Wednesday 13 February 2019
News & features published on 13 February 2019
'FBI' and 'NYPD' take over Southwark's St George's Cathedral
A gun-toting 'SWAT team' was seen at the entrance to St George's Cathedral on Wednesday as a film crew took over the building to shoot scenes set in New York.
Failed Garden Bridge project cost taxpayers 43 million
A further 5 million of public money will be paid to the Garden Bridge Trust to meet the failed charity's winding-up costs, including reimbursing some of the donors to the controversial Thames footbridge project.
Forum discussions active on 13 February 2019
Tweets on 13 February 2019
Wednesday recap: London-SE1.co.uk/date/2019-02-13
cathedralsdavid Come on @SadiqKhan you can do better than that at Landmark Court. So important that public land is used to tackle t… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
At the new Bankside Hotel next door to One Blackfriars, you can buy an engagement ring from a vending machine:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Southwark's Roman Catholic cathedral doubled as a church in New York today as a film crew took over the building, b… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
@marcmenem Yes there’s a breakdown on the TfL website. For instance the construction firm got £21m
JohnWilson14 As Sir Nicholas Grimshaw is awarded @RIBA Royal Gold Medal tmrw we discuss Waterloo, Eden & my local Sainsbury's… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
MPSCSuptWallace Challenging situation for staff at Waterloo trying to manage egress/access after two line incidents forced a manage… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
bakerlooline Lambeth North: the station is currently exit only and trains are not stopping.
This is to prevent overcrowding at the station.
LondonLive Following the release of figures from @TfL that reveal £53 million has been spend on the unbuilt #GardenBridge we h… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
langrabbie If Boris Johnson were a gentleman he would have given the auction winners their game of table tennis long before no… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
mjponsford a quick google confirms most of the named donors make their money from property development twitter.com/se1/status/109…
JoMountford_ Lambeth North station exit only due to overcrowding at WATERLOO on South West trains. This is completely illogical,… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
bensmithuk Messages about train services returning to normal at Waterloo somewhat optimistically ignoring how hard it is to en… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
NarthexJones @se1 Joanna Barlow's Lalique Bowl.
Was that Stephen Barlow's wife, Joanna Lumley?
flyingjok Waterloo madness on a Wednesday evening - sitting this mess out until settled @SW_Railway @SW_Help pic.twitter.com/sJeIvGspqr
MaryGNguyen Waterloo has many cancellations and delays. Now standing behind the station, and it looks like people will get crus… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
mrsjcroberts Waterloo! I was defeated you won the war.... #waterloo pic.twitter.com/AeCNwJZjqI
se1 !!!!!!!!!!!! "Table tennis with Boris" - taxpayers will repay £3,200 to winner of #Gardenbridge auction as "prize… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Circle Store - 5 objections to this planning application now. One resident says "t's the only place where you can g… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
The former Snowsfields Wellness shop is going to be a tattoo studio and shop
planning.southwark.gov.uk/online-applica…
BookishTeaDog Chaos at London Waterloo tonight. Most trains cancelled, all but 1 entrances shut and conflicting information.… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
bianpeople Avoid #waterloo people... idiots on the line causing massive delays and crowd build up. Go to the pub!
@TCOSLondon @SadiqKhan The £5.5m isn’t tfl money. It’s Whitehall money but central Government made TfL responsible for disbursing it
John_Muldoon Total chaos at Waterloo Station tonight because of a trespasser in Raynes Park this afternoon
obi_john_kanobi Waterloo station is awful tonight, lots of shoving and pushing, so overcrowded. Seems like they’re sorting out the… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
PhilStow500 Worrying tannoy announcement just heard at #Waterloo Station...
"The next train is not scheduled to stop at this s… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
TfLBusAlerts Routes 211 and 507 will be unable to serve stops in Waterloo Station, Station Approach due to safety reasons, pleas… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
WHurst1 THIS👏IS👏THE👏£53,000,000👏QUESTION. WHY no Public Inquiry? WHY not even a Select Committee inquiry? Those meant to re… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Strangely the Evening Standard hasn’t found space in print or online to cover today’s #gardenbridge news.
