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A London council has been accused of erasing history with its plan to rename the 300-year-old ‘Black Boy Lane’ after a late racial equality campaigner. Haringey Council decided to change the street name to ‘La Rose Lane’ after local poet and essayist John La Rose, in the wake of the Black Lives Matter protests. But … Read more
Cars today reclaimed a loathed west London cycle lane after bollards were removed following a backlash from drivers and local businesses. Workmen finished ripping out the plastic barriers on Kensington High Street this weekend, despite progress being disrupted last week when XR supporters glued themselves to their van. The cycle lane became the unlikely battleground … Read more
Bachelor alum Lauren Bushnell and hubby Chris Lane joyfully announce they’re expecting their first child By Rachel Mcgrath For Dailymail.com Published: 00:08 GMT, 7 December 2020 | Updated: 00:08 GMT, 7 December 2020 They celebrated their first wedding anniversary on October 25. And on Sunday, Lauren Bushnell confirmed that she and husband Chris Lane are … Read more
Boris Johnson went ‘ballistic’ over the axing of a controversial cycling lane – and his cycling tsar pledged to send the Prime Minister riding down it if council leaders agreed not to remove it, it has been claimed. The cycle lane in Kensington High Street has become the unlikely battleground in the row between cycling zealots … Read more
Even the richest and most renowned of all the great public schools realised some time ago that, to be allowed to survive at all, they must submit to correction and purification. That is why the Eton teacher Will Knowland is now in trouble for expressing unfashionable opinions in a not-very-distinguished video The cleverest revolutions are … Read more
Councillors today vowed not to bring back bollards on Kensington’s hated cycle lane despite Mayor Sadiq Khan’s threat to take control of the road – as Extinction Rebellion threatened a second protest to save it. Work to remove the plastic barriers continued last night and the westbound route it now clear, a day after labourers … Read more
Bizarre moment WALLABY hops along country lane in Devon before disappearing into a hedge The footage was taken on a country lane in Hemyock, Devon, on December 1 Wallaby jumps along the country lane before disappearing into a nearby hedge Grace Brooke, 27, who captured video said she felt ‘very lucky’ to see the animal … Read more
A Tory council today vowed to continue to rip up a ‘disastrous’ cycle lane in West London despite Extinction Rebellion (XR) activists trying to stop them. Workmen last night managed to remove 38 plastic bollards on Kensington High Street before left-wing demonstrators glued themselves to their van, forcing them to stop. But defiant Kensington and … Read more
Extinction Rebellion (XR) activists have tonight tried to stop the ‘disastrous’ Covid cycle lane in High Street Kensington from being torn up by the Tory council after it was inundated with ‘hundreds’ of complaints. The radical Left-wing demonstrators, who infamously disrupted the distribution of British newspapers including the Mail, the Times and the Sun in … Read more
Cycling activists descended on an exclusive west London shopping street today to protest the removal of its hated Covid cycle lanes after the council decided to tear up the ‘disastrous’ scheme following hundreds of complaints. Councillors said the lanes on Kensington High Street would be removed by tomorrow after a huge backlash – with the … Read more