When the children leave: inside Wandsworth’s school-funding death spiral
As middle-class families leave and refugee children arrive, schools are caught in a vicious cycle of falling income and rising costs.
Month: October 2025
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Fulham’s concert plan to rival The O2 — public comment ends today
Club plans six summer shows, promising “internationally recognised artists,” local benefits and strict 10:30pm curfew.
Council bets on £1.9m consultants to save it £50m as financial crisis deepens
Wandsworth Council faces devastating £90m funding gap but keeps spending anyway.
‘Prison officers say inmates are kinder’: The unexpected impact of free yoga classes
Live Karma Yoga reaches 30 locations weekly, from prison cells to lonely neighbours, but funding has dried up.
Putney celebrates Diwali as star chefs launch festive menus
Cho Asia's Parminder Singh creates three-course sharing menu for Festival of Lights, joining other Lower Richmond Road restaurants marking the celebration.
Met Police engagement tools fail as Wandsworth crime surges 56% in six months
Digital platform blocks logged-in residents while “sold out” event repeats pattern of empty seats.
Why Putney’s traffic junction can’t be fixed quickly – and who actually has the power to change It
After 10 months of gridlock and a room full of angry residents, the real question is: who's actually in charge here?
Hammersmith ticks billion-pound tunnel wish list while The Bridge stays shut
Hammersmith chases fantasy flyover project as residents face 40-minute detours and Labour MPs go silent.
“Did your transformation programme fail?” Council leadership grilled
Just two years after launching what it called “the most significant programme of change the Council has embarked…
Traffic crisis dominates Putney meeting as residents demand action, not promises
Putney residents confronted the leader of Wandsworth Council yesterday with blunt assessments of the borough’s traffic crisis, warning…