Worth re… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
See the remnants of an old wooden road on the South Bank ianvisits.co.uk/blog/2019/02/1… via @ianvisits
@aranmlewis @UKLabour @MayorofLondon It was the Tory government that agreed the deal to underwrite the winding up costs.
ArchitectsJrnal The Garden Bridge has died... and gone to Devon 😂 architectsjournal.co.uk/news/astragal-…
TLProgramme Starting Sat. 16th February during evenings and weekends, the main toilets in the western arcade at #LondonBridge s… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
ConstructionEnq Bouygues paid £21m not to build Garden Bridge goo.gl/C23w5P
@dochawking @GeorgeOsborne @dannyalexander It later emerged that civil servants had advised against it london-se1.co.uk/news/view/8943
@dochawking Well @GeorgeOsborne and @dannyalexander pledged £30 million back in 2013 - and the Govt later agreed to… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
@dochawking The money will come from the Department for Transport budget
tomcopley What's the opposite of a gift? twitter.com/se1/status/109…
@respros They plagiarised an image from the SE1 site!
@tomcopley TfL has today published more #GardenBridge correspondence as required by @LondonAssembly #GLAOversight… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
£43 million of public money later, it's worth revisiting what the chair of the #GardenBridge trust told John Humphr… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
BBCDomC Top fact: The only development cash for much-needed railway modernisation in northern England in the last Budget am… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
BBCDomC In fairness to the London Bridge project, some of the whopping £53.5 million did indeed go on building works: Briti… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
#GardenBridge
2016: Joanna Lumley tells @BBCRadioLondon:
"Nobody stands to make any money from this" ... "it's a… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
se1 !!!!!!!!!!!! "Table tennis with Boris" - taxpayers will repay £3,200 to winner of #Gardenbridge auction as "prize… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
HE_Archive @StuartHumphryes This is amazing - Claude Friese-Greene is well known to us through the #Aerofilms collection. Here… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
tomcopley “While this is government money, our London Assembly investigation into TfL’s role in this project is very much ong… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
If a) the #gardenbridge had been built and b) ITV had kept its studios on the South Bank, this is how the studio au… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Winning bids at the #Gardenbridge auction at Harrods in 2015. Notable that several winning bidders were GBT trustee… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Three donors who paid £17,000 each for "the #GardenBridge Experience" at fundraising auctions are entitled to taxpa… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
steinsky can somebody start a petition calling on boris personally to deliver this prize pls twitter.com/se1/status/109…
Michael Gross pledged £50,000 for a bench on the #GardenBridge.
Later he wrote "this is the most bogus and irresp… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Russian oligarch Petr Aven pledged £4 million for #GardenBridge pic.twitter.com/5K3QG9M1vy
The #GardenBridge Trust spent £161,000 on its website.
coyleneil He was too busy playing whiff whaffwith himself obviously. What an utter disgrace @BorisJohnson twitter.com/se1/status/109…
Roland Rudd advised his fellow #GardenBridge trustees not to draw attention to comparisons with Kids' Company pic.twitter.com/6JSBJAk2TL
!!!!!!!!!!!! "Table tennis with Boris" - taxpayers will repay £3,200 to winner of #Gardenbridge auction as "prize… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
List of #GardenBridge donors to be repaid as at October 2018 pic.twitter.com/5NYPnPbOLD
A further £5 million of public money will be paid to the #GardenBridge Trust to meet the failed charity's winding-u… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
TfL has just published this list of #GardenBridge donors who wanted their money back pic.twitter.com/5o3uMz640f
KenningtonPOB #Brexit anti terror rehearsals appear to be in full swing at St George’s RC Cathedral @se1 with FBI, NYPD and a ful… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
TfLTrafficNews A3036 Lambeth Palace Road at the junction with Westminster Bridge Road - Faulty traffic signals. Westbound traffic… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
2016:
Within days of becoming Mayor, Sadiq Khan visited a TfL-owned site in Southwark Street and promised to use va… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Richard_C I just voted for my favourite kebab house/restaurant to win a 2019 British Kebab Award. london-se1.co.uk/news/view/9828 @se1
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