July 2009 Archives

Passengers using Victoria station are set to benefit from a major £695million upgrade.

When completed, the scheme would increase the size of the station by about 50 per cent, with a new ticket hall, lifts and escalators to ease congestion.

Tributes have been paid to a West End councillor who died on Tuesday night.

Ian Wilder spent the last 15 years as a councillor for Westminster Council's West End ward.

As Freddie fever grows, free outdoor screenings of the Ashes are being held in Victoria this summer.

Just turn up at Cardinal Place, just off Victoria Street, pull up a deckchair and enjoy the atmosphere each day of the cricket tournament.

A gang of five men was jailed for bringing a gun onto a Pimlico street.

Police found the men trying to stash the firearm, wrapped in a blue plastic bag, in the doorway of a building in Millbank.

See behind the scenes at a Westminster police station this weekend.

The doors to Charing Cross police station, in Agar Street, will be open from 11am to 4pm on Sunday.

A Pimlico woman is set to push herself to the limit to raise money for a heart charity.

After her grandmother died of continuous heart problems, Natasha Scott, of Gloucester Street, decided to pump her energy into raising more than £1,000 for Heart Research UK.

Hundreds of pensioners across Westminster are being given the opportunity to see a top West End show for free.

Tickets to attend performance of Les Miserables and The Phantom of the Opera in November are on offer, on a first come first served basis.

Overruning escalator repair work is causing a nightmare for some Pimlico residents.

The downward escalator at Pimlico tube station has been out of action for months, leaving passengers to climb down nearly 90 stairs to reach the platforms.

Westminster has the cleanest, safest and best maintained parks in London, it was confirmed today.

The borough has been awarded a record 18 Green Flags - up from 13 last year and more than any other local authority in the capital - despite being one of the busiest and most densely populated areas in the UK.

Three Westminster estates including one in Pimlico are set to be improved to benefit thousands of residents.

Westminster Council has been awarded a grant of £2 million from the London Development Agency to commission estate renewal experts to develop masterplans for Tollgate Gardens Estate, in Maida Vale; Brunel Estate, in North Paddington; and the Ebury Bridge Estate, in Pimlico.