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PLANS FOR VICTORIA COACH STATION TO LEAVE ARE ABANDONED

CUNDY STREET QUARTER DEVELOPMENT: GROSVENOR BOWS TO PRESSURE FOLLOWING RESIDENTS’ CAMPAIGN

London's major coach hub in Victoria will continue to be located at its historic home, Transport for London (TfL) has confirmed.

Following pressure from local residentsand Churchill Ward Labour Councillors, Grosvenor Group and Westminster City Council have announced that tenants in Walden House – a block of 40 council homes set for demolition as part of Grosvenor’s ‘Cundy Street Quarter ’development – will now have the right to return to the new social housing being built on the site.

TfL plans to work with coach operators to improve customer facilities at the 87-year-old Grade-II listed station as small sections of the Victoria Coach Station lease expire in the early 2020s. This could include changes to the layout of the station to make the customer experience easier, as well as renovated facilities.

141 Walden House residents – some of whom are children, and some disabled – are affected by Grosvenor’s current plans to demolish their building when the Council’s lease expires in 2023. In addition, the 111 neighbouring Cundy Street Flats are also set for demolition in 2021 as part of the same scheme. Both blocks are home to long-term settled communities of residents and families, some who have lived there for 20, 30, 40 or more years.

The transport regulators say retaining a coach station in Victoria ensures that services remain well-connected to London's public transport network, and keeps large coaches in a safe site that separates drop-off and pick-up from people walking and cycling around central London.

TfL is prioritising sustainable operations which reduce harmful vehicle emissions, and from next year, every coach that serves Victoria Coach Station will be required to have some of the cleanest engines available.

Grosvenor’s change of heart is undoubtedly due in part to the residents’ campaign to save their homes. Over 108,000 people have so far signed the residents’ petition, and the campaign has garnered national press coverage as reports on ITV News and BBC London.

Coaches play a critical role driving the economy of the capital and beyond, boosting tourism to London and providing affordable travel options with cities across the UK.

The developer is yet to offer the same right to return to its own tenants in Cundy Street Flats. If demolition still goes ahead, Churchill Labour Councillors will also insist that as much social and affordable housing as possible is built on the new development.

Without Victoria Coach Station, coaches would still travel to the centre of the city but drop off and pick up on-street. This would increase noise, congestion and pollution for people living, working and visiting central London. It would also deprive the 14 million passengers who use this affordable long-distance travel every year of vital welfare facilities and ease of access to onward connections.

Councillor Andrea Mann said: “We welcome the news that Grosvenor and Westminster Council have finally listened to residents and done the right thing by offering Walden House tenants the right to return.

We only wish that the Council had worked to put this guarantee in place from the start. Instead, residents have had months of untold stress and worry at the prospect of having to uproot their lives to a different part of London and leave their beloved tight-knit community.

We hope that lessons have been learned by Westminster Council and Grosvenor, and that both will be more thoughtful in any similar situation in the future.

TfL is identifying sites for enhanced coach facilities across the capital to complement the facilities at Victoria Coach Station. TfL will work with industry, transport operators, London's boroughs and passenger groups, to identify appropriate locations for the supporting sites over the coming months.

We also hope that Grosvenor will now do the right thing by the Cundy Flats residents who are currently set to lose their homes, too.”

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It's often stated that London's sewer system was designed by the engineer Joseph Bazalgette in the 1860s. In truth, London had long been served by numerous sewers. Bazalgette upgraded some of these, and built the vast intercepting sewers to draw the effluent away from the Thames to treatment works in east London. But he didn't build the network from a standing start.

One expert witness, Dr Lyon Playfair, later investigated the sewer and delivered the following damning description. It was a misnomer to call this piece of work a sewer; it was rather an elongated cesspool, and the three houses in Kenilworth Street must have passed 5.7 tons of excrement into it during the two years that it had been in use. That amount of liquid matter in a closed sewer like this would produce a gas in which no animal life whatever could exist for a single moment.

Pimlico, for example, enjoyed a newly built sewer system two decades before. The well-to-do streets had been laid-out by Thomas Cubitt from 1825, & the sewer in our story had been laid in 1847.

It was early in the morning of Friday 12th October 1849. The police were tipped off that three workers had entered the sewer on Willow Way (now Warwick Way) several hours before, but not returned to the surface. The police arrived, and sent a labourer down to check.

He quickly returned, to report that the trio were laying in the water, their condition unknown. Rescuers decided to enter the sewer at a different point: an entry on Kenilworth Street (now Cambridge Street) that had been bricked up until such time as the terrace above would be completed.

