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LONDON NEWS, GLOBAL VIEWS KCWKENSINGTON CHELSEA & WESTMINSTER, HAMMERSMITHt & oFULHAM ay AND OTHER SELECT LONDON BOROUGHS ISSUE 0074 JULY 2018 FREE NEWS• PROPERTY• BUSINESS & FINANCE• OPINION• EDUCATION• ARTS & CULTURE• HEALTH• EVENTS• HORTICULTURE• DINING OUT• TRAVEL POETRY & LITERATURE• MOTORING• SPORT• CROSSWORD• BRIDGE• CHESS 2 July 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk 020 7738 2348 July 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 3 Contents & Offices News online: www.KCWToday.co.uk Kebab Rolls 114 Lamb or Chicken Roll . £5 .50 115 Chicken Tikka Roll . .£6 .00 116 Lamb Tikka Roll . £6 .50 Drinks 101a Still Water bottle 300ml . £1 .95 101 Still Water bottle 750ml . £3 .50 102 Sparkling Water bottle 750ml . £3 .50 FUNCTION ROOM AVAILABLE FOR KENSINGTON CHELSEA & WESTMINSTER, HAMMERSMITH103 Soft Dr ink& Coke, FULHAM 7up, Fanta . £1 .70 Kensington, Chelsea 104 Juice . £2 .90 PARTIES OF UP TO 50 GUESTS AND OTHER SELECT LONDON BOROUGHS Orange, Mango, Pineapple, Cranberry, Lychee, Tropical HMC APPROVED Lassi Yoghurt Drinks 105 Sweet Lassi . £3 .00 106 Salted Lassi . £3 .00 107 Mango Lassi . £3 .50 miran masala Desserts Lahore Karahi 108 Kulfi Mango, Pistachio, Almond . £4 .00 109 Bombay Khoya Kulfi Traditional Indian ice cream . .£5 .00 Miran Masala welcomes you to a modern restaurant offering 110 Suspense Luxury vanilla ice cream . £5 .00 the highest quality in Pakistani Punjabi cuisine and grilled & Westminster Today 111 Coconut Lagoon Coconut ice cream . £5 .00 meats. 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See page 11 for details 4 July 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk 020 7738 2348 July 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 5 News News online: www.KCWToday.co.uk involved”. around half of London trying to find hour carrying out a very detailed two different lengths. I was prescribed Households must apply for planning shoes that fit my Neanderthal feet! I analysis and diagnosed that the pain a customized orthotic to help with my Prostitution & permission if they want to let a property 3.6 million year had until recently resigned myself to I had been getting on the underside pains and advised to wear the orthotics for more than 90 days a year. Airbnb living with my foot pain until it got so of my foot every morning was for six months before coming back for parties: said it did not allow users to accept wait to find bad I’d have to have a bunion operation. plantafasiitis caused by a stretched a another free reassessment. Westminster Council goes more bookings than the legal limit, My own piece of elephant dung tendon, and the pain I was getting on With the right help from Altimus, after illegal letting unless their owners have planning the right shoes ! ducking luck came when my daughter my knee was a direct result of my tibia it seems our Tanzanian ancestors’ permission. However, the council says told me that her Duke Of Edinburgh rotating, leading to back pain which choice of walking upright, was the estminster Council’s new landlords and tenants are sub-letting to expedition was in two weeks time but was being exacerbated by my legs being right choice after all. Housing Standards Task get around Airbnb’s rules by offering the she hadn’t had time to get all her kit force has announced rooms on multiple platforms including together and could mum help her pay they’veW uncovered sex work, parties and HomeAway. In Tanzania in 1976 Mary for some of it. overcrowding in short-term let properties Council leader Nickie Aiken said Call Today for a FREE Badly fitted footwear causes Knee and Back Pain, throughout the borough. Westminster some people may genuinely not know Leakey’s discovery of the Biomechanical assessment Corn, Callouses, and Nerve Damage. City Council has announced that they’re the 90-night limit exists, however she Worth £150 Free FHP Assesment... at any of our London clinics examining 1,200 properties after issuing warned the council was taking a tough footprints of one of our oldest She did however say that Altimus, the 75 breach notices to owners using online approach, adding the proliferation ancestors, was made by the newest outdoor shop in High Street accommodation rental sites to facilitate of short-term visitors were upsetting Kensington gave a DOfE discount so I the illegal activity. residents in the borough. sheer luck of ducking to avoid could get HER stuff cheaper!! They claim that some of these She said: “We have no problem with being hit by elephant dung Luckily when I went to Altimus I was households have let properties to people earning a little extra money by served by their in-house Foot Health short-term guests on nearly every letting their home considerately within being thrown by one of her Practitioner (FHP) who not only night of the year. Two of the bigger the limits. “But those who are breaching researchers. helped me get my daughter’s sleeping companies, Airbnb and HomeAway, the 90-night limit and letting 365 days bag, daysack and water bottles, but also BRING YOUR said they had not received complaints a year are a blight on the lives of our er discoveries paint a poignant suggested bringing her back for a free OLD SHOES FOR Footmap at Altimus RECYCLING AND GET from Westminster council. An Airbnb residents.” picture of a family walking biomechanical assessment £20 TOWARDS YOUR 176 High Street Kensington spokesperson said: “There are many It is estimated that in Westminster away from a volcanic eruption He explained how foot morphology NEW PAIR ! Tel: 0118 3040050 home-sharing platforms in Westminster.” there are 4,703 Airbnb listings, Hthrough an ash strewn landscape into helps determine the most suitable “Airbnb is the only one that works comprising 3,284 entire homes, 1,378 to a better future. Although Professor shoe for you. Obviously wanting to with London to promote the rules and private rooms, and 41-shared rooms. Leakey’s evidence helped show that bi- know what type of shoes would be With over 200 styles of extra narrow and extra wide footwear we can limit how often hosts can share their Westminster Council has invested pedalism is an evolutionary advantage, good for my extra wide size 7 feet, I help you choose the right boots to make walking a pleasure again homes, others need to step up and do the £200,000 in a Housing Standards it doesn’t address the knee, back and took advantage of the free lower limb same.” HomeAway said it was working Taskforce, which it set up last year. The SUBSCRIBE & SUPPORT neck pain caused by walking upright, biomechanical assessment that Altimus “closely with the council to identify and project will collect evidence on properties and it certainly doesn’t account for were offering.
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