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EXCLUSIVE: Residents rally to save La Famiglia from “disaster” as ONE angry neighbour complains over garden noise
Iconic Italian restaurant La Famiglia has been a delicious dining fixture of Chelsea for 51 years and has attracted a sparkling guest list of celebrities and powerbrokers. Everyone who's anyone has at one time or another graced its beautiful blue...
The grab for power looms, but Who will win and How?
This Thursday — 7th May — voters in Kensington and Chelsea go to the polls in the most finely balanced local elections the Royal Borough has seen in a generation. The Conservatives are fighting to hold on to control, with the Labour Party snapping at their heels, and insurgent forces from Reform UK, the Liberal Democrats and the Green Party threatening to up-end the arithmetic — setting the stage for a contest where small shifts could have big...
EXCLUSIVE: “This is traumatic. I am devastated” – Karl Cronin’s father talks to The Citizen
The father of the man who fell to his death on the King’s Road in mysterious circumstances has told The Citizen: “This is traumatic for me. I am devastated”. Bill Cronin spoke of his shock and revealed that he “hasn’t the foggiest idea” what caused his son to fall from a second floor window to the pavement below. The Citizen tracked down Mr Cronin as part of its investigation into the unexplained death on the King’s Road and into Karl Cronin’s...
Gardeners find “dog toys and food covered in white powder” in Brompton Cemetery
Police have issued an urgent warning after suspected poisoned meat was discovered in two of Kensington and Chelsea’s best known green spaces — leaving animals seriously ill and others dead. The Metropolitan Police say chicken believed to be laced with toxins has been found in both Brompton Cemetery and Holland Park over several days, sparking alarm among dog owners. One dog is reported to have eaten the meat and became “very unwell”, while two...
Flippin’ Heck! McDonald’s Suddenly Closes King’s Road Restaurant
McDonald's on the King's Road suddenly closed on 6th July. The restaurant - at the junction with Royal Avenue - is now boarded up and will not be...
Physic Garden Seeds New Link to Save Rare Conifers
Chelsea Physic Garden (CPG) - has announced that it has grown a vital new partnership to help save critically endangered conifers from extinction....
Cascade flows across façade of The Gaumont
It has been three years in the making, but a stunning new public artwork has finally been unveiled across the façade The Gaumont building on the...
Chelsea Barracks: Radical new plans for ‘Phase 5’ to be unveiled
The revised new designs for what is known as Phase 5 of the vast Chelsea Barracks development are set to be revealed. Qatari Diar, the global...
The Sun Also Rises on Soleil at The Peninsula
If you are going to clear the tables of a much-admired Michelin-starred restaurant and replace it with a pop-up bar for the summer months, you had...
Residents fear Earl’s Court faces “24/7 free-for-all” crisis
Earl's Court residents are fighting against what they claim is a council-led "policy shift" that will pave the way for their area to become a hell...
Residents dig in to fight off Chelsea “giga” basement
Residents are digging in to stop a local business tycoon from building a "giga"* basement under the back garden of his Chelsea home. Mr Peter...
Possibilities for Tite Street Make Residents Wild
Tite Street's most famous former resident, Oscar Wilde, once referred to his beloved road as "The street of wonderful possibilities". Well, there's...
Swallows and Armenians at The Chelsea Theatre
The Chelsea Theatre is staging an operatic play based on the Anglo-Armenian children who inspired Arthur Ransom'e much-loved children's novel...
New Park for Lots Road – The Results Are IN…
RBKC has made a decision on the way forward for a new park that will be created by the river in Lots Road. Following the results of the consultation...
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