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Autumn Getaway LONDON NEWS, GLOBAL VIEWS KCWKENSINGTON, CHELSEA & WESTMINSTER, HAMMERSMITHt &o FULHAM, WANDSWORTH a y AND OTHER SELECT LONDON BOROUGHS ISSUE 0077 OCTOBER 2018 FREE AUTUMN GETAWAY SEE THE EVENTS SUPPLEMENT FOR ENJOYABLE AND INSPIRING ACTIVITIES EVENTS • NEWS • BUSINESS & FINANCE • EDUCATION • HEALTH • DINING OUT MOTORING • ARTS & CULTURE • LITERATURE & POETRY • OPINION • SPORT CROSSWORD • BRIDGE • CHESS ✱ CHESS BOOK OFFER ✱ 2 SeptemberAugustOctober 2018 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 0076 SEPTEMBER 2018 FREE 80-100 Gwynne Road, London, SW11 3UW Tel: 020 7738 2348 E-mail: [email protected] Website: News www.kcwtoday.co.uk 3 Advertisement enquiries: [email protected] Statue & Blue Plaque DESIGN & TEXTILE, 8 Subscriptions: BUSINESS & FINANCE [email protected] SUPPLEMENTS NEWS • POLITICS • HEALTH • EDUCATION • BUSINESS & FINANCE • EVENTS • Opinion & Comment TRAVEL & LIFESTYLE • LITERATURE & POETRY • ARTS & CULTURE • OPINION • Publishers: DINING OUT • SPORT • MOTORING • CROSSWORD • BRIDGE • CHESS 10 Kensington & Chelsea Today Limited 12 European & International News 13 Chess Promotion Editor-in-Chief: Kate Hawthorne Business & Finance Art Director & Director: Tim Epps 14 Editors : Kate Hawthorne, Emma Trehane Head of Business Development: Emma Trehane Astronomy Senior Business Development: Antoinette Kovatchka 16 Architecture: Squinch Victoria Halls Promotion Art & Culture Editors: Don Grant, Marian Maitland 17 Astronomy: Scott Beadle FRAS Literature & Poetry Bridge: Andrew Robson 18 Business & Finance Stephanie Hawthorne, Douglas Shanks Education Chess: Barry Martin 20 Contributing Editors: Marius Brill, Peter Burden, Events Supplement Jane Duncan (Design), Derek Wyatt 26 Music: Geoff Cowart, Crossword: Wolfe 33 Dining Out Dining Out: Tim Epps, Max Feldman, Kate Hawthorne, David Hughes Arts & Culture (Editor), Cynthia Pickard 36 Emma Trehane Health Editorial: Max Feldman, 46 Kate Hawthorne, Fahad Redha Education: Max Feldman, Fahad Redha Motoring Events: Fahad Redha 50 Health: Fahad Redha, Sports Feldman Reviews: Max Feldman 52 Literature: Max Feldman Motoring: Fahad Redha 53 Upstream News, Online Editor, Max Feldman Arts Correspondent & Crossword, Bridge & Public Notice Picture Editor 54 Poetry & Literary Editor: Emma Trehane Chess Political Editor: Derek Wyatt 55 International Editor: Michael A Kolarov Sport: Fahad Redha Sub-Editor: Leila Kooros Upstream: Don Grant 0203 7738 2348 OctoberSeptemberAugust 2018 2018 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 3 News online: www.KCWToday.co.uk site under the Westway. Galliard Homes, recycling company Powerday and a host Grenfell boxing of other contractors and suppliers also supported the project. club reopens Members of the local community volunteered to help with the build, which under the took just 63 days and was attended by the Duke of Cambridge. The episode Westway aired on BBC One in September. By James Warrington Presenter Nick Knowles said: “When you see the enthusiasm and the respect in the club, we knew that we’d been pointed in the right direction in terms of building this.” Former footballer Dennis Wise also boxing club based in Grenfell attended the ceremony to oversee the Tower has reopened in a new, unveiling of a minibus that he donated to purpose-built location a year after the club. the fire that claimed 72 lives. Nine year-old Dale Youth boxer A Mason said he liked the layout of Dale Youth Amateur Boxing Club had been situated at the bottom of the the new gym, which has high quality tower for almost two decades before it equipment and a viewing gallery for was destroyed last June. parents. “I feel very happy and I thank The club has trained in an unused car the DIY SOS people for doing it,” he park since the fire. A new state of the art added. gym, built with the help of the BBC’s The inquiry into the fire at Grenfell DIY SOS team, has now been reopened Tower is ongoing and has recently heard under the Westway. evidence from members of the London Mayor Sadiq Khan, DIY SOS Fire Brigade, survivors and the bereaved. presenter Nick Knowles and former James Brokenshire, secretary of Chelsea footballer Dennis Wise attended state for housing, communities and the official opening ceremony. local government, announced a ban on Mick Delaney, head coach at Dale cladding similar to those used on the Youth ABC, said: “It’s unbelievable. We Grenfell Tower. never dreamed it was going to happen.” Survivors welcomed the He described the club as a vital Mayor Sadiq Khan said: “The thing have this given to us. It brings people announcement, but the Fire Brigades facility for young people in the area. about this boxing club is it teaches together. There’ll be a lot of people Union criticised the government for not “It’s a community, North Kensington. people life skills. I want young people to coming in from the community.” going far enough. Everyone