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Design & Textile, Business & Finance & Events LONDON NEWS, GLOBAL VIEWS KCWKENSINGTON, CHELSEA & WESTMINSTER, HAMMERSMITHt &o FULHAM, WANDSWORTH a y AND OTHER SELECT LONDON BOROUGHS ISSUE 0076 SEPTEMBER 2018 FREE DESIGN & TEXTILE, BUSINESS & FINANCE & EVENTS SUPPLEMENTS NEWS • LEGAL • EDUCATION • HEALTH • TRAVEL & DINING OUT • MOTORING ARTS & CULTURE • LITERATURE & POETRY • OPINION • SPORT CROSSWORD • BRIDGE • CHESS 2 SeptemberAugust 2018 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk Contents & Offices Kensington, Chelsea LONDON NEWS, GLOBAL VIEWS & Westminster Today Contents KCWKENSINGTON, CHELSEA & WESTMINSTER, HAMMERSMITHt &o FULHAM, WANDSWORTH a y AND OTHER SELECT LONDON BOROUGHS ISSUE 0075 AUGUST 2018 FREE TRIBAL ART 80-100 Gwynne Road, London, African Twilight ARRIVES IN SW11 3UW TOWN Tel: 020 7738 2348 Fisher. Angela Beckwith © Carol and Photograph LUNAR POLITICS EDUCATION E-mail: [email protected] & EVENTS SUPPLEMENTS Website: News www.kcwtoday.co.uk 3 Advertisement enquiries: Statue & Blue Plaque [email protected] 8 Subscriptions: [email protected] NEWS • POLITICS • HEALTH • EDUCATION • BUSINESS & FINANCE • EVENTS • TRAVEL & LIFESTYLE • LITERATURE & POETRY • ARTS & CULTURE • OPINION • News Publishers: DINING OUT • SPORT • MOTORING • CROSSWORD • BRIDGE • CHESS 10 Kensington & Chelsea Today Limited 12 Opinion & Comment Editor-in-Chief: Kate Hawthorne European & International News Art Director & Director: Tim Epps 14 Editors : Kate Hawthorne, Emma Trehane Education Head of Business Development: Emma Trehane 16 Senior Business Development: Antoinette Kovatchka Architecture: Squinch Feature Art & Culture Editors: Don Grant, Marian Maitland 21 Astronomy: Scott Beadle FRAS Literature Bridge: Andrew Robson 22 Business & Finance James Billot, Max Feldman, Poetry Douglas Shanks 23 Chess: Barry Martin Contributing Editors: Marius Brill, Peter Burden, Astronomy Jane Duncan (Design), Derek Wyatt 24 Music: Geoff Cowart, Design & Textiles Supplement Crossword: Wolfe 25 Dining Out: James Billot, Max Feldman, David Hughes (Editor), 29 Business, Finance & Legal Supplement Editorial: James Billot, Max Feldman, Kate Hawthorne, Beth Lindsay Events Supplement Fahad Redha, Emma Trehane 33 Education: James Billot, Max Feldman, Travel & Dining Out Fahad Redha 49 Events: Fahad Redha Features: James Billot, Kate Hawthorne Arts & Culture Travel : Cynthia Pickard 53 Health: Max Feldman, Fahad Redha, Health Feldman Reviews: Max Feldman 60 I wish I had written that: Dudley Sutton Literature: Max Feldman 64 Motoring Motoring: Fahad Redha News, Online Editor, Max Feldman Upstream Arts Correspondent & 67 Picture Editor Sports Poetry & Literary Editor: Emma Trehane 68 Political Editor: Derek Wyatt International Editor: Michael A Kolarov Crossword & Bridge Sport: James Billot, Fahad Redha 70 Sub-Editor: Leila Kooros Chess Upstream: Don Grant 71 020 7738 2348 July 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 3 News online: www.KCWToday.co.uk available is that it will not only give pedestrians a more concrete idea of air quality at micro level, but will also feed Solar Powered ‘Smart Benches’ important data back to local councils; with a view to ultimately helping them take a load off in Southwark to improve air quality in the capital. For Photograph © Strawberry Energy © Strawberry Photograph By Max Feldman those who think that solar power is a poor investment considering London’s infamously changeable weather, Strawberry Energy have announced that the benches are able to collect power without direct sunlight and the energy is stored for use at night. The leader of Southwark Council, Chancellor Peter John, said: “I welcome the arrival of these new Strawberry smart benches; they will help us to offer people in Southwark modern technology that responds to contemporary needs. Council officers have been collecting air quality data from the benches; this will help us to build a picture of the problem onsidering that be forming a pub quiz team any time in the Canary Wharf area back in and show us the way forward, here in soon, they’re just constructed to absorb 2015; however the design has changed Southwark,” he added. everything from solar energy and put it at the disposal of substantially since then, with the Mr Milisavljevic said: “We’re fridges to kettles are any pedestrian who fancies a bit of a sit addition of several new features. delighted to be working in partnership down. Alongside its standard duties as a with Southwark Council to extend the increasingly becoming ‘smart’ Southwark council has plans to install bench it also emits Wi-Fi, alongside network of smart benches in the borough C 29 of the smart benches, while nearby sockets for commuters to recharge and hope the addition of new sensors by being connected to the internet, it should come as no Lewisham is adding 25 of them. Other their phones. It also has sensors that will help the council and local residents locations include Islington, which has can read local temperature and CO2 have a better picture of air quality down