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
RT @cathedralsdavid: Come on @SadiqKhan you can do better than that at Landmark Court. So important that public land is used to tackle the…
At the new Bankside Hotel next door to One Blackfriars, you can buy an engagement ring from a vending machine:… https://t.co/KuKAofLNxi
Southwark's Roman Catholic cathedral doubled as a church in New York today as a film crew took over the building, b… https://t.co/HbI320zyEf
@marcmenem Yes there’s a breakdown on the TfL website. For instance the construction firm got £21m
RT @JohnWilson14: As Sir Nicholas Grimshaw is awarded @RIBA Royal Gold Medal tmrw we discuss Waterloo, Eden & my local Sainsbury's @BBCFron…
RT @MPSCSuptWallace: Challenging situation for staff at Waterloo trying to manage egress/access after two line incidents forced a managed p…
bakerlooline Lambeth North: the station is currently exit only and trains are not stopping.
This is to prevent overcrowding at the station.
RT @LondonLive: Following the release of figures from @TfL that reveal £53 million has been spend on the unbuilt #GardenBridge we heard fro…
RT @langrabbie: If Boris Johnson were a gentleman he would have given the auction winners their game of table tennis long before now (and i…
RT @mjponsford: a quick google confirms most of the named donors make their money from property development https://t.co/Kg1Nen8Iam
RT @JoMountford_: Lambeth North station exit only due to overcrowding at WATERLOO on South West trains. This is completely illogical, i don…
RT @bensmithuk: Messages about train services returning to normal at Waterloo somewhat optimistically ignoring how hard it is to enter the…
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
RT @MaryGNguyen: Waterloo has many cancellations and delays. Now standing behind the station, and it looks like people will get crushed. Ba…
mrsjcroberts Waterloo! I was defeated you won the war.... #waterloo pic.twitter.com/AeCNwJZjqI
RT @se1: !!!!!!!!!!!! "Table tennis with Boris" - taxpayers will repay £3,200 to winner of #Gardenbridge auction as "prize not delivered"…
Circle Store - 5 objections to this planning application now. One resident says "t's the only place where you can g… https://t.co/UXThTpXNJ1
The former Snowsfields Wellness shop is going to be a tattoo studio and shop
https://t.co/fM8HXbaadp
RT @BookishTeaDog: Chaos at London Waterloo tonight. Most trains cancelled, all but 1 entrances shut and conflicting information. @swtra…
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
RT @obi_john_kanobi: Waterloo station is awful tonight, lots of shoving and pushing, so overcrowded. Seems like they’re sorting out the de…
RT @PhilStow500: Worrying tannoy announcement just heard at #Waterloo Station...
"The next train is not scheduled to stop at this station"…
RT @TfLBusAlerts: Routes 211 and 507 will be unable to serve stops in Waterloo Station, Station Approach due to safety reasons, please catc…
RT @WHurst1: THISðŸ‘ISðŸ‘THE👣53,000,000ðŸ‘QUESTION. WHY no Public Inquiry? WHY not even a Select Committee inquiry? Those meant to regulate such…
Strangely the Evening Standard hasn’t found space in print or online to cover today’s #gardenbridge news.
Worth re… https://t.co/pXYRyh0BMS
See the remnants of an old wooden road on the South Bank https://t.co/3r7BnbOKC9 via @ianvisits
@aranmlewis @UKLabour @MayorofLondon It was the Tory government that agreed the deal to underwrite the winding up costs.
RT @ArchitectsJrnal: The Garden Bridge has died... and gone to Devon 😂 https://t.co/2DGGENdYUH
RT @TLProgramme: Starting Sat. 16th February during evenings and weekends, the main toilets in the western arcade at #LondonBridge station…
RT @ConstructionEnq: Bouygues paid £21m not to build Garden Bridge https://t.co/yfJjPmnLvy
@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… https://t.co/OedvbeiSwy
@dochawking The money will come from the Department for Transport budget
RT @tomcopley: What's the opposite of a gift? https://t.co/FOwLjpXFYI
@respros They plagiarised an image from the SE1 site!
@tomcopley TfL has today published more #GardenBridge correspondence as required by @LondonAssembly #GLAOversight… https://t.co/0C0QILXd9z
£43 million of public money later, it's worth revisiting what the chair of the #GardenBridge trust told John Humphr… https://t.co/TPb6lR5YiT
RT @BBCDomC: Top fact: The only development cash for much-needed railway modernisation in northern England in the last Budget amounted to £…
RT @BBCDomC: In fairness to the London Bridge project, some of the whopping £53.5 million did indeed go on building works: British Telecom…
#GardenBridge
2016: Joanna Lumley tells @BBCRadioLondon:
"Nobody stands to make any money from this" ... "it's a… https://t.co/ziQWeKDjMZ
RT @se1: !!!!!!!!!!!! "Table tennis with Boris" - taxpayers will repay £3,200 to winner of #Gardenbridge auction as "prize not delivered"…
RT @HE_Archive: @StuartHumphryes This is amazing - Claude Friese-Greene is well known to us through the #Aerofilms collection. Here is Lond…
RT @tomcopley: “While this is government money, our London Assembly investigation into TfL’s role in this project is very much ongoing. We’…
If a) the #gardenbridge had been built and b) ITV had kept its studios on the South Bank, this is how the studio au… https://t.co/5uZMyosxkO
Winning bids at the #Gardenbridge auction at Harrods in 2015. Notable that several winning bidders were GBT trustee… https://t.co/Da2z64o1Lu
Three donors who paid £17,000 each for "the #GardenBridge Experience" at fundraising auctions are entitled to taxpa… https://t.co/4Qv4UPShnN
RT @steinsky: can somebody start a petition calling on boris personally to deliver this prize pls https://t.co/NBZBmdNuOM
Michael Gross pledged £50,000 for a bench on the #GardenBridge.
Later he wrote "this is the most bogus and irresp… https://t.co/F2VLrdR6ZT
Russian oligarch Petr Aven pledged £4 million for#GardenBridgeepic.twitter.com/5K3QG9M1vyy
The #GardenBridge Trust spent £161,000 on its website.
RT @coyleneil: He was too busy playing whiff whaffwith himself obviously. What an utter disgrace @BorisJohnson https://t.co/etwTVpbgud
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… https://t.co/XG2cadkhWV
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… https://t.co/kt6jvVXDQN
TfL has just published this list of #GardenBridge donors who wanted their money back pic.twitter.com/5o3uMz640f
RT @KenningtonPOB: #Brexit anti terror rehearsals appear to be in full swing at St George’s RC Cathedral @se1 with FBI, NYPD and a full SWA…
RT @TfLTrafficNews: A3036 Lambeth Palace Road at the junction with Westminster Bridge Road - Faulty traffic signals. Westbound traffic on W…
2016:
Within days of becoming Mayor, Sadiq Khan visited a TfL-owned site in Southwark Street and promised to use va… https://t.co/N2B1Hi5T5D
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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