The inquest ultimately found that the lack of ventilation and poor maintenance had led to the tragedy. Members of the jury pointed out that the sewer commissioners might have used the nearby Grosvenor Canal to flush the feculent build-up into the Thames, but the coroner deemed this beyond the scope of the enquiry. Not everyone agreed with the findings, and debate raged in the press and courts over the nature of the gasses.

A rescue plan was hatched to reach the men, "some of those present entertaining a hope that with timely succour they might yet be saved ". Labourer Richard Sherman, accompanied by surgeon Henry Wells attempted to access the tunnel, only 5 feet high. The pair were absent for several minutes, to the point where a policeman named John Walsh decided to investigate. He quickly emerged with the body of surgeon Wells, " when every trace of life was extinct ".

Back went Walsh, undeterred, and dragged out the spluttering labourer Richard Sherman, who later recovered. But the gallant Walsh returned for a third foray, to assess the state of the original three labourers. This time he did not emerge, at least not until he was "in his turn dragged out a corpse ".

The later improvements of Bazalgette, and the introduction of ventilating ' stink pipes ' later removed many of the dangers of sewer gases, but not completely. The possibility is still taken seriously by Thames Water.

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The police prevented anyone else risking their lives. Instead, workmen were encouraged to dig up the sewer along Kenilworth Road.

Two holes were excavated, leading to 'another escape of pestiferous gas ', but this time precautions had been taken and nobody was harmed. The bodies of the three labourers — Thomas Gee, Daniel Peart and John Attwood — were finally recovered, and laid-out with that of policeman Walsh at the nearby Clarendon Hotel. The bodies " presented a most extraordinary appearance," according to a reporter for The Age, who witnessed the scene later on. "The faces, necks and upper part of the chest were completely bronzed, and having a glaze on them, particularly the front of the face. The face of policeman Walsh [who had spent less time in the sewer] did not have the same extraordinary appearance, being a little blueish ".

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An officer from the Commissioner of Sewers then did a test, dipping a coin into the sewer. It turned black in just 18 seconds, supposedly from the actions of carbonic acid. Those trapped below had not stood a chance.

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I have tried to avoid writing columns that are solely concerned with Brexit, aware as I am that it is a deeply divisive topic, and that the area covered by this estimable publication is largely in the Remain camp. However, I fear that Brexit has now reached a stage where it presents an existential threat, not to our economy, but to our democracy.

Some people are accident prone; I am incident prone. Possibly my own fault, but….

I have spent the past month battling for the use of my own money with one of the largest banks, nameless here, but easily recognised as the one the government has been supporting. As a pensioner I need to watch expenses which increase constantly. I tend to switch home insurance every year when the premiums are increased.

First year, cheap, renewal time more expensive. Switching no more difficult than renewing. Same with energy and phone companies. Once they have you, they take you.

For those of you who are still with me, let me explain. In 1975, as chairman of my university Conservative Association, I (and other callow youths) was hauled up to Conservative Central Office and instructed to vote and campaign to remain within the EU. Having been assured that there was no threat whatsoever to our sovereignty we duly did so. And have felt hoodwinked and cheated ever since.

I followed the email instruction to switch banks with the promise of a cash reward for doing so. And my nightmare began. I had to do it twice and both times it failed when asked for the dread PASSWORD. The only accurate thing it followed was to take my funds from the previous bank. A posted debit card never came to me and without its numbers to follow I was stalemated.

The arguments as to whether we will be better off or worse off by a few percentage points of GDP over five, ten or fifteen years could go on for ever. And the truth is that nobody really knows. Even the Treasury cannot accurately forecast whether the economy will grow or contract one quarter ahead, so any forecasts for years (or even decades) ahead are pure guesswork. However, in fairness, it has to be said that leaving the EU – with or without a deal – is an economic gamble.

I would argue that staying in the EU is a much bigger political gamble.

Those engaged in ‘the project’ have made it very plain that their ultimate objective is a United States of Europe. This is not universally popular amongst EU member states, so the gamble of staying would be that the UK, along with other recalcitrant states, could manage to hold off indefinitely a compulsory single currency, compulsory membership of Schengen, an ever-growing EU budget – and a European army to supplant NATO.

Then I had to telephone and email for the same frustration and finally to go to a bank branch where I learned that the card had been intercepted and used for a huge spending spree, by their admission, fraudulently. I cannot use my money, but a thief could. I will stop this saga here as it becomes as tedious as experiencing it.

Having passed the deadline for the cash reward, I have been offered compensation for a similar sum for my troubles, but I need to find a solution for the banking mistakes. Simple, I am going to switch again in person this time to a more responsible institution. The amount of compensation divided by the minimum London hourly rate of pay and the hours I have been forced to use is the same as that for slave labour.

Even assuming that the UK and other skeptical EU states managed to fend off the federalist ambitions of the ‘core states’, the bigger gamble is with our own democracy. In the 2016 referendum I knocked on many doors where the occupants had told me on numerous occasions in the past to copulate elsewhere because there was no point in voting and because we were ‘all the same’.

