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EXCLUSIVE: Lord Michael Howard steps in to support Justice For Jack Ryan campaign
Former Home Secretary Lord Michael Howard has called on the current Home Secretary to change the bail laws that he signed off more than 30 years ago to plug a loophole that allows serious offenders to escape justice. Lord Howard has called on Home...
Public Inquiry Day 7: Curtain falls on the public inquiry into the Battle of Battersea Bridge
Seven days. One towering row. The planning inquiry that swung from dry technical detail to full-blown courtroom theatre finally reached its climax yesterday. At precisely 1pm, Planning Inspector Joanna Gilbert — cool, yet affable and quick to smile, bespectacled and inscrutable — took her seat on the raised dais, scribbled a few final notes and readied to bring down the curtain on one of London’s most bitter planning battles. Inside Wandsworth...
Public Inquiry Day 6: Flood defences drama makes sudden ingress into council chamber
The final full day of the explosive Battersea Tower public inquiry witnessed a dramatic late intervention yesterday from the Government’s Environment Agency — raising fresh fears the controversial high-rise could put flood defences at risk. During Day Six of the inquiry, an urgent email landed in Planning Inspector Joanna Gilbert’s inbox from Government planning adviser Shea Bunyan. The message carried a stark warning: before a single brick is...
Exclusive: Bianca Jagger gambles on helping residents to stop Earl’s Court casino expansion
Human rights campaigner Bianca Jagger has stepped in to support anxious residents who are trying to fight off the opening of a new slot machine casino in Earl's Court, The Citizen can reveal. Ms Jagger, a resident in the Royal Borough, has weighed in with an excoriating FOUR PAGE objection letter that was sent to RBKC council late on Tuesday. In it, she claims that the new AGC - Adult Gaming Centre - would turn the area into a "gambling hub'....
Space.NK’s empty space is turning Japanese, I really think so
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...
ALIVE! Lost budgie saved from death in Brompton Cemetery
An escaped pet budgerigar has been rescued from almost certain death in Brompton Cemetery. Kind-hearted bird lover Mrs Maria Rawlinson, who lives on...
Designs unveiled for new £1m riverside park by Lots Road
Detailed concept designs have been unveiled by RBKC for a new £1m riverside park by Lots Road in SW10. The council has created three draft options...
The Chelsea Society’s Annual Report rolls orf the presses
The Chelsea Society has issued its annual report for 2024 and its Winter Bulletin. The Citizen is happy to publish here the Editor's Foreword by...
New pub on local team sheet prepares to cross the line
The Lost Hours pub, which closed more than a year ago and has been at the mercy of squatters for many months, is to finally re-open - as a pub....
Homes for Ukraine – RBKC and residents fight to help those displaced by war
RBKC and residents are continuing to step up to help Ukrainian people displaced by the devastating war that has been raging for three years....
Fulham’s latest 38-storey “monstrous tower” set to loom over Chelsea
Hammersmith & Fulham Council has waved through the fourth phase of the King's Road Park development in SW6 that will include a 38-storey tower...
Cooper the German Shepherd to star in Finborough Theatre’s new play
The Finborough Theatre has announced some radical casting for a new production - Cooper, the...
Ward Police Sergeant vows: ‘Every victim of crime in Chelsea WILL be contacted”
Chelsea residents have been promised "continuity and accountability" from the Metropolitan Police when it comes to fighting...
Silver trowels and wet cement for topping out of £46m Sloane Street re-build
The Great and the Good of Chelsea (and some of its most esteemed infantry) turned up for the topping out ceremony to celebrate the end of the...
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