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LONDON NEWS, GLOBAL VIEWS KCW YOUR LONDON NEWSPAPER to ay ISSUE 89 NOVEMBER 2019 FREE NEWS OPINION COMMENT EDUCATION ARTS & CULTURE LITERATURE ASTRONOMY HEALTH EVENTS ENVIRONMENT SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY DINING OUT MOTORING TRAVEL FASHION PROPERTY & HOME LIFESTYLE BUSINESS CROSSWORD BRIDGE CHESS Bonjour, Monsieur Gauguin, 1889. The Armand Hammer Collection GAUGUIN AT THE NATIONAL GALLERY UNTIL JANUARY 2020 2 November 2019 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk Contents & Offices Kensington, Chelsea LONDON NEWS, GLOBAL VIEWS & Westminster Today KCWKENSINGTON, CHELSEA & WESTMINSTER, HAMMERSMITHto & FULHAM, WANDSWORTH a y AND SELECT LONDON BOROUGHS ISSUE 88 OCTOBER 2019 FREE Contents 80-100 Gwynne Road, London, NEWS SW11 3UW AUCTIONS OPINION Tel: 020 7738 2348 COMMENT BUSINESS EDUCATION HEALTH E-mail: [email protected] EVENTS EYECARE Website: INTERNATIONAL PROPERTY News www.kcwtoday.co.uk ARTS & CULTURE 3 ASTRONOMY Advertisement enquiries: DINING OUT MOTORING Statue & Blue Plaque [email protected] LITERATURE 8 TRAVEL Subscriptions: LIFESTYLE CROSSWORD Architecture [email protected] BRIDGE 9 CHESS Publishers: STREETSCAPE BRENDAN NEILAND SHOWS AT 45 PARK LANE, LONDON W1 Kensington & Chelsea Today Limited 10 Commemoration 12 News 14 Opinion & Comment Editor-in-Chief: Kate Hawthorne International Art Director & Director: Tim Epps 17 Senior Business Development: Antoinette Kovatchka Astronomy Architecture: Squinch 18 Art & Culture Editors: Don Grant, Marian Maitland Education Astronomy: Scott Beadle FRAS 19 Bridge: Andrew Robson 22 Appeal Business & Finance Charles McLachlan, Doug Shanks Chess: Barry Martin 23 Fashion Opinion and Comment: Marius Brill, Peter Burden, Nick Salaman, Derek Wyatt 24 Literature Music: Geoff Cowart, Arts & Culture Crossword: Wolfe 26 Design: Jane Duncan Events Dining Out: Max Feldman, 32 David Hughes (Editor) Dining Out Editorial: Griffin Buch, Max Feldman, 40 Oliver Lloyd, Anna Mackenzie, Environment Fahad Redha, Anandi Shah, 42 Paige Williams, May Woods Travel Education: KCW Editorial Team 44 Environment Oliver Lloyd Lifestyle & Health Events: Fahad Redha 46 International News: KCW Editorial team Science & Technology Feldman Reviews: Max Feldman 52 Lifestyle & Health: KCW Editorial team Property & Home Consultant Lifestyle 54 & Beauty Editor: Talia Hull Business & Finance Literature: Max Feldman 56 Motoring: Fahad Redha, Motoring & Flight News, Online Editor, Max Feldman 58 Arts Correspondent & Sport Picture Editor 60 Sport: Fahad Redha Crossword & Bridge Science & Technology Fahad Redha 62 Sub-Editor: Leila Kooros Chess Travel: Lynne McGowan 63 020 7738 2348 November 2019 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 3 News online: www.KCWToday.co.uk people working on the shelf, particularly researchers at the British Antarctic Expanding cracks Survey’s Halley Station. This major in Arctic glacier base for Earth, atmospheric, and space threatens to break off iceberg science research typically operates year- round, but has been closed down twice ‘the size of London’ in recent years due to unpredictable By Max Feldman changes in the ice. The station has also been rebuilt and relocated over the decades and was recently towed about 14 miles inland, to the other side of the cracks. Scientists don't know what will happen to the ice shelf after the iceberg ewly released footage from breaks away. “It’s possible that the ice NASA’s Copernicus Sentinel-1 shelf will be destabilised,” explained radar mission show how NASA scientist Joe MacGregor. immense cracks at set to shatter an However it seems this is not the first N time that the Brunt ice shelf underwent Antarctic ice shelf, potentially releasing an iceberg about the size of Greater such a dramatic breakaway. The original London into the ocean. Two immense maps of the shelf drawn by Shackleton cracks, spanning for miles across the and Wordie in 1915 record the shelf face of Antarctica’s Brunt Ice Shelf, extending far further than its current are set to meet in the near future. If size, meaning an unrecorded breakaway the cracks meet south of the nearby event must have taken place in the McDonald Ice Rumples then it would last hundred years. Whilst calving is be likely that a huge portion of the ice part of the polar lifecycle, increasingly shelf might break off in a process called of Skye breaking off the Amery ice-shelf crack appeared. The ‘Halloween Crack’, recent examples have been happening calving. The new-born iceberg’s potential as recently as 30 September. as it came to be known, was spotted to in unfamiliar areas; more footage from measurements have been estimated at Researchers have been watching the the north, running perpendicular to the Copernicus Sentinal-1 mission more than double the size of New York Brunt Ice Shelf carefully since 2012, Chasm 1 moving as fast as 4 kilometres has uncovered rapidly growing cracks City at more than 580 miles, (1,500 when a crack that had been dormant a year. A meeting of the