgerigar has been rescued from almost certain death in Brompton Cemetery. Kind-hearted bird lover Mrs Maria Rawlinson, who lives on Fulham Road near the iconic 1840 cemetery, saved the lost bird last Friday after several concerned...