gets round each other, everyone know this is a safe place for them to go. Dale Youth was originally located FBU general secretary Mark Wrack knows everybody, and everyone sticks This is the sort of gang they should be on the ground floor of Grenfell Tower, said: “This is not the outright ban on together. I think this is so important,” he belonging to.” but moved to the walkway level combustible cladding that firefighters said. Many members of the club lost after a refurbishment in 2016. This have been calling for. The Westminster Dale Youth has a long list of friends and family in the fire at Grenfell refurbishment also added the cladding government continues to allow cladding successful alumni including an Olympic Tower last year, and some survivors that contributed to the fire last June. of limited combustibility for any building champion, two world champions, and attended the opening ceremony. William The DIY SOS team led efforts to work in the future. The FBU calls for European, British and Commonwealth McDermott, who has trained at the club build the new gym and an adjoining a universal ban on these flammable champions. for the last 10 years, said: “It’s a gift to community centre on a 750 square metre materials.” is being used for extra funding towards to ask its wealthiest residents to dig Westminster youth clubs, which have suffered cuts in into their pockets if the Conservative recent years, as well as help for rough Government had not created an raises 390K with sleepers, and for initiatives tackling economic climate of “austerity.” isolation and loneliness. Following the public interest in the voluntary ‘wealth The council is not allowed to raise scheme, the council pledged another council taxes for just the wealthiest round of mail drops asking for Band H tax’ residents. By law, it would have to lift residents to give more. By Local Democracy Reporter them across the board. The report to Thursday’s committee It introduced the adult social care precept said council officers were considering Talia Shadwell in 2017/18, lifting contributions by 2 per yet another mail drop in the autumn cent, or about £1 million. concentrating on Band H residents who In this year’s council tax round, residents had not yet made a contribution. Asking Westminster’s wealthiest in Band H properties were due to pay 15,600 highest value properties, and Residents who make the voluntary residents to top up their council tax bill about £833, excluding the Greater drew widespread attention for asking the donations are sent letters detailing what with a voluntary contribution to help London Authority top-up which brings borough’s residents to pay double their the money was being used for. rough sleepers has net about £390,000 their total bill to £1421. usual council tax bill. It added that Westminster had received a so far. The latest figures on the community Band H describes homes valued at more number of enquiries from other councils Westminster City Council touts its contribution scheme were provided than £320,000 in 1991 interested in the scheme, with Islington council tax as among the lowest rates in to the council’s housing, finance and By May it had net £342,000 in its first Council poised to introduce a similar the United Kingdom. customer services scrutiny committee on round, and the council drew criticism scheme Its community contribution scheme September 27. over the figure- with some saying it The scheme has been shortlisted for asks residents in the London borough’s In response to a query on the cost of the showed blanket taxation was more a national “innovation” award from priciest homes to contribute more, on top scheme, Cllr Robert Rigby said he would reliable than charitable giving. the Institution of Rating, Revenues & of their ordinary council tax. find out and report back. Labour opposition leader Adam Hug at Valuation, with the winner due to be The council says the extra money raised The scheme is focused on Westminster’s the time said the council wouldn’t have announced in October. 4 SeptemberAugustOctober 2018 2018 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk News the truth, and when egged on by appeared in a number of episodes He found a new lease of life in his an appreciative audience, he would of Emmerdale, Holby City and seventies, with one-man shows at deliver a killer punch in the form of Eastenders as Wilfred, but his most the Edinburgh Fringe, Killing Kittens a withering put-down. He was also widely-praised and much-loved in 2003 and Pandora’s Lunch Box around long enough to have mixed role was as Tinker Dill in Lovejoy in 2006. Dudley wanted to call it with some of the great and the good with Ian McShane. Now, there was Pandora’s Hairy Lunchbox but they of British theatre and movies, and a man who Dudley revealed that he wouldn’t have it and tried to censor had an endless stream of stories was not all that he seemed.
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