surprise that the humble bench been trialling the benches since last year. levels along with more esoteric readings to a street level.” is joining the cyborg club in The benches, conceived and designed like NO2, O3, SO2, N2S, respiratory “We designed the benches with by Milos Milisavljevic, founder of the irritants, humidity and air pressure today’s Londoner in mind, providing South-East London. start-up Strawberry Energy, have been and background noise, with the use of free, solar powered phone charging, WiFi in development for years and were a specialised app. The concept behind and air quality monitoring in a single, These so-called ‘smart benches’ won’t originally trialled by Strawberry Energy making this vast array of information sleek piece of street furniture,” he added. delay two days before it was made public, despite having regular briefings with the One in seven Crossrail delays Crossrail Board. “I am extremely disappointed, operations being will cause losses frustrated and angry by the delay,” he said. Sir Terry Morgan, chairman of cancelled of over £20 Crossrail Ltd, said the firm had “raised concerns” about progress in July but had million still been working towards opening in s many as a seventh of operations Some £20m of new revenue will be December. in the UK have been postponed, missed because of the delay in opening Crossrail CEO Simon Wright a study suggests. Researchers Crossrail, transport bosses have said. explained to Assembly Members the fromA the Royal College of Anaesthetics Transport commissioner Mike Brown delay had been caused by a combination and UCL looked at 26,000 cases over said the loss was “manageable” but added of unfinished construction work and a seven-day period in March 2017. The it was “too early” to confirm what extra problems with testing. He said an data came from 245 hospitals around the theatre, equipment, and staff. But half of costs will come from the delay. electrical explosion at Pudding Mill Lane country. patients were not given any reason at all. He and other Crossrail bosses were in October 2017 meant tunnel trials While the researchers acknowledged that This is affecting the “health and welfare giving evidence at the London Assembly the figure could be lower during quiet of tens of thousands of patients every following Friday’s announcement the times of the year, they still pointed out year,” says Chief investigator Prof service will start in Autumn 2019. that this problem needs addressing as Ramani Moonesinghe. “This is not good Europe's biggest infrastructure project is Photograph © TfL the health and welfare of the patient is at for patients. We need to find different already almost £600m over budget. risk. solutions,” she said. Mr Brown said Transport for London The operations included everything from However, NHS bosses looking at the (TfL) had been expected to make £20m heart operations and cancer surgery to overall number of operations done, from new fares by the end of March more complex abdominal cases and joint including minor treatment and day 2019 if the service had opened in replacements. They also looked at how cases, found that the cancellation rate December. Speaking about the possibility many people undergoing planned surgery, was much lower, with just 1 percent of of additional construction costs, Mr excluding those that came in via A&E, planned operations in England cancelled Brown said the transport group would be could not begin until February this year. had previously had their operations for non-clinical reasons. “making provisions within our own plans” “We started testing later than we cancelled. They found that 10 percent of “This report provides only a selective, once the amounts were known. would have liked and those tests have not the 15,000 people had previously seen limited snapshot of surgery in England,” TfL has already agreed to provide gone as well as we would have hoped,” he their operations postponed. An NHS England spokesperson said. £150m of extra funds to the project at a said. When fully operational the route, A third of cancellations were for clinical “where the NHS is funding more time when it is facing major challenges in to be known as the Elizabeth Line, will reasons including the patient not being routine operations and more people balancing its budget. Mayor of London run from Reading and Heathrow in the healthy enough to undergo the treatment. are undergoing treatment than the year Sadiq Khan, who was also at the meeting, west to Shenfield and Abbey Wood in Other cases were due to lack of beds, before.” revealed he only found out about the the east. 4 July 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk News big screen TV, it also hosts festivals, and even the annual rubber duck race TRAFFIC WATCH which KCW Today reported on in our London Home Football Traffic Watch previous issue. Known as the Grand Junction September 15, Chelsea v Cardiff City, Canal until 1929, the Paddington arm 15:00 of the Grand Union Canal opened in September 19, QPR v Millwall, 19:45 July 1801.
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