two seemed spreading across the Pine Island Glacier, square km) and between 492 and 820 ft for 35 years suddenly showed signs of likely, which would separate a large with scientists anticipating yet another thick. We have been seeing increasing movement again. Chasm 1, as its known, chunk of the Brunt Ice Shelf from the breakaway. As concerns about climate numbers of ice shelf’s calving with 315 has grown steadily over the last seven Antarctic mainland. The growing cracks change heat up, the polar cycles will billion-tonne iceberg the size of the Isle years. Then in October 2016, a second have prompted safety concerns for come under increasing scrutiny. The Communications Workers London’s streets. December election Union, which represents postal workers The plans include a ‘vision zero’ Thames boat trips approach to safety. In practice, this announced on October 15th that Royal Photograph © TfL means that the goal is to have no deaths voting Mail employees have approved strike to double By Oliver Lloyd By Oliver Lloyd or serious accidents on public transport action. As of print, when the action by 2041. Existing river boats will be will begin has not been announced Transport for London has unveiled replaced with newer cleaner vessels to but disruption to postal ballots may be plans to double the number of trips reduce the network’s carbon footprint in anticipated. It is wise to consult with on their Thames river boat network accordance with another mayoral goal of your local council before applying for a to 20 million by 2035. The plans, an entirely clean city by 2050. announced on 6th November, are aimed “The Thames was integral to postal vote. to handle this increase in volume in a London’s origins and will play a key ‘safe and sustainable’ man s for closer role in its future.” said Gareth Powell, Council websites for your local polling collaboration between Transport for Managing Director of Surface Transport station, checking postal ballot status and London, the Port of London Authority at TfL, adding, “Our strategy establishes The next general election will be on 12th other queries are here: and boat operators. It will require an a clear way forward for everyone December, the first December election expansion of capacity of boats and piers involved in river transport to get more since 1923. To vote in the election here City of London: www.cityoflondon.gov. including building new piers. Existing Londoners out of their cars and to travel is what you need to know. piers will also be made both more on the river in safe, sustainable and easy uk/about-the-city/voting-elections The deadline to register to vote is accessible and safer. It is hoped that the to use ways, freeing up capacity on other midnight on 26th November. To register Hammersmith and Fulham: www. expansion of capacity on the river boat types of public transport and helping to for a postal vote is 5pm on that day lbhf.gov.uk/councillors-and-democracy/ network will also alleviate congestion on clean up our toxic air.” or 5pm on the 21st November if you elections vote in Northern Ireland. If you do not Kensington and Chelsea: www.rbkc.gov. receive or accidentally spoil a postal uk/council-councillors-and-democracy vote that you applied for you, may apply for another one from 6th December Lambeth: www.lambeth.gov.uk/ until 5pm on polling day. One may also elections-and-council/elections apply for a proxy ballot until 5pm on Westminster: www.westminster.gov.uk/ 4th December or an emergency proxy electoral-services vote until 5pm on polling day. Reasons Wandsworth: www.wandsworth.gov. for an emergency proxy are medical uk/the-council/elections-voting-and- emergencies in the week before polling or work absences that you were informed registration about in that same period. Please register Richmond: www.richmond.gov. to vote at www.gov.co.uk/register-to- uk/council/elections_voting_and_ vote registration 4 November 2019 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk News produced by the Greater London Authority indicates that air pollution The emissions from non-traffic sources will far exceed that from vehicles in the centre of reduction bill London by 2020. Photograph © Yongbing Bao Yongbing © Photograph Cllr Julian Bell, Chair of London Councils’ Transport and Environment Committee, said: "Air pollution in London is a public health emergency. It impacts An Emissions Act could see London’s all Londoners, but especially the most local authorities given tough new vulnerable in society; the young, the powers, in an effort to tackle toxic air old and those with existing health pollution caused by boilers, construction conditions” machinery and diesel generators. Referring to the out of date 1993 Under the new proposals, local Clean Air Act, Bell continued: authorities would have the power to “The Emissions Reduction Bill designate ‘Air Quality Improvement provides boroughs with long overdue Areas’ in the most polluted zones, where powers and updates legislation that is no levels of pollution exceed World Health longer fit-for-purpose.