Tuesday 23 July 2013
News & features published on 23 July 2013
Royal baby: Tower Bridge turns blue and Shard offers free tickets
Tower Bridge and the Golden Jubilee Bridges were lit with blue lights on Monday night to celebrate the birth of the son of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge.
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Tweets on 23 July 2013
TfLOfficial More capacity will be added to route 343 in September and we will keep it under review. @TfLBusAlerts #routemasters
Tomorrow we'll have reports for you on tonight's planning decisions in both Southwark and Lambeth
@jenwrenmosley you can't appeal an approval - only a developer can appeal a refusal
chaseKevin @se1 just noticed the E&C is to feature (briefly?) in next week's episode of 'Why Dont You Speak English' on @Channel4.
@LBLDemocracy What about the 10 Albert Embankment item? has that been done yet?
@johnpolenski yes party lines.
@mattycheadle no
Councillors have approved Network Rail plans to turn the Millennium City Garage in Great Suffolk Street into office space
If you missed last night's #undercoverboss with Southwark Council's Eleanor Kelly you can see it 9pm on @4seven Freeview channel 47
Cllr David Noakes re Union Street decision - "I've rarely been so ashamed of a decision of the council" …"It's absolutely shameful"
Garage owner to cllrs: "You're supposed to protect us from the likes of Network Rail"
Garage owner to cllrs: we started businesses in Southwark "when nobody else wanted to be here"
Millennium City Garage owner says Network Rail have offered him premises 2 miles away from Great Suffolk Street at 3 times the rent
Great Suffolk Street garage owner says he'll probably lose his house if Network Rail's plans go ahead
Owner of Millennium City Garage says Network Rail is trying to "hoodwink" the council with its applications for the Union Street/GSS arches
Councillors are about to decide the fate of Millennium Garage in Great Suffolk Street - again Network Rail wants offices.
The sub-committee split along party lines with Labour councillors backing the scheme and Lib Dems voting against
BREAKING: Councillors have approved Network Rail plans to convert the Rocketvan shop and Academy Textiles etc into offices.
Southwark chief planner admits that out of hours the mailbox for planning objections often gets filled up and messages are bounced back
Chair of planning subcommittee Althea Smith threatens to decide on Union Street application in closed session if anyone heckles again
Extraordinary that Network Rail didn't bother to put together a coherent presentation of their plans for Union Street.
Cllr David Noakes warns that SE1 is filling up with hotels and expensive restaurants rather than shops/services for the whole community
Cllr David Noakes re Network Rail & Union Street arches "this is not about regeneration, it's about gentrification"
The future of the business units in the railway arches south of Union Street is about to be decided by Southwark councillors
José Pizarro's Andalusia: Gourmet Getawaysfw.to/coRV0rhh via@Telegraphh
Interesting display of old and new photos of Southwark in the foyer of council Tooley Street HQ pic.twitter.com/42JCEKxGuF
Owners of Park Plaza Riverside hotel on Albert Embankment want to add extra floors and reclad building; Lambeth councillors decide tonight
4seven @se1 Congratulations! Your tweet will be on 4seven tonight at the very start of Undercover Boss at 9pm. RT
Pic of that #royalbaby gun salute from Tower of London looking across to City Hall & More London pic.twitter.com/D1IlmCVh1H
Tonight 7pm cllrs will consider @networkrail plans to convert Union St rail arches used by @RVBoxShop @AcademyLondonUK et al into offices
Guests at the @ParkPlazaHotels Westminster Bridge will find a #royalduck in their room pic.twitter.com/HGZNNIGVgt
GSTTnhs 22 babies (11 boys & 11 girls) were born @ St Thom yesterday to share the #Royalbaby birthday - congrats to their parents! Pics to follow...
LewisWhyld #lightningeye no. 2. Lightning by London eye last night, full blog + more pics coming to lewiswhyld.com soon. pic.twitter.com/HRKcBAuY37
Great pics of the #royalbaby gun salute live on @SkyNews now from copter at the Tower of London
RT @MireilleSfeir: So a horse just walked into Waterloo station... And walked straight back out #sorrywhat? pic.twitter.com/xKoNxUvVuy
Horse outside Waterloo Station pic.twitter.com/QuRCAitZ0m
Horse on the loose in Waterloo Road pic.twitter.com/VwSmD2psl7
Ornamental Passions blog on Victory Arch war memorial at Waterloo Station ow.ly/1ZTbp4
At 2pm at the Tower of London, the Honourable Artillery Company will fire 62 rounds to celebrate the #RoyalBaby via @DefenceHQ
[Forum] Have you used the Now Broadband 4G service in Bankside/Southwark? se1.info/131aORb
Wildflowers in Waterloo - free walk/talk this afternoon: se1.info/163nTbb
Lightning strikes behind the London Eye http://t.co/9E2U9mWQGB
Were you born on 22 July? You could visit the top of the Shard for free today se1.info/12IJrrA #royalbaby @shardview
Blue and pink lights on Golden Jubilee Bridges for royal birth could become tradition "like white smoke from Vatican" se1.info/12IJrrA
Just published - #royalbaby: @TowerBridge turns blue and @shardview offers free tickets to those born on same day goo.gl/fb/St4VI
The vulnerable pensioner who went missing from the Southwark Irish Pensioners Project on Friday has been found safe and well.
Labour's @LordRoyKennedy asks Govt about Bakerloo line extension - gets complete non-answer: http://t.co/ojk2p1LCL5
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