What’s actually happening to Wandsworth Bridge this summer – and why the official communications got so confused
Lane works start 26 May for five months. The council was slow to announce them.
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Death on tracks shuts down trains through Putney
British Transport Police confirm loss; services restored by early evening.
Wandsworth Town trains change from Monday — here’s what you need to know
Some midday services will skip the station for five months as the £20m step-free upgrade begins.
Wandsworth releases men into nothing. Some die. Some sleep at the gate.
Watchdog has no recommendations after one death; bail releases come with no support.
We have the UK’s most overcrowded prison
Ministry of Justice figures show 1,444 men held in space designed for 894, as a wing-by-wing renovation stretches to 2034.
The same failures, the same prison, the same verdict: another Wandsworth death was preventable
Ombudsman Adrian Usher has now twice found that a Wandsworth prisoner might not have died had they been held elsewhere.
Three men died at Wandsworth Prison within eight days
The ombudsman is investigating but has not published a cause for any of them.
Your train to Wandsworth Town may sail straight past this summer
Five months of midday disruption start 11 May, but buses have you covered.
Drone gang behind Wandsworth prison drops jailed for 22 years
One of their drones crashed into a local backyard. A man knocked on the door to get it back.
That enormous concrete finger with the pink tip? Here’s what it is
The Wandsworth - Artisan - tower has been rising for months, and the planning battle behind it goes back to 2013.