Hammersmith & Fulham

Police are trying to track down a robber who wrenched a £10,000 watch off a man’s wrist in a Tube station ticket hall. The incident happened at White City Underground

Two brothers have been charged with firearms offences following a targeted arrest operation by officers from the Central West Command Unit. On Monday of last week, officers arrested the two

BY YANN TEAR yann@slpmedia.co.uk Motorists in west London may have to cope with high levels of congestion, box junctions and parking restrictions, but there is one hazard they can’t moan

Who do you think deserves to be named the best businesses in Shepherd’s Bush, Hammersmith and in Fulham? It could be your local plumber, the independent coffee shop you pass

BY YANN TEAR yann@slpmedia.co.uk If you have a passion for particle physics as a schoolchild, you could hardly pick a more appropriately named primary school. Sounding tantalisingly similar to ‘wormhole’

Walking and cycling in Hammersmith and Fulham will be safer and easier after the council insisted on redesigning Transport for London’s (TfL) cycling routes planned for the borough. “Our goals

About 9,600 households in Hammersmith and Fulham have no working occupants, according to official figures. Data from the Office of National Statistics show that 16% of the area’s households were

BY YANN TEAR yann@slpmedia.co.uk Politicians have raised fears that recycled waste from four London councils is being illegally dumped in east Asian countries. It comes after a BBC documentary, starring

Hammersmith and Fulham council is launching a new resident-led Parks Commission to make the borough’s parks and green spaces even better. The authority is asking the council to develop a

BY YANN TEAR yann@slpmedia.co.uk A man who marketed himself online as a ‘Peter Pan Nanny’ has been given an extended jail term of 14 years at Kingston Crown Court after

BY YANN TEAR yann@slpmedia.co.uk ­ An expert in challenging fines has called for a rethink at a “notorious” Hammersmith yellow box junction which has yielded £3.2million in fines in three years.

Working families in Hammersmith and Fulham cannot afford to privately rent as they are forced to fork out more than three-quarters of their wages on a typical home, new figures

A secondary school teacher described as having “bottomless reserves of energy and creativity,” has won an award for her work in relationship and sex education tuition. Lottie Boumeester, of Fulham

Our Support Your Local Trader campaign highlights central and west London’s special markets and shops. The London Weekly News supports our community in a way which benefits everyone. So we are

BY YANN TEAR yann@slpmedia.co.uk Stress levels from noise are so much higher in the central London boroughs that even neighbouring areas like Islington in north London are havens of peace

New changing facilities and a free discount card are among the benefits coming to residents as part of Hammersmith and Fulham’s new leisure contract. The good news comes after Hammersmith

BY NEWS REPORTER yann@londonweeklynews.online Two men have been jailed after posing as police officers in order to defraud elderly victims. Mizan Muhammed Ali, 23, of Waldeck Road, Haringey was charged

BY YANN TEAR yann@slpmedia.co.uk An inspirational schoolboy has taken part in a groundbreaking trial at Evelina London Children’s Hospital which has helped him to grow and complete a triathlon. Sam

Hundreds of homes in Hammersmith and Fulham have been created by converting commercial buildings under controversial planning laws, figures show. But the changes don’t require planning permission and the Local

BY YANN TEAR yann@slpmedia.co.uk The ringleader of a drugs gang which smuggled crack cocaine and heroin from London to Wiltshire has been sentenced to a 19-year jail term. Linford Goode,

Dozens of homeowners in Hammersmith and Fulham have taken advantage of new laws allowing them to build bigger extensions without planning permission, new figures show. Controversial temporary planning rules known

All families are to receive free school meals under a new pilot scheme introduced by town hall chiefs, writes Maya Chavvakula. The initiative by Hammersmith and Fulham council is a

Most of the land threatened by rising water levels in Hammersmith and Fulham has been developed, new figures reveal. Environmental campaign group Friends of the Earth says many face the

BY THOMAS CAMPBELL yann@slpmedia.co.uk There is a buzz about one of the UK’s leading theatre production houses. The Lyric Hammersmith, West London’s largest creative hub, has started selling homemade honey

BY YANN TEAR yann@slpmedia.co.uk Police are appealing for information, dash-cam and phone footage after a man died when his car was involved in a collision with a convoy of vehicles

BY THOMAS CAMPBELL toby@londonweeklynews.online A pet friendly farmers’ market has helped a community trust raise more than £1million. Candy Clark’s Pads & Paws pet deli is just one of the

BY YANN TEAR yann@londonweeklynews.online­ It is exactly 75 years ago that one of the most famous episodes in modern history took place – and a blue plaque in Hammersmith marks