Boroughs Editor
Lucy reports on London’s boroughs and the capital’s sporting community. Her coverage includes council decisions, neighbourhood developments, community issues, football, tennis, cricket and major sporting events. She focuses on stories that connect local communities and highlight the people and organisations shaping London.
UK egg salmonella cases have risen to 207 in a nationwide outbreak that has been linked to imported eggs, with London recording more confirmed infections than any other English region.…
Lucy · 7 min read
Marcy Wudarski remains a name closely connected with the enduring legacy of The Sopranos, primarily through her former marriage to the late actor James Gandolfini and their son, actor Michael…
Lucy · 4 min read
The Gold Thorn Hotel in Wolverhampton is no longer being used to accommodate asylum seekers, after residents were moved out and the property was handed back for potential commercial or…
Lucy · 5 min read
A 50-year-old man has been charged with arson after around 10 fires were reported at London Fields in Hackney, prompting an early-morning response from police and firefighters. Metropolitan Police officers…
Lucy · 2 min read
Scotland’s First Minister is pressing Prime Minister Andy Burnham to reconsider the UK Government’s decision over Ming Yang’s proposed wind turbine manufacturing hub near Inverness, reigniting a dispute over jobs,…
Lucy · 3 min read
Carolyn Eadie has spent decades alongside one of Britain’s best-known former politicians and television presenters, yet she has maintained a remarkably low public profile. Best known as the wife of…
Lucy · 6 min read
Marlene Knaus, the former wife of three-time Formula One world champion Niki Lauda, has largely disappeared from public view since their divorce more than three decades ago While several reports…
Lucy · 8 min read
Seventeen London local authorities are projected to run out of burial space within 15 years, while Camden, Hackney and Tower Hamlets are already listed as having no remaining capacity, prompting…
Lucy · 3 min read
Council leaders in Kensington and Chelsea, Westminster, Richmond and Wandsworth are urging the government to rethink its planned London mansion tax, warning that homeowners in the four boroughs could shoulder…
Lucy · 3 min read
Fifteen fire engines were sent to a major grass fire near Acer Avenue after two separate blazes in Romford. The three incidents affected an estimated 44 acres of open land…
Lucy · 3 min read