Yet during the referendum campaign I was met at those same doors with enthusiasm. They wanted to vote, because this time it would actually count. How am I, and how are you, going to explain to those people that actually their vote to leave the EU counted for absolutely nothing?

My suggestion is read your contracts and learn how they work, more against you than for your benefit. Artificial Intelligence will never defeat your courage & real intelligence and the ability to defend your position. Act on it.

The real danger, the real threat, comes not from leaving, but from remaining.

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The series began as a pilot on the BBC's Comedy Playhouse, and its success led to the commissioning of a full series. It ran from 1962-74, including a five-year hiatus. A constant thread throughout the series was Albert being referred to by Harold as a "dirty old man "; for example, when he was eating pickled onions while taking a bath, and retrieving dropped ones from the bathwater. There were also two feature film spin-offs, a stage show and an American incarnation entitled Sanford and Son, some episodes of which were almost exact remakes of the original British scripts.

was born on 22nd March, 1912 in Dublin, the youngest of three sons born to Henry Lytton Brambell, and his wife, Edith Marks. The family surname was changed from "Bramble " by Wilfrid's grandfather.

His first appearance was as a child, entertaining the wounded troops during the First World War. After leaving school, he worked part-time as a reporter for The Irish Times and part-time as an actor at the Abbey Theatre before becoming a professional actor for the Gate Theatre.

He also did repertory at Swansea, Bristol and Chesterfield. In the Second World War, he joined the British military forces entertainment organisation ENSA.

The success of Steptoe and Son made Brambell a high-profile figure on British television, and earned him the supporting role of Paul McCartney's grandfather in the Beatles' first film, A Hard Day's Night. In real life, he was indeed nothing like his Steptoe persona, being dapper and well-spoken. In 1965, Brambell told the BBC that he did not want to do another series of Steptoe and Son, and in September that year, he went to New York to appear in the Broadway musical Kelly at the Broadhurst Theatre. However, it closed after just a single performance.

Brambell achieved recognition in many films. His performance in 'The Terence Davies Trilogy' won him critical acclaim, far greater than any achieved for Steptoe and Son. Although he appears throughout the full 24-minute piece, Brambell does not speak a single word.

After the final series of Steptoe and Son was made, in 1974, Brambell had some guest roles in films and on television. He and Harry H. Corbett also undertook a tour of Australia in 1977 in a stage production based on Steptoe and Son. In 1983, Brambell appeared in Terence Davies's film Death and Transfiguration, playing a dying elderly man who finally comes to terms with his homosexuality.

Brambell had roles in film and television films from 1947, first appearing in Odd Man Out as a tram passenger. His television career began during the 1950s, when he was cast in three Nigel Kneale/Rudolph Cartier productions for BBC Television: as a drunk in The Quatermass Experiment, as both an old man in a pub and later a prisoner in Nineteen Eighty-Four, and as a tramp in Quatermass II. All of these roles earned him a reputation for playing old men, though he was only in his forties at the time. He appeared as Bill Gaye in the 1962 Maurice Chevalier/Hayley Mills picture, In Search of the Castaways. He was heard in the original soundtrack of The Canterbury Tales. He also released two 45-rpm singles, "Second Hand "/"Rag Time Ragabone Man ", that played on his Steptoe and Son character, followed in 1971 by "Time Marches On ", his tribute to the Beatles, with whom he had worked in 1964.

Brambell was homosexual at a time when it was impossible for public figures to be openly gay, not least because male homosexual acts were illegal in England and Wales until 1967. In 1962, he was arrested in a toilet in Shepherd's Bush for persistently importuning and given a conditional discharge.

He was married, from 1948 to 1955, to Mary "Molly " Josephine Hall, but the relationship ended in divorce after she gave birth to the child of their lodger in 1955.

Brambell’s theatre roles included Ebenezer Scrooge in a musical version of A Christmas Carol. In 1971, he starred in the premiere of Eric Chappell's play, The Banana Box, in which he played Rooksby. This part was later renamed Rigsby in Rising Damp.

Brambell also played in the film Holiday on the Buses.

Brambell died as a result of cancer at his home in Pimlico, aged 72 on 18th January 1985. He was cremated on 25th January 1985 at Streatham Park Cemetery, where his ashes were scattered.

It was this ability to play old men that led to his casting in his best remembered role as Albert Steptoe, the irascible father in Steptoe and Son, a man who - when the series began - was said to be in his sixties, even though Brambell was only aged 50 in 1962.

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JENNIE LEE, BARONESS LEE OF ASHERIDGE

Despite being out of the Commons Lee remained active politically, trying to secure British support for the Spanish Popular Front government under threat from Francisco Franco in the Spanish Civil War. She also remained active inside the ILP and took their side in their split from the Labour Party, a decision that did not meet with her husband's approval. She attempted an unsuccessfully re-election in North Lanarkshire in 1935. She sought to re-enter Parliament as an "Independent Labour " candidate in a 1943 by-election at Bristol Central, but was defeated. She also worked as a journalist for the Daily Mirror.

was born in Lochgelly, in Fife and was educated at Beath High School, she wanted to go to university but her parents were unable to afford the fees. Eventually she went to study law and education with support from the Carnegie Trust who agreed to pay half her fees, at the University of Edinburgh.

At university she joined the Labour Club, the Edinburgh University Women's Union and the editorial board of the student newspaper.

One of her first campaigns was to elect Bertrand Russell as Rector of the university.

After graduating with a MA, an LLB and a teaching certificate, she worked as a teacher in Cowdenbeath.

She later returned to the Labour Party from the ILP, and at the 1945 general election she was once again elected for the constituency of Cannock. She remained a convinced left-winger, and was critical of Bevan for his support of the UK acquiring a nuclear deterrent.

She was appointed as the first Minister for the Arts in Harold Wilson's government of 1964 and played a key role in the formation of the Open University. Lee produced a White Paper outlining university plans.The Open University as a major marker in the Labour Party's commitment to modernising British society. However, she encountered scepticism and even opposition from within and without the Labour Party. The Open University was realized due to Lee's unflagging determination and tenacity. Lee renewed the charter of the Arts Council of Great Britain in 1967 which saw an expansion of its work in the regions as well of the creation of the new arts institutions at London's South Bank Centre.

Lee was adopted as the ILP candidate for the North Lanarkshire constituency, which she won at a 1929 by-election and at the subsequent 1929 general election, becoming the youngest member of the House of Commons. Immediately she was in conflict with the Labour Party's leadership in the commons. She insisted on being sponsored by Robert Smillie and her old friend James Maxton to be introduced to the Commons, rather than by the leadership's preferred choice of sponsors.

Lee's first speech was an attack on the budget proposals of Winston Churchill. Lee forged a parliamentary reputation as a leftwinger, allying herself to Maxton and the other ILP members. She was totally opposed to Ramsay MacDonald's decision to form a coalition National Government, and in the 1931 general election lost her seat in parliament.

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Lee was defeated at the 1970 election in Cannock and retired from front-line politics when she was made Baroness Lee of Asheridge, of the City of Westminster on 5th November 1970.

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The couple had three daughters and five sons. Two of the sons, Thomas and Roger, died young; the other three sons all succeeded in turn to the baronetcy, Richard became the 4th Baronet, Thomas the 5th, and Robert the 6th.

was born at Eaton Hall, Cheshire, the son of Roger Grosvenor by his wife Christian (or Christine), daughter of Thomas Myddleton of Chirk Castle, Denbighshire, on 20th November 1656.

Mary, Lady Grosvenor, had converted to Roman Catholicism shortly after coming of age.

Because of this, and because Eaton Hall was used as a meeting place for Catholics, Grosvenor's loyalty to the king was questioned.

However, he continued openly as an Anglican until his death on 2th July 1700 (aged 43).

Grosvenor was educated by a private tutor, who also accompanied him when he undertook the Grand Tour, a three-year educational tour of France, Italy and the Levant, starting in 1670. On his return, he set about building a new house at Eaton. At that time, the family house was a medieval moated house. The new house was the first substantial one to be built. Grosvenor appointed the architect William Samwell to design it, and building started in 1675. The money for this venture came partly from the estates, and also from coal and lead mines, and from stone quarries in north Wales, that were owned by the family.

Mary was buried in the churchyard of St. Margaret's Church, Westminster, where in 1892, her tomb was the only one to be seen there, close to the north porch of the church.

Grosvenor played his part in public life. In 1677, he was granted the freedom of Chester, and later became an alderman. In 1679 he was returned as a MP for Chester for the first time. In 1685, he became Mayor of Chester, and later that year, raised a troop of horses to support James II in the Monmouth Rebellion. Grosvenor served as Sheriff of Cheshire in 1688â&#x20AC;&#x201C;89.

Grosvenor married in 1677; aged 21, and his wife, Mary Davies, was only 12 years old. The marriage was arranged by their families in a manner and at an age which was quite normal in England in that era; it proved to be harmonious and conventional, and lasted all their lives. Mary was the daughter of Alexander Davis, a scrivener, and she had inherited substantial land to the west of London. This was part of the Manor of Ebury (previously Eia), and Mary's portion consisted of 'swampy meads '. The area was later to become the Mayfair, Park Lane, and Belgravia.

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